My number one least favorite song is far and away Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird. Many years ago, I decided to never willingly hear it again, and I’ve kept that promise to myself so far. If it is played in my vicinity, I leave. If it comes on the radio, I change the station with such haste I risk a broken finger. I like some of Skynyrd’s other stuff, but FB is death to my eardrums.
Muskrat Love. Man, that shit just ain’t right.
Lee Greenwood’s Proud to be an American. This thread was inspired by hearing it last night on Dancing With the Stars. I had to hear it a thousand times when my ninth-grade chorus class performed it and I thought it was pretty insipid the first time.
I have many more, but let’s hear some of yours! (Well, not hear them, but you know what I mean).
Ironic - Alanis Morissette
“Isn’t it ironic?” No, it isn’t (which is kind of ironic). Nothing in the song is ironic. Rain on your wedding day may suck, but it’s not ironic.
Going back a few years… the song I hate above all others… John Anderson’s ‘Swingin’. I’d rather jab a red hot poker in my ear than listen to it ever again.
More recent- Bruno Mars, ‘Just the Way You Are’ (Or You’re Amazing… not sure of the real name, but he repeats these 2 lines over…and over…and over…and over…)
Bleh. I like pop and sappy songs, but that one is too sappy for even me.
She contends that the irony is writing a song without any in it. That’s if you believe her of course. I tend too, I got to believe someone would have pointed that obvious fact out when she was practicing it.
My five are certainly the teenage pop shit on the XM station they play every morning at my gym. I don’t even care enough to name them. I keep forgetting to bring the ear plugs.
“…daisy dukes, bikinis on top, sun kissed skin so hot’ll melt your popsicle ah oh ah oh ah oooh.”
I always hated that song “New Age Girl” by Deadeye Dick because I woke up one morning for football two-a-days to that song on my clock radio, and I spent a humid, miserable day getting knocked on my ass while that song kept playing in my head (“She don’t eat meat, but she sure likes the bone - THWACK!”)
I’m loathe to think too hard about this subject because I’ve become adept at blocking out and avoiding songs I hate. It’s mostly catchy commercial jingles that get on my nerves now.
That awful Pink Panther Theme. Not that it’s such a bad song, but every time I hear it, it forms an earworm. Gets stuck in an endless loop and doesn’t stop for hours.
I’ll second “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood. Or most anything else he does.
Some of the country/pop crossover stuff from years ago was horrid…“Let me Down Easy” by Dave & Sugar especially sticks in my mind.
“Islands in the Stream”, Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton.
Or, perhaps, (even more likely in my opinion), she’s just (mis)using the word in a colloquial sense. The situations in which Alanis Morisette applies the term “irony” is no different than how I hear the word commonly (mis)used.
“What’s Love Got To Do With It” by Tina Turner is one of the few songs on this (and any other) planet that makes me want to run screaming while ripping my ears off: I hate every word, every note, every second of that piece of shit of a song.
“I Want To Know What Love Is” by Foreigner is a close second.
