I was certain we had a thread like this, but I searched a couple different ways and couldn't find it.

I just stumbled upon the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Universally Speaking", which I hadn't listened to in a long-ass time. And I realized I actually really like it, even though I normally can't stand the RHCPs.

What's a song you like by an artist you normally dislike?

I move we change this thread concept to "Plat comes around on RHCP" and just go from there

I still think they suck hard, I like this song because it doesn't really sound like them

What about Soul To Squeeze? that song is beautiful. And it has such a nice melody. And your favorite part about music is melody. So what gives?

I'm sure there might be a Foo Fighters song I like out there somewhere.

I don't know that song. I'll listen to it over the weekend

"Exhausted" from the first album for me. And a good chunk of other songs from the next couple albums, actually. I don't dislike the Foos, I just think they're tiresome

all weekend or just once?

All weekend. Fuck it!

I was gonna say 10cc's "Dreadlock Holiday," but then I remembered how great Good Morning Judge is, so I guess that's two.

Oh Nikki Minaj, Supabass

Dance of the Clairvoyants - Pearl Jam

There's an extremely popular Mexican band called Maná, they're the epitome of pop-rock blandness, just an absolutely horrible band. But they have this one song from their MTV Unplugged that's a salsa arrangement of an old Mexican ranchera ballad. I like it because it sounds nothing like them, and also they didn't even write it.

Not for me.

One of the most confounding bands of all time. On one end of the spectrum are tracks like Exhausted and Good Grief; on the other end you have The Sky Is A fucking Neighborhood.

I really dislike Lenny Kravitz's whole thing but "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" is nice

yeah this is a great call

This is the polar opposite for me, being a song by a band I largely enjoy which I actively loathe.

This isn't some contrarian thing, I just really can't stand that awful, cloying melody.

Nails on a blackboard stuff.

I'm middle of the road on that track. The drum-and-bass thing is really plodding, but I love their use of a Chamberlain on the bridge. I love Chamberlains. They are used so rarely, and they sound amazing on everything.

I love it. I love the melody and the bassline. It's got some Motown touches like the beat and the harmonies and those strings near the end. Give me this kind of stuff over ineffectual funk approximations with cringy lyrics about sex please