He also quickly descended into the ocean.
Of Montreal?
Texas? (the Scottish band)
Georgia Satellites?
I bought the album (on 8-track) with “Carry on Wayward Son”. I liked it for a month or so, then began to hate it (probably because of constant radio play). I eventually taped The Cars’ first album over it, which made it awesome!
Best Day of My life by American Authors.
That song always makes my day worse.
I just remembered.
Many, many years ago I found a record by The Intruders in a record fair. I had it in my mind (wrongly) that The Intruders were an old ska band, so I bought it. Trite, insipid, sickly, overproduced, gimmicky - and these are it’s good points. The astonishingly awful spoken sections set it apart from pretty much any other record I’ve ever heard. It’s so bad, I treasure it. It’s so bad that, years later, when I found another copy at a record sale, I bought that as well. Kind of doing my bit for the mental wellbeing of mankind.
Here it is - you have been warned - (Win, Place Or Show) She’s A Winner
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I guess I need to rescind this as I just thought of one I hate a bazillion times worse: “The Girl Is Mine” by Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney. “I’m a lover, not a fighter.” HULK SMASH!
Imagine.
Oh, and that summer that I had to share my bedroom with my cousin. I do enjoy silence, but he really liked his music, so he was contantly playing his favorite new album, Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band, every night.
Every track on that album sucks bigly. It is just awful. And I thought, “well, maybe the music is bad because I resent having to share my space with him,” until he brought home Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the Alan Parsons Project – after hearing and appreciating that, I concluded that the Steve Miller stuff was in fact, of its own accord, bad.
And now it’s been adopted & used in an allergy medication commercial, can’t get away from it.
And now I’m hearing God Bless the USA used in an American Dad commercial!
If you can read any part of this thread and walk away without a malignant earworm infestation, you are my (Billy Don’t Be a) Hero.
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I just can’t leave this thread without seconding Kars for Kids as THE song I simply must mute or change the channel. That’s especially true now that I’ve read a bit about the organization behind it. I understand that it’s a jingle, not a “real” song, but it’s just so bad . . .
There are plenty of other very good suggestions here, but I have to disagree with someone’s nomination of “anything by Pink Floyd.”
I remain a Kars for Kids jingle virgin! 
I got this song in my head
It’s drivin’ me mad
I just can’t get it out
Like a pile of turds
There’s no sense to the words
They’re makin’ me wanna shout
Stomp the earworm
Stomp the earworm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Stomp it down
Somebody play me a song
'Cause this hook is so wrong
And it goes on and on and on and on
Gotta get some relief
From this musical grief
I’m read to set off a bomb
On the earworm
Stomp the earworm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Burn it down
[bridge]
The chorus won’t go away
Like it came here to stay
And it’s worn out its cute
I just don’t wanna hear
Desperation is near
I’m raising up my boot
To stomp the earworm
Stomp the earworm
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp
Stomp it flat
Stomp the earworm
Crush the earworm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Stomp it out …
For the sake of your immortal soul, I recommend an abstinence pledge.
Is “anything written in this century” an acceptable answer?
This thread should have ended right there.
“Playground In My Mind”, and it’s not close.
Has anyone said Seasons in the Sun yet?
Goodbye Papa its hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I’ll be there.