What would you submit as a really solid song with one part that kinda sucks?

50 Cent and Eminem - Patiently Waiting. Great beat, great hook, legendary Eminem verse, near classic song, but terrible 3rd verse from 50.

1st verse: 50 delivers a pretty solid verse. Nothing special, but a nice buildup to the Eminem part.

2nd verse: Eminem absolutely murders his verse. One of the best verses of all time. Just crazy flow, delivery, the crazy beat buildup, cadence, lots of quotables. The song should've ended after this.

3rd verse: 50 drops a horrible verse, lazy, off beat, corny rhymes, some parts don't even rhyme at all. It's shocking they left this verse on the song. Would've been a classic song if they ended after the Eminem verse, or added someone else like Jay-Z. I always skip this last part of the song.

Oh man, So Fresh, So Clean is such a great song....and then Andre starts rapping about Anne Frank.

Good vibrations.

Whole Lotta Love - Zeppelin
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Can You Hear Me Knocking - Stones


Edit to add that last one

Monster - Kanye West song. The Jay-Z feature is awful and ruins the song. Like most Jay-Z features it is trash and a stretch "but he is the greatest of all time" lolz.

i'll probably get crucified by our resident Pink Floydians.....however, this is such a great song, but the circus atmosphere just doesn't seem to flow very well.....

Big Cat `93 said:

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Most songs that have a random talking part in them could do without it. The first example that came to mind is "Human" by the Human League. I love that song but really don't like the talking in it.

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Agree with Big Cat 100%.

Taxi by Harry Chapin. That one section with the real high-pitched voice where you can't understand anything has always baffled me and just doesn't seem to fit the rest of the song.

Not to be contrarian, but genuinely feel like Linkin Park would have been a much better band if there wasn't that guy trying to 'rap'.

Professor Frick said:

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Not to be contrarian, but genuinely feel like Linkin Park would have been a much better band if there wasn't that guy trying to 'rap'.

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I don't take it as contrarian, just really wrong. The second Shinoda stopped really rapping they stopped having any hits that weren't in Transformer movies.

Edit: for some reason I thought he left the band entirely when he went solo.

Girl - The Beatles
Song is ok, but hate the breathing on the chorus. I played the hell out of their greatest hits as a kid, that was a instaskip

REM - Radio Song
I like the song, the rap at the end is whatever, but I hate the yell at the end.

All through the night - Cyndi Lauper
They played with weird synth settings throughout the album, it just kinda ruins it in that song

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
Hate fake voice/laugh at the end

Captain Jack - Billy Joel
Not a fan of piano crooners working the word masturbate into a song
Also Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon, the echo-ing "Knives...Knives...Knives.."

Stan - Eminem
Pencil scratching is too loud

Any talking part or "sound bite" type part, like a news reporter or radio talking head type of bit.

The rap part of Rebecca Blacks Friday song. seems forced

Pink Floyd - Echoes
The weird bit between about 2/3 and 3/4 of the way through.

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Whole Lotta Love - Zeppelin

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100%.

The bridge of Round Here by Counting Crows. Great song, but I wish that part wasn't in it.

Any great 80s rock song that includes a saxophone. Lookin at you, Springsteen.

Never cared for the rap portion of Rush's Roll the Bones.

Songs that shouldn't but do contain a rap part... seems to be trend so far on this thread.