Don't you want me baby. Bananaphone. Feelings. But actually Don't you want me baby is the only one that doesn't stick in my head.
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Of songs that other people like?
I hate Dust in the Wind, and House of the Rising Sun, and I never need to hear Stairway to Heaven again, I have used up my quota.
Orange Crush by REM.
Imagine dragons - cutthroat.
I refuse to believe that this is a real song. Id themselves are garbage in general, but this is just insane.
That girl is on fiiirraaaaafrrrrhhaaarraaa
(Did someone just shoot a cat?)
Wild World, by Cat Stevens. Some of the most patronizing lyrics I've ever heard. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catstevens/wildworld.html
Gonna go against the grain here with something classical: Pachabel’s Canon in D. I liked it when I was a kid, for at least the first 10 or 20 times I heard it, but since then I’ve probably heard it thousands of times, and I’m not even a strings player. I’m not exaggerating either; it’s in so many commercials, weddings, movies, just over loudspeakers in the grocery store.. ugh it’s inescapable. Pretty the first few times, sure, but it’s so aggressively bland.
Have you seen Pachebel Rant?
Haha I have, at least if I’m thinking of the right thing, the YouTube video? He stretches a few (my degrees are in music theory so I can hear what he means and not all of them are exactly the same chord progressions) but I feel seen nonetheless.
Yeah, Rob Paravonian.
I could have sworn a friend of mine wrote this, because he often said the exact same thing. But, he was a string player.
Personally, it seems like I can't go a day without hearing one of The Four Seasons in media.
I didn't have a solid answer to the question until I read this. Absolutely gets the worst response from me.
First two chords and I'm like "nooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
The cello has to repeat the exact same 8 notes throughout the piece.
U2
Aerosmith - love in an elevator
Any christmas shit
Old U2 is actually pretty decent, I quite like The Unforgettable Fire
Carol of the Bells kicks ass.
Tell you what I can't stand, is The Obligatory Christmas Release. Some musical act, band or increasingly a solo "artist" gets big and especially if they have one brand-defining hit, they are required to do a Christmas release that is the thing they're known for with sleigh bells and a word salad of Christmas words including a refrain where they just shout "It's Christmas!!!" Los Del Rio did a Macarena Christmas mix. And we allowed society to continue anyway.
Oh good. There's someone else who doesn't see the appeal of U2.
And you just don't like Elevator because you missed the expertly hidden, subtle innuendos. 😂
That Mariah Carey one. You know the one.
She has so many good contenders, but one stands above them all. Good (horrible!) choice.
I was struggling to think of something I truly hate
I was coming up with a lot of bad tracks, sure, but they don't really inspire hatered
This one however, viscerally upsetting from the first bar
I found this version to be much more tolerable: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oY9O-WbMxO0
Radio Ga Ga by Queen.
I had to listen to that shit played on loop for a week straight when the cruise ship I was working on chose it to be used to constantly stress test the PA system. Any time I hear it now, I get extremely angry and want to break something.
I Will Survive - Something about this song just makes me murderous.
Don't Stop Believing - By the gods, please do stop. I love Journey, but just don't play this.
Bohemian Rhapsody - I think I'm just really tired of it. It's been held up at such a pinnacle for so long and played far too often and I just can't anymore. I don't care. Turn it off.
I will survive original is pretty iconic masterpiece and hard not to sing along to. But a rock/funk version you ask?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rCUQjmkxU&pp=ygUTY2FrZSBpIHdpbGwgc3Vydml2ZQ%3D%3D
Don't stop believing is far more overplayed crap I do hate, though.
All three of these are songs that, I probably on paper should enjoy, but I think through over- (and mis-) use have come to despise them.
Top choices if limited to genres I listen to.
There are some interesting takes in here.
Take me to church by Hozier
Thats such an amazing song!
Probably Acky Breaky Heart.
Sweet Home Alabama
When I still listened to the radio in the car, it started on one station, so I switched to another rock station. It was playing there too, on a different part. Switched to yet another rock station and it was also playing that terrible song!
My biggest beef with Sweet Home Alabama is, if people are ever singing along with it, or if they're singing it at karaoke. I should mention that I live in the South, so these people singing it are from the South, and even though the song itself isn't racist, the way these people emphasize certain lyrics, it sure sounds like they want it to be racist.
The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.
God the "Watergate does not bother me... does your conscience bother you?" line alone puts this up there for me, and that's far from the only thing to dislike.
Shake it Off by Taylor Swift.
When it came out, I was a regular gym-goer. I would spend an hour and a half at the gym three days a week and hear that song at least three times every single time I was there. And then you'd hear it anywhere else that played music as well, like stores. It was just too much.
Dancing Queen by Abba. Something about the baseline makes me feel physically sick (literally, not figuratively). Can't bear it.
"I'll be riding shotgun, underneath the hot sun".... It's the most aggressively boring thing I've ever heard
Anything by Morrissey. The histrionics are annoying enough but I think he's an objectively bad musician. He seems to just meander around with no discernable melody. Like, what are you even trying to do man? I'm pretty certain the actually catchy Smiths songs were written by someone else.
Runner up: Hold My Hand by Hootie and the Blowfish. If it comes on at a place of business I will immediately walk out of that business.
Black Hole Sun.
It's a tedious, grating and ridiculously repetitive dirge.
One day I realized I had been hearing it at least hourly on the radio while driving delivery and some switch in my head flipped. Can't stand it. I want to never hear it again. I've heard Black Hole Sun more times in my life than I want to and that amount needs to stop getting higher
Only partly related, I invented a fire eating trick named the Black Hole Sun :)
All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor. It is the only song I seriously hate, and also the only artist I seriously hate hearing. I don't love the message, and Ialso don't like the delivery at all. I think a factor is also how overplayed it was when it first came out.
Most Justin Bieber songs but I despise his early stuff. I heard baby way too much back when you couldn't escape it
Edit: I thought of an even worse one, pon pon shit from cyberpunk. That song is the only reason bodyheat isn't my go to station in that game.
Guns ‘N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle. I don’t like GNR full stop, but the radio station I used to wake up to on the alarm clock would play that song at exactly the same time everyday.
Couldn’t understand why I used to wake up angry every morning until I changed stations.
dance monkey by tones and i
I might as well go first: Emilia - Big Big World
I absolutely hated it when it was released and played everywhere, and I recently accidentally stumbled across it, and to the surprise of nobody, I still loathe it.
- Melody of a lullaby.
- Least interesting chord progression in existence.
- Lyrics as if they were written by a 12 year old.
- Annoying motifs.
Honorable mention: How you remind me. I'm not just bandwagoning on nicklelback hate here, I actually kinda like them, at least their first album. But that song is so overplayed and overrated I simply cannot stand it.
Wow, never heard this one before and completely agree with each point. Not sure where it would've seen much air time in the US back then, though I'm sure my hometown was small enough that no radio station had it.
I had never heard it before, but it sounds like a song that would play on some straight-to-dvd knockoff of a Disney movie with janky 3d animation, with the director's daughter playing and singing the lead role.
Any modern country song. bonus if they say boots, beer, etc.
There are two songs that I will verbally abuse a movie for having on its soundtrack.
"What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, and "Fly Me To The Moon" by Frank Sinatra.
If you put those songs in...anything, you're a fucking hack.
WAWW has been used both straight and ironically TO DEATH. It has been played over beautiful and horrific scenes. There's nothing you can use it to say that hasn't already been said by someone more clever than you.
FMTTM is the song completely uncreative people put in movies that have something to do with the moon. "We have an establishing shot of the moon and we need some licensed music for the soundtrack. Gee, now what's the hackiest laziest most cliched pissbabyest lack of a brain stemiest thing we could put here?" "You're not going to believe this, but I found a Sinatra song that might just be a lazy enough choice. It's already been used in all the other movies, is that lazy enough?"
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond. I’m from New England so I hear it often and the back story makes me cringe every time and I haaate it
Went to a Yankee wedding in New Orleans(where i'm from). This tune came on and those people went nuts. Knew every word and I just stared in amazement.
I sing Sweet Child O Mine and Sweet Caroline with the other songs melodies. Confuses people nicely.
Yeah as someone who has spent almost their whole life in the Carolinas I am sick to death of that song, especially when people do the little singalong bits.
All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun by Sheryl Crow, or any song where the artist is doing that annoying kind-of-singing-but-also-just-talking thing (NOT to be confused with rap, I do enjoy lots of rap and hip-hop). It's hard to explain. I think Red Hot Chili Peppers has a song where they do it too, and it annoys the fuck outta me.
Sugar, baby.
Moves Like Jager, a song which I can not stand.
Thankfully not played everywhere anymore.
The Piña Colada Song.
It enrages me. I hear the first note and I want to break a window. If it comes on in the car, I almost break my wrist with how quickly I turn it off.
It's weird how many people are mentioning older songs, because most modern songs are absolute trash. Just a refrain, singing the same 3 autotuned notes again and again.
I hate to say ok boomer but that is a painfully boomer take
Seriously, "most modern songs"? In the era with the most new music being produced in a massive number of different genres and styles that would have been unimaginable just a generation ago?
I like the oldies as much as anyone else, heck I only really got into listening to music after discovering The Beatles and '70s prog rock as a teen. But if you can't find good music being produced in 2025, that's not a problem with the music industry, that's a problem with you.
If anyone reading this struggles to find new artists they like, I recommend checking out NPR's Tiny Desk concerts as well as KEXP's live performances on YouTube. I've found a lot of artists I love from these sources.
I've been trying to find it for a while now, but I can't.
Constantly plays at Tesco supermarkets, goes like A ha a ha a ha, yuhoo yuhoo yuhoo, a ha ha haa haaa haaaa. No lyrics, just womans voice making these, I guess meant to be "happy and excited" noises made into a song that plays on repeat.
Game Over by Falling In Reverse
Just listen to the first line and you'll understand
Anything from Pearl Jam.
It's weird that I have always liked their politics far more than their music. They were right about Ticketmaster way back in the day and the first to try boycotting them.
Yet god I can't give less of a fuck about their music.
Came here specifically to say "Black" FUCK I hate that song.
DO DO DOOT DOO DO DO DOOOOOOO
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