Song you never, ever need to hear again...

[dolo amber]

Poll question: Song you never, ever need to hear again...

as long as you live. These are not particularly songs you dislike, just ones you've heard enough times to have them permanently etched onto your cerebral canvas, thus negating the need to have them blared at you from the classic-rock station every 30 minutes for the remainder of your life. :D



Remember, these aren't songs you hate, just ones you've heard entirely enough for one lifetime. Feel free to add any I may have left off.

[eyesroll]

1. Summer of '69...

My neighbor in college played that constantly.

[GemMom]

44. The song I really hated then and now....

was "Brand New Key"...... OK, all sing along now......

"Oh......... I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key....."

[NightTrain]

2. I've yet to grow tired of "Satisfaction."

As for the rest of those tunes: ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

[TriadLeftist]

3. Afternoon Delight

By Starland Vocal Band - I worked in a hospital one summer when I was in high school and that song was constantly on the PA system.

[ClintonTyree]

23. My thoughts exactly...........

I was going to vote for that abomination as well, you beat me to it.

[SiobhanClancy]

4. Horse With No Name

I REALLY need to never hear this one again

[stanwyck]

37. I loathe that song

hate it. hate it. Also, "Brandy"...you're a fine girl. Hate it. Other than those songs, a very happy childhood.

[kwolf68]

5. Damn

I meant to vote for Sweet Home Alabama. I never liked the song to begin with and now Im totally sick of it.

The ultimate rascist, redneck song.

[AquariDem]

36. Skynyrd did put out an album called

"Southern Knights." I'm pretty sure it was spelled with a "k." Maybe it was just a joke, but... :scared:

[Coffee Coyote]

61. they didn't

But a European distributor for their label at the time, CMC International, did. It is an import, not one of their official releases, so like many cheesy Euro imports (for any band) it is saddled with stupid marketing gimmickry.

They were not happy with the title, but legally, it was within the rights of their label to do that. They quit CMC as soon as the contract expired.

[AquariDem]

70. Whew....

Thanks, Coyote. At least now I know they're not that bad. Except for one thing...why didn't they change it?

[Coffee Coyote]

60. huh?

You know NOTHING about that song, or that band.

Skynyrd were neil Young fans, who wrote that as a JOKE, because they thought it was unfair to brand ALL southerners as racists.

They mock Wallace in that song, who bassist Leon Wilkeson said "we supported Wallace as much as the average American supported Hitler".

On the same album as "Sweet Home Alabama" is a song called "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" which tells a evocative story of a young white boy who learns to play blues guitar from an elderly black man, and how the white boy was ostracized wrongly for it. If that doesn't shoot down the ignorant crap about them being racist, I don't know what does.

Skynyrd wrote songs against handguns, for helping the poor, and protecting the environment. They were populist, but in a fairly progressive vein.

[Rowdyboy]

6. Raindrops keep falling on my head....

But I've felt that way since 1970

As far as rock goes, I can't think of any I'd definitely WANT to not hear again.

[NeonLX]

7. Others..

Horrible the first time I heard 'em and only made worse by constant repetition:

...anything from the movie "Grease"
..."December 1963 (Oh what a night)" by Frankie Valli
..."Celebrate" by Cool & the Gang
..."Torn between Two Lovers" by whoever it was
..."Any way You Want it" by Journey

Oh man, I'm getting really nauseous just thinking about awful songs that got played over and over again. I'm gonna stop now.

[Caution]

8. Ok those songs are overplayed but how about

The Humpty Dance
Ice Ice Baby
Funky Cold Medina
The Electric Slide
Who Let the Dogs Out
More than Words
The Final Countdown
Candy Girl
Hit Me Baby (One more time)
Genie in a Bottle
Baby Got Back
I'm too Sexy
Relax

Anything by MC Hammer
Anything by Nsync
Anything by New Kids on the Block
Anything by New Edition
Anything by The Spice Girls

And this is just the most obnoxious stuff from the 80s and 90s!

At least the songs mentioned above had some redeeming qualities beyond being vaguely catchy, the stuff on my list is so irredeemably bad that I'm almost ashamed I remember any of them.

[dolo amber]

10. I was thinking

more along the lines of the *Classic Rock* station that every city has. I guess instead of slamming them I should feel bad that the poor bastards have only the 10 records above to choose from, being as that's ALL THEY EVER PLAY! :P

You bring up a valid point, however, as some of those you mentioned on occasion have had me white-knuckling the steering wheel in aggravation to the point of nearly wrecking my car.

On edit: I am ASTONISHED no one has yet chosen "Light my Fire" :crazy:

[VelmaD]

51. That's because...

Jim Morrison was god...and a sexy motherfucker to boot. ;-)

Darth Velma

[Kamika]

9. I feel good by james brown

I heard that one way too much

[4_Legs_Good]

25. I agree 1000 times over!

Another song I can't stand in movies and movie trailers. Gah!

david

Kucinich 2004

[rucky]

11. Neil Young WILL Remember...

...seeing as it's played on the radio every freakin' hour!

(Sweet Home Alabama)

[Coffee Coyote]

63. he loves the song

He said he was "proud to have my name in a song like theirs." He has played it live, and he even wrote 3 songs he wanted them to cover back in 1977, but they could not fit on their last album - "Powderfinger", Sedan Delivery", and "Captain Kennedy".

Of course, I hate the radio, and am better off since quitting it - they overplay all good songs.

[Qutzupalotl]

12. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Never, ever again. Truly obnoxious.

Rock opera's going to be the next big thing, you know.

[Sapphocrat]

13. The Pina Colada Song (BARF!) n/t

[liberalhistorian]

16. Amen to that one, lol!

I was 15 when it came out and thought it was cute at first, but after the umpteenth time it gets REALLY REALLY annoying! I like his hit that came right after this one, called "Him." You never hear that one anymore, though. Just the obnoxious "If you like Pina Colada, and getting caught in the rain, etc., etc.!

[Sapphocrat]

18. Well, it used to be just the tune that irritated me....

...until I stopped and really thought about the words -- and then I hated it 100% more than I had before.

I mean: HOW in the world could two people, presumably in a committed relationship, who are just bored with each other, each cheat on the other by placing a personals ad, and then laugh about it later?

I sure wouldn't be laughing.

(But... the tune still really sucks, too!)

[MisterP]

29. aaarg!

--Where's the rum?--

[maxanne]

14. any song

ever recorded by Lynryd Skynyrd. :puke:

[zekeson]

15. Pretty much anything by Journey

It all sounds the same and I was sick of it in the 80's. Now its on my classic rawk station all the time and in this new Ford commercial. Anyway you want it thats the way you need it.

ahhhhuuug

[texastoast]

17. Anything by Lucinda Williams

She might be a good songwriter if she didn't sound like such a complete white trash slosh.

[mitchum]

19. I like her voice a lot when she avoids slipping into...

what the New Yorker called "pro forma horniness"

[kmla]

20. Boston's "More than a feelin'".

If I hear that one more time, my head will explode.

Extremely tired of that one.

:nuke:

[dolo amber]

21. Argh!

I TOTALLY forgot about that one!! That belongs on my list fo' sho!!

[liberalhistorian]

27. Absolutely with you on that one!

I'm so sick of everyone always talking about how great Boston is, how innovative, etc., etc., and they only put out that one album with that same song that I never seem to be able to get rid of! I never understood the big deal about it, anyway!

[carpetbagger]

42. I don't know, it still makes me practically smell reefer.

That's no small consolation for someone who's trying to make a career out of a position in the federal government.

[zbird]

22. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" by Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand.

My roommate freshman year in college use to put that 45 on the stereo on auto-replay for HOURS when her boyfriend came over to visit Friday night before he took her home for the weekend (YEAH!!!!). I was willing to give up the room on Friday night for peace and quiet the rest of the weekend, but it required hearing that dreadful song for hours on end. (No, I didn't stay in the room, I went to the room next door until it was time to go out to the parties.) If I never hear that song again, it will be too soon (and that was almost 25 years ago! AAAACCCCKKKK I'm OLD!)

[4_Legs_Good]

24. I'm So Excited

in a movie anywhere ever again EVER (or in a preview).

OTOH, I never, ever get tired of "What a Wonderful World" or "RESPECT" no matter how much they're over used.

david

[tjdee]

26. "Old Time Rock and Roll"! EWWWW!

Nothing says "I'm old fashioned and over the hill" (hehehehe) like that godawful song.

The man voted for Reagan because he thought Mondale wasn't a "good enough leader" or some crap like that. Ugh.

[short bus president]

45. second that emotion

one lousy guy-dancing-in-tightie-whities in a movie and the song gets airplay for friggin' ever. It's unfair.

[crimson333]

28. slow ride

foghat hate that song

[buddhamama]

30. if it has "windy" in the title i don't wanna know about it

[maggrwaggr]

31. "Heard it on the FUCKING grapevine."

That song has been played to death over and over

[AquariDem]

50. Especially the CCR version

that never, ever, ever ends.

[Palacsinta]

32. Bob The Builder

CAN WE FIX IT??? Grandchildren sang it OVER and OVER!! DAMN....IT'S BACK IN MY HEAD AGAIN. Bob the Builder YES WE CAN!!

[maggrwaggr]

33. The Kim Possible song

Ugh

[Interrobang]

34. "Dosed" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

...which seems to be the song I can't get away from right now. One of my co-workers turns on the radio when she comes in in the morning, and I must have heard that song four times in 8h for the last two weeks, which is *way* too many times. Before that, it was "The Picture" by Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock...which must mean we truly HAVE slipped into an alternate dimension, because that is a *country* song... :puke:

[wyldwolf]

35. FREEEEEEEE BIRRRRRRRD!

whoo hooo! The redneck national anthem!

[Coffee Coyote]

64. and the most popular FM rock song of all time

Lots of non-rednecks loved it too, or it wouldn't have that status. The Jeff Beck influenced "Bolero"-styled extended jam is beautiful and majestic - and it changed rock.

Some REAL musical ignorance and stereotyping by the good liberals of DU today. :eyes:

[dawgman]

67. look I'm sorry but it is the dreariest, most pointless forty-five minutes

in rock. Went to see the doobies once and had the misfortune of seeing skinnard. The amount of confederate flags that were there was appalling and the fact that the boring and pointless solo went on for literally 1/3 of the concert drove me away forever. I HATE THAT SONG AND BAND.

[Deja Q]

38. "Heaven's on Fire" by KISS

I'm not a Christian per se, but the song still offends the hell out of me.

"You shook me all night long" is a tad obvious...

Now that I know what "toss my salad" means, the metal song proclaiming that lyric is lewd too.

[Braden]

39. Eagles catalogue could go missing and I wouldn't mind

my HS Hockey team had some real hardcore eagles fans and they brought the boom boxes on the long bus trips. some 15 years ago and I still hate the ******* eagles.

I wish I had my mp3 player back then...

[carpetbagger]

40. Layla's got two versions I'm sick of.

In the days when I used to have to stare into space (HS English et al.), I compiled a pretty good list of my 500 favorite songs. I've gotta admit that I change the channel for about 100 of them. I've singled out Layla since the unplugged version has given me two songs to be sick of.

A good related question is what entire band has filled your belly for a lifetime. Clapton's Blues Power, and a few others, still do something for me. But the entire output of Kansas, The Eagles (including Joe Walsh's solo career, but oddly not Don Henley's heavily played solo career), David Bowie, and Bad Company have for me no more appeal than commercials. I used to really like these bands.

I guess after decades of listening to this, some of it's bound to get permanently old. The dinosaurs that are still in the game put out very little of interest anymore, and the radio stations are unwilling to play something different from the same genre. I'm trying to look for something different at present by way of the obscure art-rock and psychedelic groups. I'm trying to find CD's from The Move, Matching Mole, Gentle Giant, The Soft Machine, and the like. If anyone has any recommendations, let me know.

[Lady President]

41. Any wedding "classic"

I dream of attending a wedding where none of these are played:
Macarena
Electric Slide
Celebration
The Chicken Song

[carpetbagger]

43. I banned all of that crp at my wedding.

Nothing but old standards (Elvis, Mathis, Sinatra, etc.) and big band.

[JohnKleeb]

47. wanna come to mine

date unknown
heh
but that sounds like something you would play at a party and I hate that stuff to death
Those songs are annoying as hell I cant stand em

[Kat45]

48. and don't forget YMCA on that list!

That's at every wedding I've been at in recent years.

[sandnsea]

55. YMCA, oh please make it go away!!!

And Alone Again, Naturally. No more, never never, no no no.

[foreigncorrespondent]

46. Wanna be (Spice Girls)

Back in '96 a group of us (family and friends) decided to go camping for two weeks. Anyway there was this group of teeny bopper girls there and they would play this song over and over again. Now the song is bad anyway, but hearing it constantly was a joke.

The one thing that made everyone in the camping grounds stand and applaud was when a guy got up, walked over to their camp site and switched it off. LOL

I never wanna hear it again!

[ScreamingMeemie]

49. My Sharona.

And I used to really like it too.

[Ediacara]

52. 12 days of christmas

enough to drive someone to kill...

[lynndew2]

53. anything steely dan

worst music ever!!!!

[dolo amber]

54. Ohhhhh...

You are *so* voted off the island...(j/k ;))

Steely Dan ROCKS...or JAZZES, as the song warrants. :P

[short bus president]

77. Oh no!

Please reconsider the Dan! I thought there was something for everyone from this wonderful band...

[Bossy Monkey]

56. 20 years ago it was Hotel California, and I voted for it

but the winner, far and away, drive-stakes-in-my-ears-so-I-don't-have-to-hear-it-again bad, is La Macarena.

[FlaGranny]

57. It's a Small World

Not rock, but once I've thought of it or heard it, it goes round and round in my head and won't go away.

[Dr Fate]

58. Respect

Awesome tune, but I'm so sick of it.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

59. There are so many bad songs, why pick a good one you don't want to hear?

[dawgman]

62. Freebird!!! For Chrissake don't ever make ,me listen to Freebird again.

[notadmblnd]

65. Having my baby

its got to be one of the lamest

[Cadfael]

66. How could Muskrat Love not be on this list?

:puke:

[carpetbagger]

68. Because no one liked it to begin with.

The thread is not about songs you hate. It's about songs you once liked, but that you've had your fill for a lifetime of.

[Cadfael]

69. I NEVER need to hear that song again

so it at least fulfills one part of your criteria

[AquariDem]

71. I've never heard it, so I'd like to for curiosity

and because it's so notorious. Telling me I'd be sorry afterwards would probably just make me want to hear it even more. :shrug:

[carpetbagger]

72. Merely the lyrics will make you ill.

Along with emerging materialism and rising energy prices, it was responsible for the 70's malaise. REALLY, YOU DON'T WANT TO GO THERE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

If you *must* investigate this thing further, here's the lyrics. YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET THIS TUNE IN YOUR HEAD. YOU WILL NEED DRUGS AND/OR ECT TO GET RID OF IT.:

Muskrat, muskrat candlelight/Doin' the town and doin' it right
In the evenin'/It's pretty pleasin'
Muskrat Susie, muskrat Sam /Do the jitterbug out in muskrat land
And they shimmy /And Sammy's so skinny
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed /Singin' and jinglin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above /It looks like muskrat love
Nibblin' on bacon, Chewin' on cheese /Sammy says to Suisie "Honey would you please be my missus?"
And she says yes /With her kisses
And now he's ticklin' her fancy /Rubbin' her toes,
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes As they wiggle /And Sue starts to giggle
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed /Singin' and jinglin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above /It looks like muskrat love

[AquariDem]

76. There HAS to be some deep, secondary meaning

behind those words. Some witty criticism of something...right? Right?? I'm assuming it's about some subject other than rodents furking.

[gardenista]

73. I STRONGLY advise you to never hear it

there is an inordinate chance that it will become stuck in your brain. Once this happens, it will return, again and again, when you least expect it. This is a scientific fact, there is something about the melody which makes it one of the most common intrusive stuck in the head songs. (There's a word for them, but I forget.)

[dolo amber]

74. BAH!!

CUSS!!! :mad: FUME!!!:grr:

I HOPE you are satisfied, I will now retire for the evening with the damn electronic hamster noises in my head...A POX ON ALL YOUR HOUSEHOLDS!!! :nuke:

[carpetbagger]

75. AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dammit, I had managed to totally forget about the hampster noises.