Oh, I seem to have somehow forgotten “Kokomo” by the Untalented Remainders of the Beach Boys. I call for strategic airstrikes on Aruba, Jamaica, Key Largo, Montego and the Bahamas.
Will the airstrikes get there fast and then they’ll take it slow?
Your Kiss is on My List by that duo. Die Die Die!
Keep “Stairway to Heaven”, but “Freebird” can go.
And dammit, I’ll give up Black Sabbath as soon as you can pry it from my cold, dead hands!
Here’s my list:
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[li]Hearing Rod Stewart sing makes me want to gouge out my ears with an ice pick.[/li][li]Same goes for Bob Dylan. I know saying this will piss some people off in this thread, but someone already stepped on my toes when they mentioned Black Sabbath, so I figure anything is fair game in this thread.[/li][li]Anything that is in the rap section of the music store.[/li][li]Who Let the Dogs Out- My question is, “Who the hell let the guys who made this song out?”[/li][li]Guys who sing falsetto need to be shot on sight. This includes The Beach Boys and whoever sings “Walks Like a Man” [/li][/ul]
You’re thinking of Kyrie - Mr. Mister. Not a gut-wrenchingly bad song, but not one I’m going to listen to by choice, either.
I edited your post, Tahssa, because it was causing margin errors in Firefox. I just reduced the number of "ella"s to a more manageable number.
I always kind of liked “In The Year 2525” if only for sentimental reasons, but 99% of the world seems to despise it. It reminds me of being a kid in my room building Mercury and Gemini capsules from plastic model kits, and it’d be on the radio. For some reason it has the same musical vibe as “One Is The Loneliest Number” which I also always liked.
One thing I liked about pop songs like that, in those days, was that the British Invasion oriented influence of harder rock was permeating the whole scene. So where nowadays a pop act would likely be doing some clumsy hip-hop or R&B pastiche, in those days a pop band would at least try to rock, and I certainly did like that better.
Oh, come on now, don’t go breaking my heart…
That’s Ty Cobb.
I actually thought that it made quite an effective representation of just how freaking annoying that song is.
Hmmmmm. Here I thought it was “Dick Howe” (whoever *that * might be).
Thank you, Neidhart.
I like some of the songs mentioned here. But ditto on the Steve Miller. All of it. Ugh.
Band on the Run, someone mentioned? Terrible song!
I like the Rolling Stones, but **Miss You ** causes me to reach for the dial.
I like Elton John, but **Benny and the Jets ** is just a horrible horrible aural experience.
I used to listen almost exclusively to country radio and when **Islands in the Stream ** come out they must have played it 100 times a day. Once a year is too much for that piece of crap. And no one can convince me that it is an actual country song.
John Mayer’s “Your Body Is a Wonderland.” Barf.
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Deep Blue Something. To this day, no one knows what that song is about.
“All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You” by Heart. Just…no.
Just about everything by Shania Twain.
Well, I guess my sometimes idea to change my user name to Love Your Peaches won’t win me many friends around here…
I’ll submit Sister Christian by Night Ranger and Here I Go Again by Whitesnake. These two songs almost drove me away from rock completely.
And almost all of Boston’s output, particularly the excreable More Than A Feeling.
What the f***? There was no mention of The Shaggs in the first 113 posts of this thread? The only reason their music has any notariety is because it is stunningly awful. None of their songs should be played especially ‘My Pal Foot-Foot.’
From the above Wiki link:
I apologize to the thread I did not realize my post it would mess up the margins. My bad. Well now I know and knowing is half the knowing.
<falls down, dead>
How about Mellow Yello? Never did like that song.
Add Black Sabbath AND Bob Dylan to the list.
Really, anything by Wings.
And here I thought it was because too many of the lyrics had been quoted.
You know what’s awesome for me, eleanorigby? I don’t even know what Elton song you’re talking about, and I hope I never, ever find out. Ever.
I’m afraid that we can no longer be friends.
My nomination:
“Eight six seven five three oh naii-eee-ine
Eight six seven five three oh naii-eee-ine
Eight six seven five three oh naii-eee-ine
Eight six seven five three oh naii-eee-ine”
Don’t forget “Big Girls Don’t Cry” which just makes me want to kick her as hard as I can to make her cry.
Hey, I like both of those songs quite a bit. Especially because when I was a kid I thought the lyrics to BatJ included “she’s got electric boobs, and a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine”. I also didn’t know what “mohair” was, and pictured a suit made of hair like some crazy medieval hermits used to wear. (I guess it says something about me that at ten years old, I didn’t know what “mohair” was, but knew about the behaviors of various flavors of medieval hermits.)
And c’mon, you gotta admit that Sir Elton has a LOT more stuff higher on the reject list… I would say that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is pretty much awesome from beginning to end. On the other hand, Philadelphia Freedom has really no redeeming value to me, and the less said about his cover of The Who’s song Pinball Wizard, the better.
As for Miss You, I often have a snippet of it playing in my head when I walk in Central Park after dark (a much different activity to attempt now than 30 years ago): I been walking in Central Park, singing after dark, people think I’m… crazy…