Yup…Bett Midler and Patrick Swayze…good christ. Another Midler tune that drives me bonkers…From a Distance…ugh.
I can’t turn off the radio…because I’m the goon playing this tripe.
Others: Amazed by Lonestar…Almost anything by Celine Dion, Amy Grant and The Poppy Family.
Almost any tune in high rotation gets to me after a week or two.
The Led Zeppelin song, is it the Immigrant Song? Drums really fast, then aah aah aah - ah. aah aah aah -ah. I come from the land of ice and snow… I’ve turned it off just as I hear the damn drums…
Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison -or- Van Halen. That song just plain sucks!
Anything by the 4 Seasons - aren’t they the ones that sing in that incredibly bad falsetto?
I used to like listening to “lite rock” but there is so much truley awful drivel on it it’s maddening.
When I can’t listen to CDs, I like “classic rock” but there are a couple of songs that absolutly make me want to stomp the life out of my radio.
Aqualung, as noted by a couple of you
Radar Love, Golden Earing
anything by the Beatles
Free Bird, Lynyrd Skynyrd
I’m sure I’ll think of others
Chow
anything
by
Aqua
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*Originally posted by nevermore *
**anything by Oasis, especially Champagne Supernova. It’s bad enough the motherf%#ker sings like a clothespin is permanently clamped over his nostrils, but he can’t even pronounce the freakin title!!! "END QUOTE
Oh yeah, hate the song too, but, I love to watch interviews with Oasis on the TV. Did you ever notice that they are almost always subtitled—EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE SPEAKING ENGLISH??? Ok I know it’s supposed to be English, but I can’t understand one F’ng word.
Oh and if I hear Livin la Vida Loca one more time , I’ll… OK I can’t think of anything creative enough to convey the strength of my particular emotion, but when I do, it will be very objectionable I assure you.
Linger, by The Cranberries. I despise that song.
My all time least favorite song, however, is Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. Thank God I hardly ever hear it.
“Come on Eileen” by that obnoxious, overall-wearing band from the 80’s (Dexy’s Midnight Runners? something like that)
The horror! The horror!
“If You’re Going to San Francisco”. They play that all the time around here and I’m going to rip my hair out the next time I hear it. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Eye in the Sky by Alan Parsons Project.
#1: “McArthur Park,” by anyone. I can’t believe there are two versions of that horrible song around.
#2: “Lady in Red,” by whoever it is that whines it. Barf.
#3: the Bryan Adams song that is the theme to the movie Don Juan (with Johnny Depp). It’s so bad, I have blocked the title out of my memory.
#4: Pretty much everything by Mariah Carey, but especially her take on the Harry Nilson classic “Without You” and her MTV Unplugged version of the Jackson 5 classic, “I’ll Be There.”
#5: Lara Fabian, the newest Cher-Celine-Barbra-Mariah clone. I’ve only heard one song and if I’m lucky, I’ll never hear another.
If I thought about it, I could come up with dozens. I highly recommend Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs. The only problem with it is that you find the damn songs stuck in your head for hours after reading it.
anything by that screech owl Alanis Morrissette
Oh I just remembered one that I hate almost as much as the invidious “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” above. Thankfully I don’t hear it often, but “MacArthur Park” has to be one of the stupidest songs ever recorded.
“Someone left the cake out in the rain,
and I don’t think I can take it,
'Cause it took so long to bake it.
and I’ll never find the recipe again, Oh, no.”
Babies make more profound, sweeter smelling statements in their Huggies than this tripe.
And in the time it took me to find and confirm the lyrics, someone already mentioned “Macarthur Park” in the dreaded simulpost. <sigh>
Anything by UB40 has me reaching to change radio stations
Jewel.
she is the “case resting” proof of all the arguments my sister and some female friends spout about sexist attitudes in the U.S.A. Namely, that it doesn’t matter if she’s a mediocre songwriter with a thin, shrilly voice and seems to know all of two chords which she strums over and over and over; so long as she’s under 25, has big tits, a good complexion and is blonde, the record industry will push her half-assed folk rock crapola on the public at large, and a large portion of them will eat it up.
Sorry for the rant, but it is the only explanation I can think of for songs like “Foolish Games” or “Who Will Save Your Soul?” Lord above, I can’t rush to change the stations fast enough when that bubblegum wannabe Joni Mitchell gets on the radio.
Right now 2 come to mind:
“Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia
“My Heart Will Go On” by CD.
Damn…you’d think people would stop requesting them after 2-3 damn YEARS of constant airplay!!!
Jman (who lives in central NY, where all the radio stations suck ass)
Portnoy sez:
No matter how many times I read this, I cannot stop laughing. If I’d been drinking something, it would have instantly and violently been shot from my nasal cavity.
ANY Four Seasons song, or Beach Boys lil ditties makes me want to pull my hair out. But the radio stations can make you sick of things you like. I loved ‘Smooth’ by Santana, and now can’t stand it, and will turn it, if it’s played.
I just drove through that area a couple of days ago, and I wholeheartedly agree. My brother used to work for Hot 107 in Syracuse until he was fired last summer. He hates that kind of music, but that’s where the money is. So he insulted the listeners…a lot. He dug his own grave, I guess. He’s now at 98 PXY in Rochester and is even more obnoxious. It’s great!
Anyway. “She’s so lucky, she’s a star, but she cry cry cries…” makes my ears bleed. That’s my most hated current song.
Historically, it has been (and always will be) “Old Time Rock and Roll”. I never understood why people in my high school would freak out when it was played at dances. Ugh!
“Muskrat Love” (for obvious reasons. Come to think of it, haven’t heard it in a while. maybe it was banned?)
Another vote for “Jack & Diane”
Whitney Houston’s brainkilling “I Will Always Love You”
Neil Diamond singing anything at all.
I don’t know the name, but that teen death song from the early 70’s that went “where oh where can my baby be?/ The lord took her away from me/she’s gone to heaven so I’ve got to be good/so I can see my baby when I leave this-a world.” It traumatized me in 6th grade and is still taking up valuable brain cell space.