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)

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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.

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― 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)

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― 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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