What song do you HATE more than any other?

[Gringo]

Whenever it comes on the radio, you run over to change the station immediately.

For me, one of them is "Mr. Bojangles". What pure torture that stupid song is. "Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles, dance."

Who could have thought of such a crap lyric, I ask you?

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

1. Anything sung by Paul Anka

If he sang the National Anthem I would revoke my citizenship.

[Rick Myers]

2. That damn "pina colata" song!!!!

Arg!!!!!!!

[bowens43]

3. Ballad of the Green Berets

The Battle Hymn of Lt. Cally

[ForrestGump]

4. MacArthur Park

The originaly, 1968 version by Richard Harris.

The horror.

[nuxvomica]

6. "Between the part pages and were pressed

By love's hot fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants."

Now that's poetry. I could recite the whole thing from memory if you have a few hours.

[ForrestGump]

10. Nooooooo......make it go awaaayyyyyyyyyyyy......

I don't think that I can take it!

Hellllp! I'm infected!

Awwwwwwwwggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

[Friar]

5. that one on the Geico commercials

"Sometimes when we touch, the honesty's too much..."

*shivers*

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

7. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry. That hit a nerve.

[ForrestGump]

29. I love that commercial, though

It reminds me of how it is to be in love.........and small, and green, and able to walk up vertical panes of glass......

[SOteric]

8. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun...

Wait. Make that a double.

[ForrestGump]

11. Goodbye to you my trysted friend

We've know each other since we were nine or ten
Together we climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and ABCs
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees

Ah. Such memories. From my earliest kidhood, and made that much sweeter because I was head over heels (unrequited, as seems a recurring theme) with a girl named Michelle. As I lay there dying, a hundred or more years from now, perhaps I'll sing this song as I head toward that bright light....

Anyone up for a rousing chorus of "Billy, Don't Be A Hero"?

EDIT: 'trysted'? Kinda puts a new spin on the song.

[SOteric]

14. Really? -Just how many girls named 'Michelle' have you known?

I can't say that I had actual nostalgia related to the song, and perhaps that limits even further my ability to find anything redeeming in it.

It was amoungst the albums and 45's my eldest brother ceremoniously dumped upon me when he suddenly acquired a bit of taste.

[ForrestGump]

15. One Michelle was enough for me

She was a wild woman........well, for a seven-year-old. I hasten to add that I was a seven-year-old, too. Yep, nostlagia may be all that song has going for it.

Did your bro dump a copy of "Disco Duck" on you, too? Now there is a classic.

[SOteric]

19. No, but there's some

antique Bee Gees and The Cowsills.

[ForrestGump]

20. Cowsills?

Cool!

Hair!

The Rain, The Park, and Whatever!

A tad before my time, but great stuff. And those Gibb boys had a few good 'uns....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. Ewww!

You beat me to it!!

Would you believe that it's a translation of a Jacques Brel song?

[LibDemAlways]

9. Lee Greenwood's putrid freeper anthem

"God Bless the U.S.A."

Earlier this year my 10-year-old daughter tried to talk me out of attending a performance at her school - she didn't want to tell me that the entire fourth grade was going to be assaulting my ears with that piece of crap. I went anyway and noticed that during that number she kept her mouth shut. I must be doing something right.

[jonnyblitz]

12. LOL...you beat me to it. I was in Desert Storm !! that song makes me ill

[bookman]

13. Happy Birthday

egggh!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

16. Anything by Avril Lavigne or John Mayer.

really, I kid you not. I'd rather listen to Britney Spears than Avril Lavigne.

[elcondor]

37. Don't get me started on John Mayer

One of his songs was my class song . . . my classmates and their philistine music tastes. I started a campaign for Simon and Garfunkel's "My Little Town"--obviously didn't work . . . topic? Lou Bega's (sp?) "Mambo #5."

[DS1]

17. Whitney Houston

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[FlashHarry]

18. Nooooooooooo!!!!

Beat me to it!

[Gringo]

21. Lay lady Lay

ecch

[AmyStrange]

22. Mr Bojangles was homeless...

but I agree it is a stupid irresponsible song. I wish they would only play uplifting happy songs. I wonder how "Mr Bojangles would play in Iraq?


Dave (AmyStrange.com)

DU (slang/ folklore) Glossary (Dictionary): http://DUG.SeattleActivist.org /
Index of WMD Articles: http://WMD.SeattleActivist.org /

Here are some excellent resources and timelines of quotes and interviews and newspaper article quotes documenting the different things Bush and Co did and said for the last two plus years concerning the war in Iraq and WMDs (and other fun things) from the Howard Dean Website---even if you're not a Dean Fan, these are still excellent resources:

The Bush Administration And WMDs: Then And Now:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pagename=...

Niger-Uranium Timeline:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pagename=...

Bush and WMD: Assumptions vs. Reality:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/DocServer/TikTok_-_B...

The Bush Administration and WMD: What did they know and when did they know it?:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/DocServer/TikTok_-_A...

[otohara]

23. MacArthur Park

and anything by Celine Dion

[Archae]

24. Playground In my mInd

Or "It's A Small World."

Even say "small world" to my Dad, (he and my Mom went through that ride,) and my Dad looks like he wants to kill.

[SweetZombieJesus]

25. Used to be that Nickelback song, until...

I was forced to sit through "Courtesy Of The Red White And Blue" in its entirety. WORST SONG EVER, BAR FUCKING NONE.

[solinvictus]

26. Anything by James Taylor

Especially "You've Got A Friend". He made me hate being a kid in the '70's and now he makes me hate going to retailers that loop old soft rock in their stores.

[ForrestGump]

28. You speak the truth

I apologize to Taylorites herein, but the dude just never did it for me. He even managed to suck the soul out of a Marvin Gaye song. Granted, he's no (shudder) Michael Bolton, but he's no less insipid for that.

On the other hand, good for him that he's still going.

[NNN0LHI]

30. Stairway To Heaven. I have heard it so many times it makes the hair...

...on my head stand on end whenever I hear it. Just like Don Kings.

Don

[AntiCoup2K4]

42. Just play it backwards for a little variety

Here's to my sweet Satan
No other made a path
For it makes me sad
Whose power is Satan

[leftist_rebel1569]

31. if anyone has seen commercials for

"National American University"...you know what i'm talking about. It's absolutely horrid

[NightTrain]

32. "You Light Up My Life"

Not only was it the worst song of the decade that produced more bad pop than any other in history, but with ten agonizing weeks at #1, it was the biggest hit of the entire 1970s! What the hell were people thinking back then?!

But on the other hand, one might've expected a record that horrendous from Pat Boone's daughter.

[chefgirl]

35. OMG, NightTrain, you beat me to it!!

That song immediately pops into my head whenever anyone asks that question.
A VERY close second would be 'Feelings'. Makes me want to stick needles in my ears every time I hear it.

-chef-

[BlueJazz]

33. Anything by CCR

with their 3 chord bullshit, out-of-tune country-influenced, homogenized,corporatized, simplistic,caterwallin'.....

[ForrestGump]

34. Dude. Now you're just going too far.

Caterwaulin's a good thing down on the bayou.

So they came from the Bay Area.....okay, but still.....

[BlueJazz]

36. Yea, but most of the

"caterwallin'" for the bayou comes from people with heart and they sing from their soul.
Groups like CCR just imitate the words for some long-green.

[AntiCoup2K4]

43. Oh for fucks sake! Creedence bashing?

Now that's just going too far

FORTUNATE SON (J.C. Fogerty)

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no,

Yeah!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no.

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one.

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son, no no no,

[Kenneth ken]

38. dunno but

it has a line about

....under there
just made you say under where


I learned to recognize that song in two notes.


Now, I just make sure I have tapes for the car at all times.

[OurMorale]

39. Tie: "Yer Cheeeeeetin' Fart" and the Voldemort Greenwood

Song Which Should Not Be Vocalized.

[Spirochete]

40. Whitney Houston songs

Especially the one from that Kevin Costner movie. Her shrieks can shatter eardrums at 60 yards.

[tico]

41. Anything by a boy band

and any other sound-alike kiddie pop music.

[maveric]

44. Jerry Jeff Walker did.

He wrote it about a man he met in the drunk tank of a New Orleans police staion during the 60's. He was a street legend in the Big Easy and would dance for drinks in bars throughout the french quarter.
I always liked that one and found it fun to play on my Geetar.
BTW, the Jerry Jeff version is much better than the Nitty Gritty Dirt Bands rendition.