I hate this song, but truly because of the line “There were plants and birds and rocks and things” Oh, really…There were *things * were there? Die in a fire America the band.
I woke up this morning with the song “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” by Denise Williams playing full blast in my head so I’m including that one too.
Other notable mentions would include “Piano Man” by Billy Joel and every single song by Bruce Springsteen.
Some of the nominated songs are not actually bad but simply overplayed (some are quite bad). I submit to you songs that most people can agree on:
Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
Feelings - Albert Morris
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Life is life - ???
I’m a pretty tolerant guy, but I have to admit Terry Jacks’ song is on my hate list. It sounds as if they recorded it, put it on a record with the hole off-center, then played that on a turntable and re-recorded what resulted.
Really? I’d agree with everything on Born In The U.S.A., but I think his early stuff is terrific. BITUSA is pure drivel.
Adding:
Everything by Matthew Sweet. (And if you try to convince me his early stuff is great, I just won’t believe you.)
*Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages
We were pressed
In love’s hot fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
McArthur Park is melting in the dark… *
::ducks and runs::
I second “Horse with No Name” and “The Joker” – two which immediately sprang to mind as songs that test my reflexes each time they come on the car radio. I will add to the Steve Miller hate: “Fly Like an Eagle.” Intolerable even before the Post Office pounded it into oblivion.
In another category, either version of “Blinded by the Light” makes me queasy. I know it’s ‘deuce’ not ‘douche’ but I can’t hear it that way, not least because ‘wrapped up like a deuce’ makes no motherfucking sense to me at all.
“Pink Cadillac” will be subject to swift cutoff, but not because it’s nausea-inducing; it just bores the hell out of me no matter who’s singing it.
And I’ll concur with an earlier poster, and go further: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes’ version of “Sesasons in the Sun” actually makes life worth living.
The Kingston Trio recorded Seasons in the Sun in 1963. It was so musically perfect that no one has ever dared to besmirch the song’s sublimity by covering it. I know not this “Terry Jacks” person of whom you speak.
Oh yes…
Neil Diamond should never have been allowed to perform his own songs. He’s a decent songwriter (for the most part), but I’d rather shove icepicks in both ears than listen to him sing.
Stabby stabby stabby stabby
I hesitate to point out that a number of these songs that people are talking about I really like: Brandy, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Total Eclipse of the Heart all come to mind as songs I’m not going to let you keep me from playing.
I will suggest that the entirety of the musical Cats has been over played, and should be locked away in a vault for at least 100 years. Especially Memories!.
(heads to the flame-proof bunker)
I’ve said it before. 96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians. If I got sent to Gitmo, they would only have to play the first bar before I gave up the plans of my terrorist cell, the names and addresses of everyone I knew and any pieces of information I might have learned since I was 2 years old. I would rather watch John Goodman get a rim job from Danny DeVito than listen to this “musical” abortion. Words cannot even begin to describe the level of pain and suffering I wish to inflict upon the anal wart who thought this would be a great piece to play on the radio. The language we use in the Pit is too tame for what I would like to say.
Thank you so much for reminding me of this song. I’m going to go home now and drive red hot knitting needles up my nostrils and through my eardrums until the screaming in my cerebellum stops.
Easy, now…Gordo can do no wrong.
I’ll 83rd “The Joker”. Pretty much his whole catalog.
Also, that “Pina Colada Song”. Aieeee! the aural burning!
95% of all **Jimmy Buffet ** songs. Yes, I know, his concerts have booze. Whee.
“You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” -Leo Sayer. 10,000 suns, 1920’s raygun, etc.
“Layla” by Derek et al (really The Satanic Clapton). Not only is it overplayed, not only is Clapton possibly the most overrated songster EVER…it got re-butchered by the Satan himself.
I’m sure there are more.
-Cem
Wow…just wow.
I can’t find the thread now, but I stated **Matthew Sweet ** as the person whose *entire catalog * I’d like to own. I have two of his CDs in my car as I type.
I don’t think we’re going to have a play-date.
-Cem
Let me add “Wildfire” to the list.
“Shimmy, shimmy, coco-pop” (although I loved it when I was 6)
“Afternoon Delight” and “Muskrat Love”
“CaryAnne” or some such–rock tune from the 90s or even late 80s (by Survivor?)–anyway, for years I thought it went: “carrion, on the road that I must travel…”
It makes me crabby to listen to it.
All rap. Yeah, I know. Apparently there’s good rap out there. I say, I don’t want to listen to some guy make bad poetry with no respect for the number of syllables needed in a line. I will not listen to it. It makes me stabby inside.
“At Seventeen” This was a huge hit around the time I was 17. I thought it absolute drivel–especially the part about being last in choosing sides for basketball. Now I can see it as a the anguished cry that it was, but I still don’t want to listen to it.
Anything by Motley Crue, Yes, ELP, Rush. <yawn> The group Bread needs to be convicted of crimes against humanity.
A lot of great suggestions for audio extermination.
Mine - ANY Christmas “Old Chestnuts” album by celebrities with no vocal talent.
They are right there in the cut-out bin, so easy to move to the parking lot and burn for warmth in barrel this winter.
I’m not sure I’m familiar with the Plain White T’s “Hey Delilah” but it sounds suckerific, totally blandtastic.
I want to clairify that the “Delilah” of my scorn is by Tom Jones:
At break of day when that man drove away, I was waiting
I cross the street to her house and she opened the door
She stood there laughing
I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more
My, my, my delilah
Why, why, why delilah
Now please excuse me while I poke my eyes out for merely looking at the lyrics.
Bobby Goldsboro. Any, every and all.
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let me just add Color Your World by Chicago. Pretty much anything by Chicago, actually.
I love that song! It’s just so…strange. The backing music is so festive and the song is so brutal. It’s like murder at a Mexican carnival or something.
The entire Smashmouth catalogue, which is like three songs anyway as far as I know.
Sugar Sugar, by the Archies.
All the over-used movie montage songs.
Oh dear Lord yes.
And while I have not actually heard such a thing, I can only assume that somebody out there has recorded a remix of this using yowling cats. If you have a link to this as a WAV, RealAudio or MP3 clip, please don’t hesitate for one moment to not post it.