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Songs With Bad Guitar Solos

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Okay guys, this is up for interpretation, but what songs do you feel have bad guitar solos in them?

For starters:
Tears For Fears - Everybody Want to Rule the World. This song did not need a guitar solo and the one at the end is super terrible. Especially if you listen to the extended mix.

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linthat22 wrote:Okay guys, this is up for interpretation, but what songs do you feel have bad guitar solos in them?

For starters:
Tears For Fears - Everybody Want to Rule the World. This song did not need a guitar solo and the one at the end is super terrible. Especially if you listen to the extended mix.

Any others?

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Best: Cover of the Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook.
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Ostinato Rubato wrote:Bring me your flames, for I speaketh uncomfortable truth and accept thine cowardly disdain.


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One of the worst guitar solos ever allowed on wax.


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Carlos Santana is reliably awful.
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The Cult, "Love Removal Machine". Dafuq is going on there??
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linthat22 wrote:Okay guys, this is up for interpretation, but what songs do you feel have bad guitar solos in them?

For starters:
Tears For Fears - Everybody Want to Rule the World. This song did not need a guitar solo and the one at the end is super terrible. Especially if you listen to the extended mix.

Any others?


oh man.. I love that solo..lol




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Marc G wrote:
linthat22 wrote:Okay guys, this is up for interpretation, but what songs do you feel have bad guitar solos in them?

For starters:
Tears For Fears - Everybody Want to Rule the World. This song did not need a guitar solo and the one at the end is super terrible. Especially if you listen to the extended mix.

Any others?


oh man.. I love that solo..lol

I always liked it, too, and thought the guitar work was pretty awesome considering the niche that band fit in... :idk:
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Asia - Heat of the Moment

That solo just Peter's out, like he just said fuck it lol
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linthat22 wrote:Asia - Heat of the Moment

That solo just Peter's out, like he just said fuck it lol



yeah... always thought that sounded like a comped solo, it has some cool licks but doesn't seem like a full solo
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NIN - Ruiner. Its intentionally bad, but man... I dig it. It fits that song so well.
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GuitarBilly wrote:Carlos Santana is reliably awful.


x a million. I’ve never understood why his lame, unimaginitive pentatonic blather was ever given a nod, much less a sig guitar.
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IndyWS6 wrote:
Marc G wrote:
linthat22 wrote:Okay guys, this is up for interpretation, but what songs do you feel have bad guitar solos in them?

For starters:
Tears For Fears - Everybody Want to Rule the World. This song did not need a guitar solo and the one at the end is super terrible. Especially if you listen to the extended mix.

Any others?


oh man.. I love that solo..lol

I always liked it, too, and thought the guitar work was pretty awesome considering the niche that band fit in... :idk:



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Pat Benetar - Shadows of the night.

Great song, bad solo. Sounds like they took some other track of a person rehearsing, and put it over the top of the song.
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green day, when i come around

joe jonas at that award show

lil wayne any time he has touched a guitar
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primeholy wrote:
IndyWS6 wrote:
Marc G wrote:
linthat22 wrote:Okay guys, this is up for interpretation, but what songs do you feel have bad guitar solos in them?

For starters:
Tears For Fears - Everybody Want to Rule the World. This song did not need a guitar solo and the one at the end is super terrible. Especially if you listen to the extended mix.

Any others?


oh man.. I love that solo..lol

I always liked it, too, and thought the guitar work was pretty awesome considering the niche that band fit in... :idk:



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awesome song. engineer prolly turned up the seizure knob when the solo kicked in..... still, it is part of the whole package.

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Ostinato Rubato wrote:Bring me your flames, for I speaketh uncomfortable truth and accept thine cowardly disdain.


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One of the worst guitar solos ever allowed on wax.


THIS. 100%.

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Any Nirvana.

Also, Beastie Boys - Fight for your right. just awful.

edit: totally agree about Santana. Never thought he was a great player. Probably why Schon didn't last with him. Carlos knew he could knock his dick in the dirt.
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Aces High.
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Fight For Your Right To Party - Beastie Boys (Kerry King)
Exile - Slayer
American Woman - Lenny Kravitz
Rapid Transit - Neil Young
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
Milk It - Nirvana
It's Not Unusual To Be Loved - Tom Jones (Jimmy Page)
Highway To The Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Last Nite - The Strokes
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
Need You Tonight - INXS
Michael Jackson - Black or White (Slash)
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TurboPablo wrote:Aces High.


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Fwiw, I think the every rose has its thorn solo is awesome

That said,

Strokes - last nite = terrible. Like a black permanent marker scribbled over a great painting.
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