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Initech

(100,076 posts)
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:48 PM Sep 2015

What's the worst or most annoying song you've ever heard?

This is bound to get 250+ replies.

For me it is without question that stupid "Turn Down The What" song that gets played in every movie and stadium. God I hate that song with a fiery passion. It makes me want to start a riot.

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What's the worst or most annoying song you've ever heard? (Original Post) Initech Sep 2015 OP
the fad songs Skittles Sep 2015 #1
Don't listen to Miley's new album then! Initech Sep 2015 #14
I don't listen to Pop Tarts Skittles Sep 2015 #36
It's quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard. Initech Sep 2015 #42
"Seasons In The Sun".....nope: will not post a video. Joe Shlabotnik Sep 2015 #2
What if sock puppets were singing it? Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2015 #32
Does a Disney theme park ride song count? pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #3
Please pardon my late response... antiquie Sep 2015 #70
That BB theme just reminds me of... pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #76
"Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" was pretty bad. jalan48 Sep 2015 #4
Yes. Pretty bad. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #18
"You're having my baby" Ron Obvious Sep 2015 #5
No doubt the mother was Art_from_Ark Sep 2015 #9
Whose baby, a-hole? sarge43 Sep 2015 #25
"Muskrat Love" IDemo Sep 2015 #6
Yes! Mnpaul Sep 2015 #67
Funky Town TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #7
Okay, I will admit it. I like that song. Arugula Latte Sep 2015 #12
I can tolerate it a little more now since I rarely hear it. TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #13
Dead Puppies gort Sep 2015 #8
That Redneck Woman song by Gretchen Wilson mythology Sep 2015 #10
"I've Never Been to Me" Arugula Latte Sep 2015 #11
HA! I was trying to remember the title to add to this list. Laffy Kat Sep 2015 #77
'Fly Robin Fly' by the Silver Convention Special Prosciuto Sep 2015 #15
THe Name Game. Paper Roses Sep 2015 #16
Ha ha ha--I sing that to my cat, Otis. He loves it. catbyte Sep 2015 #68
This might be the one. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #17
Not a fan of novelty rock. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #19
What Enthusiast Said! ProfessorGAC Sep 2015 #35
Oh, come on-- Who doesn't like "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back"? Art_from_Ark Sep 2015 #51
Hey! LOL! Enthusiast Sep 2015 #52
That song should have hundreds of recommendations! Art_from_Ark Sep 2015 #60
Yeah! Enthusiast Sep 2015 #63
Oh what a night - The Four Seasons LiberalElite Sep 2015 #20
Omg!!! I love that song!!! LynneSin Sep 2015 #21
The first song LiberalElite Sep 2015 #23
"Wannabe" by the Spice Girls T_i_B Sep 2015 #22
Not what you were looking for, but "Ham'p'sterdance"is mine. n/t qnr Sep 2015 #24
Well, there's this ... JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2015 #26
Anything by the Steve Miller Band. Archae Sep 2015 #27
"I will always love you" Whitney Houston. (RIP)nt clarice Sep 2015 #28
Any song that gets played 5 times a minute on the radio NobodyHere Sep 2015 #29
To me it's not so much songs as singers. kentauros Sep 2015 #30
Disturbed, Down with The Sickness Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2015 #31
Horse With No Name madamesilverspurs Sep 2015 #33
The lyrics are just . . . stupid. Le Taz Hot Sep 2015 #41
"Brainwash" by Flipper Tom Kitten Sep 2015 #34
"Cut the Cake" by the Average White Band Glorfindel Sep 2015 #37
Staind - Outside accoustic version taught_me_patience Sep 2015 #38
This is the song I play when I get pulled over by the cops Major Nikon Sep 2015 #39
Bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-Benny and the Jetzzzzzz Le Taz Hot Sep 2015 #40
That's my least-favorite Elton John song too. Boomerproud Sep 2015 #45
Probably my favorite Elton John/Bernie Taupin song. Le Taz Hot Sep 2015 #47
Wipe-out and the Paul Anka song "You're having my crocodile" (or whatever).. BlueJazz Sep 2015 #43
Whatever it was, it was done by............ DFW Sep 2015 #44
Sorry, posted in wrong place. nt femmocrat Sep 2015 #57
Tubthumping by Chumbawumba NightWatcher Sep 2015 #46
Jackie deShannon "Put a Little Love in your Heart" or rurallib Sep 2015 #48
I could name several.... lastlib Sep 2015 #49
Feelings olddots Sep 2015 #50
The Verve: "Bittersweet Symphony" DinahMoeHum Sep 2015 #53
Telephone Man... Phentex Sep 2015 #54
I thought you were going to say "The Wichita Lineman." CTyankee Sep 2015 #72
These two come to mind, these songs make me violent. Doc_Technical Sep 2015 #55
'Run Joey Run' and 'Billy Don't Be a Hero' Populist_Prole Sep 2015 #56
"God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood femmocrat Sep 2015 #58
I can not believe this has not been posted-multiple times... Boxerfan Sep 2015 #59
This is the one that first popped into my head. Jetboy Sep 2015 #62
I'm posting this before the week is out… MrScorpio Sep 2015 #84
Mostly anything of Billy Joel treestar Sep 2015 #61
I was just going to say, what about scenes from an Italian restaurant? Iris Sep 2015 #64
Name a teen-pop song from the 90s, early 2000s. sakabatou Sep 2015 #65
like this? azurnoir Sep 2015 #86
Yes, like that sakabatou Sep 2015 #88
Anything by Rush..... Capt.Rocky300 Sep 2015 #66
So many! My Humps by The Black Eyed Peas gets my vote. DawgHouse Sep 2015 #69
torn between two lovers... CTyankee Sep 2015 #71
The mere fact of writing the title puts the earworm in my head and it drives me NUTS! A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #73
ha ha ha antiquie Sep 2015 #74
Now i'm gonna have to remember that I hate you TOO!!!! A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #75
Convoy. See if you agree: Kingofalldems Sep 2015 #78
Play That Funky Music Whiteboy. nt Cheese Sandwich Sep 2015 #79
Some like it, but I've always found 'Brand New Key' an annoying earworm pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #80
'Hollaback Girl' by Gwen Stefani Rob H. Sep 2015 #81
Dripping schmaltz usually annoys me the most malthaussen Sep 2015 #82
The Christmas Shoes, by Newsong jmowreader Sep 2015 #83
"You picked a fine time to leave me. Lucille." Hatchling Sep 2015 #85
anything by Abba or Ace of Base azurnoir Sep 2015 #87

Initech

(100,076 posts)
14. Don't listen to Miley's new album then!
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 01:31 AM
Sep 2015

It's called "Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz". The phrase "musical vomit" would be what I would accurately describe it. And I used to like the Flaming Lips too, I've pretty much lost all respect for them the last couple of years, and now this.

 

antiquie

(4,299 posts)
70. Please pardon my late response...
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 01:39 PM
Sep 2015

Damn you to hell!1!

I am sending you the BradyBunchThemeSong <<<<<<<x>>>>>>

TexasTowelie

(112,204 posts)
13. I can tolerate it a little more now since I rarely hear it.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 12:54 AM
Sep 2015

However, they wore the record out on that one in the late 70s.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
10. That Redneck Woman song by Gretchen Wilson
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 12:44 AM
Sep 2015

It glamorizes a lifestyle that is just awful based on the redneck women in my family tree.

Somebody plays it in her workout playlist in the gym and it just drives me bonkers. Of course she's a grown woman who also plays One Direction songs so her taste in music in general is pretty bad.

Laffy Kat

(16,381 posts)
77. HA! I was trying to remember the title to add to this list.
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 09:09 PM
Sep 2015

You beat me to it. You can have the ice picks, I'll stick needles in my eyes rather than listen to that song!!!


 

Special Prosciuto

(731 posts)
15. 'Fly Robin Fly' by the Silver Convention
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 02:20 AM
Sep 2015

After 4 decades I still want to tackle, throttle and strangle the people that did this.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
21. Omg!!! I love that song!!!
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:33 AM
Sep 2015

it's the first song I ever remember hearing on the radio. I've been in love with music ever since.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
23. The first song
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:41 AM
Sep 2015

I heard on the radio was probably something by the Everly Brothers. Oh What a Night makes me CRINGE.

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)
22. "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:39 AM
Sep 2015

That's my nomination for the worst, most annoying song ever.

Other candidates include
"The crowd say bo selecta" by The Artful Dodger ft Craig David
"Moves like Jagger" - Maroon 5
Anything by Sam Smith
Too many dodgy house songs to mention.....

Archae

(46,328 posts)
27. Anything by the Steve Miller Band.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 12:19 PM
Sep 2015

Especially "Rockin' Me Baby.'

I saw an interview with Steve Miller, granted, I wasn't expecting a Mensa candidate, but he was SO dumb...I mean, George W. Bush dumb!

 

NobodyHere

(2,810 posts)
29. Any song that gets played 5 times a minute on the radio
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 01:10 PM
Sep 2015

This is a primary reason why I never listen to new music on the radio.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
30. To me it's not so much songs as singers.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 01:23 PM
Sep 2015

Any gravely voice grates like no other. It's why I can't stand Dylan, that rocker I can't ever remember that always spins around on stage with his mic-stand, Joe Cocker, and whoever else with similar voices from the 60s and 70s.

That should make me "dead" to most of the Loungites now

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
31. Disturbed, Down with The Sickness
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 02:00 PM
Sep 2015

It's so bad I won't even link to it. Needless to say, it includes a portion where the lead singer starts literally screaming at his mother out of no where. And I so wish I was making it up. But I'm not.

Then again, it's Nu Metal, and Nu Metal's probably the reason rock music has all but died as a contemporary mainstream genre.

I just can't think of any situation where someone sits down and listens to this song and actually would think to one's self, "You know this is really good" or even, "This isn't so bad that I want to immediately turn the station."

It is simply breathtakingly awful.

Of course, if we're including commercial jingles, I'd also include a song in radio ads for 411-Pain, a personal injury attorney referral service.

It goes,

You just got in an accident
Cause a car swerved in your lane
And you don't know who to call
1-800-411-PAIN


Which, fine, it's a lame commercial jingle, except whoever they hired to sing the song is just awful. I'm talking ear-bleedingly awful. Sounds like the proverbial dying cat.

It makes me want to call 1-800-411-PAIN to sue someone just for having to listen to it.

https://soundcloud.com/411-pain/car-swerved-in-your-lane-411pain

madamesilverspurs

(15,804 posts)
33. Horse With No Name
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 03:44 PM
Sep 2015

Hated it first time I heard it, hated it more with each repetition. Don't really know why, just grates on my nerves like fingernails on a blackboard.

Tom Kitten

(7,347 posts)
34. "Brainwash" by Flipper
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 03:46 PM
Sep 2015

Um...OK...like...see, there's this thing, and...well and then...uh...never mind, forget it, you wouldn't understand anyways.

 

taught_me_patience

(5,477 posts)
38. Staind - Outside accoustic version
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 05:42 PM
Sep 2015

One dimensional singing. Guitars out of tune. Two singers singing the same thing - no harmony. Guitar intensity not matching the singing. I present to you the worst song of all time:



The guitar is out of tune idiots!!?!?!?

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
40. Bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-Benny and the Jetzzzzzz
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:21 PM
Sep 2015

I fucking hate that song with every fiber of my being and back when it was released, they played it every 45 seconds. I even had the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album (someone bought for me) and I could almost choke down some of the songs on there but "Benny and the Jets" . . . I couldn't move fast enough to move the needle (yes, needle!).

Boomerproud

(7,952 posts)
45. That's my least-favorite Elton John song too.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:47 PM
Sep 2015

I was in high school when it came out and he was huge then, and I loved most of his early stuff but I hated BuBenny.

DFW

(54,387 posts)
44. Whatever it was, it was done by............
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:43 PM
Sep 2015

The 1910 Fruit Gum Company or The Ohio Express (same guys, different name), or Aqua

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
46. Tubthumping by Chumbawumba
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:58 PM
Sep 2015

The bad thing is I like several of their other, political songs, but that one is the only one most have heard.



lastlib

(23,238 posts)
49. I could name several....
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:52 PM
Sep 2015

starting with "Danny's (Dumb) Song"--Anne Murray, covered by Loggins & Messina. (Both versions make me retch.)

"Coconut"--Nilsson;

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"--whatever Dipshit that was.......

Any Doobie Brothers song;

Any Captain & Tenille song (what WAS all that BS about muskrats, anyway? ), or any Neil Sedaka song;

Any Michael Jackson, Jackson 5, or Osmond(s) song.

I'd say if you're not sick by now, you're not trying.

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
50. Feelings
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 01:17 AM
Sep 2015

makes me throw up in my mouth alittle .I escentually died 30 years ago so count me out for current
music .

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
56. 'Run Joey Run' and 'Billy Don't Be a Hero'
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 12:32 PM
Sep 2015

Ultra-vapid bubblegum I had to endure back in the 70's while my sister and her friends played music in our house. Gakkkk!!

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Dad blast it Can link one or the other, but not both.

Boxerfan

(2,533 posts)
59. I can not believe this has not been posted-multiple times...
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 08:33 PM
Sep 2015

Someone left the cake out in the rain....

And no I do not think I could take it...

Now I remembered the name-MacArthur Park-Ewhhh




Jetboy

(792 posts)
62. This is the one that first popped into my head.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 10:11 PM
Sep 2015

The lyrics are dreadful of course but what about the instrumental part in the middle? Combining the 2 together they were going for the worst song of all time and they succeeded.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
61. Mostly anything of Billy Joel
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 10:05 PM
Sep 2015

all time top - we didn't start the fire - sounds like an ad jingle and has to interesting music or melody.

Piano Man - depressing. I loathe Only the Good die Young.

All the mushy ones like She's Always a Woman to Me.

The only song of his I like is the scenes from an Italian Restaurant.


Capt.Rocky300

(1,005 posts)
66. Anything by Rush.....
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 01:56 AM
Sep 2015

They write great lyrics but Geddy Lee's voice is like fingernails on a blackboard to me.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,368 posts)
73. The mere fact of writing the title puts the earworm in my head and it drives me NUTS!
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 05:19 PM
Sep 2015

The Black Crows "Hard to Handle"

The ABSOLUTE WORST Rock and Roll song ever recorded. Annoyingly bad syncopation in the chorus. Not just bad, but non-existent. It's like they had lyrics and a melody that didn't fit, so they just said fuck it and mashed them together. The way the chorus ends is so totally fucking stupid it is beyond words.

I swear, I hate that song with a burning passion. I have paid bartenders to shut it off. If it comes on the radio in my car, I quickly switch it off.

I have discovered a good way to rid yourself of an earworm though.

Just think to yourself - don't hum or sing, just think of the tune to "Girl From Ipanema"

Works every time.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
80. Some like it, but I've always found 'Brand New Key' an annoying earworm
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 10:48 PM
Sep 2015

My poor medic in Vietnam ended up backing up Melanie on bass guitar for a couple of her international tours after the war.

Rob H.

(5,351 posts)
81. 'Hollaback Girl' by Gwen Stefani
Sun Sep 27, 2015, 09:26 AM
Sep 2015

In the words of Brian Griffin, “I don't know what a 'hollaback girl' is, all I know is I want her dead.”

“This shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S....”

malthaussen

(17,199 posts)
82. Dripping schmaltz usually annoys me the most
Sun Sep 27, 2015, 09:42 AM
Sep 2015

Hence, "Honey," by Goldsboro, probably takes the palm. And I definitely hate "Billy, Don't Be a Hero," but that's already been posted several times.

-- Mal

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