Find a song on ILM that everybody HATES

You'd no more be able to find a song on ILM that everybody loves than you'd be able to find a song on ILM that everybody *hates*. As evidenced by the fact that there has *never* been a band or artist or genre raised on ILM that has been so dire that someone hasn't stepped in and said "Hey, I *like* [n]!"

I nominate:
"Light My Fire"
"Rock the Casbah"
"Jeremy"
"Today" (Smashing Pumpkins)
"Tonight, Tonight" (Smashing Pumpkins)
"Hotel California"
"Stairway to Heaven"
"Roxanne"
"Everybody Hurts"
"Creep" (Radiohead)
"Fake Plastic Trees" (Radiohead)
"Big Time Sensuality" (Bjork)
"I Want You To Want Me"
"Rebound" (Sebadoh)
any They Might Be Giants song
"Willie the Pimp" (Frank Zappa)
"Caught A Lite Sneeze" (Tori Amos)
"Comfortably Numb"

I nominate: "Light My Fire" "Jeremy" "Tonight, Tonight" (Smashing Pumpkins) "Hotel California" "Stairway to Heaven" "Roxanne" "Everybody Hurts" "Creep" (Radiohead) "Big Time Sensuality" (Bjork) "Rebound" (Sebadoh) any They Might Be Giants song "Willie the Pimp" (Frank Zappa) "Caught A Lite Sneeze" (Tori Amos) "Comfortably Numb" Anything by At The Drive In or Godspeed! You Black Emperor

I can live with "Imagine" and "Roxanne", however overrated they are.

"Jeremy", however, SO does belong on this thread.

I nominate Anita Baker's "Sweet Love" and Sade's "No Ordinary Love".

b.) I'll also admit to liking "Light My Fire," "Roxanne," and "Big Time Sensuality," liking GYBE!, and not necessarily believing that At the Drive-In quite deserve to be labeled the worst thing ever.

c.) Only one song has ever made me actually, literally vomit: an early 90s r&b chestnut called "Freak Me," by Silk. (The chorus kicked off with "I want to lick you up and down. . .") I suppose it's not relevant, but I guarantee everyone here would feel the same way about it.

d.) Surely everyone could rally their hatred around something by Tin Machine?

The entirety of Bjork's recording career belongs here. I'm backing "Big Time Sensuality" even though I'm not sure I've heard it.

I hate the whole of tons of artists' output - heck, I hate entire genres - but I think that naming large swathes like that is off the point, when what you're after is a single record.

Don't think I hate much of what's been named so far, except possibly Led Zep.

OK, I nominate, for starters: 'Ride On Time'.

"The Drowners" by Suede is an overrated monstrosity, imho.

"Everybody Hurts" is a good choice, but I can think of one that might even be a better contender: "Shiny Happy People".

I Hate: "Jeremy," "Tonight, Tonight" (wasn't there also an awful Genesis song with this title too?), "Hotel California," "Stairway to Heaven," "Everybody Hurts," "I Want You to Want Me," "Rebound," "Caught a Little Sneeze" (hate just about anything Tori Amos has ever done).

Indifferent towards "Comfortably Numb." Can take or leave They Might Be Giants.

I never thought I'd find anyone else who likes that one, though. ILM never fails to amaze, does it?

(I was played "Sy Borg" by someone kindly- meaning who thought I would like it, and I disgraced my entire family and upbringing in my rude response. It helped me like other Zappa tho = not as awful as "Sy Borg".)

I like 'The Operation' OK, but it's not a solo highlight.

That Genesis song: I have a feeling it was bad, but can't remember it.

Robbie W: GREAT choice. If anyone can unite people in dislike, it's he.

Possible thread definition: "A Song That Every Contributor [To The Thread - and by extension ILM] Actively Dislikes". Cos that requires having-heard-it (though Mark S thinks I should be exempted from that and not allowed to vote at all), but 'Hate' is a bit too strong to achieve consensus.

Oddly enough I earlier worked out a rationale by which my argt re Pinefox on the EVERYONE LOVES IT bitch entirely didn't apply (at least re Pinefox) on this one: but now I can't recall it, or even reconstruct it by extant thort-processes.

I think I've arrived.

"Tonight, Tonight" (Smashing Pumpkins)

"Stairway to Heaven"

"I Want You To Want Me"

"Caught A Lite Sneeze" (Tori Amos)

Depends on the aim of the thread, but I also now think finding something (well known) that no one confesses to liking is just as interesting, and it takes care of the haven't-heard-it issue. Remember the "Suggesting Michael Bolton is cheating" condition, though it's difficult to apply to someone like Robbie Williams, who's ::duck:: made more competent pop records than people give credit for.

Wonderful tonight - Eric 'God' Clapton.

I hate hate hate "Jeremy", "Yesterday", "Hey Jude", "Rainy Day Women", "Wonderful Night."

And I hate: Paul Simon-"Call Me Al" and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." Don Henley-"Boys of Summer" The Who-"You Better You Bet" and "Who Are You" Sheryl Crow-"All I Wanna Do"

I'm neutral about "Hey Jude", "Bad Case Of Lovin' You" and "Freebird"

Don't Meat Loaf, Bryan Adams, "The Operation", "I Can't Dance", "Wonderful Tonight", Garth Brooks, Whitney's "I Will Always Love You", "Like A Rock", and "My Heart Will Go On" all break the Michael Bolton rule that says it has to be an *otherwise acclaimed* song ??

My nominee: Starland Vocal Band "Afternoon Delight."

I'm not so sure about that one, Tarden. "Afternoon Delight" did make it to Number One over here, after all.

but how about Mr Loaf - Iwould do anything for love (but I won't do that)

even if you like him this must be totally excrable

Free as a bird - three living beatles and a dead one sing a song not good enough to relaese in the first place Leader of the Gang - garry glitter Tragedy - Steps Lady in Red - Chris Rea Montage - Kenny G Puff daddy Faith evans-missing you Phil Collin's entire career after he stopped being a drummer Michael Jackson - Heal the world

Enough for yous

Ummm, it's better than "Californication"?

What I would like to see is someone try to defend "Aeroplane."

Still, none of that excuses "I Can't Dance" or "Tonight Tonight Tonight."

I think I'll put out my last cigarette in my eardrums right now ...

I don't wanna know what Tarden thinks of "Spill the Wine," "One Night in Bangkok," or Zamfir ...

Betcha Gina Vannelli and Leo Sayer never used flutes!

Imagine sucks arse though. New Beatles nomination: Octopus Garden. Those Red Hot Shitty Crappers songs mentioned all get my okay. Another nomination: P.Collins - 'Another day in paradise'. Please defend that one!

And my favourite P.Collins moment: 'In the Air Tonight' as featured in Miami Vice.

I've always suspected that Stuart Murdoch was empowering his Inner Dan Fogelberg by letting that crappy trumpet player play all the time.

And any song with a "talking guitar" deserves to mentioned in this thread, too!

Eh. Sorry !

Nights in White Satin is also crap.

I like 9-5.

I remember that "Freak Me" track Nitsuh mentioned, and I definitely hated it at the time. However, I would not be surprised if those with more Freaky-Trigger-ish tastes liked it.

If we waive the criterion about being acclaimed, I second Lady In Red (it was Chris deBurgh, not Chris Rea, which you may say makes little difference, except CR is merely nondescript moustachey bloke with five thousand dreary and forgettable MOR AOR albums, whereas CdB is quite possibly in the top ten smuggest slimiest men alive and responsible for truly truly awful music that lodges itself in your head for weeks until you'll happily trepan yourself in the hope of removing it, so I thought I might as well correct you). Would anyone try to defend that?

The only possible defence I can see is that Bill Bailey's Cockney Piano Medley (mp3 on this page), which includes that, Eye of the Tiger, Wuthering Heights, and various other things, is (in my opinion [*]) hilarious, but I refuse to accept that as defence since BB himself has described Lady In Red as the worst song ever on many occasions.

Not astoundingly acclaimed, but as much as Meatloaf, surely? Loads of people I knew at high school, including possibly the most musical of all my friends, thought it was a fantastic song, which admittedly isn't really what I imagine you meant by "acclaimed", but there we go.

[* I have a feeling everyone else on here probably hates all the tv/radio comedy I like, including Bill Bailey (I actually quite liked Drop the Dead Donkey and I have vague memories of DtDD getting a unanimous slating on a CoD). But if anyone does follow that link they might wish to download the spoof "Pop Goes The Weasel" in the style of Philip Glass, which for my money is bang on.]

I don't think many of the candidates listed have much a rep in the press, which is the only way I can think defining 'acclaim' that differentiates it from 'record sales'.

"DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER" by O-ARSE-IS

Come on. Look me in the eye and tell me that isn't worse, nay, MUCH worse than any of thee stuff mentioned above. Last year I had ROOT CANAL WORK, right? It Sux0red, but, in all honesty, I wd rather have more root canal work than listen to DLBIA again. If I hear it come on in a shop, I will leave.

That or elton's di-tribute atrocity anyway.

xoxo

Y'know, my immediate/irrational response to any inquiry involving hideous music is always "90s Bryan Adams". I can't help it. A more serious reply would be "Fools Gold" by the Stone Roses. Is not successful as a dance single nor as an indie/rawk single.

However, Adams has recorded with Mel C, and Mel C rox0r, and this is a species of acclaim which = not mere record sales.

any cover of a motown song recorded after 1980 generally blows chunks production & performance-wise, with the added bonus of sacrilege...see mr. Collins' contributions to the genre, The California Raisans and The Commitments (though these might not fit the thread, it's not the song I hate, it's the bands...)

the rolling stones - saint of me (?) - a lame attempt to get jiggy with the kids by enlisting the dust brothers to remix a ripoff of a kd lang song - a complete embarassment all around

madonna - hanky panky from the dick tracy soundtrack (not to be confused with tommy james and the shondells' classic hanky panky)

chuck berry - my ding-a-ling - his only number one hit, his biggest piece of crap not caught on hidden video

Find a record everyone hates, but it has to be something otherwise acclaimed

Now, Will anyone speak out for it? (ans=inevitably yes...)

xoxo

I fear that this thread is doomed.

Traditional critical acclaim (?): "Ob-la-di-ob-la-da" - Beatles

Everyone *should* hate "What's Up", though. Thank you, Tarden.

Cat Power's version of Wonderwall actually shows it up as being quite good, but we'll have to find someone who likes the excrutiating Oasis version before it's out.

I nominate 4 Non-Blondes' "What's Going On". Bad as a limp alt-rock anthem, bad as a dance track. B-b-b-b-b-b-bad.

but it has to be something otherwise acclaimed

no-one liked it when it came out, and it's a mystery to this day who aktually bought it.....

I'll go along w/mr. pinefox - this is clearly a hopeless quest. If people will leap to thee defence of "wonderwall" & "Don't look back in anger", then (IMO) it's hard to imagine anything that will fit......er, hang on, how about "Blue Room" by the orb? They were quite "acclaimed" and that did indeed blow goats...any takers?

xoxo

Steven Wells did. He made it Single of the Week in the NME. If I had my way the most hated song would be 'I'm Like A Bird' - Nelly Furtardo, I pysically CANNOT listen to it, when it comes on I lunge at the radio to turn it OFF.

But I'll go along with any Robbie Williams track, really.

WHO WILL DEFEND "Mr Writer"?!?

There, I said it. Take that you bastards.

I'd unequivocally shoot down anything by the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac. It doesn't matter what. it's awful. Horrible. There's nothing at all worse, besides "Everybody Hurts".

I'll also defend (somewhat) Lindsay Buckingham-era Fleetwood Mac. He had a good ear for tunes, he was the Brian Wilson of the Seventies and if it wasn't for him Fleetwood Mac would have become the British Santana (which would not have been good).

I agree that there's no defending the Eagles, jointly or severally.

as the critical acclaim thing goes, i don't think a couple good reviews should be enough, especially if they're by chuck eddy. if it's to mean anything, then the song should be something that's been clearly canonized. thus, beatles, hendrix, even zeppelin nominations make sense but not eagles or meat loaf or bryan adams.

also, i do not agree that bryan adams is out to make critically acclaimed classics. "summer of '69" may, however, rate as a classic in my view of things.

Buckingham-Nicks era Fleetwood Mac = classic, all of it.

All this fiffling around in the main reaches of BritPop/BritRock is silly, as we kno of old that they have their fond defenders. To re- iterate: WHO WILL DEFEND "Mr Writer"?

(Is that what it's called? The Stereophonics song about how rubbish rock critics are?)

Interesting how much hatred and bad memory intersekt: it's not just me, you can read it all up the thread, from King-Geek MemoryMen of Ev'ry Stripe and, er, Stroke...

The problem w/4 non-blondes is... no-one liked it when it came out" Steven Wells did. He made it Single of the Week in the NME.

I am not in the least bit surprised by this SWeLLS is/was/will be a complete idiot. Sven Hassell, classic or dud, Swells? eh? eh?

xoxo

But that's OK, so do I.

Alright, if you can find someone to defend the Stereofuckingphonics, then I will actually give up and say that my claim was rubbish. But you have to genuinely LIKE them, not just think they're not bad.

Then again, someone wandered onto the "London Indie" list by mistake and started saying that he liked Stereophonics and even Toploader, so honestly, you never know...

Stereo Mc's = great.

As far as I can see, the following are still standing. I've omitted lots that I either don't hate myself or don't think are well known enough to count, however acclaimed they are in certain quarters:

What's Up? - 4 Non Blondes
Angels - Robbie Williams
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh
Hanky Panky - Madonna
A Thousand Trees - Stereophonics
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
I Can't Dance - Genesis
One - U2

and I add...

'Walk Of Life' - Dire Straits

Nah, the thread says 'find a song that everyone HATES', so that's what I'm sticking to.

I dunno. As far as I can make out Mr Writer is an 'all critics are evil fuckers' whinge rather than an 'NME critics are evil fuckers' whinge. It's a big step from disliking the NME to disliking criticism in general.

Mr. Writer, however, is the most godawful dirge I've ever heard. They're pretty much the worst band in the universe. I can tolerate REM, Travis, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Magnetic Fields, AND the Beach Boys more than I can tolerate the Stereophonics, if just by the basis that THOSE bands have at least one song each that I can listen to (or even like), while Stereophonics clearly were put on this earth simply to annoy me. And they're all ugly to boot, bastards.

Has anyone mentioned the blatantly obvious My Heart Will Go On? I mean, it won an Oscar so it falls under acclaimed (unfortunately), but I have never met anyone besides my cousin who likes that song.

i thought everyone liked "blister in the sun." it's ok by me.

i've never heard the stereophonics. (are they popular outside the uk?) or travis for that matter. i don't think i've heard a complete song by suede.

"right now" is dismal, i agree. i think i actually hate everything by van halen.

just to clear something up: tarden, are you the same guy who was opposed to all melody and song structure on the noise thread?

Celine sounds like pinky and perky and keeps getting interupted by 200bpm breakbeats and piano breaks

The original is vile though

And I've seen your haircut.

It's not an insult, BTW, just a considered estimate (lucky guess?)

That oughta narrow it down a little. Y'all should try nominating *bad* songs for a change ;). Graham, are you keeping track of all this ?

Angels - Robbie Williams; Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh; and, oh, OK, 4 Non Blondes, though not heard for years.

Does anyone remember the name of that Phil Collins song that won the Oscar from "Tarzan"? Because that was awful. Another bad one: "Desert Rose" by Sting. "Desert Arse", more like.

I've like some Bolton, disliked others, can't remember any of the song titles (which makes me useless as well as irrelevant). And Patrick, "Ice Ice Baby" was the best hip-hop single of 1990 (the flip, "It's A Party," was just as good).

Way up in the chain I vetoed "My Heart Will Go On," which I like, as well as "I Can't Dance," which someone else also vetoed but keeps recurring (and to forestall its being nominated, I'll point out that I like Genesis's "Jesus He Knows Me" or whatever it's called, the one that sounds like Phil Ochs's "Crucifixion"). Lots of songs keep recurring here despite being vetoed. Again there's a smugness and ignorance: you don't believe that someone will like the song, so you don't notice when they do.

I've broken the rule myself by now by nominating "Bad To The Bone", so I'll just say fuck it and bring out the heavy artillery : Gloria Loring's "Friends And Lovers", Jack Wagner's "All I Need" and Patrick Swayze's "She's Like The Wind".

And before anyone else misinterprets it, I NEVER SPECIFIED *CRITICAL* ACCLAIM. Airplay, sales and widespread liking are also important, as long as someone (who probably should no better) genuinely likes the song. Again, if you want to discuss why some groups of people's opinions are dismissed by music crit, start a thread about it.

Full list of remaining nominees to follow shortly, please take theory/meta discussion elsewhere.

I'm completely willing to put Michael Bolton to the test, as proved by you vetoing them, so we'll have to find something else. What we're doing is working our way down from the top, there's no point in choosing something entirely unlikeable and us all agreeing. Michael Bolton was suggested by someone else as an example of something unlikeable (read the original finding something everyone likes thread). And Vanilla Ice was Patrick's foolish suggestion. I consider it a harmless pop record, certainly not something that would be automatically universally disliked.

really? i mean "ice ice baby"'s not bad but do you sincerely prefer it to "mama said knock you out" or "brothers gonna work it out" or "let your backbone slide" for that matter? hell, i'd even take "bust a move."

I've just spent well over an hour searching through this thread, so there are probably lots of mistakes. One question - People are definitely vetoing things that haven't even been nominated - Er, why? Stop nominating whole bands, but feel free to veto them (Except I don't know who all these are by, so they may not have been applied). And stop being so vague with vetoing and suggestions - "Actually I like that one" Who? NB the Michael Bolton rule is really a guide for suggestions, not for compiling, so it hasn't been applied here.

Stuff that's definitely nominated but hasn't been obviously vetoed:

"Stairway to Heaven"
"Hotel California"
"Wonderful tonight" Eric Clapton
"Lemon" U2
"Candle In the WInd 97" Elton John
"Where the streets have no name" U2
"Give It Away" Red Hot Chilli Peppers
"Miiiiiiiiiister Writeeeeeer" Stereophonics
"Free As A Bird" Beatles
"Knights In White Satin"
"Tragedy" Steps
Tin Machine

"Sweet Love" Anita Baker
"No Ordinary Love" Sade
"Freak Me" Silk
"Turn the Page" Bob Segar
"Like A Rock" Bob Seger
gimme 3 steps -lynard skynard
"Freebird" Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Voodoo Chile"
"Desperately Wanted" Better Than Ezra
Geegy Tah
"Kokomo"
"Love The One You're With"
"Blinded by the light"
"Rocky Mountain Way"
"Leader of The Band"
"Longer"
'We are the World'
"Ol' Rock And Roll Time" Bob Segaer
That Echo & The Bunnymen song from "Lost Boys"
"Don't Worry Be Happy" Bobby McFerrin
"Heartache Tonight" eagles
"Thick as a Brick"
"Wind Up"
"Tonight Tonight Tonight."
"Sy Borg" by Frank Zappa
"Montage" Kenny G

Stuff that I couldn't tell whether people were admitting to:

"My Heart Will Go On"
GYBE!
"Everything I Do" Bryan Adams
Anything by At The Drive In

Stuff that people really have admitted to (thus disproving that we're music snobs):

"Yesterday"
"Light My Fire"
"Rock the Casbah"
"Today" (Smashing Pumpkins)
"Tonight, Tonight" (Smashing Pumpkins)
"Hotel California"
"Stairway to Heaven"
"Roxanne"
"Caught A Lite Sneeze" (Tori Amos)
Grateful Dead
"Everybody Hurts"
"Fake Plastic Trees" (Radiohead)
"I Want You To Want Me"
"Disarm" Smashing Pumpkins
"Shiny Happy People"
"Hotel California"
blister in the sun - violent femmes
"The Long and Widing Road" Beatles
"Spill The Wine"
"The Joker" Steve Miller
"beautiful boy"
"Missing You" Puff Daddy
"aeroplane"
"Locomotive Breath"
"I Will Always Love You"
"You Better You Bet" The Who
"Call Me Al" Paul Simon
"Rainy Day Women"
"Another Day In PAradise"
"House of the Rising Sun"
"All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow
"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" Paul Simon
"Heal The World" Michael Jackson
"Leader of the Gang" Gary Glitter
"Afternoon Delight" Starland Vocal Band
"Boys of Summer" Don Henley
"have i told you lately that i love you?" by van morrison
Take it easy - Eagles
"Stairway to Heaven"
"Rebound" (Sebadoh)
"Birdhouse in Your Soul" They Might Be Giants
"Istanbul" They Might Be Giants
"Imagine"
"Roxanne"
"I Can See For Miles"
Shania Twain
"Turn! Turn! Turn!" (NB Not travis)
"I Can't Dance" Genesis
"Ob-la-di-ob-la-da" Beatles
"I'm Like A Bird" - Nelly Furtardo
"Sledgehammer"
"Hanky Panky" Madonna
"For What it's Worth"
"Something in the Air"
"Ohio" CSN+Y
"Bad To The Fuckin' B-b-b-b-bone" by George Thorogood
"Willie the Pimp" (Frank Zappa)
"Down Under" by Men at Work.
"Comfortably Numb"
"Honky Tonk Women"
Bjork
"Jeremy"
Meatloaf
"Ride on Time"
Suede "Trash", "Filmstar"
"Lady in Red" Chris de Burgh
"Connected" Stereophonics
Gorillaz
"Country house" Blur
"Supersonic" Oasis
Fleetwood Mac
"Yellow" Coldplay
"Champagne Supernova" Oasis
"Song 2" Blur
"All Fall Down" Martika
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
"Maria Maria" Santana
"Black Magic Woman"
"Sweetest Thing" U2
"One" U2
"Wonderwall" Oasis
"Blue Room" The Orb
"Don't Look Back In Anger" Oasis
"Step By Step" NKOTB
"Blowin In The Wind"
"9-5" Dolly Parton
'We are the Champions'
Jagger & Bowie 'Dancing in the Street'
"The Living Years" Mike and The Mechanics
"Walk of Life"
"Right Now" Van Halen
"Feed The World" Ant Aid
"Knocking On Heaven's Door"
"Angel" Shaggy
"Fools' Gold"
Mick Jagger - 'Lets Work'
"What's Up?" 4 Non Blondes
"A Thousand Trees" Stereophonics
"White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane
Garth Brooks
"Hey Jude"
"The Drowners" by Suede
"The Operation" Morissey
"Touch Me"
"Marrakesh Express"
"Radio Song" REM
"Octopus' Garden"
"Creep" (Radiohead)
"Freedom" Robbie Williams
"Angels" Robbie Williams

No more foolish than "Bryan Adams is acceptable but Michael Bolton isn't", dude :-p

The rest suck like week old pony shite though.

Um, does anyone in this bitch like Crazy Amazin' Cryin' by Aerosmith?

1. Nobody confesses to liking it.

2. It has to be well known enough for people to be in a position to confess. This is a group consensus thing, not a pinefox "But I don't know it" thing.

3. It has to be a proper record. I'm sorry this is so vague, but it's just to stop people nominating stuff that no one could possibly admit to, and the whole thread is about discovering how far we have to go to find that.

We'll choose winners at the weekend, and I veto any Steps up to and including "Tragedy".

I am out of suggestions anyhow. Mr. Writer still seems the solid choice from where I'm standin'.

No, I don't know all music. I know what I know. I have a feeling we all do.

The music that currently has me reaching for the "off" button has to be the latest one by Gorillaz. Which is a perfectly witless novelty record. I now can't avoid the creeping sensation that Gorillaz are the one pop act more cynical than Hear'Say. And to me, it does not withstand repeated plays. Which isn't good for a highly-playlisted record.

"Frontier Psychiatrist" by the Avalanches comes a close second. Constant radio plays has quickly waned the appeal of what is, again, basically a novelty record: some Australian students armed with a sampler and a batch of other people's records and movies. "Since I Left You" worked brillianty and is one of my favourite singles of 2001. But this.... Well, the best I can say is it was quite funny the first time I heard it.

On second thoughts, no it wasn't.

I’m vetoing Frontier Psychiatrist. I’ve removed bands and brought the list up to date. Veto anything that you like (I'm waiting for Mr Writer - It got played on the radio and didn't kill their career, so someone must like it).

Left for your consideration:

Tarzan stuff - Phil Collins
"Desert Rose" Sting
"Red Red Wine" UB40
"No Woman No Cry" Bob Marley
"19-2000" Gorillaz
"Hollywood Hills" Bob Seger
"Candle In the Wind 97" Elton John
"Voodoo Chile"
"Freak Me" Silk
"Turn the Page" Bob Segar
"Gimme 3 Steps" Lynard Skynard
"Wonderful tonight" Eric Clapton
"Desperately Wanted" Better Than Ezra
Geegy Tah
"Love The One You're With"
"Leader of The Band"
"Longer"
"We are the World"
"Mister Writer" Stereophonics
"Don't Worry Be Happy" Bobby McFerrin
"Wind Up"
"Knights In White Satin"
"Give It Away" RHCP
"Tonight Tonight Tonight."
"Free As A Bird" Beatles
"Montage" Kenny G

Newly vetoed:

"Lemon" U2
"Where the Streets Have No Name" U2
"Like A Rock" Bob Seger
"Freebird" Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Rocky Mountain Way"
"Ol' Rock And Roll Time" Bob Segaer
"No Ordinary Love" Sade
'Blinded by the light'
"Everything I Do" Bryan Adams
"Stairway to Heaven"
"Hotel California".
"Kokomo"
"Sy Borg" by Frank Zappa
"Heartache Tonight" Eagles
That Echo & The Bunnymen song from "Lost Boys"
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Sweet Love" Anita Baker
"Thick as a Brick"
"Tragedy" Steps
"Frontier Psychiatrist" Avalanches

I urge all of you to focus your hatred upon the stinking turd that is Sting's _Desert Rose_. Pop's most notorious tantric tourist plops an unsuspecting international pop star (with a singing voice, Gordon - you know what singing is, you hawk-nosed pseudo-poetic jackass?) into a fucking car commercial. Feel the loathe.

Oh, and by the way, I brought up the RHCP's "Aeroplane" as a HATE song, not something I liked. Unless someone else is gonna dumbfound me and say they like that one, too (after someone saying that they like "Let's Work", I don't think I could ever be dumbfounded again).

I imagine that the Stereophonics record is bad, but haven't heard it. I think that most people have heard *about* it, but few have actually heard it.

wasn't the echo & the bunnymen song from the lost boys a cover of the doors' people are strange? i rather liked it.

Elton John Candle in the Wind 97' - as much as i puke at the thought of U2 (with or without you) Van Hagar (right now) and Violent Femmes my most hated single is Eltons reguritated cow cud that was a "tribute" to Lady Die. Mother Teresa passes away exactely the same time and no one gave a shit. no one cared or sang for her. She gave her life to helping others, forgoed all materialism for spirituality and humankind. Elton, wheres your single for her U rump ranger? So based on that pinnacle of materialism paying tribute to materialism my vote is cast.

So yeah, I will nix Candle in the Wind. Sure, it was reguritated and really if they were such great friends perhaps stupid Elton could've wrote her her own song for god's sake, and it was not really a song I ever want to hear again, but hey, the money for the charity,come now.

Also, there exists somewhere alternate lyrics for CITW for Theresa of Calcutta: Sandals In The Bin. Mwahaha.

The Final Nomination List

"We Built This City" etc. Starship
"Unchain My Heart" Joe Cocker
"When Love and Hate Collide" Def Leppard
"Make Love Like a Man" Def Leppard
"With A Little Help From My Friends" Beatles
"Open Arms" Journey
"Home Sweet Home" Motley Crue
Lots by Bob Seger

"You'll Be In My Heart" (Tarzan OST) - Phil Collins
"Red Red Wine" UB40
"Freak Me" Silk/Another Level
"Gimme 3 Steps" Lynard Skynard
"Wonderful tonight" Eric Clapton
"Desperately Wanted" Better Than Ezra
"Love The One You're With" Crosby Stills Nash and Young
"Leader of The Band" Dan Fogelberg
"Longer" Dan Fogelberg
"We are the World" Michael Jackson
"Mister Writer" Stereophonics
"Wind Up"
"Knights In White Satin" Giorgio Moroder
"Give It Away" Red Hot Chilli Peppers
"Tonight Tonight Tonight" Genesis
"Free As A Bird" Beatles
"Montage" Kenny G

Newly vetoed this time:

"Every Day Is a Winding Road" Sheryl Crow
"Desert Rose" Sting
"19-2000" Gorillaz
"Don't Worry Be Happy" Bobby McFerrin
"No Woman No Cry" Bob Marley
Various Tracey Chapman
"Voodoo Chile"
Various Glenn Frey
Various Don Henley
Various Bruce Hornsby
"Candle In the Wind 97" Elton John

(advance warning: anyone thinking about vetoing "Tonight Tonight Tonight," please think twice before doing so ... I dunno if ya wanna take responsibility fer the consequences of such an inadvisable use of yer veto power. Please be guided by this missive. Hee hee.)

Stereophonics' record may very well be really awful, but from my POV the reported fact that 'they've moved in a bluesy rock'n'roll direction' is not a reason for disliking a record. I myself have moved in a bluesy direction, along with various other directions.

Geggy Tah's "Whoever You Are" deserves to get back up on the list. No one has mentioned enjoying it, yet it's not on the final listings. A truly terrible song about driver courtesy.

Also put up Tricky's "Evolution Revolution Love". When did that man finally lose it? I mean, c'mon, Ed Kowalcysk?

Speaking of... "Lightning Crashes" = the worst song of the 90's?

Oh, and I really think Mr. Writer is gonna win(?) this contest, hands d

I would argue that the following are not well known enough to count (maybe they were bigger in the US?): "Unchain My Heart" Joe Cocker
"When Love and Hate Collide" Def Leppard
"Make Love Like a Man" Def Leppard
"Open Arms" Journey
"Home Sweet Home" Motley Crue
"Freak Me" Silk/Another Level
"Gimme 3 Steps" Lynard Skynard
"Leader of The Band" Dan Fogelberg
"Longer" Dan Fogelberg
"Wind Up" (who is this?)
"Knights In White Satin" Giorgio Moroder (this different to Nights In White Satin by the Moody Blues, yes?)
"Montage" Kenny G

"Knights In White Satin" Giorgio Moroder (this different to Nights In White Satin by the Moody Blues, yes?)

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it's the same but in disco-version. Actually forget it, I only mentioned as a bit of useless information in re. spelling of the Moody Blues song. Nobody knows Moroder's version.

Nice call on that new Tricky shite.

xoxo

I'd say JC and DL probably are better known in America than here. I mean Def Leppard were quite big for a while (esp. around 'Hysteria'), but I get the impression they fitted into the FM rock thing in the US much more. Joe Cocker? Never hear him over here, bar a couple of oldies tracks.

to skidMARK S. How was MT a fraud? Dedicated 50 fucking years of her life and won a pulitzer prize. Please elaborate.

Can't veto anything else on the list, but I throw my support behind either "Red Red Wine" or Phil Collins' odious contribution to the treacle that is the Disney animated soundtrack ouevre.

Nick: It probably was the Moody Blues version that was nominated. I couldn't remember who it was by so just wrote down the first thing from Google. I didn't think it was right.

epitomizes everything that is *wrong* with rock and roll today.

it's certainly dull to write a dull song about (rock)writers but most importantly it's just sooooooooooo boring .......it might be even duller and even more boring for those writers to actually hate that song that much though ...

Every veto must be accompanied by a nomination. We still probably won't get anywhere, but at least we'll be able to stop people from perversely nixing twenty nominations and not proferring anything to replace them.

Also, the absolute worst song I've ever heard: "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals. It makes me want to rip my ears off.

I nominate Momus' classic of modern ennui and normalcy-crushing aesthetics: "Where'd The Cheese Go?"

Darren Hayes - Insatiable

Phil Collins "Another Day In Paradise" Spin Doctors "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" Hootie & The Blowfish "Hold My Hand" Carly Simon "Mockingbird" Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone" Steve Perry "Oh Sherry" REO Speedwagon "I Can't Fight this Feeling" Christopher Cross “Sailing” Bon Jovi “Living On A Prayer” Warrant “Cherry Pie” Europe “The Final Countdown” BJ Thomas "Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head" (a song I have hated since I was five)

yes, Tie a Yellow Ribbon was Tony Orlando and Dawn.

There is no way no how anyone on ILM likes Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA." That is the worst song ever recorded.

a better example is to attempt irony by saying something as tritefully goofy (on this bbs at least) as "plus his last few singles with N'Sync were the shiznit"... that would warrant more of a beating in my book. who's "ironic boy" now, huh? :p

then again, i find it hard to take anyone seriously who utters "shiznit"... knowhatimsayin?

just kidding again, really i'm just wasting time right now. good night!

I do believe I have yet to see an ILMer come to the defense of Em's "Cleaning Out My Closet", so I'm saying that. Defend if you can, muahahahaha!

I'll nominate DMB's "Ants Marching".

Without it, there would be no this. Or this. (NOTE: MP3 links.)

Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money and Run" - oy gevalt. Lee Greenwood is a clear winner but this should be ever so close. I don't even think Steve Miller fans like this one. Rapid-fire claps have never sounded worse.

There is in fact one brilliant version of "Cleaning Out My Closet" right here, which you'll note results from the expedient of removing the entirely shitastic original music for something completely different in tempo and feel that suits the delivery a million times better. As all good bootlegs should.

Patrin, you smug Minnesotan, "Take the Money and Run" rules for its sophisticated analysis of the economics involved in modern law enforcement: "[The sheriff] makes his livin' off other people's taxes." Trenchant! Or don't they have crime in your frozen wasteland?

You have to remove "Wonderful, Tonight" and most other classics because I would imagine _someone_ on ILM will be down. And England Dan and JFC are also klassic. Love Is The Answer, indeed.

I would take aim on Hootie or Spin Doctors [Little Miss Can't Be Wrong, anyone?] for ILM most-hated. Semisonic's closing time would be my guess...

BUT I was thinking of Proud To Be An American this morning. I saw it on a bumper sticker and I'm certainly NOT, so... yes... mr. g-wood in tha funkee hiz-ouse.

BUT, alex, i seem to remember you defending kingmaker of all people when i once gave them a diss in passing, so i take your derision and return it with interest...

That, out of all the early Whitney songs, is the one I can't stand. The omnipresence of it and "Don't You Forget About Me" in 1985 made that year a hell for my radio-obsessed self.

(but it's definitely the only simple minds song i do like)

The Whitney song is pure crap though, I'll give.

Yer just mad cuz the song basically made all other mopers redundant. It's got rain coming down, dancing, vanity, insecurities, people walking on by, pondering the possibility of one's name being called, hey hey hey hey's, ooo's, woah's, baby's, and la lalala laaaa's....
Hard to beat (I might be being a BIT facetious).

I should also note that, in common with much of America, "Don't You Forget About Me" was in fact the first Simple Minds song I'd ever heard. So rather than it crowding out memories of other, earlier songs in my head, it if anything turned me against the band and from wanting to investigate them further for a while.

On the the hand I've never been keen on 'Saviour's Day'.

Who knew self righteousess had a theme song?

worst song EVAH!

GOOD!

Also:
Don'T Worry Be Happy
Walking on Sunshine
Eternal Flame
Kiss (Tom Jones covers Prince)
Disco Inferno like all them

It's Dan Fogelberg as the winner/loser surely?

What could there be to like?

By Kiss? I LOVE that song. Incredibly stupid, yes, but still a classic Classic CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC! CLASSIC!

WHAT THE FUCK

that one.

I so win!

"POLLY"

Even I hate that song!

I nominate the following...
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Freedom - Paul McCartney
Fuck The World - Insane Clown Posse
What's Goin On - Puff Daddy and Bono and like 40 other people, Fred Durst and J-Lo and Beyonce and Britney etc etc

"Floaty"

I have seen several Macarena fans here, though God knows I am certainly not among them!

Well, this is what my first post was. I think it explains "Floaty."

This isn't BurmaKitty. This is AsiaKitty and the dumbest lyrics to any song I've ever heard are the ones to Floaty, a song by Dave Grohl.
He floats
Floats away
On the ground
He comes back down

She floats
Floats away
On the ground
She comes back down

They float
Float away
On the ground
They come back down

We float
Float away
On the ground
We come back down

That's not as big as
What's flown around here

That's the whole song and it's almost five minutes long. Not only do the lyrics sound like they were writen for a song made for little kids, the music(especially when acoustic) make you feel like you're five years old. I like Dave and Foo Fighters but, what was he thinking when he wrote this?! It's so simple and so stupid!

-- BurmaKitty (burmakitt...), March 13th, 2003.