Songs you never want to hear again

I know it seems like I contradicted myself, but I can attempt to be objective. I know some critic out there can argue that Hotel California is a great song and I realize that--I just think it's a complete idealization of California.

[quote]It's just a BS song about how California is such a great place and bla bla bla.

WADR, you're an idiot.

Goodbye, English Rose . . .

Margaritaville and YMCA.

I hate Hotel California, as well as Stairway to Heaven.

If I never hear The Rose or Wind Beneath My Wangs, I’ll be happy.

ANYTHING by Bruce Springsteen.

Single Ladies. It wasn't even a great song yet it was constantly promoted as if it was such a great song. And that video wasn't iconic, it was just dumb.

I can't stand fucking Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. An excruciatingly horrible piece of camp wannabe witty faux opera.

"I Feel Good" & "Walking on Sunshine" and any other song used OVER and OVER and OVER again in movies.

Dream ON by Aerosmith

[quote]WADR, you're an idiot.

Is that an on-air slogan for a radio station?

Don't Stop Believing. I'm not a Journey fan, but that song is by far the worst that I"ve heard from them. Complete tripe. And it keeps getting covered over and over and over and over again on all these tv shows.

Mony Mony by Billy Idol

They've got better songs than that in their repertoire by far, R12.

The clintons ru Ned don’t stip believing

Anything Allman Brothers or Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I never want to hear music made by my asshole - pfffffft.

I love David Bowie, but the radio constantly plays his worst 2 songs "Modern Love" and "Let's Dance."

Fingernails on a chalkboard.

“What’s Going On” by 4 Non Blonds

“Under the Bridge” and every other Red Hot Chili Peppers songs

“Walking on Sunshine”

That 4 non blondes song What’s Going On still makes me want to punch someone whenever I hear it, which fortunately these days is rare. And while I was in Europe on vacation in 1998 everywhere I went I heard that awful song Life by Des’ree. What the Europeans liked so much about it was a mystery, it made my ears bleed.

That Hey Soul Sister is seriously horrid.

I think I agree with all these others also-how were those songs even hits? Ugh.

Also whatever that Ga Ga Ooh La La one is called.

[quote]I think I agree with all these others also-how were those songs even hits? Ugh.

That's a good question, R22.

That "Sweet Home Alabama" ripoff by Kid Rock was heinous.

"Muskrat Love" — how was this ever recorded, much less a hit

Free Fallin from Tom Petty.

Anything by Maroon 5, esp. Pay phone and Moves Like Jagger

[quote] What’s Going On still makes me want to punch someone whenever I hear it, which fortunately these days is rare.

Really? I still hear that shit everywhere I go.

Happy by Pharrell Williams. Watching Meryl Streep and Amy Adams dancing along to this at the Academy Awards made me cringe.

R26 Yup. Another terrible overplayed song by a great musician.

Fast Car. I'd rather see the sketches on Living Color.

And the retard from England who does the Les Miserables song.

Any Nicks/Buckingham-era Fleetwood Mac song. I STILL hear the songs from Rumours on a weekly basis in coffeeshops, supermarkets, etc. - 40 years later.

Also, any Beatles song, any Eagles song.

Anything from Rod Stewart.

Any Beatles song R32? If you can't find Beatles' songs you like, you don't like music.

I’m the One who wants to be with you by Mr. Big

Anything by Cheryl Crowe.

Whoops, Sheryl Crow. My bad.

The Thong Song

Anything from a certain Janet.

Or any Jackson.

[quote]If you can't find Beatles' songs you like, you don't like music.

It's not that I don't like them - they're virtually all amazing. It's that I've heard every song the Beatles recorded approximately a million times, and life's too short to hear them again. I'd rather hear something new.

Most if the 70s catalog.

Okay, r39...but there at least 20 Beatles songs that deserve to played until the end of time. Probably more like 50. The fact that you've heard them "a million times" notwithstanding.

There's one song I grew up listening to and used to love that I wish would just vanish, and most of you will know why. "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond. I am sorry to hear Neil is battling Parkinson's but I would bet even he got to hate the "bah bah bah" and "so good, so good" shit at sporting events, and then in concerts where he had to indulge it.

God, Hey Soul Sister was attrocious. How it became a hit is beyond me. But a song that is just as bad is I Got a Feeling by Black Eyed Peas. God, that song is bland. I actually liked them before that song and album were hits. But that song and their superbowl performance with Usher was so bad, I instantly hated them.

Piano Man by Billy Joel is hell on the ears.

Anything Barry Manilow.

I loved (and still like) David Bowie, but I can't stand Heroes. It may be objectively good, but it's been overplayed to the point where it's lost any meaning for me.

Even though I love Stevie and Fleetwood Mac, I hate Landslide, and it seems to follow me everywhere.

[quote]I hate Landslide, and it seems to follow me everywhere.

And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills, I'll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you.

anything by taylor swift leaves me feeling like i just heard the worst song ever

Any beatles song

Another vote against not-so-Swift. Katy P's voice is nails on chalkboard. Anything by Journey. 95% of yacht rock.

I don't understand how anyone would think that Hotel California has a positive message about California. The lyrics are a sort of nightmare scenario about the dangers of fame & excess.

I agree r51

Here's a little ditty about Jack and Diane...

I love Hotel California.

Any of the songs by Destiny's Child.

Lady Gaga's The Cure. The fact that she thought this song would put her back on top after Joanne is just a testament to how she is a has-been in pop.

Anything by Cardie B. Her song Bodack Yellow (or whatever its called) doesn't even have anything resembling a rhyme scheme....and yet, it's being called great by some critics and even many rap fans who seem convinced its a classic. Its really just her bragging about how she's a concubine.

I like Hotel California too - it reminds me of a mini-Twilight Zone episode. "pretty pretty boys that she CALLS friends" - "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device..." - "...you can never leave" - I think it's very dark.

R56, I probably just hate the song too much to analyze it objectively. Oh well. I still hate it and find all the other songs by The Eagles so boring. I prefer so many bands from the 60s and 70s to them.

And "Hotel California" is such a looong song. 6 and a half minutes...

Anything from that nasal, ugly little troll Gloria Estefan

Rod Stewart - any song.

Anything Beatles.

Connie Francis: "I"m A'Orderin' Room Service (At Hojo's Again)"

Physical - ONJ

Piano Man - Billy Joel

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

Bruno Mars' entire catalog

Hero - Mariah Carey

Creedence Clearwater Revival: an example of how at first listen one assesses "this is okay," then a family member or roommate plays tracks frequently to downgrade to "some people like it, I don't care for it" or worse, "is there nothing else to listen to?" and lastly "No, turn the station or turn it off, I don't care if it's angry talk radio or highly formulaic crap that comes on next, anything is better than this screeching."

My brother asked for three songs played at his viewing/memorial service; "Instant Karma," "Higher Ground" (RHCP cover) and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam. I had to listen to them for at least forty-five minutes. I'm completely done with all of them.

"The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney "Receipts" Houston

God, I hate that fucking song.

This vile piece of shit.

I'd do anything for love, but I won't do that...

Ah ah, should'a known better ....

Oh Ophelia you been on my mind since the flood

What was the theme for Friends? That shit song. An rubbish theme song for what in hindsight was a rubbish show.

Ring My Bell- Anita Ward ..and I mean NEVAH, NEVAH,EVAH!

Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

I like to listed to the 80s station sometimes while driving. But. So much from that decade is so overplayed that I NEVER want to hear it again. She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals drives ME crazy. And, while it isn't from the 80s but might as well have been since it was played to death during the 80s Motown nostalgia/California raisin years - I Heard it Through the Grapevine. I also switch off when I here the first few notes of Billy Jean, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Eye of the Tiger and many, many more.

Everything from Maroon 5 and almost everything from Katy Perry.

Anything by fucking Blues Traveler or Smashmouth

Two Princes by the Spin Doctors

I Believe I Can Fly

Anything by Sam Smith

You Raise Me Up

Blurred Lines

I’ll get hate for this but:

As a professional musician, I never want to play Summertime or Somewhere Over the Rainbow ever again.

Have at me.

"You Are My Sunshine" - it's become a go to song for any run-of-the-mill commercial.

"Beth" by KISS (and I actually love KISS). That song is a mountain of shit.

Anything by U2.

"Hotel California" wins this thread; it is just an overplayed atrocity exhibition.

"Poker Face" can fuck off.

Two songs by War Why Can't We Be Friend which sounds like they got drunk before they recorded it and Low Rider that has somehow become an anthem to every Hispanic comedian.

R66, yes! A monstrosity.

Anything by that big schnozed Barbra. She is an awful singer.

That song by the band fun that goes "we are young...so let's set the world on fire bla bla bla bla blaaa". Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.

Anything by John Lennon. If I were a spy and you wanted me to talk, all you’d need to do was just strap me to a chair and play Imagine. I’d tell you whatever you wanted to know provided you turned that shit off.

Anything from One Direction.

Mustang Sally by anyone....

The Pittsburgh Steelers "Here We Go" fight song.

Dancing in the Street by anyone...

Pretty much anything by Ed Sheeran. I'm convinced his popularity is the Seventh Sign and that the end is nigh.

R72 - you are onto something. I fancy myself a diehard 80s fan but I feel like I’ve murdered the genre for myself, with a lot of help from FM radio along the way. For me to really enjoy 80s music, I have to seek out deep cuts from my favorite artists. I really can’t enjoy popular chart singles anymore from the decade.

[quote]It's just a BS song about how California is such a great place and bla bla bla.

Clearly you didn't listen to the fucking song.

Shine by Collective Soul. This was the song that really proved that the alternative craze of the early 90s was just a fad.

"Hey Jude."

As soon as I hear that opening "Hey" and then the following chords accompanying "Jude" and the rest of the lyrics, I want to drink rubbing alcohol and wrestle pylons. If I actually have to live through a listening of this torturous dross, the "na-na-na-nananana" ending is enough to prompt legitimate thoughts of suicide / homicide.

Anything released within the last 15 years

I Will Always Love You

R1 Have you ever paid attention to the lyrics of Hotel California because they are pretty much the opposite of what you say. It's a very dark song.

Love the Beatles but damn I can't stand Lennon's Imagine, it's so saccharine.

Eminem Lose Yourself. So saturated, overplayed in every sports stadium and arena for the last 15 years. Aaaaaarrrrrgh.

MacArthur Park

"Fireworks" and "Roar," by that caterwauling Katy Perry. Actually, anything by that phony.

"Because of You," by Kelly Clarkson.

Most of the music Justin Timberlake has release in the past 5 years.Probably should have stopped in 2006.

We are the world

[quote] Shine by Collective Soul. This was the song that really proved that the alternative craze of the early 90s was just a fad.

It was all the same corporate conformity-through-nonconformity bullshit, and truly cool people ignored it and just kept on liking things that have actual merit, wherever they may come from.

Anything rap - and hope to never have to see white college girls dancing to rap ever again

Beyonce - not that I can name any song of hers - just her

Who let the dogs out

Whites became totally irrelevant to popular music the day Kurt Cobain died.

Popular music became irrelevant to music the day the Lou Pearlman/Max Martin bilge machine replaced it.

And if the CIA hadn't offed Biggie and Tupac, no one would know or care about Scuminem.

I will acknowledge you want me to acknowledge about the brilliance, beauty and importance of WEST SIDE STORY. I just don't want to ever hear it again. Done. Exhausted. Played out. Brilliant as it is.

It would benefit mightily by being locked in a trunk for about 50 years. A fresh hearing would be a miracle. But that is not possible now.

Anything by Joni Mitchell. Whoever said her voice is like a lead pencil on a blackboard hit the bullseye!

Count me in for "Hey Jude"

R105 Joni Mitchell's voice varies, depending on when she was recorded. I find everything through Blue to be very shrill.

By the time Court and Spark came out, her voice had lowered and was much easier to listen to.

All of Pitbull's songs. I think they're all called "Miami".

Some great choices in this thread. Hotel California, Jack and Diane and the worst of all. Imagine. If I never hear that plodding, preachy crock of shit again, it will be too soon.

I had a friend who used to be in a band that played at parties, weddings, etc. I asked him what requested song they hated doing the most. Surprisingly, he said "Brown-Eyed Girl". He said it was just so over-played , the band was sick of it.

My choice? Aretha Franklin's "Respect". Never liked it the first time, hated it the ten-millionth time.

Anything by Abba

R108, I only like Respect when she performs it at a faster tempo. I really don't care for the standard version. And I like her other big songs.

Dont worry be happy

I wish the Cha Cha Slide could be buried once and for all.

I think anything by The Eagles fits this thread; songs that were okay or even great, but ruined by over exposure. If I were older and had been listening to the radio 1964-70, I'd probably feel the same way about The Beatles.

San Dieeeego Super Chaaargers! Nah, I love that song.

I can live without ever hearing "Rumours" again, but by the same token, really enjoy the quirky self-indulgence of "Tusk".

Red Red Wine

Achy Breaky Heart

Any Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Hootie & the Blowfish, etc.

R107 Pitbull and Flo-Rida are living proof that you don’t need an ounce of talent to make it in the music industry. All their stuff sounds the same and it’s all terrible.

R116, agreed wholeheartedly.

That Meathead song about he'll do anything for love but not THAT!!! Makes me want to kick his fat ass....

R118 I was weaned on the Bat trilogy so I can’t understand what it’s like to not care for Steinman/Meat oeuvre. What is it exactly you dislike so much about them?

It is pure fantasy fromage for indulgent sentimental types, yes. But it’s so good at being that. There’s a seductive honesty to it all that you either get or you don’t.

That drag queen atrocity released the other day by that middle-aged black talentless tranny who is supposed to be passing as a woman.

Madonna's Vogue. Well-done, a complete rip-off, just soul killing now. There are about 10 Madonna songs in this category. Others I don't mind at all.

Batdance by Prince. I remember when this song was new and being at the home of the straight cousin of my boyfriend with this blaring out of MTV in her living room and just feeling really sad.

And that Cher song with some weird instrument which makes her sounds like she needs to spit, "I believe"?

I concur ‘Batdance’ was a rare Prince joint that turned out lame R122, but ‘The Future’, ‘Lemon Crush’ & ‘Vikki Waiting’ from the same album were all so good and more than made up for it. Shady, sweet, seductive futuropop as it should be.

I hate every song Billy Joel has ever done, but Piano Man is so awful it almost gives me a nervous tic. God, I hate that fucking song even more than all of his other ones. And you still hear that piece of shit all the time.

Don’t Speak.

Ugh, makes me nauseous.

One good thing you can say about Billy Joel is that he hasn't recorded any new music in about 25 years, so we can all be thankful for that.

Meatball/Meatloaf won't do THAT for love???? What's THAT anyway?? I want to kick his fat ass!

Lol r128

I like Batdance but are you familiar with the song from which it was crafted, “200 Balloons”?

Tim Burton rejected 200B for the movie but Warner Brothers wanted a dance song so Prince sliced and diced 200B to create Batdance. 200B was included as the B Side of Batdance but wasn’t included on the album. Prince was quite fond of 200B and was happy that it got a release.

So Batdance makes more sense if you play it after 200B. It becomes more of a funky jam and sound collage (which it actually is) rather than a proper song (which it never was).

That stupid Rob Base song. Never understood why, after all these years, it still gets so much airplay. They wore it out when it first came out as it is.

Hallelujah, every single version

Zombie by The Cranberries

Anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Glad to hop in, r128. The answer is in the song, but it's so long that most people miss it. I'll give you an example. The first verse is:

I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact [italic]But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way[/italic] I would do anything for love, but I won't do that

And that's the structure of each verse throughout. "That" is whatever he said he wouldn't do in the line just before (e.g., "I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight," "I'll never do it better than I do it with you, so long, so long," "I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way," etc.), except for the end, when the girl finally comes into the song and he then directly responds to her accusations in the verses that precede each "I won't do that, no I won't do that."

But, again, the song pushes twelve minutes. It's easy to either get so annoyed by its length that you tune out, or so wrapped up in the song that it escapes your notice. (I myself can't listen to the full thing anymore without wanting to kill the guy.)

Eddie Murphy's piece of shit song "Party All The Time." It actually hit #2 on Billboard's Top 100 in 1985.

R33, I totally agree with you. I can’t stand Rod Stewart.

"If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago.

Agree with above, any song by the talentless Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The lead singer, Anthony Kiedis, is such a douche. As well as that nasty little Flea.

Hip Hop, all of it.

Barbie Girl

Who let the dogs out.

They were doing some “flashback” hour the other morning as I drive to work and it was fine until I heard that. Such an awful song.

“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”

—Nick Cave

I wasn't a big fan of the Red Hot Chil Peppers back in the 1990s, and now almost 30 years later KROQ and Alt 98.7 still can't get enough of them. They play them every half hour and I can't reach for the dial or preset buttons fast enough to change the channel.

Also at Alt 98.7, they keep playing Zombie every half hour, and when I hear that dead Dolores girl caterwauling "ZAH-AHMBEH! ZAH-AHMBEH! ZAH-AHMBEH-EH-EH OH-OH EHEHHEHHHH!!! my ears bleed. Why do they keep foisting this moldy old shit upon us?

Bob Seger - Old Time Rock n Roll

Anything by Elvis Costello

I agree about the Chili Peppers. You still hear their 90s shit played constantly, you would think it just came out. Awful.

[quote]I know some critic out there can argue that Hotel California is a great song and I realize that--I just think it's a complete idealization of California.

How does a song about drug addiction idealize an entire state?

Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. At least they got their wish, the world hasn't wanted to see them (or give them another hit) in 15 years

Torn by Natalie Imbruglia. I'd rather look at prolapsed hole photos while eating pasta than hear that song again...

"Happy Birthday to You."

Whenever we do these threads, John Cougar Mellencamp always gets several mentions. I fucking hate every one of his songs with the heat of a thousand suns.

Don’t Worry, Be Happy Friday

Sorry, that’s two separate songs....

I've got my mind set on you by George Harrison. i'm sure it's playing 24/7 in hell

R152 I agree. A horrendous song written for the sole purpose of torturing people’s ears.

Nessun Dorma

Il Volo

Con Te Partirò

Time To Say Goodbye

Memories from Cats

Anything by Peter Frampton or Ted Nugent

both sides now or clouds or whatever it is.....song you annoying bitch.

You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone

Woman in Red, don't know the name of the artist

Stop typing "Anything by," for God's sake! You're ruining this thread!

The Middle

This! Just stop it already.

The Chanukah Song. We get it, you are Jewish and cant stand it that other people celebrate Christmas with much more fun and a mountain of classic songs. Go smoke your Marajuanakah and stop boring us with Hanukah.

Single Lady, so so so overplayed.

For me Tomorrow wins hands down as the worst song ever written.

I hated from when I heard Andrea Mcardle sing it in previews of Annie at the Alvin and my hatred of it has only grown.

How any one can find it inspiring or adorable is something that defies any possible answer.

And I'm another one who gets depressed thinking about how close Billy Joel came to not being born. Piano Man makes me want to blow out the back of my head.

That atrocity "Look What You Made Me Do" by Taylor Swift.

Actually, pretty much anything by Taylor Swift.

Sorry r158

I fucking hate Piano Man. Hate. It.

[quote] It's just a BS song about how California is such a great place and bla bla bla.

Boy, have you ever got the wrong end of the stick, OP. It's an INDICTMENT of the place. Well, the famous, wealthy rug-addled Southern part of it, anyway. It's too well-crafted and tightly-arranged for me to hate it-I love the way the electric guitars mimic a silver band.. clever stuff. I also enjoyed Don Henley's getting PO'd at a female fan that took his line "she got the Mercedes Bends" as something other than intentional. What a stupid bitch (g).

I left "rug-addled" in place on purpose. I laughed so hard upon catching it that I decided to leave it in place.

If enough people haven't said so by now, the fact that OP doesn't nearly get what Hotel California is even about invalidates them asking the question.

Anything by Michael Jackson; had enough of that dead pedo.

Bohemian Rhapsody.

I think Queen is one of the best bands ever, and admit that this song is technically perfect in every way, but...

During the early 90s between Mercury dying and Wayne's World, it was overplayed to death. My show choir even performed it one year. I got soooooo fucking sick of it that even now--some 20 odd years later, I can't bear to listen to it. And it goes on forever, like Free Bird (another on my list).

Queen has so many good songs that get overlooked because of this. I also get irritated by people who claim to love the group, but can only name this song and maybe "We Will Rock You."

Joan Jett - I love rock n' roll or whatever it's called

Prince - 1999 (irrelevant)!

I really like this duo, but there was a lengthy period when this track was in 50% of movie trailers.

Usually to underscore what zany fun a boring dad was unwittingly responsible for. Or hijinks. Or some anonymous stupid shit. Anything, really.

My way, sung by anyone.

Also Heroes, by David Bowie, at least the single version though I like a couple of his live performances.

'Hotel California' is a song I admire rather than like. I acknowledge it's a well-written song, but I have no affection for it. But how could anyone who listens to the lyrics (and the whole tone of the song) come away thinking it's about how "California is such a great place"? I think even a 10-year-old would pick up on the lyric "but you can never leave" and the whole air of desperation and destructiveness about the song.

Bohemian Rhapsody. Detest Queen. Never ever got the appeal.

"Remember Me" - as 'sung' by Gael Garcia Bernal

I agree r163 Tomorrow is like nails on a chalkboard. It’s excruciating, and if I never hear it again it’ll be too soon.

Joey by Concrete Blonde. I heard that today. Had to change the station. Is the singer being strangled as she wails every lyric? I never want hear it again.

I have a visceral hatred of "Hotel California". I get you OP. I can't stand The Eagles. Though I love Joe Walsh's "Life Been Good". I was a teenager in the 90s. Nirvana and Radiohead made me hate boring classic rock!

Hotel California is a yawn, but ANY Billy Joel wants me to sledgehammer whatever sound system is blasting it.

Over the Rainbow. Enough.

"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"

I don't know why this thread isn't 200 replies all saying the same thing: "Sweet Caroline."

I know some have said it but it should be literally every reply here.

Doubling down on PIANO MAN.

And let's add THE SUMMER WIND.

Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" is the musical equivalent of Chinese water torture.

New York New York sung by Sinatra

My Way sung by Sinatra.

Please God never again.

Not sure how I did it, but I spent so many years doing what I can to avoid FM's Rumors, that I can now hear it again when it comes around and appreciate it.

R177 Johnette Napolitano is my Desert-Goddess Horse-Queen Lesbian-Grandmere, so you can take that the fuck back.

R180 I haven’t been able to take ‘Sweet Caroline’ seriously since Jon Moxley decided to victory lap one of his matches with it. It got freaky & hilarious, needless to say.

I think his captive audience were traumatised, and they’re indie wrestling fans so you know they’d seen some shit.

R185 why would torture me further? May piano man play on repeat while you do your groceries as punishment for posting that link.

Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)

Gotta disagree on Piano Man. A great song sung by someone who actually used intelligent lyrics instead of "baby, baby".

"Goodnight Saigon" beats "Piano Man" for sheer bombastic overkill and beat-you-over-the-head-with-it 'message.' There's a reason more subtle songwriters look down their snobby noses at Billy Joel.

R184 my highschool best friend who ghosted me when I hinted I was gay was a megafan of Fleetwood. I have never liked them anyway but I detested them after I realised she’d just dumped me (and possibly laughed at me behind my back).

There are so many other better bands with the spooky hippie country vibe. FM are just the safe easy-listening Cornflakes variety.

R184, there is no Fleetwood Mac song called 'Rumours' (they used the British spelling)--it's the name of the album. Do you detest the entire album?

Any song from Fiddler on the Roof.

I'd rather hear baby, baby than Piano Man.

I'd rather hear Afternoon Delight than Piano Man

I have nothing against the actual day, but I absolutely despise The Happy Birthday song. Always have. What a tuneless piece of crap!

I want to thank you fuckers for planting "Sweet Caroline" in my head all day.

Torture.

Band on the Run. Ugh. ENOUGH

[quote]Stop typing "Anything by," for God's sake! You're ruining this thread!

ANYTHING BY Olivia Newton-John. Do you think I leave them on long enough to know their names?

Anything by Britney Spears.

Hate her "sex robot" voice.

"Hallelujah" in any version - ENOUGH!!!!

r184 and r191 would rather jack - than Fleetwood Mac

There are probably at least a hundred songs I would never want to hear again. But here's a few of them:

"Magic Man" - Heart

"Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin

"Morning Train" - Sheena Easton

"Jack and Diane" - John Cougar Mellencamp

"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" - Rod Stewart

"Edge of Seventeen" - Stevie Nicks

You've Got a Friend

Over the Rainbow

You Light Up My Life

Material Girl. It was playing in a restroom last night as I was mid-piss. Glad it wasn't mid-shit.

I love Stevie, but I could also live without ever hearing "Edge Of Seventeen" again.

9 to 5

Sara - Starship

Up Where We Belong

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

True - Spandau Ballet

The Lady in Red

She Works Hard for the Money

Harden My Heart

Let's Dance

Down Under

Like a Virgin

Live to Tell

Express Yourself

Justify My Love

Everybody - Madonna

Borderline

Lucky Star

charlie daniels band

Papa Don't Preach

Taytay look what you made me do.

The only Madonna song I ever want to hear again is "Like a Prayer," but only the Glee version. Cory Monteith's voice still calls my semen maker to attention.

You're Having my Baby by Paul Anka The Lyrics, in part: Having my baby What a lovely way of saying How much you love me. Having my baby What a lovely way of saying What you're thinking of me.

“Feed the Birds” from Mary Poppins.

I’ve never even seen a Tuppence. And it’s hazardous to feed urban pigeons anyway.

So, R229, you thought since you never wanted to hear it again, that we would?

"Another Day in Paradise"

"The way it is " by Bruce Hornsby

Anything by Oasis.

"I think we're alone now" TIffany

"Anything By" by Anything By.

The OP's complete ignorance prompted me to load the Eagles' "Hotel California" album into my Spotify just so I could appreciate the brilliance of it again.

“Horse With No Name”.

I’ve always wondered why ‘Horse with No Name’ feels tired after about a dozen spins but ‘Ventura Highway’ does not.

I must have heard ‘Ventura’ a hundred times by now and each time I hear it anew feel compelled to sing. It still gets me welling up and sinking into the music. ‘Horse’ by contrast just sends me to sleep. Yet they’re practically almost the same..

I had sex with a hot guy as a teenager and "Horse..." was playing, Ever since then, the song gives me a chubby.

"Wonderful Christmastime" Paul Mc Cartney

Imagine

How many posters have already said this?

I may have r242. Can’t remember. But it’s the worst of the worst.

Rhiannon - bleck anything by Enya Thriller, or anything by that pedo Yellow Submarine (the bus to camp was hell) Koombyfucking ya (church was hell) Tiny Dancer (used to like it overplayed hell)

Sorry about the run on ^^^, I forgot to double space.

I also agree with the OP regarding the Eagles. They suck. They're also a bunch of assholes.

Puff, the Magic Dragon

"Give Me One Reason" by Tracy Chapman. That thing must have been played a million times when it came out. It was one of those nothing songs that for some unfathomable reason became a big hit.

r247 I like Tracey Chapman, but that song was utter shit. And yes, I remember it being played every five minutes.

All the single ladies

That song drove me nuts for months!

The song that was playing the first time I had sex

"WADR, you're an idiot."

I think that was the first line of the movie "FM".

Midnight at the oasis , sing your camel to bed.

Barf

Any of those 1960's story songs about The girlfriend dying in a 🚗 wreck.

Centerfold - J. Geils Band

Barry Manilow's "Copacabana"

***

His name was Rico

He wore a diamond

He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancing there

And when she finished, he called her over

But Rico went a bit to far

Tony sailed across the bar

And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two

There was blood and a single gun shot

But just who shot who?

B-17. Please, mister, please! If you know what I mean, I don't ever want to hear that song again.

"Endless Love" by Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross. It was the theme song to the execrable Brooke Shields movie of the same name. The movie was based on an interesting novel by Scott Spencer. He must have been mortified to see his creation so bastardized and mutilated by not only a horrendous movie, but a ghastly song as well.

Call Me Maybe, by Carlie Rae. It's annoying and has screetchy music. Awful.

All songs by Roxette. “We Built This City” by Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship or whatever they happen to be going by that day.

Celebration by Kool and Gang.

Dancing on the Ceiling.

Awww. I always thought Roxette was fun.

The Swedes are damn good at pop music.

"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes. God, that song was awful and it became a huge hit and got played to death.

"All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow. I hate that song and I hate Sheryl Crow's singing voice and I hate Sheryl Crow.

Anything by Madonna or Stevie Nicks, with their annoying adenoidal vocals. Still don't get how either of these women became famous. Image over talent I suppose.

Rupert Holmes is probably still living off the money he made from that piece of shit Pina Colada song.

Two pennies for a bag of crumbs. Was that expensive or a good deal? I mean was it worth all the shit Michael caused his father and the Bank of England?

R263 I completely agree. #metoo

‘Hundreds of Tears’ was a great song, R263, so you can kindly shut up about Sheryl.

‘Hundreds of Tears’ was a great song, [R263], so you can kindly shut up about Sheryl.

You can kindly fuck off. I don't know about "Hundreds of Tears" but I do know "All I Wanna Do" sucked. Although it was grating on the ears it became a big hit. But it caused some controversy, because when asked by David Letterman if the song was autobiographical Crow said “Uh, yes, actually. I’ve never lived there.” The second sentence is true. The first? Not so much. The title of the song was filched from a novel by John O'Brien. a friend of David Baerwald, who helped Crow write her songs. To hear her say the song was "autobiographical" really pissed off O'Brien, who knew the song title came from something HE created. O'Brien never got any credit for the song and later killed himself. Baerwald wrote a heartbroken piece for the L.A. Weekly accusing Crow of causing him to betray his friend. That song has some REALLY bad karma surrounding it.

Half a WW for r264.

i heard this gem on Sirius the other day. Never heard it before and glad i never did.

For the Crow haters, don't forget she also butchered Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Maker."

I hated her enough for "All I Wanna Do," but that was really the last straw.

I'm a crow hater. She really sucks.

R273, the worst song she sang was that song with Kid Rock. God, I remember how that song was overplayed in when I was in high school. The fact that she dated Kid Rock is another 50 points against her. I wish Liz Phair's career choices were different and she ended up popular instead of Crow.

I hear RHCP's 'Californication' every time I get in my brother's car, for some reason. I hate it.

The sad part is that I know it's a clever, interesting song (at least lyrically/vocally), and it's not the worst RHCP song either. It's just been played to death everywhere I go since I was a kid and now it grates on my nerves. It's too familiar to the point it's become boring & annoying. I appreciate the sentiment of it and why it became popular, though.

"Free Bird" by the Allman Brothers drives me crazy.

"We Built This City" by Starship or whatever.

"My Humps" by Black-Eyed Peas.

r82 ghost of John Lennon, is that you?

"Shape of You" and pretty much anything else by Ed Sheeran.

"Chandelier" by Sia. I actually like a lot of artists and acts whose voices are far from perfect (Bowie, for example) by there's something about her way of singing that makes me want to use chopsticks in order to pierce my eardrums.

"Fireworks" by Katy Perry.

Another vote for "Edge of Seventeen" and "Centerfold." The J. Geils Band is actually a pretty good blues/rockabilly outfit, but you'd never know it from that song.

I also vote for "Brown-Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison. If there is a heaven, this song will never be played there.

R278 Sia’s music is an abomination. I know people think she’s some kind of pop genius, but I just don’t see it.

R279 Brown eyed girl is right up there with some of the worst shit ever.

Wonderful Tonight by Clapton

E. Nuff.

"Free Bird" by the Allman Brothers drives me crazy."

"Free Bird" is by Lynyrd Skynyrd. I never could stand that song, either.

Billy Joel, in my opinion, produced lots of pap. He managed to pull off one amazing song, "And So It Goes."

That Despacito song. Incredibly popular but I loath it.

"Always and Forever" by Heatwave. One of the worst and most popular "play-at-the-wedding-reception" songs ever written.

"Lady" by Kenny Rogers

"You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker. ("...to ME. Everyone else thinks you're a toad.")

"Single Ladies" by Beyonce. I really gag when I hear her.

Hey Mickey, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Come On Eileen

the one with the "song" about judging a book by its cover

Sweet Home Alabama is the biggest piece of redneck shit ever produced and no one really listens to the lyrics and how offensive they are.

r289 is talking about a commercial for MasterCard.

(I've Had) The Time of My Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. I've always hated that song.

So true, that’s a huge stinker r292.

the one about salt water in the afternoon commercial.

[quote]the one about salt water in the afternoon commercial.

Is this sentence in Haiku?!

The moaning lesbian singing "Fast Car"

That fuckin' theme song from "The Sopranos"

"Bennie and the Jets"

"Forever Young" by Rod Stewart

Anything by Jefferson Starship

"Starry Starry Night"--oh fuck, I heard that thing last night

For r295. Not for R294.

Anything by Sugar Ray and Smash Mouth.

That godawful perfect song by bland Ed Sheeran.

Just about anything from the '90s.

I HATE that "Saltwater" song, horrible. What utter crap!

You Light Up My Life

"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" was used to good effect in the movie 'Get Out,' being mocked for being one of the 'whitest' songs ever recorded.

[quote]Sia’s music is an abomination. I know people think she’s some kind of pop genius, but I just don’t see it.

Me either. My friend loves her and insists I must too because I have more, um, discerning, tastes than the usual top-40 diva pop. But Christ on a cracker - she blows. He paid like $200 to see her in concert and I guess she sang while facing the back all while acrobats did all the visual entertaining. Pass.

Anything from that piece of shit EVITA.

I Will Always Love You. Mawkish whining.

Most of Donna Summer's catalogue: "Love To Love You Baby", "Hot Stuff", "She Works Hard For The Money", 'On The Radio." The latter is particularly stupid; some guy's letter falls out of his "old brown overcoat",and gets read "on the radio." WTF? It didn't make any fucking sense. Disco songs tend to be stupid and that one definitely was.

It's Raining Men

Anything sung by Julie Andrews. "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot.

Baby Baby by Amy Grant.

"Bitch" by Meredith Brooks

r311 you may never hear it again unless it's a 90s channel.

"Something To Talk About" by Bonnie Raitt. God, I hate that song. The person who wants to give them "something to talk about" sounds really stupid.

"Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. I think this awful song was the anthem for the 80s and the 80s sucked SO bad.

"At This Moment" by Billy Vera and the Beaters. A truly dreadful song that gained inexplicable popularity after it was featured on several episodes of "Family Ties."

Per 183, I do not like Frank Sinatras version of "New York, New York". Why don't they play Liza's version on New Years Eve? I love her version more than his.

He ruins it, R314, with his "a-number-one" stumbling.

R306, that isn't entirely fair. The original Dolly version is quite charming.

The screeching Whitney version, though...hell no. With you there.

My Pussy

"My Pussy."

I don't think that could be considered a "song." it's just some ho reciting the immortal words:"My neck, my back, lick my pussy and my crack."

Don't Be Cummin' on my Face

"I Know What Boys Like"

What a piece a crap.

Hold on, R309.

Before you issue your edict, have you heard "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald" sung by Julie Andrews? That could change everything for you.

R290, although I don't wish death to anyone, I have to admit I'm glad most of them were in that plane crash. All the bad music we have already is bad enough. Can you imagine it if they'd lived and gone on?

[quote] I don't think that could be considered a "song." it's just some ho reciting the immortal words:"My neck, my back, lick my pussy and my crack."

How dare you belittle Khia, the Shakespeare of Philadelphia!

"My Sharona" by the execrable band The Knack. For some reason the lead singer, a repulsive creep named Doug Fieger, liked to emit sounds that suggested he was having a large fist driven up his anus.

I've been revisiting the 1980s and it surprised me how much I didn't want to hear any Michael Jackson songs from that decade. As a kid I thought they were the most amazing thing ever but now looking back, there was nothing remarkable or deep about anything about them. They were popular because of how brilliant the videos were, not because they were very good or resonated.

Other songs I don't ever want to hear: Blurred Lines because yes, it is a rip off of Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up." And no, I'm not a muppet who jumped on the "they stole it" bandwagon because everyone else was saying it. I recognized "Got to Give It Up" as soon as I heard the song. I don't mind people drawing inspiration from others or sampling hooks and riffs. just don't act like a punk when people notice it.

MAH baby takes the mornin' TRAIN!

HE works from nine till five and THEN!

HE takes another home AGAIN!

TO find me waitin' for him!

r326: The JAP Anthem. Along with "We're All American Girls, And We Love The Life That we Lead"

Dear R321. Yes, as a matter of fact. She sang it for me last Wednesday, in my house, just after we had tea. I threw her the Fuck Out!!!

Pretty much everything by Donna Summer, except maybe "I Feel Love."

Crackling Rosie, along with most of Neil Diamond’s oeuvre.

I hate it when Sheryl Crow says "all i wanna do is hae some fun", "hae some fun"... arghhhh!!! Lady, there's a "V" in the word "have"! For Gods' sake, pronounce the damn thing already...

"Endless Love" by Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie

"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee

D'Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart

"Close To You' by The Carpenters

"Top of the World" by the Carpenters