I had a neighbor in Boston who had an tape deck that played nothing but “Me and Mrs. Jones”, again and again, all day and late into the night. It wasn’t loud enough for he cops to do anything, it was just extremely annoying.
The only respite was to go into the laundry room and flip off the circuit breakers for his apartment. The guy would call the manager and report he had electrical problems again, the manager always told him it would take awhile to fix.
It really must have screwed you up because that song came out in the early 60’s. It’s called “Last Kiss”, and it’s by (going out on a limb here) Frank Wilson. Though Pearl Jam cut a version that SUCKS in the past couple of years.
Oh man. I got so sick of the pearl jam cover of this (which may have been what you’re hearing). It was pretty much played to death after it came out a year or two ago, and how many pearl jam fans would ever listen to the original? (not that im plugging it, either).
I’m with you on the Frankie Valli. ‘Walk like a Man?’
How bout SING like a man! Anything by Dylan. I’m sorry, but the man can’t sing
I always strive to avoid Bob Seger’s “Like A Rock” because it has been a fixture of Chevy commercials for about a thousand billion years and I just can’t deal with it anymore. Couldn’t Chevy pick some other mercilessly down-home song to drive into our skulls? Like, maybe, “Jack and Diane”?
That fairy floss with supersaccharin song with the hook line “I’ve been to paradise but I’ve never been to me”. I can’t remember who sang it and I don’t want to know 
Maddona’s version of “American Pie” - makes a great case for placing restrictions on freedom of expression.
Ack, that is my favorite song in the whole wide world
Songs that just suck: anything Limp Bizkit, Three Doors Down - Kryptonite, Creed - Higher, anything Britney Spears(although her videos are nice…), come to think of it, i rarely hear any songs I actually like.
My mother used to sing “Sherry” all the time. That’s probably their most obnoxious song, too. Talk about ears bleeding!
Songs I played today:
Smooth…Santana
Seasons in the Sun…Terry Jacks
My Heart Will Go On…Celine Dion
Just a sampling of the pap I played today.
If there were nothing but Dopers for listeners, I would have any listeners at all.
Steve Miller’s “Abracadabra”, Steely Dan “Ricky Don’t Lose That Number”, or Eric Clapton’s carnival job on “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” are enough to make me smash a radio.
Another vote here for “Jack and Diane” as the worst pseudo-rock 'n roll ever to come out of Bloomington, Indiana. Even my kids have to admit it really reeks and don’t mind when I turn it off.
Also, I have to confess I have a love/hate relationship with the Pearl Jam cover of the teen death song. See, when The Cat Who Walks Alone was 14, she thought it ruled, like, totally, Mom, (and that Eddie Vedder was a god, natch).
But then she found out that he “stole” it from someone else, and it wasn’t really his deep-down inmost thoughts and angst and all that good stuff after all, just a cover of a 60’s song (and she despises 60’s songs on general principles because that’s what Dad likes to listen to).
So she heard the Rock God confess sheepishly in an interview not only that it was a cover of an oldie, BUT ALSO to his eternal shame (in her eyes) that he HADN’T EVEN KNOWN IT WAS FROM THE 60’S. In the interview he said that he’d first become aware of it on someone else’s album from the 1970’s and had decided to cover it. So after she had listened to Mom and Dad spending a certain amount of time hooting derisively at his profound ignorance (I mean come on, one of the most famous 60’s teen death songs, and he’d never heard of it?), suddenly her idol had feet of clay, and she stopped asking us to turn it up whenever it came on.
So although I detest his cover of it (it’s too slow, for one thing, and he sings it through his nose and off-key to boot), I have a certain warm spot in my heart for it.
My God! You played Seasons in the Sun? Isn’t that illegal?
Arrrrgh!!! It’s in my head!!! Get it out! Get it out!!!
:whimper: Help me.
Aaahhh…screw you all, I like Jack And Diane!
To answer the OP: Anything by Destiny’s Child (esp. Ladies Leave Your Man At Home), Puff Daddy, Britanny Spears, N’Suck, Backdoor Boys, Jethro Tull (Whichever song he does that begins with “Sitting on a park bench” makes me want to pry my radio out of the console and set fire to it), Aqua, Celine Dion.
The new song by Mariah Carry that samples, ironically enough, Jack And Diane.
Another big, big vote for Frankie Valli. His voice is actually more annoying than Mariah’s, and that’s saying a lot.
Well if we are talking about my usual radio station (which excludes crap like Britney Spears, boy bands, etc.) then anything by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Loser by Three Doors Down, and Music at Work by the Tragically Hip(?), thats about it.
However, depending on my mood, I might not listen to Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit for example if I was depressed. But the ones above are the ones I dont listen to in any mood I am in, they just irritate me too much.
Anything by Van Halen or any other 80s hair metal band
Most rap. Most country. Most songs by boy bands or cheesy pop artists.
Rock all the way.
Digi
Actually, though Mariah’s crimes are legion, this isn’t one of them. This song is by a newbie singer named Jessica Simpson. It, for the record, sucks ass.
There’s genius somewhere in this post, I just know it…
My personal non-fave is any song where the lead singer screams at the top of his lungs. And also Jars of Clay’s first hit. I think it’s called “Fill Me Up” or something.
The one I hate, and that comes on the stations I listen to occasionally, is “Intergalactic” by The Beasty Boys.
Something about that electronic voice going low on the second “inter” when it’s “singing” (reciting?):
Intergalactic. Planetary. Planetary. [sub]Inter[/sub]galactic
puts a huge pit in my stomach and makes my throat close.
No idea why, I don’t hate TBB as a matter of course like some people, just THAT SONG.
I can agree with many of the others mentioned here, but fortunately most of those are avoided by simply not having the radio on in the first place if more than one person is in the car and they don’t both like the same station. (My family long ago agreed that this was the best policy.)
The one I do have to add is “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)”.
Something to do with a 28 hour drive to Florida in a stationwagon as a kid and that song in heavy rotation. (Radio keeping driving parent awake, and very limited choice in stations in the south in those days made it a necessary evil.)
I haven’t actually heard it in years, but just the thought of the possibility of the chance of… AAARRRGGGGHHHH!
Anything by Steve Miller. That no-rhyming, no-talent schmuck makes my gorge rise.
Them and really anything my sister listens to while I’m a passenger in her car makes me want to open the door and jump.
Come to think of it so does her driving but that’s another thread.