Five songs you hate

[nolawitch58]

Which five songs would you completely obliterate from the planet if you had your way? Every single copy in any medium would be destroyed and the collective memory of them would be wiped out. You would never have to endure hearing their odious tones on the radio again.

My five:

"Having My Baby" - Paul Anka
"MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris
"Wannabe" - Spice Girls
"Lips of an Angel" - Hinder
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something

There are others I detest, but none so low as the above that should be buried deep between layers of igneous rock never to see light of day for at least five hundred human lifetimes.

Comments

[polarbear1986.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I pretty well agree with you about all those...but "Breakfast at Tiffany's"? Come on, that's classic 90's! I love that song! :)

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

You forgot "Never Been to Me". I can deal with McArthur Park, but not that one.

[pecosdave.livejournal.com]

Ever hear "Jurassic Park" by Weird Al?

BTW - Breakfast at Tiffany's is the only song on that list I recognize other than MacArthur park, and I only knew that one because of Weird Al

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Really? You don't remember that awful Spice Girls rubbish on the radio everywhere a few years back? I would always yell, "What I really, really want is for all you bitches to die!" And that "Lips of an Angel" dreck is from last year. Whiny fucker acts like a bitch talking to his ex-girlfriend on the phone while his wife is in the other room.

Never heard the Weird Al parody.

[pecosdave.livejournal.com]

I tend to avoid radio stations that play any Spice Girls songs what-so-ever. I like Rock, Rock-a-Billy, Metal and Punk for the most part some pop and white rap, like Kid Rock and the Beasty Boys. The Spice Girls really don't fit that equation, though I'm sure I've heard the song you referenced ambiently in the background, it's nothing that's ever actually been played at me.

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

Freebird
Horse with No Name
Afternoon Delights
Someone's Knockin' on the Door (don't know if that's the name - it was Wings that recorded it)
You wouldn't know (that alanis morrisette codependent "I can't get over you" song)

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

that should be "You Ought To Know" (I hate it so much that I can't remember it properly)

[kelli217.livejournal.com]

"Let 'Em In," from the album Wings at the Speed of Sound.

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

What about "Muskrat Love?" Actually, anything from the Starland Vocal Band should also be banished. I forgot those yo-yos until you brought them up :P

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

you don't understand... I spent the summer of 1976 as a security guard at a place called "Memco" (like Costco, only older) and I was stationed in the back warehouse by the exit to make sure employees didn't abscond with merchandise. They had a radio on the loudspeaker there, and for the entire summer, the music was alternating between "let em in" and "Afternoon delights" there may have been one or 2 other songs played, but it must have been when I was on break.

[saminz.livejournal.com]

What about "Stand by your man", then ;-)?
Further: All that Heino crap. "Blau, blau blau blüht der Enzian". And "Madonna Bavariae"!

If you only KNEW of all the outrageous bullshit that seeps in here over the northern border...!

(I hate breakfast at Tiffany's too, but not THAT much.)

Oh, and: What about that "really really loves a woman" shit?! "When he sees his unborn children in her eyes"??!! BLOODY HELL!!! That' one really blew me away when I heard it first.

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

I have to expand on this meme. First, four genres that should get the same treatment.

1. 1970's disco
2. Gangsta rap
3. Death metal
4. Pop music made after 1992

All the above set my teeth on edge. #2 and #3 give me headaches.

As for the five songs that should be banished:

1. "Teen Angel" (Bobby Vinton (?))

2. "Young Girl Get Out of My Mind" (Gary Plunkett (?) and the Union Gap)

3. anything by Britney Spears

4. "I Kissed a Girl" (Katy Perry) - DUMBEST SONG EVER!!!

5. "Barbara Ann" (artist unknown)

[msgeek.livejournal.com]

Numa Numa (Dragostea din tea) -- O-Zone
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) -- The Crystals
Follow You - Follow Me -- Genesis (and anything contemporaneous and after by them)
Owner Of A Lonely Heart -- Yes
Anything with vocals that are Autotuned (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotune)...I hate Autotune. Autotune must die!

[breeze-block.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Can I play? I could name 5 by the Spice Girls, Britneh, Puddytat Dolls and probably that pair of weirdos Daphne and Celeste but that'd be too easy!

Greetings pop-pockers! brace yourselves for the groovetastic countdown with your pal Fluff! Easy mate, you dont want to do yourself a mischief!

Up two places to number five it's "Seven Tears" by the "Goombay Dance Band"

Straight in at number four we have "Afternoon Delight" by the "Starland Vocal Band". Not 'arf, mate!

Down one to number three we have the musilicious "Wired For Sound" by "Cliff Richard".

Up an amazing 20 places to number two we have "Shaddupa ya Face!" by "Joe Dolche". Smashing stuff there Joe!

But still at number one since it's release for an amazing one thousand four hundred and seventy two weeks we have "There's no one quite like grandma" by "St. Winifred's school choir". There's no knocking those babies of their perch eh! Not 'arf!