# Songs I never need to hear again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709 "2014-08-28T00:31:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/21 "2014-08-28T05:25:18Z")
Anything by Van Halen during the David Lee Roth era. Every time I hear that stupid screamy noise he makes, I want to chuck something through the speakers to shut him up. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/22 "2014-08-28T07:12:25Z")
I am woman, hear me roar! ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/23 "2014-08-28T08:15:24Z")
I’m not googling any of these songs, so please forgive me if I’m wrong about the “artist.” I’m desperately afraid to search for them, lest some site plays them without my consent, and I’m forced to toss my laptop across the room. Beautiful - James Blunt Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Ol’ What’s-His-Face… Rupert Holmes? Wildfire - Terry Jacks (?) Barbie Girl - Aqua My Humps - Blackeyed Peas ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/24 "2014-08-28T08:23:24Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > “Sweet Caroline” - Neil Diamond (especially when drunk people sing it, adding that “bum bum bum” bullshit.) > “Don’t Stop Believin’” - Journey (I used to like it until I heard it 10,000 times in bars, at karaoke night, etc.) Oh, that reminds me: whatever that song is that goes “From a distance G-d is watching us, yadda, yadda,” People who are just learning sign language love to interpret that for projects. Once, when I was at a new signers retreat (hearing new signers), three different people did renditions of that song, which I already hated. Is it theologically correct in any major religion? Like, the reason the world is messed up is that G-d needs glasses? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/25 "2014-08-28T08:24:28Z")
[QUOTE=Lacunae Matata;17679768 Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Ol’ What’s-His-Face… Rupert Holmes? [/QUOTE] The last I heard, Rupert Holmes agrees with you. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/26 "2014-08-28T08:35:18Z")
A contribution from the UK: “Streets of London”, and “Where do You Go To, My Lovely?” – greatly favoured by talentless tenth-rate British buskers who solicit money for their singing these, guitar-accompanied, in public places. If I were dictator, I’d make performing either of these in public a capital offence. ---
**Author:** ![Lydia\_Phalfav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@Lydia\_Phalfav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lydia_Phalfav)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/27 "2014-08-28T08:36:59Z")
Don’t Worry, Be Happy (I like Bobby McFerrin, but I can’t take that song anymore.) Free Bird The Joker… & since woodstock mentioned it, I also agree on the majority of '70s rock. I grew up on it & my mom won’t ever listen to anything but that & on her local rock station, I swear, it’s the same 20-30 songs over & over & over & over… /wrists Same thing goes for ANYTHING by the Beatles. I admit to loving Red, Red Wine. My mom hated that song so much & I’d go to my room & crank it up just to annoy her. (I’ve never been drunk in my life, but it has such a lazy, relaxing feeling of letting go. When I was going through some difficult times, that made it comforting to me + the bonus of annoying mom.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/28 "2014-08-28T11:32:11Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > Just a quick point - you are familiar with the Dolly Parton version of I Will Always Love You (Dolly wrote it)? A completely different feel to the song and infinitely better than the Whitney Houston attempt. COMPLETELY agree. Dolly, who wrote the song, does it perfectly. I do remember an interview she had when the Whitney version went stellar…she liked it, but I seem to recall her saying that she appreciated the royalties more…fwiw ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/29 "2014-08-28T11:35:52Z")
You guys only reminded me of more songs…From a Distance…bleychhhhh …as a wanna be Christian , the messed up theology (for me that is) is laughable Oh and Rupert Holmes’ “escape”…umm let’s see…you’re in a relationship, but you are both placing and answering personal ads? Let’s glorify infidelity, ok… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/30 "2014-08-28T12:47:42Z")
I made a vow to myself about 20 years ago that I would never willingly suffer Free Bird again. If I were locked in a room and forced to hear it, I’d scream and smack myself like Rainman in the tub scene. There may actually be songs I hate more, but avoiding Free Bird is my _thing_ now. (Hey, I should have put this in the personal peculiarities thread!) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/31 "2014-08-28T13:04:17Z")
Lou Reed _Waiting For My Man_ I think that’s the title. Can’t be anything else. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/32 "2014-08-28T13:32:25Z")
Sweet Emotion Walk This Way You Shook Me All Night Long Highway to Hell These are not bad songs, I like these songs, but seriously, these two band have at least 30 albums between them. Classic rock radio, PLAY SOMETHING ELSE! Abracadabra - this song, OTOH, is a piece of shit. In fact, most of Steve Miller’s stuff is garbage. His best song is “Jet Airliner” and of course, he didn’t write it. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/33 "2014-08-28T13:52:22Z")
Turn the Page, Like a Rock, Against the Wind: three of the whiniest, braggiest songs ever written. Free Bird: liked it the first few times, started hating it after the first hundred or so. Roundabout: interminable drivel. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/34 "2014-08-28T14:36:37Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Last Kiss. I don’t care who performs it. Oh god yes. The Pearl Jam version is one of the worst crimes against humanity ever recorded. 80s songs that have been played to death and need to be permanently retired: Tainted Love Come On Eileen Mickey Jessie’s Girl ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/35 "2014-08-28T14:49:31Z")
Anything by Air Supply, including songs I haven’t heard. Pilot of the Airwaves Sometimes When We Touch ---
**Author:** ![SpeedwayRyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SpeedwayRyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpeedwayRyan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/36 "2014-08-28T14:58:33Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Lou Reed _Waiting For My Man_ > > I think that’s the title. Can’t be anything else. “I’m Waiting for the Man” --The Velvet Underground “My man” would be his boyfriend. “The man” is his heroin dealer. (I know he actually says “my” in the song) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/37 "2014-08-28T15:09:35Z")
I’m going to second “American Pie.” I loved it the first 583 times, and then one day it just started being excruciatingly painful. “Starry Starry Night,” OTOH, I still like. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/38 "2014-08-28T15:14:31Z")
That god-awful Christmas song about the mouse that befriends a cat and the cat dies while keeping the mouse warm then gets taken to heaven by Santa. What in the actual hell is that. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/39 "2014-08-28T15:18:56Z")
I was a bartender for ~4 years in a college town. I don’t need to hear “Margaritaville” ever again. I’ve exceeded my quota already. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/40 "2014-08-28T15:56:33Z")
Scads of the songs above fit my list. Also, anything by Meat Loaf or Taylor Swift can get right out of here, forever. I never want to hear their songs ever again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709.md?page=3)