Name me the first song you *hated*...

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I mean all-encompassingly utterly completely totally thoroughly indescribably *loathed*. I don't care about indifference or even mere dislike -- I mean turning the radio off violently, exploding with anger if you couldn't escape from it, despising yourself for even knowing about it or -- even worse! -- finding yourself singing along to it. And more to the point, why did you hate it? And do you hate it now?

For me, Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)." April 1985 when it hit here and I just reacted *so* badly to it. Keep in mind that this was driven in large part initially by my sheer depths of antipathy towards The Eighties' Most Overrated Film From Those Who Were My Age At the Time, namely John Hughes' mind-bendingly absymal _The Breakfast Club_. FUCK! Um, anyway. So it was associated with that and my loathing was in many ways conditional. I don't know whether that 'hey, hey, hey, hey!' opening would have provoked the total reaction it did in me without that, but I just felt like I had been shot every time I heard its 'dulcet' tones. It was inescapable, it was huge and I HATED IT. Radios *instantly* powered down, rooms abandoned. I was fourteen, still fairly awkward but yet powered by this total core of my being in this way. To keep this in a certain frightening context, then-new REO Speedwagon and Starship songs were, if my memory serves me correctly, enjoyed.

Nowadays I regard it as spectacularly poor compared to the string of early eighties singles that hit big over in the UK (but of course not here...gerg). But I'll patiently listen to it and go, "Yeah, whatever." A vague acceptance, I guess, but it certainly doesn't provoke warm feelings of nostalgia. The movie still probably eats, if I could be bothered to watch it again. Now _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_, *that* was another matter entirely!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whats that R Kelly song that rips off "Unchained melody"?...That used to drive me up the fucking wall...I would hear it at least 5 or 6 times a day over the radio at work..Cant remember a note of it now, thankfully

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was "If I could turn back the hands of time"...Its all come flooding back to me now especially the end where he goes "Love youuuuuu!, love youuuuu!" etc. Shit, now look what you've gone and done.

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"This Ain't A Love Song" by Bon Jovi.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The first song I can remember HATING was 'I will always love you' (or whatever its called) by Whitney Houston. I could ignore it at first but as UK residents will remember, it was No.1 for what seemed like the whole of 1993. Die Houston, die!

― DG, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I fucking despise Da Da Da by Trio. Kraftwerk's idiot cousins are given a Casiotone keyboard and a recording contract for their birthday. Loop it, and I will kill...oh yes.

― Blah Blah, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I Had The Time Of My Life

― JM, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"All I Need" by Jack Wagner, the TV star (from General Hospital, I think). Nobody seemed to like this. Who the hell was buying it ?

― Patrick, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! My best friend became obsessed with Wham! when this song came out, and insisted on playing it constantly. Not to mention plastering her room with posters of Andrew Ridgely and George Michael, and wearing that idiotic Choose Life shirt. I knew in my heart of hearts they were nowhere near as talented or as cute as Duran, and ended up grinding my teeth whenever said song came on the radio.

The funny thing is I really don't mind the song now, and liked Wham! stuff after that. I still have no idea why I hated this song so much.

― Nicole, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sowing the seeds of hate...lemme think...in around 1986 (I was 10) I hated 1) Swing out Sister- Breakout; 2) Every single released by Curosity Killed the Cat. Move forward a year to 1987 it was 3) Proclaimers - Letter from America, I just wanted to punch there faces in. Finally in 1989, the object of my hate was the Beautiful South and especially their song for whoever. A pet hate at the moment, though I've mellowed quite alot, is Fatboy Slim and that whole DJ thing...I do honestly try not to hate things though! :)

― jel, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a hard time remember which songs I first hated, because I tend to be very vehement, either I HATE a song or I LOVE a song and that goes back to the day I first started listening to music. If I really think hard, I believe the first song I actively hated was Stairway to Heaven. My dad's a big Zep fan so I was quite familiar with the entirety of their work by age 5, and that song just always irritated me. It was too long for my attention span, didn't make any sense, and the singing was awful. I'd always beg mentally for it to end and move onto the next song - as I kid, I couldn't remember which songs were on which albums, so I kept hoping that "the next song" on the album would be Material Girl. Which it never was. Blast.

― Ally, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For me the idea of hating songs came later in life. It's like something I had to learn. I feel like I enjoyed pretty much everything I heard in the 70s, from Boston to Forigner to Captain & Tenielle to Neil Diamond to disco. Whatever was on the radio worked for me. Thinking about early MTV, I remember being very bored by "Wrapped Around Your Finger," both the song and the video. So I'll say that.

― Mark Richardson, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That Titanic theme song, because it was trendy to dislike. In retrospect, the song wasn't irritating at all, and was so slight that I hardly even noticed how much it was everywhere. File under the Elitism thread as well.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO...I can't remember. THere are so many of them.

― Nick Greenfield, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't think there are anysong i HATE i mean gate is a VERY strong word that gets thrown around too much (i;m currently trying to break the habit) but one i SEVERLY DISLIKE is about half of Memphis radio, turn it to the rap channel it all sounds the same, not that i'm burning rap or anything,.. i mean there IS alot,.. ok SOME good rap out there and there's lots of stuff that's classic but COME ONE lemme see yer tounge ring?

― Mog, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Erm, dunno about "hate", but I definately took a dislike to "We Don't Cry Out Loud" by Melissa Manchester, a moderate hit from the late 70s, which was produced in the not-so-great 70s tradition of UK AOR ballads with some vaguely anonymous singer from the suburbs, and hawked around Radio 2 and guest spots in various UK "entertainment" telly progs (Which still had elements of variety theatre, due a lot of it's stars coming from the stage eg Morecame & Wise, The Two Ronnies, various stand-up comedians, etc., ...).

And one or two lucky folks on the this strange proto-MTV 70s AOR circuit would get a hit in the charts and then get forgotten about due the to the rapid turnover of acts on the TV shows- and also the small fact that they were almost always complete crap!!!! I mean, just take a look at the "Two Ronnies" repeats on UK Gold, and halfway through the show Ronnie Corbett (never Ronnie Barker, for some reason I've never found out) in his best suit and bow-tie says to the camera: "Ladies & Gentlemen: Mr/Mrs [insert forgettable name here]" Cue 3 minutes of bewilderment on the part of modern (and no doubt contemporary) audience: "Why?!?! Who thought this was ever any good?!?!? Ah well, don't worry, 3 minutes, and it'll all be over, we'll never hear of them again!!! Ha!!!"

Except for Melissa Manchester. In fact, apparently she had a very rare two hits, but "Don't Cry Out Loud" is the (only) one that people remember enough to try to forget it. It really is an awful song, about song about bottling up one's emotions, irrespective of the psychological consequences. (By the end of the song, she's indoctrinated her little sister.) This would be tacky enough, but the lyrics are themselves sabotaged by the most sacharrine, emotionally sentimental arrangement and vocal performance in UK MOR history. Listening to it can rot one's teeth!!!! In fact, just thinking about could rot my teeth as well- I think I'd better stop writing about it for the sake of my molars...

Old Fart!!!

― Old Fart!!!, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lennon. "Just Like Starting Over", "Woman" and "Imagine", all of which topped the UK charts after his murder. I was 7, just getting really into the Top 40, and suddenly there was all this slow music on and the presenters didnt sound like they were having any fun when they introduced it, and I thought it fucking sucked.

I didn't know who Lennon was - my parents had bought Sgt Pepper's in the 60s in the way that people bought, I don't know, Macy Gray or Oasis in the 90s, because it was there and people said it was good and they fancied getting a record one day. But they weren't fans.

Then after that I can remember really loathing two songs in a kind of fuck-this-this-isn't-music way around '83. Smiley Culture's "Police Officer" and Billy Bragg's "Between The Wars", both because they didn't sound like chart music was meant to like - I quite liked disco and rap tracks in the charts but reggae toasting and this cracked folky dirge were totally beyond me.

Now I think the Smiley Culture record is a minor masterpiece and I think the Bragg track is one of his best tho' somewhat sentimental.

But I've still never been much of a Lennon fan.

― Tom, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The song "Push" by Matchbox 20. It sounded so pretentious and uterlly annoying. Especially by the fact that Rob Thomas takes himself so seriously. His larynx ought to be crushed. Its easy to hate a song by a group you don't like. I hated about everything by Matchbox 20. As for hating a song by a group I like, I can't remember one time that I enjoyed "Alive" by Pearl Jam. What a boring ass song. I love the songs Jeremy and Whipping most, and I have seen them in concert 4 times. But I still have that song.

― Luptune Pitman, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

good question...yeah, i never really developed a hatred for music until much later in life. up until my mid-teen years i wasnt really much into music, when i was little i pretty much liked everything my sisters listened to, which was prince, tears for fears & what have you. i think one of the first songs i actively hated was "friday i'm in love". and based on that i hated the cure. but since then my feelings for the cure have changed drastically. and i don't even mind that song anymore. i just look at it as a silly little joke robert smith played. nowadays, though, it seems there is SO fucking much to hate...hearing bands like disturbed and matchbox 20 unleashed degrees of loathing i never knew i had, and i am a more hateful person for it. i guess because i've developed a deep love for music, its only natural that i can hate it just as passionately. ooh, another song i loathed early on: blister in the sun....ugh

― matt, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At last, someone else remembers Smiley Culture's "Police Officer"!! ;) Actually, I was a little surprised that in the "Relax"- era censorship atmosphere of Radio at the time, that they didn't immediately ban what was obviously a cheerful little reggae number about Smiley using his fame to circumvent a police search of his car, and discovery of his "ganja"! Maybe they didn't understand the words or something. Mind you, I got them straight away...

Old Fart!!!!

― Old Fart!!!, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My mother listens almost exclusively to talk radio. There was one channel in particular (WCCO for all you Twin Cities readers) that would always play this horrific march-thingy complete with amusing barking dogs. I often wondered why being subjected to this wasn't considered child abuse.

In the realm of pop/rock music, the day that Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me" came out was the day I completely went off hair metal. I can't even THINK of that song without wanting to slap everyone involved in making it inescapable in 1986.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Swing the Mood by Jivebunny. I couldn't understand what the point was when it was such an awful song in the first place. The worst song ever would have to be Feelgood Hit of the Summer by Queens of the Stone Age. I run to turn it off.

― Audrey, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything by ABBA. Probably Dancing Queen in specific. It reminds me of my first visit to the US, aged about 7, it was all that was ever on the radio, and I f*cking hated it, and I f*cking hated being in America, and I was completely devastated by the idea that I had to move to a country that constantly played this dreck on the radio.

I used to fly into tantrums, real, like 6-year old homicidal fits. Which of course, only provoked my brother to start singing it to me all the time, changing the words to "see that girl, watch her scream, she is the drama queen."

I still loathe ABBA to this day for that precise reason.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Total Eclipse of the Heart'. My 14yr old sister tried her very best to put me off music for life with this 'tune'. However, I have now mended my ways and can see in my enlightened way that persecuting her mercilessly was perhaps a little excessive, even if the regularity with which she played it was far MORE excessive.

Right now, I hate what they're playing in this here Easy Everything. Batteries have gone in my walkman and I'm Avalancheless.

And I still can't stand Bonnie Tyler.

― Richard Jones, Thursday, 1 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"talk dirty to me" is a fabulous pop-punk endearment and certainly *not* any sort of hair-metal low point.

i think bananarama's "venus" was my first hate. i do remember my total contempt for and bewilderment at lou reed's "dirty blvd" a couple years later.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 3 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it may have been that Canadian pock-faced charmer Bryan Adams with 'Everthing I do (I do it for you)'. Was it 16 weeks at the top of the hit parade? Who suddenly decides on the 15th week to buy it?

― Ally C, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the first song i hated was Deliah by Tom Jones as its stokes song and as ma vale fan its rubbish

― yvette, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three weeks pass...

"The People That Grinned Themselves to Death" by The Housemartins. Most other crap pop music I could just ignore (even "Afternoon Delight"), but there was something just so gratingly finger-in-cheek- aren't-we-just-so-bloody-cute? about that song that I just wanted to round them up and drop a boat anchor on them. And hey, if I'd done that then we wouldn't have to hear any of those patience-testing Fatboy Slim numbers, either.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

I remember being a little kid and telling my older brother how much I hated "Saturday in the Park" by Chicago, and then changing my mind and saying it had become my favorite song, or something of that sort. How do I feel about it now? I'd rather not think about it. I am afraid I would like more of that early Chicago stuff than I would feel comfortable with.

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Thrill Is Gone" by B.B. King. It went top 20 when I was a kid. I just thought it was unspeakably dull, I couldn't understand why they kept playing it on the radio. Who needs the blues when you've got the Archies?

― Arthur, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Too Hot To Hold" by Alanis (now "Alanis Morrissette"--more of an artist and less like "Cher" when you add a last name)

Imagine my dismay when I turned on the TV a near 7 or 8 years later only to hear her horrible nasal trap squaking "would she go down on you in a thee-tah."

Argh.

― cybele, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Holiday In Cambodia" came out at a time when punk rock meant a lot to me. Musically it's inoffensive enough, but the lyrics/vocals . . . where do I start? Aggressively facile, smug, shrill, and self- satisfied. Spectaculary bad and spectacularly proud of it. I got to hear it everywhere I went for several years which didn't help.

― dan, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when i first heard "high and dry" i found it boring and painful to listen to, and whenever it came on the radio i grimaced, changed the station, and tried to forget the whole thing.
oddly a few years later, after i'd listened to much more stuff and actually become a radiohead fan, i realized i liked it a lot. now i can't really understand why i didn't like it before.

― ginny, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Roxanne.

Oh and Love on the Rocks by Neil Diamond.

― Kim, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If truth be told, one of the songs mentioned here.

Most probably "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris. Or "Grandad". Ed "Stewpot" Stewart has much to answer for.

"The Ugly Duckling" is unimpeachable, 'though.

― Jeff, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Copacabana" by (I think) Barry Manilow
"Dust in the Wind" by Kansas
"D'ya Think I'm Sexy" by Rod Stewart
"If You Don't Know Me By Now" the Michael Bolton version
"Knock Three Times on the Cieling if You Want Me" by who cares!
"Lady" by Kenny Rogers
"Lady" by Styx
"Let 'em In" by Paul McCartney
"Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by Charlie Rich
"Oh, What a Night" by the Four Seasons
"Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell
"Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver"
"Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill
"Sunshine on my Shoulder" by John Denver
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon" by Dawn
"Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce
"Time Passages" by Al Stewart
"We Built This City" by Starship
"Wildfire" by Michael Murphy
"Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler
"Your Mama Don't Dance" by Loggins & Messina

― Lord Custos, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Special note about Rod Stewarts "D'ya Think I'm Sexy?"....not until Culture Club came out with "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" did someone ask a musical question that begged and demanded for such a brutally frank answer. Preferably a 12 gauge answer. And to be honest, The Culture Club song is still loads better than Rod in his disco queen stage.

― Lord Custos, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"she's in parties" by bauhaus. only cos i found it so very very scary

― bob snoom, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can't be serious about disliking Copacabana - that song is simply amazing. It's got everything - a funky beat, shrill backup singers, silly & fun lyrics, and a moral to boot. Honestly, I truly enjoy Barry Manilow, at least his 2xLP greatest hits. "I Write The Songs", "Mandy"... It's just one of those things that are so bad that they're actually good.

Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair
And her dress cut down to there
She would meringue
And do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star
Tony always tended bar
Across the crowded floor
She worked from 8-till-4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?
At the Copa, Copacabana
The hottest spot north of Havana
....

― daniel, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeeeeeeeaaaahhhh right. Isn't this the same guy who got all Robert Smith about the fact that nobody could hear him, "...not even a chair."
Barry Manilow is just Neil Diamond...without the funky 'edge'.

― Lord Custos, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my sister used to wake me up with Sex Dwarf when i was little just to piss me off and make me cry.

― chiznak, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This isn't the first song I ever hated, but it is the first song on an album. I HATE One More Time on Daft Punk's Discovery. Eek, I almost didn't buy the album because it was the only song I had heard off of it. Luckily, the rest of the album more than makes up for it.

― Lindsey B, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Elvis, "Suspicious Minds." I liked all his '50s stuff when I was about 8 (and still do) but the post-Army stuff bored me. I really hated it when this song came on - it was slow, painful, depressing, and no fun at all. I heard it again when I was older and realized that it was actually a good song, but I hadn't been able to appreciate it because it just made me sad to think that the old, carefree Elvis had changed into this troubled guy.

― Justyn Dillingham, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably 'Cry' by Godley and Creme or some Dr Hook shite.Cue gnashing of teeth.

― Damian, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine was This Mortal Coil's "Song To The Siren". I adore the song now, but when I first heard it, my 11 year old ears did not approve at all. I thought it was utterly horrible.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was a student, “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns ‘n’ Roses was very popular and seemed to be audible all of the time. It was during the uneasy transition from 80’s synth ‘n’ rock to Madchester. I hated it. I also loathe “The Whole of the Moon” by The Waterboys for much the same reason. The local indie DJ used to play that record to make everyone go away at the end of the night, so I now associate it with the suppression of fun. These days, whenever Slipknot come on the radio my wife is scared by them. I then have to explain that Slipknot are about as dangerous as a chocolate biscuit, so I hate anything by them too.

― Eagle, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

the first song was The Time of My Life off the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. it was the worst.

next came that Cult of Personality song by LIving Color. nowadays i hate anything by Disturbed, Static X, Slipknot, etc. but the hate isnt as powerful as it was before.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

there've been others (though not many; i can actually be pretty tolerant), but the first song i can remember actively loathing is "She Drives Me Crazy" by the Fine Young Cannibals. ARGH. that nasty, nasally falsetto! just the thought makes me twitch and cringe uncontrollably! >P

― janni (janni), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I ain't a hater, but when it comes to that wretched "It Wasn't Me" song by Shaggy, my hate knows no bounds! The video is even worse!

― fiona (fiona), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i was gonna say 'The Birdie Song' but i also remember hating Flying Pickets 'Only You' and being throwing a strop when it made #1

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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Eddie Money - "Take Me Home Tonight"

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure it was "Hotel California" by The Eagles. Even tho it sounded spooky, to my young ears it was LAME LAME LAME.

Current hate: Phil Collins. Probably my all-time hated musician, really for no other reason than the fact that whenever I'm in a thrift store, for no matter how long, I am bound to hear his polish ADT vocals screaming "Take take take me home" or some other dreck...

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago)

They play it every damn Christmas: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. Jeeks, it makes me shiver.

Father Christmas - Kinks - Now THERE'S a good holiday number.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago)

At first I thought "I dont know the answer to this" til I read the thread, and when Kate mentioned ABBA my ABBA hatred came flooding back!

ABBA, Elvis and the Beach Boys I had irrational hatreds of. I still dont like ABBA but hey, Pet Sounds is a fine album.

Theres loads of ick dotted in my memory floating up like cork-turds in the loo: "Islands in the Stream" by Dolly Parton, anything by the Little River Band (ugh), and "Youre the Voice" by JOhn Farnham come to mind.

Oh! And Cold Chisel.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago)

I am also amused and saddened by Neds vehement Breakfast Club hatorade :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago)

"Jump, Jump" by Kriss Kross. Is that what it's actually called? I wouldn't know, because I hate it.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:40 (twenty years ago)

meatloaf - "i will do anything for love"

― Symplistic (shmuel), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:47 (twenty years ago)

I really can't tell.

Ned's right though. The Breakfast Club is the worst fucking film ever made.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm aghast at all this recent ABBA-hatred! Simply aghast.

Song I hated: Uhhh, I already mentioned in a previous thread how Alice Cooper's "School's Out" scared me as a 6-year old (and to think that I actually received the 45 as a birthday gift from grandparents!), but that's not quite the same. So, the first song I absolutely loathed (and always will) has gotta be "I Don't Like Mondays." (Bob Geldof is possibly the worst adenoidal singer of all time, and he's got plenty of competition.) Actually, that song and "Another Brick In The Wall" will be forever linked in my mind: Released around the same time, both had choirs, both dealt with kids not liking school, and I hated 'em both. But over the years my hatred of "Another Brick" lessened until finally I became merely indifferent to it. No such luck regarding "Mondays."

Oh, and speaking of school-hatred: Yep, that "Breakfast Club" is quite fucking awful, isn't it! I don't mind that Simple Minds song, tho, I find it fairly pleasant and unmemorable.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Jennifer Rush - Power of Love

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago)

For me it's the Doctor Who theme tune and Bohemian Rhapsody. They both scared me.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago)

probably "ob-la-di, ob-la-da"
still hate that sucka.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:10 (twenty years ago)

the song that goes "i had the time of my life bla bla bla" off the dirty dancing soundtrack that was played nonstop on the radio in like 1987 and which i hated with all my heart and which also came out at the same time my grandfather died and still makes me feel miserable.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago)

I was sure I'd posted a reply on here but it appears to have disappeared into the ether. Ah well, I'll try again:

I'm sure there must have been othere before it, but the one that immediately leaped to mind when I read the title of this thread was "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago)

The first one? Probably "You Make Me Feel like Dancin'" by Leo Sayer or something by Boz Scaggs or something.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Probably that cover / duet between UB40 and Chrissie Hind: "I got you babe."
Fuck, actually, there was a period, maybe 1986, when "Shaddupyaface" (or whatever), UB40, Chris de Burgh's "Lady in Red," Robert Palmer's "I didn't mean to turn you on" or "some like it hot"
....all seemed to be on the radio so much...real MOR stuff.

btw, how come no one told me that Robert Palmer died last year?

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago)

As a kid I just DESPISED "The Bird Dance". Actually, any hit song with a wedding-ready formation dance makes me either lunge for the dial or leave the room. (See also "Achy Breaky Heart", "The Macarena".)

Then there's James Taylor's "Your Smiling Face", which makes me want to personally slap the man - he's smarm personified, and I can HEAR him fake-smiling his way through the whole goddamned song.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago)

"houseoftherisingsun" the animals

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago)

"btw, how come no one told me that Robert Palmer died last year?"

We tried.

Don't blame us if you weren't paying attention.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

The early hatreds have been blurred by the mists of time, but I can remember what KIND of music I hated: massed-chorus backing vocals on Nashville countrypolitan records and Ray Conniff albums. That hate ran strong enough that I actually breathed a sigh of relief when I found out Ray Conniff died not long ago. May that crap have died with him!

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Flying Pickets 'Only You'

"who are these ugly men? where is the music?"

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

"Flying Pickets 'Only You'

"who are these ugly men? where is the music?""

Wasn't that originally a Vince Clarke / Yazoo tune? His version is much better...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Alison Moyet "That Ole Devil Called Love", scared the shit out of me as a kid (and not in a good way), I still can't fucking stand that song.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

motley crue - "smokin in the boys room" it was in the charts when i got back into the states (grew up in uk as wee tot). it just seemed so pathetic and happyass and totally lame. i was 8.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)

plus it was about being a BAD PERSON i was not down with at the time.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

(they didn't write it)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Back in the summer of '94 when my parents took the television away because my sister and i were spending too much time wasting away in front of it, i fell in love with the next best mass media outlet, the radio. i spent just about every day of that summer reading and listening to the radio, mainly the latter. the local "alternative" station's playlist was pure bliss to me. it was a flood of weezer, smashing pumpkins, nirvana, hole, green day etc. Every song that came on put me in an altered state in which i completely forgot that i was a beanpole star wars geek that no girl would ever talk to.
Then came hootie.
The first time i heard "i only wanna be with you" all i could think was "why is my beloved 106.1 the Zephyr playing this shit? this isn't real music." I wrote it off to the DJ trying out new stuff and figured nobody on earth would request such a dismal lump of sound (this was back when i thought every song that came on was requested save a few of the dj's picks). boy was i wrong. every couple of hours for weeks on end my sense of bliss was shattered by Hootie and his merry gang of gatecrashers. it was really unbearable how quickly that song and a few of their other shoddy attempts at worthwhile music permeated the airwaves. i had never hated anything with as much passion as i hated hootie. luckily after a few hellish months Mr. Rucker and co. dropped off the face of the planet.
and i thought i'd never have to hear that shit again after the near universal backlash against hootie saturation but unfortunately some cock-addled marketing exec never got over how much he liked that soulless song and decided to put it in a car commercial that's now in heavy rotation.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh fer fuck's sake, they're not THAT BAD!!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)

alex i know! didn't then, obv.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)

"it was really unbearable how quickly that song and a few of their other shoddy attempts at worthwhile music permeated the airwaves."

I remember the first time I heard "Let Her Cry", Hootie's other unavoidable hit. I was getting a haircut and thinking "What the hell? This sounds like a demo or a first draft." There was something really clumsy and amateurish about the song's structure, and it really irritated me. Imagine my surprise when it became a radio-eating monster.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

it's not that the song's horrible so much as they represented an enemy of the music i had grown to love. they competed for radio time with music that i loved with the passion that only a middle schooler can have for music. soon afterwards that radio station started playing lots of shit i didn't care for and by the time nu-metal came around i saw hootie as the first pebble in a landslide that ruined radio for me. luckily, these days i'm getting over my rockism and listen to the radio a lot, just not the "alternative rock" stations.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

"I would do anything for love" by Meat Loaf. I still think it's embarrassing.

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

"message of love" by the pretenders, though i know not why.

― amateur!!!st, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm all for Hootie hatin' cause they BLOW. The sound (or drawl rather) of that guy's voice will send me for the door quick. I shudder at the thought of being in a haircut chair and hearing that come on. Thank god I trim my head at home.

The Breakfast Club, the worst movie EVER MADE? Oh come ON people you can come up with something worse, I'm sure! I loved it when it came out and still do, but hey it's a free country, people can hate it if they want, I've given up trying to understand.

― Bimble (bimble), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

"message of love" by the pretenders, though i know not why.

You are out of your mind, my man, that's a great song.

Actually, there's a Don McLean song that TO THIS DAY makes me want to punch radom by-passers in the trachea...and it's not "Day the Music Died" (although that particular song conjures a similar reaction). I can't for the life of me remember the title, though (must have blocked it).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Not "Vincent" is it?

― Bimble (bimble), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Hum a few bars for me....actually, better not.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago)

"Actually, there's a Don McLean song that TO THIS DAY makes me want to punch random by-passers in the trachea...and it's not "Day the Music Died" (although that particular song conjures a similar reaction). I can't for the life of me remember the title, though (must have blocked it). "

You're probably thinking of "Vincent" - the one that goes "Starry, starry night..."
It's about Vincent Van Gough, and is rather weepy.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

creepy too

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

You're probably thinking of "Vincent" - the one that goes "Starry, starry night..."
It's about Vincent Van Gough, and is rather weepy.

THAT'S THE ONE! AAAAARRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

i didn't exactly hate them but all of the over the top flamboyant show biz types like carol channing and charo and liberace used to flip me out when i was a little kid because i was confused about whether they were real or puppets

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of a single song I "hate". There's a lot of music I'm indifferent to, maybe even dislike, but none that bring out an emotion as strong as hate.

But, I imagine if one exists, it would be something by the Beastie Boys.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago)

because i was confused about whether they were real or puppets

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Fritz, you winner. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

sorry

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Don't apologize, darnit!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I think I thought Leo Sayer was a muppet when I was a kid.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Mister Mister's 'Broken Wings'

This is a really bad one, but I wasn't around to mess with it and our 80s station doesn't mess with it either.

I think my first wave of true musical hatred was relatively modern, related largely to the wave of post-grunge that swept through America around 9/11 and the year or so thereafter (remember Default?). Nickelback, whom I pidgeonhole in that category, are pretty atrocious. But the clock in that Default video is relatively contrived.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Is it too late to claim that FUCKING FATBOY FUCKING SLIM SLASHDOT FUCKING COM FUCKING SONG as the most annoying piece of pant-wettingly bad rubbish ever?

I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT
I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT
I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT

What retards buy/enjoy this crap? Why don't they just buy one of those talking teddy bears and squeeze it's stomach over and over again until the batteries run out?

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

― mei (mei), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:11 (twenty years ago)

"How am I supposed to live without you" by Michael Bolton.

I also remember not liking "The Power" by Snap when I was 8 or 9 because they knocked Beats International off of number 1 and I really really liked that song.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago)

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