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Rock and metal fans named the “worst” and “most annoying” guitar riffs on Reddit in a post that has resurfaced.
The thread, titled “Worst/most annoying riffs you’ve ever heard?,” was originally written this past December on the Music Reddit page. The author of the post explained that they can’t listen to Trapt’s hit “Headstrong” because of the riff.
“I’m a person who very rarely hates anything, especially when it comes to music, but that initial riff just doesn’t work with me (yes, that’s enough to keep me from listening to that music), other than the lyrics,” they elaborated.
Because it was written in the general Music subreddit, there’s a wide variety of responses from fellow Reddit users, so we picked the ones most relevant to rock and metal and listed them below, with the responses to each particular song bulleted underneath.
The person who mentioned “Sweet Child O’ Mine” noted that they originally didn’t have a problem with the riff, “…until I dated someone using it as an alarm tone … that he always snoozed, so it repeated again and again.”
See the replies below.
The user who wrote this comment argued that the riff in “Seven Nation Army” isn’t “bad” by any means, but they’re sick of hearing it so frequently. As they explained, they’re subjected to the riff on the radio, at the gym, at sporting events, on commercials and so on.
Survivor, “Eye of the Tiger”
We know it’s already playing in your head just from reading the title. The individual that mentioned this song said that they think the song is great, but while working at a waterpark at the age of 17, they had to hear it constantly because their boss let people play it on the game Rock Band.
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“Everyone chose that song,” they continued. “It was played more often the Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ in retail stores. That was a long summer.”
It’s unfortunate that with a lot of these songs, people never would have found them annoying if they weren’t forced to hear them so often. In this case, the person worked at a music store and had to hear aspiring guitarists practice (and “butcher”) Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.”
“[It’s] a damn shame because I used to really like it,” they concluded.
Apparently, this is a shared experience among other music fans.
Some other tracks that were mentioned for a variety of reasons were AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” Pantera’s “Walk” and more.
Read the full Reddit discussion here to see the rest of the arguments.
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Written by: Soft FM Radio Staff
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