Most Annoying Songs Ever ?

So many to choose from . . .

I'll go with Who Let the Dogs Out.

With an dishonorable mention to My Humps by Black Eye Peas.

Asked and answered by Dave Barry.

Without question, the voters' choice for Worst Song --
in both the Worst Overall AND Worst Lyrics category --
is ... (drum roll ...)

``MacArthur Park,'' as sung by Richard Harris, and later remade, for
no comprehensible reason, by Donna Summer.

It's hard to argue with this selection. My 12-year-old son, Rob, was
going through a pile of ballots, and he asked me how ``MacArthur Park''
goes, so I sang it, giving it my best shot, and Rob laughed so hard that
when I got to the part about leaving the cake out in the rain, and it
took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again, Rob was
on the floor. He didn't BELIEVE those lyrics were real. He was SURE his
wacky old humor-columnist dad was making them up....

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alleycat said:

So many to choose from . . .

I'll go with Who Let the Dogs Out.

With an dishonorable mention to My Humps by Black Eye Peas.

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I feel this is perhaps a speciesist choice.

Offered for your consideration . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI5eT4UmyFY

This one makes me want to kill something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zoTLwrm9QE

*sigh*

Everyone's a critic...

I would nominate almost all of the Christmas canon, with particular regard to Rolf Harris's "Six White Boomers". And I think any Australian parent - or indeed adult, near-adult, teen or near-teen Australian - would agree with me.

They learn it in pre-school. It only takes to the age of about eight to loathe it - heartily she said, through gritted teeth.

Thanks for your time.

alleycat said:

This one makes me want to kill something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zoTLwrm9QE

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Why do you know that exists?

That's up there with The Christmas Shoes. I can't with that song. It's not just that it's so godawful, and so stupid (if you're old enough to be running around to the shops by yourself, kid, you should be old enough to realize she doesn't need shoes, for f's sake), but that it gets airtime.

mccardey said:

I would nominate almost all of the Christmas canon . . .

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We should probably just give an honorable mention to all modern Christmas songs.

Does anyone really want to hear I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus or Rocking Around the Christmas Tree one more time? Not to mention Santa Baby.

I feel bad, dissing songs, because I can't write them. But I don't feel I can defend Six White Boomers - and I can put up against it as one of my fave songs for tonight - Leonard Cohen singing "Closing Time".

Oh, god I heart that man.

Any at all by: Beatles, Eagles, Journey, Boston, Rod Stewart, Led Zeppelin, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Bruce Springsteen along with Ravel's "Bolero" and all Xmas music.

*have to go wash my hands now, cause just typing those words made me feel icky*

Submitted for your disapproval.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk

Ken said:

Macarena song

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I took a seasonal job in 1996. The boss had bought the maxi-CD and put it into the rotation. We ended up listening to 20 minutes of different versions of this song at least two times a day for 6 months...
Now you know, why I'm this way.

Anyway...

"I will always love you" Whitney Houston. Undoubtedly, great vocal performance but the the song should be accompanied by howling wolves.
On the same tone, Mariah Carey "Without you".

alleycat said:

So many to choose from . . .

I'll go with Who Let the Dogs Out.

With an dishonorable mention to My Humps by Black Eye Peas.

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It's up there.

My votes are House of Pain (is it ever!) Jump Around, Fatboy Slim F*cking in Heaven, Ween, Push the Little Daisies, Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man and Tiny Tim's Tip Toe Through the Tulips.

Any driver puts on one of those songs and cranks the volume and I'm steering the car into the next oncoming truck.

I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNTI0zn4ijI

No votes for the Chicken Dance?

Actual answer: Pearl Jam's Last Kiss. Uuugh, it's the one song I regularly turn off when it comes on the radio.

Anything sung by Phil Collins or Dennis DeYoung. Period.

cornflake said:

Asked and answered by Dave Barry.

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I cannot fault that song in the slightest, for one simple reason....

*clears throat*

Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark
All the dinosaurs are running wild
Someone shut the fence off in the rain
I admit it's kind of eerie
But this proves my chaos theory
And I don't think I'll coming back again
Oh, no...!

alleycat said:

Submitted for your disapproval.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk

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I thought for a moment that was going to be the original 'Right, said Fred'...which I am now singing VERY LOUDLY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XX9LX2es4

I don't think it's annoying, but my singing is.

Songs on the radio piped in the office I could certainly see reducing its airplay to oblivion:

Gotye - that song, yeah stop it. Why must you play four times in an eight-hour work day everyday for the last two years? Why?

FUN - that song too. You know, for awkward appropriations of words by bands, this has to be one of the worst. The singer delivers a meant-to-be painful song that is painful to the singer in unintented ways, singing to an audience who wants a painful song but is getting more than they bargained for and is giving their money to managers and distributors who are having their brand tarnished. No one is having FUN. Heck, even during the Holocaust at least one party was having FUN. Ugh.

That new Disney song. From something like Frost. Yeah. Put that on the ice, it's warmed over.

There is one or two other ones that need to go down the dusty rabbit hole but I'll stop.

Xelebes said:

That new Disney song. From something like Frost. Yeah. Put that on the ice, it's warmed over.

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The general consensus from my theatre friends is that "Let it Go" is just a poor man's "Defying Gravity". I concur.

Annoying songs .... hmm. My roommate has a love for Christian rap (oxymoron, much?) so anything that falls into that genre.

Anything by Gaga, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, &c. that isn't performed as an acoustic version. They have wonderful voices and real talent, but their over-produced, overdone album tracks are just too much.

I Want You to Want Me *shudder*

alleycat said:

We should probably just give an honorable mention to all modern Christmas songs.

Does anyone really want to hear I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus or Rocking Around the Christmas Tree one more time? Not to mention Santa Baby.

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You're dissing on Eartha Kitt?

Of course, you know, this means war.

Haggis said:

You're dissing on Eartha Kitt?

Of course, you know, this means war.

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I'm sorry. I forgot that you listened to the original version when it first came out.