Also known as the “Working My Way Back to You Babe” Award. There is nothing redeeming about that song, and it makes me want to poke out my eardrums. Damn The Spinners for that piece of misogynistic crap.
Second in line is Air Supply’s “I’m All Out of Love.”
Thanks for the opportunity to get these two off my chest.
Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
First of all, “Working My Way Back To You” is by the Four Seasons (1966). The Spinners simply did a cover that, if I remember right, was packaged with “Forgive Me Girl”. You may be remembering some of the conjoined lyrics.
Second of all, how in the world is the song mysogynistic??? It’s about a man who is explaining how he was a complete jerk in his treatment of his girlfriend, and now wants to get her back by doing the right thing and being the sort of guy she’d want. If that’s demonstrating hatred of women, I think we could use more such “hatred”. :rolleyes:
Third of all, I’m not sure why these songs make you want to put pencils in your ears. I will grant that “All Out Of Love” was extremely over-played at the time (it came during a particularly bad time of my life romantically, so I associate the song with the break-up). But it’s not a horrible song by any means, just a bit on the sappy side. Songs that make me want to stick pencils in my ears are songs that have horrible lyrics, or have one of those nasty ear-worm tunes that you just know you’re going to be singing in your mind for the next four days, despite not being all that much a fan of the song. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler is on the list for me, because after seeing the literal video parodying it, I cannot hear it without thinking about how stupid the video was. I’m sure others will come along with some good examples.
Fourth of all, you should get the names of the songs right. 
“You’re Beautiful” and “Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing.” Both of which were played ad nauseam on adult contemporary stations at around the same time. Yecccch! :mad:
The Spinners’ version of “Working My Way” isn’t my favorite song, but I’d take it over the Four Seasons’ version any day of the week.
“Dame Tu Cosita” by El Chombo. Apparently, this came out in the late 90s, but was resurrected by some minion of Satan last year. It only barely broke the Top 40 in the US, but it hit #1 on the Latin charts. Drives me up a wall, and I have two kids, ages 5 and 3, who love it.
Also, “Hey There Deliliah” by the Plain White T’s makes me uncharacteristically stabby for some reason. Luckily, the popularity of that one has waned quite a bit.
Anything by Imagine Dragons. I HATE this ‘band’. They make me Imagine Silence. I wish they would Imagine Talent.
“Cherish” by The Association.
Anything by David Lee Roth where he makes that stupid screamy sound of his. Actually, I want to stick pencils in his ears when I hear this sound.
“Havin’ My Baby” by Mac Davis.
Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
It might not be a “pencils in ears” song, but it definitely a “gopher” song. I gopher the knob as soon as it comes on. Fortunately, the need to do that has virtually gone to zero thanks to iTunes.
Being the sick individual I am, I actually like some of these songs. and no one’s mentioned the ones I really hate. Like Terry Jacks’ Seasons in the Sun, which sounds as if he recorded it, made it into a vinyl record, drilled a new hole for the spindle off-center, then re-recorded it from the lopsided disc.
And that’s only the style, not considering the lyrics.
Or Bill Withers’ Ain’t no Sunshine, in which he repeats the word “I know” 26 times in a row, which makes me want to scream “Hit Bill Withers - he’s stuck!”
(Acording to the Wikipedia entry, he wanted to write more lyrics instead of repeating all those "I know"s, but pro musicians talked him out of it. They should be hunted down and killed.)
If you want really bad songs, check out these books:
That was Paul Anka.
Mac Davis’ big one was “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me.”
There are really too many to mention but I’ll add Love Will Keep Us Together and Muskrat Love, the Captain and Tennille twofer, and *Feelings *by Morris Albert.
I forgot to include the other book
Can’t believe The Archies’ ‘Sugar Sugar’ hasn’t yet been mentioned.
I actually love that song! Perfect piece of bubblegum pop.
Oh, please! “Muskrat Love” is awesome! You have to just get all smiles when you hear the muskrats giggling. 
Here’s an interesting list.
I’m happy to say that I haven’t heard the majority of the songs on the list. And I should probably keep it that way.
About 33 years ago, when I was in my teens, I realized that my life would be greatly improved if I never heard “Free Bird” ever again. And that very day, I made a rule that I would go to whatever lengths necessary to prevent being exposed to it. As a result, I’ve only had to suffer it about once per decade since then.
I admit, “Free Bird” is not the very worst song in the world. The worst is obviously “Muskrat Love”,** DSYoung**! :mad:
Anything by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - too skeevy for words.
And easily half of the songs listed already - some I’m not familiar with and there are a couple I actually like. No accounting for tastes, huh?
I prefer “Hamster Love,” myself. :o
