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To ask which songs give you the rage?

738 replies

Chocolattay · 20/02/2022 14:40

Heart Of Glass makes me want to be violent, I cannot stand it. I’m not sure what it is. But something about the lyrics, voice and tune trigger something inside me. It came on the radio in the delivery room whilst I was in active labour and it made me distressed until it was turned off.

Also, Ed Sheeran’s songs. Mainly due to the weird lyrics. “My bedsheets smell like you.” Wtf? And in a recent one “I want to drink your smile.” How does one ‘drink a smile’? On the rocks? Also the song where he goes on about all of the depressing hardships his (I’m guessing made-up for the song) friends have fallen upon. One doesn’t see his kids, one is divorced, bla bla bla. It annoys me because it’s not his place to go on about their (made-up, in all fairness) problems for a good song. If the friends are real I hope he asked for permission. This is the same song where he goes on about driving 90mph down country lanes. And the less said about Galway Girl the better.

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Pleaseacceptmyusername · 20/02/2022 17:18

When I was younger, if Tin Tin Out (here's where the story ends?) came on the radio, I would start to feel rage. And sixpence none the richer. Don't like that genre, but still not sure why they made me so angry!

dottydodah · 20/02/2022 17:18

savehannah Agreed! Horrible entitled lyrics .Seems a bit embarrassed to me, rather than upset by his GF standing there! Like he got caught out so what, sort of thing!

ItIsMyName · 20/02/2022 17:21

Jenny from the block by J Lo, coz she’s so humble don’t cha know! Hmm

Walkingalot · 20/02/2022 17:21

Easy Street - made popular on the Walking Dead. Funnily enough it was chosen as a torture song. It's ok for the first 30 seconds then it drives you insane as it just repeats, over and over and over and.......... then you get the ear worm!!!!!! It's got me now - heeeeellllpppppppp.

dottydodah · 20/02/2022 17:24

Thatsplentyjack Same here! Really cheesy and annoying .Also around when I was at School and teased by boys then! Also dont really like "Imagine " either!

Crocusee · 20/02/2022 17:26

So many of these!! For me I have always absolutely despised Red Red Wine , makes me literally spit bricks if it comes on the radio!!

BoredZelda · 20/02/2022 17:26

Ah, I've assumed it's Cecilia ... I can imagine a bunch of dudes deciding to sing Simon and Garfunkel when they've had a drink.

My guess is Ruby.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 20/02/2022 17:26

The Smiths are brilliant, how can anyone not like There's a Light that never goes out?

SmallChange11 · 20/02/2022 17:27

Man I feel like a woman- Shania Twain, tries so hard to catchy, gives me the rage.

thetwofridas · 20/02/2022 17:30

Cannot stand Senorita!! Another one that's one Heart all the damn time

ShavingTheBadger · 20/02/2022 17:31

Loving You by Minnie Ripperton - that GOD AWFUL high note.

zukiecat · 20/02/2022 17:31

I Will Always Love You, and I Want To Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston.

I know Dolly Parton sand IWALU first and not keen on her version either.

Anything by Beyoncé,

Kayleigh by Marillion, there's probably a hundred more, but can't think just now!

Cam2020 · 20/02/2022 17:35

So many of these irritate the living fuck out of me: Love Shack, Groove is in the Heart, everything by Ed Sheeran and Natasha Beddingfield - particularly that Unwritten song where she goes on about Byron, Shelley and Keats. What was wrong with the other Romantic cannons? She obviously couldn't Coleridge, Blake or Wordsworth to rhyme. Utter pretentious wank!

ufucoffee · 20/02/2022 17:35

This is an oldie but Please Release Me. The lyrics are "Please release me, let me go. Because I don't love you any more" Horrible. Why write a song saying that?

RobertaFirmino · 20/02/2022 17:39

@ohMaggieMaggieMae

Rick Astley Never going to give you up. Sounds like a stalker.
When he sings 'You wouldn't get this from any other guy', it makes me think 'You negging bastard!'
SlashBeef · 20/02/2022 17:41

That ancient Sonique song that is always playing on Heart radio. It genuinely enrages me.

Wonnle · 20/02/2022 17:41

Pretty much anything after the mid 90's !

CornishYarg · 20/02/2022 17:42

I Got A Feeling by Black Eyed Peas, have to turn it off

A more recent one is the song that goes "I'll make a cup of coffee for your head" in a weird baby voice. It was a real wtf moment when I first heard that

noodlezoodle · 20/02/2022 17:42

Love this thread! Agree with most nominations and would like to add literally any song by Simon and Garfunkel. Unbearable.

I also have a LOT of questions about the husband who can't listen to Lovely Day because it makes his willy feel funny Shock

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 20/02/2022 17:42

Birthday - The SugarCubes

Bjork's voice makes me want to remove my own ears with a blunt spoon

YouCantTourniquetTheTaint · 20/02/2022 17:46

The Mark Ronson version of The Smiths Stop me if you think you've heard this one before. He absolutely butchered it.

Any dreary depressing song, I hate them like Adele, Ed Sheeran just anything like that, boring dreary music, for boring dreary people. Power Ballards can get in the bin too.

Dance with my father again - doesn't give me the rage, but instantly makes me cry Sad

CherryRipe1 · 20/02/2022 17:47

@HeartshapedFox

99 Red Balloons. I just really, really hate it. Her stupid simpering voice and the stupid simpering tune, it’s just awful.
Absolutely concur, it's truly cringe worthy! Also In the year 2525 ( Zager & Evans I think?)Total dirge. Some shit about Got to be Perfect or just Perfect(?) Fairground Attraction + stupid dance by lead singer. Hi Ho Silver lining. Rubbish. Rubber Bullets and Donna,10cc. Piles of 💩 I got you Babe, Sonny & Cher. I could go on and on but ttfn.🙂
LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 20/02/2022 17:51

@CornishYarg

I Got A Feeling by Black Eyed Peas, have to turn it off

A more recent one is the song that goes "I'll make a cup of coffee for your head" in a weird baby voice. It was a real wtf moment when I first heard that

Heart like to play that randomly on a Tuesday morning which seems silly. Except its their cut version so there is no verses just the chorus of 'I have a feeling' over and over..as radio versions go..its pointless
ddl1 · 20/02/2022 18:02

That awful passive-aggressive 70s song 'No charge'. Anything by Frank Sinatra. 'I've never been to me'. That creepy song, 'What do you want to make those eyes at me for?'

Giraffesandbottoms · 20/02/2022 18:02

The problem with most of these aren’t the songs themselves but how much they are overplayed. I hate them all. Bastards