Songs You Dislike and/or Detest

[Kruss]

I hate John Lennon's "Imagine" with the fire of a thousand suns.

Yes, I realize I'm in the minority, but there you go...

 

[Simone411]

Gosh and Yuck. Why did I have to think of this song! It's not so much hating it. It's another joke to me. I have to admit that the Divinyls were pretty brave to come out with it. It was released in 1990 and made #1 on the charts after 5 weeks:

I Touch Myself

 

[Kruss]

That godawful "All of Me" song. It makes me want to set things on fire. And not in a good way.

My 82 year old dad starts baying at the moon when he hears that song.

 

[once_upon]

Then there is the purple dinosauer's song "I love you, you love me"

Josh Gorban, kenny rogers, and Michael Buble - makes my ears bleed.

 

[PRlady]

I hate John Lennon's "Imagine" with the fire of a thousand suns.

Yes, I realize I'm in the minority, but there you go...

I think we are not such a small minority. I hated that song the first time I heard it the month it was released and nothing, including some really boring skating programs, has changed my mind ever since.

 

[PrincessLeppard]

There is actually a really cool version of Imagine that one of my students played for me about ten years ago. I think it's by a Perfect Circle. It's all dark and minor chords and depressing, essentially, it plays like what Lennon imagined will never happen. The Iraq War had just ramped up and so it just seemed so perfect.

Adele's "Hello" is another song that drives me nuts. It's not that it's terrible. It's just that everyone else thinks it's the GREATEST SONG EVAH and you know there's going to be 30943057 exhibitions, if not free skates, to it in the upcoming year.

 

[Sparks]

Anything by Foreigner especially Hot Blooded.
I'm hot blooded, check it and see. I've got a fever of 103.....you don't have to read my mind to know what I have in mind. Honey you ought to know.

I get stabby thinking about it.

 

[quartz]

Anything by Foreigner especially Hot Blooded.
I'm hot blooded, check it and see. I've got a fever of 103.....you don't have to read my mind to know what I have in mind. Honey you ought to know.

I get stabby thinking about it.

Stabby.

I like quite a few of Foreigner's songs, but yeah, Hot Blooded is very awkward.

 

[PeterG]

How about Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana? What wonderful lyrics!!!

Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now; entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now; entertain us
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido
A denial, a denial, a denial, a denial, a denial
A denial, a denial, a denial, a denial

 

[aliceanne]

As far as iconic songs go I dislike Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. It just sounds like noise for the sake of noise to me.

 

[Anemone]

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. There are no words for how much I despise that song. A couple of years ago, the radio station they play at the office played the original version of this once every 2 hours for the entire month of December.
I had to put on other music the minute I got home from work to get rid of the earworm every night.

 

[twinsissv]

The Rap version of "Thank God I'm A Country Boy".

Rap version? ANY version of that song makes me gag. Baltimore Orioles adopted this as their seven-inning stretch song and...well...after the sixth inning I wanted to jump from the upper deck just to avoid hearing that again.
What the heck? Country boy...in Baltimore? Every game? Oh really?
Jeez!
Country boy, please go home and take that song with you!

 

[topaz]

"Jesus Take the Wheel" drives me nuts.

I like that song. It makes me emotional.


Songs that irritate me:

On the road again by canned heat - The singer's tone and pitch are HORRIBLE. The music of the song I don't mind that much.
Led Zeppelin stairway to heaven, kasmir and just about anything by them.
Anything by AC/DC or Rush.
Kiss - Beth





Mariah Carey, I like her older stuff better.

 

[topaz]

James Brown - It's A Man's Man's Man's World

Stupid title, horrid lyrics and awful melody. Whenever someone sings this on a talent show, I know they're an idiot because of all the songs of James Brown to pick...they choose this piece of dreck!!

Hush your mouth. I think it a very good song(lyrics aside). The rhythm is good and instrument arrangement is very good.

 

[PeterG]

My Generation by The Who. Repetitious, only requires somebody with a one-octave range to sing it and possibly the whiniest straight white boy lyrics of all time.

 

[Sparks]

My Generation by The Who. Repetitious, only requires somebody with a one-octave range to sing it and possibly the whiniest straight white boy lyrics of all time.

Oh, dear. I suppose you hate Magic Bus too.
We may have to re-consider our friendship.

 

[barbk]

I like Ain't No Sunshine.

Musically/aurally I like it just fine. But what gives it a special place in my heart is that it's a song about a man missing a woman and as far as the context of the song goes his whole life is defined by the presence or absence of that woman. There are so many songs about women being defined entirely by the presence or absence of a man that it's refreshing to hear the shoe on the other foot for a change.

Plus which it was an awesome OD for Navka & Kostamarov in 2004 -- the straightline "I Know I know" sequence was fantastic, and one of my all time favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62SCK8Xh0UM (straightline starts at 1:14)

 

[emason]

PeterG, if you want repetitious, there is always Suzanne Vega and House of Dreams or whatever that monotonous piece of dreck is called. Another song on my can't stand list!

 

[Alixana]

As awful as all of his music has been, his foray into classical/opera was hands down the worst.

He's certainly not Pavarotti or Domingo but I prefer his opera album to anything else he's ever done. If you tie me down and force me to choose which of his albums to listen to.

 

[shan]

I have to chime in for the hate of Last Christmas and Wonderful Christmas Time.

I also really despise this song by Kings of Leon because it sounds sooooooooo whiny.....
Use Somebody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhXHvRoUd0

 

[PRlady]

I don't just hate Imagine, I despise it.

I pretty much dislike all pop Christmas songs.

For @PRlady , "Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go? Timothy, Timothy, god why don't I know?!" I thought it was a plane crash?

Didn't you listen to the lyrics? It gave me nightmares!

As much as I loved the Beatles is how much I loathe their post-Beatle output. McCartneys stuff was saccharine dreck, it's not just Imagine that sucked. Harrison's What is Life wasn't bad if you ignored the lyrics.

Compared to that waste of talent, the manufactured pop songs if this era are just sound filler. It's not like Katy Perry is capable of more.

 

[Jot the Dot Dot]

Rap version? ANY version of that song makes me gag. Baltimore Orioles adopted this as their seven-inning stretch song and...well...after the sixth inning I wanted to jump from the upper deck just to avoid hearing that again.
What the heck? Country boy...in Baltimore? Every game? Oh really?
Jeez!
Country boy, please go home and take that song with you!

Okay, howzabout the Reggae version of Redneck Woman? Or Barney The Dinosaur singing "Achy Breaky Heart"?

 

[Jubak]

Just according to sound without going into song meanings or anything . . . "Rumour Has It" by Adele. I hate that whole production with the mediocre beats and the constant "Rumour has it ooooh. . ." in the background. It's so grating to my ears. I don't like most of her songs, but this one is just the worst for me.

The first time I hear one of her songs, I like it, but on subsequent hearings, she irritates the bejesus out of me. I know why she got vocal nodes & a ruptured cord and she is headed back there again with her latest effort.

 

[emason]

PRLady,

My BFF nailed it when she pronounced that Paul McCartney would be the Lawrence Welk of our generation!

 

[escaflowne9282]

Well, considering it's me this is a cliche by now but...

HAT FULL OF STARS by Cyndi Lauper .

The scary thing is, the non Cyndi version Yuka overused is actually better.

 

[Jubak]

I pretty much hate all the music of the 70s. Folky, simpering, whiney dreck. I pretty much hate most pop music, unless dancing in a club (which I don't do anymore) or doing an aerobic class. Repetitive & banal. There. That covers just about everything.

 

[escaflowne9282]

It's sacrilege to say this I know, but I detest almost everything Stephen Sondheim. Worst offender: Send in the Clowns. I loathe that song.

I liked this and wish I could like it 500 times over. I loathe Sondheim's musicals. I find Sweeney Todd to be horribly gruesome, and Into the Woods has terrible music, and is a ridiculous waste of perfectly good fairy tales.

ETA: After reading PeterG's post upthread, I just remembered I don't like The Who either. I really couldn't stand Tommy (movie or album), and I think the movie was a waste of perfectly good pinball machines and cans of baked beans.

 

[quartz]

Mama Mia and pretty much every Abba song. So vapid.

 

[made_in_canada]

Adele's "Hello" is another song that drives me nuts. It's not that it's terrible. It's just that everyone else thinks it's the GREATEST SONG EVAH and you know there's going to be 30943057 exhibitions, if not free skates, to it in the upcoming year.

There's one small part of that song that has the oddest drum part. It drives me crazy every time I hear it. It sounds so unfinished. It's like there's a few bars of a specific drum sound, kind of building, then it just stops suddenly.

 

[PeterG]

Oh, dear. I suppose you hate Magic Bus too.
We may have to re-consider our friendship.

When I read your post, my first thought was, "I've never even heard of that song"! Listened to it on youtube and I know it and like it. But I'm not sure I knew whose song it was. It's not dramatically different from My Generation, but I maybe the more positive lyrics draw me in. It's kind of a silly love song. But what's wrong with that...I'd like to know.

PeterG, if you want repetitious, there is always Suzanne Vega and House of Dreams or whatever that monotonous piece of dreck is called. Another song on my can't stand list!

Tom's Diner? I can see why people would dislike that song - the monotonous quality of the melody as well as the simplistic lyrics. But I quite like Suzanne Vega. And the remix by DNA I love because of the funking up of what is kind of a folk-like song. Just a complete re-do of the original while keeping all of the original intact.

Mama Mia and pretty much every Abba song. So vapid.

Abba was growing musically with their last two albums, especially their last album, "The Visitors". Two songs that show how they were changing include I Let The Music Speak and The Visitors (title track). To think of how their music could have developed if the four of them had remained together as a recording group leaves me to wonder of the greatness they could have achieved beyond that of their more simpler pop stuff.