Stand and deliver.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

It (just) suddenly occurred to me to ask 'What song (or couple of songs - max), and by which artist(s) really annoys you the most, and why?

 

I can't think of my own right now. However, something will spring to mind, and will be along in due course. 

 

Feel free to not respond, and let's see if this can be the biggie.

 

 

 

[danmarks]

Windmills of my mind - any version. There is no version i have heard that has changed my mind on this. Although i am strangely pleased i did see it at Glastonbury by noel harrison.

[Avalon_Fields]

I find much of Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres really annoying because it’s so much manufactured pop, songs like Biutyful and Humankind, but the main reason is I really have loved much of what they’ve done in the past and would still enjoy them as a live act so to dislike their last album so much makes it all very frustrating. 

[tarw]

James Arthur - Impossible. 
I work with adults with learning disabilities and one of the guys I work with used to play the first three lines of the song, stop the track and play them again. 
A ten hour shift hearing the same three lines of that song continuously is torture!

[BlackZeppelin]

My Hero by Foo Fighters

Awful song with inexplicably big following 

[-TLR-]

The Chicks - Gaslighter

 

saw them on the Pyramid last year and loved them.

 

then i saw them, twice, supporting Bruce and ended up being so sick of them - and after the third time Gaslighter, in particular for some reason, just made my blood boil...

[BlackZeppelin]

Oh, and I never need to hear f**king Walk of Life again by Dire Straits.

 

How many of these are we allowed to have?

Edited February 12, 2024 by BlackZeppelin

[Skip997]

Come on Eileen

Most songs that involve Morrisey - who hasn't become a miserable annoying git in recent years, he always was a miserable annoying git

Edited February 12, 2024 by Skip997

[Padjeq]

Hey Jude

[westholtschic]

Karma Police Radiohead 

Sorry but it sucks the life out of me.

[giantkatestacks]

Come on Eileen also <eyes Skip suspiciously> and Uptown Girl. 

These were played to death at lunchtime during primary school. 

 

[gigpusher]

45 minutes ago, westholtschic said:

Karma Police Radiohead 

Sorry but it sucks the life out of me.

Truly takes all sorts. I love this song and it fills me with hope. One of my happiest Glastonbury memories is after Thom and Jonny's secret Park set in 2010 hearing everyone singing 'For a minute there I lost myself' for about half an hour after that gig.

I can still get goosebumps thinking about it.

[westholtschic]

2 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

Truly takes all sorts. I love this song and it fills me with hope. One of my happiest Glastonbury memories is after Thom and Jonny's secret Park set in 2010 hearing everyone singing 'For a minute there I lost myself' for about half an hour after that gig.

I can still get goosebumps thinking about it.

Certainly does. I was there as well for it.

[gigpusher]

6 minutes ago, westholtschic said:

Certainly does. I was there as well for it.

My happiest memory must be one of your worst then because it went on a long, long time 😄

[Stokesy10]

Hit me with your Rhythm Stick.

 

 

w*nk.

[westholtschic]

12 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

My happiest memory must be one of your worst then because it went on a long, long time 😄

Thankfully the cider helped.

[westholtschic]

22 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

My happiest memory must be one of your worst then because it went on a long, long time 😄

So what song do you dislike then ?

[cdm22]

Hallelujah by pretty much anybody. It's been done to death so pick another song. Actually don't as most are rubbish and that goes to anyone wanting to do a heartfelt slower acoustic version of a song for an advert (I'm now looking at you person who did the Aerosmith 'Dream On' cover for the advert that is currently on every fudging advert break! 😁 )

[Gnomicide]

Don't You Want Me by Human League.

I always hated it and it's even worse now as it's held up as some sort of 80s treasure, every 80s TV or radio show plays it like it's compulsory. f**k off! It was sh*t then and it's sh*t now.

[gherkin8r]

Bryan Adams - Summer of 69

Anyone - Boys of summer

Mark McCabe - Maniac 2000 

Love inc - You're a superstar

Anything to do with the spice girls

Sheeran - Galway girl

Anything post Eminem show from him

Americans

 

[gigpusher]

1 hour ago, westholtschic said:

So what song do you dislike then ?

I have a policy now to not discuss things I don't like in public forums online (apart from the Tories) I prefer to spend my energy on things that bring me joy. Obviously there's lots of music that's not for me and younger me would probably have had a list of about 30 songs that I couldn't stand but now I just choose not to give any more attention to the things that are not for me and spend my time on the things that bring me joy.

The world today has slim pickings for joy in general so I cling to it in the music and art that I love.

[westholtschic]

51 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

I have a policy now to not discuss things I don't like in public forums online (apart from the Tories) I prefer to spend my energy on things that bring me joy. Obviously there's lots of music that's not for me and younger me would probably have had a list of about 30 songs that I couldn't stand but now I just choose not to give any more attention to the things that are not for me and spend my time on the things that bring me joy.

The world today has slim pickings for joy in general so I cling to it in the music and art that I love.

Totally understand and agree with the tories 😁

[gigpusher]

1 minute ago, westholtschic said:

Totally understand and agree with the tories 😁

I generally like West Holts so you know more in common than that which divides us and all that.

[Ayrshire Chris]

I will listen to all music and would never judge anyone on their music tastes. Each to his own I say

but

all about that bass I always find a little irritating😊😉

[dizzymoo]

Gypsy by Crystal Waters, and I'm a Dreamer by Livin' Joy.  Both sung so flat that they amount to torture.

Experience of music is so subjective. There are many great songs from 1979-80 that I find really hard to listen to. At the time I was dividing weeks between Bradford and Harrogate, in a student placement I hated, with the fear of the Yorkshire ripper almost palpable in the air. Beyond irony,  the house I rushed home to for safety was shared with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. I've managed to make peace with songs such as Too much too Young and Ashes to Ashes; others are taking longer. 

That hideous time has been (almost) eclipsed by glorious ones since, especially at Glastonbury, which has been the therapy I didn't realise I needed. Even crap songs have been enjoyable there!