Is there anyone who actually dislikes “Cold as Ice” by Foreigner?
Ok, fine. I’m not going to suggest “Boom Boom Boom Boom”, “Boogie Chillen” or “Shake Your Tail Feathers”.
Actually, no, I take that last one back. Ray Charles’ version of everything is probably the best version of that thing.
Damn, that movie has great music.
Oh jeebus hell yes. I hate their entire catalog.
To me, it brings back some particularly embarrassing middle-school slow-dancing incidents that I’d rather not expand on.
Ah, but Ode to Joy does have words, so I’d say it qualifies as a song. Beethoven set Friedrich Schiller’s poem “An die Freude”—soloists and full chorus included—to the 4th movement of the Ninth.
Sure, the tune’s often heard instrumentally, but the original is very much sung.
As for its near-universal appeal, I submit this documentary as Exhibit A (long, but worth it).
I don’t think I heard that one before. I really liked it at the beginning, It got too repetitive and then I gave up on it.
Oh, well, back to the drawing board. 
:smack: Of course it does!
I like “Love Shack” for this, just be aware of the obvious risk.
I really enjoy Wet Leg (my first post-lockdown concert in 2021!), and Chaise Longue is a banger, but, I have to say, it definitely isn’t for everyone and some of the lyrics border on cringe/trying too hard to be clever. I personally try to ignore the lyrics. My wife finds it annoying as hell (and I totally get that.)
Only flaw I guess is: don’t pick it for karaoake!
My pick for songs that people seem to just stop what they’re doing and groove along to…
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Outkast - Hey Ya
Weird Al - Word Crimes
Wonderful - thanks for the link.
"I think a lot of people knew that this record was going to be a classic,” says Freeman. "So that background chorus — which I wanted a lot louder, but he disagreed — included Pete Seeger and James Taylor and Livingston Taylor and Carly Simon. It was quite a star-studded cast, and one that I really should have photographed.”
Pete Seeger! I had no idea.
I think a better approach is to name songs we don’t like but can understand from an objective point of view why it’s considered good. For example, I hate Unchained Melody, but I would be wrong to say it’s a bad song.
I would prefer Poor Poor Pitiful Me, personally.
What about Superstition by Stevie Wonder?
Maybe you could retrain yourself to think of a Haruki Murakami short story instead.
Everyone loves the “Macarena,” right?
It’s okay, but it’s no Friday.
Depends. The song, I have no problem with. But I hate Mick Jagger (yeah, I know he is supremely talented, but I can’t see the talent for the assholery).
The DEVO version of Satisfaction is wonderful. Every time I hear it, I imagine the Devo musicians saying, “psst … Mick … this is how you do it right.”
That raises an interesting question I’ve been meaning to ask. If someone specifically doesn’t like a song because they can’t stand the singer (e.g., Jagger, Sinatra, Dylan and the Carpenters are just a few singled out here) – does that automatically disqualify every version of that song by every singer for all time?
Some examples. Here are various covers of All Along the Watchtower (I’ve truncated a vcouple of the long intros in some of these)
First we have Dave Matthews
And Neil Young
A female version by Barbara Keith
A bluesy cover from Julia Othmer
And an acoustic version
