Songs where you go “Aargh” and lurch for the Off button

[Howardh]

Hey that's 'The Business' by Tiesto who is an EDM legend. I personally quite like the song, but I'm probably in the minority there.

When I was Your Man by Bruno Mars. Always comes on the radio and I hate it.

Its wierd as I like most of Brunoe Mars's other songs.

Tiesto mentioned on railuk forums, I'm impressed!!! *63 yr old fossil writing that*

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

There's two for me - Galway Girl by Ed Sheeran. A load of drivel with a huge amount of irish stereotyping and even a bit of "diddly dee" fiddling in there. Awful.

However, pet hate is J-Lo's Jenny From The Block. Terrible earworm song about how street she is/was - she was actually brought up in a respectable working-class neighbourhood and had a strict Roman Catholic Hispanic upbringing. Also, wittering on about how unaffected and unchanged she is - despite her being a totally demanding diva.

 

[Bertie the bus]

Millennium by Robbie Williams
Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell Williams
Get Lucky by Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams
Happy by Pharrell Williams

There is a bit of a theme there and the last 3 made me stop listening to he radio when driving in case they came on. I still drive in silence to this day.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

Anything by Sean Paul.

sean Paul I can sort of half tolerate “Daily Struggle!” Yep, fantastic contribution to Ann Marie’s track thete mate…..

Drake on the other hand can go and do one! His droll monotonistic voice is even worse!

The Killers - Mr Brightside. I have heard this song way too many times for one lifetime.

This gets requested at EVERY disco I do, and the dancefloor get hammered! I dont have an choice not to hear it!

Kings of Leon, your sex is on fire.

goes really well after Mr Brightside when keeping that dancefloor full tho….

A recent one, that flaming Elton John Rocket effort. What a dirge and yet people have it on in pubs and on the radio. An instant turn-off.

ah, you mean Cold Heart with Elton John and Dua Lipa. To be fair it has opened up a new audience to Elton in the Dua Lipa fans, He is supposed to be doing a few more collabs as his retirement swansong….

I'm not much of a fan of Beyonce, but that latest one they're plaing now is terrible. My washing machine sounds better on full pelt.

No, I dont get the vibe with that one either, its certainly not number 1 as far as my dance floors are concerned but of course its number 1 because Global Radio says it is And thats part of the problem. If Capital doesn’t play it then its not popular.

ironically at a new years eve event i did a few years ago I was playing what at the time was the UK number 1. A couple of young girls (young for the usual clientele) came up to me and asked me if I had anything more up to date!

 

[yorksrob]

ironically at a new years eve event i did a few years ago I was playing what at the time was the UK number 1. A couple of young girls (young for the usual clientele) came up to me and asked me if I had anything more up to date!

As Kate Bush has shown, a number 1 can be timeless, rather than "up to date" !

 

[Bantamzen]

This thread is on page 4 and as far as I can see there is no mention of *that* song by James Blunt. A song that hits all my buttons so hard that I would launch whatever device it was playing on through the nearest window, preferably from many floors up...

 

[yorksrob]

I also find that Shikira song about hips pretty grating.

 

[D6968]

This thread is on page 4 and as far as I can see there is no mention of *that* song by James Blunt. A song that hits all my buttons so hard that I would launch whatever device it was playing on through the nearest window, preferably from many floors up...

There are several songs by Mr Blunt that are equally as bad as each other.

As a big Noel Gallagher fan I found myself turning off the album version of Wonderwall the other day, I like the accoustic versions Noel’s done, but at the moment it’s just a drunken ‘lads’ anthem after a few beers.
Really makes me cringe.
It’s not even his best work!

 

[87electric]

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
4 weeks in the top slot in 1979. My youth couldn't stand it, and I still can't.

 

[IanD]

Anything by Coldplay and the Coldplay derivative bands. Dreary, repetitive tosh.

Anything Steve Wright plays in the afternoon (thankfully for not much longer). There was some half decent music in the 80s but he manages to find all the cr*p.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Summer of 69 and Everything I Do I Do For You by Bryan Adams. I could write an exhaustive list but I’d get writers cramp. I record Top of the Pops (BBC4) each week but end fast forwarding most of it.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
4 weeks in the top slot in 1979. My youth couldn't stand it, and I still can't.

The 1990s cover by the US Alternative Rock band Cake was pretty good though.

 

[Mike99]

I can barely bring myself to type this let alone say it and to hear it on the radio.................. Little Jimmy Osmond with the awful Long Haired Lover from Liverpool

 

[ex-railwayman]

The Birdie Song..........Many a transistor radio bludgeoned with a mallet when that came on.

Cheerz. Steve.

 

[Eyersey468]

Any rap music or Band Aid Do they know its Christmas? The parts of Africa in question are not predominantly Christian therefore don't celebrate Christmas and of course there won't be snow in Africa at Christmas its too hot.

 

[Gloster]

...there won't be snow in Africa at Christmas its too hot.

Except on Kilimanjaro.

 

[davehsug]

I will Always Love You, Whitney Useless - actually any ballad by her gets the same treatment. Awful phrasing, cutting lines short so she can grab a breath, because of excess warbling.
The Living Years, Mike & The Mechanics.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I can barely bring myself to type this let alone say it and to hear it on the radio.................. Little Jimmy Osmond with the awful Long Haired Lover from Liverpool

The Birdie Song..........Many a transistor radio bludgeoned with a mallet when that came on.

Cheerz. Steve.

I'd be intrigued to know when either of those were lasted played on any radio station anywhere... I'd be surprised if it was more recent than about 1990.

 

[VauxhallandI]

Hi Ho Silver Lining

My girlfriend hates anything Pet Shop Boys

 

[IanD]

I will Always Love You, Whitney Useless - actually any ballad by her gets the same treatment. Awful phrasing, cutting lines short so she can grab a breath, because of excess warbling.

Spot on - it's just screeching. Never understood the appeal.

 

[Bevan Price]

Spot on - it's just screeching. Never understood the appeal.

The Dolly Parton original was much better.

 

[Pete_uk]

Except on Kilimanjaro.

A bit OT but it snowed in the Sahara desert back in January as it does occasionally.

 

[johnnychips]

Summer of 69 and Everything I Do I Do For You by Bryan Adams. I could write an exhaustive list but I’d get writers cramp. I record Top of the Pops (BBC4) each week but end fast forwarding most of it.

That’s the sort of thing I thought when I started the thread. Not just “this is rubbish” but “I really, really don't want to hear that”.

And I will vote again for Toploader “Dancing in the Moonlight “ again even though I’ve probably said it before

 

[Russel]

Personally, I'm sick of hearing Kate Bush on constant replay at the moment.

 

[Bald Rick]

Personally, I’m astonished at the Radio stations you all seem to be listening to. No wonder there’s so much rubbish!

If you want to avoid any of the above, just listen to Radio 1 Dance.

 

[yorksrob]

Radio one isn't for the likes of me (at least not since Mark and Lard left).

Even Radio 2 is getting to be too modern for my taste.

 

[Gloster]

Just try Radio 3. The Proms have just started, so there will be a wide variety of music over the next six weeks or so. You might not like all of it, or even much of it, but there is a wide variety of stuff, including things that people who don’t know the Proms wouldn’t expect. Even so, there will probably be a few concerts I will switch off (avant-garde opera or modern jazz, for example), but most I will listen to. Evening Proms usually start at 19.30, although tonight it is 18.30.

 

[nr758123]

Not so much lurch for the off button as exit the shop.

Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney.

 

[43096]

Not so much lurch for the off button as exit the shop.

Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney.

To be fair, anything by Paul McCartney is almost certain to be dirge.

 

[New York Giant]

I can't do any rap or RnB.

What really grinds my gears is the Jo Wiley circa 2005 dinner party indie music like Keane, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, Kaizer Chiefs, Razorlight etc... Thankfully that era doesn't get a lot of air time these days.

I'm a man of 90s electronica. Give me the Prodigy, Orbital, Massive Attack and the Chems over any of the above.