Songs you despise, popular or unpopular

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First one that comes to mind for me is Nightlife by Green Day. 😵‍💫

Mr Brightside, I don't get the hype around the song, it's boring

Those are they, beg pardon. Still awful 😁

Oh I love that song but it reminds me of an ex boyfriend when I was 19 so I avoid it!

Imagine

the anthem of 1960s/1970s intolerance

Anything by Oasis. Jumped up hooligans with whiny voices. The whole falling out / getting back together was just a well planned money maker and everyone fell for it and lined their pockets. They are laughing at their fans.

Oh wow, maybe my opinion will be changed 🤣

Noooo! I love this song 🎵

It's essentially the Communist Manifesto set to music.

Imagine no possessions... apart from a £1million Rolls Royce, of course...

Oh dear - love Come on Eileen, It started with a kiss, and Summer of ‘69.
I’ll get my coat …..

36D (so what), the Beautiful South.
Fuck off you misogynist arsehole.

A bit more niche, absolutely anything by Eliot Smith, DH loves him and I can't stand his whiny whispery voice.

Totally agree - but please try listening to the early ( 1967- 1973 ) Al Stewart.
He became a tad pretentious after that .

😂

Any track where the backing doesn't fit the melody.

Fairground by Simply Red - nice little whimsical ditty ruined by the "Boom-chukka-luk-chuck, boom-chukka-luk-chuck" dance background.

What I hate about that song is that they ruined this dance banger! ( but then, most of their stuff was pretty unoriginal or copied from elsewhere...)

In a similar vein, every song that uses Martha Wash's vocals without Martha Wash actually being credited. Black Box being the worst offenders, but they weren't the only ones.

Noooooo! I'm with your DH, I bloody adore Elliott Smith.

@DareDevil223 haha yes I think people who love him REALLY love him. I'll never be one of you though 😂

@Appalonia

I didn't realise it was ripped off from somewhere else. Never heard of Goodmen before, they remind me a bit of Corvus Corax or Tanzwut, but less mediaeval.

Angels by Robbie Williams <shudder>

I’m sick of Sweet Caroline and Ironic due to hearing them sung too often and usually very badly.

After experiencing 44 Christmases, I have grown to hate the vast majority of Christmas songs. It might have been OK if shops hadn’t started playing them on repeat every autumn.

I can’t stand Summer Lovin’ from Grease due to the lyrics or Santa Cruz (you’re not that far) because the repeated singing of “Sa-a-a-na Cruz” makes me feel irrationally furious.

Love the pun there!

I absolutely detest with a passion (it actually gives me the rage!) that Squeeze song Up the Junction, along with anything sung by Lily Allen. I can’t get to the radio quick enough if any of those come on!

Anything by Coldplay or Taylor Swift will potentially result in me throwing the offending auditory device into the road and running it over, back and forth, with a large SUV.

I’m a real Beatles fan, but I have to agree with you. I roll my eyes every time at the “imagine no possessions” sung by a multi millionaire. Yeah, whatever John. Hate it.

Whilst some of you are being extremely reasonable, I think some of you AIBU.

These are all classics IMO:
We Didn’t Start The Fire
California Dreamin’
Brimful of Asha
Golden Brown
Livin’ on a Prayer

Karen Carpenter had an incredible voice.

To be fair to 99 Red Balloons, the original version is in German and the task of translating the lyrics into English whilst keeping them rhyming and scanning was always going to be a bit of a compromise.

Oh is that the one with the lyrics of he’s holding back her hair while she is sick?! How on earth could you think that was a good line? 🤣 Makes me want to join her!