# Songs you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963 "2011-04-19T15:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/41 "2011-04-19T19:14:49Z")
Gotta say how much I hate Zager and Evans’ "In the Year 2525,’ Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey,” and pretty much the whole America catalogue (“Horse With No Name,” “Tin Man,” “Ventura Highway,” etc.) I’ll probably catch hell for this, but I utterly despise Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/42 "2011-04-19T19:16:42Z")
Drowning Pool - Bodies Puddle of Mudd - all Creed - Arms Wide Open especially Basically, any vaguely heavy music on the radio that construction laborers tend to be into. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/43 "2011-04-19T19:22:51Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > 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. Right, but telling people what you really meant ruins the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/44 "2011-04-19T19:36:18Z")
1. Don’t know who did it, but that awful “So you had a Bad DAYYY” song from a few years back. Irritating ear-worm, trite sentiment and (for awhile at any rate) inescapable. Gah! 2. “I’m Too Sexy” - Right Said Fred. Mildly amusing the first time I heard it. Gratingly irriating the tenth time I heard it. Unbearable the 100,000,000th time I heard it. 3. “Venus” by either Banarama or the one-hit wonder band who did it originally (and whose name I can’t remember.) Unfathomably, this shit song was number one hit TWICE!! 4. “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” - Meatloaf. Stupid, stupid, stupid and goes on like FOREVER! 5. “Bohemian Rhapsody” - Queen. I know I’m in the minority here, but I’ve never been able to see the appeal in this overlong, pretentious, castrato-rock anthem. Just the way they pronounce the lyrics “Scaramouch! Scaramouch!” is like nails on the chalkboard to me. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/45 "2011-04-19T19:41:07Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Right, but telling people what you really meant ruins the joke. Not entirely sure which joke we’re talking about here (there’s a couple tired jokes about the song thrown around), but I do believe there is some irony in that a poster, calling out a song called “Ironic” as having no examples of irony, actually does contain some examples of irony. Or perhaps that’s just plain being wrong. Anyhow, as to the OP, that damned “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” is the one that gets on my nerves the most. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/46 "2011-04-19T19:46:47Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > To go with something a little more current - Train’s “Hey Soul Sister” if for no other reason than even I, who rarely if ever listens to the radio, heard that song at least 16 times a day last year. GOD YES! That’s my all-time #1 most hated song. Pure shit. I even made a whole thread about how much I hate it last year. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/47 "2011-04-19T19:47:05Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > “Rapture”-Blondie Add “The Tide is High”. So, I guess, Blondie in general! ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/48 "2011-04-19T19:50:05Z")
1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood 2. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann version 3. Heat of the Moment - Asia 4. All Summer Long - Kid Rock 5. Small Town - John Cougar Mellencamp ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/49 "2011-04-19T19:51:04Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > 1. “Venus” by either Banarama or the one-hit wonder band who did it originally (and whose name I can’t remember.) Unfathomably, this shit song was number one hit TWICE!! Shocking Blue. ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/50 "2011-04-19T20:46:34Z")
Margaritaville. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate this song so much that I almost cannot express it. If I hear it on the radio, I must immediately change the channel. Everything about this song drives me absolutely batshit. I do not care if Jimmy Buffett ever finds his lost shaker of salt. I will GIVE HIM a lifetime supply of salt if it means I never have to hear this piece of shit again. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/51 "2011-04-19T20:56:33Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Deep Blue Something’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” > > (if “kinda” liking a movie from days-gone-by is the _only_ common ground one can find for potential reconciliation of a fledgling relationship, said relationship is doomed) I think that is pretty much the entire point of the song - that the relationship is doomed. The conversation about Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a final act of desperation to keep a relationship alive. It’s meant to be pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/52 "2011-04-19T20:58:25Z")
Muskrat Love - Captain and Tennile, too cute for words, not for type 2 diabetics Having my baby - Paul Anka, I know it was criticised by various groups from pro-choice through to feminists, but my dislike is more fundamental, its utter drek. The night Chicago died - Paper Lace, from the same lot that brought you ‘Billy done be a hero’ The final countdown - Europe, I find it inexplicable and bewildering that this song was so popular, and is still used in some sports stadia. Jamie Cullum - I can’t stand anything where he sings, because he can’t seem to leave the vocoder, the auto-tune or other voice effects alone, yet he’s such a good musician, you would think he would notice. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/53 "2011-04-19T20:59:00Z")
I LIKE many of the songs other people have posted! No accounting for taste. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/54 "2011-04-19T21:14:01Z")
70s radio was especially brutal to me, I haven’t recovered. _Gordon Lightfoot_ “Sundown ya better take care if I find you been creepin’ 'round my back stairs” _Joni Mitchell_, Big Yellow Taxi _Elton John_, Daniel _The Beatles_, Here Comes the Sun ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/55 "2011-04-19T21:32:36Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > 70s radio was especially brutal to me, I haven’t recovered. > > _Gordon Lightfoot_ > “Sundown ya better take care > if I find you been creepin’ 'round my back stairs” I like Sundown. I will have to admit, though, that it’s the only Gordon Lightfoot song that’s worth a damn. The one I really can’t stand is The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. That one just drones on and on and on till you want to fill your ears with hot lead. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/56 "2011-04-19T22:40:03Z")
_Santa Baby_, by anyone who has sung it. The soundtrack, yes the whole thing, from the show _Oklahoma!_. I usually like classic Broadway. I even like most of the Rogers and Hammerstein work I’ve heard. I loathe, hate and despise this work with a fury I cannot contain. Compared to that, my feelings for the Lee Greenwood song are just mild displeasure at the memories it evokes of one five day in bootcamp. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/57 "2011-04-19T22:58:13Z")
I like a lot of the songs mentioned here but the ones I agree are awful are \*really \*awful(“Having My Baby” , “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” to name but two). I could be here all night if I go back to all the songs I’ve loathed over the years so I’ll stick to current ones: \*\*Hey There Delilah \*\*made me homicidal. That whiney voice, those whimpy lyrics. Gah!Thank goodness it doesn’t get played much anymore. **Raise Your Glass** by Pink. I usually like Pink but aside from it being overplayed, I hear that “…don’t get fancy just get _dancy_” and I see red. **Marry Me** by Train. I can’t think of a song _ever_ that I’ve loathed more. I’d rather listen to an eternal loop of Justin Bieber than hear that song even one more time. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/58 "2011-04-19T23:02:22Z")
Oh, God, even thinking it has “Baby, baby, baby” stuck in my head. Thanks A LOT, **Wookin.** :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/59 "2011-04-19T23:49:50Z")
I thought I only had one until this thread reminded me that I have two. 1. \*\*Old Time Rock & Roll \*\*by Bob Seger. Gah, I hate that piece of dreck. I have developed reflexes that allow me to hit any other pre-set button on my radio in only 0.75 seconds upon hearing its piano intro. My daughter forbade the DJ to play it at her wedding, knowing I’d puke all over the carefully crafted centerpieces if he played it during dance time. 2. **God Bless the USA**. Thank you to all the Dopers who reminded me. This song is thankfully off my radar (i.e. not usually played at weddings, bar mitzvahs, my car radio choices, etc.), so I forgot how much my brain bleeds and my stomach roils when I happen upon it. I hope it never comes down to a live-or-die choice between those two. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963/60 "2011-04-20T01:09:44Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > **Marry Me** by Train. I can’t think of a song _ever_ that I’ve loathed more. I’d rather listen to an eternal loop of Justin Bieber than hear that song even one more time. Oddly enough, one of my best friends just got married about a week and a half ago, and this was their song. Train, I mean. I KNOW it was his wife’s idea, and I swear, I want to punch her in the clit for suggesting it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-hate/578963.md?page=4)