OK, I will start this thread.
I will qualify that I do not HATE these songs, but the gap between the love showered on these songs by a huge portion of the fanbase and my own feelings for the songs are quite huge. I have a lot more DT songs that rank lower, but this thread is about songs that seem to be generally loved.
So I have three:
1. The Glass Prison - when I first listened to the song, I was almost blown away. What a rocking song.
Then I heard THE scratch. And all I can picture is DT in hiphop outfits.
And then the Cookie Monster comes in. That's when I went "what the hell?" Can't we just stick with how they did a similar thing in The Mirror?
2. The Great Debate - this is the reason why the SDOIT album, despite having three tracks in my Top 20, did not become my number one album. It was an interesting experiment but it just did not work for me.
And I think my most controversial pick:
3. Learning To Live - I like this song, actually. But I sort of see it as a prototype. Whenever I see posts that proclaim LTL as the greatest DT song ever, I think "what a sad experience for this fan" because it comes across as if everything DT has done in the next two decades since is just downhill from whatever pedestal LTL has been on. For me, LTL is a step in the right musical direction for DT, but it is not the pinnacle that many fans seem to make it out to be. The dated guitar and keyboard sounds and some of the musical arrangement decisions like the fade ending (which is very typical of songs at the time) and the bass guitar lines (which were good but brings to mind people wearing black leather pants and excessive metal accessories) did not age well for me. For me, the significance of the song is not being the greatest DT song ever, but its being a song that DT built on to make greater songs.