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I'm with Joe.....it's Steel Guitar Rag, hands down!!!!! www.genejones.com I saw someone elses post below and had to add a P.S...I had mercifully forgotten "Achey Brakey Heart", it has to be the absolete worse!<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 31 January 2002 at 07:35 PM.]</p></FONT>

Bill L-

The song you're thinking of is "Bop" by Dan Seals, and yes, it's quite possibly one of the more annoying songs ever written.

I cast my vote for anything made by a boy band.


Garnett

"Good Morning Starshine" by Oliver. I cringe every time i hear that glibby gloop lala s**t.
"Sunshine Superman" by Donovan. One of the worst songs of the 60s (along with the first song on my list)
"Love Is The Right Place" by Bryan White. Video made him look like he was gay. Just a dumb song to begin with.
"Steam" by Ty Herndon. Sleazy not steamy.

i'm sure there are others but I can't dig them up at the moment..

Has to be 'Freebird', I think every band in High School did their version of this, so all night long you heard it over and over, Oh Puke!

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<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Craig Stock on 31 January 2002 at 06:15 PM.]</p></FONT>

I almost forgot<<<<<. The one thats out right now that I bet everyone HATES<<<<.
"I wanna talk about me" by Toby Keith is that horrid or what?????

For the 70's Andy, don't forget Ballroom Blitz by the Sweet. or Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees. The worst Country song in the 70's had to be Annie's Song or else Calypso by John Denver. Seems they went on forever. The 60's would be any do-wop Under The Boardwalk type tune. The 80's one I hated the most was Every Breath You Take and the famous Don't Worry Be Happy. Also any Bon Jovi tune at the time cause that's all they wanted to hear no matter where we played.Country for then would be Roll On because anybody from the Midwest knows enough not to get out of their car or truck and walk in a blizzard! The 90's-------well Friends In Low Places,Acky Breaky, Don't Take The Girl, Indian Outlaw, Any Man of Mine, and Cheap Seats.

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"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"
When that comes on the radio, I can't turn it off fast enough. No wonder people think country music is for hicks!

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Old Time Rock and Roll

Yuck!!!!

John Deere Green.

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kd...and the beat goes on...

"Footloose" especially at a wedding, makes me want to barf.

The BEST SONG that I've heard in a while is "This ain't no Rag, It's a Flag". Just the title says it all. I bet it won't win any awards though.

Add "MacArthur Park'

Duke Of ?

Conspicuous by its absence is "It's A Small World" so I guess you guys like it.

Personally, I'm sick of Steel Guitar Rag too, but the worst thing is the vocal version of it! Ever hear those lyrics? Yuuuuck! I'm a peaceful man, but that lyricist should be shot (or else tied up and forced to listen nonstop to a medley of MacArthur Park and It's a Small World Afterall as sung by Bill Murray).

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The thing i like about "Stayin' Alive" is the drum beat and guitar riff... or maybe it's an electric piano, i can't remember. I can do without the "Ah, hah, hah, hah..."

"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", especially the Finnish version of it.
Jim, you don't have to waste your ammunition. Merle Travis wrote the lyrics on SGR, he died in -83.

" Don't rock the boat, don't tip that boat over "

Anything by Buddy E.....
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Anything by Buddy Ebson..........

Everything with steelguitar in it!
Those songs keep me wondering and busy all the time to figger out how they did it, and make me sit behind that egg-slicer instead of sporting, enjoying wife and kids, sleeping, washing my car, doing the honey-do things, work in the garden, and on and on....

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OOOOOPPS!! I just recorded Blue Skirt Waltz and Steel Guitar Rag!

Jimbeaux... Merle Travis wrote the lyrics to SGR, so you'll have to dig up his now deteriorating corpse to blow him away. I suggest using a 10 guage shotgun repeatedly for maximum tissue destruction.

Back on topic... there are many favorite songs on my hate list, too many in fact to list. But the song that totally befuddled me, one that I despised and yet became CMA Song of the Year, was "Country Bumpkin."

"In this world of many wonders, another wonderous wonder came..." or something like that. Yikes! The sound you hear is my English composition teacher is rolling around in her grave, as we speak.

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I had a regular Friday night gig for three years with a group that did jazz and rock, mostly oldies. In the small print on our advertising posters I always added: all requests considered except for "Stairway to Heaven" and "The Girl From Ipanema".

We played G from I once a month ("you missed it, too bad...") and once, just to prove we could do it, played a pretty fair cover of S to A with the keyboard player, the sax player, and me actually playing recorders at the beginning and everything. But that was at another, high-paying gig.

I've got to go along with Red Kilby, as far as current and country goes.

Any song where the steel is out of tune, especially 'Teach your children' with Garcia on steel. Also 'Steel guitar rag'.

The Rag. I've did it a thousand times and have always messed something up while playing it!

Anything sung by Garth.