What's your most despised pop song of all time?

[El Fuego]

Mine is "The Piano Man" by Billy Joel. Every time I hear it, it is still excruciating. And they always insist on playing it at those dueling piano bars because piano players think it is some kind of sacred anthem. IT IS FREAKING UNBEARABLE. x(

Since the U.S. is apparently into torture now, maybe Rummy should take note, and add blasting "The Piano Man" to his torture repertoire.

[MissMillie]

1. Old Time Rock n' Roll

:puke:

[GOPBasher]

9. I agree with you.

[southpaw]

46. A-freakin'-MEN!!!

What an odious heap of shit that one is!!!

[u4ic]

48. Count me in

as another who hates that song.

[Left Is Write]

101. One of the most boring songs ever.

[flamingyouth]

2. What you said and also "American Pie"

:puke:

[tigereye]

14. ah too bad

it got overplayed, but in it's way is a great story/rock and roll history song. I still like Don McLean, and Vincent is a great song - very poetic. These songs were seminal when I was in high school.

The Madonna version on the other hand, ....

[xmas74]

38. I love the Don McLean version

I used to sing it all the time w/ my Mom. It was one of the first songs that I learned.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

103. I also love "American Pie"

Don McLean ranks as among my favorite artists -a singer with talent, good lyrics and a strong social conscience. And "American Pie" is wonderful IMO

Then again Madonna's version was absolute garbage. But that's just my opinion

[Atlas Mugged]

18. You beat me to it.

Damn, I despise that song. My SO loves it and turns it up whenever it comes on the car radio. That song is responsible for more fights.

Oh, my SO's favorite album of all time is 'Innagaddadavida', so I didn't fall for him because of his music collection. Otherwise, he's a wonderful person and a top notch investment broker. Oh, and hung like a bull moose.

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Ack.

The song that NEVER FUCKING ENDS. One of my least favourite, too.

[RedstDem]

73. God I Hate American Pie Too !

Just Sux Out Loud !

[rocktivity]

3. Like A Virgin (Madonna)

It's bad enough that it's sung in a nasal whiney voice, and that it uses the word "virgin" purely for shock value. But it also marks the beginning of the made-for-MTV pop music genre, when looks would take precedent over talent and substance would be forced to the back of the bus by style.

:headbang:
rocknation

[El Fuego]

5. Come to think of it, I hate everything by Madonna!

[Joe Power]

72. Count me

What a talentless skank.

[donheld]

95. Count me out

I love Madonna.

[bbernardini]

4. "Stairway To Heaven", but only Led Zeppelin's version.

I will always worship Frank Zappa's reggae version, in which Mike Keneally and the five-piece horn section play Page's original guitar solo note-for-note. Genius.

[coloradodem2005]

24. I love "Stairway to Heaven".

A great song that is the victim of overplay. I have never heard Zappa's version.

[donheld]

99. Zeppelin's Stairway is one of my all time favorites

[dean_dem]

6. That frickin' Wham song...

:puke: The Universe just isn't big enough to hold my hatred of that song.

That and generally any crappy bar-rock-type music. If I have to hear "Brown-eyed Girl" one more time, I swear I'm going to lose it on somebody.

[jonnyblitz]

27. wake me up before you go-go? ewwwww ewwwwwwwww

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

7. "I want it that way" by the Backstreet Boys

I swear if I ever hear that song again my head's gonna explode. My girlfriend at the time would put that song on repeat and listen to it all day! AARRRGHH!!!:puke:

[meganmonkey]

19. Eeeewwww! I hope your taste in women has improved!

;)

[Celeborn Skywalker]

91. It sure has

The girl I'm with now has much better taste in music. We both like classic rock and 80's alternative.

[bbernardini]

28. "I want it SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEWAYS!"

Or if you're more of a Sinatra fan:

"I did it SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEWAYS!"

(Of course, that brings us to "Start spreading your legs...", but I don't think we want to go there.)

[StopTheMorans]

8. Sweet Caroline

FUCK FUCK FUCK

[El Fuego]

10. Just thinking about that one icks me out!

NO NOT THE EARWORM! AHHGGG!!!!

:puke:

[jonnyblitz]

44. neil diamond? one of my favorites!! great song too! oh well. :P

Where it began
I can’t begin to knowin’
But then I know it’s growin’ strong

Was in the spring
And spring became the summer
Who’d have believed you’d come along

Hands, touchin’ hands
Reachin’ out
Touchin’ me
Touchin’ you

Sweet caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined
To believe they never would

But now i
Look at the night
And it don’t seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two
And when I hurt
Hurtin’ runs off my shoulders
How can I hurt when I’m with you

Warm, touchin’ warm
Reachin’ out
Touchin’ me
Touchin’ me

Sweet caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined
To believe they never would
Oh, no, no

Sweet caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined
I believed they never could
Sweet caroline

[Jessica]

11. Kiss From a Rose.

Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. :grr:

[immoderate]

12. In the Year Twenty-nine Twenty-nine

--IMM

[mr blur]

13. "Bohemian Rhapsody" would be no. 1

closely followed by "American Pie"

[donheld]

102. Bohemian Rhapsody is tops with me. performed with perfection.

[ET Awful]

15. "Barbie Girl" by Aqua.

The most painful piece of shit ever to be inflicted on the listening public.

[Huckebein the Raven]

17. Oh dear gods

Kill.Me.Now

:puke: :puke: :nuke: :nuke:

I fucking hate that song. Simply unbearable

[Mizmoon]

60. You've got that right

what a vile excuse for a tune.

[xmas74]

16. Anything

by Britney Spears, "Macarena", "Who Let the Dogs Out" and a few others that I am still traumatized over.

[jonnyblitz]

29. I remember the' Macarena" at the DEM convention in 1996 in

Chicago. that was funny.

[xmas74]

30. I had a coworker who listened to it nonstop.

I went through a bottle of aspirin a day.

[jonnyblitz]

36. LOL and NOW it's an earworm in my head.

I am hearing the Macarena play over and over in my head now. :crazy:

[xmas74]

37. Sorry!

:scared:

[Atlas Mugged]

20. 'Yer Havin' Mah Babay'

That and that so-bad-it's-comedic piece of shit 'Hundred Pounds of Clay'.

[amazona]

33. we have a winner

It makes having a baby sound like carrying the Alien. All that "growing inside" her stuff. Yicky. I was so traumatized hearing that song in my early teens I vowed never to have kids, a promise I've kept to this day. :-)

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--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[El Fuego]

67. That one was so bad I had to blank it out of my memory.

[Liberal Veteran]

21. Mickey! by Toni Basil

What a terrible awful hideous abomination of a song.

And "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene is a close second.

[El Fuego]

26. I'm embarrassed to say I like that one!

Oh Mickey you so fine, YOU SO FINE YOU BLOW MY MIND!!! HEY MICKEY!!!!

Now I have another earworm.

[yewberry]

22. "Seasons in the Sun."

Thanks, Terry Jacks.

Also, "Loving You" makes me want to hurl.

[On the Road]

23. "Alone Again Naturally"

by Gilbert O'Sullivan

[HughBeaumont]

59. Such a happy sounding song, until you listen to the lyrics . ..

Guy wants to kill himself because he was left high and dry at the altar. Then he talks about his parents dying.

Was this the world's first "emo" song?

[joeybee12]

31. Let me be the first to say, "Afternoon Delight" Hope I'm not the only one

:puke:

[Liberal Veteran]

35. No doubt...just fuck already and stop singing about it!

Jeez.

[Magrittes Pipe]

32. Hotel California

[El Fuego]

40. Finally someone else hates that song!

I thought I was the only one.

[mr blur]

76. I thought everybody hated that song

so it didn't seem worth mentioning it.

[donheld]

88. Now that's a song i can't bear

It just goes on and on.

[UdoKier]

34. Highway to the Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins

"Domino Dancing" by the Pet Shop Boys is a close runner-up.

[realisticphish]

39. for a great list of despised songs...

get "dave barry's book of bad songs"

hilarious read

[Atlas Mugged]

41. 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing'

Horrible falseto. And the guy looked like a Richard Simmons clone.

[HughBeaumont]

53. Leo Sayer . .. that song reminds me of "Slap Shot"

[Merrick]

42. Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

I started hating that one a couple years ago when KROCK in LA would play it during just about every flashback lunch hour I ever tuned in to. He just keeps moaning Red Rain over and over and over. the lyric sheet must look something like this:

RED RAIN RED RAIN
RED RAIN FALLING DOWN x 2,4670456705

[PowerToThePeople]

43. Oom Bop - Hanson

:puke:

[skypilot]

45. "The Boys are Back in Town"...

...by whoever the hell it's by. That song immediately conjures up images of annoying, obnoxious, drunken frat boys. I fucking hate it.

[DemGa]

47. Another Billy Joel "Honesty" is pretty bad.

[kodi]

49. muskrat love or afternoon delight.

there resides in hell a special room where the worst people are forced to listen to them over and over thru eternity

[Liberal Veteran]

90. Okay...I actually like Muskrat Love

I don't know why.

[bobthedrummer]

50. I get to select from the entire WINGS catalog!

:puke:

[El Fuego]

64. SO TRUE!

McCartney without Lennon was :puke:

[Deja Q]

51. Oops, I did it again

:puke:

[ffm172]

52. everything by the Spice Girls

I wanna scream every time. Fortunately they aren't played that often in the radio anymore

[Bouncy Ball]

54. We Built This City on Rock and Roll

by Jefferson something or other.

GAWD.

[Aiptasia]

55. Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks

My sister warped my fragile little mind in the 1970's with that song. Don't play songs about death when the four year old is around.

[HughBeaumont]

56. I got something that trumps them all - "Butterfly Kisses"!!!

Remember that schmaltzy piece of crapola about eight years back? Made me want to stick a knitting needle in my skull.

[steve2470]

57. Kung Fu Fighting, geez Louise nt

[WhirlyGirl]

58. Hot Blooded (but WHY do I love so many of the songs you folks hate???)

[Blue_In_AK]

61. "Torn Between Two Lovers" A-c-c-c-c-k-k-k-k!! n/t

[elperromagico]

62. "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston

I heard that song about 1000 times when it first came out.

What a cloying piece of shit her version is. Dolly Parton's version had a longing quality to it that really suited it - she wrote it, after all - but when Ms. Houston got her claws on it, it turned into a shoutfest.

[nytemare]

93. God they played that song too damned much!

It irritated the shit out of me.

[warrens]

63. 62 posts and no "Horse with No Name"??????

I find this totally unacceptable.

[Blue_In_AK]

65. Oh, right .... stupidest lyrics EVER. n/t

[immoderate]

74. Would make a good DU handle though.

--IMM

[mac56]

78. To quote Richard Jeni:

"You're in the desert. You don't have anything else to do. NAME THE FREAKIN' HORSE."

[Cadence]

66. Love Shack by the B52's

[steve2470]

68. dumb lyrics but love that beat ! nt

[MsAnthropy]

69. Feeeeeelings, nothing more than feeeeelings

whoa whoa whoa, feeeeelings

[njdemocrat106]

70. Why do I like most of the songs on this list?

Piano Man included :evilgrin:

[HamstersFromHell]

71. Anything by bands who wore red parachute pants

Loverboy to name one.

[calico1]

75. "Love Will Keep Us Together."

I hated the Captain and Tenille!

[CanuckAmok]

77. Not a big hit, but "I Want to be Rich", by Calloway

Terrible sentiment, and a horribly white-bread-ised form of 'soul' music. Makes Boys 2 Men sound like Slayer.

[webjamn]

79. "Stand" by REM

I am a big REM fan but I hate that song.

[Blue in a Red State]

80. "We Are The Champions"

And "Bohemian Rhapsody". Actually, anything by Queen, really.

[sakabatou]

81. Toxic by you-know who

[CarbonDate]

107. I kind of like it. Does that make me evil?

Sorry if it does.

[blondeatlast]

82. "Pour some Sugar on Me." I have no idea who is responsible,

but I'm hoping they die a slow, not TOO painful, but very, very, very
SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
death

Did I mention a slow, somewhat painful, death?

[Left Is Write]

97. That would be Def Leppard.

And one of them did die, about 14 years ago.

But the song lives on. I love Def Leppard, and particularly the Hysteria album, but I have to admit that Pour Some Sugar On Me is not my favorite of their songs.

[ceile]

83. Hold On-Wilson Phillips or Hero-Mariah Carey

[Mrs_Beastman]

84. Afternoon Delight

yuck

[jpgray]

85. Feelings? (nt)

[B Calm]

86. American Pie, just because it goes on and on...

[donheld]

87. "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin and

"The Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics

[maveric]

89. This will be unpopular here but, anything by ABBA.

:puke:

[Sugar Smack]

92. "PIANO MAN" IS ODIOUS.

That's one of the songs I'd classify as, "WTF do you think you are?" that's up there with, "Take It Easy" from the 70's:"I got seven women on my mind-four that wanna hold me, two that wanna stow me-one says she's a friend of mine".I also hate "Free Bird". And I don't mind saying so. These lyrics are like: "Well, babe, it's been a lotta laughs, but I gotta hit the road cause I'm a RESTLESS feller, can't get saddled down.Don't cry too hard." And the woman is probably saying, "So go, already!!"

HATE:"You Can't Hide Your Lyin' Eyes"

MOST PERSISTENT AND WRETCHED EARWORM: "I Just Called to say I Love You", "Silly Love Songs", "Our House", and worst of all, "Blinded by the Light." Is this a man singing about douche?? WTF is this song about? Holy Rollers? Curly-Whirly? WTF??

EARS AND EYES BLEEDING:"I Will Always Love You", the Whitney Version. "All By Myself", the Celine Dion version.

INTROSPECTIVE BULLS*IT:"What About me-it isn't fair- I don't have enough now I want my share"(showing age) and "I've Been to Paradise But I've Never Been to ME."

PHIL COLLINS:one exception-"This is the World We Live In".

"Life in a Northern Town". "I Wear my Sunglasses at Night". "Like a Rock". "All I need is the air that I Breathe and you". "Old Time Rock & Roll". "Sharp-Dressed Man". Sorry, El Fuego sweetie, you asked for one song. You should be an excorcist.

[nytemare]

94. "Survivor" by Destiny's Child

I'masuvivorain'tnevergonnagiveupi'masurvirorkeeponsurvivin over and fucking over and fucking over.

Give me a fucking break!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

96. Honey

bu Bobby Goldsboro. Made fun of it when it was released (about a billion years ago!) :) and I make fun if it now.......

[Speck Tater]

98. SHORT PEOPLE

Oh, did I mention, I'm short?

I'm just glad he had the good sense not to follow up that "hit" with "Black People", and "Girl People", and "Jew People", and "Gay People", and ...

But then again, it's OK to demean short people. WHat are they going to do about it? Kick you in the shins? Punch you in the kneecaps? Bite your calf?

[Left Is Write]

100. "What I Am" by Edie Brickell.

Words alone are not enough to convey the passionate hatred I have for that song.

[mvd]

104. "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez is a contender

I like "Piano Man" a lot though.

[yellowdogintexas]

105. "Duke of Earl", "Hey Paula" and "You're Having My Baby"

come to mind almost instantly

given enough time to think, I am sure there are others that will come to mind

[CarbonDate]

106. "She blinded me with science"

Have you heard it? If you had, you'd quickly either change your minds about your choices or make this a close second. Seriously. I can't believe that made it out of the studio, and considering the drek that they put out on a daily basis, that's saying a lot.