# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/61 "2004-02-06T11:44:22Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > I’m not in love - 10cc. This song must die. Shot, buried alive, clubbed to death, electrocuted whatever. I was waiting how long it would take for someone to mention one of my all-time favourites. Congratulations, you won. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/62 "2004-02-06T12:32:12Z")
> [@Hot Buttered Toast](#): > > _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. To cure this affliction, you should learn the original (by Jacques Brel) by heart, and then sing along really loudly in French the next time you hear this. What makes it even better is that the original lyrics are really depressing, and sung much more slowly than the popular version everyone knows. This is not surprising considering the original song is called “Le Moribond”. Here is the chorus to give you an idea: “Je veux qu’on rie Je veux qu’on danse Je veux qu’on s’amuse comme des fous Je veux qu’on rie Je veux qu’on danse Quand c’est qu’on me mettra dans le trou” Also, maybe my sig can help (especially if your in IT) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TERRA\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TERRA\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TERRA_Rising)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/63 "2004-02-06T13:21:41Z")
_Abra, abra-cadabra I wanna reach out and grab ya. Abra, abra cadabra Abracadabra_ Someone shoot me now! ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/64 "2004-02-06T13:25:10Z")
> [@TERRA Rising](#): > > _Abra, abra-cadabra > I wanna reach out and grab ya. > Abra, abra cadabra > Abracadabra_ > > Someone shoot me now! 3 Somehow that reminds me of one I can’t stand at all: _Su su susudio…_ What the -ing \*\*\*l is a “Susudio” anyway? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/65 "2004-02-06T14:06:03Z")
The entirety of the Gary Puckett and the Union Gap catalogue should be obliterated. Period. I swear, I’ve conditioned myself to recognize the first milliseconds of their tripe and my hand is changing the station of the radio before my conscious mind registers why. I hated that stuff when it first came out and I hate that Oldies stations seem to have to play at least one of them daily. My daughter asks why my radio is always on NPR. I don’t know if I could muster the words to explain it properly. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/66 "2004-02-06T14:06:05Z")
The entirety of the Gary Puckett and the Union Gap catalogue should be obliterated. Period. I swear, I’ve conditioned myself to recognize the first milliseconds of their tripe and my hand is changing the station of the radio before my conscious mind registers why. I hated that stuff when it first came out and I hate that Oldies stations seem to have to play at least one of them daily. My daughter asks why my radio is always on NPR. I don’t know if I could muster the words to explain it properly. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/67 "2004-02-06T14:34:19Z")
“Brown-Eyed Girl” I love Van Morrison, and this was once a great song, but let’s just all admit that it has been Played Too Much and Used In Too Many Soundtracks. ---
**Author:** ![facil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@facil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/facil)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/68 "2004-02-06T14:34:58Z")
“we are the champions” and “another one bites the dust” both are excellent songs by Queen, but alas, i think we’ve extinguished the flame of passion that evelopes us with “we are the champion”. it’s over played, and over exagerated in many movies and events. how can we all be champions? and when freddie mercury passed away, well…“another one bites the dust” should have gone with him…considering how he died, it’s fitting don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/69 "2004-02-06T15:03:08Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > 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. That’s funny. We told our band, “No Chicken Dance. No Macarena. No Hokey Pokey. No Bunny Hop. No Celebration.” I thought we nailed most of them and then half-way through the reception they broke into “YMCA”. didn’t really pick up on my theme, did ya guys? ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Interior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@Lux\_Interior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Interior)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/70 "2004-02-06T15:06:33Z")
> [@](#): > > 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.) Oops, you forgot one. Now I can teach you the Electric Slide! **Odinoneeye** is absolutely right. Listening to the radio is an exercise in frustration. Between the ads and the top 40 and the classic rock, there is no time to play any decent variety. The solution? A 30 GB iPod loaded with 6000 songs and earphones! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/71 "2004-02-06T15:12:49Z")
Somebody mentioned Christmas songs and while they don’t really fit in with the OP, let me take this opportunity to vent my total dislike for the boring and craptacular _Silent Night_. I tried to go through the past 4 Christmas seasons trying not to hear this song, but am constantly foiled by the stores - this year, Wal-Mart got me on December 23rd while I was buying some stocking stuffers, damn them. SOME YEAR I WILL SUCCEED!!! ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/72 "2004-02-06T16:23:39Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > The entirety of the Gary Puckett and the Union Gap catalogue should be obliterated. A-men! (and I don’t think **FairyChatMom** double posted by accident. This is so important it had to be said twice! :D) To the list of songs that need killing, I’ll add _Desperado_. Can you belive couples have actually made this _“their song”_?? ---
**Author:** ![International\_Playboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/48db29/32.png) [@International\_Playboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/International_Playboy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/73 "2004-02-07T17:17:26Z")
Don’t remember seeing this one listed and was just reminded of it while watching a cooking show. The chef told the hosts to add honey to what they were cooking and the hosts broke into Bobby Goldboro’s **Honey** : “See the tree, how big it’s grown…” I’ve always hated that song. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/74 "2004-02-07T17:26:34Z")
Nobody’s mentioned _Lady in Red_ yet??? “Lady in Reeeedddddddddddd…” He never quite gets the note… ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/75 "2004-02-07T17:43:23Z")
> [@International Playboy](#): > > Don’t remember seeing this one listed and was just reminded of it while watching a cooking show. The chef told the hosts to add honey to what they were cooking and the hosts broke into Bobby Goldboro’s **Honey** : > > “See the tree, how big it’s grown…” > > I’ve always hated that song. ``` Say it brother! ``` I have hated Honey since the first time I heard its sap ooze out of a radio. Dave Barry’s book of bad songs makes a good point that this song is almost tolerable if you assume that the angels that came and took her away were the Hell’s Angels! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/76 "2004-02-07T18:00:32Z")
**Take on me** by Aha: This song is precisely why I’m building a time machine in my garage. BTW **Bruce Daddy** , that would be Bryan Adams singing “Heaven.” ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/77 "2004-02-07T18:13:01Z")
I wholeheartedly agree with Train’s Drops of Jupiter. > [@](#): > > Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken > Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you’re wrong > Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone conversation > The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me Deep lyrics, eh? Deep fried chicken and a soy latte? Also, any song ever used in american pickup truck commercial. (like a rock is a particular standout) Any song overused for ironic purposes, i.e.: What a Wonderful World (great song, sick of hearing it over images of how awful the world is now) For my own sanity, anything ever even looked at or thought of by any member of Linkin Park. (I worked at a Best Buy before they opened for business and had a true LP freak that would monopolize the stereo that played throughout the store with one burned LP disc. I finally resorted to turning it off every morning. Nine hours of LP is too much for anyone.) ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/78 "2004-02-07T19:00:55Z")
**spoke-** beat me to “Brown-Eyed Girl”. Used in too many movies and overplayed on radio. One summer I worked with a girl who would call our most popular/most lame radio station at the same time every day and request the song. The sorry bastards always played it too. What’s worse, every local band has to include it in their playlist. I know a guy who’s band played nothing but then current grunge hits and the Ramones and told me they **had** to learn it for gigs since it was so requested. “Margaritaville” - Jimmy Buffett. The charm wore off this one years ago, a curse upon you middle-aged Parrotheads. Any Lenny Kravitz song that has appeared in a commercial or that butchering of “American Woman”. The entire Bob Seger catalog. Our Clear Channel calssic rock station can’t go half an hour without playing him. “Green Onions” - Booker T. & the MGs. Thank you film trailer producers of America for overplaying and ruining a once cool song by sticking it in every preview possible. “Kashmir” - Led Zep. Hey DJ, if you have to take a shit how about playing “Nobody’s Fault but Mine” instead. Give you a little more time to do the job right. The entire Skynyrd catalog. Yes I’m another unfortunate Alabama resident sick of them. Special ire for shit songs like “Gimme Three Steps” (and that tired opening riff), “Tuesday’s Gone”, and “The Breeze”. I try to always keep a copy of Zevon’s “Play It All Night Long” on hand to counter the rednecks around here who think everyone loves their favorite band. “Baby’s Got Back” - Sir Mix-a-Lot. This one is turning up on TV and in movies so much now, I’m worried this will become my generation’s version of a “standard”. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/79 "2004-02-07T19:06:10Z")
> [@Psycho Pirate](#): > > 36 posts into this thread and nobody has mentioned _I Feel Good_ by James Brown? I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Bad to the Bone yet! But then again, it hasn’t been used as much lately as it used to be. About 10 years ago, some magazine (Newsweek?) did a tally of how many movies had used I Feel Good vs. how many had used Bad to the Bone. I think I Feel Good just barely won. Come to think of it, this was just after Terminator 2 came out–I remember sitting in the theater thinking that with all the money that they had spent on that film, that they maybe could have hired someone to think of something other than Bad to the Bone to use for the scene where Arnold exits the biker bar and steals the motorcycle. (Oo! I get it! He’s bad to the bone! And we saw his bones in the first Terminator movie, too. Wow, deep.) ---
**Author:** ![International\_Playboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/48db29/32.png) [@International\_Playboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/International_Playboy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533/80 "2004-02-07T19:25:44Z")
> [@widdershins](#): > > “Margaritaville” - Jimmy Buffett. The charm wore off this one years ago, a curse upon you middle-aged Parrotheads. I had a friend who was kicked out of a bar because of that song. He and a buddy drank margaritas all afternoon long and were booted out by the bartender after their umteenth playing of the song on the jukebox. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-need-to-be-put-out-of-their-misery/227533.md?page=5)