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”.
Elton John’s Benny and the Jets
Arrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh…
Now I have to go ear-floss with barbed wire.
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.
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.
“Friends in Low Places” by Barf Brooks, makes me want to GOUGE MY EYES OUT:eek:
That damn chumbawumba song:
Maybe not, but I’m not going to stop trying.
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.
“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)”.
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.”
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.
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 has go to go. And that glurgefest about the shoes, too.
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.
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!” 
Ahem
- I LOVE Yooou!
You Love MEeeee… *
AAAAAAHHHHH
shoots himself
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.
If I ever hear Come on Eileen again I will likely murder someone. Trouble is, this is bound to happen.
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.
Come on Eileen is a masterpiece of modern music, you heretic.
Right up there with “Elvira”
“My hartsa on fira for Elvira”
American Pie is enough to make me drive my Chevy off the levy.