Songs that Grate on your Nerves!!!

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 15 Mar 2009 7:15 pm

What a terrific album title!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 15 Mar 2009 7:34 pm

Now that you mention it, Ron, you're right... it is!

Leslie Ehrlich · Post by **Leslie Ehrlich** » 15 Mar 2009 8:14 pm

'Lady Marmalade' by LaBelle.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 15 Mar 2009 10:45 pm

Here are a few more irritants from yesteryear! Man, the 1970's were the worst years!

Lovin' You
Seasons In The Sun
Muskrat Love
Sometimes When We Touch
Honey
Disco Duck
Boogie Oogie Oogie
In the Year 2525
I Can Dance
The Candy Man
Having My Baby
Do That To Me One More Time
The Girl Is Mine
Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
Alone Again (Naturally)
Oh Babe, What Would You Say?
I Am Woman
I Write The Songs
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Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 16 Mar 2009 2:58 am

hmm how about Friends in Low Places, Boot Scootin Boogie, anything by Billy Ray Cyrus, almost everything from Kenny Rogers, Alabama, Lee Greenwood, Crystal Gayle, Neil Diamond, John Denver, .. i could go on.. forever.
It's not that I hate the tunes, I just have heard them enough for a lifetime.

Bill Bassett · Post by **Bill Bassett** » 16 Mar 2009 4:34 am

They're laughin' all the way to the bank.

BDBassett

Andy Jones · Post by **Andy Jones** » 16 Mar 2009 6:02 am

Wow,Bo!You are reading my mind!

Dean Dobbins · Post by **Dean Dobbins** » 16 Mar 2009 7:46 am

"Swangin'" by John Anderson!

Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 16 Mar 2009 5:00 pm

I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key... bad voice, bad song!

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 16 Mar 2009 6:43 pm

No hijack intended, but how about voices, such as those of Burl Ives and Roger Miller? With these two, the song wouldn't be an issue.

Ben Elder · Post by **Ben Elder** » 16 Mar 2009 6:50 pm

(Honorable mentions to:

Whatever Sheryl Crow bray ["...long and winding ro-o-o-oad..."] it is that was all over several other commercials a while back (and the "Erin Brockovich" soundtrack?...never saw it...)

Wuss-rock of 30 years ago: "Reminiscing" (was that the Little River Band? Do I even care?) ...everything Hall & Oates ever did...there's actually a K-Tel-oid CD for these "Soft Rock Classics" (O Death, where is thy sting?)

Barry White. As aesthetically unfathomable as the day 35 years ago when one of his 45-rpm ursine monotones (which one? Who could tell?) showed up in rotation at the campus radio station.)

But--at number one:

No mistake that this was chosen for a commercial where the hockey arena PA is reduced to using this instead of the organ rally-charge tape:

"Lovin' You" by Minnie Riperton

(I'm not religious in the contrived manner of earthly denominations, but I know there's a hell becuase I've heard "Lovin' You" and I'd never make something like that up.)

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 Mar 2009 7:10 pm

...there's actually a K-Tel-oid CD for these "Soft Rock Classics"

I saw that commercial! Soft Rock from the '70s... yuck. That stuff is pure torture!

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 16 Mar 2009 7:14 pm

Actually, if you really want to hear how "Elvira" should be played and sang, listen to Rodney Crowell's version on the LP "Ain't Livin' Long Like This". This ain't the Oakridge Boys.

Emmylou Harris, James Burton, Albert Lee, and Willy Nelson smooth out the edges on this cut.

Although I love these songs very much, I've come to absolutely resent them now - "Tequila Sunrise" and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere". Eagles & Byrds respectfully.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 Mar 2009 7:19 pm

Chip, I know what you mean. Some songs don't hold up over the years, for some reason. Or maybe our musical tastes change as we get... uh, older?

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 16 Mar 2009 7:46 pm

You said it, Doug - older.
But, older and wiser; yet, still - OLDER!!

AAGGHH! $:\$

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 16 Mar 2009 8:00 pm

How about Exile.. I love them ! and Barry White.? . I can't stop dancin'
Hall & Oates.. love them too
but Leo Sayer "you make me feel like dancin.. ughh
How about "Alone Again Naturally" ? don't you love that one or anything by 3 dog night
oh yea and minnie ripperton, Mariah Carey, only dogs can hear them sing.

Jim Robbins · Post by **Jim Robbins** » 16 Mar 2009 8:07 pm

Actually, I kind of liked the way the bass line moved against that constant rhythm guitar part in Reminiscing, and the solo was kind of interesting with a sort of "seventies soft rock retro" feel shared by the excellent "Midnight at the Oasis". ("Seventies soft rock retro feel" solos are pretty rare. In fact I think those two are it -- but maybe that's another thread.)

But Doug Beaumier's list is truly horrific and will probably give me nightmares. Here's one in return: "If there's a rock and roll heaven".

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 Mar 2009 8:59 pm

Excellent examples of annoying songs!

Here are a few more stinkers:

Baby, Don’t Get Hooked On Me
Macho Man
Torn Between Two Lovers
O-o-o Child
The Streak
Your So Vain
Chick-a-Boom
Don’t Give Up On Us
Kung Foo Fighting
Indiana Wants Me
My Ding-a-Ling
Melody of Love
Watching Scotty Grow
Precious and Few
Simple Simon Says
Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 16 Mar 2009 10:30 pm

Alone Again Naturally... UGH.

Most any Anne Murray hit.
Like being permanently stuck in muzak hell.
They have 2 of her songs in a 15 minute muzak loop
in a huge Bangkok computer mall,
I thought I was going to lose it after 45 minutes..

We Are The Chicky Girls.

Michael Buble in general...

Most any Country Politain song Ray Price did.
I just can't even get through ONE whole track...
I tried I really tried... no dice.
And I like Chet and Ray before and after that period.

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 16 Mar 2009 10:36 pm

The 70s were the most annoying for me - I was so frustrated with what I was hearing that pretty much stopped playing for a while. I figured that is this is what people really wanted to hear, there was no point in trying. I turned to country music and found more Olivia Newton John - ughh. Some of my favorite tunes to hate, I'll try not to repeat too many of the earlier choices, which strongly intersect with my list:

The Night Chicago Died
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Billy Don't Be a Hero
You're Having My Baby
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (oops, I see Bo has that)
Alone Again, Naturally
The Way We Were
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Love Will Keep Us Together
Macho Man
YMCA
You Light Up My Life
Afternoon Delight
Bertha Butt Boogie
Stayin' Alive
How Deep is Your Love
Jive Talking
You Should Be Dancing
Have You Ever Been Mellow
Sometimes When We Touch
Fly Robin Fly
Copacabana
Leave Me Alone
Angie Baby
Ruby Red Dress
It Never Rains in Southern California
Escape - The Pina Colada Song
Hooked On a Feeling
Babe
I Will Survive
Torn Between Two Lovers
Mandy
Could It Be Magic (Oh, it's just too easy going after Manilow)
Claire
Yummy Yummy Yummy
Simon Says
Sugar Sugar
Anything by Foreigner, Journey, Billy Joel, and probably some others that I have worked hard to burn out of my brain.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 16 Mar 2009 10:48 pm

Wow David, you really plumbed the depths...

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 Mar 2009 11:18 pm

Yes, the 70s were pretty lame musically. First we had the mushy Soft Rock and then the pounding of Disco.
Dave, I agree with you. It was a frustrating time to play music, especially for a pedal steel player... in this area anyway. There were still country gigs in VFWs and small clubs, but no more big shows, college gigs, and parties... like there had been a few years earlier when country rock was big.

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 17 Mar 2009 12:27 am

Ben mentioned it earlier...possibly my most hated song of all time is Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You."

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 17 Mar 2009 12:34 am

But as far as the 70's go, you did have, just to give a few examples of the positive - The Band and Traffic in the first half of the decade, some of the best work from the Rolling Stones, Neil Young coming into his own, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder at the top of their game, The Grateful Dead in their prime, country rock was still strong out here in the west for most of the decade, and Waylon was at the height of his career - so there was plenty of good to go with the bad.

I just never thought of the 70's as "bad" for music, though there was plenty of bad music in that decade. It wasn't as radical and ground breaking a time as the 60's, a decade which also had a lot of bad music along with the good. But I have much more memories of music from the 70's than I do the 80's and 90's, but then the 70's was the era from my mid teens to mid twenties. Someone 10 years younger than I might have more significant memories of the 1980's.

Thread hijack over...

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 17 Mar 2009 5:48 am

I turn the channel when I hear "Fancy"!

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