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These might going to be a list of the songs you hate the most, but maybe the songs that annoy you the most could be a little different. I don't think "God" and "American Idiot" are that bad of songs.

I'll start off:

"God" by John Lennon- I don't get bothered by the atheist claims in this song, 'cause people can believe what they want. However, I hate how he says "I don't believe in Beatles" which is denying his whole career before his solo one. It's outrageous, as that's the only reason why people had interest in him when he first started making records by himself-he was a member of the Beatles. He was trying to leave that bowl cut hair image of himself behind, but that lyric really wasn't the way to do it.

"Prostitution Is the World's Oldest Profession (And I, Dear Madame, Am A Professional)" by Cobra Starship- Not only does this song have a long title and subtitle, the satire really irks me because even if you understand that they're joking, it's stupid because some people don't get it. For example, the chorus:

"go on believe, if it turns you on.
take what you need 'til your body is numb.
prostitution, is revolution.
you can hate me, after you pay me.
my submission, is your addiction.
so just get out while you can"

"American Idiot" by Green Day- They talk about the media and how they control us, but aren't they apart of the media? Don't they influence many people? I felt like it was a really dumb stab at corruption.




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I hate how he says "I don't believe in Beatles" which is denying his whole career before his solo one.

I don't think that John Lennon was denying his career with the Beatles as much as he was excorsizing the ghost of Lennon/McCartney. That's a fairly large song writing shadow to live under. I do believe that he managed to transcend McCartney as a solo artist overall. The "Primal Scream" album is a masterpiece and is far better than "Ram" and slightly better than "All Things Must Pass", the last two being the albums considered to be the solo masterpieces of McCartney and Harrison respectively. Ringo Starr is not mentioned because, well, you know...

And I do agree that Green Day are massive tools.

But, of course, the topic isn't "Defend John Lennon's solo career"...

I don't listen to modern radio much anymore, so I'll just throw something out from the days that I did actually listen to the radio.


Whatever the name of that song is where Toby Keith spews a bunch of racist, anti-world, corn-fed redneck bollocks in reaction to the september 11th. attacks. We all see where that mindset has gotten us to this point...

And basically any other modern country crossover hits. Keep modern country off of my radio!

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"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry (Bigot) American)" is the song I am thinking of. Just looked it up...

This post has been edited by GooseKnight on 14th August 2008 14:48

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Soulja Boy is the bane of my existence.

You know, those songs on a CD that are made just to make the CD a non-single to increase profit when people buy the CD for that one good song. You know the songs i am talking about .

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Anything by Sufjan Stevens. God, what a wanker.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

anything by soulja boy, that 'i keep bleeding' song, that 'sha-shake it' song, pretty much anything popular right now. oh, and every rap song ever, and every country song ever. OH! and......uh.....'Jigga Juice'. go look it up and treat music like candy, throw out the rappers

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treat music like candy, throw out the rappers

LOL! I agree 100%

*Sigh*

As soon as I saw the topic I knew this was quickly turn into a "rap sucks" thread. I'm quite used to it, but can I make the small request that if we're going to bash rappers, we do it specifically? I hate Soulja Boy too. Both because his songs are ridiculously annoying, and because people that don't listen to hip-hop for some reason think Soulja Boy/Lil' Wayne/Other Random Annoying Pop-Rappers=hip-hop. Just because you only hear the stupid songs does not mean all rap is stupid.

To try to come up with a song from an artist I actually like, the first thing that came to mind was "Drunk 'N Hot Girls" by Kanye West and Mos Def. I love both the artists, love the album, and I see what point they were trying to make, but I have to skip it every time it comes on.

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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

For me, it's pretty much anything within the realms of UK 'landfill indie' ie. The Enemy, The Fratellis, The Kooks, Scouting For Girls, The Wombats... I could go on forever. Hideously derivative, uninspired, skinny-jeans-cardigans-and-ironic-sunglasses-aren't-we-cool guitar pop and flimsy brit-lad-rock, that really twists my teats.

If we're talking solo albums by ex-Beatles, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass irritates me to no end, purely because Phil Spector's production is just so... obnoxious. There's so much going on. I mean, I know, Phil Spector, wall of sound, yada yada yada, but some of those songs would just shine so much brighter if someone would've said 'Hey, Phil, do you really think we need those synths there?' or something like that. I'm always surprised by how good a job he did of Lennon's 'Imagine.' Sure 'I Don't Wanna be a Soldier Mama' is a muddy, directionless mess, but otherwise, his production on that album's great - warm, restrained and pretty much timeless. I'm rambling, but I'm getting to a point here - 'How Do You Sleep' always used to annoy me on that album, mainly because it's a great song musically but the sentiment (a scathing criticism of Paul) was so hard to see past. Apparently, Lennon later claimed that it was about him, which is feasible (if unlikely) but, I've found it much more easy to swallow if you force yourself to take it from that perspective insomuch as it fits in with John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine's whole embarrassingly naked, personal lyrical style.

Anything by Basshunter drives me insane, too. I quite like a lot of the stuff I hear in clubs, but 'Now You're Gone' and that other one really get my goat. It's that bloody beat, I don't know how best to describe it, but it just makes me want to squaredance. It's like country and western with a four-to-the-floor beat and obnoxious synths!

Though I'd still count them amongst my favourite bands, Sigur Rós annoyed me with their new album. I was a rabid fanboy for ages, and sort of got bored between 2005's Takk... and their new one, and I just get irritated whenever I think of how good they once were and how good they can be. Agaetis Byrjun and ( ) are masterpieces in my opinion, and, a few tracks aside, the new album comes across as almost self-parodic. It's Sigur Rós trying to do Sigur Rós, and where songs like 'Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa' were complicated, grand and subtle, newer tracks like 'Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur' sound joyous, sure, but they also sound as if they're going through the motions - they know how to tug at your heartstrings and they're going to do it until you poop your pants and black out. It's telling that that song had the working title of 'Hit Song #2' ('Hit Song #1' obviously being 'Hoppipola'.) 'Fljotavik' is, structually, near identical to 2002's 'Untitled #1', but just seems uninspired, the melody's not as gripping and I find myself uninterested in the climax. They annoy me in the sense that they're just getting... well, boring!

This post has been edited by Mimic on 15th August 2008 00:17

I'm also very anti-[c]rap, but I have to side with Gears, not all rap is bad (just most of it ).

My main beef with rap is that many times (not all, mind you), it's laden down with obscenities and innuendo that just makes you think, "Is that really necessary?" And personally, I don't have any desire to listen to something like that. My other beef with rap is that many times, they're not really singing, they're speaking, which classifies what they're doing as poetry, not song. Poetry to a beat is still poetry, not music. So in reality, they shouldn't be paired in music places, because they're not a different genre, they're a different media.

I will listen to music that has obscenities in it, as long as it's used to emphasize a point, not just to be obscene. I am a die-hard Blink-182 fan, but my god I can't stand the song Shut Up. Why? Read the lyrics, as I can't even post them here.

The songs that do the best job of irritating me, however, are the ones that I really liked, and then somebody I know decides to adopt that song as the primary definition of their life at this moment. When somebody else finds a stupid reason to adopt a song as "theirs," it annoys me to no end, and then I can't listen to the song without thinking how stupid it is that they felt soooooo connected to that song. Two songs in particular that this happened with were the songs Lithium by Evanessence, and Unwell by Matchbox 20. (or maybe by that clown that went solo, I can't remember his name, but Matchbox 20 ftw!)

This post has been edited by leilong on 15th August 2008 06:34

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Rap is alright.

What I simply cannot stand is anything country/western. It seriously pisses me off, it all sounds the same to me. I can't stand it.

And heavy metal or whatever you call it kinda annoys me, with that pointless yelling and silly guitar solos, yk'now bands like ac dc and metallica. Really can't think of any songs in particular but I think you get the picture.

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Quote (Gears @ 14th August 2008 23:34)

*Sigh*

As soon as I saw the topic I knew this was quickly turn into a "rap sucks" thread. I'm quite used to it, but can I make the small request that if we're going to bash rappers, we do it specifically? I hate Soulja Boy too. Both because his songs are ridiculously annoying, and because people that don't listen to hip-hop for some reason think Soulja Boy/Lil' Wayne/Other Random Annoying Pop-Rappers=hip-hop. Just because you only hear the stupid songs does not mean all rap is stupid.

Please everybody, stop the genre and general band hate, because maybe you haven't approached that band/genre after listening to more than two songs (but maybe you have, I don't know). Well, you can vent about those songs here (notice the title)! It's sorta like the opposite of a favorite song thread.

I think I'm more focused on despising other bands than paying attention to rap (but I really like Arrested Development). Dcr, never touch Metro Station (the band with the "Shake it" song). They had this other single and the video had the keyboardist (if you can even call him that) look like he was having a seizure, which definitely wouldn't help his playing. Their synth tends to swallow all of the other instruments in "Shake it" and "Control".




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"All roads are connected somehow. And they all lead to a time of salvation, where imprisoned souls will be freed. They all lead to the end of the world, and a new beginning." -ODV

I just can't stand most pop and rap music... it all seems so pointless and repititive. I'm a pretty open guy when it comes to music, but when i listen to a 'song' i expect to hear something going on. not just a beat, crappy bass line, and some idiot talking along. Not to mention most of the lyrics are awful.

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mainly songs by Fall Out Boy Hawthorne Heights.

disney pop music (Jonas Brother's Myley Cyrus etc.) if it wasn't for the fact I have friends with 6-8 year old kids I'd be completely oblivious to their existence. I accept pop music for what it is, but pop music where the target audience is younger than twelve, is asinine. Where's the CoN Vomit Face?

Jackson Brown, I feel bad for anyone in the seventies who had parents that thought Led Zeppelin, KISS, Sabbath or any other band was satanic so they bought their teenage youth a jackson brown album (probably the only record sales this guy saw)

Mindless Self Indulgence, probably torture in some countries. The only reason they irritate me is I have tow friends who actually like this band.


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This is a hard question to answer because even most bad songs I can listen to and laugh, like Soulja Boy and Flo-Rida. But, there are a few artists that I can't even laugh at, like Jimmy Buffet, and most country music.

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

Ah but I do have a very ironclad reason for disliking rap as a genre- I'm not exaggerating, it triggers migraines. Literally, I'm dead serious.

Even if it weren't for inducing head-splitting pain and subsequent nausea, I still wouldn't like it. I just don't. This is a thread about songs that do the best job of irritating me- and since I don't like rap, 100% of the songs are going to do a fine job of irritating me. That's my own preference (or lack thereof) and I'm entitled to that, just as everyone else is entitled to theirs.

Back on topic...

I have to revise my choice, and go with "Woo Hoo" by the 5678's. You know, the song on the Vonage commercials. That has to be the most irritating song known to mankind.

This post has been edited by Apollyon on 15th August 2008 05:50

I don't like practically anything by Toby Keith, but the Angry American irritates me to no end.

And pretty much anything by the Killers

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And pretty much anything by the Killers

OMG, The Killers

They always have one super poppy, fun sounding song on an album that makes the hit list for awhile, and I always think, "yea! this ain't too bad!" Then I buy the album... BAM! Giant wad of crap, with no redeeming songs whatsoever, especially since that poppy song that was good ends up rotting into a song that can't pull it's weight in the long run...

I hate you Mr. Brightside and When You Were Young...

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Quote (leilong @ 14th August 2008 21:48)

My other beef with rap is that many times, they're not really singing, they're speaking, which classifies what they're doing as poetry, not song. Poetry to a beat is still poetry, not music. So in reality, they shouldn't be paired in music places, because they're not a different genre, they're a different media.

I don't want to turn this into a back and forth about how rap is, in fact, music, but I will say this much on the subject:

To discredit it as music simply because the vocal delivery isn't "sung" is silly. Songs don't need to have singing to qualify as music, nor do artists have to sing to qualify as musicians! There are many artists who employ "spoken-word" over music, even outside of rap. In fact, it's employed in gospel, rock and numerous other genres. If you strip away the rapping, you still have the accompanying beat and an instrumental or synthesized track, do you not? Besides, who are you to decide what is not to be considered music? Like Gears said, there are a lot of rap artists in mainstream media that are absolutely ghastly and portray the genre in a negative light. That's no different from any other genre, there are plenty of terrible and pathetic punk, pop, rock or metal artists as well! If there's no appeal towards the style of music for you, that's one thing, but don't dismiss it as crap or "bad in majority".

Anyways, back on topic!

I'm strange when it comes to music in that I enjoy every genre with the exception of country and gospel music, but at the same time, I'm terribly picky. I have to agree with Mimic, one of the things that really bothers me are the songs by artists who are clearly trying to jump into the indie genre simply for the sake of being "indie" and produce really bland, uninteresting music. For instance, the majority of Modest Mouse's discography, or really anything by The Shins, The Kooks, Decemberists or the Black Keys.

Recently, I heard a track by Slipknot (who, I admit, I am biased against and have always despised.) called "Psychosocial". Not only is it a terribly boring and needlessly noisy song, it's a fine example of what is wrong with a lot of today's metal artists who lack actual substance for the sake of being "heavier" or "more brutal/metal". I don't mind heavily distorted, drop-tuned guitars and I love a good blast-beat as much as the next guy, but writing entire songs around that is just gimmicky and tired. Look at anything from Dragon Force and you'll see what I mean. For example, the track many have become familiar with through Guitar Hero, "Through the Fire and the Flames". This is an unnecessarily long, over-thought out and pointlessly complicated song that dwells on the border between annoying and boring. Yes, you can play blindingly fast (on album, at least. They can't perform their own songs live, another irksome quality.) but that doesn't make a good song!

Miley Cyrus recently did a cover of Chromeo's "Fancy Footwork" and completely ruined the song for me. I mean, honestly, it just was absolutely garbage. I never really heard any of her work prior to it because she's simply not as hyped here in Quebec as she is in, well, the rest of North America, I'm guessing. At any rate, I couldn't even listen to the original for a while just because it was THAT bad a cover.

On the subject of annoyingly bad covers, The Whites Stripes did a cover of Tegan&Sara's "Walking with a Ghost" and it is also absolutely terrible.

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Oh, god, I forgot about virtually all modern prog/prog metal. I guess there are some acts you could define as being 'proggy' that I'm sure I really like - Radiohead are my favourite band and OK Computer's been called prog rock more than once, and I wouldn't dispute that at all - but that wank-prog that's all about horrible keyboard/guitar solos and odd time signatures, that really irritates me. Older progressive bands like King Crimson, Yes, Can (I'd say Krautrock falls under the umbrella of prog rock a bit) sit just fine with me, and In The Court of the Crimson King was one of the first albums I really loved, but at some point, prog went really, really wrong. I'm talking about bands like Dream Theater, Planet X and particularly Symphony X - they're like the bane of my existence.

I realise this is me dismissing a whole genre in the exact same way some of you have dismissed rap, and while I generally believe that every genre has it's merits, all this prog/prog metal stuff is characterised, almost, by seeming to value instrumental wankery over quality songwriting. Listening to Dream Theater, I hear little more than tired themes and uninteresting hooks, which leads me to believe that people are just in it for the masturbatory solos and 'wowee!' time signatures. Symphony X are just horrendous, it's like some guy in a black t-shirt with long hair is rolling red-hot 20-sided Dungeons & Dragons dice up my urethra, motorbiking all over the post-apocalyptic Japan of my testicles and using my nipples as his keyboard pitch-shifter thingies. I mean, it might be ignorance on my part, but I just can't see any merit in it beyond the technical. For all their complexity, these bands seem to have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer - a sledgehammer which, while listening to them, i imagine to be being forced sideways up my rectal cavity.

The whole college rock scene really gets on my nerves. Phish kills me. I hate the Grateful Dead. I really just hate hippie music. Really these songs and bands wouldn't be so unbearable if it wasn't for the iPod shuffle toting douche bags that walk around with popped collars and backwards hats with the stickers on them. (you bought it, it's ok, you can take the sticker off.) I mean, for the Dead, Truckin' is an alright song. Then it all just starts blending together in this mix of stoner jam sessions.

All these soft rock sensitive chick bands like Six Pence None the Richer. They may come out with one or two grin-bearing songs but then their whole entire CD lineup is pretentious garbage. Their entire second CD is without the single that would make the purchase of a portion of the album worth any value.

Edit: I was talking garbage about weezer fans and Radiohead fans here, then I remembered that one or two people here listen to those bands who aren't actually jerks, edited out.

This post has been edited by AnarchistDream on 15th August 2008 19:47

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I think I've gotten to a point with music where I can't find a song that doesn't irritate me. I've pretty much been talk radio only since around 2006.

As far as hip-hop goes, that was the majority of what I listened to from middle school on. However, hip-hop sustained a series of critical injuries, and died sometime around 2003. I will still make the distinction (to myself) that there is "good" rap and "bad" rap, but I can no longer defend the genre to people who have been inundated with Soulja Boy, Lil Jon, Young Jeezy and the other chanters. They don't like it, and I don't blame them.

Moving on to whatever "rock" is known as these days, I've always loved....guitar music...in most of its forms. However, I don't know of one good rock band that's been signed in the last few years (I think it was all downhill after AFI). That's equal parts my fault (not listening to the radio) and the radio for not playing anything that's not in the top 40.

Before I get too off-track, the thread was about "songs that irritate me." Pretty much if it's on the radio, everything about it irritates me. I don't like the image, the content, the tune, or the artist. I don't like bubblegum pop, hip-pop, guitarpop, or retropop. Any song that's ever been used to sell a product is dead to me.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

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Y'know, I actually made a list of the music that annoys me.

Aqua: Barbie Girl
Green Day: Good Riddance (Time of your Life)
Gunther: Ding Dong Song
Maroon 5: She Will Be Loved
James Blunt: You're Beautiful
Ne-Yo and Beyoncé: Irreplaceable
Kelis: Milkshake
Sir Mix-a-Lot: Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts)
Avril Lavigne: Girlfriend
Justin Timberlake: Sexyback
Soulja Boy: Crank that Soulja Boy
Brittney Spears: "Oops, I Did It Again"
WILL.I.AM: I Got It From My Momma
(don't know who did this): "The Thong Song"

This list is probably missing various hip-hop songs that I've heard at parties but haven't yet found names to.

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James Blunt: You're Beautiful

I will take this and expand it into "Anything by James Blunt." WAAH WAAAAH WAAH

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(don't know who did this): "The Thong Song"

Sisqo is the culprit behind that one. Thank God he falls squarely in the "one-hit wonder" category.

Mention of Will.I.Am reminded me of "My Humps", which makes me want to strangle Fergie. (The Black Eyed Peas were really, really good on their first 2 albums. However, no one bought them, so they decided to add Fergie and start making more "radio-friendly" pop songs.)

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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

I feel like a simplistic choad for saying this, yet it's very true:

Pretty much any songs playing on my locat hard rock station for the past few years.

Maybe it's where I'm living (Central Valley Cali), but the station has just suddenly become swamped with this crappy Nickelback clones and this country-hard rock mix that is just...tragically bad.

Why are these bands so goddamned popular? The Nickelback guy is a terrible singer! How can it popular enough to warrant clones!? But to get into the specifics, this is why it irks me to hear this shit on the radio...

I'm lazy. I''ve complained about shitty radio rock before...and DF's always been there in chat to let me know 'there's good shit out there if you look for it'. Dude, are you kidding?! Between my job and laying around doing nothing, I don't have time to dick around the net looking for the 'hot new shit'. This means I rely on the radio for my shit...and shit is exactly what I get. But here's what really pisses me off.

I understood a long time ago that radio was music for 'the mainstream'. In another words, as much as we get 'sold' bands, radio is a reflection of what we - as a whole - listen to. It's a reflection of what are tastes are. So when I hear shit bands like Three Days Grace, it depresses me cause I know someone thinks this is good...in fact a lot of people have to think it's good. And that, my friends, is a very depressing thought...

This post has been edited by Narratorway on 16th August 2008 02:54

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I feel that every annoyingly bad pop/hip-hop/rap/pop-inspired song should receive acceptability and tolerance points for the merit and purpose of being sung really loud and obnoxiously for funsies.

And the number of "people who claim to hate Soulja Boy" to "people who have at least thought about learning/trying to crank dat" ratio is close and interwoven enough to be deemed as a blinding hypocrisy. Yeah, I'm calling you all out right now.

This post has been edited by Kappa the Imp on 16th August 2008 16:57

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

ANYTHING BY AIDEN. now, i didnt even know who these people were. until i read the most recent explosm article. good, god this band sucks. i feel like ive lost a bit of faith in humanity.

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