# Songs that must not be played at all. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373 "2007-11-06T02:27:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/41 "2007-11-06T05:57:30Z")
Number 9 Number 9 Number 9 Number 9 Number 9 Number 9 Number 9 Number 9 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/42 "2007-11-06T06:10:48Z")
“Butterfly Kisses” - Bob Carlyle. “Christmas Shoes” - whatever bastard unleashed it on the world. “Say a Little Prayer” - is that Diana Ross? “Everlasting Love” (from those eHarmony commercials) Yes, I hate glurge. “Japan” - CocoRosie (sounds like Bjork recorded a children’s album, and I don’t like Bjork to begin with.) Anything by Creed, Nickelback, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Hinder, Slipknot, Linkin Park, any band that would get used as a WWE wrestler’s theme music… I have zero tolerance for modern hard rock. Anything by Aerosmith. I’ve decided they represent everything corny and embarrassing about rock music. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/43 "2007-11-06T06:18:29Z")
_Say A Little Prayer_ is, IIRC a Bacharach-David song, performed by Dionne Warwick. And _An Everlasting Love_ is Natalie Cole. I’m not going to degrade my computer by using it to look up the perpetrator of _The Christmas Shoes_. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/44 "2007-11-06T06:38:01Z")
Anything that has made it to AM radio is better than some stuff locked in the bowels of albums. Number 9 has already been mentioned - I submit for your consideration **Sing this All Together (and See what happens)** from Satanic Majesties - seven minutes and fifty-eight seconds of evidence that listening to stoned Stones pound on instruments is not amusing. It makes Revolution No. 9 seem like a dance track. Now, for more normal fare, I suggest **Brandy** and **Wildfire**. I can only hope that somewhere in musicland Wildfire has kicked the shit out of Brandy and then been driven off a cliff. Oh, and the sailor has been disemboweled by pirates, and then drowned. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/45 "2007-11-06T07:00:50Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Robbie Williams - “Rock DJ” [/QUOTE] I’ll agree that the audio can be never heard, but the video MUST be kept so that women and gay men can enjoy Robbie undressing his lovely body. I’ll nominate “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/46 "2007-11-06T08:24:52Z")
**Madonna** ’s _Music_. This song embodies everything wrong with music nowadays… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/47 "2007-11-06T08:42:06Z")
Jack and Diane - John (Cougar) Mellencamp I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner American Woman, or just about anything by the Guess Who. Terrible, terrible stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/48 "2007-11-06T08:52:57Z")
Tina Turner’s _Simply The Best_, probably a few others of hers too (that one from the Mad Max movie, for example). ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/49 "2007-11-06T10:26:22Z")
_Bad to the Bone_ by George Thoroughgood(sp?) Aw fuck it, his whole catalog. Once I heard a parody of his _Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job_ in which the title line was sung: “Get some lessons and learn some new chords.” It was a thing of beauty. _Hotel California_ by the Eagles. _Pour Some Sugar on Me_ by Def Leppard. Post _Back in Black_ AC/DC. and of course, _Freebird_. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/50 "2007-11-06T10:46:43Z")
Whenever a James Taylor (he doesn’t deserve bolding) song comes on the radio, the station gets changed immediately and I have visions of Belushi smashing that lame folkie’s guitar in _Animal House_. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/51 "2007-11-06T12:18:34Z")
Anything by Norah Jones. For more than a year, you couldn’t walk into a Borders or Barnes & Noble without hearing her over the sound system. “Like a Bird” by Nelly Furtado. “Hallelujah” by, um, I forget. Every single damn TV drama used it in one of their crappy musical montages that are all the rage these days for some Christless reason. Musical montages on TV shows in general, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/52 "2007-11-06T12:59:40Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Everything by Nickelback and Creed. Are there actually people who _listen_ to these bands? How can this be? [/QUOTE] Easy now, I have to defend Nickelback. The angst of “The Long Road” saw me through a painful divorce. That said I’ve had little use for it since. “ **The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald** ” - Gordon Lightfoot again with “ **The Joker** ” I hate “ **Silvia’s Mother** ”, “ **Delilah** ” and “ **Holly Holy** ” with all my heart. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/53 "2007-11-06T13:16:34Z")
“Horse With No Name,” "Tin Man, " - oh, hell, _anything_ by America! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/54 "2007-11-06T13:21:00Z")
_I Will Survive_- Gloria Gaynor (why must this be played at every single frappin’ wedding?) _It’s Raining Men_- The Weather Girls _Celebration_- Kool & The Gang (ditto with the wedding thing) _My Heart Will Go On_- Celine Dion ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/55 "2007-11-06T13:32:30Z")
Although I’m pretty neutral about most of the stuff that’s been mentioned, we’ve got some good hatred goin’ here, people! I’m gonna heap some more scorn on the dreck that is “Hey There Delilah”. But the song that makes me absolutely homicidal is that shite “Bubbly” by that twat Colbie Callait. She needs to be neck chopped. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/56 "2007-11-06T13:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] _Seasons in the Sun_. I’m planning to start a foundation to buy every remaining copy of this record and drop 'em all down a radioactive mineshaft. [/QUOTE] Let me know where I can send a contribution. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/57 "2007-11-06T13:56:40Z")
Nazareth, “Love Hurts.” Yeah, and so does your lead singer’s voice. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/58 "2007-11-06T13:58:38Z")
Some songs I used to utterly loathe and punch the radio dial like Ali-Frazier after 1 second of play. Like anything by the Spin Doctors. But, I’ve gotten over them. They’re actually kinda OK now. But, I still hate Come on Eilleen by Dexis Midnight Runners as much as the entire Muslim world hates Israel. As much as Dick Cheney hates being outbid. As much as terrorists hate freedom. [sub]One band I should hate, but I don’t: Nickelback. They’re a guilty pleasure.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/59 "2007-11-06T14:09:08Z")
Anything and everything by Lenny Kravitz. And you can pry “Seasons In The Sun” from my cold dead hands. (which doesn’t sound like it will be much of a problem for most of the planet actually.) Toss Genesis/Phil Collins and Yes on the pyre also. Pretty please. I promise to never play Seasons In The Sun where any other sentient creature can hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373/60 "2007-11-06T14:20:08Z")
[QUOTE=nikonikosuru] The “Hey there Delilah something something whine whine whine” song. Ah, apparently it’s called “Hey Delilah” by the Plain White T’s. Has anyone else had the misfortune of hearing it? It’s squeaky, whiney, and the singer sounds like he’s still in the middle of puberty. I don’t know why, but it sends me into an angry rage whenever that song comes on (and of course my family thinks it’s funny so they turn it up even more). It’s like nails on the chalkboard of my soul. [/QUOTE] 😃 I made the mistake of asking about the Plain White T’s on this board because I like the song. Instead of telling me about the group as I asked, everyone came in to tell me the song sucked. 😛 I am pretty apathetic about most of the songs in the this thread. Some I like, some not so much, but I don’t have strong feeling for most of them. However, I must echo: the Barking Dogs version of Jingle Bells. Horse With No Name And while we are at it, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-must-not-be-played-at-all/425373.md?page=4)