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What song do you turn off?

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YourAvidOpalPoet · 19/06/2026 19:00

Anything pre 1960

OP posts:
Blueuggboots · 20/06/2026 23:05

Red red wine by UB40

Blarn · 20/06/2026 23:07

Greenandyellowday · 20/06/2026 22:16

All of these give me the rage and I have to switch off or talk over them or walk out of the room:

The Doors "Light my Fire" - oh fuck off with your demands, you arrogant, writhy, leather clad asshole.

The Oasis one about the sister and blister - awful rhymes for no reason and, like most Oasis songs, it makes no sense.

Billy Ocean "Red Light" for being rapey.
Also can't stand "Get into my Car" or "Caribbean Queen".

Rod Stewart "Sexy" song.

Madonna "Like a Virgin" and "Like a Prayer" and actually anything by Madonna - she sounds like Pinky and/or Perky but with less vocal talent.

David Bowie "Modern Love" - aaargh!

Eagles "Hotel California" - I don't really dislike this song, but if you've ever lived in the US you'll know that it's inescapable and seems to be played on the radio every 30 minutes.

Van Morrison "Brown Eyed Girl" - don't know why, but I utterly despise this song.

And on all of the following I agree with PP:

Santana "Smooth" - major rage!
Toploader "Dancing in the Moonlight" - I can't explain why I hate it so very much!
Ash "Girl from Mars" - I think it's the (lack of) scansion in the lyrics and the frantic pace.
Spin Doctors "Two Princes" - this was also inescapable on American radio at the time.
Beautiful South "Perfect Ten" - because it's sleazy disguised as woke, bleurgh.

I like lots of the songs mentioned but absolutely agree with Ash Girl From Mars! (As mentioned already!). Dh can't understand my hatred of Ash because he points out that I like repetitive, short, fast punk songs. Ash are just repetitive. None of their songs are short and some (looking at you Shining Star) are repetitive, long and slow.

hattie43 · 20/06/2026 23:09

Mull of Kintyre and Red Red Wine . Anything by Maria Carey

FastFood · 20/06/2026 23:09

Aluna · 20/06/2026 22:58

One of my favourite songs in the world. Tho I’m not keen on falsetto in general.

And I love falsetto in general, I absolutely love Tiny Tim for example (not that its something to be proud of) but Prince's falsetto is so...dry, for the lack of a better word.

Annierob · 20/06/2026 23:15

The Eagles

Hotel California

so depressing

NeededANameChangeAnyway · 20/06/2026 23:19

The one which has someone singing really quickly about a diamond ring, I want a diamond ring. Hate it.

Jazz.

Anything with piano, trumpets or extended noodling guitar solos.

Bertiebiscuit · 20/06/2026 23:26

HaroldMeaker · 19/06/2026 19:06

Bohemian Rhapsody 🤢

Yes, worst pop song and most annoying earworm ever
Also:
Imagine - written by a wife beater
Streets of london, the choice of bad buskers

Bertiebiscuit · 20/06/2026 23:43

Sam smiths voice gives me the galloping ick. Sleazy

Merida46 · 20/06/2026 23:44

Rap, with a capital C, its all utter shite.😡

Daisymaybe60 · 20/06/2026 23:48

I heard the Stones’ Under My Thumb played on the radio the other day - its message was barely acceptable in the 60s, let alone now.

But the one that has me dashing to switch the radio off is You’re Gorgeous. The lyrics make me feel ill.

AtIusvue · 20/06/2026 23:57

Will switch off anything from

  • Micheal Jackson
  • Coldplay
  • Deacon Blue
  • Lewis Capaldi
  • Adele
RaspberryRiddle · 20/06/2026 23:57

SirChenjins · 20/06/2026 00:57

Oh 😥

Thanks for your sensitivity - I wish that I didn't know this...

Greenandyellowday · 20/06/2026 23:57

Most songs by the Police, especially "Don't Stand", "Roxanne", all of them.

Mostly because Sting annoys me. Looks like a duck, quacks (sorry, "sings") like a duck, pretends to be a reggae singer, had an affair with his lodger and left his wife for her. I'm team Stewart Copeland (my age 12 crush 😍😂)

Thatcannotberight · 21/06/2026 00:03

Whitebonny12 · 20/06/2026 21:49

Sexual healing by Marvin Gaye. It's so effing cringe, basically a song about waking your partner up in the night to have sex. If my husband did that I'd suffocate him with the pillow.

Also, that Cockney Rebel song Come up and see me. Steve Harley's vocals sound like a strangled cat and I can't for the life of me understand how he was ever considered a singer.

Right there with you about Marvin Gaye...
But Mr Steve Harley? How very dare you! He was a genius.

fatimashortbread · 21/06/2026 00:12

Anything by Iron Maiden and the Scorpions

LouiseK1972 · 21/06/2026 00:14

Anything by the Lighthouse Family. Can't stand his voice, just durge and tune less.

PeppyRoseBeaker · 21/06/2026 00:23

Brick in the wall

WhenTheDustSettles · 21/06/2026 00:46

Sweet bloody Caroline. As soon as the opening bars come on - I can't stand those either - it's off. It's nothing to do with sport in general or football either.

RocSor · 21/06/2026 02:40

Anything by Robbie Williams including his stupid cat food ad.

Chickadee001 · 21/06/2026 05:31

Anything by Simply Red - Mick Hucknall is my ick, and Dancng in the fricking Moonlight by Toploader...!

HoraceCope · 21/06/2026 05:37

cant believe i have forgotten Angels
i remember 20 years ago on holiday, at a club, children kept going up to murder this on karaoke

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BCBird · 21/06/2026 06:00

Anything by Lady Gaga
Anything by Akon

FantasyFoodhall · 21/06/2026 06:03

Anything by Craig David
Song for Whoever, Beautiful South- aaagh I hate it
It wasn’t me, Shaggy- peak annoying
Witchcraft, Frank Sinatra
Also Angels

Thank God they aren’t played a lot these days.