# What is your most hated song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 2, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621 "2023-03-02T22:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/241 "2023-03-30T16:10:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I have a new most hated song, which came up on iPod shuffle yesterday - “I Shall Be Released” as performed by The Police on the Amnesty International benefit album _The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball_. > > It’s a fairly dreadful dirge-like version of the song in which Sting goes maundering on and on and on endlessly. _Finally_ the song drones to its muttered conclusion. > > But it’s not over! Following subdued cheers and applause from the audience, the band starts up and begins plodding through the song _again_. > > I couldn’t hit the “forward” button fast enough. That’s such a pity, because in the right hands it’s such a beautiful song. I’ve always said that it should be the hymn of Amnesty International. But I can easily see how Sting could have botched it. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/242 "2023-03-31T01:23:38Z")
Might have to think about it. ETA: addressing OP. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/243 "2023-03-31T01:30:45Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > That “Proud to be an American” thing. Oh but the [“Proud to Be a Canadian”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbisg02JD4) thing’s totally a-ok, though. /had to ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/244 "2023-03-31T21:15:29Z")
Has nobody mentioned my particular bete noire yet somehow? “Pink Houses”, by the artist formerly known as John Cougar. “Here’s a lil’ ditty ‘bout Jack and DiAAAAAAH MAKE IT STOP! OR POUR HOT LEAD IN MY EARS, WHICHEVER’S QUICKER! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/245 "2023-03-31T21:24:06Z")
Those are two separate songs. Which one do you hate more? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/246 "2023-03-31T23:40:06Z")
I was tormented by the memory of a song the other day. Some flourishy 80s balladesque thing with the kind of brass accents you would hear in dance club music. Not even sure what is was called or who did it, just a couple lyric fragments, like “… love will never leave you …” or somesuch. Fortunately, it has left. For now. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/247 "2023-04-01T04:28:30Z")
I did find a song called “Love Will Never Leave You” by Evanescence. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/248 "2023-04-01T13:53:45Z")
Yeah, it was most decidedly _not_ Evanescence. It was more like an '80s hair band. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/249 "2023-04-02T04:48:55Z")
Lovin’ you by Minnie Riperton. The sound of it makes me think of scratching fingernails on a chalk board. 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/250 "2023-04-02T09:09:17Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > But to address your “lyrically” point, There have been thousands of number one records with way worse lyrics than Abracababra. I mean, come on, it has panties in it! ha ha I think it was Peter Gabriel who said, “There have been many great songs with terrible lyrics. There have been no great songs with terrible music.” That’s pretty much my experience. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/251 "2023-04-02T15:28:40Z")
It does kinda depend on your subjective interpretation of what “great” and “terrible” mean and how you use those words. Ghengis Khan was both terrible and great at the same time. If greatness is measured by cultural prominence, there have been many songs (and other things) that were/are both at once. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/252 "2023-04-02T16:09:56Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > While awaiting a haircut yesterday I was subjected to the local “Classic Hits” station and the dreaded **“Pina Colada Song”** played. When I was a radio DJ and I was forced to play that song, I always turned the monitor down to zero. The song has a catchy hook to it, but the content (a song about two cheating, self-absorbed, vacuous people who truly deserve each other) always irritated me. During my last dental visit that song came on while I was getting a cavity repaired. The song was worse than the drilling. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/253 "2023-04-02T20:58:46Z")
What kind of masochistical kid would go through life using a name he hated? At least say it was spelled Sioux! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/254 "2023-04-02T21:08:34Z")
A boy named Sioux married a girl called Shy Anne? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/255 "2023-11-20T12:42:13Z")
It would be pretty hard to top how much I hate the song American Pie. Turgid, nonsensical, maudlin, absurdly long, incessantly played in the 70s. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/256 "2023-11-20T13:05:18Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > absurdly long One might be tempted to characterize this as “long, long.” ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/257 "2023-11-20T13:31:26Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > One might be tempted to characterize this as “long, long No, some songs are unabsurdly long. I like the full-length In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida! Also, most of the Swans catalog. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/258 "2023-11-20T13:40:50Z")
I have to call “Whoosh” on this one. The opening lyric of the song is: > A long, long time ago… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/259 "2023-11-20T13:43:11Z")
lol fair play, funny how my brain shuts down when those words come out of the radio. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621/260 "2023-11-20T13:47:13Z")
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the ultimate wussie song yet: > **[Bread – It Don't Matter to Me](https://genius.com/Bread-it-dont-matter-to-me-lyrics)** > > \[Verse 1\] / It don't matter to me / If you really feel that / You need some time to be free / Time to go out searching for yourself / Hoping to find time to go to find / And it don “Please come back and kick me in the gut some more if you ever feel like walking all over me again, b\*tch!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-hated-song/980621.md?page=14)