This one is from 1961. And I *adored * Shelley Fabares! :o
Worse than my nomination of Feelings? Or You Light Up My Life?
I think not!
What, you have a thing for (shudder!) Dolly Parton? :dubious:
ANYTHING by The Who, but especially “Who Are You”, “Baba O’Riley”, “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and “Squeeze Box”.
Also any song where the song writer couldn’t come up with another verse so used na na na, la la la or oh oh oh for the last third of it.
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I’m mildly surprised that Kanye hasn’t [del]asked[/del] demanded candidates to play his songs…
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Chevy Van - Sammy Johns - nauseating wet dream. Hit it, quit it, dump it off in a small town and drive off, well satisfied.
Boy From New York City, the Ad Libs (1964) - is that douchebag still strutting around in his mohair suit?
Cherry Hill Park - gang bangs of a disturbed sexually abused girl, day and night, till she goes off with a pimp ‘for money’.
Stay Awhile, The Bells (1965) - funny-feeling-in-the-pants in baby voices.
Yes I’m Ready - Barbara Mason She’s my mom’s roommate at the nursing home, for cryin’ out loud. Did she ever ‘learn’ to have sex??
I don’t mean to pick on sexxy songs, nothing wrong with them, but they’re all so drippy, smarmy, and overplayed (on the oldies station here) - every time I take a trip over 50 miles, I’m bound to hear one or two.
“Take the Money and Run” (Steve Miller?) I have an unnatural loathing for this song that’s mostly that the lyrics are some of the stupidest I’ve ever been able to discern, and the music isn’t all that interesting. I wasn’t going to put anything here at all and just go with the needling answer below along with the commentary, but I recalled my visceral hatred for this song before posting, even if (as described below) I’ve not actually heard it for probably a decade.
Also, [whatever the reader’s favorite song/band is]
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I’m unsure why people complain about having to listen to the songs they don’t like on the radio. Even when I had a car that was 10+ years old, it had means so that I could listen to whatever I wanted. Maybe a bit of a hassle picking media out, but no one really played on the radio what I wanted to listen to, so I made my own music collections. Now I have a slightly more modern car and while I don’t have any fancy device that stores songs on something like a hard drive, it can play MP3 CDs on shuffle, which gives you something like fifteen hours of music that you have hand-selected in a random order. Those with fancy devices could get even larger lists of music from such devices plugged into the auxiliary port.
It really is not that difficult to not have to listen to things that you don’t want to while listening to a randomized collection of music in the car, if you actually care about that. That people listen to broadcast radio willingly while there are other options available and continue to complain about how they’ll play a bunch of stuff they don’t like is just laziness.
Yeah. The only reason I would listen to any station would be to find something new that I’ve never heard before (which means it is college radio or certain Sirius stations for me).
It’s not very hard to think of scenarios where music is playing and you aren’t able to change it or turn it off.
ANYTHING by Boston, Aerosmith or Def Leppard.
Yeesh, enough already!
I haven’t been able to find anything online about this, but when the song was on the charts in the early 1990s, a woman played this song at full blast for IIRC 5 hours, and the neighbors had her arrested and charged with terrorism.
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This was obviously before either WTC bombing.
I would add REO Speedwagon’s “I Can’t Fight This Feeling” to the list. UGH!
I was going to accuse you of having a grudge against the Wilsons, but yeah, OK, I found “Kokomo” a bit tiresome when it was new.
I don’t know if Wilson Phillips ever had a* really *good song, but I don’t suppose any of their singles are quite as annoying to me as “Kokomo” was when I was a youth.
I find it just ugly and discordant enough that I’m sort of glad it exists as an example of…something.
We have a winner.
Yes.
No? Well, OK. I can respect your feelings, but that’s a really cool drummer’s song.
We have another winner.
Catalog?
Did Led Zeppelin sing another song other than “Stairway to Heaven”?
Father-daughter duos shouldn’t sing man-woman duets, is my point. 
Wow, have “Black Dog” and “Immigrant Song” actually disappeared? That’s sad. I think I used to hear them on the “Classic Rock” radio far more than “Stairway.”
Any version of “My Way”
I like a lot of the songs listed no matter how often they are played but I firmly agree with some of them.
“Imagine” by John Lennon and the “Pina Colada” song are actively offensive both musically and lyrically. The only thing songs that will make me change the station faster than those are any songs by Rush. I wondered for years why Rush was a much discussed band when I wasn’t familiar with any of their songs. Then I looked them up on Youtube and found the reason why. They are the band that I instinctively turn off as soon as humanly possible as soon as they come on. I just never put a name to the screech.
I have to add anything by Mellonhead, that is, John Cougar Mellencamp. He thought he’d be the next incarnation of Bruce Springsteen, but failed miserably.
“I was born in a small town…live in a small town…die in a small town…”
I know the area he’s talking about: Southern Indiana. The entire region’s full of small towns…and small minds.
What a pretentious asshole to speak for the “Common Midwestern” person.
Yet another tune to add to the list: “Second Chance” by .38 Special.
OK, OK, OK, you made “one mistake”. What WAS that mistake, anyway? Whatever it was, she’s gone and she doesn’t want you back.