Elton John’s “Little Jeannie” has a similarly annoying sound – a really high-pitched metallic ‘shaker’ sound. Four times every beat. So sixteen times every measure. Every measure. For most of the song.
One youtube comment: “Excellent song for the first 1:31 and then the crickets join in for some reason and cheapen the recording.”
Oh lord…I like the song but I hear it. It’s definitely there. I’m a youngblood haha It’s hearing an old tube TV whine again after years of never hearing it.
Congrats. You’ve ruined the song for me now. I just watched the video again and realized I forgot how amazing Beyonce’s dancing and hip-moving is.
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Here is one, Glen Campbell Time of Your Life
The high pitched whine in the background, what the hell is that all about? Its much worse on the studio version but I can’t find a link to it.
Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed” has this squishy sound throughout that makes me nauseous. It sounds like someone walking through a very gross swamp.
(Someone mentioned Blackbird. Pretty sure it’s a metronome.)
Holy crap, I’m in my 40s and I can hear that!
And yes, that’s fucking annoying!
“All the Single Ladies”: I have no idea how I never heard that before, but now it’s the only thing I hear.
Songs with bleeped words for airplay: WXRT in Chicago had a great take on this for one of their April Fool’s broadcasts; it was around a time when there were more FCC complaints and the like, and so that morning their DJ was very solemnly talking about their fear of fines and so on, and increased scrutiny, and so they had to be very careful. Norah Jones’ song “Don’t Know Why” was popular at the time, so they cued it up, and I nearly fell over laughing in realization when they used a comical “boi-oi-oi-oing” sound effect to bleep out the word “come” in the very-not-sexual line “I don’t know why I didn’t come”. Pretty sure they changed up the sound effect for the repeated uses of that word, not to mention the words “ecstasy” and “bones.”
Salt N Pepa (sue me, I’m old) have a song called, “Giddy Up Baby” and it’s god a nice slow, sexy beat and I would LOVE to use it as a track for a dance class EXCEPT there is this horrid “SAY WHAT?” that repeats throughout the song.
I get annoyed listening to a lot of old Johnny Cash songs from the late fifties and early sixties. Cash had such an amazing voice but for some reason the producers of that era brought in other singers to do backing vocals and a string section to play backing music. The contrast between the raw authentic sound of Cash’s voice and guitar playing and the chirpy insipid pop sound of the back-up singers and musicians is jarring.
Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive has an annoying car horn. It distracts me every time.
ETA: I think there’s a Guns ‘N’ Roses song with an annoying car horn, but I can’t remember which one right now.
There was a song on Concrete Blonde, Bloodletting, that had a super-high pitched high-hat type of sound throughout that I couldn’t tolerate. I had stopped listening to the album long ago because of it, but on a recent re-listen my hearing has now degraded to the point where I can no longer hear it.
Yay tinnitus! 
My submission is Paul Simon’s Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard.
It has this annoying noise throughout it like a dog woofing. Doesn’t add anything to the song and always takes me out of it.
I always assumed that was a sexual reference.
That’s a funny description, but I knew exactly what you meant. It’s a cuíca.
“It’s my party”, Leslie Gore.
Didn’t think much of it back in the low-fi, mono days. But in stereo/CD quality that annoying “ding ding ding” ringing in the background is just awful. Not really ruining a song I liked, but makes me want to rip out my stereo when it comes on.
Here’s a video of a guy playing a cuica.
Prince’s “When Doves Cry.” I can’t really describe the sound - I guess a growl is the closest description I can think of, but it’s crossed with a “wah wah wah” sort of sound - I hate that noise. If you know the song, you know which noise I’m referring to.
The garden shears or whatever that is in this song:
Heartlines by Florence + the Machine has this extremely annoying buzzing sound that comes in periodically throughout the song. At first I thought my speakers were damaged, but after hearing it on different systems I figured it was part of the song. I don’t know what hell the producers were thinking with that, but I want to slap them.
Which leads us directly to NA, NA, NA NA, NA NA… NA NA NA NAAAA NA…
A guiro. Or something played like a guiro. Or maybe someone just running a pencil along a comb.
Something like that, anyway.