Songs people hate

[Darkniciad]

Friends in low places.

When you've heard drunken rednecks warbling that gawd-awful thing a couple hundred times, you want to stab #2 pencils into both ears before stabbing the drunken rednecks with same.

And I've only been in a bar once in my life. Heard enough of it from outside to despise it.

Weird Al helps to alleviate some of the songs I hate. I can't stand Achy Breaky Heart either, but Al's version always drowns it out in my head. Same for Safety Dance ( parodied as "The Brady Bunch" ) Addicted to Love ( "Addicted to Spuds" ) and many more.

 

[desertslave]

Weird Al is incredibly fun live. I took my kids for my son's birthday about 9 years ago. They loved it I, cheerfully admit I had a good time...much more than I expected to.

 

[Meghan32]

not popular, but...

Okay, I know I'm going to catch hell for this one...

"Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi
and
"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey

Mostly because I've gone to karaoke and heard these so many times that it kind of makes me want to stab someone when I hear them again. It's an automatic response. Damn you, karaoke!!!

Also, for the same reason...

"Killin' Em Softly" by Fugees

Happy non-listening, people...

-Meghan

 

[PennLady]

That was an impressive rant!

Penn Lady -- was the Iggy Pop version as abominable for you as the David Bowie version?

Haven't had a chance to listen yet, Stella. I'll try tonight.

Just listened to it. Very different feel from Bowie's, and I may dislike it less, but I don't like it much.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

Weird Al is incredibly fun live. I took my kids for my son's birthday about 9 years ago. They loved it I, cheerfully admit I had a good time...much more than I expected to.

I've seen Weird Al 5 times. The man puts on a hell of a show.

 

[PennLady]

Okay, I know I'm going to catch hell for this one...

"Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi
and
"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey

I don't mind either of those -- but can understand why you would hate them -- but I'm quite sick of "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. It's just not that profound, people.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

I don't mind either of those -- but can understand why you would hate them -- but I'm quite sick of "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. It's just not that profound, people.

It was cool back in the day and I was one of the first to learn it on the guitar, but I rarely hear it anymore.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

As I searched for this on youtube, I realized, "Gosh, I even hate the video."

David Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo (I Ain't Got Nobody)

 

[njlauren]

Deck of Cards

Lulu Boom Bang A Bang Eurovision (and many Eurovision songs!).

Tiny Tim -Tiptoe through the Tulips

Florence Foster Jenkins this and anything she sang.

And anything by The Portsmouth Sinfonia. They were better, and more entertaining with The Shadows' Apache. Note their attention to the conductor.

Of course, Apache should sound like This

You light up my life by debbie bone is up there, for sure....

Florence Foster Jenkins was horrible, but I have to admit I feel sorry for her.....she actually had been a talented pianist, but she married a schmuck who got vd and passed it on to her.. back then the treatment was mercury based compounds, which damage the nerves, and as a result she literally was tone deaf from it........it is kind of sad she tried to sing but it must have been torture to be musical and have been denied it like that.

In classical music, anything in the second viennese school, the schonberg /webern 12 tone schlock that still predominates with new pieces (which is why they a)always get played in the first half and b)get only 1 playing.

 

[njlauren]

Friends in low places.

When you've heard drunken rednecks warbling that gawd-awful thing a couple hundred times, you want to stab #2 pencils into both ears before stabbing the drunken rednecks with same.

And I've only been in a bar once in my life. Heard enough of it from outside to despise it.

Weird Al helps to alleviate some of the songs I hate. I can't stand Achy Breaky Heart either, but Al's version always drowns it out in my head. Same for Safety Dance ( parodied as "The Brady Bunch" ) Addicted to Love ( "Addicted to Spuds" ) and many more.

I loved "Jurassic Park", took MaCarthur Park and made it funny as hell...and the video was a hoot! Haven't seen him in years, but he is a pisser live.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

Has anyone added "Achey Breaky Heart" to the list? Shit I wanted to rip my own ears off every time some asshat played that damn song.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

I wanted to rip my own ears off every time some asshat played that damn song.

Those words reminded me of this story: http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/plvv4v/comedy-central-presents-what-s-new-pussycat where comedian John Mulaney explains how the song "It's Not Unusual" can make grown men and women weep tears of joy.

 

[PennLady]

Has anyone added "Achey Breaky Heart" to the list? Shit I wanted to rip my own ears off every time some asshat played that damn song.

This is a song I can understand people hate but since I don't listen to country much at all, or go places where it's played, it never got on my nerves to the extent of hating it. But I can see where it would.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

This is a song I can understand people hate but since I don't listen to country much at all, or go places where it's played, it never got on my nerves to the extent of hating it. But I can see where it would.

My ex loved the damn song and played the shit out of it. Same with Alan Jackson's "Mercury".

 

[PennLady]

My ex loved the damn song and played the shit out of it. Same with Alan Jackson's "Mercury".

I am not much of a country fan, and Mr Penn all but despises it, so we don't listen to it. Hence we are not at the moment in danger of hating any of them. You have my sympathies, though.

 

[D_Lynn]

Any song by ABBA or by Hall and Oates.

Have to agree with Saxon on the Achy Breaky song mistakey.

Right now I hate that song the girl sings in the movie Moneyball, because it sticks in your head & you Can't. Get. It. Out.

:caning:

 

[Stella_Omega]

K, I realize that this may be a regional thing, but I have to say it.

I fucking hate modern country music. Just about all of it. Big trucks and tailgates, ice cold beer, girls, more trucks, the same stupid worn out love shit over and over, and if you missed a day of it? Don't worry because country stations will be there the next day to play the same meaningless poser anthems in just about the same repetition the next day.

That, and its like 80s hair metal. It was great when it first started, but after awhile you can't tell the difference in the artists unless you specifically know the song.

And I can't stand music that has the same organization in their songs. Opening riff. Verse with four lines. Worn out catchy chorus. Verse with similar content. Repeat worn out chorus. Some form of musical bridge and or solo. Repeat worn out chorus until you want to stab your ears with broken pencil halves. Listen to next song that is almost the same as the last.

Modern country pretty much nails all of this. Sure, some of the songs are good, some of the artists have amazing talent. But to me its like looking at trees. That ones a bit different than this one, but its a fucking tree.

Sorry for the rant. I hate any modern country song.

Okay-- I was subjected to exactly this music in a store today, and it was the longest ten minutes of my life.

You nailed it.

 

[glynndah]

Okay-- I was subjected to exactly this music in a store today, and it was the longest ten minutes of my life.

You nailed it.

That's all they ever play in most fastfood places and stores around here. When did that horribly nasal half-step-flat tone become de rigueur?

 

[alwayswantedto]

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[slyc_willie]

Has anyone added "Achey Breaky Heart" to the list? Shit I wanted to rip my own ears off every time some asshat played that damn song.

Quite a while back, I bought a cheap porn compilation DVD that had a "version" of that song with different lyrics:

"You can eat my cum/
My icky, sticky cum/
It might just come back/
And ruin yer day"

A wonderful mental image there, no doubt.

I never could stand the original, either.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

"Maggie May" defined overplayed in my day.

You can add all Rod Stewart songs to my list. His voice grates on my nerves the way others have said country music grates on theirs.

 

[oggbashan]

Hear My Prayer also known as 'O For The Wings of A Dove'.

By 'Master Ernest Lough' it was played too often when Og was young. Even worse, I had to sing it myself.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Anything by Coldplay