Because your reminder brought me joy. Plus, it’s sometimes nice to celebrate our differences.
“God Bless the USA” is a bit of a running joke between my wife and me. We always make comments about Lee Greenwood paying the mortgage on Independence Day and Memorial Day.
A few years ago we were at a small town fireworks show and the DJ was playing random patriotic music as the local fire department shot off the fireworks. He managed to play the song twice and we looked at each other and simultaneously announced “Ah, the rare Double Greenwood!” Once is bad, twice is torture.
As for my nomination for most hated, I have to go along with those who have said Hotel California. For a huge band and an enormously huge hit, it’s just a huge pile of suck. Incomprehensible lyrics that are supposed to be deep and meaningful and paint by numbers music. I’ll never understand the love for it.
About two-thirds of these songs are ones that I love and sing often, but I was surprised not to see my personal most hated. Please enjoy Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On from Titanic. I just tried to listen, and I could only make it through the first two lines before I had to turn it off.
Another gripe. Disclaimer: While I generally don’t care for music from the band ‘YES’ ( or any other “keyboardy” rock ) I do respect their talent and place in the musical world.
Anyway, in my late high school and just after years, it seems every kid with a guitar always had to play those first opening bars of the song ‘Roundabout’. It was like a pacifier to them. Over time it was like a bull seeing red to me. I swore that someday I may crack and suddenly grab the guitar from them and bash the hell out of it, John Belushi/Bluto style, and calmly had it back to them with an apology.
For me it is Who Let The Dogs Out. Something about nonsensical type songs that turn into one hit wonders.
Ah, okay. Enjoy! 
Let’s add ‘Wives and Lovers’ by Mr. Jack Jones. From Mad Men days when the little woman had to look her best to keep the interest of her hard working man (working in the city with voracious she-devil secretaries) …‘Hey! Little Girl! Comb your hair, fix your makeup, soon he will open the dooooor…’ Blaaarghhh! It seems, mercifully, to be forgotten now.
Oh, yeah, that one was creepy even when it came out.
Seconded.
I hate to admit it, but I probably know all the words to that song.
Perhaps this will help.
Yes! I feel the same about that song. Something about him whining “Benny… Benny… Benny…” over and over in a falsetto voice, with an annoying keyboard riff in between. That causes me a sharp pain.
With great talent comes due responsibility. Some members of Yes split off and formed a mutation called Asia, which put out the most unpleasant noise, and it got way too much air.
Also, Yes covered a S&G song called America, stretching a nice, tidy 3-minute ramble into a 10 minute long thing that I have not listened to, because why?
Unfortunately, so do I.
Here’s an analysis I did of that miserable song back in 2014:
“There are many things that make this song utterly detestable, but near the top of the list for me is the fact that the singer is a complete dick.
His wife plants a tree and he laughs at her. Then later she “came runnin’ in all excited/slipped and almost hurt herself/and I laughed till I cried.” Really? What other misfortunes amused you? Her having an incurable disease? Maybe that’s why you couldn’t be bother to be with her the day “the angels came!” She died “One day while I was not at home/While she was there and all alone.” How charming! She died alone.
What an asshole!”
Cut them a break, It all happened in the heat of the moment.
Jesus…when I was in HS, I decided I wanted to learn bass guitar, so I took some lessons at a local shop. All I wanted was to play in a garage band, but this guy was trying (in vain) to teach me to read music. And one of the pieces of music he had was “Honey”. I was clueless and unassertive, so I took the lessons for a while, then quit and figured out rudimentary bass playing on my own. How bad I was is a topic for another day 
A lot of these hated songs are some of my favorite songs! 
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Exactly! I was in high school when that song topped the charts, and I knew people who loooooved it, so one day I pointed out all of the things you mentioned. And while they agreed with my analysis, they still loved it.
I read some comments about that song a long time ago that put forth the idea that when “the angels came,” it meant that she got sick and tired of the creep she was married to and ran off to join the Hell’s Angels. That puts an entirely different spin on the song.
Funny, “Driving Home For Christmas” is one of the very few Xmas songs I can tolerate or even enjoy, respectively.
[Very conservative DJ in Arizona]
Why do you hate America?!?!
(Manager explains to the DJ in the intercom)
Oh, you mean the band?
Never mind…
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As at least America and Asia have come up in this thread, I may present my little pet theory about rock music: every band named after a geographical place sucks ass (in most cases their music is overblown/overproduced crap). Examples:
America
Asia
Europe
Boston
Kansas
ETA: Chicago (how could I forget?)
q.e.d.