Songs You Never Want To Hear Again. Ever.

That fucking "Starstrukk" song by 3OH!3.

I've gotten flak for it before, but I just cannot stand "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II." There was a time where I enjoyed it to a degree, but I've heard it way too many times over the years, mostly from jobs where radios were stuck on classic rock stations. I'm fine with that as that aligns with my tastes well enough, but anyone who knows those kinds of stations knows they only have about 30 songs total. In a given week, I could hear the same song at least 10-15 times. And this one always grated the most. Likely the damn children choir. Just annoying.

U2 – I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Actually, I'd say most of their catalog, but that one bugs the piss out of me. While I'll agree that Feel Good, Inc. is annoying, I hold hope that this song will only surface every few years at the minimum. Unfortunately, for me, anyway, U2 will never. ever. go away.

Jet- Are you gonna be my girl.........How many thousands of TV commercials have run this song into the fucking ground? I wasnt a big fan of it to begin with and now its the go to song for generic ad campaigns everywhere.

O'Jays- Love Train........Coors Light has been using this goddamn song in their ads for the last 10 years or so. I dont watch a ton of TV but whenever I do Im subjected to at least one of their lame 'ice train' commercials during each break.

Any one of them on that Waaves album.

Also, We Are Family. Between weddings, movie trailers, TV ads and god knows what else, I could do without it forever.

Yankee Stadium, 1992. An Asian fellow behind me bellowed un-self-consciously the entire song. To this day, I can't hear the chorus without hearing that kid hollering "Buh-eye steeeeeeee havah-fouuuuuuuh, wha-ee-yoookeee-faaaaaaaw"

Also, the Beach Boys Xmas album.

Dragonforce - Through The Fire And Flames.

Metal. For. Pussies.

Off the top of my head:

Love Shack by the B52s
Sweet Home Alabama by Lynnard Skynnard
Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger
All Summer Long by Kid Rock (and everything else by Kid Rock)

Those are easy for this list. In fact, I can't imagine ANYONE wanting to hear any of them ever again.

"Stairway to Heaven" for starters.

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

Anything by fucking Bush.

Everytime that Kid Rock song comes on the radio, I get all excited because I think someone is actually playing Werewolves of London on the radio. Disappointment every time.

Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor

Ugh. No more. Please.

Rendezvous - Eve 6

Worst. Song. EVER.

Which then gets me thinking about how nobody ever plays ANYTHING by Warren Zevon, which bums me out even further. Can't someone play Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner just once?

And while I'm here, does anyone ever need to hear I Wanna Hold Your Hand again? It was on the radio on my way home from work on Friday and I got to thinking about that. Is there anyone on this planet who has not heard that song five hundred times? I think it was played out for me by the time I was twelve. If I were my father's age I'd want to run my car into a tree every time it came on.

Really? Is it an overexposure thing for you, or do you just not like the song at all? It just seems a little left field.

My Bush hatred comes from the otherwise great 90s alt rock station on SiriusXM. I'm starting to wonder if Gavin Rossdale owns fucking stock in that company.

Sweet Home Alabama
Summer Girls by LFO. Worst song in the history of humankind. Bar none.
Barbie Girl
Korn in general.

Wind Beneath My Wings
Gotta' Wear Shades
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
'O Fortuna'
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Sympathy For the Devil
The Macarena
Kokomo

x2, far too overused.

Both, but mostly overexposure. In my current workplace, they play the song with what seems like on an hourly basis. If there's only one song that I could wish Prince could take back, it'd be this one.

Since you mentioned Bush, I have a confession: I really dig 'Machinehead'. Such a fun song to speed...err...drive to.

I'll go you one better and say I think "Glycerine" is a perfectly decent rock ballad.

Fuck you, Greg.

Anything from The Black Eyed Peas' last album. My co-worker tends to listen to a top 40 station and they'll play their songs three or four times a day.

Hotel Fucking California

All of the singles Lady Fucking Gaga has released so far.

"Tonight" by New Kids On The Block. (NKOTB, y'all)

Not because there's anything wrong with it. I've just worn it out.

Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield

Fuck that song.

Yes.

That Eve 6 song is deplorable. I was in grade 10 or 11 — not sure — when the song started getting a lot of radio play; I remember trying to tune into the modern rock stations coming out of Seattle (time stalled for local radio in 1991) and getting crackled " ... heart in a blender ... oblivion ... " to eminate from my parents shitty portable radio. Needless to say, I retreated back to a world tuned to Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, and the Doors. Which, in retrospect, was a bad move re: getting laid at that time. Sigh.

Y'all leave Lady Gaga alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk4-e9dnGUQ

Suffer.

You tell 'em, Rath. 'Poker Face' is one of my fave tunes of the decade...

I would if the pretentious big nosed talentless little attention whore wasn't fucking everywhere.

Then you seriously needed to have listened to more songs over the last nine years.

No, Lady Gaga is great. NYU represent.

This approaches shooting fish in barrels; all right thinking people hate that song almost as much as they hate "Lyin' Eyes."

Of course, I'd be prepared to list whole groups I never want to hear from again, and just start at the top: Air Supply, America, Asia...

But it's more fun to trash a song I used to like, but have become burned out on: "Reeling In The Years," "Take The Money And Run," "I Want You To Want Me," "Money," "American Pie"...


Oh, and whoever mentioned "Old Time Rock and Roll"... I completely agree, but it falls in line way behind "Like A Fucking Rock."

I call it like I hear it. 'Poker Face' is a genius pop song. A genius pop song sung by a bisexual, big-nosed pop star. Love it.

"Waking Up In Vegas", "Good Girls Go Bad" (featuring Leighton Meester"), and "I Gotta Feelin'," Ray. Your thoughts?

I have to second Hotel Fucking California.

Grades on the Pop-tastic Scale: A, B-, B. Like 'em all. No joke. I realized after reading your posts in this forum awhile ago that you and I have the same tastes when it comes to the more poppy terrain (Kelly Clarkson, for one). No shame, my friend. No shame at all.

Youza crazy person.

Friends in Low Places

Basically anything by the Black Eyed Peas

Seether-"Broken" with Amy Lee

I'm a fan of Seether but Jesus fuck Christ, how is this thing still on the air? Is ND just THAT behind?

We went twelve rounds over My Humps, except that time it was Devin defending it, but I'm more than happy to take this on. This might not make much sense, but here goes:

There's a difference between great pop music, and great pop songs. A great pop song is something you play at a party. Something that gets people dancing at a club, something that makes you feel like you've been dancing for days. I don't want to single you out, RD, but a while back you said "The Fear" was the greatest pop song you'd heard recently. I like that song a lot, but it doesn't want me to get up and dance. A great pop song can come from anywhere, and, as Ray said, you grade on a scale.

I did a lot of djaying this summer, and I played a lot of the songs we're talking about often. It was for teenagers, mostly -- the target audience of a lot of these songs. But Michael Jackson and ABBA got just as much a reaction from the crowd as a set of Lady Gaga songs or Cobra Starship or, surprisingly enough, "Love Drunk" by Boys Like Girls (which is another example of a song that is great in the moment but whose moment quickly passes).

Couple of months later, I was doing a wedding and both Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas were requested, and the reaction was just as big from the thirtysomethings in the crowd as it was from the younger kids.

The right song hits you, you just want to dance. That, to me, is the hallmark of a great pop song. It remains to be seen whether "Poker Face" and "I Gotta Feelin" and "Human" will stand along the "Since U Been Gone" and "Hey Ya"s of this decade, or the "If I Can't Have Yous" and "Dancing Queens" and "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough"s of past eras. And so forth and so on.

Finally, I want to prelude this by saying that this is not me trying to be a name-dropper, but I know enough people who currently know or were friends with Stefanie/Lady Gaga at one point. From everything that I've heard, plus what I've read, it's an act - and a very intelligent one. She's basically taking our obsession with the Britneys and the Lindsays of the world and throwing it back in our faces; it's not so much that she's an attention whore so much as we are voyeurs for wanting to look in the first place.

And in the end, we cannot read, cannot read, her poker face. Her-her-her-her poker face.

I cannot in good conscience hate any song that features brilliance such as the following:

"Like the color purple, macaroni & cheese, ruby red slippers, and a bunch of trees."

The whole song is just rhyming genius.

"There was a good man named Paul Revere. I feel much better baby when you're near."

At some point, a bad song just keeps getting so bad that it becomes a demented genius and LFO achieved that here. Hell, the song name drops The Incredible Mr. Limpet! Fascinating stuff.

Honestly, I could post almost any line from this song and it's just as hilarious. And I sadly wouldn't have to look any of them up. This thing is ingrained in my memory.

And with that, I've spent more time discussing LFO than anyone has or ever will again. I apologize.

I would rate Vegas about the same, I'd put Good Girls at about an A-, and give Gotta Feelin' a B+. None of them would be my favorite pop song of the summer -- that would be "Fire Burning" by Sean Kingston or "Sugar" by Flo Rida. I should make a list.

I completely, 110 percent agree with you.

"First we fell in love, but now we ain't speakin/Michael J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton."

"Hip hop marmalde spic and span, met you one summer when it all began. You're the best girl I ever did see, the great Larry Bird, Jersey 33
When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet/Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole buncha sonnets."

And my personal favorite: "Call you up, but what's the use/I like Kevin Bacon but I hate Footloose."

Some songs usually have a line where you're like "what does that even mean?" This song is ALL lines like that.

*claps*

You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned the dancing factor. It's all about the energy and euphoria that an uber-tastic, popalicious tune can bring forth inside of you.

I'd add 'Hung Up' by Madonna to the 'Since U Been Gones' and 'SexyBacks' of the decade, too. Could be my fave Madge tune ever.

Should we make a thread devoted to Poptastic Tunes, Rath?

Kung Fu Fighting, as performed by anyone, ever.

There was a great one a while back that I'm trying to find to bump.

Back on topic, I could do without hearing either of those Taylor Swift hits and "Party in the U.S.A."* for a while.

*Because once it gets in your head, it's guaranteed to stay there for at least 24 hours. That thing recently passed through work like a goddamn virus.

I can happily go my whole life without hearing another single by Nirvana. Fuckin' "Come As You Are".