A. K. A. Which song do you hate the most?

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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    Wagon Wheel

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    Imagine dragons - cutthroat.

    I refuse to believe that this is a real song. Id themselves are garbage in general, but this is just insane.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That girl is on fiiirraaaaafrrrrhhaaarraaa

    (Did someone just shoot a cat?)

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  • Wild World, by Cat Stevens. Some of the most patronizing lyrics I've ever heard. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catstevens/wildworld.html

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    U2

    Aerosmith - love in an elevator

    Any christmas shit

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That Mariah Carey one. You know the one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are some interesting takes in here.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Take me to church by Hozier

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably Acky Breaky Heart.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Dancing Queen by Abba. Something about the baseline makes me feel physically sick (literally, not figuratively). Can't bear it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "I'll be riding shotgun, underneath the hot sun".... It's the most aggressively boring thing I've ever heard

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Black Hole Sun.

    It's a tedious, grating and ridiculously repetitive dirge.

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    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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Hey Soul Sister by Train.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    dance monkey by tones and i

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Dance Monkey, for personal reasons

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Any modern country song. bonus if they say boots, beer, etc.

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  • 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?"

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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

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    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Moves Like Jager, a song which I can not stand.

    Thankfully not played everywhere anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Pretty much every song played by Walmart radio

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    'Christmas Shoes'. Google it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hate to say ok boomer but that is a painfully boomer take

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Baby Shark, do doo do doot do doo.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Body like a Back Road 🤢🤮

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Game Over by Falling In Reverse

    Just listen to the first line and you'll understand

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    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Knocking on heavens door - guns and roses

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