10 Incredibly Successful Tracks Their Creators Actually Hate

1. Metallica €“ "Enter Sandman"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384 While Metallica don't exactly hate their most well known song, they certainly are a bit burdened by it. As is the case for so many artists who score a hit and then drift away from the mainstream, Metallica are consistently playing shows to audiences who just want to hear the old classics. It's a frustrating conundrum for artists: do you play the hits to appease the fans, or do you play your newer stuff to feel like you are moving forward and staying true to your own artistic instincts? Most bands have found a way to balance this dilemma by playing deeper cuts in the middle portion of their live sets and then using the hits big or otherwise as the grand finale. Metallica, on the other hand, have attempted to subvert this trend - and to reduce the number of so-called "fans" who only attend their concerts to hear a single song - through a simple method. "We play ["Enter Sandman"] first to get the f**king thing out of the way," frontman James Hetfield once said, gleefully remarking on the pleasure of forcing casual fans sit through the rest of the set after hearing the big so-called "finale" number up front. "You gotta use it against them, you know?" Conclusion? Hetfield doesn't like casual fans.