# What beloved classic rock/pop song do you hate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602 "2013-05-29T02:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/121 "2013-05-29T23:32:10Z")
> [@For You](#): > > _Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2_ gets really annoying on its own – it works fine in the context of the opera, but pulled out it just sucks. The summer I was 16, which was the summer after it was released, I thought Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” was the greatest piece of music ever recorded, and now I cannot stand to hear anything from it. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/122 "2013-05-29T23:36:46Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Isn’t it weird and hilarious how \*\*Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing \*\*has become a cultural touchpoint? Back in the day, it was a cheesy pop song that was not Muskrat Love abhorrent, but lord knows, it wasn’t _good_. When it comes on, I look around to see if anyone else squishes their face up with a “really?!” look on it… Has anyone actually listened to the words to “Don’t Stop Believing”? It’s about homeless teenage prostitutes, both male and female! And “Jessie’s Girl” is a transvestite. Really. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/123 "2013-05-29T23:39:04Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Eagles’ _Hotel California_ defines “overplayed.” > > But to throw in a new one, KC & the Sunshine Band’s _Celebration_. Everyone seems to love this song for parties, but to me, the “We gonna celebrate your party for you” line just reeks of arrogant “cooler-than-thou” party-crashers telling other people what to do. That was actually by Kool & The Gang. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/124 "2013-05-29T23:42:16Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > My Free Bird story: When I was a 16-year-old CIT\* at a summer camp, I helped one of the counselors DJ a dance. I knew he hated Free Bird with a vengeance. I switched labels on two cassettes, so about halfway through the dance he played it without intending to. Two notes into the song, he jumped up and chased me out of the mess hall and into the woods until we both ran out of breath. > > (\*counselor-in-training, a.k.a. indentured servant) 😛 And since everyone’s talking about their hatred of Nickelback, one of my Facebook/IRL friends recently photographed something her 13-year-old daughter wrote on the family’s dry erase board, about her 6-year-old sister. “Grace likes Nickelback, and beats up puppies.” ROTFLMAO! p.s. I love “Kashmir”, but not so much that I would play it in the presence (no pun intended) of someone who doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/125 "2013-05-29T23:52:45Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Has anyone actually listened to the words to “Don’t Stop Believing”? It’s about homeless teenage prostitutes, both male and female! > > And “Jessie’s Girl” is a transvestite. Really. And Lola’s a MAN, baby! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/126 "2013-05-29T23:57:30Z")
“Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones. Also called the Woo Woo Song. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/127 "2013-05-30T00:01:27Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Back when the song was a hit, someone played that on full volume for something like 5 hours. The neighbors had the person arrested and charged with - get this - terrorism. > > :dubious: A couple of weeks ago a woman caused a plane to emergency land [by singing that song and refusing to stop](http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/woman-singing-whitney-houston-forces-landing-american-flight/story?id=19168969#.UaaWOJWjrq8). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/128 "2013-05-30T00:04:08Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > Don’t know if it’s classic or not but I hate “Smells Like Teen Spirit” It’s not a classic. I think “once popular” suffices for this one. Which I hate too. Right from the first time I heard it. There’s lots of stuff I don’t care for or have just heard too much by now, but Smells Like Teen Spirit is one I actively, viscerally hate. Other Nirvana songs I just don’t like, but not their moany, miserable debut. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/129 "2013-05-30T00:04:53Z")
“Radar Love”, Golden Earring. Never got its timeless appeal. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/130 "2013-05-30T00:38:13Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’ve never heard a Rod Stewart song that I liked. Amen. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > “Radar Love”, Golden Earring. Never got its timeless appeal. I actually prefer White Lion’s version. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/131 "2013-05-30T01:01:55Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Morbo:I’ll cast another vote for “Imagine.” I can’t believe how beloved that idiot hippie song is. I hated it even when I _was_ an idiot hippie. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/132 "2013-05-30T01:23:16Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > “Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger. > > It grates on my cerebellum and makes me want to smash my radio with a sledgehammer. Back when listening to the radio was the thing, I had a rule in my car known as the Bob Seger Rule: “Anytime a Bob Seger song comes on the radio, the station must be switched immediately.” ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/133 "2013-05-30T01:27:10Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones. Also called the Woo Woo Song. The other day I counted…they yell “woo woo” 14,000 times. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/134 "2013-05-30T01:40:12Z")
I like most of the songs mentioned in this thread. Quite a bit. (Not **Imagine** , of course). But the one who makes me wretch is Peter Frampton. Any time that song comes on where it’s like a live version and he makes his guitar make funny sounds, it’s just horrible. I might have just described all of Frampton’s songs. It’s even worse than **Benny and the Jets**. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/135 "2013-05-30T01:46:37Z")
Stairway to Heaven? check Hotel California? check Freebird? check I’ll see you and raise you a Baba O’Reilly. dreck, dreck, dreck. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/136 "2013-05-30T02:26:35Z")
This thread is a train wreck I can’t stop watching. Every single song mentioned is like shoving babecue skewers in my ears. Except Zepplin and Nirvana. I’ll take your early Beatles and raise you all of Beatles output ever. The early stuff was just forgetable but somewhere after about Rubber Soul, way too much of it sounded like novelty songs for children. She’s So Heavy was almost OK, but not enough. Also, Janis fucking Joplin. Shut the fuck up, you dead screaming, moaning drunk-ass hippy or whatever the fuck you’re supposed to be. Do hair bands count as beloved? Because fuck them. ---
**Author:** ![Kasper1014](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@Kasper1014](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kasper1014)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/137 "2013-05-30T03:15:54Z")
Anything by Peter Frampton or Iggy Pop. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/138 "2013-05-30T03:47:32Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > Do hair bands count as beloved? Because fuck them. Shhh. It’s ok. Let it out. Did Kip Winger touch the “bathroom area”? Now we know why you’re furious Mr. Marmot. Kip was a douche, but Reb Beach and Rod Morgenstein went on to make successful… ok now isn’t the time for that. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/139 "2013-05-30T04:00:38Z")
I doubt that anyone actually considers it beloved, but I can feel my anal sphincter clamp down whenever I hear [What’s Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFy1luxL0A) by **4 Non Blondes**. It actually starts out pleasantly enough; the real horror commences around the 1:27 mark. mmm ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/140 "2013-05-30T04:06:29Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I doubt that anyone actually considers it beloved, but I can feel my anal sphincter clamp down whenever I hear [What’s Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFy1luxL0A) by **4 Non Blondes**. > > It actually starts out pleasantly enough; the real horror commences around the 1:27 mark. > mmm I think the singer married the younger daughter from Roseanne. I hate that song really hard too. Another non-classic that still gets/got TONS of radio play that I detest is “Inside Out” by Eve 6. I am filled with a rage that can only be satisfied by ending that song playing whenever it does. I would sacrifice a few digits, and maybe a limb in order to abolish that song from the planet forever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602.md?page=8)