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.”
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.
Right, but telling people what you really meant ruins the joke.
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!
“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.
“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!!
“Paradise By the Dashboard Light” - Meatloaf. Stupid, stupid, stupid and goes on like FOREVER!
“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.
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.
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.
Add “The Tide is High”. So, I guess, Blondie in general!
Shocking Blue.
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.
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.
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.
I LIKE many of the songs other people have posted! No accounting for taste.
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
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.
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.
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.
Oh, God, even thinking it has “Baby, baby, baby” stuck in my head. Thanks A LOT, Wookin. :mad:
I thought I only had one until this thread reminded me that I have two.
**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.
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.
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.