If there's one song playing on a constant loop in hell, what is it?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

If there’s one song playing on a constant loop in hell, what is it?

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I completely disagree, but when David St. Hubbins weighs in he deserves to be heard, goddamnit.

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[Ocelot II]

1. The Kars for Kids jingle. OMG, how I hate that thing!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. That's winning. You have to get to the original thread to see how many downvotes it's getting.

I wake up my sleep to turn the radio off or down when I hear it.

1-800 Cars for Kids

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[Shoeless Louis]

17. Nailed it! Right off too!! Contest over.

[3catwoman3]

46. Why am I not surprised that this is first?!

I think this little ditty is universally despised. It shows up on every thread of this nature.

If I cannot get to the mute button fast enough, I stick my fingers in my ears and vocalize anything else very loudly until it is over.

[electric_blue68]

49. Bwaaaahahahaaaaaaa 😂😂😂 Here's my fave response

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"1-800-Cars-4-Kids"

"I hadn't realized there is no other answer to the question until I read this."



dear lord



Bwah!

[Casady1]

2. smoke on the water n/t

[Haggard Celine]

4. Mr. Jones, by Counting Crows.

They wore that song out back when it was popular, and I developed an allergy to it.

[Yonnie3]

5. Baby Shark Song

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So many to choose from sheer annoyance value I'm picking Baby Shark Song.

[XanaDUer2]

6. 70s classis Sometimes When We Touch nt

[Pinback]

12. Excellent (horrible) choice.

This song embodies pretty much everything awful about insipid pop music. The story behind the song (which made composer Dan Hill quite wealthy, I presume) is recounted here:
https://www.countrythangdaily.com/sometimes-when-we-touch-dan-hill/

Driven by love, Hill wrote what he referred to as “the most powerful song ever written.” He took great pride in his song, and that same pride prodded him to sing it to the girl he loved over the phone.

He expected her to swoon. But what he got was a long sigh from the other end. She then told Hill that for a 19-year-old, he was “way too goddam intense” and that she was moving to North Carolina with a CFL football player.

[XanaDUer2]

36. Wah!

[First Speaker]

7. It's a Small World After All...

[Srkdqltr]

24. That was my first thought. .

[Walleye]

8. "American Woman" by the Guess Who

[The Magistrate]

9. Hard To Say, Sir

'Honey' and 'Brandi' are serious contenders. There's always 'The Night Chicago Died', and of course 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree'....

[Docreed2003]

10. Tom's Diner

That song will be playing on the Muzak of my personal hell

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[Thomas Hurt]

11. Red Red Whine, err sorry, Wine - UB40

[electric_blue68]

52. I think it's ok, but your answer is funny! 😂

[ShazamIam]

13. This is going to cost me but my guess is: Jesus loves me this I know... ... ... ...

[femmedem]

23. LOL!

[catbyte]

14. This:

[FuzzyRabbit]

19. Amen to that, catbyte!

I was going to post this one also. I guess it is true, great minds think alike.

[electric_blue68]

53. Bwah!

[Laffy Kat]

59. No, this one is actually much worse:

"I've Never Been to Me". I actually want to hurt myself when I hear it, which is usually in a supermarket.

[Pinback]

15. My favorite response from the Twitter thread:

from user @grownuppunk --

1/2 When I was in college, friends and I went to one of those diners that had the juke box at each table, but would play your selection at ALL the tables. This bunch of rude, loud guys returning from hunting came in and were giving the waitress lots of guff and being very sexist.
2/2 So when my friends and I left, we pumped a lot of quarters into the jukebox and chose “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred to play over and over - in Spanish

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I don't dare post my choice, because it's a song beloved by millions and there would be a thousand outraged responses with not only the original but also every agonizing cover of my Personal Hell Song.

[liberaltrucker]

16. Stairway to Heaven?

[Pinback]

26. Nope. That's actually a pretty good song, imho, even though it's been played to death on the radio.

Of course, ANY song, even your favorite song of all time, would eventually become torture if you had to hear it over and over in an endless loop.

Here's a cover of the Zeppelin classic that I particularly enjoy:

Frank's transcription of the Jimmy Page solo for horns starting at the 6:30 mark cracks me up!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. Don't be shy. I've already had a post removed this morning (but I appealed, and it's back). NT

[Wicked Blue]

18. Yummy Yummy Yummy I've Got Love in my Tummy

by Ohio Express


And Pinback,

My friends and I were thrown out of a NJ pizza parlor back in the 70s for playing "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" too many times on the jukebox. By Loudon Wainwright III

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. No, no, no. We've been through this before in the Music Appreciation Group.

That there is a fine tune. I'll dig up the thread.

I think we're going to have to disagree on this one.

Thanks for writing.

[Wicked Blue]

22. Muskrat Love? nt

[Binkie The Clown]

25. Has to be this one

[mahatmakanejeeves]

32. Does that count? I mean, if it's a -- strange -- cover of a novelty tune, does the cover get

the slam or the original novelty tune?

Did Ray Bolger do that? I'm doing other stuff right now.

Thanks.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

27. The big problem with these "best song -- worst song" contests is that so much depends on

what was going on in your life at the time. Maybe things were going well for you. You hear "Muskrat Love" (to name one song mentioned), and it brings back fond memories.

[pnwest]

28. "Paradise By The Dashboard Light"

[Ferryboat]

29. Cars for kids hands down

Sugar sugar by the Archies certainly is in the running.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

30. No, no, no. Bubblegum is great. Again, we've had threads in Music Appreciation.

I'll find one.

Thanks.

[3catwoman3]

47. That damn song was the song of the year in 1969, the year...

...of my high school graduation.

The songs of 1968 and 1970 were Hey Jude and Bridge Over Troubled Water (don’t remember which year was which song and too lazy to look it up right now).

What the hell was the matter with the class of 1969?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

31. Has anyone mentioned "Roxanne" yet? NT

[Bayard]

33. I love Roxanne!

And anything else by The Police.

One that's been popping into my head lately is the hellish, "Rhinestone Cowboy".

I really hate the trend in the past several years of youngers singing stuff that all sounds alike. I loathed rap too. Glad its gone.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

65. If "Rhinestone Cowboy" pops into your head for longer than four hours, seek medical attention. NT

[brewens]

34. Seasons in the Sun-Terry Jacks

[sinkingfeeling]

35. Easy one. "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood.

[rownesheck]

38. That was mine as well!

I was scrolling to see if anyone had posted that one yet and found yours. You are absolutely correct!

[MyOwnPeace]

37. Proud Mary

Worked weddings for over 20 years and before DJ’s were as popular as they are EVERY terrible band in the world played “Proud Mary” as their ‘rock&roll’ tune....

[LW1977]

39. Hey Ya! by Outlast

It’s the Jar Jar Binks of songs! Hate it hate it hate it!!!

Makes Kars4Kids sound like a Beatles song.

[electric_blue68]

51. bwah!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

78. The only version of that song that I ever liked...

was the one on YouTube titled:

"Outkast - Hey Ya! but everytime they say 'Uh' or 'Alright' it gets faster"

Around 1:52 the song warps into another dimension. (If you do watch it, turn on the closed captions. The ending is just perfect.)

[Midnight Writer]

40. "I Can Only Imagine"

For a while there, this was played at every damn funeral I went to, and folks would actually start weeping when it played.

They eventually made a movie about the thing and how it was divinely inspired and changed the world.

It would be a delicious irony if all these phony Christians had to stew in Hell listening to this tripe on an endless loop.

[Leith]

41. There are too many horrible songs to list here

The runners-up that have not yet been mentioned are:
Honey (See the tree, how big it's grown...)
Hey There Lonely Girl (or any man singing falsetto except Lou Christy)


But the only one that beats them all out is The Name Game. Every single thing about it is repulsive. Find your own link to the video.

[CTyankee]

44. I loved that song! Silly as hell, but why not?

[steve2470]

42. Ylvis - The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)

[CTyankee]

43. Today it's "All You Need is Love."

I'm pretty much UP today!

[Glorfindel]

45. This one...horrible beyond belief

[3catwoman3]

50. I am afraid to click on this. Is it the one with the...

...revolting “Ooga Chaka” chant?

I really like the version performed by B.J. Thomas, but the stupid chant renders the song “unlistenable.”

And the male vocalists who sang that stupid chant must have been really desperate to have a singing career.

[Glorfindel]

55. Yes...it's the one.

I used to have to haul my niece and nephew to a nearby skating rink once or twice a week. That song seemed ALWAYS to be playing there at full volume. I also liked B.J. Thomas' version, but this ooga-chaka thing is just awful.

[Generic Brad]

48. Surfin' Bird by The Trashman

I'm stunned this wasn't top of the list.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

66. What???? If anything, that should be the national anthem.

YMMV.

Thanks for writing.

[GReedDiamond]

74. Yeah! That was the first vinyl 45 record I ever bought...

...I wish I still had it.

[Coventina]

54. We Built This City-Jefferson Starship

Worst. Song. Ever.

[Red Mountain]

56. Love In An Elevator by Aerosmith

Can't change the station fast enough.

[NightWatcher]

69. That was one of my fav albums back in the day. Here give it another try

[DFW]

57. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy

Especially if I can't get to the people who made it to make their eternity awful as well (and play "Feelings" for them in revenge)

[sarge43]

58. You're Having My Baby, Paul Anka n/t

[tanyev]

60. I don't think that I can take it, 'cause it took so long to bake it

From the comments:
Ethan Runnels. 1 year ago
It's amazing how music can take you to other places. For instance, this song was playing at Walmart, so now I'm in Target.

[rurallib]

61. only one comes immediately to mind for me - Revolution #9 by the Beatles

OMG what a piece of crap -

But if you must have it proven to you, here you go:

[Buckeye_Democrat]

62. "The Final Countdown" by Europe.

With Satan playing the synthesizer riff non-stop.

Honorable mention to Charles Manson's insane music:

[Harker]

70. Dammit. You owe me one. n/t

[tavernier]

63. It Must Be Him

Recorded by Vicky Carr

I throw up a little in my mouth every time I hear it.

[blue neen]

77. That's it!

Gawd awful song.

[sakabatou]

64. The Barney Song

[NightWatcher]

67. Paul McCartney's Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime

[mahatmakanejeeves]

68. Oh, is that awful. Thanks. NT

[Harker]

72. Yeah. Thanks. n/t

[pacheen]

80. God, yes

Worst Christmas song ever!

[Harker]

71. Billy Joel. It's Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me.

How about a pair of pink Topsiders with a bright orange pair of pants?

Noooooooooo!

[Angleae]

73. I love you / You love me / We're a happy family (Barney the Dinosaur)

[GReedDiamond]

75. Starlight Vocal Band...Afternoon Delight...

[Laffy Kat]

76. Not one particular song.

Every morning when I first wake up I have a different, obscure song playing in my head for the first few minutes I'm awake. I can't always remember them and there's never a reason in which I'm aware. For instance, the other morning I recall it was the theme song to "F Troop"!! Where did that come from? LOL. After my last son was born, twenty-three years ago, I developed a sleep disorder and the song thing started around then.

[jmowreader]

79. Wipe Out by the Surfaris