# What songs do absolutely hate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934 "2003-05-13T13:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/21 "2003-05-13T16:14:39Z")
☹ I like so many of the songs listed above. “Italian Restaurant” is one of my top ten favorite songs ever. But in spite of my obvious lack of musical taste, there is one popular song that is so horrible that I am forced to turn off _other people’s_ radios whenever it comes on…“My Heart Will Go On”. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/22 "2003-05-13T16:18:07Z")
Elton John’s **Benny and the Jets** Arrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh… Now I have to go ear-floss with barbed wire. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/23 "2003-05-13T16:41:44Z")
Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” is really horrible. I do like when my brother-in-law does an interpretive dance to that part with the high pitched singing in the middle though. ---
**Author:** ![flybynight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@flybynight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flybynight)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/24 "2003-05-13T16:49:59Z")
_I Swear_ or something to that effect by John Michael Montgomery, or any other sappy, utterly horrible country ballad by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, etc, etc. IMO, they make all the songs above sound great. ---
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/25 "2003-05-13T16:53:02Z")
“Friends in Low Places” by Barf Brooks, makes me want to GOUGE MY EYES OUT:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/26 "2003-05-13T16:58:45Z")
That damn chumbawumba song: > [@](#): > > I get knocked down > But I get up again > You’re never gonna keep me down Maybe not, but I’m not going to stop trying. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/27 "2003-05-13T17:03:26Z")
Anything from “Grease” feels like nails on a chalkboard to me. Ditto for “Hard-Knock Life” in its original form and it’s Jay-Z sampled form. ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/28 "2003-05-13T17:04:44Z")
“Aqualung”, by Jethro Tull. Any country song that’s really a pop song done by somebody in a cowboy hat. “We didn’t start the fire”, by Billy Joel. Stringing together historically significant terms, places, and people is a fake, cheap way to create a sense of gravitas far out of proportion to the weightless piffle that the song really is. At least REM had a sense of humor when they did “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)”. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/29 "2003-05-13T17:05:18Z")
That oldie “Say a Little Prayer” just gets on my nerves. So does “Horse With No Name” and everything I’ve heard by John Mayer. I’ve also never liked an R.Kelly song until the recent “Ignition,” just because the lyrics are so laughably over-the-top sexual. Believe it or not, I am sick to my stomach of the more popular Beatles songs, mainly just due to overexposure. The minute “Hey Jude,” “Come Together,” or “Yesterday” comes on the radio, I flip the channel. I feel this way about a good deal of classic rock. Even though “All Star” is played to death and mediocre to begin with, Smash Mouth is a surprisingly great band. Their first album Fush Yu Mang has some cool retro-pop-punk songs, including my favorite, the ska-influenced “Padrino.” ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/30 "2003-05-13T17:24:02Z")
Bob Seger’s “Turn the Page” makes me want to puke every time I hear it. All it takes is the first couple of crappy notes and I’m ready to heave. It is soooo overdone, so melodramatic, so full of bullshit lyrics that are supposed to come off as “real deep”, it’s just vile. Don’t get me started on that “Like a Rock” song, either. That’s an automatic channel-change for me when one of those ads comes on. They have guaranteed that I’ll never buy one of those trucks for the rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/31 "2003-05-13T17:33:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tanaqui \* > **Last Kiss as covered by Pearl Jam. ‘Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?’ I don’t think I need to say anymore.** I’ll expand that to include ANY song, by ANY artist, that employs one or more dead teenagers as its hook. _Tell Laura I Love Her Teen Angel Leader Of The Pack Moony River Last Kiss_ Inexplicably, I’m willing to give a pass to _Ode To Billy Joe_ by Bobbie Gentry, and _Nature Trail To Hell_, by Weird Al Yankovic. But even without minors, [Honey](http://www.worldzone.net/music/dotcommies/messages/7.shtml) has go to go. And that glurgefest [about the shoes, too.](http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/b/bobcarlisle/christmasshoes.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/32 "2003-05-13T18:58:08Z")
I hate: Rock You Body - Justin Timberlake, This song Sucks, Can he sing falsetto, (I hate when any male singer sings like that) like Britney took custody of his nuts, in the Break-up. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/33 "2003-05-13T19:30:56Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Big Bad Voodoo Lou \* > \*\* > Believe it or not, I am sick to my stomach of the more popular Beatles songs, mainly just due to overexposure. The minute “Hey Jude,” “Come Together,” or “Yesterday” comes on the radio, I flip the channel. I feel this way about a good deal of classic rock._\* Amen to “Hey Jude”! The most annoying beatles song ever, in terms of omnipresence and interminability. However, i’ve found that “yesterday” and “come together” arent that overplayed (and i’m no big fan of “yesterday.”) In fact, for several years I didnt even hear “come together” at all on the radio despite once in awhile hearing oldies stations. They did, however, play a lot too much of “get back!” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/34 "2003-05-13T19:38:03Z")
_Ahem_ - I LOVE Yooou! You Love MEeeee… \* AAAAAAHHHHH _shoots himself_ ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/35 "2003-05-13T19:41:45Z")
I agree with so many of these. I can particularly sympathize with everyone who hates _Your Body is a Wonderland_. I mean, what the fuck? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my life and seemingly everyone I know loves it. Gah! Let’s make sure this thread doesn’t fade into obscurity without a mention of **Edwin fucking McCain**. ARGH. It was bad enough when that absolute dreck “I’ll Be” was all over the airwaves (and still is, btw, I don’t think a dentist visit goes by that I don’t have to listen to it with someone sticking metal spikes in my mouth), but then he had to repeat the whole ordeal with “I Could Not Ask for More.” _Ugh_. Anything by Bon Jovi, really, but specifically _Living on a Prayer_ and the absolutely abominable _It’s My Life_. One of those shitpiles was my senior class song, I can’t remember which, but it serves as a reminder of just how much I hated high school. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/36 "2003-05-13T19:45:03Z")
If I ever hear _Come on Eileen_ again I will likely murder someone. Trouble is, this is bound to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/37 "2003-05-13T20:12:29Z")
Anything by any hair band. _Ever._ Poison, Bon Jovi, Ratt, Motley Crue, and that fricken’ godawful Def Leppard all go in this category. As do Warrant, Slaughter, LA Guns, and Heart. Hair rock (I fucking refuse to call that shit “metal”) can suck me. Repeatedly. ---
**Author:** ![Dryga\_Yes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dryga\_Yes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryga_Yes)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/38 "2003-05-13T20:12:48Z")
Come on Eileen is a masterpiece of modern music, you heretic. ---
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/39 "2003-05-13T20:27:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dryga\_Yes \* > \*\*Come on Eileen is a masterpiece of modern music, you heretic. \*\* Right up there with “Elvira” “My hartsa on fira for Elvira” ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/40 "2003-05-13T20:28:56Z")
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