# What is the most annoying popular song of all-time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045 "2020-08-14T02:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/81 "2020-08-16T00:07:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Thanks, codinghorror, for giving me an awful flashback. Was that video really necessary? 🤨😠🤮 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/82 "2020-08-16T00:24:49Z")
American Pie by Who-the-Hell-Cares, I just want it to stop. (Don McClean, I know) ---
**Author:** ![frognot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frognot/32/8752_2.png) [@frognot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frognot)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/83 "2020-08-16T00:38:26Z")
Another video that shouldn’t be missed is Starland Vocal Band 's Afternoon Delight [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wu1UXCdyNo0/hqdefault.jpg "Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight (1976) Uncut Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1UXCdyNo0) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/84 "2020-08-16T00:49:50Z")
That guy in the glasses is so creepy. “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again… afternoon delight” ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/85 "2020-08-16T02:21:36Z")
`https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f1c8f754-06db-47d8-9b8a-ae6415017f4c#BIOIVD89Tt.copy` ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/86 "2020-08-16T02:25:50Z")
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall 12 Days of Christmas This question has been asked before and Tears of a Clown is a popular whipping boy. Ever much minded that song. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/87 "2020-08-16T02:39:25Z")
> [@frognot](#): > > Another video that shouldn’t be missed is Starland Vocal Band 's Afternoon Delight Man, they’re so young and shiny…makes it harder to hate it. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/88 "2020-08-16T03:19:00Z")
@codinghorror, they missed “Seasons in the Sun” by Terry Jacks. > [@frognot](#): > > (You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka and Odia Coates Boy if that doesn’t make you want to run out and punch somebody I don’t know what will. > [@frognot](#): > > Another video that shouldn’t be missed is Starland Vocal Band 's Afternoon Delight Written by the same guy who helped write “Take me home, country roads” to be recorded by John Denver. He should have known better. Can you believe it came in at #12 for the year? Looking at much of this chart, ugh, it was a sad time. Bohemian Rhapsody only made #18. Seriously, I can’t reconcile most of it. > **[Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1976](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1976)** > > This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1976. The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1976, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 8, 1975 through October 30, 1976. More manure for the pile from other years: Village People: YMCA, Macho Man Rod Stewart: Do ya think I’m sexy? Ain’t Love a Bitch? One song that specifically annoys the living fuck out of me: “Babe” by Styx. Sappy, saccharine, shit. And the song “Start Me Up” by the Stones. It was overplayed even when it first came out. But then Bill Gates got involved. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/89 "2020-08-16T03:29:29Z")
Huh! All these years, I thought it was “Star_light_ Vocal Band.” **D’oh!** 😖 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/90 "2020-08-16T03:30:07Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > And the song “Start Me Up” by the Stones. It was overplayed even when it first came out. But then Bill Gates got involved. I think Microsoft using that one is hilarious. Lines like “I can’t compete” and “you make a grown man cry”, and this is supposed to PROMOTE the product? Did anyone at M$ even listen to the whole song? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/91 "2020-08-16T03:39:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Rod Stewart: Do ya think I’m sexy? I like Bob & Ray’s version: 😃 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pqbW-L_xt18/hqdefault.jpg "Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1979)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqbW-L_xt18) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/92 "2020-08-16T03:49:58Z")
And in the fade, Mick sings “You’d make a dead man come…” When I was in college, a writer at the college newspaper said he realized he was an adult when he heard “The Night Chicago Died” and really didn’t think it was that bad of a song. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/93 "2020-08-16T13:07:29Z")
[Moderating] I’m getting reports that this video is auto-playing on thread load, which shouldn’t be happening, but I’m not seeing it. If anyone can provide any further information about problems, I’ll try to fix it, but until then, there’s nothing I can do. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/94 "2020-08-16T15:42:10Z")
In the summer of '77 there was a _Starland Vocal Band TV show_ that was mercifully short-lived. This episode was hosted by David Letterman: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4FRLaVlWYh0/maxresdefault.jpg "📺Starland Vocal Band Show Episode One 7/31/ 1977") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FRLaVlWYh0) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/95 "2020-08-16T15:45:48Z")
Wow! I thought I was the last person on Earth who remembered this! 😲 ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/96 "2020-08-16T15:47:03Z")
It doesnt autoload for me. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/97 "2020-08-16T17:02:12Z")
It autoplays for me. Firefox (latest version, I can’t find the actual number now) with uBlock Origin. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/98 "2020-08-16T17:03:23Z")
Do you use NoScript? ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/99 "2020-08-16T17:05:05Z")
No, I don’t use NoScript. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-annoying-popular-song-of-all-time/918045/100 "2020-08-16T17:06:35Z")
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