Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?

[CapeCodder]

What songs do you find to be annoying because they are overplayed, and or are just poorly done?

1970's

#1 Green Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf. I have never liked this song. The local classic rock station around here plays it constantly and it wears out quickly.

#2 Spill the Wine by War. Another song that has been played to death here on the cape.

#3 Brandy (You're a fine Girl) by Looking Glass. You know, aside from the cheesy story the song just reeks of early 70's music cliches.

1980's

#1 Pilot of the Airwaves by Charlie Dore. Hard to tell if it's a 70's song or an 80's song. The song sounds incredibly dated.

#2 Shattered Dreams by Johnny Hates Jazz. I like Sophisti-Pop, but JHJ brought that likeability down perhaps. Overall, there are better songs/groups out there in the genre e.g. The Blue Nile, Deacon Blue, and others.

#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.

[hotdogPi]

Pretty much anything created after 2000.

[tchafe1978]

That stupid Ed Sheeran song "Shape of You" or anything like it that is overly repetitive in its beat, melody, and/or lyrics. Also, most hip hop/R&B/pop/country.

[cjk374]

Anything by Sting & The Police. Sends me into raging barfing fits.

[roadman65]

Back in the early 00's that Hey Now song was totally overplayed as well as Eminem and that song he did with D-12 called My Band.  Of course the latter one is because of Eminem has an ego the size of Alaska and of course he is enjoying swearing (if you hear the unedited version you hear him swearing to be his usual cool self just like those he sung that song) and of course he is not in a band.  D-12 is far from a band as all they are is rappers without an instrument.

Then there was Shakira's Your Hips Don't Lie, cause of its overplayed status and four or five different versions.  Most of all the line in the song "No fighting, No fighting" which is ghetto in tone no different than saying "Lets fight, lets fight!"  Then later I learned the meaning of why its in there and that is to show that lots of male fans want to be with Shikira being the gorgeous celebrity she is and fits in with the them of the song which promotes guy's attraction to a girl who moves her hips.

Than Kirk Franklin's Stomp annoys me, as some of the lines of the song when he has the Gospel singers in it what appears to sound like Elroy Jetson's song that Jet Screamer Sang in the 70's HB Cartoon Eeee Ah Oooh Ah or whatever that song was.   FYI Kirk Franklin is a James Brown lookalike who is a man who really can dance ( I will credit him for that at least) who is a Christian artist, but IMO his music that he puts together is not my cup of tea.  At least he can be original instead of copying a cartoon.

[Flint1979]

Anything by Thin Lizzy.

[Rothman]

Overplaying hits has been an epidemic since the 1980s.  I actually liked "Shape of You" the first couple if times I heard it.  By the 53rd, not so much.

[roadman65]

That Wham Song What She Wants.  Although I love the keyboards  and bass on it, I think the title should be the chorus line.  What She Wants is better title for Careless Whisper. 

To get back on track, I just think that line "Somebody Tell Me etc. is too redundant and after he repeats is a few times it's ancient already.

[74/171FAN]

Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.

[roadman65]

Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.

Considering she started out as country she sure caught the fame fever.  I, though, must admit some of her new stuff is not bad, but then again its not classic Taylor Swift though.

[KEVIN_224]

The single worst for me from the 80s, bar none, was "Mickey" from Toni Basil. Hated N.K.O.T.B. with a passion. That moved to d-bags like Justin Beiber and other pretty boys since. I was OK with Taylor Swift when she was mostly country and just starting out. I even saw her in person once (Mohegan Sun Casino in 2009). I could care less about her now.

[74/171FAN]

Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.

Considering she started out as country she sure caught the fame fever.  I, though, must admit some of her new stuff is not bad, but then again its not classic Taylor Swift though.

I am specifically talking about her last album "Reputation" that came out in November.  She was good IMO until that first single.

[HazMatt]

Any time I hear Photograph by Nickelback I pass out and wake up later with blood on my hands.

[mgk920]

Any 'gangsta' crap.  Also death metal and almost any country released after about 1981.





As for artists, I change the station whenever either Barbara Streisand or Cat Stevens comes on.



Mike

[Max Rockatansky]

That awful song that kept repeating the lyrics "15 in a 30, I ain't in no hurry."

[7/8]

"Cold Like Minnesota" by Lil Yachty

You need to stay up out them streets if you can't take the heat
Cause it get cold like Minnesota, cold like Minnesota

I bolded the part that especially annoys me. How does this make sense? Not to mention his singing in the chorus is awful.

I don't like rap to begin with, and I only know the song because of my brothers, but this song is one of the worst IMO.



"On My Mind" by Ellie Goulding

I just really hate the chorus; it's repetitive and obnoxious (IMO).

Why I got you on my mind

[Scott5114]

Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.

Look what she made you do–post this.

which is ghetto in tone

Really?

[freebrickproductions]

For me, just about any rap or country song (Weird Al's rap songs and The Devil Went Down to Georgia by the Charlie Daniels Band are pretty much the only exceptions). While most rap is generic and pretty much the same to me, there are a few country songs that I personally absolutely despise partially because they don't have the balls to be true country songs and instead try to also be some kind of lite rock song at the same time, even though, IMHO, they'd probably sound much better if they were just straight country songs.

[adventurernumber1]

Anything by The Chainsmokers has the tendency to do this to me, especially their song "Closer." That stuff makes me cringe so much, and I absolutely cannot stand it.


Also, recently for the first time I heard that "Rockstar" song.

Here are the lyrics: https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tppwkidybeuxatigyn5skeetsue?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-songlyrics

I genuinely could not stop laughing every time I heard this - I could not contain myself. The lyrics were so stupid and terrible that it was just unbearably cringy and hilarious. Needless to say, I hate that song.

Side Note: After reading those lyrics, did he actually try to make a random reference to Jim Morrison of The Doors (which is one of my favorite bands) - Light My Fire was one of their most famous songs. 


And honestly, there are a lot of other songs that do this to me as well, which mostly fall under the majority of modern rap/hip hop and pop and EDM (a.k.a. Electronic Dance Music) (there are some very rare good artists in those genres in the modern age, but the majority is not in regards to my personal musical tastes).

[LM117]

Dollar General has been blaring the everlasting shit out of this lately:

Me every time I hear it:

[20160805]

That stupid Ed Sheeran song "Shape of You" or anything like it that is overly repetitive in its beat, melody, and/or lyrics. Also, most hip hop/R&B/pop/country.

Glad to know I'm not alone in hating this steaming pile of rotten fecal matter.

That awful song that kept repeating the lyrics "15 in a 30, I ain't in no hurry."

Sam Hunt - Body Like a Back Road (2017)

I hate that song too, and as a roadgeek it seems almost insulting.  Sadly, there are far worse, including "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons from the exact same year.  And to think that they were actually DECENT around 2012 when they were new.

I also agree about the Chainsmokers, who have never released a song I'm even neutral to, with the worst offender from them IMO (excluding "Selfie" (2013), which was really just a novelty song, although don't get me wrong, it's terrible too) being 2017's "Something Just Like This".  Just a typical canned love/relationship song with dumb lyrics, and then after four minutes of being complete crap pop, they throw in a GUITAR SOLO at the end during the last drop.  I'm a rock fan.  This is nowhere near rock.  If this is what rock music is nowadays (and yes, I have actually heard it on a rock station), then not only is rock dead, but it's beyond saving.  [/rant]

The 80s song I hate the most would be REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling (1984).  Horrible cheesy power ballad taken to the extreme, and this is by a crappy band in general.  The song is also five minutes long, for Pete's sake!

[formulanone]

I say if a song is truly sending you into a rage, then it's doing its job properly. Music is supposed to invoke emotions.

Otherwise, we're blurring the distinction between a song one doesn't like or a song with no impact, from a masterpiece that really gets you off your ass and hopefully leads to something spectacular (or at least, an error-free and nicely-performed chore where you really got lost in the moment).

[inkyatari]

What songs do you find to be annoying because they are overplayed, and or are just poorly done?

1970's

#2 Spill the Wine by War. Another song that has been played to death here on the cape.

1980's

#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.

Oh yes.  I hate those songs as well.

A few others...

At This Moment - Billy Vera and the Beaters
I've Had the Time of my Life - Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley
American Pie - Don McLean


Almost everything by Joe Cocker, Bon Jovi
Absolutely everything by coldplay

[formulanone]

#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.

This is one of those songs that was kind of terrible in [any year], and was long forgotten (the way a lot of music goes). It was probably rarely played again, because something new, fresh, or better came along. Maybe it was played sparingly, as a novelty. But I doubt anything other than a college radio station played it in say...1996.

Then, suddenly...the 1980s became "retro"; played a few times during those programming hours. Now we have Instant Nostalgia, so it's one of those silly staples that returned from obscurity and can be found daily. The problem is that the kitsch wore off, so it's now a Zombie Song*, it really should have died off but remains seemingly eternal. And it's probably because it's a cheap song that doesn't have the same royalty charges as a Michael Jackson or Bee Gees number.


* Not to be confused with White/Rob Zombie.

[CapeCodder]

What songs do you find to be annoying because they are overplayed, and or are just poorly done?

1970's

#2 Spill the Wine by War. Another song that has been played to death here on the cape.

1980's

#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.

Oh yes.  I hate those songs as well.

A few others...

At This Moment - Billy Vera and the Beaters
I've Had the Time of my Life - Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley
American Pie - Don McLean


Almost everything by Joe Cocker, Bon Jovi
Absolutely everything by coldplay

Billy Vera and the Beaters' song as well as the Warnes/Medley number, yes. I'm neutral on American Pie.

I forgot to mention the song Angel Eyes by The Jeff Healey Band.