# What are the most irritating songs from the 60s? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227 "2000-12-18T21:28:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/61 "2000-12-20T03:49:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > \*\*And anything by Crosby Stills and Nash, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, or any other freaking combination. \*\* Does that mean you also don’t like Stephen Stills’s solo hit: “If you can’t be with the one you love / Love the one you’re with” ? 😃 I think Five Man Electrical Band (worst band name ever, BTW) also had a crappy song about the plight of native americans: Cherokee people, Cherokee tri-ibe, So proud to live, So proud to diiiiieee!!! ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/62 "2000-12-20T03:57:25Z")
oh my michele its hard to die… with all the birdies singing in the sky… we had joy we had fun… we had seasons in the sun… i defy anyone to name a worse song in any language, at any time, on any planet in any universe that is worse than “seasons in the sun” it is so bad, it may have been written as a joke- does anyone have information on billy jack or whatever his name was? did he write this? did he ever record another song? cmon, there should be a web site entirely devoted to this song, its writer, its producer, its meaning ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/63 "2000-12-20T04:06:41Z")
or whatever the actual name of it is. I don’t know who sang it either; just that I **hate** it passionately. -----:mad: —////\\ ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/64 "2000-12-20T04:09:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manduck \* > \*\*I think Five Man Electrical Band (worst band name ever, BTW) also had a crappy song about the plight of native americans: > > Cherokee people, > Cherokee tri-ibe, > So proud to live, > So proud to diiiiieee!!! > > \*\* Nope, Five Man.etc… was a one “hit” wonder. Cherokee Nation was from the otherwise quality group “Paul Revere and the Raiders”. But if you want bad American Indian songs, how 'bout Johnny Preston’s: Runnin’ Bear Loved Little White Dove With a love. Big as the Sky. Runnin’ Bear Loved Little White Dove With a love. That wouldn’t die. (how’d they fall so deeply in love if the “raging river” kept them apart?) Fenris ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/65 "2000-12-20T14:40:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > **And I basically agree with don jaime on about everything. =)** Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. I’ve never found “Ob-la-di Ob-la-da” annoying, but “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is far too heavy to be weeping. Eric Clapton turned a great song into “While My Guitar Carries On Like the Heroine of a Greek Tragedy” by overdoing it. Definitely a case where the Anthology 3 demo is better. “Glass Onion” is like this, too, a simple melody smothered under a heavy production. Abusive production must have been how they avoiding killing each other during the White Album sessions. Since we seem headed that direction, and it’s only a matter of time before we hear, “Beetels suk, '80s ruul!” or some such, the worst Beatles recording is “Revolution 9” and the worst actual song is “Yes It Is”. These aren’t irritating and good, they’re just bad. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/66 "2000-12-20T15:03:55Z")
I don’t know, I like the version of “Yes It Is” on the Anthology 2. And BTW, “Love the one you’re with” is probably the worse song ever. Or at least in the top ten. _insert disgusted puking smilie here_ ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/67 "2000-12-20T15:05:29Z")
> [@](#): > > How about Going to the Chapel. . . > > ``` > or whatever the actual name of it is. I don't know who sang it either; just that I hate it > passionately. > > ``` It’s by the Dixie Cups. And of course there’s always Elvis’s “Crying in the Chapel” which is almost as bad. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/68 "2000-12-20T19:02:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cornflakes \* > “If you’re going to San Francisco, > Wear some flour in your hair…” I could cope with this until I saw _The Rock_. Now I invariably hear Sean Connery attempting to sing along in my head. “If yar goingh to Shan Franshishco…” AAARRRGH! To make matters worse, my niece loves my Sean Connery impression and keeps asking me to sing the song in it. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/69 "2000-12-20T19:24:37Z")
A few things amaze me about this thread: Firstly, that there has been no mention of Paul Anka’s Havin’ My Baby. Nor has anyone brought up the work of Barry Manilow in general. And lest we forget, (no such luck), there is Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts. “Blowin’ through the jasmine of my mind”? WTF? Though I guess something has to be stuffed in the songwriter’s cranium, as it sure ain’t grey matter. Exhibit 4,327 is What’s New Pussycat? by Tom Jones. And while Elton John has been mentioned, no reference to his number one crime against humanity has been made. I refer, of course, to Crocodile Rock. If you’ll now excuse me, I must go shove redhot skewers through my eardrums. If I’m fortunate, I’ll manage to strike the braincells responsible for the above listed to remain in my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/70 "2000-12-20T23:28:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djf750 \* > \*\*oh my michele its hard to die… > with all the birdies singing in the sky… > > we had joy we had fun… > we had seasons in the sun… > > i defy anyone to name a worse song in any language, at any time, on any planet in any universe that is worse than “seasons in the sun” > > it is so bad, it may have been written as a joke- > does anyone have information on billy jack or whatever his name was? did he write this? did he ever record another song? > > cmon, there should be a web site entirely devoted to this song, its writer, its producer, its meaning \*\* OK, here’s the word. The late world reknowned French singer Jacques Brel is author of “Seasons in the Sun”. The original track was called “Le Moribond” (which means “The dying man”). The english lyrics (we had fun, we had seasons in the sun …) is by Rod McKuen, and was first sung in English by The Kingston Trio in 1964. In 1974 Canadian Terry Jacks had a worldwide hit with it (n°1 in the USA Bilboard top, six million copies sold …) Since the original version of the song dates back to 1961, I don’t think it was about Brel’s own death … More about M. Brel is available at [http://houbi.simplenet.com/belpop/scripts/frame.hts?groups/brel.htm](http://houbi.simplenet.com/belpop/scripts/frame.hts?groups/brel.htm) Sad to think that for most Americans, the Terry Jacks version is the only legacy M. Brel has…sigh ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/71 "2000-12-21T00:19:24Z")
Two words: Yoko Ono anything with her: “I’m torturing a cat” voice… ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227/72 "2000-12-21T00:53:51Z")
Planman may just have trumped us all. Science fiction author Spider Robinson (a huge Beatles fan) was the first to use the classic simile: “…cleared the room like a Yoko Ono record.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-irritating-songs-from-the-60s/46227.md?page=3)