the fucking verse
the fucking chorus
the FUCKING dance
and fucking "our love is like a shop on the ocean / sailing with a cargo of love and devotion" HOW CAN LOVE BE BOTH THE SHIP AND THE CARGO, WHAT KIND OF GOD WOULD ALLOW THAT
i’ve always liked a thousand years but i can 1000000000% see why someone would want to run through the wall like the kool aid man when they hear it at this point.
Same - I honestly like it entirely BECAUSE of the beige wallpaper qualities when an Oops! All Strings arrangement meets Christina Perri's innocuously smol voice
Worst cover ever is every single cover of Big Yellow Taxi.
So many wannabes trying to be deep, just churning out a tepid piece of crap. There must have been at least 3 or 4 dozen shitty covers put out since 1970s
I am a massive Joni Mitchell fan, but tbh it's my least favourite song of hers anyway.
Oh god I thought I was exaggerating about the # of covers
But I just checked it out on Mitchell's website and apparently there are 605 recorded covers of this song
605!
If you really hated someone you could send them a different version every day for 18 months & still not have listened to them all
That fucking cover of "Life is a Highway" that does nothing but change the vocals to be sung by an idiot and is suddenly country instead of 80s pop drek
I maintain that the worst cover of all time is Uncle Kracker’s Drift Away. Not only brings nothing to the song, he’s a demonstrably worse singer, a fact underlined by putting Dobie Fucking Grey *on the track,* where he proceeds to annihilate Uncle Kracker in his own cover https://youtu.be/A69BertdSt4?si=Jm_b6HIhZ6tcwGxW
Yeah, was gonna say, I found the King Harvest original in a charity shop, never heard it before (and I used to Radio Luxembourg a fair bit then) and did think aw, what did you do to deserve such a disservice?
Oh, but what about when men cover songs women wrote, but they change the genders in the song so they don't seem gay, thus breaking the rhyme scheme? Isn't that just the *best*?
I agreen but even the original's greatest strength is also kind of it's greatest weakness: Every single line rhymes with "moonlight", and musically the whole song is one phrase repeated endlessly with no variation at all.
I've had this idea for a skit in my head for years where people are....
....singing the song together, but then it breaks off into an increasingly contentious conversation about things that rhyme with "moonlight" that retains the songs structure no matter how off the rails the group dynamic gets, and every time they sing the refrain, the lines that follow....
I bet you don't know why it winds a lot of people up, though...
Back in the day, it was the sole "on hold" music for a major utilities provider in the early 2000s.
I could take it or leave it before then, but after FORTY-FIVE MINUTES of it on loop...
One Father's Day when I was 25ish and my sister was 18ish, my mom forced the family to listen to that entire song. She kept shushing us whenever we started to talk about the awfulness.
if if you’re not a marker research or you’re doing great work I think it’s important. It’s important. They just let people enjoy things doesn’t help if the music sucks.
I had a slightly different type of wedding where it was tiny tiny but still we picked music for the bullshit walking down the aisle thing and I remember my little cousin’s speech being. We were all wondering what music they would play. I only played three songs but the amount of youcantplaymetal…
A Thousand Years was possibly OK hearing it once. Once is enough for a lifetime. I think there was a two-three year run in the 90s where I was forced to hear that song every day and I'm not sure I've ever fully recovered from the trauma.
My mom and stepdad played "Wedding Song (There Is Love)" at their wedding, it was Their Song, and I've never had the heart to break it to them how it always makes me seethe with hyperglycemic rage. It's the musical equivalent of chugging straight peppermint oil mixed with corn syrup. 🤢
My friend had Gloria Gaynor play at her wedding. 🤦🏽 most famous song? ' I will Survive'
Go on, go, walk out the door
Turn around now
You're not welcome anymore
You're the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
Think I'd crumble?
You think I'd lay down and die?
There is a healthy/fun threshold to Bitching about things you don't like untill it becomes unhealthy, Like I'm forever gonna hate Ed sheeran but I would never send the dude death threats or act like his fans are devil spawn.
Layla. He didn’t write the riff which is the only good bit. The verse is just a desperate quest around the circle of fifths to try and get back to the chorus. The slide solo is dire and the piano outro sounds like it was bolted on (as it was). Yet it keeps getting trotted out as some classic tune.
I had only ever heard the outro in Goodfellas, and it felt brilliant. A perfect piece of easy going soft rock that sounds like it has some soul. When I realised it was glued on the end of Layla, which I have no time for at all I was very annoyed.
so I've never heard "piss itch" before and I'm going to steal the hell out of it. That said, the TOTO song "Africa" is the one. "Soft Rock" should be oxymoronic. Imagine being talented musicians and having this be the song you are known for, and spare me w/ tales of how much $ it made, don't care
A song that is truly worth hating. Thankfully whenever I hear the song I can only picture French and Saunders ripping it to pieces in stupid voices and it goes away.
Lennon had a break-in and theft in New York and was enraged. His producer, Neil Aspinall said Imagine no possessions John, and he snapped back "it's just a bloody song".
That's a very good call and at least as awful as one I posted earlier Dead or Live's 'You Spin me rounnd (like a record)'
Imagine is a dreadful insipid dirge
I actually like the song, but that bit always bothered me when I was a kid. I always wondered if David Essex didn't know that James Dean & Jimmy Dean are two different people.
All Of Me by John Legend or Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi. Both boring piano ballads with absolutely nothing interesting about them that somehow massively blew up.
Best. Song. Ever. But hey, each to their own. I find it hard to imagine anyone preferring to listen to Baby Shark over some honest to goodness, straight out of the oven Meatloaf. (But, I can be a bit liberal with the BSE attribute).
I mean, I don't mind that they don't like it. Me and my autism, I'm a word nitpicker, so I noticed they said "shit music" (which I think is unfair) instead of "*I think* it's shit music" and I wanted to comment. It's not the worst take I've ever heard with music.
I defy you to spin Dookie on a record player and not belt out every last word to “Basket Case.” I’m not the biggest Green Day fan, but, goddamn it, they have some jams.
I hate this song and insist on changing the station, but it's less to do with any inherent musical quality and more to do with the fact that it GIVES ME THE ABSOLUTE CREEPS
I had friends in a band who did a cover of that. It was one of two slow songs they did, so they played it during the king and queen dance at some prom. I sort of loved that.
Huh. It is a little vapid. Only now realizing. It's always felt heavy to me.
My mom (40+ yrs. ago) was a PE teacher. The school where she worked burned to the ground. When they started classes again, the kids reminded her that the last song she played, the day of the fire, was "Dust in the Wind.
Cool.
I feel the same way about the Bills.
I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do today, I’m gonna watch broncos Super Bowl highlights while listening to Ramones records.
My band used it as a joke last Wednesday. We do metal versions of classic rock hits. I started the Alabama lick then the bass player stopped me and we played Radio Radio, copying Elvis Costello’s old schtick from SNL. It got a laugh.
Getting mad at Neil Young’s “Southern Man” is really telling on yourself.
“I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man, when will you pay them back?
I heard screaming and bullwhips cracking”
“Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well, I heard old Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow”
Just what was Neil singing about? Legitimate criticism?
Neil Young was likely criticizing the states' poverty in his song "Alabama". I don't see that songs lyrics accusing the state of racism, and so I don't think that Skynrd was in any way defending racism.
another interesting detail: earlier in 1977, Aerosmith band members had reportedly sought to rent the exact same Convair CV-240. Eventually, they had second thoughts due to concerns raised over both the safety of the plane and the seriousness of its crew.
This comment lead me to a minor wikipedia rabbithole and the conclusion that the 'Musical groups or artists' list in the 'List of fatalities from aviation accidents' article is missing the 1996 Hercules plane crash, when some members of the Fanfarekorps of the Dutch army died.
The first few hundred times I heard it I was neutral on it. Never liked it, but it didn't bother me. But after hearing it a million damn times, I hate it now.
Which version? The original or the Fallout Boy version? Or maybe both? Personally I like the fallout boy one because it talks about all the shit things that have happened recently and it reminds me how bad things have been for years!
He can play piano, but his contemptuous schlock ripoff pop is hard to stomach, starting with Piano Man’s people putting bread in his jar and saying “man, what are you doing here?”. Fuck that guy.
So imma start this by saying I love linkin park. I also love most of the remixes they did. My Decembers was haunting. But I fucking hate, with a blind passion numb encore. I hate that version.
Daughters by John Mayer. Not only did the grocery store I worked at play it constantly, but it also just gave me creepo vibes.
Also pretty much any classic christmas song has been ruined for me by working retail as well. They're just plain inescapable whenever December rolls around...
“Say”, or “Say What You Need to Say” for me by Mayer.
How about a chorus that consists of same phrase repeated 8x?
3 choruses of it and then 16 more repetitions to close out.
I used to work in a supermarket, and it was the dreariest most dirge like Christmas song competing against the chaos and noise of the busiest time of the year, this song about peacefully sleeping baby Jesus being interrupted by the tantrums of kids and yelling of frustrated parents
honestly I think Taylor Swift is also getting really boring and her songs are getting repetitive all these tours are the same it's just glitter and money everywhere.
Every Christmas for four years I would get lectured by my district manager because I would switch the Muzak to instrumental holiday songs instead of the same wretched insipid crap that played everywhere else. 20+ years later, I'm still right for doing it.
Y’know, sometimes I criticize myself for not being married, and then I remember that I was OBSESSED with this song as a teen and would probably have made a worse choice of husband than Zero Husband.
“On behalf of evry man, lookin out for evry girl, you are the God and the weight of her world.” 🤮
I came here to say this, thank you. I absolutely go into a rage the minute it comes on and then sing my own lyrics at the top of my lungs
“Thiiiiis fucking song, sucks so bad it’s for morons.
Sucks bad, sucks bad, so bad!”
Yep and that doesn't bother me - is the hypocrisy of letting Fotus use it and he is doing everything to eliminate LGBTQ. Was a favorite song for kindergarten because of the animation the kids did. Bet it will ge banned from now on.
1) breakfast at Tiffany’s - deep blue something
2) kiss me - sixpence none the richer
3) whole of the moon - the water boys (my Spotify algorithm thinks I love this one & tries to sneak it onto radio based on playlists whenever it can)
Their bloody awful cover of Remember Me is just unforgivable. It's bad enough that the original just badlly sampled Marlena Shaw, but Imagine Dragons' manage to remove any trace of joy from the track.
American Woman by Lenny Kravitz. Maybe Lenny is a good guy, I don't have anything against him, but the song has no interesting lyrics and very little tune. Like a 15 yo playing as confidently as he can because he feels like a rock star belting it out.
Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra did a kooky cocktail version, with an effete-sounding Carl Strygg archly mincing through it.
It's so fey, the lyrics took on a whole new meaning. It's a hoot, if you can find it.
And the stupid lyrics were basically made up on the spot when the guitarist just started playing that riff live. No excuse for not going back and saying something though
The Killers and I used to love it! My then 10-year-old son knew all the lyrics 🤣 🤣 We saw them in concert at the Bogota in Atlanta City, NJ. They also did All These Things That I've Done song "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" used in a Nike commercial. Thanks for bringing back great memories! 💙
It's Raining Men. I hate the storm sounds, I hate the lyrics, I hate the tune, I hate the video. Fortunately it has a build up at the beginning that gives me time to escape.
Came here to say this. I think they’re overrated in general, but it’s particularly grating that Neil Young wrote a song about how it’s not cool for the south to use Christianity as a justification for racism and these dudes wrote a whole entire anthem about how he can’t tell them what to do.
I've seen comments from the band taking a both sides view, but it originally was inspired to fire back at Neil for his condemnation of Southern racism in Southern Man, and Alabama.
yeah, I don't claim to be an expert on this but i did see an interview with one of the band members saying that the "watergate does not bother me" verse was not meant to be taken straight and that as long-haired hippies they were fully part of the counterculture at the time
It was a while before I found out that both of those songs were by the same person. Turns out I really dislike George Ezra. The good Ezra is Ezra Furman.
Sad he got worse really. I think sometimes people forget, even the artists themselves, that the debut album is actually everything you’ve worked on in your whole life so far, and usually people demand Album 2 in like… a year if you’re lucky?
They're 💩mate, every era produces one band that are just weird, technically brilliant musicians but their music is 💩 period. Queen for the 70's, Dire Straits 80's, Pearl Jam 90's 😳
Agreed. Queen had some good songs, but added cheesy elements and overproduction to ruin it. Dire Straights is always the most boring thing I hear on classic rock radio. And Pearl Jam had one good song. The fact I can’t remember the name tells you how much I love it.
I do love disagreements between good decent people that respect each other. It’s why I love it here and have still only blocked one person! (Though sometimes I think I should block myself)
Pearl Jam had quite possibly the greatest 5 album stretch in rock history. Ten, Vs, Vitology, No Code and Yield are all fantastic. One good song? I dunno….
No insults to anyone that feels different. I’m a life long punk rocker that felt grunge was a slower more boring version. Still, like Nirvana, Soundgarden and love Mudhoney. But everyone someone put on Pearl Jam, I thought “What is this crap?” It is what it is.
Honestly… yeah. The subject matter is some dude’s sense of entitlement to the body of someone he no longer dates and it’s also got too many nanana’s per capita
'I Will Always Love You', the Whitney Houston version.
No thanks to the neighbour in the Croydon flat next door, mid-90s, who'd play it LOUD all night long, every night, when he split up from his girlfriend. Prevented many a good night's sleep. Still sets my teeth on edge.
I once had a friend with such a strong aversion to this song, when it played in a restaurant she stopped eating and had to physically cover her ears for the entire duration to avoid hearing it. I had to signal when it was safe to uncover her ears. Never witnessed a reaction like that before or since
I just listened to Centerfold for the first time (though I've heard the riff before).
Musically, it's not bad, but the singer's voice is annoying and the lyrics are skeevy.
I was surprised to learn that the J. Geils Band is American, as this song has an extremely Australian vibe.
You might already know this: @shadowtodd.bsky.social ranks Afternoon Delight as the worst hit song of 1976.
Other songs in his worst list include Shop Around by Captain & Tennille, Get Up And Boogie by Silver Convention, and Disco Duck by Rick Dees (which he later came around to).
As a lifelong Warren Zevon fan, I don't hate it but I do hate how it's the only song anyone knows by him. He wrote so many songs that are so much better! (That said, "Renegade" is his worst, so maybe it's good hardly anyone ever heard that one.)
To be fair, I hated that song with a nauseated passion LONG before the routine. I actually think he missed an opportunity to call out the FUCKING OBVIOUS GRIFT this kid is running.
He does say"this starting to sound like a scam" or something like that. I listen to Patton's Xmas Shoes routine every year on Xmas Eve, and I've (somehow) managed to never hear the actual original song, despite growing up evangelical. One of the few true victories in my life, and I hope it holds.
Yes, unrelated to the home improvement store. I used to shop there without knowing the ownership. They now have large wine bars in the middle of their stores. It’s open to the shoppers, without walls, but dark and gloomy 🥴
And my kid pointed out wow dude did you have two hearts to start with? Or, you grew a new one? Or, you went to the person she gave it to and asked for it back? How did that go? This makes no sense at all which would be okay if the song didn't suck but
Glad to know I'm not the only one to hate this song. I dread hearing it every year. It's too boring & tedious to listen to, along with all George Michael's stuff.
Came here for this.
"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. Give it back. It is not yours. You don't need it, it doesn't even fit you. I have become a zombie, and will tear my heart out of your chest until I am whole again."
"I uh... gave it away."
*angry heartless zombie noises*
Lol. I rather like it. Could be because the Beastie Boys did what could loosely be described as a cover of it, which is in fact some kind of silly drunken nonsense, and it made me fond of it.
The one where some bro is singing about screwing a girl every chance he gets and he sings, I used her, she used me, no one cared, we were getting our share" The only thing is he's still getting played every day on some shit Sinclair station and she's getting what????
I dont hate it, and I love the flow of the music, because i'm not native english speaking and I can focus on the rythm. The lyrics are kinda weird. Like if the autor was a dehydrated man in the désert loosing his mind.
I Loved Her First by Heartland. First heard it during a father/daughter dance at a wedding and I was genuinely shocked I was on of the only people who seemed to find it super creepy.
What an awful anthem. So militaristic, yet it's a *waltz*, so you can't even march to it. Truly democratic, though, in that it's got such a ridiculous range that nobody can sing it. Should have stayed a drinking song.
Thank you - now I know why I can never sing it properly - not that I need to, as I'm not an American. But sometimes I have a song stuck in my head and it only goes away when I sing it. 😁
It's an octave and a fifth. The usual tuning for the Anthem is your regular, bog-standard military band B-flat. The Sousa arrangement is better: it's a major second lower in A-flat.
Azerbaijan's anthem kicks all manner of ass, and Hungary's is genuinely beautiful. But both countries had their anthems written by their opera composers.
Even worse for UK listeners - some awful charity cover by a loathsome youtube couple, substituting 'with sausage rolls' for 'on rock and roll', was Christmas no.1 for about 70 years in a row.
I fear that mentioning it might turn it into the tune in my head when I try to sleep, but I think the hatred keeps it at bay. Best of luck to you as well.
Probably cha-cha slide because at parties everyone expects you to get up and dance and I can't fucking stand it.
It's bad enough that I have to endure a bunch of songs that aren't heavy metal, now you expect me to dance? Fuck off!
There's an entire episode of Pasila, a very successful Finnish cop comedy animated series, revolving around the concept of a "Phil Collins hangover" where you have a hangover so bad you can't stop hearing Another Day in Paradise and everyone you meet looks like Phil Collins.
Sadly, I don't think there's an official release with English subs. I did discover, to my horror, that at least some episodes were *dubbed* into English (things getting Finnish dubs is a bit of a generational trauma here, so something Finnish getting an English dub feels... eldritch-adjacent?)
It’s a difficult one, and disappointingly, I think you’re right.
In other news, The Rookie is up to season 7. You’d think after 7 years he’d no longer be a rookie. I can’t believe the public like that show, but someone keeps ordering new seasons.
👍 I kind of love the hilarious over the top 80's vibe of that song for lip sync fun but 💯 would never voluntarily play it. There are plenty of other super dramatic 80's tunes that are actually good.
All Summer Long by Kid Rock - not only does it suck, it gets my hopes up that it's gonna be Werewolves of London.
Amarillo Skies by Jason Aldean - I generally dislike modern country, but I had a truly awful roommate who used it as an alarm, and I can never escape that memory.
That "loosen up my buttons" song has always driven me insane. I get what they're trying to say, but please do not damage my clothing. Button is either buttoned or it isn't.
I dig it for those reasons. Its like Kandi’s ‘Dont think im not’ its like babes ya’ll dont have to keep doing this (tho as i age i realize maybe its a kink or some shit who knows)
Yes - he places the ad and she is the one who shows up because they’re both terrible (I always thought this in-person meeting occurred at a bar but maybe not)
I kid of course, but good grief I think Sting might have the most opposite scale of quality from The Police to his solo records. He has a few decent tracks but it's mostly nonsense to me.
Sting in the Police was just yelping, though, I can't stand to hear or see them despite some ok songs. His range got better after that but his songs got worse
My father called me to tell I simply had to check out the song Lady In Red after he first heard it…in 2011. Clearly, he didn’t watch Days of Our Lives in the 80’s
Only the version by Heart is great. I only knew the song as sung mostly a cappella by four schoolboys in my class with accompaniment by another boy playing the spoons. Now THAT was a monstrosity.
Just watched them - I've never seen them before. (I'm not Australian.) I like the Barry Crocker version. The Leonard Teale version reminds me of William Shatner. (Has he ever done Stairway?)
Paul McCartney is my hero. But that is a cynical calculating pandering song. It makes me feel bad. Pity the poor people working in retail each December.
Love him, The Beatles, and even Wings. But McCartney himself has said he regrets this song, and admits it was a commercial pander he did for the label.
I love McCartney. (Somebody here has nominated Penny Lane as their most hated song(!)).
Those effing jingle bells dragging at the beat though in Wonderful Christmas Time.
Infurating fact as a synth nerd: this used a yamaha cs-80. Incredibly complex polyphonic synth to the time (also used on Bladerunner). Cartney very much used NONE of its potential.
Someone posted a reply to this with genuinely the worst version of 12 Days Of Christmas that I have ever heard, then deleted their message leaving me alone with the horror.
It's terrible. But prevalence enters into it. Not sure I've heard this more than once. But Wonderful Christmastime gets played at least 10,000 times every holiday shopping season. It's inescapable.
I hate this song so much. My sister made a Christmas playlist for me once and it was just, like, 32 different versions of this song. Every genre imaginable. Different languages. Insufferable.
I'd do the same thing, and in fact have. My friend liked "House of the Rising Son" so I made them a several-CD set of them including some truly, epically bad takes of it. With the good ones buried.
But doing it with THIS song? Genius! Can't believe there ARE more!
I made a cd of 14 different versions of girl from ipanema once cause my coworker hated it, then i would put it in the player on repeat when we got busy. Good times.
Well, I'm not paralyzed, but I seem to be struck by you
I wanna make you move because you're standing still, If your body matches what your eyes can do
You'll probably move right through me on my way to you
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bridge Over Troubled Water is the worst song Simon and Garfunkel ever wrote and it baffles me why anyone thinks it’s good. It’s overwrought crap and it’s literally true that ALL their other songs are better—no exceptions.
YES. It'd be kind of OK if it ended before the last verse (ie stop before "sail on silvergirl") but from there on it's almost too embarrassing to listen to. *So* absurdly overblown.
What part of “literally true that ALL their other songs are better” did you not understand? I know the tune. Quirky. Somewhat overproduced (though typical of the era). But not an overwrought mess that makes you want to gag.
In college I had a neighbor who would play this loudly, on repeat, for hours. Occasionally I’d go pound on their door and they would turn it down, but never off, and they never answered. It annoyed the hell out of me then but in hindsight I really wonder what was going on in that person’s life.
Coincidentally, someone I follow just cited Don McLean’s American Pie for this prompt, and Flack’s Killing Me Softly is an homage to American Pie (which is partly an homage to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper.)
When that song came out, it was played 12 times each hour on AM radio for 8 solid months.
If it had been my favorite song ever when I first heard it (and it was not) by the end of that year I would have wanted to kick it to death with my slippered feet.
Tbh it has less to do with them as a band or musical entity than a social divide between me and groups of friends in the early 80s. But that song pushes all of the buttons to enforce my existing prejudice 😂
I scrolled through looking for someone else who hates this one as much as I do. My problem is that I don’t think it should even qualify as a song.
It is the same two 4/4 measures on a loop the entire time. A toddler could make this beat with an iPad and 10 minutes.
I read an oral history of this song, and to their credit, they were AMAZED that it was a hit, it literally was that simple to make, they were embarrassed! I don't actually think a toddler could make it. But yes, a very bare construct
When I was a student hanging out in the only pub that would serve us (we were all marginally underage) that track would be played at least once every hour on the jukebox.
I've not listened to it in its entirety for about 30 years.
I moved to LA in 1999. The radio station was playing RHCP non-stop. I moved away. I moved back in 2001. And it was the same playlist. And it has been the same RHCP playlist for the past 24 years. Even the LA Olympics sneak peak? They brought out the RHCP. STOP TRYING TO MAKE THE RHCP HAPPEN!
I think they just chuck a bunch of random words into a hat, then pull them out one at a time and sing them in that order.
That or they wanted to find out if people would still buy their music even if it made no sense at all.
Reminds me of The Good Place scene where Micheal is asking Eleanor questions to see if she belongs in hell and one is "Have you ever paid money to hear music performed by California funk rock band "The Red Hot Chili Peppers"?
Best line i ever heard about them was from some comedian, might have ben Bill Burr::
"You know how when you turn on a radio station and your first response is to immediately say 'What the fuck is this terrible shit??' Somehow it's always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
Last Christmas my parents insisted on me staying with them despite me wanting to get a hotel. While cooking a meal she knew I couldn’t eat, my stepmom put on RHCP. I chewed my tongue.
Dad: we’ve been getting into these guys lately, have you ever listened to them?
Me: yes, unfortunately
I am going to stick up for Blood Sugar Sex Magic, but utterly condemn everything since then. Californication was one of the first worst songs that came to mind. But that is compounded by how great BSSM is.
"God Bless the USA".I've loathed it since my highschool honor choir got picked to represent our state at the bicentennial events for the ratification of the Constitution in 1987 and that was our set piece. Even as a goddamned 16 year old Idahoan idiot I knew how jingoistically awful it was.
I particularly hate that we performed it often enough that I still know all the f'ing lyrics and have the muscle memory of the 2nd soprano harmony line is imprinted on my diaphragm so I will involuntarily hum or sing along with bits if I can't escape the space that's playing it quickly enough.
Same! For me, it was middle school choir. I still have the alto part embedded in my brain. And the current administration hijacking it as their theme song just cemented it as a song I will always loathe.
The only time I've even vaguely appreciated this garbage song was even I was stationed in Korea and it was played to signal that Exercise Week was over and we could peel off the MOPP gear.
Also, and this gets me to this day, we had a MUCH better song on the set list, John Williams ' "America the Dream Goes On" which was actually thematically on point on top of being musically and lyrically richer. It used to make me catch my breath - since 2016 it makes me sob out loud snotty cry.
That should have qualified you for hazard pay just on its own. Seriously though it sucks musically, lyrically, thematically, and it was such a f'ing cynical cash grab on Greenwood's part to boot.
Right??! I was equal parts hysterically amused and incensed when I saw that segment. Made me want to go back in time and drag our music director forward in time to make him watch it. (That wouldn't be an abuse of TARDIS priviiges would it??)
the worst part was there were 3 or 4 people that EVERY time the lyrics would mention where they were from, they'd sob. Like ... loud, massive sobbing everytime the word "Tennessee" was said.
There was one girl in the first soprano section of our choir who would always, and I mean ALWAYS make a point of theatrically fake-sobbing on the last chorus crescendo. Makes me want to vomit to this day.
Respect. Spice#2 worked at Montgomery Ward a geological era ago at christmas and still can't hear "Rudolph..." without twitching. Spice#1 works at Target and has learned ways of aurally dissociating that are either a) impressive or b) worrying and quite possibly c)both.
Was this song massively overplayed in the 90s? I hear this often as a “worst song ever” nomination and I guess it’s not great but it doesn’t sound *that* bad to me.
In a restaurant, on Lanzarote, that song was on repeat, until I asked them to change h Th e music. Then, the waiter sang it every time he passed our table.
One of my earliest memories is my mother VIOLENTLY turning the radio off when walking on sunshine started playing, and my child brain learned very quickly that yes, that song is Ass (hard disagree on pink pink pony club though sorry)
I never realized Kokomo was by the Beach Boys as it sounded so different from their other stuff to me. And I thought they were singing about the Poconos! 😄
I've only ever heard the real version of PPC once and the only one I think of is the version mashed up with Phantom of the Opera (I heard that one all over Tiktok first)
The Lady In Red. One of Chris de Burgh’s many crimes against music. I like to think I’m a mild-mannered individual, but they should crucify that little pseudo-Irish inversely-talented posho bastard, and when they do I’m buying a ticket.
Interestingly the article reveals that, as well as his songs being the musical equivalent of accidentally taking a horse laxative, de Burgh is an actual cunt: he had an “affair” with a 19 year old babysitter while his wife was laid up with a back injury.
Now I’m not one to demand that my cultural creators be morally spotless. Far from it, we lose too much of the good stuff that way. But if you’re going to be an arsehole at least use that and make interesting art with it.
I don't know why I find this so hilarious, but the linked article is about Coogan's thinking Lady in Red is a cheap knockoff of a pop song an this is the ad the algorythm displayed:
So the Mr is a huge de Burgh fan. 10 years ago he was in concert close to us do I bought 2 tickets. I’m not a fan, but went as a supportive wife. When Lady In Red came on all these women, dressed fully in red came out of nowhere and de Burgh swanned around dancing with a bunch. It was so cringe.
Thank you. I live here. I ban most French radio in my car. For a nation that can’t talk about Mozart without a collective orgasm they have some of the worst music on the planet. They get a pass because they’re jazzheads, though.
Honestly most of the "Man Whine About Girlfriend Who Left Him" songs are annoying but I am also Aro/Ace and didn't understand why people got so distressed about love stuff years before realizing what being Aro/Ace was
Especially for those of us who lived in Germany in the late 80s. This song was basically the soundtrack of the reunification, and played 200000 times per day.
Oh and that stupid “it costs that much cus it took me fucking hours” song the Covid Etsy sellers played during the “my googly eyes on a stick are ARTISAN” era of covid
I was once in a mountain bike race where they played that song at the finish line on repeat for like an hour. I have not been able to stand it since then.
I think in addition to the repetitiveness, there’s the self-importance of the “message”—Super-Serious Social Commentary that’s not particularly original or profound.
I gotta say, though, unlike a lot of stuff on this thread, Hotel California features great musicianship and great singing--Don Felder and Joe Walsh do excellent lead guitar work, and Don Henley, as usual, sings it really well.
I can’t name one song. It’s two songs by REO Speedwagon. When they were popular, I found myself singing along with one of them and ending up on the other. That tells you that their songs all sound the same. After that, I couldn’t listen to them anymore.
Listen to it! Tull and Eagles toured together. Ian Anderson of Tull was gracious about it, said "well, they wrote a better song with it". One of the few times he was wrong 🤣
Honestly, the fact that this is USUALLY an "unpopular take" is what makes me mad. This song IS NOT GOOD and is too long for no reason. Its not impressive to play, sing, or even impressively written....like why do so many boomers and late gen xers like this damn song?!?
Actually rereading your answer, you may have unintentionally targeted the EXACT malaise our country is suffering from presently:milquetoast unseasoned older white people and their horribletaste.
I agree, but I assume it’s a hot take because the song is still everywhere. Hearing even the first few bars once a year just ruffles my jimmies. It’s like. Dealing a vomit streak, it’s not your fault, but it woulda been ok if it had just gone on
Scrolled this list hoping I wasn’t alone! My son played baseball from little league through high school. This abomination seemed to be on every coaches’ pregame playlist. He hates it too.
No argument from me. I love Bowie and I don't particularly mind Bing but together on this. 🤮
The story in many biogs is that they both disliked it too (hence the hastily put together "peace on Earth" filler). This, compounded by the fact that Crosby had no idea who Bowie was makes for a cringe fest.
Oh I would like to agree but that was the first album my dad ever bought me. Came home with it as a surprise. He was trying. The next album was Santana so he learned fast.
Nothing wrong with the song, but I worked a soul crushing retail job back in 1988 in which my boss loved a soft rock radio station that played it *constantly,* and we could be fired for changing it.
Oh we had similar bosses. Waitered at an Irish chain bar and the manager, drunk by 1pm, put Ray of Light by Madonna on repeat and screamed at anyone who suggested we put different music on. Madonna is fine, on repeat midday Irish bar not so much.
McGinty’s in South Africa, attached to a Holiday Inn, dire! So many fucked up stories. One time they sent us on a TRAINING COURSE for St. Patrick’s day. They tried to explain “having the craic” which we thought was just a euphimism for nose powder.
Hah, shame, no. I was a stupid 18 year old and she was in her 30s. Many years later I realised she was going through a hard time and Madonna and alcohol was how she coped, stayed feeling in control. Music can play a powerful role in our lives.
I actually dislike Killing Me Softly in general, apologies to Roberta Flack but I hate this song so much, even without it being inescapably all over the place
You say “nothing wrong with the song” I say “except for the melody and the lyrics”
One time, I was in a department store when it came on and I was so embarrassed by the thought that someone might think I was listening to it, I had to leave.
Dancing Queen by Abba. Actually, anything Abba. It's the aural equivalent of a slice of unbuttered white bread. Bland, unappetising, and gets stuck in the roof of your mouth.
Yes. Weezer have actually done some decent stuff (not that it was ever my thing, but credit where it's due) and then they dropped that piece of utter shit on the world.
Omg! Joey!?...i didn't say it because i thought for certain nobody would even know what i was talking about.
Without a doubt, THE worst song in history.
No idea. Oh lord. Just thought of another one — Bless the Beasts and the Children. Oh! And There’s Got to be a Morning After, from the OG Poseidon Adventure ( fantastic movie)
It’s Fallout Boy and it’s… they made a lot of choices with what events they rhymed and it’s just so blah. Like I feel like hating it is too much emotion for how blah and yet I do 😂
Rises like Olympus? Ope. All these years, I thought the line was "rises like an empress" - meaning "this mountain rises like a regal being." Granted, that may not make tons of sense, but it's slightly less stupid than "this mountain rises like this other mountain that exists somewhere else", no?
One of the band members visited my town; parade w/ Africa playing on his one-man float. 🤣 Me and the spouse met him later and took the piss out of him. Nice guy, but still...are you for real, dude?!
That’s only one of its lyrical crimes. It’s like it was written with a rhyming dictionary; fucking atrocious. I just looked up the lyrics to find the worst line and it’s all of them.
YES I got the name wrong but I hate this one mostly because it KEEPS. PLAYING. AT THE SAME TIME. on a local radio station every weekday when I'm leaving work
I worked in a bar frequented by American students doing a tear in Europe that had American Pie on the jukebox, I nearly lost my mind and still get the ick any time I hear it still, 30 years on.
Back when I was a KJ and someone would put that song up to sing I would save it for midway through the show, cue it up, set the levels and go smoke a joint and take a piss.
Came here to see if anyone had said this. SW may be admirable in many ways, but his voice annoys me. And "I just called" is proper "axe to loudspeaker" material, especially when the repeated key changes start.
I was at my aunt's 50th and her kids put together a slideshow projected onto a screen in a local school hall and it went on for twenty minutes. Isn't She Lovely was on a loop the entire time.
On the vinyl version of Original Musiquarium the songs are cut so close together it’s impossible to hear the intro of ‘Do I Do’ without catching the last couple notes of ISL. I find that infuriating because it’s enough to reinsert that song into my head.
THIS goddamn thing was actually playing on a video screen and blasting out over the speakers at a restaurant I was at by the beach today.
The only joy i got out of it was knowing they beclowned themselves so much with that overalls-themed video it eswentially killed their careers.
Yeah, I can at least tolerate most Train, but that one specifically is just– no white person should ever put the words "so gangsta, I'm so thug" in a song unironically. Let alone a song where the lead instrument is ukulele.
Did at least inspire Todd in the Shadows to come up with one of my favourite analogies ever. Supposedly they were trying to make something INXS-y, which he said was "like if you tried to make scrambled eggs, and instead, you contracted syphilis!"
Anyone who worked in an office where they had the radio on in the summer that was number one (for about 67 weeks, it felt like), hates that song with every fibre of their being.
See also: Wet Wet Wet's version of Love Is All Around
That reminds me of the summer of 94 when "I Swear" by All 4 One was played on the radio every two hours. Awful. I'm glad that song has pretty much died and I almost never come across it nowadays.
Aaaaagh, I had a roommate who played that constantly on repeat, NEVER AGAIN
“Everything I doooo, I dooo it for yoooooou~” agh agh agh
Sometimes this was punctuated with repeated rounds of Whitney Houston singing “EyeeeEEEE will AaaaAAAlways love YOOOooooOOOOOuuu~!” which did not improve matters.
True, and then there's Mariah Carey who should have been an opera singer instead of torturing pops songs to death by prolonging them with unnecessary vocal arabesques.
Hehe…it was first prize 4 nights at the SA Omni with flights, car rental, and tix to the amusement park for 2 days. It worked out because my daughter was living in Austin then.
Definitely that one! I was having trouble coming up with one until I saw yours. That is definitely the song I hate most in all the world!
I love my country, but what a stupid song. Unfortunately, this is the kind of jingoistic nonsense that makes people vote for candidates like Donald trump.
There was a Selena Gomez song that was big on the radio in the 2010's that started with the line "I'm only 14 carats" and every time I heard it I almost broke the knob changing the station. I think it was called "Good for You." Not to be confused with the current "Good for You," which is also bad.
The Joker by Steve Miller Band. God. Fuck that song. It’s peak riding-around-in-an-open-jeep-on-a-beautiful-day-and-shouting-the-f-slur-at-people music. I’d kick Steve Miller down a flight of stairs just to hear the noises he’d make, which would still be 10,000% more enjoyable than The Joker.
But I’m happy to say that there was a long, rough, road to a happy ending for Paul Pena. I won’t spoil it, because it’s pretty wild. Suffice to say y’all should check out the documentary Ghengis Blues if you’ve never seen it. It’s a 100
So that already seems like kind of a dick move right from the jump. But it gets even worse. Because, for some reason, Paul’s album gets stuck in kind of development hell. It winds up never getting released. So Steve winds up releasing Paul’s song, scoring a hit, and pretty much erasing Paul.
His name was Paul Pena, and he was recording in the same studio at the same time as Steve Miller, and Steve heard and liked one of his songs. (It’s the big-old-white-freight-liner one, I forget the name) So Steve decides he wants to cover this other guy’s *brand new original unreleased song*.
So much wrong in one post. I think that's a record:
1. The song you are thinking of is Jet Airliner
2. The band's first song to chart was Livin' in the USA that came out 9 years BEFORE Jet Airliner
3. Miller paid Paul Pena royalties for the song that supported the former in his later years.
1/2
4. Pena's background was from Cape Verde Islands which while geographically off the coast of West Africa, is as much culturally Portuguese as African. So while "African American" is an easy label, it glosses over the complexity of the man.
5. He was blind, though. So you got that correct. 2/2
This is fundamentally as disrespectful to Paul Pena as it is to Steve Miller. Actually, more so. You can't be bothered to remember his name and you're contradicting his own account. You're being an archetypal entitled white asshole. Shut up.
To everyone else who sees this: A not insignificant factor in my anger at this ignorant dickhead is the fact that the original version absolutely fucking rules.
Jet Airliner is a Paul Pena song, yes. They shared a drummer (Gary Mallaber) who brought the song to Steve. Paul did get a livable income from the royalties, though. The song was far from SMs first hit, though. He had 10 previous chart singles going back to 1968.
A friend told me in his early business days he asked job candidates if they liked Steve Miller, and a yes was an automatic DQ. I don't know if he really did that but he had that level of Steve antipathy. I like The Joker but kept it to myself.
Contains one of the all-time terrible lines too: “Really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree” is just dumb as a rock bad. What are you, 13 years old? What a dick.
I used to enjoy hearing this song because my boss, back when we had CDs at work, used to smash his Best of Paul Anka CD on a daily basis, sometimes twice a day and all the songs were equally disgusting. But once this song came on I knew there was only one song left on the CD, so I liked hearing it!
lol, I really can’t. When that song comes on I shut down. Like all the way down. Saying the name makes me scared it’s going play in my brain and I won’t recover
I’m going to guess it is Spectacular Spectacular from Moulin Rouge cause that’s what happens in my brain when I think of that song. It is happening now.
It's honestly a shame how far that band has fallen as artists. They started out making really good conscious dub. But then it eventually degraded into 80s pop slop
Funny, I don't really hate this song, but I can't stand their other hit " I Got U Babe," which I feel gets overplayed way more. Like, people, UB40 has OTHER songs! And some of them are good!
Get outta here! Billy Joel is beyond this trash talk. You do know that Toad the Wet Spocket exist(ed), yes? I call TtWS over every single note that Billy Joel every played on a piano. From birth. And my opinion is based purely on their name. Imagine what their music must sound like? I've no idea!
coldplay - yellow and one week - barenaked ladies. i heard them constantly in the 90s and hated them so much that the hatred burned into my synapses for decades after i should have stopped caring
I was a child when Afternoon Delight came out, and I imagined it was talking about a big ice cream sundae with sparklers sticking out of it, on the 4th of July
I haven't thought about lifting up my red solo cup in at least 5 years and it's just lingering in the back of my mind any time there's enough silence in there 😂
My Sharona, which I have hated on for ages w/o knowing until just now that it was written about a 17-year-old by her 25-year-old boyfriend, and which coincidentally contains the following lyrics:
Never gonna stop
Give it up
Such a dirty mind
Always get it up
For the touch
Of the younger kind
I was a regional manager for Halloween stores for 15 seasons and this song was considered to be “ spooky” and we were instructed by the owner & home office to play a cd with the song on it, 12 hour shift and he heard the song 16 fucking times. I always hated it too. Now im creeped out.
Close second in my list of hated songs is Soft Cell's Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, but I don't randomly encounter it as much in the wild, so I don't have to be constantly reminded how enraging the combination of bad repetitive synth and misogyny is.
Soft Cell is kinda a hate love relationship for me. They made some really good kinky queercoded music. But also some godawful stereotypical 80s cheese. usually all on the same album.
I actually really liked Soft Cell's version, ages before I heard Gloria Jones' vastly superior original. One of the few no-downside perks of the internet is discovering all the Black artists I never knew about who wrote/performed the songs white artists got way more attention for covering later on.
Considering they had Sharona herself pose on the cover for the single, clearly braless under her tank top, I'm thinking the others didn't have much problem with it. At least she was 18 by that time, but still. (And their next album was "...But the Little Girls Understand." No, the Knack. Just no.)
I didn't know either till checking the wiki entry before posting -- if knowing is half the battle, I kinda feel like I lost the war on this one. (I already hated the song for irrational reasons! I didn't need real reasons to feel upset about it.)
Growing up during that time period, I was that 17 year old at the roller rink unlucky enough to have a name beginning with S. The boys called me Sherona ad nausium. I still get the urge to knock someone down and roll over his balls. That said, I shall now return to being a ladylike book nerd.
I don't blame you -- I know the song's meant to be equal parts horny/complimentary, but the way the whole band joins in to shout her name at the end of every. single. verse. feels so sing-song and mocking!
Ew. That’s awful.
I don’t like the song, but it makes me laugh, because when my husband was about 11, he told his big brother they should call the radio and request that song “My Scrotum.” I don’t think his siblings will ever let him live that one down.
After this many years of irrational hate it might very well kill me, so no. (Not a knock against any of the Knack's skills as musicians -- I had to listen to that damned bass line enough growing up to know that it's a good basic hook, even if it majorly outstays its welcome.)
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No one is threatening you with the gulags love I just wanted someone else say A Thousand Years was a shit aong
the fucking verse
the fucking chorus
the FUCKING dance
and fucking "our love is like a shop on the ocean / sailing with a cargo of love and devotion" HOW CAN LOVE BE BOTH THE SHIP AND THE CARGO, WHAT KIND OF GOD WOULD ALLOW THAT
https://youtu.be/j2-dd0lA0T0?si=XtIMbk5O2H9q9WlE
DAAANCIN IN THE MOONLIGHT!
So many wannabes trying to be deep, just churning out a tepid piece of crap. There must have been at least 3 or 4 dozen shitty covers put out since 1970s
I am a massive Joni Mitchell fan, but tbh it's my least favourite song of hers anyway.
But I just checked it out on Mitchell's website and apparently there are 605 recorded covers of this song
605!
If you really hated someone you could send them a different version every day for 18 months & still not have listened to them all
https://youtu.be/L-2rXWDkNzw?feature=shared
Pap musik.
Thank you!
You know what? I can’t hate that version. It’s a song I grew up with and I liked it
I've had this idea for a skit in my head for years where people are....
Back in the day, it was the sole "on hold" music for a major utilities provider in the early 2000s.
I could take it or leave it before then, but after FORTY-FIVE MINUTES of it on loop...
NGL King Harvest did it better, but Toploader did a decent cover.
Part-time photog with my buddy who mainly does weddings.
The playlist is barfingly predictable at each one:
Butterfly Kisses
Chapel of Love
Cha Cha Slide
Cupid Shuffle
All My Life
All The Single Ladies
Sweet Caroline
Don't Stop Believing
None were ever my favs but they've been perma-ruined.
One Father's Day when I was 25ish and my sister was 18ish, my mom forced the family to listen to that entire song. She kept shushing us whenever we started to talk about the awfulness.
Just peak cringe. I mean Mt Everest levels.
Sounds exactly like a family member of mine, crying and declaring, "oh! It's so meaningful!"
..glad someone thinks so. It certainly ain't my cup of tea.
No, I don't think so, not even a little bit. Morbid jealousy warps everything it touches. Cannot listen to that song.
I hate disco.
(So of course the receptionist from my job requested like 20 shitty disco songs and the DJ blitzed 1/3 of my playlist for her)
Harmless silliness FTW❗️
Go on, go, walk out the door
Turn around now
You're not welcome anymore
You're the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
Think I'd crumble?
You think I'd lay down and die?
They divorced after a year.
Please don’t hate me!
Change my mind.
That's an AWESOME song!
Inappropriate for a wedding, though.
(Every Breath You Take is also inappropriate at a wedding, but people keep requesting it)
As for "Vienna" by Ultravox, a certain infant agrees:
https://youtu.be/BwNRfKLifow
Okay- shit song? Can't name one. I block them out. Omg I love you. 😂
I can't stand her over-over-emoting, feels so fake. But she does have chops.
Ta gueule !
Seriously tho vad fan i helvete.
Atrocious. Never wanna hear the song again...sung by anyone. Just Atrocious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvz0TOm0zgI
Imagine is a dreadful insipid dirge
Ditto "Funkytown", a dumb, DUMB song that was full of the sequencing, quasi-mechanical vocals and electro beats we still hear & mostly enjoy still
I took her, rather nifty
Sorry, I like it. But bad rhymes do it for me
I had to look up the title, it's the one with despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage 🫠
Fuuuuuuuuuck
Even thinking about it makes me want to pith my own brain
Good politics, shit music.
My mom (40+ yrs. ago) was a PE teacher. The school where she worked burned to the ground. When they started classes again, the kids reminded her that the last song she played, the day of the fire, was "Dust in the Wind.
Dust in the Wind by Gear, however, rocks
GD autocorrect
I feel the same way about the Bills.
I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do today, I’m gonna watch broncos Super Bowl highlights while listening to Ramones records.
https://youtu.be/tvLDm8821jQ
I can't stand this song
“I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man, when will you pay them back?
I heard screaming and bullwhips cracking”
Well, I heard old Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow”
Just what was Neil singing about? Legitimate criticism?
Is that what you got from the lyrics?
WE WERE IN NEW YORK FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2009/01/the-awfulness-of-billy-joel-explained.html
Also pretty much any classic christmas song has been ruined for me by working retail as well. They're just plain inescapable whenever December rolls around...
How about a chorus that consists of same phrase repeated 8x?
3 choruses of it and then 16 more repetitions to close out.
“On behalf of evry man, lookin out for evry girl, you are the God and the weight of her world.” 🤮
“Thiiiiis fucking song, sucks so bad it’s for morons.
Sucks bad, sucks bad, so bad!”
Tripe and Tripe.
Rock Lobster is fucking amazing!
It's fine bud, try it out. Can't say you hate pizza if you've never had pizza.
- The Darkness
Even by the subterranean standards of Christmas songs.
🎶 I'm an absolute queer disaster 🎶
1) breakfast at Tiffany’s - deep blue something
2) kiss me - sixpence none the richer
3) whole of the moon - the water boys (my Spotify algorithm thinks I love this one & tries to sneak it onto radio based on playlists whenever it can)
All three of these suck.
creative songwriting at its peak /s
I want to die every time I hear Imagine Dragons
"Imagine something cool (DRAGONS!!!). Now here's this shitty band."
(Actually, I don't mind Wham too much).
Stand Tall.
It's so fey, the lyrics took on a whole new meaning. It's a hoot, if you can find it.
Look songwriter, that girl doesn’t like you and I don’t like you either. Just stfu already.
https://youtu.be/4W07dFdGadE?si=YLRDpaf4aggZEwaz
Did you know Machine Gun Kelly used a big sample of it for his track All Night Long? Now you do
That would go on a favorite song list
The song sucks.
The banks sucks.
or at least so say the band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ctd6zISJPc
In the interests of fairness I had another listen to see if I could find some merit in it….
Noooo…. I immediately had to put on Velvet Underground ‘Heroin’ on a loop to cleanse my soul 🙂
Sad he got worse really. I think sometimes people forget, even the artists themselves, that the debut album is actually everything you’ve worked on in your whole life so far, and usually people demand Album 2 in like… a year if you’re lucky?
Ironic as so many of these folks get arrested for child porn and SA.
"she should still be as pure as my high school fanterbate memories have her as."
And a touch of "She wouldn't fuck me, and now she's sharing the "goods" with everyone!" dismay.
No thanks to the neighbour in the Croydon flat next door, mid-90s, who'd play it LOUD all night long, every night, when he split up from his girlfriend. Prevented many a good night's sleep. Still sets my teeth on edge.
Anything by Kiss.
Afternoon Delight
Pina Colada Song
My Angel is a Centerfold
Musically, it's not bad, but the singer's voice is annoying and the lyrics are skeevy.
I was surprised to learn that the J. Geils Band is American, as this song has an extremely Australian vibe.
Other songs in his worst list include Shop Around by Captain & Tennille, Get Up And Boogie by Silver Convention, and Disco Duck by Rick Dees (which he later came around to).
Blink twice if they're holding you against your will!
😅
Great story-
Kiddo was 5 yrs old
Getting tires changed w/me at Costco
I hadn't heard that song in YEARS!
They turn to me earnestly & ask:
"Mom-
How'd the angel get in the cell phone?"
🤣🤣🤣
I almost peed!
Never been able to go past 30 seconds.
Beware : It cannot be unseen.
a realist, I like it.
"I gave you my heart, and the next day you threw it away. This year I'll give it to someone special."
You weren't giving your heart to someone special last year? You were just passing that shit around?
Also, I just hate the vibe of the overall performance.
Used to work in a 'Christian' grocery store, and that shit sucked.
You raise me UUUUPPPP.
I swear nothing drinks more corporate kool aid than believing a multi-state grocery chain is a 'good Christian store.'
84% of Publix employees say it’s a “great place to work”, and they get 4/5 on their DEI score. It is anti union, though.
I used to hate it but now I'm kinda neutral 😅
The WHAM version, alright! It's part of Xmas and it's a bit of a bop,I'll roll with it.
Now Swift's cover is the one that sounds like whining
"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. Give it back. It is not yours. You don't need it, it doesn't even fit you. I have become a zombie, and will tear my heart out of your chest until I am whole again."
"I uh... gave it away."
*angry heartless zombie noises*
🤮🤮🤮🤮
(I actually like the tune, but that lyric is just stupid)
Thankfully Los Ageless came out a few years after my search
🎵We're still keepin' the n***ers down!🎵
I laughed when the Grammys opened with it. Best joke of the whole night.
That is not the line. That will NEVER be the line.
Do you think someday it'll be like the ominous music they play in WWII documentaries where Hitler is screaming to a crowd?
https://youtu.be/RZ9WdCunvy8?si=EV__Ang2k24FSzm8
What an awful anthem. So militaristic, yet it's a *waltz*, so you can't even march to it. Truly democratic, though, in that it's got such a ridiculous range that nobody can sing it. Should have stayed a drinking song.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxRb84909s8rdWCi6pcRzgKJnzqjp0J2fq?si=DM3K9arqb-xWujTQ
Touché.
The Marseillaise is doing it properly.
https://youtu.be/_dVFknALySA?si=Gm2wZqXRM5JR6gRS
Greed over integrity.
It was like nausea!
“Sister Christian” by Night Ranger
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel
Molina dancing and setting off firecrackers in “Boogie Nights?” Really?
Cola wars? I can’t take it anymore.
What else do I have to say?
Wonderful Christmas time
It's bad enough that I have to endure a bunch of songs that aren't heavy metal, now you expect me to dance? Fuck off!
It's never coming home, lads. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. Give it a bloody rest.
I hope there’s subs.
In other news, The Rookie is up to season 7. You’d think after 7 years he’d no longer be a rookie. I can’t believe the public like that show, but someone keeps ordering new seasons.
I shall investigate this further presently.
Amarillo Skies by Jason Aldean - I generally dislike modern country, but I had a truly awful roommate who used it as an alarm, and I can never escape that memory.
https://youtu.be/pmQsrXLofMY?si=4_LjKu2iwJEnRQes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqDu5LBT8_Y
You Get What You Give - the last verse and its whiny singing gives me a physical facial tick.
Fields of Gold - a song you'd play at an uninteresting person's funeral if they didn't get round to the playlist.
Freaxxx - if a war crime was a record.
I kid of course, but good grief I think Sting might have the most opposite scale of quality from The Police to his solo records. He has a few decent tracks but it's mostly nonsense to me.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110716072542/https://warrenellis.com/?p=6781
https://youtu.be/NrgreA_-XEI
https://youtu.be/3WfoccRna6I?si=lAGULJOCAHm0XUhZ
Hate it
“a new old fashioned song”?
The rest of the song can go to hell. Along with every other Christmas song.
https://youtu.be/zPQPN6A2J7w?si=xUXxrPZ7tzKdME-a
Those effing jingle bells dragging at the beat though in Wonderful Christmas Time.
Aside from this one. Wonderful Christmastime needs to be fired in to the sun.
https://youtu.be/rh55aMvP-lU?si=8otN8gzrAH1rVuJG
the ultimate act of phoning it in
https://youtu.be/rZCEBibnRM8?feature=shared
Not kidding.
I'd do the same thing, and in fact have. My friend liked "House of the Rising Son" so I made them a several-CD set of them including some truly, epically bad takes of it. With the good ones buried.
But doing it with THIS song? Genius! Can't believe there ARE more!
Just the *opening riff* gets me changing the station or skipping.
And the lyrics make my ears bleed.
Well, I'm not paralyzed, but I seem to be struck by you
I wanna make you move because you're standing still, If your body matches what your eyes can do
You'll probably move right through me on my way to you
🤣🤣🤣🤣
(I do love them, though.)
https://youtu.be/Cf0RrF6KsI8?si=5WqRvkY1lL20uuNq
If it had been my favorite song ever when I first heard it (and it was not) by the end of that year I would have wanted to kick it to death with my slippered feet.
Ditto for “Year of the Cat.”.
It is the same two 4/4 measures on a loop the entire time. A toddler could make this beat with an iPad and 10 minutes.
https://www.stereogum.com/1877413/behind-the-music-steal-my-sunshine/interviews/
I've not listened to it in its entirety for about 30 years.
I think it’s call A Dinga Dippy Doo Dang California.
That or they wanted to find out if people would still buy their music even if it made no sense at all.
"You know how when you turn on a radio station and your first response is to immediately say 'What the fuck is this terrible shit??' Somehow it's always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
Also could be that my ex loved the Blood Sugar… album.
Dad: we’ve been getting into these guys lately, have you ever listened to them?
Me: yes, unfortunately
Like even in the actual anthem for american exceptionalism, he can't make the deal sound too sweet
the worst part was there were 3 or 4 people that EVERY time the lyrics would mention where they were from, they'd sob. Like ... loud, massive sobbing everytime the word "Tennessee" was said.
it was at LEAST 5 replays. ☠️
My ears!
Today's gonna be the day I change the channel.
Remember how Oasis promoted themselves as the new Beatles? So full of themselves.
https://www.avclub.com/mickey-dean-ween-melchiondo-on-why-he-hates-4-non-blo-1798238547
http://www.mickeysfishing.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl9FFZZnWWo
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
And at this moment in time
Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoNtQdKnHzE
https://www.avclub.com/steve-coogan-on-why-he-hates-the-lady-in-red-1798267982
I think "Don't Pay the Ferryman" is awesome, though.
De Burgh’s catalogue is a minefield of the most utter cringe, though. Who could forget A Spaceman Came Travelling? Nobody, though I have tried.
I should've dumped them just for that.
I don't hate Nickelback, but the lyric says that if we did better, "we'd see the day when nobody died"
Like, no one? On the planet? No one dies, because no one lies?
Get fucked
I always think of Stan telling everyone to get back on the gay pile in South Park
https://youtu.be/-JlmvtAHhnc?si=rojmariG6Aq7t0iT
That is one of the bestest songs ever ever ever
BLOCKED.
🤣
Kidding
I love that song
…fuckin kill me…
Makes me want to die.
You get an award 🏆not a punch!
The story in many biogs is that they both disliked it too (hence the hastily put together "peace on Earth" filler). This, compounded by the fact that Crosby had no idea who Bowie was makes for a cringe fest.
Gag me with a god damned wooden spoon. 🤮
someone said about the vile Newt Gingrich: he has ideas about ideas
:)
Nothing wrong with the song, but I worked a soul crushing retail job back in 1988 in which my boss loved a soft rock radio station that played it *constantly,* and we could be fired for changing it.
That was one of the reasons I quit that job.
You say “nothing wrong with the song” I say “except for the melody and the lyrics”
My wife, however, believes 'When Smokey Sings' by ABC can go eat ass.
It's fine, imo...
Roxanne.
Roxanne.
Repeat 42 more times.
To Rosanna is better
And I'm a huge Sting fan!
😂
Sane question
Raine Maida's god-awful whiny voice...
It’s ok. I still love you. Agree to disagree.
Please and thankyou.
Without a doubt, THE worst song in history.
forever Young song that plays over all the crappy AI generated celebrity content on Insta.
😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmR2dJSDvo
The only joy i got out of it was knowing they beclowned themselves so much with that overalls-themed video it eswentially killed their careers.
Every time I hear it, I think my DNA mutates a little bit.
The Gin Blossoms are the second shittiest band in history.
See also: Wet Wet Wet's version of Love Is All Around
“Everything I doooo, I dooo it for yoooooou~” agh agh agh
Sometimes this was punctuated with repeated rounds of Whitney Houston singing “EyeeeEEEE will AaaaAAAlways love YOOOooooOOOOOuuu~!” which did not improve matters.
I love my country, but what a stupid song. Unfortunately, this is the kind of jingoistic nonsense that makes people vote for candidates like Donald trump.
Ghenghis Blues.
A "fish out of water" doc that really gets into old problems the marginalized have contended with for as long as Empires have been a priority.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpIASXtvHk7Ymz9r_As3cNyEl9W-jJJgu&si=lSwNOFLV8gcU5c__
1. The song you are thinking of is Jet Airliner
2. The band's first song to chart was Livin' in the USA that came out 9 years BEFORE Jet Airliner
3. Miller paid Paul Pena royalties for the song that supported the former in his later years.
1/2
5. He was blind, though. So you got that correct. 2/2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiA
Fuck you.
Sound like terrible elevator music.
All the rest are dogpoo.
(I don’t *like* it but the album version is the best version.)
FAIR!!
An omen…
Boston
Brothers Johnson
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Wild Cherry
holy shit
Whatever, it's terrible
Truly the worst.
I’m lying alone
With my head on the phone
= painful but genius
What else can we do
Eat your heart out, Byron!
I’ll be gone!
https://youtu.be/ORMRfFYMwVU
Never gonna stop
Give it up
Such a dirty mind
Always get it up
For the touch
Of the younger kind
🚩🚩🚩
https://youtu.be/EH4yq-goqiA?si=J9b2nI2N6h8-n5Bf
That album title is bad too, as you say, red flags everywhere!
I don’t like the song, but it makes me laugh, because when my husband was about 11, he told his big brother they should call the radio and request that song “My Scrotum.” I don’t think his siblings will ever let him live that one down.