Otherwise Classic Songs Ruined by Crap Bridges

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"Going to California" - Led Zeppelin

--What the fuck? One of the most gorgeous songs up until the shit bridge about wrath of gods and punches on the nose. I always listen to the first two verses and then skip ahead in disgust.

― ClevelandPat, Friday, 18 March 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

you're insane.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It adds tension to the song. It's relieved when he goes low again on the word "high". Also, it's kind of funny - in a song that practically deifies a woman, he knocks his own macho mystical rhetoric down a peg while singing in his most womanish register. He's so in awe of Joni that he recognizes that his "wrath of the gods got a punch on the nose and it started to flow". He thinks he might be sinking.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The bridge of "Eyes of a Strangers" by the Payola$ really drops the ball by going all Outfield-y. Great song, otherwise.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

That should be Stranger, singular.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The "yakety-yak" stuff in "Battle of Evermore" took me even more time to get used to but now both seem indispensable. I think GtC would be much blander otherwise.

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― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bobépine"

by Plume Latraverse

Miserable bridge !

― James, Friday, 18 March 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Negative Love" by John Wesley Harding. It's a catchy pop song and then he runs out of idea so there's a swirl of schmaltzy strings and an unnecessary upward key change.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'll Be Back" by The Beatles

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Beatles had their share of cheesy bridges. I'm tempted to nominate "Can't Buy Me Love."

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Any bridge where the drums drop out or go half-tempo.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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songs that get to the bridge and then completely blow it

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Any bridge where the drums drop out or go half-tempo.

No, those are the best bridges of all. The more contrasting the better.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The bridge to "I'll Be Back" is brilliant. On the other hand, the bridge to "Glass Onion" is meh.

― ffirehorse, Friday, 18 March 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd suggest that Alter Bridge single...if the song were any good in the first place. But then that bridge just decimates it. I don't think Creed ever got THAT wanky!

― Let's keep the afterbirth and throw Ian Riese-Moraine away! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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