Songs you HATE!!

Keep always in your heart that ours is the way of peace. This is the DataLounge. We do not hate in this house.

Ride, twenty one pilots.

Poker Face by CaCa is one of the all-time worst. This song makes me want to stab her in her face.

Beautiful Mistakes by Maroon 5

Don't Go Yet" wretched Camila Cabello song

All Adele songs

If I never hear "Is That All There Is?" again in my lifetime, happy I will be. It's almost worse than "You Light Up My Life," but I don't hear that one as often.

R4 that Peggy Lee song is an afterthought so I doubt you’ll hear it unless you’re an an old gays party.

Old Time Rock n Roll. I hear that opening piano intro and I can’t hit scan on the radio fast enough.

Get Here by Oleta Adams.

MEMO TO THE REST OF THE WORLD:

Do NOT perform this song in front of OP. He has stated his boundaries. Please respect them.

I have stated his boundaries again, rest of the world.

That one by Taylor Swift where she makes literary allusions to Romeo & Juliet and The Scarlet Letter, which are completely in antithesis to their real meaning.

"What a Wonderful World" is too saccharine for me. Everything about it is emotionally manipulative. But, 99% of humans go for that.

This triggers me.

Treat You Better by Sean Mendes. Anything by Jason Mraz. That clappy happy go lucky sounding acoustic pop I don't know who the target audience is but I know white women with big hats are a part of it and I want them all dead

This will probably get me banned around these parts, but Whitney's "I Will Always Love You" from "The Bodyguard" has me and my eardrums heading for the hills.

I hate almost all Bryan Adams songs. Especially "Everything I do, I do it for you". Fucking hate this piece of shit song.

"Candle in the Wind" - both versions. It embarrasses me on Elton's behalf to hear it.

Caribbean Queen

Don’t Worry, Be Happy makes me both worried and unhappy

I concur with "What A Wonderful World". Ugly melody.

[quote] This will probably get me banned around these parts, but Whitney's "I Will Always Love You" from "The Bodyguard" has me and my eardrums heading for the hills.

I Love Dolly's beautiful simple version better.

Christmas Shoes! Overwrought singing, cloying lyrics, phony story.

Cher - If I could turn back time. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

Her other hits are not much better. The ridiculous Shoop Shoop Song, Believe or Strong Enough.

Best Day Of My Life by American Authors.

Don't Fear the Reaper. So fucking bad.

The Greatest Love of All

American Pie

Man in the Mirror - except it is easy to write parodies of it.

God Bless the USA

Thanks for bringing up Man in the Mirror! So fucking vain. Can't believe that motherfucker had imagery of himself alongside Ghandi and MLK Jr in the video.

Many twisted knickers among you gurls today.

-R1- surely did get twitter-pated over a song!!!

Baby, You're a Firework (or whatever it's called)

R28, my pleasure.

R28, My pleasure.

“Hello, it’s ME!”

All songs by Black Eyed Peas.

Born In The USA

At one point I hated Neil Diamond because I heard his songs repeatedly as a kid and some were just so corny and vaudevillian. However, over time I've come to appreciate him and his talents even if I balk at some of his tunes (Song Sung Blue.)

Sorry for double-post

" I dont want to miss a thing" by Aerosmith. Overplayed, sappy, Aerosmith lost its balls forever this one.

"My heart will go on"...on the same vein as the former, any 90s teen know of the torture inflicted on all of us by the lunatical overplayment of this sappy, nothing song.

"Two princes" probably the worst of them all because it was overplayed like the othersbut also annoying even if you listened to it once.

HM to "Imagine" by Lennon. Even though I think he 100% had good intentions with the song, I don't love what some of those lyrics are actually saying and feel they verge on a weird utopian totalitarian ideal that quite frankly gives me the jeebie geebies (the ideal world isn't a world without differences and divisions, but about love and peace in spite of them)

How about “What A Wonderful World” covered by a breathy chanteuse strumming a ukulele at a married couples wedding reception first dance in a barn with a donut wall? How’s that sound?

What the World Needs Now Is Love-🤢

I am woman-🤢

All I want for Christmas (is you)-🤢

ALL power balads-🤢

There's a lot more to cover but this is a good start.

This song sends me into a rage. It’s the most contrived bullshit I’ve ever heard that takes every sappy cliche and rolls it into a 3 minute shitfest.

Makes me SICK

I think "What a wonderful world" it a pretty song but overused in funerals and in a sarcastic way, like with hunger and war images. Same with "Over the rainbow" ( sorry Judy troll).

R39, My Heart Will Go On, yes a thousand times. Agree with your sentiments regarding Imagine as well.

R43, yes, but “Rainbow” at least acknowledges things aren’t so rosy.

HATE

Brenda Lee - Rockin Around the Christmas Tree - horrid

R43 I think of Louis Armstrong who couldn’t sing and only croaked

All I want for Xmas is you

I like to believe that Toni Basil's "Hey Mickey" was the leading cause of dropouts in the 80s

R34 Couldn't disagree more. I think Todd Rundgren is one of the most underated talents of the rock era. In fact, I even like the earlier version he did.

99% of Weird Al songs.

This fucking song…..THIS fucking song.

The only version of "It's a Wonderful World" that I liked was the one cut by Joey Ramone just before he died. The guitars and Ramone's mumbling kind of drown out the lyrics.

Anything by Katy Perry. I don't think shes made a song I like.

The Golden Girls theme.

It always irked me that it didn't mesh with the show.

Roar by Katy Perry, her artistic nadir. It's so harsh and off-key sounding, like listening to a child belt out a song without trying to stay in tune. Horrible song.

Agree R47! When that No Rain by Blind Melon (stupid fucking band name) was getting radio raped, if it came on my friend and I would sing, "All I can say, is that this song is really lame . . . "

R58, how does the theme not mesh with the show...?

R54, I think they were referring to Adele.

That song about Tubthumping, but it’s gotta catchy hook.

Total eclipse of the heart

Rockabye

I Got A Feeling

Walking on sunshine

The Proclaimers 500 Miles. Audio equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

Here and Now, Luther Vandross. Everyone straight black wedding played this sappy, odious song for decades.

Enough.

"Every Morning" by Sugar Ray. Ugh!

R51 What! What the hell is wrong with you!

Everybody Have Fun Tonight.

CROSS THE NATION, AROUND THE WORLD!

r61 it's a bargain bin one size fits all theme that seems more of an afterthought.

Neither the style of music, the voice of the singer nor the lyrics fit with the show. . . it is not the soundtrack of their lives.

Happy Birthday To You. It's always sung in a minor key, flat, and too slow. I hate it.

R65

Love Story by Taylor Swift. "You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess...."

So asinine

R77 See R9

SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY 😩

Pander This Way... I mean Born This Way. THE WORST!

Money for Nothing by Dire Straights, I mean, Straits is at the top of my list.

I hated it so.....much....flames.....on the sides of my face.......

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

That one about being in shallow water, whatever it’s called.

Like a Virgin. Always hated that screechy song.

[donning bulletproof vest] Whitney's "The Greatest Love of All" has always been the most disjointed, incoherent, and manipulative song I've ever heard. Children are the future...never walk in anyone's shadow...they can't take away my dignity. How on earth are those cliches linked into something meaningful?? Oh! Because love is happening in me! Got it. NOT. Sounds like something written by a computer that had been programmed with three centuries of bad poetry.

I love love love the song R82 mentioned!

Love it!

So much!

YASSSSSS

Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller.

“Amazing Grace”. Especially with bagpipes.

No matter what else may happen, r87, I do NOT want "Amazing Grace" played at my funeral.

I’ve got friends in low places by Garth brooks

The ultimate redneck song

R88 At the height of the AIDS deaths and burials my brother DID NOT WANT Wings Beneath My Wings played for his memorial, it still was.

R25, one more vote for that piece of shit 'American Pie'.

Imagine is so overdone I hate it now.

This is a great DL thread. For once we are united by our repulsion at insipid and and/or annoying songs.

'Those Were The Days' by Mary Hopkin. Horrible....just fucking horrible!

Can’t stand Bohemian Rhapsody. Or practically anything else by Queen.

“Hallelujah”. In any version. Ugh!

R96 You beat me to it.

Any version of this except Cohen and Buckley.

It’s so misunderstood. It’s about the ups and downs of a romantic relationship using Biblical imagery. That was at least Buckley’s interpretation of the song and the verses he plucked from the Cohen version.

People treat this like a Christmas song, they play it at funerals and for sick relatives and I’ve always been puzzled cause it’s mostly about sex.

[quote] All songs by Black Eyed Peas

R35, with this montrosity being the worst offender of the bunch. And that's saying a lot!!!!!!!!!!!

The mature Hanson doing MMMBop is fabulous R51. Who cares about the words. Can’t bear David Bowie and his yowling on Star Man or whatever it’s called - MMMBop makes more sense.

Free Fallin’

R99 You have so many relationships in this life Only one or two will last You go through all the pain and strife Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast And they're gone so fast, yeah Oh, so hold onto the ones who really care In the end they'll be the only ones there And when you get old and start losing your hair Can you tell me who will still care?

Plant a seed, plant a flower, plant a rose You can plant any one of those Keep planting to find out which one grows It's a secret no one knows

I mean come on, it’s a pretty good message from 3 teenage boys. They wrote it.

I would add k.d. lang's version of Hallelujah. It's my favorite.

But yes, the sudden explosion of popularity is mystifying and when they have children's choirs singing it it's especially WTFery - uh, has no one actually listened to the lyrics.

Oh fuck I hate when DL doesn’t let me paste line for line!

“Smooth” by Santana and Rob Thomas.

I have PTSD from this stupid song being CONSTANTLY played Everywhere about 20 years ago. I can’t stand Rob Thomas’s o-ver-e-nun-ci-a-ting every word like a British person trying to fake an American accent.

R102 No they just hear hallelujah!

But like … There was a time when you’d let me know What’s really going on below Oh but now you never show it to me do ya? Oh but remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Cue tears in the church and the holiday bells ringing

I can’t believe people don’t think it’s about sex lol

I turned my YouTube settings to incognito so I could look this up because I don’t want them to start suggesting other Gaga titles in the future BUT, this has got to be the worst of her lot. Pretentious, try-hard, lyrics that make you want to punch her in the face, it has everything really.

R110, the Charlie Hides parody is much better.

"Shallow" by Gaga. Or is it "In the Shallow?"

Another "Hallelujah" hater

R94 I love the All In The Family theme with Edith Bunker

This one is for the Eldergays: "King of the Road"

r124 but that's easily countered with

Candle on the fucking wind!!!!!! All I see through my rage is Elton john in his stupid wig singing at lady Diana funeral !!!! But he so Cleverly reimagined the name to English fucking rose

Another vote for Whitney I will always love you….. the words …. Her vibrato …. Like a pigeon struggling to get out of her throat

I think if that American idol judge — the black guy randy? Who morphs from fat to thinner at regular intervals ….. I just see him saying “A LITTLE PITCHY”

R125 What a sheltered life I've led! I've never seen or heard that before.

There a few, but one came up as background music I couldn't avoid lately: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Darude - Sandstorm

R128 Just had a great idea for a drag show:

Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald

I used to like Hallelujah but it's so overdone now

This group plagued late night infomercials across the world... it was probably a more effective gimmick than vying for a shot at music video channels as the group, the song and their history has been burned into memory.

Steve Miller Band's "The Joker". Repetitive, slow, goofy shit.

"Nah, nah, nah, nonnah nah nah, nonnah nah nah, HEY, JUDE!"

Although most of my favorite songs are from the 90s, still there has been horrible/annoying songs made on that decade:

"Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows

"What's Up?" - 4-Non Blondes

"Two Princes" - Spin Doctors

"More Than Words" - Extreme

"Wild Wild West" - Will Smith

"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" - Aerosmith

"I'll Be Missing You" - Puff Daddy

"You Are Not Alone" - Michael Jackson

Love Will Keep Us Together

Skeeter Davis - The end of the world

Since we're going there R135

r140

Hey Jude

R146 Love Vengaboys

Personally, I find it hard to hate sentimental songs from the 40's and 50's. It was a totally different world then. Not the horrible hellscape it is now.

Point Me, In the Direction of Albuquerque

All of Me by John Legend. He has a great voice but that song just irks me.

Without You (both versions). Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey's

Easy on Me by Adele, I run as fast as I can to the radio to shut that shit off.

ALL Britney Spears songs.

ALL Sheryl Crowe songs.

ALL Paula Cole songs.

R152, in the 40s or 50s you would have been considered a mentally ill freakshow

I Don’t Want to Wait R156

Baby Bop's debut. I hated it then and I hate it now

R157, that was even worse than Where have all the Cowboys Gone. Quite the accomplishment since that song was terrible too.

I hate anything by Taylor Swift. There’s something about her that just makes you want to smack her around, but I’m not sure why exactly. Maybe it’s her fakeness.

I swear

“Gahasa Sa Puki” by Ogie Alcasid

We Are The World.

As imperfect as “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is, it was spontaneous and well-meaning. Bob Geldof showed up to the US recording session and was appalled at the huge, lavish food and drink buffet for the performers whereas the UK version video shows the singers arriving hung over and looking like shit. WATW is a terrible song and is beyond derivative.

Just love how some sad; little troll can diagnose someone based off of three short sentences.

Diana Ross & Lionel Richie's 'Endless Love'. NAUSEATING.

What's Up? by 4 Non Blondes (God, that screechy, howling lead vocal...I just can't.)

Three Times a Lady by The Commodores (Lionel Richie doesn't write lyrics, he just strings together well-worn cliches. Badly, in this case. And I lu-ooo-uv yoooou. I lu-ooo-u-ooo-uv yoooou).

What I Am by Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians ("Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep" and "What I am is what I am is what you are or what" are terrible lyrics that you can tell she thought were brilliant, because she repeats them over and over and over and over again.) Thank you Paul Simon for marrying this shrew and sparing the world from ever having to hear from her again.

Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder (to paraphrase Whitney Houston, I don't know why I hate it, I just do).

Love BG and CC, and even love The War Song (despite its dumb chorus.....the video makes me sob at the end)

But this shiteous tune is the exception to my love.

Ok, I don’t hate Walk on the Wild Side. It reminds me of my childhood.

R171, and then to add insult to injury, that fucking Mariah Carey & Luther Vandross decided to violently assault us with the BS all over again 15 years later!!!

Bennie and the Jets. All it takes are those plodding opening notes and I fly into a rage.

R171 I like the beginning of Endless Love. There's some nice emotion to it.

It's about 2/3rds of the way through when it becomes a total screechfest and Diana and Lionel try to outdiva each other that it collapses under its own weight.

'You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore ' by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond. Two "artists" who's catalogs are filled to the brim with cheesy, overblown, saccharine pieces of shit!

With You I'm Born Again was another song that started out nicely, lovely, beautifully and 2/3rds of the way through, both singers started to screech at/over top of each other.

What makes What A Wonderful World a good record (not a song, a record) is Louie Armstrong's beautiful vocal. But you wouldn't understand that, OP.

I say "Louie" because that was Louis Armstrong's stage name even if only fans and his WIFE called him that.

R180 I guess beauty is in the ear. That song is awful.

All songs by the most PAINT BY NUMBER artist of all time, Lady Gaga. Especially because of psychotic antics like this... having someone puke on you, live on stage, while trying to sell it as "high art".

No, you're just a deranged try-hard and wannabe.

"Love Soft As An Easy Chair"..........OH FUCK OFF!!!!!!

I can only stomach Babs when she's "singing" a jazzy standard ('When The Sun Comes Out', etc) or something with rhythm and a heavy backbeat ('Guilty'). She's UNBEARABLE on slow, saccharine, rhythmless Pop Ballads. But unfortunately slow, saccharine, rhythmless Pop Ballads are what she's known for and what her fans love the most. 🤢

"All songs by the most PAINT BY NUMBER artist of all time, Lady Gaga. Especially because of psychotic antics like this... having someone puke on you, live on stage, while trying to sell it as "high art"."

Calling someone "psychotic" because of an onstage stunt that harmed no one....

I seem to have the problem of hating the song a band or artist becomes famous for.... more so when I've been a long time fan.

"Sing" by The Carpenters

The Carpenters always had a "saccharine" problem, but this one, with its cloying, sing-song-y melody and trite, nursery rhyme lyrics, amps the saccharine up to historic levels. And that's before the children's choir kicks in and immediately gives you cancer.

We had to sing “love, soft as an easy chair” in 6th grade choir.

Hate “Gettin’ Jiggy With It” and “Livin’ la Vida Loca”.

Vengaboys reminds me of 1999, and how we had know idea that the world would shortly turn to shit I. The new millennium. “Happiness is just around the corner” indeed.

Turn to shit in the new millennium, that is.

That thing by BonJovi about being a cowboy riding a steel horse. WTF? He tried to write an outlaw song and it's awful.

we built this city by jefferson airplane starship ufo thingee. what a hunk of crap!

You spin me round ...

Celebration by Kool and the Gang

I loathe this song! It makes my skin crawl every time it comes on over a store's loudspeaker.

I like the Wallflowers, but not this song or video.

You Light up my Life

Billy Don’t Be a Hero

Me and You and some dog named Boo

R190 I don't hate that song but as a lifelong EBTG fan it sort of bums me out that most people only know them for that. They have SO much good music, together and solo.

The theme song for ALICE - the sitcom.

^ WTF....some of my best goddamn scatting!

Of all the dreadful songs in the world and the OP hates "It's A Wonderful World?" What a twit.

Crocodile Rock,EltonJohn A Boy Named Sue, Johnny Cash Tie A Yellow Ribbon, Tony Orlando

This version of Make Me Say it Again. Soon as I heard her voice when the song came on the radio I legitimately got mad as hell.

Almost crashed my car.

"Let the River Run" by Carly Simon. I love Simon and all her music (have all her CDs) but when this song comes on my CD player in the car, I want to drive off the road. I can't hit skip fast enough. Never liked it since it first came out in 1988 (probably because I hated the movie).

This abortion of a song

R7 – oh no I love that Oleta Adams song. Moving right along. The Cars totally suck. Also, “We are the World we are the children” puke fuck off. The Eagles vanilla vanilla vanilla same same same. R16 – oh no, I love Caribbean Queen. R17 – that is hilarious. R25 – Yes American Pie kill me now. R39 spot on. Journey how embarrassing I liked them. R56 – thanks for reminding me I hate that song too. R74 – no I love Linger. R90 Hate Wind Beneath My Wings.

It Flames, FLAMES, ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE!

Don’t speak - No Doubt

To be with you - Mr Big

John Lennon's "Imagine". It's stupid and cheesy and the fact that it's played after every terrorist attack in the world makes it even worse!

Anything that doesn’t showcase our lord and savior Jesus Christ

Jesus take the wheel

Smokie - Living Next Door to Alice

New Girl in Town

Anything by Madonna released after 1999. Also, any quasi-rap song of the 21st century, with lazy sampling.

"Cat's in the Cradle" I find incredibly depressing. You don't hear it as much, but also "One Tin Soldier."

Afternoon Delight…can’t believe that this 💩 of a song won a Grammy award.

[quote]Anything by Madonna

Fixed.

This steaming turd of a song

This one made me think there should be federal laws passed against anyone ever covering a Joni Mitchell song. Because so many versions are so shiteous. But this one in particular is fucking dreadful.

In the Air Tonight, I hate that damned song. I'm not Lisa Afternoon delight Too many more to list!

[quote] I'm not Lisa

Huh?

Second 'Two Princes' (which will now play in my head for the rest of the day, guaranteed.)

Speaking of that vein of aural atrocities....

The early 90s just had a lot of shit.

Did "Two Princes" and "What's Up?" get played a lot during the '90s, and that's why people hate them? I only discovered them recently, here in these DL music threads, and I like both songs, "What's Up?" in particular.

“Brown Eyed Girl,” but maybe that’s because I hate the singer who drops the “l” from “girl.”

I LOATHE that song "What Wonderful World" with a passion I can't describe!!

Hate IT!!

R246 yes. Yes they were. Ad naseum. I remember hearing "2 princes" on 3 different stations at the same time.

Only basic bitches would love those songs.

That insipid Disney love song A WHOLE NEW WORLD…still stings that this won the Best Song Oscar over I HAVE NOTHING. I never cared for Peabo Bryson’s nasally voice, but this song cuts it. So sappy and terrible.

Pump Up The Jam- terrible high school memories escape their graves when I hear this one.

What's that damn song by Fergie with "It's got nothing to do with you. Just me, myself and I" and something about a child missing his blanket? That one.

And, since we're heading into the Christmas season, "Christmastime is Here"! I say this after loving "Peanuts" and those specials since I was a kid. So sickening sweet, cloying, and overplayed. I don't remember Christmas ever being like what is described in that damn song.

Yes, R246. Two Princes still gets plenty of airplay on those music systems they play for stores.

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r152

To R257, I agree with you, I could never HATE the "Charlie Brown Music"

Even when I was in foster care in Central Penna, and on Xmas day I was the gift for the foster dad& his older bro Hugh. Charlie Brown Christmas music was playing in my 12 yr old head. BTW, I survived.

The horrid "Tell Him" by Dion and Streisand. It's sounds more like a funeral dirge than anything else.

R204 yup that one is one of the worst songs ever.

Folks, there's a difference between songs you're sick of because they have been overplayed and songs you always hated.

Always hated: "Moves Like Jagger"

Sick of: Any chart hit of The Eagles.

R253 meet R142

That song by Sam Smith.

[quote]Second 'Two Princes' (which will now play in my head for the rest of the day, guaranteed.)

r243 's version of hell...

R262 I have several contributions to this thread and I have always loathed each and every one of them.

And here's another hated, dreadful screechfest.

So much hate for Two Princes.

R255 HOW DARE YOU mention Vince Guaraldi's gorgeous 'Christmas Time Is Here' before THIS piece of shit is even mentioned here!!!

I will always love you - Whitney Houston’s version

Plus Greatest love of all

R202 go jump in the toilet!

Popsicle Toes.

R220 worst 90s song.

Midnight at the Oasis. it's like a herd of cats scratching up and down a blackboard while screeching at each other

Muskrat Love.. I can't believe someone not High on 70's LSD wrote that song. I wanted to murder the muskrats (all of them).

Because it was already mentioned in at least two of the 254 posts before mine, R269 .

Jack and Diane - John Mellencamp

Magic Man - Heart

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Close To You, Please Mr. Postman, Merry Christmas, Darling - The Carpenters

Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman

All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow

Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin

My Ding A Ling - Chuck Berry

That chicken fried song. “Cold beer on a Frah-day nayt.” I was at a gay bar one time and some little twink sang that on karaoke. And this wasn’t even in a redneck area.

I agree with Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Free Bird'.

However I love the match-up with 'Baby I Love Your Way' by Will to Power. (Supposedly they wanted Whitney Houston to record this back in 1987 and she refused, so they did it themselves and had a hit with it).

I loathe that version R278 mentioned.

(Sorry, toots. Nothing personal.)

Disagree with whoever posted Reaper that song is great.

I would say Shake It Off by Taylor Swift gives me hives.

"Haters gonna hate hate hate!"

Grow up.

r280

Funky town, Born to Be Alive, and all tunes created by this group

[quote]HOW DARE YOU mention Vince Guaraldi's gorgeous 'Christmas Time Is Here' before THIS piece of shit is even mentioned here!!!

I like them both, but the latter has been overplayed to death. It's the modern-day Bing Crosby version of "White Christmas."

Reminded by someone posting about this one.

One of the earliest songs, now commonplace, where it feels so devoid of any creativity. I can't tell if this is a pop song or a jingle for a commercial promoting a feminine hygiene product.

[quote]I can't tell if this is a pop song or a jingle for a commercial promoting a feminine hygiene product.

Same could be said of this ditty.

My Way - any version, anywhere. Usually sung at karaoke or at anniversary partis by drunk delusional men who imagine themselves as having lived life on their own terms. Fuck them.

Not even remotely, R285. Not when it was originally released.

(But it's been used as an ad often since, as have several other songs that have been cheapened by overuse in that way.)

R287 I meant it primarily as a joke as in a tampon "stuck in the middle of you."

LOL R288. I missed that entirely.

"Fame" by Irene Cara.

There...I said it. Never liked this song when it was played non-stop in 1980, and all the kids would sing it in the halls of high school (junior year).

I did like 'Out Here On My Own' and loved 'Flashdance...What A Feelin'

All About That Bass

Hated this song so, so SO much.

I accidentally bought the 45 (it was in the wrong slot at the record store) and it was so terrible that rather than return it I smashed it into pieces!

I hate reggae - sorry, just don't like the repetition of it.

This was on the UK station I listened to in the 80s and I loathed this.

Walk Like An Egyptian by The Bangles. Most of The Beatles songbook. Zombie Nation by Kernkraft 400 (and all other "jock jams"). And THIS...

This shitty song, her accent is so overdone I thought it was a parody.

"You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morrissette. Spoiled, privileged screeching that would send a Yoko Ono fan diving for the earplugs. You can't believe that a man could want to fuck any woman but you? You're that special? No, honey. You're a tantruming toddler, and pussies are a dime a dozen.

^ Because no one ever wrote a song complaining about a cheating partner before....

Immediately change the station when the first note hits. Every time.

money for nothing.. dire straits

Livin' on a Prayer

Already mentioned r299

But I'll add pretty much the entire Dire Straits catalog......

R300 Half way there!

Desert Rose, Sting

I hate everything about this song (music, lyrics, video, vocals, you name it), but what I hate most is the whole idea behind it, which boils down to:

Ooooooh, we're so cool and edgy, we're actually out on the town! In the city! At NIGHT! All kinds of CRAZY THINGS happen in the city at night, and here we are in the middle of it all! Because we're...

RUNNIN' WITH THE NIGHT!!!!!!

Moo-riah's Christmas song.

R288, I LOVE that song!

Mariah's Honey is another song I hate. Before this song, she sang well but this song is the first one where she started sounding really off-key and warbly. And it's weird she's singing about something very sexual yet there's 0 hint of sexiness in the song.

The moment Mariah went into hip hop ho mode, I liked her a little bit less than I did before. Still one of my favorite voices though. But I have to cherry pick the stuff I like post-MUSIC BOX.

I hate every Mariah song ever. Only basic bitches love her shit and shit like Celine Dion and Shania Twain.

I hate people who use the term ‘basic bitches’.

So 2019.

And it won’t stop me from listening to Mariah or any of Celine’s earlier stuff. You can have Shania, though.

R310 = the most basic of basic bitches

R304 agree.

That Lionel song wanted to convey all the cool that this song does with a similar idea.

R311 = the 💩 that comes out of this basic bitch’s ass!

R313 I'm sorry about the raging grease fire that burned every bit of taste out of your mouth.

But you have no taste yourself r314.

I Can't Feel My Face

Party in the USA

Easy on Me by Adelle

What a Wonderful World

Don't Stop Believing

Mambo nr 5

Anything Robyn released after "Show me Love"

I don't hate songs like "Mambo # 5" or "Party in the USA." I consider them disposable pop songs. Cute for a while, but you don't want to hear them thereafter. Katy Perry is the Queen of disposable pop to me.

Any Beyonce song that sounds like she recorded with a marching band in the background.

Imagine, by John Lennon. Horrible piece of garbage.

Hey R51 - listen to Alex Melton's version of that song on YouTube. It might change your mind plus he's kinda cute so there's that.

R324 Always hated "Imagine," even more so when I grew up and understood that it's really extolling the virtues of communism -- how rich coming from like Lennon who loved his money and the material things and privileges it provided.

Live Like You Were Dying by Tim McGraw

r324 and r326 I remember "Imagine" being introduced on the radio sometime in the 1970s, the deejay starting with "Imagine John Lennon playing this on anything less than his $50,000 Bosendorfer."

Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus and most stuff by Bryan Adams, but ESPECIALLY Have you ever really loved a woman? & Summer of '69.

Puff the Magic Dragon is another I find incredibly depressing.

Thunder, Th-th-thunder…lightning and the thunder.

That reminds me....ALL Imagine Dragon songs. Completely bland radio hits. Imagine Dragons featuring Maroon 5 would be a song from hell.

I don’t know if it’s a new song or an new TikTok meme, but a song by Megan Trainer about not wearing Gucci and being naked.

Theme from Angie.

Rihanna's new song Lift Me Up. It's too sad and slow.

[quote] Imagine, by John Lennon. Horrible piece of garbage.

I hated his "Happy Christman (War Is Over)" a lot worse than "Imagine." I dislike both songs a lot but at least "Imagine" doesn't have Yoko Ono "singing" on it.

To all the people who hate “Whats Up”, do you guys remember the rave dance remix they used to play on the radio?

Yes, r337. And I like that one better.

R338 They were both awful.

Billy Joel. Pick one.

R340, it has to be Piano Man. Loathsome.

Santa's Coming for Us, by Sia. She sounds like an adolescent girl trying to scream her way out of an escape room.

Any Sia song qualifies really. That voice is repulsive.

Waiting For Tonight, by JLO. Mediocre song that’s gotten too much airplay.

The spoken intro version of Michael Jackson’s “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” was creepy AF. The radio version with the non-vocal fade-in was fine.

You are Not Alone by MJ is creepy and the music video is even worse. It's creepy camp.

"I Love You More Today Than Yesterday"

Both The Spiral Staircase's original and Diana Ross's cover versions!

This bullshit and any other sad excuse for rap from Aussie "rappers" who think growing up in the bush makes them "hood."

How many "hoods" are in Australia, Iggy?? How many koalas doing drive-bys on hoes?

"Kokomo" by the Beach Boys. Loathe it. Who liked that shitty song? It was a big hit.

This.

^But I loved it in Serial Mom when she beats the woman to death with the leg of lamb because she didn’t rewind.

......

R352 LOL. Diane Warren has written a lot of middling crap through the years.

Edith Whiskers version of Home

My Sharona

I'd forgotten about "My Sharona", but I loathed that song, too. The guy in that shitty group "The Knack" who wrote and sang it was a a repulisve little creep named Doug Fieger. The "Sharona" in the song was his fugly girlfriend. "The Knack" had one big hit song and that was it. Fieger s;ongs were nasty, mysogynist garbage andhe frequently sang like he was getting a fist rammed up his asshole ("UH! UH! UH!"). Subsequent efforts by "The Knack" were savaged by music critics and "The Knack" went straight into the toilet. Fieger's career faded quickly, but I guess he made enough to live on with that one big hit. He died at 57 of cancer. It was no great loss to the music world.

R356, I still loate that song.

R356, also, I think they stole from Killing Joke.

For Your Love by Stevie Wonder.

Set The Night to Music by Roberta Flack and Maxi Priest.

Single Ladies by She Who Shall Not Be Named

Anything by One Direction

Song Sung Blue. Nothing is worse.

We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel.

Omg R360! I forgot about that monstrosity!!

I can’t believe I did not contribute these Neil Diamond songs sooner:

America Cracklin’ Rosie Hello

Pretty much his whole oeuvre. His voice grates.

I was reminded of this detestable song from the thread about songs with "morning" in the title, the execrable "Morning Train" by Sheena Easton:

MAH baby takes the morming TRAIN

He works from nine til five and THEN

He takes another home AGAIN

To find me waiting for him!

Please forgive me, but this song really grates on me.

That Dire Straits song that has a line about "...a little faggot with an earring..."

I hate it so much that I've effectively banished the song name from my memory!

"I Just Called to Say I Love You", Stevie Wonder

Every Maroon 5 song from "Moves Like Jagger", onwards.

"Dilemma", Nelly and Kelly Rowland. This song was blasted constantly in the 00s. All the time. Always.

"Big Girls Don't Cry", Fergie.

I don't dislike "What a Wonderful World" because honestly -- how do you hate anything that Louis Armstrong does? I do dislike the facile use of it as a way to show some deeper emotion, usually used by shallow people. Also in this category, "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Iz (to the point that now many people think his initially charming, then increasingly grating, phrasing is better), "At Last" by Etta James at weddings. All of those songs beloved by "wine o'clock moms" who wish to be seen as soulful. Blergh.

Sweet Caroline

Muskrat Love.

Born This Way

Mr. Bojangles

Kenny G’s insipid crap

Imagine

Admiral Halsey — actually, all songs by Wings

Anything by The Go-Go's.

Anything by The Bangles.

R64 listed the four songs I was going to list. We must be soul mates.

Simply having a wonderful Xmas time by that fat ex Beatle.

Fuck you, OP.

Sorry, Donna...

I’ve been to Paradise (but I’ve never been to me)

My Heart Will Gone On and On

I Hope You Dance by LeeAnn Womack

Glad nobody mentionin' my jams.

Livin On A Prayer, You Give Love a Bad Name and Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi.. Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are the Champions and Another One Bites the Dust by Queen. All songs that became insufferable because classic rock radio plays them to death.

Spiral Staircase's "I Love You More Today Than Yesterday."

Anything from Kings of Leon. (gosh, I truly hated their songs back when they were popular).

Anything from Coldplay.

I think that age has alot to do with this. Sometimes one can tolerate a tune more if they weren't alive during the time in which it was played to death on the radio for what seems like forever.

For instance.......to my ears Starland Vocal Band's 'Afternoon Delight' is a pleasant piece of 70s Country Pop with a great production and gorgeous harmonies. But (fortunately for me) I wasn't yet born in 1976 when it first hit and was most likely played a sickening amount of times on every Pop Radio station in America. So I can still enjoy the song for what it is.

I can't think of a particular song, but man I HATE classic rock. I HATE it so much that I refuse to patronize an establishment that plays classic rock. Last summer, we went to this rooftop restaurant by a nice little river and all that played over the speakers was classic rock.

I'll never go back.

Rap

mony mony by billy idol because everyone interjects "hey guess what? get laid, get fucked" into it.

'You light up my life" Debbie Boone- you could not escape it in 1977. If you heave never heard it- consider yourself fortunate.