ABBA’s I Have a Dream. Horrible music, horrible lyrics,
horrible singing. I also have a Swedish version sung
by a children’s choir which is enough to make you gag.
Chiquitita comes in a very close second.
You are sooo kidding, right? Please tell me you’re joking…
As for songs I can’t stand, anything from a teeny-bopper boy band (Backstreet Boys, Nsync, etc.) or from one of those poppy girl singers (Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilera and the like) makes me sick.
Any song by Nelly.
Kyrie Eleison? What’s wrong with it?? It’s one of my favorites, and it’s so obscure you surely can’t cite overexposure?
I can’t stand “Silly Love Songs.”
“Maria, Maria” gets zapped off the radio within three notes. I agree with whoever said “Red, Red Wine” was puke-making, too. And that song about the hooch.
– Break that record, break that record, don’t play it any more. break that record, break that record, smash it on the floor! (Krypton)
“No Rain” by Blind Melon. NOTHING sends me flying to change the station faster than that awful song.
“Call me Al” by Paul Simon. For some reason, that song triggers some vestigial, troglodytic synapse in my brain and makes me wish for an AK-47 in my hands… A bit extreme, I know…
Also, ANYTHING by Celine Dion or Whitney Houston. And “I’ve Got Friends In Low Places” by Garth Brooks–ugh.
I wish I was.
Want me to get you a copy?
::ducking::
“Sometimes when we touch” positively. I hate that song!
and “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” or anything by Gordon Lightfoot…
[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Stimpy *
**i think my view of tainted love has been, ahem, tainted by the fact that when i worked in a shop they played it over the tanoid on a loop. but not the original, oh no! this shop didn’t want to pay loyalties to the artist. so it was covered by some unknown untalented warbler.]/QUOTE]
The original Tainted Love was in 1976 and was performed by Gloria Jones. This was on the Motown subsidiary label Tamla. It was a much better version.
Man! I feel like a woman! And a pizza. And a big-screen TV. And a beer. Not necessarily in that order.
If it’s the song “Red Rubber Ball” that I’m thinking about, Paul McCartney didn’t have anything to do with it.
If it goes like this:
I think it’s gonna be all right
Yeah, the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining
Like a RED RUBBER BALL.
I mean, it could’ve been Paul McCartney, but it doesn’t even sound like him singing it. It sounds more like John Lennon, but I know better than that.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I don’t even think three get the point across.
“Red Rubber Ball” was not written by Paul McCartney As a “huge Beatles fan” I would expect you to know better.
From http://students.ou.edu/B/Stephen.M.Bishop-1/redball.htm
Paul McCartney did write a lot of songs for other artists, especially in the 60’s. Including “Woman” for Peter and Gordan, and “If You Want It, Come and Get It” for Badfinger. But, I repeat he did not write Red Rubber Ball
I can’t stand “Ice, Ice, Baby” by Vanilla Ice because he stole the music from Queen/David Bowie’s Under Pressure which is a GREAT song.
“Sussudio” by Phil Collins and “Hip to Be a Square” by Huey Lewis and the News. If you have seen the movie “American Psycho” you know why these songs bring horrible images to my mind (“Is that a raincoat?” “Yes it is Paul!!”). Especially Phil Collins.
Anything by the Top 40 people–N’Sync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Malaria (OK, so I couldn’t spell her last name, so I made fun of it).
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I’m not disagreeing. I’m all over the release pin on my can of napalm when I get a hint of a note from that song.
But, it’s interesting how many tunes we hate, also seem to be the ones most people buy. Welcome to the spoon-fed society.
I’m sick of “Smooth” as well. Terribly.
But…
Released in 1992, “I Will Always Love You” is number 6 on the list of all-time biggest sellers (10 million copies).
Something is terribly wrong with people.
…I won’t even tell you what’s number one. It hasn’t been mentioned yet, but I expect it will.
Go here for all the songs you love to hate, but people bought anyway:
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/toptens/topsongs/topsongsFULL.html
Tainted Love rocks on…
But I hate:
Bohemian Rhapsody. (That and any other Queen song. Too overrated.)
Angie, by the Rolling Stones (I’m a huge fan of theirs, but THIS song really gets to me shudder)
Piano Man
Oh and Smooth does suck. So does that other Matchbox20 song, what’s it called…Bent. Way too pretentious, and not even catchy.
My prerogative, by Bobby Brown.
Am I the only one who thinks Bobby had just received a new Word-of-the-Day calendar? Just think, if he’d started writing a few days later, the song might have been It’s a new paradigm, baby.
–sublight.
Anything by Bette Midler!! Closely followed by MC Hammer’s “You Can’t Touch This”.
“Wouldn’t it be Loverly” from My Fair Lady has been stuck in my head for a week. Kill me now.
Back in 98 I went 2 weeks with the tune from Mr. Ed echoing around in my head.
We don’t have TV up here; and my 3 yr. old starting singing the theme from Gilligan’s Island in the tub tonight.
What is that - genetics?
Dr. Pinky, killer of threads
Wrong Paul… It was written by Paul Simon, of Simon and Garfunkel. I remember a story about a punk band that did a cover of “Red Rubber Ball” simply because they could, to tick Simon off… I wish I could remember the details, though.
Oh, I’ll agree with you there, except for “I Know A Place”… which would also be on my “kill” list except for the fact that I originally heard it as the soundtrack to one of the first Mike Jittlov shorts I ever saw. The resulting sense of wonder made the song (which is otherwise quite dumb) special for me ever since…
And I have to second another poster on this… what’s wrong with it?
– Bob
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I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned what must certainly qualify as the worst ever. It must be because it is so awful that all memory of it has been removed by our collective brains to avoid risk of furthur damage.
A song so bad that to hear it induces instant fight or flight response in all normal human beings.
A song so bad that it almost justifies the death penalty for all those involved in its very existance.
Are you sure you really want to remember?
The song?
** Achey Breaky Heart ** - Billy Ray Cyrus
I’m sorry to have reminded you.
Truly, deeply, sorry.