Five songs musicians hated so much they simply refused to release them

The article explores songs that musicians rejected or withheld because they disliked the writing, arrangement or fit with their artistic vision. It describes how artists’ feelings about their work can change, and how some tracks remain unheard while others are released despite objections.

Examples include Prince’s extensive Paisley Park vault, said to hold around 100 albums’ worth of recordings, and Stevie Nicks’s refusal to sing on a Fleetwood Mac track, leaving it to Lindsey Buckingham. Steely Dan abandoned a re-recording of “The Second Arrangement” after an accidental tape-transfer error damaged the original; the replacement effort became “Third World Man”. The supplied article text also begins discussing David Bowie’s dislike of “Too Dizzy”, but ends before completing that account.