What "Classic" songs do you hate with a passion?

[OB1]

A thread for miserable gits.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Not songs, but proper classics -
Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending"
Ravel's "Balero"

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Night Moves by Bob Seger. Turn The Page by Bob Seger. Hollywood Nights by Bob Seger. That fucking song from Risky Business with Tom Cruise slithering about by Bob Seger.

Fuck Bob Seger.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Come on Eileen Dexys midnight runners absolutely hate it .

This x infinity, and add Red Red Wine to that.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

I didn’t hate it until about a year ago but Sweet Caroline.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not songs, but proper classics -
Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending"
Ravel's "Balero"

Just hugely overplayed on Classic FM.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Imagine - John Lennon (hippyfied drivel)
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (overplayed shite. It haunts me round radio stations like a depressed puppy)
Starman - David Bowie (Bollocks of the highest order)
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd (piss)
Anything by Morris-man and The Smurfs (Oooohhhh, I had a sloppy pooh when I was 14, my life's ruined....GROW A PAIR)
You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon (surely one of the greatest songwriters of all time, had a gun next to his head when he wrote this steaming pile)

and the trailer park "classics"
Living on a fucking Prayer - Bon Jovi
Love fucking Shack - B52's

A few more to add to my effort, a decade ago.

Walk of Life -Dire Straits
Love will tear us apart again-Joyless Division
Modern Love - Bowie. In fact, any of Bowie's shite lyrics (musically, he's very good, though)
Crocodile Rock- Elton John
****(sic)ry House-Blur
Anything by Pulp

17 pages in, and this place really HAS gone to the dogs. I can't believe that anyone hasn't referred to the shitstain on the gusset of life that is Vienna, by Ultrapox

 

[Crouchinho]

Barbie girl
Video killed the radio star

I know the bottom one a lot of people love but it winds me up

 

[Kippax77]

I didn’t hate it until about a year ago but Sweet Caroline.

Definitely this

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

This will piss some people off, but Time by Pink Floyd is hugely overrated imho.

It’s not awful, but it’s not amazing either.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Just hugely overplayed on Classic FM.

Absolutely, along with Canon in d and Nessun Dorma.
Not keen on AA trying to mimic Terry's Old Geezers.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Absolutely, along with Canon in d and Nessun Dorma.
Not keen on AA trying to mimic Terry's Old Geezers.

I’ve got loads of classical stuff on CDs and on my phone, so never have to tune in to it. It’s only when others have it on that I am subjected to the same 75 pieces of classical music.

It’s such a shame. There’s so much good stuff out there.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I never liked Eurhytmics - Sweet Dreams are made of This.
Monotonous two maybe three chords. Dreadful.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I never liked Eurhytmics - Sweet Dreams are made of This.
Monotonous two maybe three chords. Dreadful.

I wonder what percentage of music since 1960 is based on four chords or fewer. I’d wager on 99%+.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Hey Jude.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck off. Sick of it at the Etihad. Shite scouse jingle.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

I wonder what percentage of music since 1960 is based on four chords or fewer. I’d wager on 99%+.

Ironically, it is said that Pachelbel was probably the first to use the "Magic 4", (I, IV, V and vi) in "Canon" 300 years ago.
But you are right, virtually every pop song uses the same 4 chords.

 

[Blue Theatre]

Mull of Kintyre - Wings
Sailing - Rod Stewart

Aimless self indulgent meanderings about nothing in particular. You can only get away with this kind of nonsense if you're already famous.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Ironically, it is said that Pachelbel was probably the first to use the "Magic 4", (I, IV, V and vi) in "Canon" 300 years ago.
But you are right, virtually every pop song uses the same 4 chords.

It’s always been a fundamental structure of music, even in symphonies.

The art of transitioning to the relative minor seems lost these days.

(Russell Brand allegedly aside)

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Night Moves by Bob Seger. Turn The Page by Bob Seger. Hollywood Nights by Bob Seger. That fucking song from Risky Business with Tom Cruise slithering about by Bob Seger.

Fuck Bob Seger.

Even you would have to laugh at this.

 

[PinkFinal]

Brass In Pocket boring boring boring
Alright Now overplayed pish from a pretty good band actually
Tears In Heaven I know the tragic background to this song but sorry I just hate it
Uptown Girl....don't mind Billy Joel at all but this is just shit