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Location: SE Michigan | All right, I know this has been covered on other boards, but I would be interested in hearing this forum’s opinions.
Tell me your top-five most despicable, nauseating, make you wish you were unconscious, should-be-banned from the western hemisphere songs:
Mine are
(1) EVERYTHING BY FOREIGNER - but especially "Hot Blooded". This song could be used to extract information from Iraqi prisoners, but that would be in-humane, I think the prisoners would prefer to stick to the dogs and sexual humiliation. Who ever taught Foreigner how to make up rhymes should be deeply ashamed.
(2) Annie Lenox - "Why". Why did you write this song? Why do you keep singing why? Why couldn’t you think up some other words to add to this song? Why are you so depressed? Maybe you would feel better if you stopped singing.
(3) "Don’t worry be happy" - How could an advance civilization allow this to happen?
(4) "I will survive" by Diana Ross - No you wont.
(5) "How am I supposed to live without you" Michael Bolton. Somebody make him stop whining please! Be a man and figure out another way to go on.
So what are your most hated songs? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Such a wide subject! Maybe I'm just getting more opinioniated as time passes.
Michael Bolton's voice is pretty nasty.
I have had totally enough of the led zep song that caddilac is using (that is LZ, right?)
anything and everything hip/hop. I think that alone puts me well past 5. |
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Location: Parkersburg, WV | Five that I've heard recently(unfortunately):
1. Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys
2. Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
3. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
4. Feelings - Morris Albert(?)
5. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
All of these are somewhat dated, so my dislike for them has been a long one.
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Location: Vernon, CT | Some of the stuff by Boston. I think Tom Sholz (spelling ?) wrote one major piece of music and just changed the words for each lyrical portion. Cheesy at best! Play On!
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Location: Central Florida | Wow!
If I listed every song that I really thought belongs in this category I'd be posting all day! So, to approach it from a slightly different angle, these are songs that really aren't bad songs, but I had to play them SOOOOO much during my days playing clubs that if I never have to hear them or play them again it will be fine with me...
1) Freebird
2) Old Time Rock & Roll
3) Sweet Home Alabama
4) For The Good Times
5) Help Me Make It Through The Night
I could go on, but since you asked for just five...
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Location: SoCal | Anything by Celine Dion. Hate that b@%ch! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Billy Don't Be a Hero
Any song that rhymes "wine" with "fine"
Styx (see Foreigner)
Seasons in the Sun
Hip-Hop*
*except......
The radio in the stockroom is set on the urban station most of the time. Currently there is a song out loosely based on "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies. It has more music than most hip-hop and is kinda creative..
Honey....aw sugar sugar
Will you be my nasty girl...and let me do that dirty dance with you?Honey....I gotta alot of moneyWill you be my nasty girl....and let me do that dirty dance with you?
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Also...there is a hip-out out that say's "Y'all gonna make me loose my mind..Up in here...up in here." In the interest of employee relations I joined in the chorus but instead of "up in here", I thought it said "bumpin' heads...bumpin' heads". That black man laughed till he was in tears. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I know the guy that sings 'Billy don't be a hero', he's married to the sister of one of the guys at work.
I hate anything that's computer generated (instead of using people). |
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Location: south east Michigan | Is he....okay now? |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | To tell the truth, I've never heard the song. He did come over for a couple of jam sessions and he is a good singer. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Does rap or hip hop count as music or crap? |
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Location: Omaha | Currently, anything by AC/DC. My son bought one of their TAB books and is trying to learn as many of their songs as he can...why is it that when kids choose to like older music, they pick the stuff their parents can't stand?
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Location: State College, PA | 1 - American Pie (no contest, really)
2 - Bad to the Bone (No you're not...)
3 - Free Bird (yecccch)
4 - Knights in White Satin (total presumption)
5 - Horse with No Name (would've been better w/ no song...)
Special category - simply the worst song ever recorded - makes you wince - but sticks to you like ear wax: MacArthur Park, by Dumbledore... |
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Location: State College, PA | Gotta add another:
Joan Baez's version of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down -
She sings: "...till so much cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again,"
She tried to figure out the lyrics by ear, never checked her history, and left her artsy ignorance out there for everybody to enjoy.
It was Stoneman, dear, Stoneman's cavalry...
If you're going to sing about it, maybe you could learn a little about it...
And while we're at it, could someone, please, just sink the masters for "Diamonds and Rust" in the Marianas Trench? |
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| Who did "Blinded by the Light"
Well they gotta go! If it's not bad enough by itself; I actually heard an elevator music tune done to this thing!
It's just gotta stop Cuz...........
Dam! |
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Location: NC | I know I will take heat for this but Bob Seger........I hate his voice!
Any rap song or rapper..........laike that was a mystery!
Michael Bolton is ranked high as well.
The song, "I like boys".......from the 80's from some no hit wonder!
As for a fifth............I will let you know.
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Location: Tennessee | Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods did "Billy Don't Be a Hero". They were a good band, just did cheesey music.
I believe it was Gloria Gaynor who did "I Will Survive".
Springsteen originally did "Blinded by the Light". It's probably Manfred Mann's version you despise.
"I Like Boys" was Missing Persons. They also did "Walking in L.A.". They were a poor man's version of Berlin.
Songs that will make me switch the radio over to Michael Savage:
I Will Always Love You -- Whitney Houston
Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
Muskrat Love - America
The Macarena Song
Silly Love Songs - McCartney |
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Location: Australia | Well for me :
1."Key Largo" - Bertie Higgins
2."Achey Breakey Heart" - Mullet King Cyrus
3."Sometimes When We Touch, The Honesty's Too Much" - ?
4."Mickey" - Toni Basil ?
5.The worst of all time
"The Pina Colada Song" - Rupert Holmes |
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Location: Georgia USA | Oooh, this is tough.
1) Break My Stride by (don't remember and don't care)
2) We Built This City by Starship (Grace Slick was the worst)
3) Did Someone say "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"?, but Laura Brannigan's was even worse
4) I have to agree with Freebird. It didn't stand the test of time.
5) Total Eclipse of the Heart - just awful. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Pick any Barry Manlow song and add it to the list. Also, "Our House" by Graham Nash comes to mind."two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard"...........eech. I think thay play that song down in hell, over and over and over.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I have to go way back:
"Sunny Side of the Street" by anyone
"What's He Doing in My World" Eddie Arnold
"Candy Kisses" by whatser name's daddy
Anything by Eddy Rabbit called country
All country songs on today's top 20 on CMT (this is really one song as they all sound the same awful attempt at rock without the appeal or substance of REAL country rock, almost makes me wish Garth was back)
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Whew, this thread brings back a lot of painful aural memories. On behalf of Canada I apologize for inflicting Celine Dion and Dan Hill ("Sometimes When We Touch")on the world.
On the assumption that rap and hip-hop don't even count as music, I'll add these to the Music Hall of Shame (I'm sure I could think of many more, but...):
1) Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes), by Edison Lighthouse.
2) Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (I've Got Love in My Tummy), by the 1910 Fruitgum Company.
3) Feelings, by ?
4) I'm Henry the Eighth, by Herman's Hermits.
5) Mandy, by Barry Manilow.
6) I Write the Songs, by Barry Manilow.
7) Having My Baby, by Paul Anka. (Again, on behalf of Canada I apologize.) |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Don't forget about these beauties:
1) Who shot the Sheriff (forget the sheriff, shoot the singer).
2) The Night the Lights went out in Georgia (ouch...just typing the title hurts)
3) Don't Worry, Be Happy (I really do hate this song).
4) Reggae Music
5) Rap |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | This will date me but here goes:
[list]
I'm the Pied Piper/?
Sweet Pea/?
Talahache Bridge/Billy Joe's girlfriend
These Boots are Made for Walkin'/Nancy
The End of the Beginning/David Phelps
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | There are just too many songs to make the effort to remember, therefore I am modifying my list to catagories:
1) Most "required" wedding reception standard overplays, including, but not limited to Shout, Old time Rock N Roll (not a bad song, just ruined by association), and the Macarana (howeveryouspellit)-or any other song requiring people lining up to dance in unison.
2) Most "required and overplayed" standard rock setlist requirements including Brown Eyed Girl, Margharitaville, Sweet Home Alabama, and American Pie. Not bad songs necessarily (the first 500 times). I just feel a little piece of my soul die everytime I HAVE to play em.
3) Most angry, growling, modern metal. I must admit, I've gotten old if I'm saying it's too heavy. Metal used to be fun (often humorous), rebellious and musical, but not a hate assualt weapon to deteriorate the senses and induce heart attacks. I have enough stress without it.
4) Most rap.
5) Most anything sung by Eddie Vedder or Celine (she's a talented singer, but I can only take her in very small doses- and he just doesn't sing in key).
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