# Your most hated songs / radio jingles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562 "2003-06-13T14:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/1 "2003-06-13T14:16:39Z")
Hey, I think about this almost everyday, for I have minimal control over the radio station which is chosen while at work. You guys must have similar experiences – cringing when a certain radio jingle is played, burning with rage when a song is played. For example, at this moment, some song to which the only lyrics seem to be “American Man” is on the radio. It’s absolutely ridiculous: the guy is practically yelling, sings the same thing over and over and over and over and over, and the whole loudness and immodesty of it pretty much sums up the stereotype of the heterosexual, Bush-voting, football-watching, McDonald’s-eating, pickup-truck-driving American man, IMHO. Anyways, please share. Tell me what songs make you want to shoot the radio into pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/2 "2003-06-13T14:23:17Z")
“Killing me softly with his words” always makes my skin crawl. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/3 "2003-06-13T14:31:08Z")
“Pearl Girl . . . sheee’s a Pearl Girl . . .” Aw, dammit. Now it’s stuck. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/4 "2003-06-13T14:36:54Z")
Absolutely anything by Barry Manilow. \ ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/5 "2003-06-13T14:38:55Z")
Phlosphr, bite your tongue!!! I LOVE that song. I love every cover of it I’ve ever heard; Lauren Hill, Al B. (freakin’) Sure!, Luther Vandross. [sub]_deep cleansing breaths[/sub]_ JuanitaTech has xmradio and never has to listen to another blasted radio jingle again. auntie em, there’s something not right about being so happy about frickin’ tampons. ---
**Author:** ![ShadiRoxan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/6 "2003-06-13T14:56:39Z")
I hate the bartending school commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/7 "2003-06-13T15:06:48Z")
Here in Chicago, there’s a jewelry store called Jared’s House of Design or something like that. Their radio commercial features what I imagine as a big-haired Jersey girl wailing at the top of her lungs. BHJG: OHHHHHHH OH OH ::saxophone squeal:: Announcer: Jared’s House of Design has Chicagoland’s largest selection of insect-themed brooches, just in time for Father’s Day! BHJG: THAT’S JAREEEEED Announcer: Head to Jared soon and get your complimentary gold-nugget-colored tie tack with every $9000 purchase. BHJG: IT COULD ONLY BE JAAAAREEEEEED As soon as I hear the opening wail I change stations. It’s as bad as the Joe Rizza Ford TV commercials on Sunday morning in the late '80s. Number one, number one, Joe Rizza Ford is number one! ---
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/8 "2003-06-13T15:23:35Z")
Oh my goodness I’m laughing so hard. Yes! I live in Chicago, too. I LOATHE Jared’s jingle. How about the one that’s like “You get a great deal and A GREAT DEAL MORE!” Everyone who sings is terribly out of tune and the jingle itself has no identifiable key… Drives me nuts! Do you ever listen to WNUA 95.5? Can you believe that they play the “Double-you-enn-you-aye ninety five point fi-ive” jingle twice between every fucking song? Wow that’s so funny. “That’s Jared!” And also the Mattress Giant woman who sounds like she’s having an orgasm. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/9 "2003-06-13T15:42:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*Phlosphr, bite your tongue!!! I LOVE that song. I love every cover of it I’ve ever heard; Lauren Hill, Al B. (freakin’) Sure . . . \*\* God bless **JuanitaTech** , for now the tampon commercial in my head has been replaced by: \*Do ya wanna wanna Do ya wanna wanna . . . RES-kew me . . . \* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/10 "2003-06-13T15:44:55Z")
Sorry **Juanita** I just don’t like it **Looks down and kinda shy’s away** BTW, in my Supermarket Psychology lesson i.e. Psychology in Marketing. The more you hate it the deeper it sticks in your brain. Thus Jareds Song is probably well known my most in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/11 "2003-06-13T15:54:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*God bless **JuanitaTech** , for now the tampon commercial in my head has been replaced by: > > \*Do ya wanna wanna > Do ya wanna wanna . . . > RES-kew me . . . \* > > 😃 \*\* You owe me a new mint, auntie em. Would you like a laugh? I asked for that CD for Christmas two years ago. I got it. I also got laughed at but I got the CD so it was all good. I love my husband. Phlosphr, I… I just don’t know what to say. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/12 "2003-06-13T15:59:05Z")
“Killing me softly” was definitely overplayed in it’s day and it is kind of sappy. That’s why I loved how that song was used in the film “About a Boy”. I always hated this song called “Children of the Sun” by Billy Thorpe. I looked up the lyrics–it seems to be about an alien invasion. I just can’t stand the melody and the style. ---
**Author:** ![ShadiRoxan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/13 "2003-06-13T16:20:29Z")
I hear the Jared’s commercials in the south too. Quite annoying ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/14 "2003-06-13T16:26:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qazzz \* > \*\*Wow that’s so funny. “That’s Jared!” And also the Mattress Giant woman who sounds like she’s having an orgasm. \*\* Only at Mattress Giant! Oooooohhhhh…_ahhhhhhh_. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/15 "2003-06-13T16:26:47Z")
Who ever is familar with 95.1 Will Rock in Wisonsin and Illinois might know this one. An ad for a Mitsubishi dealer, over and over this f\*cking woman sings “Larry Roche, Mitsubishi Man”. GO TO HELL BITCH!! ---
**Author:** ![Drabble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@Drabble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drabble)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/16 "2003-06-13T16:32:48Z")
Every rose has its thorns…makes me wanna upchuck ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/17 "2003-06-13T16:39:20Z")
2 songs and one commercial jingle are enough to make my skin crawl. Loving You by Minnie Ripperton. I felt ill typing it. Close to You by The Carpenters. I once walked out of a store while waiting in line to check out when this song came on over the PA system. And locally, the Tulalip Indian casino jingle drives me crazy. And there is no warning. One commercial ends and then a female voice from hell sings out “TULALIP” over and over again. While this is going on a bad Barry White impersonator comes on to tell you what is happening at the casino. I even sent them an email saying I would never visit their casino because I hate the commercials so much. I never heard back. I am so glad I am listening to the new Led Zeppelin CD as I type this. If any of the above was to take over my subconcious I would become a very dangerous person to be around. ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/18 "2003-06-13T18:18:41Z")
_…from the 70eees, eightees and to dayyy_! (the 90’s) _…yesterdayyy and todayyy_! (today) _You can’t always get what you want_ (ad nauseam) _but if you (?) real hard, you get what you need_. And if you hear “at the reception” you get the song’s SINGLE PHRASE stuck in your head. The song’s not in your head, it’s in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/19 "2003-06-13T18:23:51Z")
There’s a community college or something around here (Kansas City)and they have the most annoying jingle EVER. Imagine the most annoying, most nasal voice you have ever heard, then multiply by two (because it sounds like two people trying to sing in harmony) and then… “PATHways, PATHways to AVILA” repeat several times. Also, I heard a muzak version of No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” at a Popeye’s once, and that was pretty godawful. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562/20 "2003-06-13T18:30:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*You owe me a new mint, auntie em. > > Would you like a laugh? I asked for that CD for Christmas two years ago. I got it. I also got laughed at but I got the CD so it was all good. I love my husband. > \*\* Dude, I will send you ten packs of Orange Tic-Tacs if you burn that bad boy for me!!! I’m not sure **SkipMagic** loves me quite as much as your hubby must love you! 😉 😃 Hey, um . . . you don’t happen to have any Boys II Men up in that camp, do you? Motown, Philly, back again . . .? 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-hated-songs-radio-jingles/181562.md?page=2)