— Musings —10.29.2016 11:00 AM
— Musings —10.29.2016 11:00 AM
Anything by Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey. Just sing the damn note – don’t warble up and down the octaves to show off your vocal prowess.
I used to work in an office that played a local “lite pop” radio station over the p.a. system all day long. During the time that Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” was a hit, the station played the song dozens of times each day. It was a crappy song to start with, but because the volume was low, all I heard was Whitney hitting the high notes. Drove me nuts.
Not even close to the worst all time. Maneater by Hall and Oates, Groovy Kind of Love by Phil Collins, Joker by Steve Miller, anything from Celine Dion. There’s a lot off stiff competition just off the top of my head.
Thanks. I had managed to forget all about ‘American Pie’ until just this minute.
ROFL, I applaud anybody who dared to say it aloud. Imagine is crap. But the B-52’s? Maybe not genius, but pretty damned funky.
Damn, it IS easy if you try. ‘My Sharona, by ‘The Knack’; ‘The Dream Police’ by Cheap Trick. ;’Yellow Submarine’ by the Beatles (well, One of them anyways). This is kind of fun! We had a lot of crap inflicted on us by FM radio back in the day, didn’t we?
My dear wife likes to have 50’s pop on the car radio. A song called ‘Teen Angel’ came on. At the first two lines I began to laugh. Each line added to the hilarity.
(Geez, a guy gets heartless when he gets old.)
Old? Don’t remind me. Many of my vintage would say that Dinah Washington was second to none, but hearing her do “What a Difference a Day Makes” complete with strings would make your teeth rot.
My vote for something a bit more recent would be “Seasons in the Sun”. Any sincere apologies for planting that ear worm.
Glad to know I’m not alone……:)
My all time most hated song?…..easy…….”Seasons in the Sun” by Terry Jacks……….Hated it the first time I heard it all those years ago……stilll hate it with a passion……
Just dont criticize it on youtube…….people get nasty!…….
oh dear. did you have to remind me of it’s existence? Definitely worse than My Sharona.
How can you hate a song that is one of the only mentions of atheism in pop culture?
C’mon. You have to stand in awe at the awfulness of “Mandy.” Listening to it on purpose or by accident is aural waterboarding.
Oh dear there is one worse than Mandy. It’s “Honey” Mr Goldsboros contribution to the sound track of my musical apocalypse.
See the tree, how big it’s grown
But friend it hasn’t been too long
It wasn’t big
I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig
Then the first snow came
And she ran out to brush the snow away
So it wouldn’t die
Came runnin’ in all excited
Slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried
She was always young at heart
Kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so
And I surprised her with a puppy
Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago
And it would sure embarrass her
When I came in from workin’ late
‘Cause I would know
That she’d been sittin’ there and cryin’
Over some sad and silly late, late show
And honey, I miss you
And I’m bein’ good
And I’d love to be with you
If only I could
She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I’d be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly
And caught her cryin’ needlessly
In the middle of the day
And it was in the early Spring
When flowers bloom and robins sing
She went away
And honey, I miss you
And I’m bein’ good
And I’d love to be with you
If only I could
One day while I was not at home
While she was there and all alone
The angels came
Now all I have is memories of Honey
And I wake up nights and call her name
Now my life’s an empty stage
Where Honey lived and Honey played
And love grew up
And a small cloud passes overhead
And cries down on the flower bed
That Honey loved
And see the tree how big it’s grown
But friend it hasn’t been too long
It wasn’t big
And I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig
Grenade by Bruno Mars. I just wish he’d eat the fucking thing. The other one I can’t stand and will actually cross the room to turn off the radio is Same Love. Also can’t stand My Sharona, anything by Hall and Oates, Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. Anything with the last 20 years of Celine Dion is torture. Daft punk and reaching back anything by Barry Manilo. Now I’ve got to put on some Seager so I don’t hum Olivia Newton John doing that fucking “I love you, I honestly love you” all night.
I scrolled down the list, wanting to see if my most hated song of all time – “Blinded by the Light” by Manfred Mann – had made it. I was pleased to see that it had.
Some enterprising soul needs to develop a CanCon version of this list, with Dan Hill’s “Sometimes When We Touch” on top, then Anne Murray’s “Snowbirds”, Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” and Corey Hart’s “Sunglasses at Night” in a death match for second place.
Worst in CanCon? IMO you can add anything by Fludd. Ha!!