An offshoot from the smarmy song thread…
“Strokin’” by Clarence Carter. My stomach actually flips over. And have you seen the video? PUKE
MArilyn Manson’s “The Reflecting God”. It was a good song (to me) until I began to associate it with a suicidal friend. Especially after he showed up at my house with a switchblade to his wrist. It started scaring the shit out of me. I have’t talked to that friend in years, and I still can’t listen to the song. i don’t know if physically ill is the word, but I do have a physical reaction to it (fear).
Anything by Kenny Rogers, but the worst tortures ofof hell are reserved for “Coward of the County.”
DOesn’t make me ill, but “Disarm” by the Smashing Pumpkins fills me with this incredible fear of… well, I don’t know. I don’t know why it fills me with fear. But it makes me shiver and ties my insides in knots.
Closer by NIN really, honesty, physically makes me sick. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s that bass line.
Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Volume II. (The whole cd.) Too closely associated with memories I’d rather forget. It’s a shame because I used to enjoy listening to it, but 5 years later I still won’t contemplate putting it on.
Any of the synthetic nasaly whinings by Britney Spears - the worst of which being “Lucky”. Ugh.
I can’t remember the name of the song, but the video where the guy is in a plane crash so he calls his wife to say, “Hey honey, I’m going to die now!” That deeply disturbs me. I think it was “Back to One” or “One” or something.
Anything by the one and only Diamanda Galas - the only performer who I think is amazing, but I literally cannot stay in a room where one of her records is playing.
Seeing as I’m someone who has listened to Metal Machine Music in its entirety (plus the locked groove for five minutes at the end), that should show how extreme Ms Galas actually is.
You may think I’m joking, but the song “Get A Job” fills me with metaphysical dread. I kid you not, and it’s not the subject matter (I enjoy many other work-themed songs). When I was a kid, I went to an animation festival with my parents, and a cartoon set to this song was on the programme. I looked at the still frame from it in the program, and was filled with the absolute certainty that something terrible was going to happen when that cartoon started. You’ve heard about people who have a sudden premonition that the plane they are about to get on is going to crash, and they don’t get on, and the plane crashes? It was exactly like that. Except that, both my parents being extremely skeptical people, I was afraid to say anything because they would think I was being ridiculous. So we watched the festival, and as that cartoon got closer and closer, I got more and more scared. I knew, I knew that something terrible was about to happen. And finally, the cartoon came on, and I watched it, and it ended, and not a damn thing happened. I enjoyed the rest of the show in peace. But ever since then, when I hear that song, I get a little frission of the old fear.
I don’t know who sings it, but there’s a 70’s song that the classic rock stations play far too often. As far as I can tell, the name of the song is “All Right Now”. The lyrics are:
Allll riiiight now, Baby it’s alll riiiight now,
Allll riiiight now, Baby it’s alll riiiight now,
Allll riiiight now, Baby it’s alll riiiight now,
…
And on and on and on and…
It’s so mind-numbingly boring that it causes headaches and nausea, even when played as background music.
Van Halen always gave me migranes as well.
–sublight.
‘Alright Now’ is by Free.
American Pie, by Don McLean. I truly despise that dreadful song.
That one travesty by Missy Elliot (?) called ‘Get Yo’ Freak On’ (again, ?. I don’t watch MTV, but I hear that bleeding ulcer of a song every time my sister does.).
Imagine ‘get yo’ freak on’, repeated a couple dozen times, inter-laced with annyoing, only-barely-sensical threats and a short rest where there’s the sound of someone hocking a loogie. That song makes my stomach turn 720s.
That song is a crime against humanity.
That is one of the worst songs I have ever heard.
Mine is I Know What Boys Want by The Waitresses. I HATE that song.
I’ve mentioned this before in other threads: I think this song is OK, but it brings up the worst pictures. Su Sudio by Phil Collins because of American Psycho (which is a great movie actually).
Anything by Journey.
You’re having my baby - Paul Anka
The most vomit inducing song ever, bar none.
I hate everything about David Bowie’s “Velvet Goldmine”. When the movie of the same name came out I thought it looked kind of interesting, but I wouldn’t go to see it because I can’t stand the song and I was sure it would be prominently featured on the soundtrack. I later learned that it’s not actually on the soundtrack at all (apparently the filmmakers couldn’t get the rights to it), but I still haven’t seen the movie.
But how many of you have actually vomited due to a song?
Back in the early 80’s I was horribly sick for about a week and I could hardly keep anything down. I was essentially bed-ridden, fearing movement would cause me to throw up again. So I just layed there, watching hour after hour of TV, mostly MTV.
Finally, I started feeling better. I was able to keep down solid foods, and in general, stabilized. As long as I remained fairly still and concentrated on not throwing up, I was fine.
Until…
The Bangle’s “Hero Takes A Fall” video came on. I distinctly remember thinking “God, I hate this song. What a horrible, horrible song. Why would anyone ever write such a horrible, horrible… BLLECCHH.”
In effect, this song allowed me to loose both my concentration and my lunch.
While it doesn’t have that effect on me now, I certainly don’t think fondly of it.
There’s one my brother plays over and over on an old tape.
"I’m So Dizzy (My Head Is Spinning, Like a Whirlpool it Never Ends…) Makes my head hurt it’s so hypnotic and repetitive.