Keno's Weekly Rock-N-Roll Poll

POLL RESULTS
Week: 760
Date: 1/18/2021
Question: Of the hit songs that artists wish they never wrote, which one is the best?
Your Vote Option Votes Percent
  (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones - Keith Richards wrote it and at first Jagger/Richards hated it. The other 3 Stones loved it, and the band ended up releasing it after a 3-2 vote
294 12.5%
  Let It Be - The Beatles - John Lennon hated it, saying: 'I don't know what Paul's thinking when he writes 'Let It Be''
292 12.4%
  Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders - Chrissie Hynde, who wrote it, hated it. She didn’t want the song to be released; she thought it was bad & told her producer 'you'll release it over my dead body'
289 12.3%
  Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page: 'it’s not loved by the band as it is by the public' Robert Plant: 'I’d break out in hives if I had to sing that song at every show'
288 12.3%
  When I’m Sixty-Four - The Beatles - Written by Paul McCartney, John Lennon hated it and said it was one of his least favorite Beatle tracks. He called it 'granny music'
287 12.2%
  Jack & Diane - John Mellencamp - Mellencamp said:'This is a terrible record. When I play it on guitar by myself, it sounds great; but I could never get the band to play along with me'
286 12.2%
  Heart of Gold - Neil Young - On his first #1, Young noted: 'It put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore, so I headed for the ditch'
285 12.1%
  What’s Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner - Producers had to twist Turner’s arm to get her to sing it. It became one of her greatest hits and won three Grammy’s in 1985
278 11.8%
  All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You - Heart - Ann Wilson, who wrote the song, said : 'It kind of stood for everything we wanted to get away from… there was pressure on us to do the song at the time'
21 0.9%
  Pinball Wizard - The Who - Pete Townshend: 'the most clumsy piece of writing I’ve ever done. The whole band was expecting it to be a failure, its success made us wish it had gone the other way'
18 0.8%
  Do They Know It’s Christmas- Band Aid - Writer Bob Geldof said: 'I'm responsible for 2 of the worst songs in history. One is ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ & the other one ‘We Are The World''
5 0.2%
  Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana- Kurt Cobain resented it. He was embarrassed to even play it, & noted: 'I literally want to throw my guitar down and walk away than play that one'
3 0.1%
  Like A Virgin - Madonna - She hates it & admitts that she doesn’t ever want to sing it again; she also can’t bear to hear it anymore
1 0%
  Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n Roses -Slash has claimed he didn't share the fondness for this one that his fans did. Axl Rose stated he hates the radio-edit version of the song
1 0%
  Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C. & Aerosmith - Run-D.M.C. never liked the song at all. Steven Tyler was upset that Run-D.M.C. didn’t even know the original words
1 0%
  Wonderwall - Oasis - Writter Noel Gallagher saids of it: 'I can’t fu*kin' stand that gdamn song! Every time I have to sing it I want to gag'
1 0%
  Bad Boys - Wham - George Michael, who wrote it, said: 'I hate it. It’s like an albatross around my neck… Those couple of months making that record was the worst point in my career'
0 0%
  Cherry Pie - Warrant - Frontman Janie Lane noted about their biggest hit: 'I hate that song. I could shoot myself in the fu*kin' head for writing that song'
0 0%
Totals: 2350 100%

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