Most Irritating Song Ever Recorded...your votes, please!

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Driving me to drink these days is the resurfacing of Geggy Tah's insufferably stupid and incessantly annoying "Whoever You Are (You Let Me Change Lanes When I Was Driving in My Car)." Though originally from their `96 album, SACRED COW, this insipid ditty is currently being used to hawk the new Mercedes and is in seemingly constant rotation. It makes me want to jab sharp objects in my ears and drink from the toilet. It's repugnant annoyance is rivalled only by Alanis Morrisette's savagely pretentious butchering of the Police's already-ridiculously-pious "King of Pain," from the absolutely unforgivable ALANIS UNPLUGGED album. She should die. Quite painfully. And soon.

Those are my two. What songs do you find absolutely unbearable?

― alex in nyc, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I Ain't Missin you at All"

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Hooch" by Everything

"Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker. I saw some MTV live performance for sycophantic fans during which they worked the first verse of AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" into the middle of the song without changing a thing. Same temp, same vocal delivery, same everything. Had the realization that they could perform any damn song they like, and it would sound identical. The vapidness of the whole thing was suffocating to watch.

― Chuck Tomlinson, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Zombie by Cranberries.
Lady In Red by Chris De Burp

― nathalie, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"How am I supposed to live without you?" by that guy with the annoying voice. or "The Greatest Love" by Whitney Houston or the Titanic theme.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, Weirdkat - that's MICHAEL BOLTON. If he's mentioned in one more thread, he'll emerge from the ground and wreak havoc on his home state. And force all radio stations to play tracks from his hair- metal past.

― David Raposa, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"How am I supposed to live without you?"

You're not talking about the very great Nilsson song, are you? "I can't live if living is without you... " etc. That's an uber-classic.

I'd nominate just about anything by that Satanic offspring, Celine Dion. And also "The Drowners" by Suede.

― Johnathan, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And lay off Geggy Tah - he's harmless.

MOST ANNOYING SONG (National Nominee): They Might Be Giants - the _Malcolm in the Middle_ theme song.

MOST ANNOYING SONG (Regional Nominee): John Pizzarelli - "The Wonder of It All" (AKA the fucking Foxwoods Casino theme song / jingle)

― David Raposa, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Please, call me Spock, Cock or Joe. This weirdkat thing is becoming a habit amongst you marchers.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And, yes, that proves that Mr. Bolton is the most annoying singer in the world. I never paid attention before but now I see! Incidentally, I had a girlfriend in college that babysat for either Michael's brother. There was a picture of old uncle hairdo himself on the mantle!! She said she met him and he was nice. Blech.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The Drowners"? Okay, well, I'm speechless about this call... Surely it's not as irritating as "Ebony and Ivory"... Cant be!

― Simon, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I absolutely want to die when I hear that one song that goes "She likes me for me!" and talks about Leonardo DiCaprio, as if anyone would want Leonardo DiCaprio anyhow. Ugh.

― Ally, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, wait! "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time"!!! The most brilliant artists often crap out the stankiest (yule) logs.

― David Raposa, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We are the world?

― Nude Spock, sick of typing name and email, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lady In Fucking Red.

― Nick Southall, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crazy Town's "Butterfly"

― Cryosmurf, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Donald Martino's "Seven Pious Songs". Particularly "His Ejaculation To God".

― Dan Perry, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"What's Going On," by 4 Non-Blondes... So bad my palms sweat. Makes a car alarm sound like the Bulgarian Women's Folk Choir.

― Andy, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll probably get yelled at for this, but I abhor the Waitresses' "I Know What Boys Like". The repetition, the sloppiness, the non- inflection... it's as if that song was created for the sole purpose of pissing me off. "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)" is up there somewhere definitely. And let's stick another Synchronicity song on here: anyone heard the unbearable "Mother"?

― palpable, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so exceptionally irritating that I can't help but stop and actually listen transfixed & awestruck... I think I actually like these songs a lot, despite their irritation-inducing ability:

"candy man" or "I am over 25 but you can trust me" - sammy davis jr. (was going to say "mr. bojangles", but it's too good for this thread)

"macarthur park" - richard harris

that song with the vocoder thing - zapp, cher, frampton, dre & tupac, etc.

― fritz, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh yeah! who did that lite-rock schlock ballad, "I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me"? zoinks!

― fritz, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peel me a grape by Diania Krall. Only a diva can pull this off and the Celine Dion of sort of kind of we do not like to be challenged Middle Classs in the suburbs "jazz" does not qualify

― anthony, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The Drowners"? Okay, well, I'm speechless about this call... Surely it's not as irritating as "Ebony and Ivory"... Cant be!

Hell, yeah! I'd much rather hear a bit of Stevie tinkling away on his piano than any warbling from Bert Anderson.

― Johnathan, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

TV make music sound evil.

The Britney pepsi commercial song.

The Friends theme song.

And I second the Malcolm theme song, too.

― tha chzza, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dave from Popshots is so on the money with his local nominee. For those not in the area, from listening to too many Boston Red Sox games on the radio, I have braincells permanently dedicated to the following: Take a chance
Make it happen
Pop the cork
Finger snappin'
Spin the wheel
Round and round we gooooo.... Life is short
Life is sweet
Grab yourself a front-row seat
Let's meet... and have a baaaaalllll! Yeah, let's live (let's live!)
For the wonder... of it all! (Meet me at Foxwoods.) My dad loves that ad, by the way. He thinks the music is great. And he's not alone -- a reliable source informs me that the jingle is *so* popular that thousands of people have contacted Foxwoods asking where they can buy the CD. They're supposedly trying to commission Pizzarelli to record a full version.

― Ian White, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Pretty Fly For A White Guy" by the Offspring = ajhfdak!!!111

Another of those cases where I heard the song before it became a hit and thought to myself, "okay, this will NEVER fly... this band is as good as dead." Then the song somehow gets huge; see also "I don't wanna miss a thing" by Aerosmith.

― original bgm, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sway by Mambo Latino(?!??). How to damn an entire continents music in less than 4 minutes.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NY has way better sports songs, does any other NYCer remember "Yankees (How Ya Doin')"? That was easily the best song ever recorded.

― Ally, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ian - it's going on his next CD. WITH AN EXTRA VERSE. There's a new commercial on the telly playing this "new" version ad nauseum. (I think the CD version will be a bit longer that 60 seconds, unfortunately.)

― David Raposa, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Orange Crush (title?) by REM, in fact most things by REM

― Loop Dandy, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything I've ever heard by Destiny's Child. Please shut them up.
Handheld, Momus.
YMCA
We Didn't Start the Fire
One song from some anime I had to hear every day repeatedly for months and months that was awful in the first place

― Lyra, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Doctor Doctor, Gimme the News" - fucking worst, most intolerable song EVER; encapsulates almost everything I hate about music into 4 awful minutes.

― Clarke B., Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, also that Sum 41 song that's being heavily played on MTV that goes: "I don't wanna waste moy toyme/" - Jesus, what a fucking prick! People are already trying to sound like that annoying shitstain from Blink 182! It's so awful how they play the verse in half time like some kinda nu-metal groove, then jack up the tempo for the chorus to make it "punky." God, kill me now.

― Clarke B., Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like that Sum 41 song, or the slowed up verse and chorus at least. Britney's Pepsi commercial is one of my favorite songs ever. Also among my favorites: "Around the World" by ATC and "Blue" by Eiffel 65, which other people seem to think are two of the most irritating songs ever. A ba dee a ba dye, a ba dee a ba dye.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really don't like "The Twist", by Chubby Checker.

― Kris, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, also, I like "Follow Me" plenty, but the Uncle Kracker song X-Pac uses as his theme song is annoying not only because it sucks, but also because it means X-Pac is coming out to wrestle.

― Kris, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ween's Push the Little Daisies. Ugh.

― bnw, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, "Poop Ship Destroyer" is the most annoying Ween song. But you have to enjoy "Push th' Little Daisies" to hear that one 'cause it's on the same album.

Besides, where's all the Zappa haters? Omar? mark? Here's yer chance to unload!

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

as already covered in Dude, that is the worst! i think the most irritating is Rudi a Message To You by The Specials

― gareth, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had no answer to this question until last night when a drunken flamate rolled in and put 'Abbey Road' on AGAIN, and I was lying in bed praying "PLEASE take it off before 'Octopus's Garden', it was like being a kid again and lying in bed dreading your alcoholic father returning home or something - then the fucking song came on, and I thought that once the fucking thing had started I would be able to withstand the pain but I couldn't, I just lay there shaking uncontrollably like I was in Room 101, and the drunken fucker was also SINGING ALONG to te fucking thing as well. For booby-trapping an otherwise pleasant, inoffensive record right in the middle of Side One with that, may they burn!

― dave q, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'drunken FLATMATE', that should be

― dave q, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Who Let The Dogs Out?"

― nathalie, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Got it: 'Blowing in the Wind'.

― Omar, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dave q sez: "PLEASE take it off before 'Octopus's Garden', it was like being a kid again and lying in bed dreading your alcoholic father returning home or something - then the fucking song came on, and I thought that once the fucking thing had started I would be able to withstand the pain but I couldn't, I just lay there shaking uncontrollably like I was in Room 101, and the drunken fucker was also SINGING ALONG to te fucking thing as well.

This = quite poss thee most awesome thing ever written on this board. Congrats dave q!!!

For me, this is tricky. I can't pick one, because I'm seeing "most irritating" as a line that certain rekords cross, rather than, like, first prize. "Don't look back in Anger" is one, as is "don't stand so close to me" (this because I'm always waiting for the truly spirit-sapping "shake & cough/nabokov" couplet.

I think what I'll have to do though, is nominate a category - namely bands that sound like husker du.. I don't mind the huskers themselves, but the minute I hear a soundalike, off it has to go, I'm afraid. Yeah, I know it's not remotely logical, but there y'go. xoxo

― Norman Fay, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A ba dee a ba dye, a ba dee a ba dye.

I have no idea what the most irritating song ever is. I do know that this is the most irritating written tic Otis Wheeler has ever picked up though.

― Ally, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can relate to that bands-that-sound-like-the-huskers thing. Personally I'd incinerate the majority of bands that play the Reading/Leeds Festival most years. One song? It'd have to be anything by Phil Collins. Ok, not such a threat these days, but still the most teeth-grindingly horrible voice ever - and the song would have to be that 'Paradise' homeless thing.

― Daniel, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am haunted by Phil Collins two tickets to Paradise tune. Once I counted it was played in 4 stores I went to in a 3-hour period, then I turned on the radio and there it was. But it is harmless.

The most irritating songs are: Walk Like a Man, the Crystal Ship, Tracy Chapman's "Give me one reason to stay here", "The Night Santa Went Crazy" by Weird Al--I babysat a kid and he had this on repeat the whole time.

― 1 1 2 3 5, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boom Boom Boom Boom I want you in my room to spend the night together from now until forever

ARRRRRRRGH!

― turner, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'brown eyed girl' because i used to work in and live above a restaurant where 'the entertainment' played it EVERY night - sometimes twice. i heard it seven days a week for four months and every time it came on everyone sang it at the top of there voice like it was st. paddy's day FOR EVER. hell on earth, those opening keys...

― michael wells, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The most irritating songs are of course the ones you have to hear again and again. If we were having this discussion in December we would all be fulminating about those Christmas records we get bombarded with from the middle of October til the beginning of January. Another particularly annoying genre is: bad song but stick an orchestra on it and people will think it's a work of genius. That Celine Dion Titanic one springs to mind, plus the new Catatonia one which has no discernible tune or charm, but which 'boasts' a string section.

― Daniel, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ironic by the Ottawa valley girl herself. Barbie Girl by Aqua, which is a shame cause I liked most of that album until I realized its ability to slip enough lines through my roomates head that it was like living with the band for four month. Yello song that ended up on Ferris Beuller's Day Off annoys a noisy oyster.

― zacko, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Barbie Girl is a fantastic song. Easily the worst song ever is Footloose anyhow, I just remembered.

― Ally, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm with Otis in ATC/Eiffel 65 fandom. Blu Cantrell's "Hit 'em Up" has quickly worn out its welcome, and now I dread it.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about that song by Alan Jackson? Way down yonder on the Chattahoochie it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie. It's horrible, he's Michael Bolton cowboy style.

― Lindsey B, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The fucker got drunk last night and put 'Abbey Road' on AGAIN!!! Aaaaaaarrrghhhhh!

― dave q, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Jill Scott single is increasingly making me want to *strangle*. Anything. -tion rhymes are torture. Going for a walk in the park with her would bore me to tears.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dave i quite like Abbey Road. The guy next to us plays "country" over and over again. The " " marks mean the new Tim Mcgraw album in which he compares himself to Elvis,Hank Williams and Jerry Lee Lewis. David pounded on his door and told the gentleman to please turn down that goyim chutzpah ridden ken doll . He does not talk to us any more. He probaly thinks goyim is jewish for we will kill your children.

so to the point, Tim McGraw.

― anthony, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sterling, THAT'S the Jill Scott single that's been driving you crazy???? Man.

Would it be wrong to mention child artists, particularly that 2-year- old French kid who did that, "It's hard being a baby" song?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, Dan, it definitely wouldn't be wrong.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Dan, why so down on Jordy? :D Anthony's post made me remember a country-punk song my neighbors used to blast which I loathe: "Crazy Game of Poker" by OAR. What a strange and irritating song that was.

― palpable, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The emoticon in that last post of course implies that I can't defend Jordy in any way. Just to let you all know because it's not exactly clear...

― palpable, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no doubt about it....I'm Like A Bird - Nelly Furtado. How can a song be so sonic-ly full and so empty? No verse all chorus.

― pop fan, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"It's been a while" by Staind.

Melancoly, soul searching hard rock is a contradiction in terms, especially when done so plainly as this. It's so revoltingly like every other song in the radio that I have yet to manage to get 10 seconds into the song without my hand automatically fipping the station.

― , Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine months pass...

New entry: Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott 'Hero'.

― stevo, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How You Remind Me. Because it is EVERYWHERE. ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE. You don't have soul, you have a beard, there is a difference...

My Generation by Limp Bizkit. All those people who say swearing is neither big nor clever must have felt very, very smug after this.

Also with whoever it was on the Sum 41 thing. My theory on that is that because of the echoey bit when he goes 'A-BORTION!' it's been snapped up by the pro-choice lobby. Or something.

Anything by Starsailor. "You're just a poor misguided fool (whereas me, I'm ace.)..."

Ditto for the Stereophonics, POD, Red Hot Chilli Peppers...

And some French rap song entitled 'Je Vais Sortir Ce Soir'. Think the chorus roughly translated as 'I'm going out tonight/And I'm not coming back/Until tomorrow'. Prat.

― Mr Swygart, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"You don't have soul, you have a beard, there is a difference..." I have started laughing and I think I may never stop.

― mark s, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I shaved my beard off a few years ago, I found I instantly lost my soul too, Mark, as a matter of fact.

Back to the subject: Mr Writer by the Stereophonics, for the whiney voice, admittedly a perfect match for the whiney lyrics.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus which, Chadders does the worst metal sign ever. It was in Metal Hammer's 100th issue, and it's dumbfoundingly poor...

― Mr Swygart, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From a recent Pizza Hut ad, sung by what sounds like a "cute" indie- pop band: "Where'd the cheese go?/Where the cheese at?/Where'd the cheese go?" etc. etc. I think they get 'cute' somewhere later and sing "where the cheese be?". In a 90-minute block of two Simpsons episode and one King of The Hill this commercial played about 15 times. Thankfully, it seems to have gone dormant.

As far as cough ahem "real" songs go: I get a rash every time I hear the Tubes' "One In A Million Girls".

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From a recent Pizza Hut ad

Hmm...you *do* know the story behind that, yes?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh no.

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So what IS the story behind that?

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Whodunnit" - Genesis (alternate: "I Can't Dance")

"Who's Going to Save Your Soul"- Jewel

"What if God was one of us"- Joan Osbourne

"New Age Girl" - Dead Eye Dick

"Wannabe"- Spice Girls

"One Hand in My Pocket" - Alanis Morrissette

― Joe, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I worked in a telesales place as a summer job, my boss found it extremely funny to put on the office Christmas album with "Stop the Cavalry" over and over and over again for hours on end.
Hate that. I can't bear Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" for the same reason. Jesus!
Oh and I hate Brown-Eyed Girl cos it's been played at every single student night i've ever been to, and every fucking slapper with brown eyes thinks it's about her. Which is ridiculous.

hatehatehatehatehatehatehateHATE!

― dog latin, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So, so many to choose from. But up there would be "Still Rock n' roll to me" and "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel, which are a reactionary dirge and a tuneless mess respectively. I'll also have "Boom Boom Boom" by the Outhere Brothers, a song which managed to ruin the summer of 1995 for me. Oh and not forgetting "Stranded" by Lutricia McNeal which has surely has the most uninspired melody of any song ever.

― Phil A, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

groovy kind of love - yuck, yuck, yuck. it's so vile that the original is the second worst song ever, and phil collins' is the ultimate.

― jim whitters, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Boney M: 'Brown Girl In The Ring' - TralalalalaaAARRGGGHH

Midge Ure: 'If I Was' - .......Dead? If only.

Alanis Morissette: 'You Oughta Know' - Is it any *wonder* that he left?

Madonna:'Material Girl' - LIVING PROOF THAT DONKEYS FUCK.

― Ray M, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if you're going to go with an alanis track it must be that "isn't it ironic" one. she doesn't even know the meaning of the word for christsake! but she still keeps going on and on. and i'd also go with the cranberries "zombie"

― dyson, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

None of these songs can touch "Love Hurts" for unadulterated ear- torture.

― dleone, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a toss-up between "Loooooooving you, is easy cause you're beautiful...." and Rotterdam Termination Source "Poing".

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― Siegbran Hetteson, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ref: All Anus More Upset - I've managed to generally avoid the caterwauling harridan ever since that 1st single, so am fortunately unaware of this 'ironic' thing.
The only other one I've been subjected to is where she's banging on in the chorus something like:
'thankyou blahblahblah, thankyou blahblahblah, thankyou DIS-ILL- OOH-ZJIN-ME-HEH-HENT...'
Is that the piece of crap everyone else is nominating, or is there something even worse?

― Ray M, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes. "isn't it ironic" is far worse. imagine yourself stuck in a room with alanis listening to her babble about something she knows absolutely nothing about for over 5 minutes, and you can't stop her. you're a lucky man if "thank you" is the worst it's gotten for you.

― dyson, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oddly enough, there are no songs at the moment that irritate me to the point of irritation, and seeing this thread for the first time now, I have to say that I actually like that Geggy Tah song. So. Oh well.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

surely it has to be the birdy song

― Nick Dutton, Monday, 23 December 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Faith Hill "This Kiss"

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 23 December 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still saying its "Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey"; All the bad popsongs and rocksongs go away (until KTel puts them on a CD) but I suspect that "DtICD" will be trotted out every damned christmas until the end of time.
Or until somebody does an even worse rendition of it.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 23 December 2002 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

anything by No Doubt.

"Hey Baby" = GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 23 December 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

(was going to say "mr. bojangles", but it's too good for this thread)
Aaargh! No it really IS bad enough!

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 23 December 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"Spread Your Wings" by Queen
-- AN INCREDIBLE COCKBOWL OF COLD VOMIT

(to which, in my ears, "Born In the USA" just about manages to measure up)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 23 December 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Thankyou - Dido.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 23 December 2002 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

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ugh. Terrible. Take it off.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 23 December 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm...you *do* know the story behind that, yes?

Ned? Tell us the story about the cheese song, please?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 23 December 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

MacArthur Park is the most wretched hunk of gangrenous mucous ever spewed forth by mankind in any artistic discipline. Seasons In the Sun, Taco's Puttin On the Ritz, Paul Stookey's Wedding Song, God Bless the USA, & The Ballad of the Green Berets are all honorable mentions.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a LLLLLOOOOT of shit on this list, but some of them fit my so-irritating-they're-fascinating list. But, of what I've heard, "Hey Leonardo! (She Likes Me For Me)," along with their earlier hit "I Believe" make me wanna give Blessid Union of Souls the top spot. For Now.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"Move Your Ass" by Scooter.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Itchycoo Park

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I think MacArthur Park is grate

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"MacArthur Park" is a classic. Nothing annoying about that one (not even about Donna Summer's cover)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 8 March 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Taco's "Puttin' On the Ritz"??? I completely disagree, if only for his namesake being the most amazing food ever.

― original bgm, Saturday, 8 March 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Only choose one or two most irritating songs? Impossible. Unthinkable. Unlikely.

Raise it an order of magnitude or two and then we might be talking.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, 8 March 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

In 1982, for me, Taco was a Dutch guy making synthpop versions of old Evergreens. I had never heard of Tex-Mex food back then. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 8 March 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It hurts to recollect the chorus:

"Brandy, you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life, my lover, my lady
Is the sea"

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Muskrat Love, the Captain and Tennielle

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the song Brandy, though I can't remember who it's by. The Hollies maybe? There's a line in the bridge where it sounds like he says "Brandy used to watch his ass." If you know what it really is, I don't want to know. It would shatter my illusions. Anyways, I think it's a good song.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I did it all for the nookie. Thong tha thong thong thong. Ooooh that smell. I want to get away...I want to flyyyyyyyyyy away, yeah. I wanna push you around. With aaaaaaahhhhhmmms waaaaahhhhhd ooooopppiiiiiiiiiin.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

delta dawn

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

So many good nominations above... 'Boom boom boom' by the Vengaboys and Ironic by Alanis Morrissette (those things she describes aren't ironic at all!!!!), but I think these days there is a universal answer to the question of what the most irritating song ever would be.

It has to be the Ketchup Song.

― Tijn Gilissen, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mr Blobby" makes "The Ketchup Song" sound like Wagner.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

survivor by destiny's child.
oy gevalt!

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to say:
I really dont like "PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC WHITE BOY"
For the following reasons:
IT does not rock.
It does not swing.
It is not FUNKY.
IT IS SHIT.

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

That Celine Dion song from the "Titanic" soundtrack - "My Heart Will Go On" AND Whitney Houston's piece of crap from the "Bodyguard" soundtrack. Two shit movies, two brutally irritating songs.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Anything at all by Whitney Houston, Mariah Scarey and Celine Dion.
But my most annoying record EVER is the Flying Pickets massacre of Yazoo's 'Only You'. Sacrilege.

― russ t, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know, but if any money was involved, I'd put mine on Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" though it would be a close call when put up against REM's "Shiny Happy People."

― wutchootawkinboutwillis (wutchootawkinboutwillis), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

anything by PJ Harvey

― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

anything by the B-52s

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"Brandy"'s by the Looking Glass, who also had a hit w/ "Jimmy Loves Mary Anne", an amazing replication of "Brandy". I think that guy had a fairly amazing voice.

Since someone already grabbed "What's Going On" by 4 Non Blondes (wretched song, wretched band, wretched name, gag a maggot), I'll roll with ...no, I'll just second it, it's really bad.

I'll tell you, Norah Jones is frankly wearing very thin, but I can't pick an individual offender yet (I hear it a lot, they play it at work, it sounds more hackneyed and insincere each time, I really did try to like it), and the entire category "Lenny Kravitz" could use a good excizing.

I WANNA HEAR ABOUT THE CHEESE SONG, it always made me curious (I don't hate it, though, and the "I-I-I-I can't wait to get my hands on you" pizza theme (anyone know what it is?) with its little squiggly keyboard line really captured me.

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one has said "Ventolin" yet.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I've said this before, but "Ventolin" is the only song that ever made my remarkably tolerant dad burst into my room and ask "What the hell are you listening to?"

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I've ever gotten past the 4 second mark on 'Ventolin'
Except while I was shrooming, then it was pretty cool

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I threatened to play it at our wedding reception. Once my wife actually heard the song, she was not amused.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I could be wrong but wasn't Ned talking about how Ween was commissioned to write a jingle for Pizza Hut, thus that song Nate listed above, which I thought was rejected so they wrote another song, that went "Where's my motherfucking cheese", or something.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Ventolin, and don't find it annoying at all. Guess it doesn't run in the family.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

That piercing shriek that runs throughout the song is classic, yet I don't know a single person who can listen to it at anything approaching normal value and not get a blinding, incapacitating headache. I love playing it on my dad's stereo as it's the only song I own where the TREBLE shakes the house down to its foundation rather than the bass, plus it hurts people.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh sorry, the line was "Where'd the motherfuckin' cheese go?/I don't know." You can hear Ween's versions on their website.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"Pressure" by Billy Joel

― david day (winslow), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

it's 'brown eyed girl'.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"from me to you" by the beatles

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Very clever of ya.

― man, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"Holdin' Back The Years" by Simply Red. It burrows into my skull, and stays there for days, even though I HATE it. Urgh.

― schwantz, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot one. "Buffalo Girls" by Malcolm McLaren.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"electric deaf" by sote

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU DON'T LIKE "WHERE'D THE CHEESE GO"?!?!?!??!?

WHAT the FUCK!??!?

― Evan (Evan), Friday, 14 March 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess we all collectively repressed the horror that was 'The Macarena'

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Some classics: "Crimson and Clover", "Pretty Fly For a White Guy" (and I like the Offspring), and "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" (and I like Bob Dylan), "Monster Mash", America's "Horse with no name" and that song about the lime and the coconut which is well-known for its stuck-in-your-head properties.

My personal hell: Jewel's "Hands". Is there a worse line to repeat over and over than "But they're not yours, they are my own"?

― Kevin, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Genesis - "I Can't Dance"
Sonic Youth - "Swimsuit Issue" or "Death Valley '69"

― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Cotton Eye Joe by Rednexx, by a long run.

― David Allen, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

A couple other contenders:

Crystal Waters: Gypsy Woman
D-Mob: We Call It Aceeeeid
666: Alarma

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

omg. Katrina and the Waves - "Walking on Sunshine", i'll take a whole B-52's album over this.

― rex jr., Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Move your feet by Junior Senior, no arguements thats the most irritating song ever!

― GenYuden, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"I am haunted by Phil Collins two tickets to Paradise tune" this is Eddy Money, right?

Anyway the most annoying song ever is We built this city by Starship.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 29 May 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Spin Doctors' big hit. you know, "just go ahead now". can't be bothered to search the title.. wasn't it something like "Three Kings"?

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 29 May 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"One Born Every Minute" by Blur. There is a KAZOO on this song. WTF?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Doctor Doctor, Gimme the News" - fucking worst, most intolerable song EVER; encapsulates almost everything I hate about music into 4 awful minutes.

The Robert Palmer song? I think it's called "Bad Case of Loving You". I could be wrong, but I don't have the time to search for the correct title. Anyway, I don't feel either way about it. It's bleh.

How about that song by Alan Jackson? Way down yonder on the Chattahoochie it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie. It's horrible, he's Michael Bolton cowboy style.

Oh dear God that one's annoying, but not even half as annoying at the abomination that is the Boot Scootin' Boogie. The people responsible for *that* ditty should be banished forever from having anything at all to do with music and should instead fry forever in some Dante-ish circle of hell. OMG, the pain of the memory of having this POS played at every flipping gathering I've been to -- countless weddings and birthdays -- oh, the horror.

Spin Doctors' big hit. you know, "just go ahead now". can't be bothered to search the title.. wasn't it something like "Three Kings"?

That would be "Two Princes". When I was 12, I adored this song. Now, like the above-mentioned Robert Palmer song, I feel bleh about it. You know "bleh" -- it's similar to "blah", except it's more noncommittal.

I agree with many of the above-mentioned songs, but there is one I'd like to defend -- Midge Ure's "If I Was". I love that song to bits!! In fact, I'm a Midge Ure fan, and now your (Ray's) post has inspired me to go and play that song, followed by another one of his (and a few other people's) songs, "Fade to Grey". It's Midge Ure day at Chez Deanna!

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

groovy kind of love comes close. very close, but the absolute WORST most Irritating song i can think of is The time of my life from Dirty Dancing. I remember hearing this song when i was 5 years old listening to nursery rhymes and i hated it then. this song has only gotten worse with time.

― AaronK, Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

ANYTHING. By. Kid. EFFING. Rock.
Listening to that jackass is equivalent to having one's kneecaps slowly crushed under piles o'cinder blocks. Waaarrgh!

― michelle (polomoche), Friday, 22 August 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Can't believe y'all missed Lollipop. Makes me want to rip my eyeballs out everytime I hear it.

And any time Mariah Carey shrieks like a pig in a vat of oil (which she does in every song) I just want to shred her.

― Enn, Saturday, 15 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

A close call between "Macarena", "Dance Little Bird" and "The Ketchup Song"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That goddamned Celine Dion Titanic song by about a mile. "Achy Breaky Heart". "Unchained Melody"

― d.w., Sunday, 16 November 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the tomahawk chop

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 16 November 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not #1, but I really do think "The Star Spangled Banner," with that crazy melody line, often has the potential to be the most irritating songs to have to sit through, depending on who is singing.

I kind of hate the Jimi Hendrix version, and I somewhat don't really mind Whitney Houston's version, which is odd considering I love Hendrix and hate Whitney Houston.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course by "sit," I meant "stand." You're supposed to STAND during the national anthem. Where's my head today...

Also I feel that very long songs have the potential to be much more irritating. IE Paradise By The Dashboard Light, Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, It's All Coming Back To Me Now, American Pie, etc

― billstevejim, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I think the "Where'd The Cheese Go" mentioned here is referring to the Moldy Peaches version, not the Ween version.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why does my vagina have to be so Complicated?" by Avril Lavigne

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't forget Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man."

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 16 November 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Placebo "Pure Morning".

― Yahoo Frivolous, Sunday, 16 November 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete S if that song actually existed it would be the greatest thing ever, WTF??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 November 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be a bleedin' miracle

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ugh.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 16 November 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I Want to Hold You 'Til I Die. Which should be soon.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Sunday, 16 November 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"You gotta eat/what are you doing?/You gotta eat/said who do you think you are?....You gotta eat/You gotta eat Rally's!"

Be thankful if you don't live near a Rally's and aren't in their commercial target audience.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Sunday, 16 November 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

anything by the chipmunks.

― TK, Monday, 17 November 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Mya- My love is like wo . The only thing that sucks more is her (in an interview) explaining the meaning of wo. She was intellectual for certain.

― cs appleby, Monday, 17 November 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Kokomo" by a band that pretends to be the Beach Boys.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 17 November 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

That song that goes "WHERES YOUR HEAD AT!!!" over and over. Whatever the fuck that is.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 17 November 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Pass That Dutch" obv, even if only to annoy Dan P ;-)

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 17 November 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I happened to hear "Zombie" by The Cranberries a couple of weeks back, my fury has only just subsided.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 17 November 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

O A DO DO DO A DA DA DA
THAT'S ALL I WANT TO SAY TO YOU

The mothrfuckin' police

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Any techno remix of AC/DC.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 17 November 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

All we need now is for Dido to do a cover of "Zombie." Same strangulated deviated septum of a voice as Dolores O'Whateverhersurnamewas.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 17 November 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Good GOD, Marcello. Thanks for the nightmare fuel.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Youth of the Nation" (i think that's what it's called) by P.O.D. Makes me glad i'm an atheist.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the real answer is:
Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary

And give a listen and see if you can disagree with that, because you will be too irritated with the song tha either your head will explode, or you will wander around somewhere for a while and forget about ILM for a few months.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, A Nairn, but if you're talking McCartney you must go back to the source of all his annoying songs: Bip Bop. At least if you're drunk you can dance to Temporary Secretary (not that you'd want to...but you could).

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned One Week by Barenaked Ladies. Three years later and I'm still not over how much I hate that song.

― Jack H, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone remember that song "Mouth"? I can't remember what the chick's name was who sang it...ooh oooh, it's in my head now. F%#k! Reading this thread has not been a good idea. Also, "I Don't Wanna Wait."

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned One Week by Barenaked Ladies. Three years later and I'm still not over how much I hate that song.

And I hi-five you for mentioning it.

"Unbelievable" by EMF. For some ghastly reason, I hear that played over many Arsenal vs. Man U. matches. What about better taste?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot. It was funny at first, but i NEVER want to hear it again. Someone please write another novelty rap song about a body part that replaces this. My own personal hell would consist of being stuck at a party where they play "Baby Got Back" on an endless loop, and i have to watch EVERYONE recite all of the lyrics to it and do some sort of ass-shaking dance over, and over, and over....

― k good, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You're thinking of The Macarena.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Baby Got Ear"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

MY SHARONA

And there is absolutely no way to escape from it.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Crazy Town - Butterly - OTM
Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl
Queen - Crazy thing called love
That recent-ish Red Hot Chili Peppers one where they try to go all Led Zeppelin acoustic mystical, and talk about checking the surf, then checking their heads, getting lost in the USA...

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Gosh, you lot are a right bunch of stuffies!!!!!! Most of the the songs listed so far are really grebt/grate/however you spell it!!!!!!! Especially the "Macarena"!!!!! (And I want to hear this Rotterdam Termination Source "Poing" mentioned above!!!!! That sounds a right laugh!!!!!) I can't believe I'm going to say this at my advance age, but Phew crickey, Gramps, stop being so square, and get with it daddio!!!!!

Well, apart from The Spind Doctors "Two Princes" and Alanis Morrissette's "Ironic". They really are absolute bunkum!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't normally say this but after last night Hot Hot Heat's "Bandages".

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"My Sharona" is brilliant, by the way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"apparently nothin'" by the frickin yek yeuch young d, d, disgusting dsigusting . sorry ... disciples.
man, that SUCKS

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

bob is wrong

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i suppose you have "soul"?
carleeen anderson can't sing .
the band sound shit.
it's rotten

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

That track that Black Eyed Peas did with Macy Gray (the one pestering the deejay to play her "hip hop jam" or whatthefuckever) makes me want to drown the world in vomit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A contemporary contender currently annoying the blazes out of me - Limp Bizkit - "Behind Blue Eyes". Yeuch. Oh, and a golden (well, the kind of "gold" that turns your fingers green if you wear it too long) oldie - "Joe Le Taxi", by Vanessa Paradis.

― Melly E (Melly E), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Two Princes" obviously rules this thread.
Nobody's mentionned 4 Non-Blondes' "What's going on?" yet? On The Police's "Roxanne" and Queens' "We are the champions" (and a handful of others) also spring to mind

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 27 November 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary

Extremely annoying and repetitive. But it didn't achieve the needed popularity to deserve inclusion in this thread. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir is right.

Bob is still wrong. "Apparently nothin" is a great record.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Stump own this thread.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No Bob is right.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I've developed quite a tolerance to most of the worst songs on this thread. Right now, the only things I can think of that grate so much that I really cannot fucking physically abide them at all are 'Birdhouse in Your Soul' by They Might Be Giants, 'Blister In The Sun' by the Violent Femmes, and 'Last Night' by the Strokes. My God, I fucking hate those. I'm a placid man, but they just make me inexplicably angry. Oh, and 'Englishman in New York' too. Eeek.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I imagine Sting crops up quite a lot in this thread.

― The Spotlight Kid (kid), Thursday, 27 November 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually Polish radio seemed to have playlisted one of my own personal bogeysongs "Susannah" by The Art Company, a poor song taken ten levels lower by including a chorus of simpletons laughing and clapping along on the record, the bit where she says go and he says "NO!" really is a low, cowardly thing to do to a man's ears.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 27 November 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm having a hard time remembering how that song actually went, but I think I can remember the band - a bunch of accordian wielding continental Yurpeen-types, right?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Susannah! Susannah! Susannah! I'm crazy lovin' you!

May well have included accordians. No idea of geographical origin - possibly Europe, possibly Hades.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mr Blobby". All bets off. Go home, people...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 27 November 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Mambo No 5, clearly.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 27 November 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Or For the Benefit of Mr Kite.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 27 November 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden:
"I wonder why, I wonder how..."
gives me nausea.
I quite like The Ketchup Song actully.

― daavid, Friday, 28 November 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

That pillsbury song just got on my last nerve! (My heart to yours-with a little twang)...but, must say....The chips ahoy song ruled: Smack dab in the middle......

― Marianne, Thursday, 4 December 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything by Mannheim Steamroller (all one big holiday sound-wad ugh)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Thursday, 4 December 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr Blobby seconded.

― man, Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

chumbawumba's tubthumping makes me want to murder...also one week by barenaked ladies

― jack, Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No one has mentioned "sweet home alabama" yet--too obvious? It always makes me think of a dusty backwoods hick bar full of dirty bearded men with sleeveless denim shirts, stained wifebeaters, enormous beer guts and confederate flag bandanas tied around their heads singing along and sloshing coors lite all over each other as they pound the uneven plywood bar with glee.

"Kokomo" by a band that pretends to be the Beach Boys.

Weren't they kidnapped and hypnotized by Jimmy Buffet before releasing this stale garbage?

Also "smash into me" or some such by the always awful DMB (though they say legions of white baseball hat clad fans can't be wrong)

― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

ahh..what a hoplessly untrue cliche'.Maybe you should have given them KKK masks as well to round out your carpetbagging eliteist daydream ?

― Camazotz, Friday, 5 December 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Look Ma, a thread containing a post from me that's six months old!

Also "smash into me" or some such by the always awful DMB (though they say legions of white baseball hat clad fans can't be wrong)

One of my college friends loved "Crash Into Me". Rachel wasn't white, or did she own a baseball cap, but we were in a campus wherein baseball caps were hugely popular so. Hm.

I still highly dislike the "Boot Scootin' Boogie" song, but now I feel that it's practically a masterpiece compared to that insipid "Butterfly Kisses" song. Or "song". Or schmaltzy piece of overbearingly sweet fruitcake. If I still had Dad around and I were on the off chance to ever get married, I wouldn't dare subject the people at the reception to that dreck. I like people too much to do that.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

ahh..what a hoplessly untrue cliche'.Maybe you should have given them KKK masks as well to round out your carpetbagging eliteist daydream ?

Hmmm...elitist, perhaps, but I don't see where the carpetbagging fits in, though if you are referring to something like this, I guess I can't argue with you.

Regardless, I have obviously struck a chord with you. I'm not suggesting that you are in my scenario just because you happen to like the song; it's my impression based on my own experiences with it in rural Michigan. If you're from the south it has nothing to do with you, though if the shoe fits, I guess.

One of my college friends loved "Crash Into Me". Rachel wasn't white, or did she own a baseball cap, but we were in a campus wherein baseball caps were hugely popular so. Hm.

Sorry for the lack of clarity; I meant that the baseball caps were white, not necessarily the fans.

― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

You people have clearly never heard The Old Fish Song by James Howard.

― Dave Vinson (Gaughin), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Butterfly" by Crazy Town.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

kokomo

― bob drew, Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

B-52's - "Rock Lobster"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 16 January 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(unless "Love Shack" is worse.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 16 January 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"This is the story of a giiiiirl WHO CRIED A RIVER AND DROWNED THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone get me the fuck back to 2001 NOW!

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 16 January 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hit That-The Offspring

― Rachel, Friday, 16 January 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Shut-up! Just shut-up, shut-up! Shut-up! Just shut-up, shut-up! etc.

See, now I've typed that so often the words have become meaningless. I hate you, The Black-Eyed Peas.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"How much is the FISH?
Does the FISH have CHIPS?"
I love Stump.
Also, Happy Flowers "I Wanna Watch Cartoons"- hear it once and you're scarred for life!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I still don't know if any of these have beat Alex in NYC's original answer of Geggy Teh.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Stump were great.

They sounded like Beefheart

In a good way...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That Rednex remix or whatever it is of "Cotton Eyed Joe" gives me a serious Beavis-seizure.

― rainman (rainman), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't even really remember how deadeye dick's "new age girl" went but i think that wins

― tweemu (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

'Fairytale of New York', no contest

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post

I certainly remember how it went, and will kindly refrain from doing the disservice of trying to remind you.

― rainman (rainman), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

mambo #5

― princessofcairo, Friday, 16 January 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

OK - let's get this straight! There is nothing wrong with 4 Non-Blondes, Michael Bolton (own the CD), Cranberries, Aqua (own the CD), Hanson (need two CD's, three singles and 3 videos to complete my collection) or Dee-lite's "Groove Is In The Heart". And who's the oke who ripped off the Bahamen and Joan Osborne? And leave that Colin Farrell song alone!
Worst songs (I'll try and get this in some kind of logical order):
"Sunday Fucking Sunday" by U2; the fastfood song (South African song with the words "McDonalds, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut").

― Robin Bond, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, that "la da dee, la da da" song was "Gypsy Woman" by Crystal Waters. It's a RAD song. Don't rip it off.

― Robin Bond, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Takin' Care of Business" or "Goin' Up the Coutnry" get my vote.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

while "brown-Eyed girl" is annoying in its own right, I think it suffers more from audience participation and the dipshit bar bands that encourage it at least once a set. If any of you have worked in a crap bar, you feel me...

destroy: perfumed sorority whores screaming their own eye color over the lyric.

that said, the obvious answer is goddam "Walking In Memphis" by that Mark Cohn hump.

― Will (will), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone's version of "Big Yellow Taxi" annoys me.

And that Jason Mraz song "The Remedy" is right up there as well.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe Kay is OTM. Everytime that sentimental crap comes on the jukebox I just leave the bar, cursing loudly. That, and Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World."

― sexyDancer, Monday, 19 April 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

OK - let's get this straight! There is nothing wrong with 4 Non-Blondes....

You are heroic in your incorrectness.r

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by "Lady Sovereign" is the most annoying thing ever.

If I wanted to listen to a 12 year old with an irritating accent complain that nobody will sell her cigarettes, I'd hang around my town precinct at 8 o'clock in the evening when the pikeys come out to gawp and shout at people. Funnily enough, though, I've never had that urge...

― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

possibely "Margaritaville" mainly for that "lost shaker of salt line. I mean, when is one really missing? Will he really not be able to drink his Margarita? Is losing something that doesn't really matter really require fault (damn fault) determination.

Also, the "of salt" thing bugs. I mean it's a "salt shaker"! You don't hear Lil John going "Shake it like a Shaker of Salt!" It's clearly just a lazy way to fill up (an admittedly good) melody.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

MOST IRRITATING SONG EVER:
If I had to pick JUST ONE then it would have to be:

Achey Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cirus

If I could write a LIST it would include (alot have already been said):

My Heart Will Go On (Titanic Theme) - Celine Dion
I Will Always Love You (Bodyguard) - Whitney Houston
500 Miles - The Proclaimers
Zombie - The Cranberries
Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
Ironic (MORONIC) - Alanis Morrisette
Peaches - Presidents of USA
Lady In Red - Chris de Burgh
Shut-up - Black Eyed Peas
The Ketchup Song (Asereje) - Las Ketchup
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Mambo No5 - Lou Bega
Whats Up? - 4 Non-Blondes
Yellow - Coldplay
This Kiss - Faith Hill
She Likes Me For Me - Leonardo's Bride
Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam (cover)
Mickey - Toni Basil
Crazy Town - Butterly
Shiny Shiny - Hayzee Fantase
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
One Of Us - Joan Osbourne

...just to name a few.

And Then there are those insipid, whining crap artists/bands where EVERYHTING they produce is just shit such as:

EMINEM (yes I know this will prolly bring 1,000 howls of protest)
Usher
50 Cent
Jessica Simpson
Ashlee Simpson
Kelly Osbourne
Hanson
The Spicegirls
The Darkness
The Police
Kiss An Angel Good Morning - Charlie Pride

I have plenty more "pet hates" when it comes to music and "artists" (for want of a better word) but that will do for now.

I disagree with anyone rubbishing Queen - I love all of their songs even the weird ones (eg Mustafa). Also I love Pink Floyd but some of their early stuff was just weird shit (Piper At The Gates of Dawn & A Saucerful of Secrets).

― NevaMynde, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

HALL OF TOTAL GREATNESS:

"I Know What Boys Like" "candy man" "macarthur park" "Peel me a grape" "Orange Crush" Anything by Destiny's Child "Handheld" "Doctor Doctor, Gimme the News" "Push the Little Daisies" AND "Poop Ship Destroyer" "Rudi a Message To You" "MacArthur Park" "Seasons In the Sun" "Wedding Song" "Blowing in the Wind" "brown eyed girl" "Barbie Girl" "A Long Walk" "I'm Like A Bird" "Who Will Save Your Soul" "groovy kind of love" "If I Was" "You Oughta Know" "Material Girl" "Loving You" "Hey Baby" "Itchycoo Park" "Brandy" "Muskrat Love" "delta dawn" "Ketchup Song" "Play That Funky Music" anything by PJ Harvey anything by the B52s "from me to you" "Crimson and Clover" "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" "Swimsuit Issue" AND "Death Valley '69" "Monster Mash" "I Can't Dance" "Cotton-Eyed Joe" "Gypsy Woman" "We Call It Aceeeeid" "Walking on Sunshine" "Lollipop" "Macarena" "Achy Breaky Heart" "Unchained Melody" "The Star Spangled Banner" "Pass That Dutch" "Mouth" "My Sharona" "Crazy little thing called love" "Blister In The Sun" "For the Benefit of Mr Kite" "sweet home alabama" "Rock Lobster" "Fairytale of New York" "Sunday Bloody Sunday" "Takin' Care of Business" "Goin' Up the Country" "Big Yellow Taxi" "Wonderful World" "Margaritaville" "Kiss An Angel Good Morning"

I'm either annoyed by or don't know most of the others on this thread, but it really cheers me up to think how much pleasure I've gotten from the rest.

Second "This Kiss" by Faith Hill, and add a nomination for "Nobody" by Sylvia. Apparently it's bouncy femme nashville pop that sets my teeth on edge.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

>anything by PJ Harvey <

not specific enough. i nominate that song where she keeps whispering pointlessly about "little fishies", whatever the fuck it's called.

ps) in "Margarittaville" (which I happen to love) the "slipped on a pop top" line is WAY more irritating than the "shaker of salt" one. (yet still possibly not as irritating as the "make a pro blush" line in the likewise wonderful "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, however.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nobody" by Sylvia is GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT, though. Jeez!

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what's great about threads like this -- one man's trash, etc. Actually, I think "blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop-top" is a nice piece of poetry, especially 'cause nobody steps on pop tops any more. Takes me right back.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never even heard of anybody ever calling them pop tops, though! I swear I believed for years that Jimmy Buffett made that up just for the song and the rhyme, but somebody on another thread last year set me straight. (Must be a regional thing.) And I still don't know what "blew out my flip-flop" means. (Though John Kerry might. And though I DO know what "your nobody called today, she hung up when I asked her her name" means. THAT is true poetry! But yeah, trash too.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bootleg.co.nz/bringpull.jpg

pop top

http://www.gerds-musicpage.de/bilder-gerdhp/poptops_mamybluejapcov.jpg

los pop tops ("Mammy Blue")

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and...
http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/images/products/970/images/dedo2.jpg

flip-flops

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i know (though in kindergarten in cincinnati, we used to call them "zories" for some reason), but how does one "blow them out"????

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Should Have Known By Now" by Los Halos.

This song killed any affinity I had for the Mogwai/MBV sound in rock... flat out. It done be gone.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

A blow-out is when the thong part that goes between your toes pulls out of the sole, rendering your flip-flop inoperable. Or, if you're wearing chucks, when the sole separates from the upper. Only thing to do is cruise on back home.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

anything by BIS

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

So, has anyone tallied the votes yet? It's been three years and all.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i know (though in kindergarten in cincinnati, we used to call them "zories" for some reason), but how does one "blow them out"????

-- chuck (cedd...), November 23rd, 2004.

I've heard that blowing them out means that, through repeated wearing, the bit that goes between your big toe and the next one pulls out from the sole.

So apparently he blew it out, thus went barefoot, thus stepped on a pop-top, thus had plenty of time to sit around and stew in regret.

I really wish I didn't like this song, but I do.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry xpost.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

How could anyone hate "This Kiss"? It's Stephin Merritt for the suburbs!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, it's crazy, I really should like it, I guess.

I'm always more surprised when I hate something somebody else likes than vice-versa. Around these parts, I've got the broadest taste in the valley.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

In no particular order..
Play that funky music white boy na na na naaaa na na naaaaa

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

>How could anyone hate "This Kiss"? It's Stephin Merritt for the suburbs! <

Totally (thanks to the highest multisyllablic-word quotient in a country-related hit since, um, "Heartbroke" by Ricky Skaggs or something like that). Except Faith sings much better than Stephin.

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck, dincha ever hear "Pop a Top" by Jim Ed Brown? Somebody (Alan Jackson?) covered it a few years back, too.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What I love about this thread is how everbody and anybody has their opinion and everyone else can respect it regardless. No flaming. No personal attacks. No nasty "you don't know shit" attitudes!!!
Good stuff. Finally glad to be amongst adults who can share ideas with out taking offense/being offensive to other's differences of opinions.
Well done everyone!!!
Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside...almost LOL.

PS. How about some feedback on "Achey Breaky Heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus.
Surely I am not the only person in the world that thinks that is the greatest SUCK song of all time?

PPS. Good point "donut christ". there should be some ratings chart or vote tally or something!

― NevaMynde, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

What's that one song that samples a baby? 'Cause there's your answer.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like "Achey Breaky" -- a look at my hall of greatness above will reveal my weakness for goofy left-field hits with attendant goofy dance steps. It's clear BRC didn't have a clue about playing to any kind of formula, and wasn't interested in any ideas of what was or wasn't country or new-trad or hat music or any of that stuff. Plus, I think it kind of rocks, and the way he goes, "It might-n blow up and kill this man" is pure comedy.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Angry, by Mu-ziq, on In Pine Effect. Not just a baby, but a baby screaming through distortion as if it's being...well, fill on your own imagery here, as I am a gentleman and this is mixed company. An excellent and highly listenable album, except for this one utterly horrifying track.

xpost

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You people really have no idea of what's annoying. "The Sign" by Ace of Base is the most annoying song ever by the most annoying group ever.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The song during the credits of Problem Child. Honestly.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing annoys me nearly to the point of fury than Michael Bolton's "When A Man Loves A Woman" cover - especially the coda, when he gets real, real gone.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The first Billy Ray Cyrus and Ace of Base albums are both really good (especially the European version of the latter). Ilike u-ziq or however the Greeks spell it, too (even in his latest incarnation as Kid Spatula), but I don't know if I ever heard his distorto-baby song.

― chuck, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd agree with the earlier posters who mentioned Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You" (which I heard in a hotel restaurant in Beijing this week -- and it was still irritating) and Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man." As an overall song, "This Kiss" isn't in their league, but I've always been a bit bothered by the "centripetal motion/perpetual bliss" wordplay. And I'll throw in "Sucked Out" by the otherwise solid Superdrag, if only for that "who sucked out the feeling...who sucked out the feeling" bit.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that someone pretending to be you, Chuck? My God! Ace of Base is evil for just taking all of the soul out of one of the most soulful kinds of music (reggae, I guess, is what they were going for) just for the sake of financial gain. Completely cynical joyless music. No, that doesn't make it sound good!

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck Eddy in tiresomely predictable liking-songs-that-everyone-else-on-the-entire-planet-can't-fucking-stand non-shocker.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

man, "This Kiss" is atrocious crap. the chorus is like nails on a chalkboard. I sort of like "Margaritaville" and yet still find it a little annoying. Maybe it comes from one of my college roommates. It was the only CD he owned. One night I fell asleep and awoke to hear the Sting song "Shape of My Heart" playing softly in the room. On repeat. I was too lazy to get up and turn it off and really, I had no one to blame but myself, since it was my damn CD.

back to the annoying songs, though. That New Radicals one, I know it's loved around these parts, but everything about the song is just watered-down and generic, and that one bit where he says he'll kick everyone's ass in just derails everything good about the song, and that is a fairly cynical/hopeful lyric that reads better than it plays. Those couple of lines just read as bitchy.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

bee gees " i started a joke"
prince "the most beautiful girl" - it only has 3 notes
and some aussies:
uncanny xmen " work"
kids in the kitchen"current stand"
koo de tah " too young"
melissa "sexy is the word"
kate cebrano"bedroom eyes" - i only play it when my gf is horny.

― old jersey, Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Whitehouse "The Sadist"? Well, I guess many other songs could qualify... although this certainly qualifies as intentional irritant.

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing annoys me nearly to the point of fury than Michael Bolton's "When A Man Loves A Woman" cover - especially the coda, when he gets real, real gone.

it's tolerable if you imagine that it's really mr. ed the talking horse singing it. matter of fact, ANY michael bolton song works better if you imagine that it's being sung by a horse.

(mr. bolton certainly is a horse's ass.)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 27 November 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hanson - Mmmbop
Albert Morris - Feelings
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
Bahamen - Who Let the Dogs Out
Celine Dion - Almost anything
Macy Gray - Anything (She sounds like someone shoved a beaver down her throat)

― Leelee, Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Celine Dion - Almost anything

Your usage of "almost" outs you as secretly tolerating/approving/liking of a Celine Dion song.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I can tolerate her song "I'm your Lady." I think that's the name of it.

― Leelee, Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat

― Leelee, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Boom Boom Boom Boom I want you in my room to spend the night together from now until forever"

That song is atrocious but it can't compare to the horror that is
L'Trimm's "Car's That Go Boom". I'd rather be doused with bullet ants than to hear that song ever again.

― Hot Pants, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"A little bit of Monica in my life/A little bit of Jessica by my side/a little bit of tina on the beach," etc. whatever.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."

It's far from the worst song ever recorded, but it's just supremely irritating. I mean, even if you like it, I don't see how you could get through it.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i love how the "everyone-else-on-the-entire-planet who hates these songs" whiners always exclude the millions of people who just happen to love them. and no, i was not in any way joking about ace of base. i won't even bother with the hippie-dippie "selling out soulfulness of reggae" baloney (though of course lots of reggae *is* soulful, or at least was until bob marley went solo. just kidding. i think.)

― chuck, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

and oh yeah, i also definitely approve of/like/tolerate a bunch of celine dion songs. (and no, not because "everyone else" hates them. which they don't, anyway.)

― chuck, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I do.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Pass the Dutchie

― Hot Pants, Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Over half of the songs named in the last day or so are in my 5 Star playlist: "The Cars That Go Boom," "What's New Pussycat," and possibly "Pass The Dutchie," although that one's right on the cusp. "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" is merely a solid 4, although it's one of the finest songs to sing in a world-weary baritone on Karaoke Revolution, right behind "Don't Know Why I Didn't Come." That "Boom Boom Boom" song is genuinely horrible. I can think of at least one person besides Chuck Eddy who is a great admirer of "The Sign."

Also, I have just recently found out that the topless Injun girl in the movie "Greaser's Palace," the movie whose main character I was named after and possibly the finest piece of cinema ever made that is not "The Apple," was played by none other than Toni Basil. Her talents are variform and universally admirable.

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that was a bit "hippie-dippie" of me.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I can't believe no one has mentioned the Pina Colada Song. That song gave me nightmares in my childhood.

― Tom Harrass, Friday, 7 January 2005 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone else in the universe seemed to love it, but Milkshake annoys the hell out of me.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything by Har Mar Superstar.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

"The Darkness"

*Punches j00 in the face*

**** YOU.

― GLC, Saturday, 6 August 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

"Final Countdown", duh! Though the Europop version of it was actually okay.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 August 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 6 August 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

No one has mentioned "sweet home alabama" yet--too obvious?
Okay, how about that follow up of Madonna's to 'Music' (itself one of the most irritating songs ever recorded) that stole the riff from 'SHA' - that stupid line dancing thing with the title I can never be arsed to remember.

Lots of votes I see for 4-non Blondes 'What's Up'. Yep, a truly egregious record. I do find this one so bad though its kind of fascinating in its own way and if it comes on the radio I find I have to listen to it. Car crash music!

Also 'Lose My Breath' by Destiny's Child. That f*¢king 'At the River' thing by Groove Armada. 'Take My Breath Away' out of 'Top Gun'. Katie Melua - 'The Closest Thing to Crazy'. The complete and utter tunelessness of just about everything on the two Avril Lavigne albums my daughter plays all the time. Anything I've ever heard by Texas or the Beautiful South. Loads more.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Saturday, 6 August 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

So much hate in you.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

No way for a jedi is that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Rednex "Cotton Eyed Joe" Annoying as hell. It's like pulling teeth. FUCK I hate that song. Now, the Bob Wills song I don't mind so much. But this Rednex version makes me want to rip my hair out and shove a spoon up my ass.

― van der who (van smack), Saturday, 6 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Are these really being tallied? If so..

God Bless The USA
The Joy Of Cola/The Joy Of Pepsi
Time Warp
Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)
Bad To The Bone
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Oh What A Night (December '63)

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 6 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Obviously none of you remember "Big Big World" by Emilia. I feel guilty for even bringing it up.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Various - "Indie Rock - The Medley"

― Rob Uptight. (Rob Uptight.), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

worst song EVER is helen reddy"s LEAVE ME ALONE,this piece of mierda maeks you wanna shove an icepick in yer ear.

― mike hart, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

Today is her birthday. She's 62. Giver her one day where she doesn't have to defend her horrible song(s).

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

it has to be "My Humps" by the black eyed peas. they should be proud. and dead.

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Four years on and the second post nailed it. "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker is probably the most insidiously irritating thing I've ever heard in my life. It achieves that rare feat of having the entire length of the song sound EXACTLY THE SAME. The volume doesn't change, the chords don't change, the delivery doesn't change - they could have just held down one key on an organ for three minutes and recorded that, except that would at least just fade into the background for a while. Unfortunately, listening to Uncle Kracker ("Uncle Kracker," for god's sake!) slowly rambling about "swimming through your veins like a fish in the sea" (anyone else grossed out by this?) is so fucking stupid and awful that you can't ever just plain tune it out. Matchbox 20 have this problem also on some of their stuff, but to their credit they've never quite achieved the Uncle Kracker phenomenon of making nails on a chalkboard sound BLAND. See also: "Summer Girls" and the Everlast single that followed "What It's Like," and also, "What It's Like" by Everlast.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.soundfixrecords.com/reviews/covers/clap-your-hands-say-yeah1.gif

― corey c (shock of daylight), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

Addendum: any song where the chorus is featured more than nine times and always comes careening in with some giant and obnoxious self-announcement gimmick. Mr. Snrub is the only one to really nail this by bringing up "Story of a Girl," which is indeed much, much more irritating than any of the songs I just discussed. I think Third Eye Blind's "Never Let You Go" falls into this category as well..

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Obviously none of you remember "Big Big World" by Emilia. I feel guilty for even bringing it up.

ARRRRRRRGGGG...*implodes*.

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

My new least favorite song is that one that goes "On the Radio! Whoa-oa-oa-oa On the Radio!"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I was at a football game this weekend where the school band played "Respect" (Aretha's version) and it made me want to stab myself. How many times do we have to hear these songs????

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

She should die. Quite painfully. And soon.
I fucking hate that kind of talk. Especially since someone used it on me here. Please choose wisely when applying this. Dictators, heavy criminals, sure, but COME THE FUCK ON

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

the black eyed peas. they should be proud. and dead.
jesus. I just noticed this one a few answers up.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

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