Songs that annoy you - light hearted

[DobbyLovesSocks]

I have a minor medical procedure today so in a bid to distract myself can I please ask you for the songs that annoy you and the reason why?
Mine are: Dolly Parton 'Jolene' - asking someone not to take her man away. If your man wants to cheat he will and if he will he is not worth hanging on to.
Whitney Houston 'Saving all my love' - basically singing about having an affair. So disrespectful but it's ok because no other man will do

Oh that "Waiting for a train" with lyrics that made me feel a bit nauseous

Wonder what's cooking at the house tonight
Stew and beans

Stand By Your Man
Wives and Lovers

Both give me the absolute rage. Thankfully the latter is rarely played any more, but Stand By Your Man? No, LTB.

'I've Never Been to Me'

And that's without even mentioning that she claims to have been to "the Isle of Greece."

Greece is not an island - it's a large mainland territory with anything up to 6,000 separate islands in addition!

Also Big Love by Fleetwood Mac. It's the sex noises I hate.

And what on earth is with those bizarre grunting/crooning sounds in the intro to 'Trouble' by Lindsey Buckingham?! The first time I heard it on the radio, I thought it was Vic & Bob performing 'in the club style'

'Saturday Night' by Whigfield.

It's crying out for a few key changes and melody variation, but it just sounds like the writer(s) laid down the basic riff as a starting point and then left and went down the pub instead of finishing it off properly.

And that's without even mentioning that she claims to have been to "the Isle of Greece."

I always presumed she was saying Isles of Greece (she has to be, surely?) but in any case that repulsive song contains the line:

“I’ve spent my life exploring the subtle whoring”

Eurgh!!

Somewhere over the rainbow. I can't stand that song, or the wide eyed and innocent or closed eyes and emotional way people sing it. Hearing it makes me stabby

I always presumed she was saying Isles of Greece (she has to be, surely?)

Listen from 1:32 - definitely singular:

Ah, in that case WeBuiltThisBuffet the song is even worse than I thought; I mean, how can we believe anything she claims in it now? “I’ve been undressed by kings”... sleazy blokes she met in pubs, probably.

Barbie girl..by aqua😬

"Unborn children that might have made me complete?" Fuck off, Charlene. I forgot hiw much I hated that song, and now I've got the rage. Gaahhh.

Hey Jude, especially when sang at the end of some event and it drones on for hours

Imagine, just boring durge

Most Beatles songs actually. I don’t get their popularity at all.

I clicked on this just so I could say 'Do they know it's Christmas?' and I see that loads of people have already said it. I still have to say it though. There's been mention of 'there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime' (no, there probably won't be snow in the home counties either - what makes us so bloody superior?) and I would like to add 'nothing ever grows' What, nothing? At all? 'No rain or rivers flow' There are no rivers in Africa? None? and 'Do they know it's Christmas time at all?' Well, if they're Christians then they almost certainly do know, yes. If they're not, they may well know too, but they might not care. I'm sure there's more.

I wont hear a bad word said about Do They Know Its Christmas
The whole thing was inspired by the severe drought in East Africa, so no snow, no rain nor rivers.
Do They Know Its Christmas - if Geldof wrote the lyrics it's an Irish idiom. It would be used if there was terrible hardship or bereavement in the home because you lack the usual Cheistmas cheer. 'Its been so hard and tough without our loved one, we didn't even know it was Christmas'.

Ok, Africa is a massive continent and we today we try to avoid generalisations and stereotypes. But that wasn't a concern in the early 80s. Getting any information out about the horrors going on was the priority.
There are people walking around today who didn't die thanks to Geldof and the rest of them.

Bloody call out culture vs putting food in hungry bellies.

Not wanting to derail a great lighthearted thread, but it seems the reality of Live Aid might not have been as we were led to believe. There are reports that much of the money raised was taken by Ethiopian dictator Mengistu and used to buy arms which were used against the impoverished people of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

I don't know how accurate the reports are, but there are many people who are more than sceptical, believing that LA actually did more harm than good.

Crazy in Love by Beyonce. In fact, anything by that woman or Destiny's Child. Noise, cacophony, too many screeching voices competing with each other. Just over-produced crap.

A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum. Overrated. One of those songs that folk say is brilliant, a classic etc. But they can't explain why.

Move Your Feet by Junior Senior. What became of the Danish dynamos ?

Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys

Bloody awful.

Razorlight - America.

Also bloody awful.

There’s a theme, but there shouldn’t be. I’ve nothing against the US.

Oh also TaTu - All The Thing She Said.
No. No, thanks.

@WildRosie one of them co wrote/co produced Born This Way, performed by one Ms Gaga, L.

@crispysausagerolls

I heard there was a lot of corruption of the money raised from live aid

Dancing in the moonlight by Toploader
Fairground - Simply Red
Most recent chart music

Actually add to that “Blurred Lines” by Robin and “Happy” by Pharrell Williams

'Lost in Japan' by Shawn Mendez. I actually quite like the song, but the line 'Do you got plans tonight?' drives my mad! It's 'HAVE' Shawn. Do you HAVE plans tonight?

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners Totally agree! 'There was more of them than us' Aaarrrggghhhhhh!!

Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys

I was about to say that too. Aside from the "Concrete jungle WHERE dreams are made OF" which we've already discussed (one or the other makes sense, but not both), she's a tiny bit flat throughout the entire song, which spoils it completely for me.

Alan Partridge famously stated that Wings was the band the Beatles could have been; THIS is the song that 'Empire State Of Mind' should have been: