When Bad Songs Happen to Good Riffs

...but back to the topic at hand...

Eddie Money PWNZ this thread.

However, I really really dig the opening/main riff from CrazyTown's Butterfly, but, needless to say.....

"Disengage The Simulator" or something like that.

actually not a bad song at all. just a ridiculously catchy riff

"Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" - Jimi Hendrix

Seriously, WTF?!

Great 12" version though.

Anyone know the one I'm talking about?

hmm...when bad songs happen to good riffs...see: the entire pixies catalog

mmmmmmmmmm, no.

I vote for Counting Crowes'"Mr. Jones".

Sometimes several amazing riffs in one still shitty song. I remember thinkigng "Wow, this song has, like, four different hooks" when their first single came out. They're one of those bands where I won't ever buy any of their stuff, but won't change the radio when they're on.

Horribly, ridiculously offTM. Seriously, what? What riff? Do you mean the bass? It's really not a "riff" type song.

We just got the new VHS or Beta album in at the station the other day, and the first song "Euglama" reminded me of this thread again. It's this amazing riff, just looped for a minute. They just fade in and fade back out again 20 seconds later!! It's so disappointing; it has so much potential, and then it just sort of ends. But then again, it's much better than having it expanded into a thoroughly mediocre or bad song.

Also reminds me of the bit at the end of "Trigger Cut/Wounded Kite at :17", and I always wished so badly they'd had turned it into a full song until I heard the "Nothing Ever Happens" b-side from the first disc of the Slanted & Enchanted reissue. It's just "blah" compared to the little savory tease at the end of Trigger Cut

That one part near the end of "Lay Low" by My Morning Jacket is pretty awesome, but the verses SUCK (along with the rest of that album).

I just listened to Wax's "California" for the first time in years and it reminded me of this thread.

This song is awesome, what was I thinking?

i came in here to rep for blur's song 2. strangely, i have no recollection of mentioning that other blur song 4 years ago. weird.

Owner Of A Lonely Heart by Yes. OK song, killer riff.

not a bad song at all, but i always thought the rest of this one (Supergrass - Born Again) never lived up to the opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ykrRMBKs_4&feature=related

Shoot me down in flames if you like but: Smoke on the Water

terrible lyrics for sure

There's a Jetrho Tull riff that I really love but I can never remember the name of the song.

Jethro, even.

Can't see this being popular, but The Human League's Don't You Want Me - that synth bass riff rolls in like some ominous hi-tech techno monster, it's the most dramatic thing ever, and then it just kind of... turns a corner into a much weaker, lighter song. The song is fine on its own terms, but I just want that riff to go on forever, or at least to go somewhere, rather than sound like it was cut and pasted from somewhere else (I remember reading that some of their songs were put together like a collage of different bits; maybe this was one, where they didn't know what else to do with that riff).

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Wasn't the butterfly riff just sampled off some RHCP jam?
― Torgeir Hansen/MRZBW (MRZBW), Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:24 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

Three years later, I'm answering yes, it was "Pretty LIttle Ditty" by RHCP....

I Predict a Riot

xp: the worst thing was that Pretty Little Ditty was/is one of my favorite RHCP jams. No angular funk-metal, no Kiedis.

Owner Of A Lonely Heart by Yes. OK song, killer riff.

exactly what I was going to post. fair play to you.