Songs you despise, popular or unpopular

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

I dislike every one of her songs, her voice is so feeble, fortunately I don't hear her on the radio as she doesn't get played that much.

The Chain is a MASTERPIECE! My only bugbear is the idea that a load of people probably think, "Ooh, it's that song from Formula 1"

You Get What you Give by the New Radicals

Annoying Guy in a mall grunting through the intro. Just fuck off in you glass elevator with your stupid hat.

@AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf Soul time in particular was popular for the tempo made it ideal for the Northern soul scene for dancing.

Oh, yes - they're both very good songs and, as you say, a perfect fit for the whole Northern Soul scene. I've just never been a huge fan of that scene myself, personally.

Fair enough..I'm biased as I'm 44years into Northern soul travelling th UK for niters from 16 to about 30.

Has anybody said 'Mmm bop' by Hanson yet? Cannot stand this.

Also 'Sit Down' by James.

@ErlingHaalandsManBun 'sit down 'by James always gives off feel sorry for me vibes.

I can't stand Psycho by Ava Max. If it was about a man there's be red flags everywhere but this idiot's atrocious behaviour is celebrated because she's sweet and gorgeous. Grrrrr.

Yellow Submarine; anything by Van Morrison; Part Time Lover by Stevie Wonder (in fact most Stevie Wonder songs); that awful Defying Gravity song from Wicked; Sweet Caroline; Dancing in the Moonlight.

I like some of the songs mentioned but I agree with most of the rotton ones .
I like van morrison , esp Into The Mystic and Moondance.

I never liked Yellow Submarine but a few years ago my mad as a hatter and high as a kite nighboure played the same few lines over and over again for hours !

My all time hate is Jump Around by House of pain . just stop with all the flamming yelling !

I thought of this thread yesterday when someone requested on the Radio Minnie Ripperton's Loving You as a memory from 1975!

I am being driven mad by the advertising for the new Michael biopic ATM. Can't stand him. And it says by the creator of Bohemian Rhapsody well double doom for me as that film was just a pile of lies.
All making money out of dead people. And one very dodgy dead person MJ.

The house of pain song reminds me of being young at a disco literally jumping around to this..means and my friend knew all the words..still smile when I hear it now(and still know all the words 😀)
I cant stand all of the songs that they insisted on playing on the radio from wicked.
Wailing dross.

Backstage by Gene Pitney
Lady Willpower by Union Gap
Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson

The foregoing were played more or less every day on Magic 828 in Leeds in the early 1990s. Much like 'Waiting For A Star To Fall' by Boy Meets Girl on today's nationally syndicated radio stations.

I also despise:

Don't Look Back In Anger by Oasis
Ironic by Alanis Morrisette
Anything even vaguely drum n bass, jungle, grime, R n B, trance, rap, house. In other words, shit.

Proper R n B came from the 1950s.

As-Su-Su-sudio by Phil Collins, why does this song even exist? What is susudio and why does it make him stutter. Go Away

looking out for love by fleetwood mac, when all start to make competitive sex noises, my ears!

There's another one that they played on a music programme on the BBC the other day - Silly Games by Janet Kay. That has a similar random immensely high note that must spook pet dogs up and down the land, which only seems to have been included for the purpose of showing off how high the singer can reach.

This falls into the same category as the two (probably) best-known songs by Shirley Ellis that I was moaning about introducing into the discussion upthread. Brilliant strong, catchy tunes performed by a great singer... but ruined by utterly stupid and/or nonsense lyrics.

That said, though, I did hear it explained once that Phil wrote the song about the time when he had to take Ronnie James Dio's sister Susan to court amidst a massive legal disagreement - in which case it does actually make perfect sense

...And talking of Fleetwood Mac, what on earth is happening with the intro to Trouble by Lindsey Buckingham? I know it's meant to be just counting the beats into the song, but did they have to do it in the style of Vic Reeves' club singer?!

Just heard another on the radio.

I will survive - Gloria Gaynor.

A great song, sung well. But totally over played at clubs, hen nights, stuff like that where it is screamed along with, and got ruined.

I think of it as the Sweet Caroline Effect.

The Sweet Caroline Effect is a good name for it.

I hated Ironic by Alanis Morrissette before I'd even heard the real version. I was at secondary school when it came out and suddenly loads of girls were singing the bits of it they could remember, over and over again and mostly out of tune. I felt like thumping the next person who shout-sang "It's like RAYYYAYYYAIN! On your weddin' DAY!"

OMG I loathe that song. Right from the get go. See also My Sharona. 😫

I am copywriting "The Sweet Caroline Effect"!!

Ironic should be renamed " A bit of a pisser" because that what everything she mentions is!

I refuse to believe that Ironic was written ironically as some claim!

If we are he are heading into 'genres' or groups of songs that annoy- I'm going with-

'Songs that are over used in auditions on reality tv music shows, badly sung or just used too often'- in the heyday of X Factor/ Voice etc

This applies to - 'I can't make you love me' by Bonnie Raitt, made popular by George Michael. Love George- the song is terminally dull. Every man and his dog on X Factor thought they could sing it. Dreadful.

'And I'm telling you, I'm not going' from Dream Girls- warbled by Jennifer Hudson wannabes , usually to Jennifer Hudson, on the Voice. With added melisma, and extra shouty bits. And the song doesn't go, anywhere.

Anything, at all, by Whitney Houston.

Toward the end of the X Factor run- anything from The Greatest Showman.
(I never even watched TGM, until about 3 years after it came out- I hated it/ all the songs from it, purely from over-exposure on the radio/ talent shows). It's DD2's favourite film

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I've always thought that sounded weird! When the song first came out I didn't even realise he was counting in, I thought it was just some sort of weird vocalising. Like the song though, reminds me of my teens.