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.
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.
That was actually by Kool & The Gang.
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.
And Lola’s a MAN, baby!
“Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones. Also called the Woo Woo Song.
A couple of weeks ago a woman caused a plane to emergency land by singing that song and refusing to stop.
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.
“Radar Love”, Golden Earring. Never got its timeless appeal.
Amen.
I actually prefer White Lion’s version.
I hated it even when I was an idiot hippie.
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.”
The other day I counted…they yell “woo woo” 14,000 times.
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.
Stairway to Heaven? check
Hotel California? check
Freebird? check
I’ll see you and raise you a Baba O’Reilly. dreck, dreck, dreck.
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.
Anything by Peter Frampton or Iggy Pop.
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.
I doubt that anyone actually considers it beloved, but I can feel my anal sphincter clamp down whenever I hear What’s Up 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.