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We've had a few music related threads recently - so here's another one for you prompted by the radio this morning.
What songs do you recognize as being heralded by the music world in general as absolute classics, yet they have you reaching for the off button.
Here's my 3 for starters.
Hotel California.
Rock the Casbah
Blue Monday (even though i love Joy Division and New Order and this is what got me into them)
Bohemian Rhapsody. Overhyped, overplayed.
Anything by the Beatles.
Come on Eileen, hate, it always have, always will, I will leave the house never mind just turn off the offending player
summer of 69.
all that "cheese" CRAP that gets played at unis
Good call Gee-Jay. Hate it on the radio, yet for some reason (starting with B, ending with R and with EE in the middle) I always get pressganged into kicking my legs up to it by my wife at weddings and parties.
The unacceptable face of musical paedophilia.
I ****ing HATE!!!!!1!!!!
1)Come on Eileen
2)Imagine - John Lennon
I'd rather have molten lead poured into my ear than listen to either of them.
If I remember any more I'll edit 👿
Imagine
+1
Don't understand why anyone thinks it's any good at all
for some reason 'brown eyed girl' by van morrison does it for me. 👿
On Come on Eileen, a firend hired a jukebox for his wedding, and requested that it be loaded with all his favourite music. On the morning of the wedding, the jukebox arrived, and none of it contained his chosen music. Getting over the shock, he asked me to help him out - by searching through every single album for any trace of Come On Eileen. When we found one, we broke into the jukebox and threw out the offending CDs.
Am quite pleased it's not just me that has a pathological hatred of it .. I had problems actually typing the name in here TBH
Love shack
Groove is in the heart - or whatever it's actually called
unchained melody
ferry cross the mersey
the beatles (all of them)
and the one about walking 1000 miles (if that's classed as classic)
I hate Come On Eileen too..
also from me;
I got you babe
Man in the Mirror or whatever it's called, it was played all the time after Jackson shuffled off this mortal coil, just detest it.. the radio was constantly off!
Oh, and Hi Ho Silver Lining
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More pairs of dungarees than Todmorden.
Smoke on the Water- once the singing starts it's got to go. Great intro attached to a crap song.
a firend hired a jukebox for his wedding, and requested that it be loaded with all his favourite music
OT: thats a nice idea.....
'Wonderful tonight', by Eric Clapton, a song about self-satisfied middle class vanity- It makes Chris de Burgh look like Lemmy.
Oh god, Come on Eileen. Nothing makes me want to punch new born Pandas more than that chuffing god awful horendous godforsaken bag of utter tortuous gash.
'My Sherona' has a similar effect on me. Did nobody tell them that SONGS ARE ALLOWED TO CONTAIN MORE THAN ONE TITTING NOTE?
After that, anything by the Beatles.
Bat Out Of Hell
In fact anything by Meatloaf, but that's by far the worst.
only adding weight to the cause, as they already been mentioned...
has to be "come on eileen" which was never even a good song, where as "hotel california" was once a good song IMO but now just over played to death, both now force me to turn over/off
Lady in Red: Chris De Burgh.
Ohh, and I think I need to add a [i][b];-)[/b][/i] don't I?
Another hater of Come on Eileen - I always thought it was just me!
Edwyn Collins - Girl like you
Makes me want to damage things. Usually the offending speakers.
Anything by ABBA
come on eileen is overplayed
but
its the closing track on the really rather fantastic album "Too-Rye-Ay"
IMO Dexys were a fantastic band, unfairly put in a box by that one track
see also "Brown Eyed Girl"
Van has made so many amazing albums - I would be surprised if he has played that one live in over 30 years
Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson.
My pet hate is the Whitney Houston version of " I will always love you"
Dolly Parton's original is so much better without all the showing off
The King of Rock and roll by Prefab Sprout
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Rolling Stones - Sympathy (woo, wooo!) for (woo, wooo!) the (woo, wooo!) Devil (woo, wooo!)
Gets played far to often on Machester Rock Radio and Planet Rock
Jethro Tull - Aqualung. great song, but again way overplayed on MRR! (at one point it was on each show, every day of the week! thats 6 times a day)
Hawkwind - Silver Machine. for smegs sake HW have been going for 40years, have over 40 albums out... and the Radio Stations can only play that one song!
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Los Lobos- bambalayaa or whatwever it was called
Killer -Seal overrated tune
Anything By Van Morrison' working in a bar 'll do that to you although I concede he has a great voice.
Anything from Erasure.
As I read the topic heading I immediately thought of HOTEL CALIFORNIA!
ARGH!!!
Oh my god. LaBamba. Makes me want to puke. Absolutely can't stand it. Bunch of 'cheery', 'palms facing backwards' vomit inducing vileness.
Really, really, really can't stand it
Freebird.
stars simply red, or anything by that ginger manc tosser in fact!
Must be just me that hates "Stairway to Heaven" then ? Absolute tosh (admittedly nicely played). Can't abide it. And I'm a Zeppelin fan.
layla
Anything from Nirvana what a droning boring ****.
Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson
Thankyou for finding #3 on my list 👿
Bamboleo was the Gypsy Kings 😉
Their version of Hotel California is amusing - but will probably have you hating it more.
Hi Ho Silver Lining - Poor Jeff Beck! A pity that such a brilliant musician is known by the man in the street by this tosh...
Everything I do (I do it for you) - obviously. And I even like some of Bryan Adams' stuff...
The twee-er songs by Madness - Driving in my Car, House of Fun, Cardiac Arrest
Chumbawamba - I Get Knocked Down.
Always Wished those tw*ts would get knocked out.
All the best.
G-L-O-R-I-A
Can't stand it.
aaaannnnnnndddd eye eee iiii eeeee iiiiiiiiiiiii willll always luuuuuurrrve yeeeeoooooooooouuuuuuuuuuu
Oi!! Stop rubbishing Van Morrison. He's a legend. Each album is different and has evolved as he has evolved through experiencing life's rich tapestry. He moves me 8)
anything by Queen
Anything by ABBA,end of 👿
American Pie - what a load of shi-ite
Queen - generally everything
Meatloaf - absolutely everything
Lady in Red - what a load of sickening durge
The theme from Titanic - makes me want to smash the radio and ru amoc with a large gun (if I had a large gun)
Oh man! You all beat me to it. Stairway to heaven! Freebird! Layla! Hotel California! All that sh!te ! Tears in heaven, Wonderful tonight, Dancing queen - pass the bucket, please!!
Gloria by Them is fantastic, I can't believe anyone would suggest that.
I 2nd Bat out of Hell and mostly anything by Meat Loaf.
Infact, any Prog Rock, American Rock/power ballad type stuff would have me reaching for the off button.
B.A.Nana - agree about Gloria, am currently listening to Van 8)
Some of the prog rock stuff is good, pretentious yes 🙂
>the beatles (all of them)
It's not just me, then 😉
Don McLean's American Pie gets another vote from me. I tell you if that levee wasn't dry and he pipped up with that pish i'd hold his stupid face under the water till he stopped wriggling. Since the levee would probably be dry i'd just have to content myself with zip tying him by his nuts to the tow hitch of his own 'chevy' and taking it for a spin, i can't see why the torture that he's inadvertantly inflicted on me over the years shouldn't be recipricated.
There i've said it.
this seems to have been quite cathartic for some.
It's just me on Blue Monday though, isn't it?
Hey Jude
Pish
To be fair, they were all prbably good songs in the day, but after being hammered on high rotate by "classic ROCK" radio, and battered by crap pub/wedding/workdo covers bands we've just had enough. OFF.
you've not listed one bad song yet! Embrace your middle age middle classness. Now where is my copy of Devil Woman.
Only joking, anything played on radion 1 & 2 or called classic.
Wonderwall... click
Angels...... click, then throw out the window
shenia twaine- arrgggh
anything by brian adams and im dissapointed he hasnt been mentioned yet!
and possibly a strange one but i positivly hate, with a passion,
old langsenyen or however you spell the stupid newyears eve song!!
there is never an option to have something else and its everywhere!!
hate it.i dont mind a drunken knees up on new year, but why must we have that
Sh!te. 😈
It's just me on Blue Monday though, isn't it?
have to say i love it! ( hides under desk )
More petrol on the Beatles / Lennon / McCrapney fire - bunch of talentless scousers
ABBA - sh!te.... wife and family's love of MamaMia is driving me out of the house...
All that American teen sh!te that the girls seem to love at discos - Grease etc
Boy Bands - ALL of THEM, ever
And a special peace of hatred for...
YMCA
and all the muppets who insist that a) everyone should like dancing to it, and b) everyone should know the ****ing moves AARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
On the plus side,
... one that I haven't heard recently, but was played to death during student days - to be resurrected??
Marlene on the Wall by Suzanne Vega
'owt by the smug ****ts commercially known as Keane.