What is the most annoying song of all time?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

My pick:
"Candy Girl" by Franki Valli and The Four Seasons

I heard it today in the grocery store and thought I was going to poke my eardrums out. Was the point of this group to be as excruciatingly irritating as possible?

So what's your pick? My runner-up is Sisqo's "Thong Song"

[Deja Q]

1. Barbie Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzh10_xoqw

The 1990s - :puke:

[CatholicEdHead]

76. Yep

Really bad song.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. You mean you like "Walk Like a Man" MORE?!?

You've got to be kidding.

I think the most annoying songs were some of the ones that came out of the mid-70s. Songs where they decided to take a ghost story and set it to bad music. For example: "Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy. YUCK!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

8. I find all of Valli's songs to be pain-inducing

Was the group intended to be a joke or something? No one could seriously like that stuff.

[EstimatedProphet]

10. I really do hate male falsetto

and it particularly stands out in "Walk Like a Man", where they sing like castrati.

[Generic Brad]

3. "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas

Ooga-cha-cha. Ooga-ooga. Ooga-cha-cha. Ooga-ooga.

[gemdem]

9. Sorry, gotta like that one...

just for the "Ooga-cha-cha. Ooga-ooga. Ooga-cha-cha. Ooga-ooga." :-)

[lost-in-nj]

22. LOL

I love the beginning of this song!!!!


lost

[hfojvt]

36. that was a remake by Blue Suede

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_a_Feeling

the BJ Thomas vocal is fantastic IMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov6o3xc9DB0

but I really think love should be more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHV3DSua3DU

I love that link. It has DU at the end of it.

[SaveElmer]

4. "Rapper's Delight"....

Ugh!!!

[Left Is Write]

5. "What I Am" by Edie Brickell

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. I actually liked that one

I'm a little burnt out on it now and have heard it one time too many, but i always liked Edie.

[Aristus]

71. Sorry, LiW. I actually like that one. It's kinda cool.

Trouble is, I can't tell if the instrument playing during the interlude is a guitar or a synthesizer. If it's a guitar, then somewhere, Jimi Hendrix is very proud.

[Left Is Write]

72. You don't have to be sorry on my behalf. I just haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate that song.

Passionately and completely.

[Flaxbee]

83. lol - how funny. I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it, too

so much that I immediately wish to take a baseball bat to the radio if the station isn't changed instantly. My college roommates loved the song, thought it was deep or something, and I almost went crazy that year.

I also passionately and completely despise "We Built This City".

[NC_Nurse]

7. Achy-breaky heart

:puke:

[Initech]

11. Pink - Let's Get The Party Started

[tigereye]

12. Having My Baby

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. Oh ew, yeah.

What a blight Paul Anka was.

[Scout]

18. oh, that one makes me want to puke

:puke:

[terrya]

Yeah, that's the one.

Probably the most horrifyingly sexist song ever written.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

13. Cowboy

by Kid Rock. Everytime I hear it I want to punch somebody.:mad:

[Cannikin]

14. "Dont worry, be happy"

[Scout]

20. I kinda like that one. Although if it was overplayed I could get annoyed. n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. Haha, I'm listening to Valli and The Four Seasons right now--"Oh What a Night (December 1963)."

As for most annoying song--any song gets annoying after a while, but one song that will NEVER be tolerable for me is Starship's "We Built This City." :puke:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

33. Starship is especially painful

because it's coming from a singer who used to be fucking awesome, but sold out big time

[Scout]

16. "It's a Small World After All, It's a Small World After All, It's a Small World

After All, It's a Small, Small World."

[Joe Fields]

19. Anything that Neil Sedaka sang....

[ekelly]

21. Roxanne

by The Police.

The first time I ever heard it, I wondered if it would ever end. Just kept going, and going, and going, and going, and g.......well, you get the point.

[begin_within]

102. Rahhhhh gxkhgxkh gxkhgkxhkgh xgkgxhkghx kxannnnnne... ..... ...

I know what you mean. I can't stand Sting's voice. Second most annoying voice in rock history (first is Bob Dylan)

[chknltl]

23. "Seasons in the Sun" or "Achy Breaky Heart"

I would add that "Let The Eagle Soar" as done by ashcroft should be up there too!
I wanted to also include that one song by the Archies but as I can no longer remember it I guess it must not have been that annoying after all!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

24. "Sugar Sugar"?

:D

[chknltl]

32. Oh No you didn't!!!!!

This particular help I could have done without. Now I have a new earworm....one I suspect will follow me around for days and days. "Sugar Sugar" now tops my list of the most annoying songs I have EVER been plagued with. May the fleas of a thousand camels seek refuge in your nose for this WritingIsMyReligion!!! :spank:

:silly:

[sakabatou]

25. Tiny Bubbles, Cotton Eye Joe...

Anything made by most pop groups.

[mudesi]

26. Lean on me (nm)

[femmocrat]

27. "Sugar Shack"

circa early 1960s. I absolutely hated that song!!!

[DeepBlueC]

28. "You're So Vain"

"...you probably think this song is about you". Well, if he does, isn't he just RIGHT?

[Bzzzz]

29. Macarena...n/t

[hfojvt]

37. If you are from Illinois or Minnesota

the Packerena was worse.

[LibDemAlways]

42. self delete

[Danger Mouse]

30. 'Animals' by Nickelback saps my will to live faster than any other song.

Ugh.

[Strawman]

35. Seconded

I hadn't heard that song until this weekend .I decided to listen to one of the local FM rock stations while driving because I had forgotten my ipod. I have to agree with you. That is the shittiest song ever. It was so banal that I had to keep listening to find out what exactly band it was that had managed to suck that perfectly. It was Nickelback.

[idgiehkt]

94. that one is an atrocity...

:puke:

[blue neen]

31. It's got to be "Dreams of an Everyday Housewife"

by Glen Campbell.

This song makes me hurl.

"She looks in the mirror and stares at the wrinkles that weren't there yesterday
And thinks of the young man that she almost married
What would he think if he saw her this way?

She picks up her apron in little girl-fashion as something comes into her mind
Slowly starts dancing rememb'ring her girlhood
And all of the boys she had waiting in line

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me

The photograph album she takes from the closet and slowly turns the page
And carefully picks up the crumbling flower
The first one he gave her now withered today

She closes her eyes and touches the house dress that suddenly disappears
And just for the moment she's wearing the gown
That broke all their minds back so many years

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
FADE
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day"

[Mad_Dem_X]

65. OMG, I'd forgotten about that one

:puke:

[charlyvi]

34. Windy. The Association.

Who's peekin' out from
Under a stairway
Callin' a name
That's lighter than air?
Who's bendin' down to
Give me a rainbow?
Everyone knows it's Windy.

Who's trippin' down the
Streets of the city
Smilin' at
Everybody she sees?
Who's reachin' out to
Capture a moment?
Everyone knows it's Windy.

And Windy has stormy eyes
That flash at the sound of lies
And Windy has wings to fly
Above the clouds.
Above the clouds.

And Windy has stormy eyes
That flash at the sound of lies
And Windy has wings to fly
Above the clouds.
Above the clouds.

Who's trippin' down the
Streets of the city
Smilin' at
Everybody she sees?
Who's reachin' out to
Capture a moment?
Everyone knows it's Windy.

Who's trippin' down the
Streets of the city
Smilin' at
Everybody she sees?
Who's reachin' out to
Capture a moment?
Everyone knows it's Windy.

Who's trippin' down the
Streets of the city
Smilin' at
Everybody she sees?
Who's reachin' out to
Capture a moment?
Everyone knows it's Windy.

Who's trippin' down the
Streets of the city
Smilin' at
Everybody she sees?
Who's reachin' out to
Capture a moment?
Everyone knows it's Windy.


Gag me with a spoon.

[Felix Mala]

75. I love Never My Love...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

98. Damn, but that song, with its little flute-y background, is an earworm for the ages.

:D

[doc03]

38. Watermelon Crawl

[Briarius]

39. Bananna-phone!

just thinking of it made it pop into my head :scared:

[BlueJazz]

40. Every Kiss Begins with Kay

[idgiehkt]

87. damn you to hell

I'll be hearing that in my dreams tonight, you bastid

:rofl:

[BlueJazz]

93. When that Ad comes on, my girlfriend says I move faster than Superman...

..to Mute the Damn thing :)

[swag]

41. "Amazing Grace" played on bagpipes

[Mad_Dem_X]

63. *Anything* played on bagpipes n/t

[Jamastiene]

91. Why do bagpipes players walk while they play?

They are trying to get away from that horrible sound.

[LibDemAlways]

43. "God Bless the USA" ...Lee Greenwood....Nauseating.

[begin_within]

103. The mere mention of it makes me think of astroturf-lined pickup truck beds.

[Adsos Letter]

44. No, No, No...

It's gotta' be "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've got Love in my Tummy" By the 1910 Fruitgum Company...

A runner up would be "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Sgt. Barry Sadler...

[Ghost in the Machine]

45. Sweet Child O' Mine....

and I can JAM Appetite For Destruction almost all day. Guns ~n~ Roses rocks :headbang: but face it, Axl sounds like Edith Bunker on crack and steroids on this song. It's worth the listen for Slash though. Heh.. still a headbanger after all these years!

[SoCalDemGrrl]

46. "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band

[WritingIsMyReligion]

97. I'm surprised this hasn't shown up more on this thread.

What an agonizingly awful song. :scared:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

47. Anything country with a whiny nasal lead.

That's all of 'em nowadays I guess.

[Connonym]

48. The Barney song "I love you, you love me..." gag

[hyphenate]

49. I have a few

My Sharona will always be the worst one for me. It was just done to death.

Irene Cara from Flashdance--was it called, "What a Feeling"? I did enjoy "Maniac" though. (Funny thing, Footloose and Flashdance came out around the same time, and I love almost all the songs from Footloose!)

"You Light Up My Life" by Debi Boone

anything her father sang

the song that the country singer did about 9/11--talk about jingoism and right-wing fanaticism!

almost anything that Garth Brooks recorded

"It's a Small World" is up there very high on the list. I got sick of taking my nieces through the ride at Disneyland because the song was so annoying.

[Dogmudgeon]

50. Imagine

Actually just about anything from John "I'm Special" Lennon.

I'm NOT glad he was killed, but at least it cut down on his output.

--p!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

51. D'you want your progressive cred taken away now or later?

:P

All joking aside, I don't get how someone can find "Imagine" more annoying than, say, "Afternoon Delight." I mean, seriously.

[JVS]

53. Totally!

[JANdad]

52. Anything by:

Led Zepplin...

[SKKY]

54. "Heartbeat" by Don Johnson...

...It doesn't suck. It suckity suck sucks!

[no name no slogan]

61. He only says "heartbeat" like 60-something times though...

"needs more heartbeat"

[Mad_Dem_X]

66. LOL!

Suckity suck sucks! :rofl:

[idgiehkt]

88. I am with you on that

and some of the stuff by Glenn Fry just grates on me as bad as that; in fact he could have sang Heartbeat worse than Don Johnson did.

[carly denise pt deux]

55. My teenager's theory on the singing technique of Franki Valli/4seasons

someone must have had a pair of pliers perched on a certain part of Franki Valli's anatomy, when the time comes for falsetto, CLAMP.......canDEEEEEEEEEE GGGGIIIrrrlllllll :evilgrin:

[formerrepuke]

56. "I will always love you".. the Whitney version; she ruined it forever....n/t

[SteppingRazor]

70. seconded

Holy crap, is that awful. It set the bar for all the diva-esque caterwauling to follow.

[hellbound-liberal]

80. Just like she ruined "The Greatest Love of All" first done by George Benson.

you can find it on You Tube if uou want to see how it was supposed to be done.

[Bonhomme Richard]

57. Feelings, nothing more than feelings. n/t

[JVS]

58. for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8Q7Fsa_Vs

[Bonhomme Richard]

59. LOL, Thanks but now I've got the ear worm.

At least it's the muppet version.

[nytemare]

60. "My Humps"

Hands down.

[ThomWV]

62. "Chipmonks" Christmas music - all of it. Just makes me want to kill

In fact all Christmas music has that effect on me.

[Little Star]

64. Reeeeeeeelax tonight by: Doubletree Hotel commercial

Relax tonight , your heart is just like jumping jacks tonight. Stay cool fool, just take it easy that's the rule fool.


Just Kidding. I LOVE THAT SONG!!!!! Hope you all get an ear-worm.
:thumbsup:

[Little Star]

68. And look what I found on the internets....

Singer was:
Dinah Washington - jazz/blues singer of the 50's and early 60's . The name of the song is "Relax Max" She died in 1963 at the of 39 from over an overdose of pills and alcohol,

She's probably best know for the song "What A Difference A Day Makes" (1959) and the duet with Brook Benton " Baby You Got What It Takes" (1960)

Her music is worth checking out!


I agree with this person. That Lady had some good songs!

[eauclaireliberal]

67. "push th' little daisies."

By Ween. Jumpin' fucking Jesus, who is the imbicille that gave them a record contract?

Then again, I'm 37. Its just that I had to deal with it more than once (coffeehouses). I guess this makes me an old fart.

[EFerrari]

69. "Mandy". Although "You're having my baby" may tie it up. n/t

[smitty]

73. 1) "Alone Again, Naturally"

2)"My Sugar Walls"
3)"Disco Duck"
4)"Afternoon Delight"

Anything by Bobby Goldsboro

[Felix Mala]

74. Steve Perry - Oh, Sherrie

The a capella part at the beginning makes my ears bleed. He's screaming this moronic verse:

You should've been gone
Knowing how I made you feel
And I should've been gone
After all your words of steel

It gets worse as his plea for his supermodel girl friend to "hold on" melts her cocained addled heart and she's back with him at the end. And all he had to do was squawk this pablum at her.

At the time, one of my friends was about to make the mistake of his life by marrying this horrible person named "Sherry." I think our group hatred of this song helped shake him out of it and later married a wonderful woman.

[Z_I_Peevey]

77. Stayin Alive. ah ah ah ah Stayin Alive!

And Paul McCartney's Christmas song comes in second...Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time.

[carly denise pt deux]

78. Horse with no name- America/Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Normally I loved America's music, but that song sounded like they were just making stuff up as they were playing/recording.

[Maccagirl]

86. I HATE Horse With No Name

Stupid lyrics, badly sung etc etc etc.
On my way home tonight I heard (thankfully for the first time in decades) "Put the Lime in the Coconut (and drink them both together). Talk about an annoying song that goes on forever!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

95. I like Gordon Lightfoot, but MAN do I hate "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

His range in that song is approximately 1/2-pitch in either direction. LAME!

[Pierre.Suave]

79. My offer is...

whichever one is used as the ringtone of the cell phone that keeps ringing...

[Tikki]

81. That song(s) where that guy from Led Zeppelin sings....

"baby, baby, baby....." over and over and over again...ad nauseaum.


Tikki

[carly denise pt deux]

82. led zepplen

the song is "Babe, I'm gonna leave you"

Carly

[Dem4truth]

84. Inda-goddah-da vida Spelling maybe wrong n/t

[Montauk6]

85. "God Bless The USA" by Lee Greenwood (R-CA)

Give me Neil Diamond's timeless "America" any ol' day.

Dishonorable mentions:

"The Lady In Red" - Chris DeBurgh
"Heatwave"(RADIO EDIT) - Martha & The Vandellas (Note: This is one of my favorite Motown songs, I just hate the awkward cuts that are so obvious in the version that's normally played on radio. In fact, for some unfathomable reason, Joan Osborne chose this arrangement when she did the live version in "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown." I wanted to strangle her but she easily redeemed herself with a blow-the-rooftop-off performance of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted")
"Puttin' On The Ritz" - Taco (how DARE you try to top Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle???)
"I Wanna Be Rich" - Calloway (?)
"Brown Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison (I DIVE for the tuner button when I hear that opening guitar riff!)
"Believe" - Cher (Save that ridiculous techno voice modulator thingee for someone who CAN'T sing!)
"Theme From Shaft" - Isaac Hayes (The song itself is not annoying; it's that people ignore Ike's body of work and treat him as a one-hit wonder with this overplayed tune)
"Pacman Fever" - does-it-really-matter-who?

[Lasher]

89. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! 1966 by Napoleon XIV

When it came out on a 45 RPM record the flipside was the same entire thing, backward! And that, my friends, was the most annoying song of all time.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the dogs barking Jingle Bells. But I like that one except that it scares the cats.

[Jamastiene]

90. The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

I hate that fucking song. I don't even know who did it and I don't really want to know. The last thing I want to know is who is responsible for that shitripper of a song. I'd probably send them some nasty fan mail and let them know it's time to take the pliers off their balls. Fucking falsetto crap.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

96. In the jungle, the mighty jungle....

I sang that across the width of Portland's Casco Bay once. It was fun. :P

[Jamastiene]

101. It figures you would like that song.

:eyes: :evilgrin:

[DFW]

106. You never heard the updated version:

In the jungle, the Wall Street jungle, your money's gone tonight
In the jungle, accountants bungle, and no one's got it right.

A EN-a-ron, a EN-a-ron, a EN-a-ron, a En-a-ron..........

[hickman]

92. That stupid 60's or 70's song.

Something like "I think it's so groovy now that we are trying to get together" Don't ask me to look it up because it's an earworm.

[Daisymae97]

99. I would have to say it's a tie between

"You Light Up My Life" or that "Oh Mickey your so fine" song from the early 80's.

[acmavm]

100. All Alone Naturally by some whiney dullard who's name escapes me

now and who doesn't matter enough to Google.

[begin_within]

104. "Feelings" by Morris Albert

[Bombtrack]

105. 4 non blondes "What's going on"

[DFW]

107. This is amazing!

When I first saw this thread, the first thing I thought
was "Yummy, yummy, yummy" with the "Ballad of the Green Berets"
as a close second, and then I saw that Adsosletter had posted
exactly the same thing.

By the way, if my info is correct, the whole Bubble Gum project
back in the late sixties was all the same people: the 1910 Fruit
Gum Company, the Ohio Express etc etc were all the same people
just having fun (at our expense).

[BlueIris]

108. Am I blind, or has no one yet posted, "Baby Got Back"?

I realize I might have the person or persons who posted that on ignore, but really. I was sure that at least a dozen people would have mentioned it by now.