Songs you could happy live never hearing again

Should be "happily".

The Star Spangled Banner. We need a new national anthem.

Frank Sinatra, especially My Way and New York New York.

The Ballad of Jack and Diane

Love Shack, Blinded by the Light, Jessie's Girl, Yeah!, Don't Fear the Reaper, Even Flow

Ring my Bell - Anita Ward

Knock on Wood- Ami Stewart

Island Girl- Elton John

Love Shack

r3, Frank Shinottra can kish my A-number one ashh.

To me, Jimmy Page’s guitar solo in Stairway is so transcendent that the rest of the song is (sometimes) worth it.

Hotel California - luckily I rarely hear it anymore

GaGa Ooh La La or whatever the fuck that stupid song was

The completely ridiculous "Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson.

Best Day of My Life by American Authors. It got played so much when it came out and it's so nauseatingly awful.

Hey, Soul Sister. What a piece of shit. Cancer you can listen to.

American Pie — Don McLean

I Will Survive — Gloria Gaynor

All versions of Santa Baby and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town — Bruce Springsteen

With the exception of perhaps the very occasional WFMU radio station (NJ & NYC) tune-in I am fortunate that I have listened to almost no radio for the last 20 plus years. So when I sometimes I hear a classic rock song from the 1960s - 1980s that was played to death back in the day, that's to the distance of time I can appreciate the songs for what they were without recoiling like I used to.

HAPPY by Pharrell.

There is this annoying goddamned song from maybe 2005 or 2006 by some whiny bastard and the refrain goes, “You had a bad day,” It makes me violent I hate it so much. And the title is damned appropriate.

Almost every song from that era has the same annoying sound and most every singer is a whiny fuck. What a garbage era for music.

For older stuff, I despise the sound of Bruce Springsteen’s voice. Horrible.

Anything from Creedence Clearwater Revival, or by Pia Zadora, or “On My Own” by Patti Labelle.

You Light Light Up My Life - Debby Boone.

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

Kokomo

Caribbean Queen

Love Will Keep Us Together

Anything by Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, or Billy Joel

Barbie Girl

r18 How the hell do you ever hear Pia Zadora songs??

Don't Stop Believin'. I am a Journey fan, but never liked that song.

I understand the dislike for Hotel California, but I've somehow grown to like it.

Love ya, Cyndi, but Girls Just Wanna Have Fun has been played enough for several lifetimes

R11, my favorite part is the background singers when they sing “Washed out dreams…” in such a prosaic, ethereal way.

If I hear “I Will Survive” just one more god-damned time, I won’t.

"Senorita" by Shawn Mendes and

Bohemian Rhapsody

Beelzebub has this song put aside for me, for me, for me

And Camila Cabello

How do you listen to music, r26 and r28, that you've heard this song even once?

Overwrought funeral pop hits, like

Tears in Heaven

Wind Beneath My Wings

You Raise Me Up

My Heart Will Go On

The ukulele version of Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

Goodbye England’s Rose 🤮

“Jingle Bell Rock”

The entire Michael Jackson catalogue

And after her last interview, you can throw in Janet's as well

🎵 oh I don’t want a lot for Christmas…🎵

…just not to hear that song.

Saturday in the Park - Chicago

Anything by the Beatles.

Thank you, R30, I also hate that Hawaiian version of Over the Rainbow. I hate how he skips phrases in the lyrics. I hate how everyone is supposed to be moved. Hate it!

Another pretentious, supposed-to-be-deep-and-moving song is Hallelujah. All versions, especially when it's supposed to be religious.

"Shut Up And Dance With Me"

"I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz

Don't Stop Believin'

Can't Stop the Feelin'

You Give Love A Bad Name

Most Maroon 5 songs, but especially Sugar, Payphone, Moves Like Jagger, and Girls Like You

Anything by Beyonce.

The entire Jackson catalog.

Don Henley's catalog.

Patti LaBelle's screeching passed off as some type of singing.

99% of hair bands (minus Cinderella).

Anything by fucking Coldplay.

They should've been a "thing" only on the 2000s decade. But somehow they kept torturing music industry with their generic, bland and pretentious crap after 2010.

Breakeven by The Script

If you have Apple Music and a song comes on which you hate, you can tell Siri to never play it again. It’s why I will never have to listen to Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer ever again—at least at home or in my car.

Happy birthday to you... Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Donald Trump... Happy birthday to you!

Holla Back Girl

The entire Katy Perry collection. The fast food of music.

🎵 We built this city….

Creep by Radiohead. I'm not sure why it's so popular. The lyrics are so whiny to me and reek of self pity. They sound like they came from an angsty teenager's journal.

So many.

So many.

I had not thought that death had undone so many.

"I...am not a pretty gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl..."

And every whiney bullshit millennial song like it.

For starters.

The Christmas Shoes

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime

Anything sung in indie girl voice, in other words: breathy, crackling with vocal fry, and filled with weird vowel sounds.

Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum. It’s considered a classic but was ruined for me. I worked in a department store they played it repeatedly to the point of ad nauseam. Decades later and I still hate it!

R51, if the song sounds like bad acting in a shitty film from 2005, I never want to hear it again.

Proud to be an American. Just nauseating!

Je T'Aime--Jennifer Coolidge's version.

Hotel California

Gin Blossoms’ entire catalog. Haaaaaated them in the 90s.

r57 Love them!

Anything by Fergie

The crap Reba and Britney have put out.

Anything RAP.

Red Red Wine is the song that makes me want to drive into an abutment.

R58

I had a viscerally negative reaction to them back then, for some reason. I was much more of a Nirvana/Soundgarden fan, if we are talking about only that era, but I’ll listen to any genre if I like the songs. I don’t know if it was the GB singer or the melodies.

Maybe because it was that GB songs actually had melodies as opposed to the vast majority of grunge songs which had none?

Mister Mister "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings

Hey Soul Sister

Several rock radio standards: Another One Bites The Dust by Queen. Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi.

Man, I Feel Like a Woman

“Tainted Love” by Soft Cell, one of the longest-charting and most off-key singles of the ‘80s, is like anesthesia-free dental surgery to my ears. Arggggggh.

"Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins

"Careless Whisper" - George Michael

"My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion

Anything by Madonna except "Like a Prayer"

Anything by Phil Collins

Anything by AC/DC

Smoke on the Water

Shake It Off was playing much too loudly at a local record store. I left and never went back.

Anything by Taylor fucking Swift. I have always hated her, and all the libs said we HAVE to love her because shes getting people to vote. Well, now that that didn’t work, can we hate her again?

Not Shake It Off by Florence and the Machine! Much better than TS.

I recognize Queen made a lot of great songs. But I never need to hear any of them again.

Dirge ballads like Fernando, Mull of Kintyre, The Long and Winding Road, and Bridge over Troubled Water.

Almost all electronic dance music

Any opera

Most Christmas pop music

ANYTHING by Billy Joel

I enjoy listening to classic rock stations at my desk and I immediately change the channel when any song of his comes on.

4 Non Blondes - What's Goin' On

Smashmouth - Rock Star

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge

Anything by Sheryl Crow, TSwift, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Hootie and the Blowfish, Dave Matthews...bland music for basic white suburban fraus and douchebros

Love Shack by the b 52’s

All I Want For Christmas Is You

all Christmas music

Simply Having ... A Wonderful Christmas Time.

Thanks, Paul McCartney.

“God Bless the USA”.

Hypnotize and California Love. They're both boring as absolute fuck.

The Cars 4 Kids song.

K A R S , R87

Can someone do a thread on songs that NEVER get old (like Anthony Weiner's act)

Anything by Fleetwood Mac (unless it's from the Bob Welch period or before).

Barracuda by Heart. Ugh.

🎵 Take a walk on the wild side…

Hotel California

No more fucking ABBA!

FUCK YOU R87.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Any “proud to be an American” songs from country artists.

All Christmas pop music. It’s already too late to walk into any Target or CVS, fuck. Not safe until January.

Blinded by the light.... revved up by a douche, another mother in the night.... (this is what I heard- horrible)

Sweet Caroline

Uptown Funk

Blurred Lines

Hey There Delilah

R37 was on the right track with Shut Up and Dance With Me, and I would love to add On the Floor by Pit Bull and JLo.

Sweet Caroline

Margaritaville

any song with idiotic audience participation

Africa by Toto

Summer of ‘69

Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song

I don't use the word lightly, but if you're spelling out the letters while dancing to YMCA, you might be retarded

R106, what if you dance to YMCA like you're jerking off two dudes at once?

Benny and the Jets

Take My Breath Away

Anything by The B-52s

The Hippopotamus for Christmas song

“Christmas Shoes”.

🤮

You assholes better not post any of my songs.

Since we've been warned, I "Believe" I won't

If I could turn back time, I would have acted like I had a heart of stone and taken Cher down just like Jesse James. After all, I found someone to take away the heartache, and you better save up all your tears, because when lovers become strangers, love hurts.

Bravo, R114. [massive applause]

Let’s just take the 80s, and put it into a skin-fueled 2000s Swedish music video…

I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla

Anything by fucking Oasis

Nothing can ruin a celebration faster than Kool and the Gang's Celebration

I hate Celebration, but I do like Fresh.

r43 I can just see you yelling at Siri "Never play that song again!"

So many popular Eighties hits, including "Dancing on the Ceiling" and "Hello" by Lionel Richie, anything by Spandau Ballet and Wham!, anything by Bon Jovi, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" by Foreigner...

Ice Ice Baby

Who Let the Dogs Out

The Macarena

Louie Louie

Rock and Roll (Part 2)

99 Luftballoons

Anything by Neely O’Hara.

“Ballerina Girl”.

🤮

I hate that song "Hello" by Lionel Richie.

Many years ago, at SF's Fisherman's Wharf, there was an untalented busker, singing. He launched into his next song, saying that this was a song that his grandma used to sing to him when he was a child. He then started singing: "Hello" ("is it me you're looking for?") I could not stop laughing.

BTW, I lived in SF at the time and was at the Wharf b/c family members were visiting and wanted to go to the Wharf.

R126 That song creeps me out.

I take it r51 is not a fan of Lisa Loeb.

The video was rather creepy, too.

R51: Meredith Brooks's composition-by-numbers "Bitch" comes to mind

[quote] Anything sung in indie girl voice, in other words: breathy, crackling with vocal fry, and filled with weird vowel sounds.

IMO, "Bitch" doesn't fall under that category. Singing style was more bold, less "hesitant."

[quote] Yesterday I cried. You must have been relieved to see the softer side

I always think of the "softer side of Sears" campaign.

Boston, Freebird, Led Zepplin?, OP?

Maxwell's Silver Hammer. John, George and Ringo hated it, too.

Centerfold by J Geils

R21 She comes over every Tuesday. She does the floors then sings in my ear. I give her 7bucks, car fare, lunch snd all my old clothes.

I'm not especially sentimental or nostalgic about music so could happily say goodbye to all American music of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. It would mean saying goodbye to a handful of songs like.

The last 20 years i have only a fleeting awareness of a large number of artists I would hate if I heard them more, but I didn't because music listening became so personalized (and decentralized.)

Most of the reason I never got into Shrek in spite of really liking Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow is the Smashmouth.

Apatapateu

R48

Thom Yorke wrote the lyrics after being ignored by the cool kids in college, so you’re not wrong.

Colored sex music!

Anything by Air Supply.

You had a bad day...🎶

r141 Thanks, Vicki

I don't ever want hear the big Queen anthems--We are the Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, etc.

YMCA

"Barracuda" ~ by Heart

"The Reason" by Hoobastank.

They were just a badly manufactured cross between Blink-182's looks and Linkin Park's sound.

Money for Nothing

We Didn't Start the Fire

Any Billy Joel song. But ESPECIALLY We Didn't Start the Fire. I don't like Fallout Boy but their cover is actually pretty good.

Op and stupid ass

r150 You don't seem so bright yourself

R147 I think the fact they chose the name "Hoobastank" was a good early indicator that their music was going to be total 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩

You're my little boo thang

🎶🎶Garfield one, two three two three. Garfield one, two three two three.🎶🎶

Anything Fleetwood Mac

Ebony and Ivory.

Ebony and Ivory

R155 Not even Go Your Own Way? That's a great song.

What's the song with the lyric "Only girl in the whirl"? That one.

R154 Eat your hart out kid.

Life In A Northern Town.

R161 Damn you. Now that song is circling around in my head like a monkey on a tricycle.

Damn you to hell.

Anything from Double Fantasy, John Lennon's last album.

Any song from Dirty Dancing although I liked the movie.

The Eagles were such assholes it kind of turned me off their music.

Anything from Wings. I forgave Paul when he admitted they were shit.

Oh yes, boo thang.

That’s funny OP. My sister and I used to mock those groups, we called it “mower music” because people that did yard work were always listening to it

The station I listen to the most is First Wave on Sirius XM. They’ve made me hate almost every song by The Police, The Cars, and The Pretenders because they play them so much. Already hated UB40 and most of U2’s catalog so I skip them too.

They play a lot of Blondie, Smiths, Go-Go’s, Depeche Mode, B-52s, REM, and The Cure, too, but that doesn’t bother me as much.

It fills my heart to see so many others share my hatred for Billy Joel music.

Bohemian Rhapsody. "Oh but it's so great! Queen! Etc etc." Fuck off Bohemian Rhapsody. I never want to hear you again.

Gotye - Someone That I Used to Know (But you didn't have to cut me off? Yes, I did!)

Journey (and I generally love them) - Don't Stop Believin'

Fleetwood Mac (") - Don't Stop (Thinkin' About Tomorrow)

Elton John- (") -Crocodile Rock. even HE hates it!

Depeche Mode (") -People are People, Just Can't Get Enough (yes, yes we can)

Under Pressure by Queen/David Bowie

Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song

When did Boston release “Everything”?

R36, even Leonard Cohen said that Hallelujah was over played.

[quote]Any song from Dirty Dancing although I liked the movie.

Even "Be My Baby"?

R137, there was absolutely no artistic reason to do a cover of “I’m a Believer.” The original was perfect.

Also, Shrek was yet one more example of people going to the Hallelujah well way too fucking often. “Oooh, we’re so deep! So much pain! All the feels!”

Dream Weaver by Gary Wright. Freebird. Sweet Home Alabama.

Most Sunday afternoons some adolescent neighbors play many of the pop hits from the 70s listed here. I realized the other day that I’ve reached my absolute fucking limit with most of them. It made me feel old and not in a bad or sad way. Just….yup, that’s enough of that. They’ve lost any charm, interest, or power they ever had.

Wonder what the average age is of the DLers posting on this thread.

I’m (kind of) surprised the first two songs that come to mind have yet to be mentioned.

(1) I love Stevie Wonder. But… I Just Called To Say I Love You? Despise it. Can’t listen to it. Maybe it reminds me of a clingy dysfunctional ex.

(2) Come On, Eileen. (Maybe without the comm I’d begin to like it.) No, seriously, this song gets on my nerves. A good while ago I spent a couple of years in a Central European country and every work party played this song and drove everyone into a frenzy. Didn’t get it.

"It never rains down in Aaaaaafrika ..." "You spin me round ... " "I've been looking for freedom ..."

[quote]I Just Called To Say I Love You? Despise it. Can’t listen to it. Maybe it reminds me of a clingy dysfunctional ex.

I never liked that one to begin with. So cheesy and overplayed. I associate it with middle school which was a nightmare for me

Abracadabra

🎵 Fat bottom girls… you make the rocking world go ‘round

I think Brittany Spears invented vocal fry.

Oh, excuse me. Britney Spears.

Any version of "Louie, Louie"

McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time". Instead of rounding up illegal aliens doing jobs nobody wants in the US, can ICE agents locate and destroy all copies of this "song"?

Anything by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogerty's voice is now grates. Sometimes he affects some kind of Southern accent when singing. He's from frigging Berkeley, CA.

The love theme from A Star is Born.