Classic songs that have you reaching for the off button

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 **** 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

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 😉 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 👿