You can\u2019t win \u2018em all, including musicians. These famous rock songs were recorded by artists and bands who really didn\u2019t want to record them at all. It was a good thing they did, though, because these rock hits would go on to catapult up the charts.<\/p>\n
\u201cCreep\u201d by Radiohead from \u2018Pablo Honey\u2019 (1992)<\/p>\n
Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead<\/a>\u2019s guitarist, disliked \u201cCreep\u201d so much that he allegedly tried to sabotage the song during recording, per guitarist Ed O\u2019Brien. Before the chorus of this iconic alt-rock song kicks off, you can hear some loud blasts of noise from Greenwood\u2019s guitar, where a solo should have been.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the sound of Jonny trying to fuck the song up,\u201d said O\u2019Brien<\/a>. \u201cHe really didn\u2019t like it the first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it.\u201d<\/p>\n The rest of the band would later come to hate the song, too, growing tired of performing it ad nauseam. That didn\u2019t stop it from becoming a No. 7 hit on the UK Singles chart. It was also a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.<\/p>\n \u201cCherry Pie\u201d by Warrant from \u2018Cherry Pie\u2019 (1990)<\/p>\n Just about every glam metal fan alive knows \u201cCherry Pie\u201d by Warrant. Heck, even those who don\u2019t love glam metal know it. That, apparently, really peeves the band that recorded it, considering many of Warrant\u2019s members<\/a> thought it was not as good a song as their other releases. Jani Lane, the band\u2019s frontman, wrote it in 15 minutes under the demands of their label. Soon after, everything became<\/a> \u201cdriven by the label and not the band.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cCherry Pie\u201d was a hit, sure. But it always sucks when a cash-grab song makes a musician famous, rather than the material they poured their heart and soul into.<\/p>\n \u201cCum On Feel The Noize\u201d by Quiet Riot from \u2018Mental Health\u2019 (1983)<\/p>\n Here\u2019s another glam metal song, one that the band in question went out of their way to try to sabotage from the get-go. Quiet Riot was told to cover this Slade song, but lead singer Kevin DuBrow was firmly against it. He wanted the band to be known for songs they wrote themselves. And he was admittedly not the biggest fan of Slade. So, when the time came to record it, the band tried to play it as terribly as they could so their label couldn\u2019t release it. That didn\u2019t happen; in fact, the song became a smash hit instead. This entry on our list of rock songs would go on to be a No. 5 hit on the Hot 100. It remains the band\u2019s most famous track.<\/p>\n (Photo by Jim Steinfeldt\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t win \u2018em all, including musicians. These famous rock songs were recorded by artists and bands who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,2156],"class_list":["post-702118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}