# Songs that need to be put out of their misery **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533 "2004-02-04T20:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gleeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f14d63/32.png) [@gleeb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gleeb)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/41 "2004-02-05T20:54:58Z")
I suppose it’s a different song for everyone, but for me, I’ll be glad if I never have to hear _Send in the Clowns_ again. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/42 "2004-02-05T21:13:47Z")
How could I have forgotten this one: _Like a Rock_. What an effin’ nightmare. Take my most hated song from my most hated singer, and use it for all Chevy commercials nonstop for TWENTY YEARS. The only thing that makes me change the channel faster is that “Zoom Zoom” abomination. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/43 "2004-02-05T21:33:46Z")
“Muskrat Love”-Captain and Tenille “Afternoon Delight” Starland Vocal Band Heard it in a love song"-Marshall Tucker Band “Achy Breaky Heart”-Billy Ray Cyrus Ah. That feels better. Much like a visit to the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/44 "2004-02-05T22:17:19Z")
We can all cover a **ton** of ground here by just saying: Every fricking “fun/upbeat” song that every fricking DJ in the world feels the need to play at every fricking wedding. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/45 "2004-02-05T22:35:18Z")
“Wonderful Tonight” and the slowed-down verson of “Layla”. “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” “Should I Stay or Should I Go Now” “Me and Bobby McGee” The Guess Who version of “American Woman” is a classic, but Lenny Kravitz ruined it. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/46 "2004-02-05T23:04:30Z")
"Baybeh…when ah think about yew Ah think about luuuuu-uuh-uhh-uuuuuv Darlin…can’t live without yew An’ yer luuuuuu-uuh-uhh-uuuuuv And if ah had Those golden dreams Of mah yesterdaaaaaa-aay-aay-aaay Ah would wrap them In thuh heavuns See me dyin’ (dyin,DYIN!) all thuh way Ah feel like makin’ \ **AH FEEL LIKE MAKIN’** \ **AH FEEL LIKE MAKIN’** \ **WELL AH FEEL LIKE MAKIN’** \ _Ah feel like makin’ luuv too-oo-ooo yew!_" I feel like making a bomb and blowing up the PA in this supermarket… ---
**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:** [February 6, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/47 "2004-02-06T01:49:43Z")
**Hal Briston** is right about cliched wedding songs. If I ever get married, the DJ will be explicitly instructed to NOT play certain songs, even if the guests request them. And I won’t have any arguments. Despite what anyone says, a wedding is a party for my wife and myself, not for my guests. And any girl I marry would have to be on the same page as me there. NO “YMCA” or anything by the Village People. NO “Conga” or anything by Gloria Estefan (maybe this is only a Miami problem.) DEFINITELY NO “Macarena.” NO “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang (but he may play “Jungle Boogie.”) NO “My Heart Will Go On.” NOTHING by the divas: Cher/Whitney/Celine/Mariah/Christina/any other vibrato abusers. No “Chicken Dance” (a Northern phenomenon, from what I understand.) ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/48 "2004-02-06T02:08:33Z")
> [@Ellie's Granny](#): > > Freebird- I swear, some stations think that is the ONLY LS song in existence :rolleyes: Thank you. Just…thank you. And living in Alabama, don’t even get me started on “Sweet Home Alabama”. For the love of all that is mobile but home…STFU! It ain’t the state song! It’s also dated and tiring. And **over-frickin-played**! We do not have to hear it every hour on classic rock stations, just because we live here. SHUT UP! I have never had enough Jack Daniel or Wild Turkey to warrant that many replays of this song. I never will. Give it a damn rest! ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/49 "2004-02-06T02:38:47Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > _Bang On The Drum All Day_. No real reason, other than I hear it all the time and I hate it. Yeah. That’s one of my dial-switchers. I heard it twice yesterday (or that is, I heard the beginning of it twice). Same station. Obviously, after the first time, I went back. A mistake. Why do they DO that? This is a station that hypes itself as the “new music” station. A long quote about the new music, a breathy voice saying, “I wanna hear _new music_,” and then . . . “Ahhhhieeee, don’t wanna play, I just wanna–” click ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/50 "2004-02-06T03:03:01Z")
> [@Sylkyn](#): > > And living in Alabama, don’t even get me started on “Sweet Home Alabama”. I must agree with you 100%. There is a bar across the street from me that plays this song every hour on the hour _every single day_. Except we’re in Georgia, so the ever clever masses sing “‘Sweet Home Ala-Georgia!’ Haha! Get it? Like, we’re in GA, so we can’t sing Alabama! I bet you thought we were going to say AL, right? Right?? Haw haw!” My god, where are the Q-tips when you need them? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/51 "2004-02-06T03:14:35Z")
> [@threeorange](#): > > In the spirit pre-emptive strikes, I’d like to nominate a current hit single, a piece of musical fungus that will inevitably infect every other movie trailer and sitcom promo for the next few years: > > **Are You Gonna Be My Girl** by **Jet** The song is just an unabashed rip-off of Lust For Life by Iggy Pop. Which also has too-high airplay. So, good choice. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/52 "2004-02-06T03:47:53Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > … > NO “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang (but he may play “Jungle Boogie.”) > … > No “Chicken Dance” (a Northern phenomenon, from what I understand.) Damn. I was going to say “Celebration”. Trotted out nightly by every 4th rate DJ in every Holiday Inn lounge in the country. Re: your thoughts on wedding music. When we got married my wife and I gave the DJ a short list of songs he was positively forbidden to play under any circumstances whatsoever. I forget what they all were except one was “The Chicken Dance”. He was quite cooperative about the whole thing, really. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/53 "2004-02-06T04:38:59Z")
“A little ditty 'bout Jack & Diane …” ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/54 "2004-02-06T05:24:42Z")
> [@Bruce\_Daddy](#): > > ☹ I like Sheryl’s and Rod’s, Rod’s better. Please tell me your goal in life is not to be “Queen Who Decides On The Existance Of Certain Songs”. > > * * * Naw, it’s more a Bad Personal Memorytm. I gotta agree with “Takin’ Care Of Business”, though. Since BTO is a local band up here, it get’s WAY overplayed! I’ll give you a prime example. Our church band has learned a few soft-ish rock songs for use as needed. One of the times they trot 'em out is for the big outdoor community parties we host. Party in the Park a couple of years ago they played it FOUR times before my ears quit in protest! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Extraneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@Extraneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Extraneous)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/55 "2004-02-06T07:18:55Z")
Let them say your hair’s too long, I don’t care, with you I can’t go wrong… Babe. I got you, babe… I believe the children are the future… What the world needs now Is Love, sweet love… ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/56 "2004-02-06T07:36:52Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > Anything by Steve Miller, but particularly _Take the Money and Run._ A few weeks ago I heard this song for, I swear to you, the first time in my life. It’s good! I doubt it would hold up to years of repeated exposure, though. I can live the rest of my days without ever again hearing “Hotel California” or “When a Man Loves a Woman.” ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/57 "2004-02-06T09:00:37Z")
> [@threeorange](#): > > In the spirit pre-emptive strikes, I’d like to nominate a current hit single, a piece of musical fungus that will inevitably infect every other movie trailer and sitcom promo for the next few years: > > **Are You Gonna Be My Girl** by **Jet** This is a good song, in that it has a tambourine. Before it was released, I lamented the fact that I hadn’t heard a good song with tambourine made since maybe 1975, at the latest. The problem is that it sounds like it wasn’t made after 1975. Come on, can’t we move forward a bit? For songs I wish would die and never be resurrected, I nominate the original version of “Stairway to Heaven.” It was bad the first time. It was bad the second time. What the hell makes DJs think it will suddenly be good the nine hundred ninety-seven centillionth time? Oh, and the entire oeuvre of Dave Matthews _would_ fall into the “put it out of its misery” category, but thankfully, the man has absolutely no sense of melody, so I don’t have to hear his dreck playing over and over in my head after having it forced upon me. Then again, we should put his spewage out of its misery anyway just to be safe. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/58 "2004-02-06T11:00:45Z")
All the girly wailing _crap_ mentioned by previous posters. I do not want to be exposed to this DRIVEL. Kill the songs the singers the writers. Nuke them from space. I’m not in love - 10cc. This song must die. Shot, buried alive, clubbed to death, electrocuted whatever. Hi Ho Silver Lining - WHAT A GAWD-AWFUL PIECE OF CRAP. Pretty much all Christmas songs. ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/59 "2004-02-06T11:19:14Z")
_We had joy, we had fun, We had seasons in the sun, But the wine and the song like The seasons have all gone…_ No words can describe how much I hate that song. Especially when I hear it when shopping. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/60 "2004-02-06T11:30:54Z")
I get sick of most music pretty quickly, it’s why I don’t listen to the radio. But I’ll have to agree with Old Time Rock N’ Roll. It’s just not that good to keep playing at every club, every wedding, every party. My ex-wife’s mother was so pissed at me because I told the DJ not to play it at our wedding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533.md?page=4)