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.

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.