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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is/are your most annoying song/songs of all time???I can't remember the name but
it was basicallly instrumental with a guy yodeling every so often. It was from the 70's. So what have you? Christmas songs too can be annoying--like Domenic the Donkey Heehaw, heehaw.
Some DU posters said it was Hocus Pocus by Focus.
mopinko
(70,148 posts)debm55
(25,218 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 8, 2022, 08:48 PM - Edit history (1)
ZZenith
(4,125 posts)Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)debm55
(25,218 posts)after awhile but it could get on your nerves.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Harker
(14,027 posts)Nittersing
(6,366 posts)MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)where the residents of the asylum lip sync to that song, led by Jessica Lange.
LOVED it, very unexpected and different.
Coventina
(27,129 posts)1. We Built This City - Starship
2. Sussudio - Phil Collins
3. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
4. I Want to Know What Love Is -Foreigner
5. Anything by the Eagles
(Dis)Honorable Mention - The Glory of Love - Peter Cetera
IjustDontlikeRepugs
(635 posts)debm55
(25,218 posts)IjustDontlikeRepugs
(635 posts)MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)I think it was literally called Laughing All the Way. Always put a smile on my face but gets old quickly.
global1
(25,253 posts)Duncan Grant
(8,264 posts)You win this thread, imho.
ZZenith
(4,125 posts)debm55
(25,218 posts)ZZenith
(4,125 posts)But I gotta say, as kids we went nuts whenever it came on the radio.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)highplainsdem
(49,006 posts)musicians, and that video has nearly 10 million views, over 100,000 likes, and nearly 8,000 comments, most of them raves.
Here's video of an interview about the creation of the song. From the video description:
Harker
(14,027 posts)I don't speak the names of mine.
debm55
(25,218 posts)Harker
(14,027 posts)I'm prone to bad music getting stuck in my head.
debm55
(25,218 posts)listen.
That one's a life changer.
padah513
(2,503 posts)debm55
(25,218 posts)Different Drummer
(7,622 posts)I, unfortunately, remember that line dance all too well.
debm55
(25,218 posts)people would go to these modern westerns bars, ride the bull, and dance. Fake cowboys.
Harker
(14,027 posts)"Brand New Key" by Melanie has cost me a couple of teeth.
"Playground in My Mind" and "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" are a diabolical daily double from the dastardly Rupert Holmes.
I could go on.
debm55
(25,218 posts)girlfriend.
Harker
(14,027 posts)caught in the rain.
Aaaaagh.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)It's has always struck me as kind of a douchebag anthem.
Cartoonist
(7,319 posts)I will not listen to this song.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)An awful attempt at rap before rap became popular.
debm55
(25,218 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,267 posts)and I predate rap by decades. I had to look it up - it was 1966 my senior year. If I recall correctly it was supposed to be a Halloween-ish song.
Monster Mash was way better
Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)Whitney Houston.
Second, Muscrat Love
Third, anything by that asswipe Nugent.
debm55
(25,218 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,267 posts)Sang it to Burt Reynolds in "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" movie version
But all the $$ she got in residuals from Whitney's cover probably bought all those books she gives to kids
sarge43
(28,941 posts)debm55
(25,218 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)God only knows why.
yellowdogintexas
(22,267 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,267 posts)when I started getting into popular music in 1960. He is a very talented singer/composer but that one song is just horrible!!!
MacArthur Park has one redeeming feature: it has provided a lot of fun for folks trying to figure out the point
rsdsharp
(9,188 posts)The Night Chicago Died Paper Lace
Billy Dont Be A Hero Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
Kung Fu Fighting Carl Douglas
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Freddie Fender
There are others. Playing that shit in hot rotation on the radio makes you want to blow your brains out.
I would add to my list too.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)rsdsharp
(9,188 posts)😏
blue neen
(12,324 posts)by Paul Anka. `Listening to this song will make you confess to crimes you never committed!
It's horrible. Just horrible.
debm55
(25,218 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)electric_blue68
(14,923 posts)"`Listening to this song will make you confess to crimes you never committed!"
I didn't like him, and probably did/or would have hated the song had I heard it. I probably have too many of certain types of bands that many peeps would be possibly be offered by. So I will not go there.
[I have over 200 Rock and related bands/performers seen live, and over 250 shows attended from small clubs to Giant stadium(s). So I'm not a lightweight but n this arena of opinion. 😀 ]
Although I have a saying that - there's probably one song by a band/performer that I hate; that I really like" The example that it cane from was Grand Funk Railroad and their song w title, or lyric - listen to the children.".
So the songs that trampolined outta my head are songs I hate by bands/performers I love.
The Beatles - Mr Moonlight (though I wondered waaay later if it was supposed to be kind of a spoof, then I'd kind of appreciate it)
U2 - Miami. Boy, Girl.
Springsteen - Wild Billy's Circus
There are some more songs that I feel "Eeehh" by these and other bands, etc but nothing rises to near to hair tearing out level like these do. 😄
Skittles
(153,169 posts)absolute dreck
CJW
(120 posts)From the 1950s:
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (On the Bedpost Overnight?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_Your_Chewing_Gum_Lose_Its_Flavour_(On_the_Bedpost_Overnight%3F)
Wicked Blue
(5,838 posts)Baby Shark
It's a Small World
You're Having My Baby (Pail Anka)
Feelings (Morris Albert)
Joker (Steve Miller Band)
MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)Cowboy and the Lady
Butterfly for Bucky (even MORE maudlin than Honey)
Funny Little Clown
Watching Scotty Grow
I remember all these from the 70s, Windsor station CKLW.
I would add The Power of Love ("'Cause I'm your LAAADDYYY..."
Don't know who did it originally, but Celine Dion did a version. Hate any version.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)He has maybe 1/10th the talent that his daddy had.
Different Drummer
(7,622 posts)On the plus side, it isn't very long.
debm55
(25,218 posts)to be a robot. She sure looks spaced out.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)disco on Saturday night. She's a BRICK HOUSE.....
ironflange
(7,781 posts)Always hated this maudlin thing. I just want to yell, "stop crying!"
Harker
(14,027 posts)debm55
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I liked good morning sunshine?
zanana1
(6,123 posts)NowsTheTime
(691 posts)debm55
(25,218 posts)NowsTheTime
(691 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,156 posts)most of the worst ones I have successfully banished from my brain, but...
I do genuinely hate "Sweet Caroline".
This guy, Neil Diamond. This is not my kind of guy.
debm55
(25,218 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,156 posts)The sparkly jumpsuits...
The "Play Me"...
The emoting...
The "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"... (seriously? Ick!)
debm55
(25,218 posts)WestMichRad
(1,327 posts)The Candy Man
Yummy yummy yummy
what dreck!
Mad_Dem_X
(9,565 posts)Horribly sexist piece of crap. If we're talking Christmas songs, I'd have to go with "The Christmas Shoes." BLEH.
Niagara
(7,632 posts)The Macarena
Life Is A Highway
I'm sure there are other songs that are annoying to me, however my ability to think today has been restricted.
Glorfindel
(9,732 posts)ooga-chaka!
debm55
(25,218 posts)Duncan Grant
(8,264 posts)Im driven to violent convulsions every time I hear one of these songs.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,330 posts)Not even willing to look up who it was by.
debm55
(25,218 posts)You're right-won't go to youtube.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,618 posts)highplainsdem
(49,006 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)"Copacabana" by Barry Manilow, hearing this song
makes me violent.
The aforementioned "Having my Baby"
"God Bless the USA ( I'm proud to be an American)" by Lee Greenwood
Danmel
(4,918 posts)By Andrew Gold
Ugh