Which records are so unbearable that you have to turn the radio off till they've blown over?

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For me at the moment it's Fat Man Scoop, and that Kelis milkshake thing.

With Evanescence it's a toss up; usually I try to tolerate it, but end up switching the sound down in torment half way through. Oh, God, I wish I hadn't started this thread, because I'm hearing it in my head now.

― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Jamie Cullum- Frontin'

Now lock thread.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

anything by John Butler Trio. non-Australians: consider yourselves DAMN LUCKY you've never heard them.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Milkshake can be 30 minutes long, that's fine by me...
Still like to hear "Hey Ya"

but in the Zone, I'd say...

"Like I love you", specifically for the line "You're a good girl and that makes me trust you" for the condescending git he is.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Dido I simply cannot abide.
Jamie Callum is too nothingy to be that offencive
Blue, some of their lyrics I find irrediemably cringe inducing

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Christina Aguilera: That unbearable trancey house remix of 'Beautiful'. When I was painting my flat abt. a year ago, they played it ALL THE TIME on Kiss FM, and I was about to go fucking NUTS!!!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I love you", specifically for the line "You're a good girl and that makes me trust you" for the condescending git he is.

b-but then Pharrell goes 'HEY'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"....Lucy in the skyyyyy ... with dia-ia-monds.. ahhhhhh" **CLICK**

― Michael Dubsky, Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Eminem makes me switch the channel. (I don't listen to the radio.)

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I love you", specifically for the line "You're a good girl and that makes me trust you" for the condescending git he is.

Also you miss out on "DRUMS!", easily the best bit of the song.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

haha esoj otm

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

REM - Everybody Hurts

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

that fucking u2 remix or whatever it is, the one with the whine from "with or without you" that inexplicably went to #1. recent stuff by black eyed peas. nelly furtado. katie melua.

― dan jonze, Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Milkshake for me too, nothing else recently comes close.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I love you", specifically for the line "You're a good girl and that makes me trust you" for the condescending git he is.
Also you miss out on "DRUMS!", easily the best bit of the song.

All that would be OK, its just the "I can do Michael Jackson impersonations, coo I wish I was him" he keeps breaking into...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

me against the music.

― dan jonze, Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Atomic Kitten, theya re just so DULL it's like the producer tried to suck any life out of the tracks.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Dull songs don't make me turn the radio off, I barely notice when Dido, Katie Melua et al come on at all.

Any given song by Robbie Williams, Oasis or the Stereophonics, on the other hand... so fucking insufferable and intrusive.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Anytime that I hear a song on the radio that I actually own a copy of, I have to immediately switch the station / turn the sound off for a few minutes.

― Mil, Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

any of Blur or Pulp's big hits would have me turning the radio off in a hurry

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The good thing about Atomic Kitten, though, is that they're too naff to even make Radio 1, apart from the chart show. Same goes for things like the Kate Winslett Single, the Shane Ritchie Single, the Cheeky Girls, Michelle McManus, Gareth Gates - so I've not heard those often enough for them to drive me round the bend, which I'm sure they would given the play. Last year I couldn't abide the Maralyn Manson version of "Tainted Love" or the one where Justin Timberlake suddenly put on a falsetto voice like a lady.

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That cover of 'Fell In Love With A Girl' done by some fluttery diva that was all over Radio 1 a month or two ago. Jesus wept.

Stereophonics too.

― Jason J, Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Joss Stone? I didn't mind that.

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The Joss Stone record made me think, that's a great song. Some cracking lines in there. But not "That's a great version", it just reminds me of "Cornflake Girl" Tori Amos...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Counting Crows' godawful "Big Yellow Taxi" cover makes me long for their originals, which were bad enough in the first place.

Michael Bolton's "When A Man Loves A Woman" receives a distressing amount of airplay hear at work, as do Five For Fighting's "Superman" and Train's "Drops of Jupiter", three other songs I despise. (So the fact that I kinda like Train's current hit is a bit of a pleasant surprise.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

...make that "HERE at work", obviously. Bonehead.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.wanadoo.nl/sier.boei/oasis/resources/pictures/full/103.jpg Yeah?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh I can't stand that Cassidy single featuring R. Kelly phoning it in with that stupid half-mask thing in the video. Bad bad bad.

― DougD, Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Behind Blue Eyes.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

that evanescense ballad

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Nelly/Chingy "Right Thurrrr"*ack!*/that Black Eyed Peas "Where Is The Love?" song/Enimem's voice/50 Cent's flow

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Beyonce "Me Myself and I". ugh. and "Sorry 2004".

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Styx. Any.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Jet.

Stereophonics (post Just Looking).

Limp Bizkit (except Break Stuff, not that I've ever heard that on the radio).

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

via local classic rock radio:

1. Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time)
2. Don McLean - American Pie
3. anything by the Eagles, but especially Lyin' Eyes
4. Five Man Electrical Band - Signs
5. Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway

I can't listen to hit radio. It makes me want to kill myself and those around me.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

sexbomb by tom jones actually makes me feel physically ill

― nialldickson, Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil Collins

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I stayed far away from hip-hop radio when you couldn't escape Busta's "I Know What You Want"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Men At Work. They made me hate the entire continent of Australia for several years.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Friday, 26 March 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, watch it you or we'll swim over and sort your out.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 26 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

My all-time top two:
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

Not only are they unbearable, they both just go on for-feckin-ever.

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank God it's not played much anymore, but...

Give me your heart, make it real, or let's forget about it...

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Have You Forgotten" or whatever that country song is titled by that counrty guy. That, and the stupid adverts for our local hospital.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Most Jimmy Buffett songs, but especially "Margaritaville" and "Cheeseburger in Paradise."

Also most Eagles songs, but especially "Heartache Tonight."

I'm making myself queasy just typing this out.

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 26 March 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Commercials (i.e. adverts).

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah Connor "Bounce" ugh ugh ugh.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

THONG THA THONG THONG THONG

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

That new Hoobastank ballad. It's awful.

"Smells like teen spirit." Great song but 12 years later it's still in just as heavy rotation on rock radio as when it was first released. I can barely remember the time that song rocked my world it was overplayed so quickly.

"Man in the Box" I don't understand why that song is still in heavy rotation.

― Ben St. Jacques (Ben St. Jacques), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Virtually everything played on "rock radio" between 1978 and 1980 (which of course eventually became the core of all "classic rock" playlists since then). I learned to recognize every Styx, REO, Boston, Foreigner, et al. song in one note, out of self-preservation.

And of course everything Billy Joel and Phil Collins have ever done.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Saturday, 27 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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