The EBay “My Way” commercials suck ass. So do the ones for Foxwoods casino. Hmm. Maybe Sinatra ripoffs just don’t mix with advertising.
Anything by Kenny Rogers, but especially the detestable “Coward of the County.” I have never hated a song more.
Anything by the Steve Miller Band after Boz Scaggs left.
Anything by Boz Scaggs
I also hate anything by Steve Miller, especially “Take the Money and Run.” And that Whitney Houston song “I Will Always Love You”–those vocal gymnastics at the end of the song make her sound like a coyote in heat. I didn’t care much for “Circle of Life” either back when I had to listen to it on the radio once every two hours at work.
And don’t get me started on Christmas music. If I ever have to hear “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” again it will be too soon.
But the worst was when I was doing an inventory at a small town department store in New Mexico and the store music system kept playing “Angel of the Morning.” Over and over again. For 8 hours.
Watch me send Bay Area Dopers screaming from this thread:
"Now you have a friend in the diamond business.
The Shane Company."
Anything from that techno-dance era around the early ninties (think “Be My Lover” and “Everybody Dance Now”, ect.)
…and How about a recent overplayed song? If I hear Justin Timberlake’s “Dance with me” one more time…
Lately around here (L.A. area) there seems to be a radio commercial done to the tune of Ghostbusters. I think it’s about cars, but I’m not sure because when it comes on I immediately change the station. I hate that thing.
The only good thing that came out of the whole Dixie Chicks fiasco was that a lot of county stations stopped playing them, which meant that I didn’t have to hear that horrible “Traveling Soldier” song every 20 freakin’ minutes at work. That thing made me want to kick the radio across the room.
Also, the songs in Gap commercials.
There’s a local Mazda dealership here that has, easily, the most hated spokeswoman in the city of San Antonio. Just way she says “World Car Maaaazda” makes everyone I know want to spontaneously combust with impotent rage. She has more teeth in her mouth than the average shark, and she somehow manages to display them all, the entire time she’s talking. I keep waiting for someone to kill her. (I don’t want anyone to kill her. I just think that at some point, someone will.)
On a national level, has anyone else seen those WashingtonPost.com commercials? Where they basically claim to have had a website since the 1800’s? “What website was there when X happened?” The music is creepy and the claim is so bogus that I get all pissed off whenever I see it. Mental Note: never visit that freakin’ website, or buy the Washington Post.
And during the holidays, does anybody else hate Coca-Cola’s “Santa Packs are coming! Santa Packs are coming!” jingle? I HATE THAT FREAKIN’ JINGLE! Screw Santa packs! Aaargh!
And perhaps my all-time “anti-favorite” commercial is the one that only other Texans may be familiar with…the Chevy commercials with shots of cowboys at dusk, rural ranch roads, etc., etc., yawn and the song in the background that says, "Chevy, God, and Texas!"
WTF? How can they get away with lumping God and Texas in with Chevrolet?
Ugh.
And as an aside to the advertisers…hello, most people in Texas live in cities, don’t own ranches, and don’t wear cowboy hats! Geez!
And since I’m on a roll here, I might as well add those Charmin commercials with the bears shitting in the woods.
I met a very nice, spunky woman at a bar. She said I looked intelligent, so I danced with her to the live music. We talked about Anais Nin, we laughed till we doubled over, we spilled champagne and didn’t care. As it got late, very late, she asked for my phone number! Then she said she was excited because she just got tickets to a concert by –
Neil Diamond.
: : : : l o s e m y n u m b e r ! ! ! : : : :
Those are not exclusive to the Bay Area, my friend. Unfortunately. They have them up here in Oregon as well. And yeah, I hate that guy’s voice. God, that long, slooooow spiel is terrible.
Songs that make me want to actually damage the radio:
Sk8er Boi (Avril)
Last Kiss (Pearl Jam cover)
anything by Fat Boy Slim
Achy Breaky Heart.
That song about a girl who leaves LA: “and she cried and she cried and she cried and she cried”, “and she laughed and she laughed and she laughed and she laughed”, “and he lied and he lied and he lied and he lied”, “and she screamed and she screamed and she screamed and she screamed”. Ugh. Then she goes back to L.A. WTF?
Anything by Barbra Streisand.
YMCA.
I think you can pretty much throw any cover song into this group as far as I’m concerned. I’ve never heard one as good as the orignal. Even worse is when rappers sample songs, like Eminem’s new song. He ruined Dream on, and that ticks me off.
If you live in Southern California, you have heard the commercials for Rotolo Chevrolet. Mariano Rotolo is a frustrated lounge singer, and he insists on singing his stupid jingle in every commercial. Makes me want to barf!
In the Dallas area: On 1080, the news station, at precisely 7:30am, the commercial for Three Forks (an upscale steak restaurant) is aired. It ends with:
And to (female of the week, usually the mayor or someone we don’t know, this week I think it’s Colleen), it’s a shame, how much we LOVE YOU…
I know it’s coming, why don’t I just rip out my radio?!
When I lived in the Boston area years ago, there was one supremely annoying jingle on the radio stations. I don’t know if it’s still on, but you MassDopers can tell me:
How does Dinger do it?
Come and seeee
Come to Dave Dinger Ford in Braintree
(super annoying voice) In Braintree!
I cannot give it justice written here, but this song used to drive me to change radio stations. But the marketing clearly worked, as I still remember the name. And all my friends knew the jingle too.
I hate anything of the bubble gum pop variety, can’t stand rap or anything too grungy, but the one that springs to mind for some reason is
“We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun…”
I really wanted to hurt that singer.
goodbye michelle it’s hard to die
when all the birds are singing in
the sky
now that the spring is in the air
with the flowers everywhere
i wish that we could both be there
we had joy we had fun we had
seasons in the sun
but the hills that we climbed were
just seasons out of time
we had joy we had fun we had
seasons in the sun
but the wine and the song like the
seasons have all gone
Salem - sorry, man – but that has to be one of the first songs I remember from my youth. I was born in the mid-sixties, and, along with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, that one takes me back!
I apologize for the hijack. I’ll just go weep about my lost youth now…
Sugar Sugar by the Archies.
Anything by Emenem. I live just north of 8 Mile, so everyone around me has to listen to him… all the time… in cars… in houses… at work…
Just clean out the damn closet already!