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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Turf Out on May 15, 2008, 08:51:32 AM
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Songs that make you say "ugh boy" when you hear them. Here are a couple of my most hated:
"Black Velvet" -Alannah Myles
"All She Wants To Do Is Dance" -Don Henley
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvtwKb4p4gc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvtwKb4p4gc
i know what you mean, when i hear the opening chords of that song i think "oh god, how am i going to make it through this?"
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I busked 4 Non-Blondes in Union Square a few years ago as part of a thing that I was doing for another thing.
I wrote this at the time:
WHAT’S UP? (4 Non-Blondes):
My assessment: The only thing that saves this song from the land of the unlistenable is that Linda Perry chose three good chords for the only three chords she plays in the whole song – A, Bm, and D – that’s a pretty hard progression to argue with. Sometimes, when I wonder how the hell she got where she is today, I have to remember that she at least knows those three good chords, and how to put them together. That said, I cry sometimes when I’m lying in bed, just to get it all out, what’s in my head, and I’m… AAAAArgh! It’s this friggin’ song that’s still stuck in my head!! It seems that out of the five I chose, it’s the one that’s most stuck in other people’s heads, too. A few people actually stopped to listen to the entire song this time – some even bouncing and singing along. Lot’s of broad, un-crooked smiles from passersby – I think we discovered a widely held guilty pleasure with this one.
Change received during song: approx. $1.75
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know what you mean, when i hear the opening chords of that song i think "oh god, how am i going to make it through this?"
Yup. It's a night-ruiner. And if the hate pit jukebox has a karaoke feature, it's on there along with Love Shack and that Summer Love song from Grease.
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Any southern rock song that trumpets southern pride (see the recently posted West Virginia voters video for further examples of the mindset.)
Charlie Daniels, Long Haired Country Boy, The South's Gonna Do It Again (by "it", he means lynching parties); Lynyrd Skynyrd, Simple Man (he's referring to simple pleasures, like molesting your cousin and then terrifying her into not telling anyone), Sweet Home Alabama, Free Bird; Ozark Mountain Daredevils, If You Wanna Get To Heaven (you got to create posters of Calvin peeing on things you don't like). Horrid.
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Any southern rock song that trumpets southern pride (see the recently posted West Virginia voters video for further examples of the mindset.)
Charlie Daniels, Long Haired Country Boy, The South's Gonna Do It Again (by "it", he means lynching parties); Lynyrd Skynyrd, Simple Man (he's referring to simple pleasures, like molesting your cousin and then terrifying her into not telling anyone), Sweet Home Alabama, Free Bird; Ozark Mountain Daredevils, If You Wanna Get To Heaven (you got to create posters of Calvin peeing on things you don't like). Horrid.
or "rock and roll hoochi koo"
anything by vanessa carlton, michelle branch, avril lavigne, sheryl crow, kelly clarkson, etc. (admittedly, i had to google all of these)
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Bob Seger. "Old Time Rock and Roll". There was one revelatory moment when I was listening to this on the radio years ago where, after I heard him bellow "don't try to take me to a disco," I realized, hey, you know who's great? Chic.
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"rock on" -david essex
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Bob Seger. "Old Time Rock and Roll". There was one revelatory moment when I was listening to this on the radio years ago where, after I heard him bellow "don't try to take me to a disco," I realized, hey, you know who's great? Chic.
bob seger used to be at the top (or bottom, depending on how you want to look at it) of my musical hate pit since i was a little kid. now don henley is in the top spot.
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The Singing Nun's "Dominique" still makes me angry when I hear it (I found it unbearable as a child), but you don't find it on jukeboxes much these days. Lynyrd Skynrd makes my back go up, especially "Free Bird" (I bear an especial grudge against it because for years I found it boring but unhateworthy--then I paid attention to the words). I also loathe "Seasons in the Sun," for obvious reasons but also because it's a travesty of the original, which is quite dark and funny. It, too, rarely appears on jukeboxes nowadays. For which I'm grateful.
Perhaps I should be responding in a "Hate Pit Muzak!" thread, instead.
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"Nothin' but a Good Time" by Poison
"Angel" by Aerosmith
"Youth Gone Wild" by Skid Row
Fresh in my mind because I heard all of them while eating lunch at a place near work the other day.
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I'm-a throw Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" into the HateBox. The part of the song where he goes "Who's after me now...the IRS?!" is extremely grating to me. Wouldn't just about any other government agency be more apt and frightening for a song about lack of privacy?
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"rock on" -david essex
That's 'cause yer listening to the WRONG version! Everyone knows this is the classic one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAmLxwhuBcA
My mom would tape Young and the Restless every day and we'd watch it together (yes, I'm a dude, but was fun to have a bonding thing with mom--not to mention the show was friggin' hilarious ("OK, plastic surgeon, make me look like David Hasselhoff or I'll shoot you! And don't try any funny business while I'm unconscious!").
They actually worked this into the show:
"And now, here's Danny Romalotti's new HIT VIDEO!"
Genoa City - Wisconsin's Newbridge
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"rock on" -david essex
That's 'cause yer listening to the WRONG version! Everyone knows this is the classic one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAmLxwhuBcA
My mom would tape Young and the Restless every day and we'd watch it together (yes, I'm a dude, but was fun to have a bonding thing with mom--not to mention the show was friggin' hilarious ("OK, plastic surgeon, make me look like David Hasselhoff or I'll shoot you! And don't try any funny business while I'm unconscious!").
They actually worked this into the show:
"And now, here's Danny Romalotti's new HIT VIDEO!"
Genoa City - Wisconsin's Newbridge
def leppard covered this peice of crap too. i'm pretty sure joe elliott wears a duster in the video.
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"rock on" -david essex
That's 'cause yer listening to the WRONG version! Everyone knows this is the classic one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAmLxwhuBcA
My mom would tape Young and the Restless every day and we'd watch it together (yes, I'm a dude, but was fun to have a bonding thing with mom--not to mention the show was friggin' hilarious ("OK, plastic surgeon, make me look like David Hasselhoff or I'll shoot you! And don't try any funny business while I'm unconscious!").
They actually worked this into the show:
"And now, here's Danny Romalotti's new HIT VIDEO!"
Genoa City - Wisconsin's Newbridge
def leppard covered this peice of crap too. i'm pretty sure joe elliott wears a duster in the video.
Joe Elliott: "C'mon guys, I swear we can make this piece of crap even worse! Let's at least try!"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sg5avHj03qQ
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or "rock and roll hoochi koo"
This also belongs in the "hilarious and awesome for exactly 6 seconds of the chorus" category.
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"rock on" -david essex
That's 'cause yer listening to the WRONG version! Everyone knows this is the classic one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAmLxwhuBcA
My mom would tape Young and the Restless every day and we'd watch it together (yes, I'm a dude, but was fun to have a bonding thing with mom--not to mention the show was friggin' hilarious ("OK, plastic surgeon, make me look like David Hasselhoff or I'll shoot you! And don't try any funny business while I'm unconscious!").
They actually worked this into the show:
"And now, here's Danny Romalotti's new HIT VIDEO!"
Genoa City - Wisconsin's Newbridge
def leppard covered this peice of crap too. i'm pretty sure joe elliott wears a duster in the video.
Joe Elliott: "C'mon guys, I swear we can make this piece of crap even worse! Let's at least try!"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JY_r-KzFxrY&feature=related
"Of course we can make it crappier, we're Def Leppard!!"
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Billy Joel - "The Longest Time"
Audio blackface akin to Billy Crystal's "Jazzman" routine. Key line: "I'm so in-spi-red by you!"
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"Nothin' but a Good Time" by Poison
"Angel" by Aerosmith
"Youth Gone Wild" by Skid Row
Fresh in my mind because I heard all of them while eating lunch at a place near work the other day.
All of those songs are good.
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Nothing drives me nuts more than Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime."
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"Nothin' but a Good Time" by Poison
"Angel" by Aerosmith
"Youth Gone Wild" by Skid Row.
All of those songs are good.
I agree! Also Billy Joel's "The Longest Time" is one of my favorites.
I'd like to submit The Counting Crow's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi". Ugggggggh.
[youtube]TsPh_8Dxl3E[/youtube]
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=Lynyrd Skynrd makes my back go up, especially "Free Bird" (I bear an especial grudge against it because for years I found it boring but unhateworthy--then I paid attention to the words).
At the risk of making myself look like a doofus, what's so hateful about the lyrics to Freebird? They always struck me as kind of innocuous.
Keep in mind I rarely pay attention to lyrics.
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=Lynyrd Skynrd makes my back go up, especially "Free Bird" (I bear an especial grudge against it because for years I found it boring but unhateworthy--then I paid attention to the words).
At the risk of making myself look like a doofus, what's so hateful about the lyrics to Freebird? They always struck me as kind of innocuous.
Keep in mind I rarely pay attention to lyrics.
Yeah - you sure you're not thinkin' of Sweet Home Alabama?
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Nothing drives me nuts more than Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime."
Hell Yeah! Nothing turns a White Christmas into a Brown Christmas like that one! That and 'Grandma Got Run Over...'
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=Lynyrd Skynrd makes my back go up, especially "Free Bird" (I bear an especial grudge against it because for years I found it boring but unhateworthy--then I paid attention to the words).
At the risk of making myself look like a doofus, what's so hateful about the lyrics to Freebird? They always struck me as kind of innocuous.
Keep in mind I rarely pay attention to lyrics.
Yeah - you sure you're not thinkin' of Sweet Home Alabama?
Speaking of, I have never heard this song as much as I do living in NYC. I constantly hear it in bars, diners, everywhere. What up with that?
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Hell Yeah! Nothing turns a White Christmas into a Brown Christmas like that one! That and 'Grandma Got Run Over...'
Feliz Navidad really annoys me
(TL's cover was nice, though, because it was about December Wishes)
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When I worked at the horrible coffee shop I used to work at, my boss had what I am guessing was pretty severe OCD as well as anxiety issues. He refused to let us play any music except for one CD his daughter made when the store opened ten years ago. It consisted of exactly fifteen tracks, and while I have blocked most of them out of my mind I remember they included
-some Otis Redding Song
-terrible elevator jazz
-a fake "french-sounding" song with a lot of accordions
-Remy Shand's smash hit "Take A Message To My Love" which is basically just that phrase repeated over and over and over again for what seems like a quarter of your life
-and this thing:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y86kx1WmFd0&feature=related[/youtube]
which was usually where the cd would start skipping and replaying itself.
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I'd like to submit The Counting Crow's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi". Ugggggggh.
[youtube]TsPh_8Dxl3E[/youtube]
I'd like to submit the entire Counting Crows discography. Adam Duritz is James Taylor with worse hair, a lobotomy and no Two-Lane Blacktop cred.
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I don't believe in hate. But I'd surely toss this in:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8WNsptCw3k[/youtube]
Maybe music produced for advertising shouldn't count. But "Milk Rap" still belongs in the Hate Pit Jukebox.
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Nothing drives me nuts more than Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime."
Hell Yeah! Nothing turns a White Christmas into a Brown Christmas like that one!
I'm into it.
I think it's a pretty interesting song - it makes a little more sense if you try and picture the heaps of cocaine they must have had around the recording studio while you're listening to it.
(Should you chose to bother, that is - I wouldn't blame you if you didn't.)
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"Sweet Home Alabama" is bad in the larger sense, as an example of hateful good-old-boy regionalism. "Free Bird" is a sentimental paean to a man's right to be an irresponsible asshole, and I'm more angry at it because I found the tune inoffensively pretty for years and then noticed what sexist drivel it accompanied. I do not expect others to share my rage at this one, any more than I think you should despise "Dominique" as much as I do. They just both happen to be in my musical hate pit.
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"Sweet Home Alabama" is bad in the larger sense, as an example of hateful good-old-boy regionalism. "Free Bird" is a sentimental paean to a man's right to be an irresponsible asshole, and I'm more angry at it because I found the tune inoffensively pretty for years and then noticed what sexist drivel it accompanied. I do not expect others to share my rage at this one, any more than I think you should despise "Dominique" as much as I do. They just both happen to be in my musical hate pit.
I'll share in any Lynyrd Skynyrd rage!! >:(
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I'm going to go ahead and throw the entire calendar year 1997 into my Hate Pit. From my research, no other year has provided as full a list of utterly unlistenable hits. Take a look:
Aqua, Barbie Girl
Chumbawumba, Tubthumping
Sugar Ray, Fly
Jimmy Ray, Are You Jimmy Ray?
Los Del Rio, Macarena
Elton John, Candle in the Wind '97
Toni Braxton, Unbreak My Heart
Spice Girls, Wannabe
LeAnn Rimes, How Do I Live
Hanson, MMMBop
Third Eye Blind, Semi-Charmed Life
Meredith Brooks, Bitch
The Verve Pipe, The Freshman
Savage Garden, I Want You
Sister Hazel, All For You
Paula Cole, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
Shawn Colvin, Sunny Came Home
Celine Dion, It's All Coming Back To Me Now
Sheryl Crow, If It Makes You Happy
Sheryl Crow, Every Day Is A Winding Road
Sarah McLaughlin, Building A Mystery
Donna Lewis, I Love You Always Forever
Eric Clapton & Babyface, Change The World
You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.
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Me, I have a soft spot for "Tubthumping."
Why is Matchbox 20 absent from your list, Forrest?
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in my hatepit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20[/youtube]
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Me, I have a soft spot for "Tubthumping."
Why is Matchbox 20 absent from your list, Forrest?
Because I wasn't compiling a list of bands that kick fucking ass!
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It's 1997 all the way, though, so . . .
P.S. I'm pretty sure I know where your tongue was when you typed your response, just in case you're marveling at my literalness.
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Toni Braxton, Unbreak My Heart
Paula Cole, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
Shawn Colvin, Sunny Came Home
Sheryl Crow, If It Makes You Happy
Sarah McLaughlin, Building A Mystery
Donna Lewis, I Love You Always Forever
I'm pretty sure all of these songs were on a Women And Songs tape my mom played consistently in the car when I was like six or seven.
Urgh.
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Actually, I thought that "Third Eye Blind" was a catchall phrase that meant Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, and Eve 6.
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Actually, I thought that "Third Eye Blind" was a catchall phrase that meant Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, and Eve 6.
Sorry to bring up my own band stuff here, but I have to share the fact that we're playing at Northwestern U. on May 31 with... wait for it... THIRD EYE BLIND (http://www.sadtrombone.com/)!! They're still a band, apparently.
Get psyched!!
How did this summer end up with so much 90s crumminess for me?
(Oh that's right - because I said "yes.")
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Blind Matchbox 6?
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That LFO song is awesome.
"You love hip hop and rock n roll
Dad took off when you were 4 years old
There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby when you're near"
"Stayed all summer then went back home,
Macauly Culkin was in Home Alone
Fell deep in love,but now we ain't speaking
Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton"
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in my hatepit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20[/youtube]
I went to grade school with the cousin of one of those goofballs so LFO fever was running particularly hot where I lived. It sucked.
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That LFO song is awesome.
"You love hip hop and rock n roll
Dad took off when you were 4 years old
There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby when you're near"
"Stayed all summer then went back home,
Macauly Culkin was in Home Alone
Fell deep in love,but now we ain't speaking
Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton"
oh brother, faux rap lyrics that have nothing to do with each other. nonsensical rhyming for the sad sake of rhyming!
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Actually, I thought that "Third Eye Blind" was a catchall phrase that meant Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, and Eve 6.
Sorry to bring up my own band stuff here, but I have to share the fact that we're playing at Northwestern U. on May 31 with... wait for it... THIRD EYE BLIND (http://www.sadtrombone.com/)!! They're still a band, apparently.
Get psyched!!
How did this summer end up with so much 90s crumminess for me?
(Oh that's right - because I said "yes.")
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well...you got bills to pay.
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Has anybody ever had one of those dreams where you lay down during the day not really thinking your going to sleep with some music on at a loud volume and you drift into a light sleep for a few minutes and the song playing accompanies your dream until you "wake up" minutes later? I've only had that happen a few times but the first time was to Rock On and it could have been the coolest 5 minutes of sleep ever. No, I wasn't on anything.
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That LFO song is awesome.
"You love hip hop and rock n roll
Dad took off when you were 4 years old
There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby when you're near"
"Stayed all summer then went back home,
Macauly Culkin was in Home Alone
Fell deep in love,but now we ain't speaking
Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton"
oh brother, faux rap lyrics that have nothing to do with each other. nonsensical rhyming for the sad sake of mad rhyming!
Fixed!
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A lot of cutesy pop songs wear through their thin charms after hundreds of spins. But it's a rare song that I cast into the hate pit immediately...
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=M4iTyHItFwg[/youtube]
Rarely have I hated anything so intensely the first time I heard it. This is LA's answer to Skeenurd.
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I'm going to go ahead and throw the entire calendar year 1997 into my Hate Pit. From my research, no other year has provided as full a list of utterly unlistenable hits. ... You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.
You're right, but 1997 has some saving graces.
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For the hate pit, let's just leave it at My Humps.
The. Worst.
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"Sweet Home Alabama" is bad in the larger sense, as an example of hateful good-old-boy regionalism. "Free Bird" is a sentimental paean to a man's right to be an irresponsible asshole, and I'm more angry at it because I found the tune inoffensively pretty for years and then noticed what sexist drivel it accompanied. I do not expect others to share my rage at this one, any more than I think you should despise "Dominique" as much as I do. They just both happen to be in my musical hate pit.
It's been awhile since I heard it (and I probably never need to again), but I don't remember Sweet Home Alabama being particularly hateful (not as much as Neil Young's Southern Man, the song that spawned it). Yeah, the whole "Southern pride" thing doesn't make much sense to me and seems like a stupid thing to put so much stock in, but whatever. Plus, I think the line "Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you?" is kind of a zing.
I say all of this as a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan, so factor that into your reaction if you wish.
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For the hate pit, let's just leave it at My Humps.
The. Worst.
OH MAN
we have a family friend whose daughter really really really hates that song (as all reasonable people do) and so he made it his ringtone to annoy her. A few weeks later, he was sitting in a dress rehearsal for his first really successful play--it was getting done in a pretty big, pretty fancy theatre, and he had specifically asked to attend and all that stuff--and his cell phone rang. He'd forgotten to turn it off. So not only did everyone think he was super disrespectful, but they all knew he had My Humps for a ringtone.
AWFUL!
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in my hatepit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20[/youtube]
I had never heard this song before. Jesus Christ, it is terrible. Missing out on ridiculous garbage like this is an advantage of not listening to the radio or watching TV. (I love TV, I just only watch it on DVD or through downloads-- I'm one of those annoying people.)
First off, the name LFO was already taken by the kind of awesome techno group LFO. LFO kicks LFO's ass.
Second, Abercrombie and Fitch? Fuck.
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I had never heard this song before. Jesus Christ, it is terrible. Missing out on ridiculous garbage like this is an advantage of not listening to the radio or watching TV. (I love TV, I just only watch it on DVD or through downloads-- I'm one of those annoying people.)
So I guess you were not aware of/are not a fan of the insanely creepy, thinner-than-thinly-veiled sexual innuendo-type stylings of B4-4?
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ[/youtube]
I only remembered this because they were floating around at the same time as LFO (if memory serves). Keep in mind also that both of those songs were being marketed to, like, 11-year-olds when they came out.
That was like the ultimate insult in grade six. "Oh yeah? Well YOU have a crush on OHAD from B4-4!" Ohad! Seriously!
I will stop obsessively monitoring the board and actually do some essay-writing now.
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in my hatepit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20[/youtube]
I had never heard this song before. Jesus Christ, it is terrible. Missing out on ridiculous garbage like this is an advantage of not listening to the radio or watching TV. (I love TV, I just only watch it on DVD or through downloads-- I'm one of those annoying people.)
First off, the name LFO was already taken by the kind of awesome techno group LFO. LFO kicks LFO's ass.
Second, Abercrombie and Fitch? Fuck.
fuck is right, yesno
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I hadn't heard Summer Girls in years. That song came out my freshman year of college and I think it was played at every kegger I went to. Needless to say, I found myself a different crowd.
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I had never heard this song before. Jesus Christ, it is terrible. Missing out on ridiculous garbage like this is an advantage of not listening to the radio or watching TV. (I love TV, I just only watch it on DVD or through downloads-- I'm one of those annoying people.)
So I guess you were not aware of/are not a fan of the insanely creepy, thinner-than-thinly-veiled sexual innuendo-type stylings of B4-4?
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ[/youtube]
I only remembered this because they were floating around at the same time as LFO (if memory serves). Keep in mind also that both of those songs were being marketed to, like, 11-year-olds when they came out.
That was like the ultimate insult in grade six. "Oh yeah? Well YOU have a crush on OHAD from B4-4!" Ohad! Seriously!
I will stop obsessively monitoring the board and actually do some essay-writing now.
I've never heard of these guys, but their fake orange tans are frightening. Insanely creepy is right.
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So I guess you were not aware of/are not a fan of the insanely creepy, thinner-than-thinly-veiled sexual innuendo-type stylings of B4-4?
Wow. That stuff is nuts. I love how (I checked Wikipedia) the name "B4-4" just means, "3."
I've been trying to stay a little more plugged into pop culture nowadays, but I may have to rethink that.
I was actually in middle school during the first wave of boy bands. New Kids on the Block era. (Ok, they existed before then, but NKOTB represented a turning point.)
The two key insults of the time were New Kids (As in, "You love the New Kids! Loser!") and K-Mart ("You bought that shirt at K-Mart! Loser!")*. I wonder if Wal-Mart serves a similar function today in middle schools. My guess is that it's probably too ubiquitous.
*I remember once the Beatles song "I'm a Loser" came on the school bus radio. It was like, "Hey, this is your song. You wrote this song. You're a loser."
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A lot of cutesy pop songs wear through their thin charms after hundreds of spins. But it's a rare song that I cast into the hate pit immediately...
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=M4iTyHItFwg[/youtube]
Rarely have I hated anything so intensely the first time I heard it. This is LA's answer to Skeenurd.
Oh jeez,
I called my local radio station and asked them how much Geffen was paying them to play that song. The dj laughed and sarcastically asked "what, you don't like this song?" and hung up on me.
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B4-4 = vile.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWlqmc1B7EE[/youtube]
Keep balding balding balding balding
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uh. lemme try that again.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKAIlrkSZOg[/youtube]
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i knew a girl in high school (i didnt say we were friends) who got 'fred durst' tattooed on her shoulder blade.
i often wonder where she is now and what has come of that tattoo.
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i knew a girl in high school (i didnt say we were friends) who got 'fred durst' tattooed on her shoulder blade.
i often wonder where she is now and what has come of that tattoo.
I'm hoping she's faired better than Fred Durst himself has...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNtEtFz6wO4
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You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.
It's probably my own perception of things... 1996 was a really great year for great music (a lot of my favorite albums from the 90s came out that year), but it really seemed as though 1997 was the point where the nineties started going south.
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The only song that aggravates me more than "Let's Get Retarded" is the multi-platinum wuss-anthem "Let's Get it Started".
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You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.
It's probably my own perception of things... 1996 was a really great year for great music (a lot of my favorite albums from the 90s came out that year), but it really seemed as though 1997 was the point where the nineties started going south.
That's funny because I've always had this theory that 1997 was a great year for music because some of my own all time favorite albums like OK Computer, Urban Hymns and Homogenic. But a quick scan of 1997's Albums released (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_in_music#Albums_released) on Wikipedia proves me wrong. Two Spice Girls Albums, Smashmouth, Hanson, Backstreet Boys, Limp Bizkit etc. pretty much neutralizes 97's legacy as a good year.
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There is, without fail, a few great albums every year. I think that overall 1997 represented a turning point for the nineties away from the grunge/"alternative" era (which no doubt had its own share of garbage). For me, it represented rave/techno music reaching the mainstream, DJs as "rock stars", the temporary decline of live bands that resulted and the eventual rise of nu-metal that came in the latter part of the nineties and continues to date.
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A song I don't like is the one that goes:
Joooooooooooooy (keep it going keep it going) / and pain
Suuuuuuuunshine (pump it up pump it up) / and rain
Also, the Supertramp song that goes:
She's not much of a girlfriend / but she's the only one I got
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A few recent ones:
Weezer "Heartsongs"
My Morning Jacket "Highly Suspicious"
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I'm going to go ahead and throw the entire calendar year 1997 into my Hate Pit. From my research, no other year has provided as full a list of utterly unlistenable hits. Take a look:
You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.
1999, with the twin ascendancy of teen-pop and rap metal. As other people have pointed out, '97 had the saving grace of a few unassailable albums (off the top of my head, I'd add I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One). There were good albums in 1999, but nothing great enough to neutralize the despair you felt turning on the radio that year.
A sampling:
LFO - "Summer Girls"
Lou Bega - "Mambo #5"
Britney Spears - "Baby One More Time"
Ricky Martin - "Livin' La Vida Loca"
Limp Bizkit - "Nookie," "Break Stuff"
Christina Aguilera - "Genie In A Bottle" (OK, this one's grown on me a little)
Santana ft. Rob Thomas - "Smooth"
Eiffel 65 - "Blue"
Kid Rock - "Bawitdaba"
Mandy Moore - "Candy"
Creed - "Higher"
Shania Twain - "That Don't Impress Me Much"
Marc Anthony - "I Need To Know"
Blessid Union of Souls - "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)"
Orgy - "Blue Monday"
edit: Redunancy, misspellings wiped from existence
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Eiffel 65 - "Blue"
Blessid Union of Souls - "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)"
Blue = awesome. I don't know why - don't judge!
She Likes Me For Me = a song that I never thought could become worse in my mind until you just told me the name of the "artist" who "sang" it.
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My office building has music piped in through the hallways and also the restrooms. This is how I was reminded how wretched "Walking in Memphis" is.
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My office building has music piped in through the hallways and also the restrooms. This is how I was reminded how wretched "Walking in Memphis" is.
Oh god, my roommate freshman year loved that song. He would play it whenever he was feeling especially introspective.
Another song from that same period that I would hear from the guy across the hall was a Howie Day cover of Toto's "Africa". The guy when then try to replicate it on his acoustic.
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More good albums from 1997: Homework, Uptown Saturday Night, Baduizm, New Forms
Every year is a good year for music, movies, other shit.
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i knew a girl in high school (i didnt say we were friends) who got 'fred durst' tattooed on her shoulder blade.
i often wonder where she is now and what has come of that tattoo.
I'm hoping she's faired better than Fred Durst himself has...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNtEtFz6wO4
wow!!
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Stuff in the hate-pit that I'm going in to claim. Stuff I really don't need but they shouldn't be tossed in the garbage either. The FOT version of dumpster diving:
Skid Row- Youth Gone Wild
Billy Joel- For the Longest Time
Spice Girls- Wannabe
Britney Spears- Baby One More Time
Mandy Moore- Candy
And I actually like these two songs a lot:
Eiffel 65- Blue
Sarah McLachlan- Building a Mystery
I'll add these:
Joe Cocker: You Are So Beautiful
Marc Anthony: You Sang To Me
Black Eyed Peas: Don't funk with my heart
Paula Cole: I don't want to wait
Phil Collins: A Groovy Kind of Love
Crazy Town: Butterfly
Creed: With Arms Wide Open
Foreigner: Cold As Ice
Guns 'n Roses: Ain't It Fun
Good Charlotte: The Anthem
Hoobastank: The Reason
Jet: Rollover DJ
Marshall Tucker Band: Heard it in a Love Song
Maroon 5: She Will Be loved
Matchbox 20: If You're Gone
John Mellancamp: ROCK in the USA
Mr. Mister: Broken Wings
Nine Days: Absolutely (Story of a Girl)
Puddle of Mudd: She Hates Me
Smashmouth: All Star
Billy Squier: The Stroke
Vertical Horizon: You're a God
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Crazy Town: Butterfly
This song might just be the worst thing ever.
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Crazy Town: Butterfly
This song might just be the worst thing ever.
Worse than the name of Crazy Town's lead singer?
It's Shifty Shellshock, just so you know.
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Walking in Memphis pretty much goes hand in hand with Bruce Hornsby & The Range's "The Way It Is".
I think this video was actually produced in the outer chamber of the hate pit itself.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UhdWuSeIyhk
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i can understand "Walking In Memphis" being thrown in the hate pit. but i hope to god, Mott the Hoople's "all The Way From Memphis" isn't thrown in there.
all you young dudes,
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i can understand "Walking In Memphis" being thrown in the hate pit. but i hope to god, Mott the Hoople's "all The Way From Memphis" isn't thrown in there.
all you young dudes,
No, because that's a great song.
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Sugar Ray, Fly
Even worse, it inspired Everything's "Hooch." If you sped up a Brooklyn Bridge-style field recording of the Hate Pit, this is what it would sound like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l-n-wq8Sc
Unfortunately, it's from 1998, so it doesn't help either of our theories.
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did anyone mention that kid rock song that I keep hearing at work? The one where I think he's saying "hate me" over and over again and I find myself doing as he says? It's got a choir in it....
gyod that is the worst song ever made.
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[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kqn4ktMaGgs[/youtube]
He's all grown up now. Stop humoring him.
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It's Shifty Shellshock, just so you know.
No shit, Shifty Shellshock!
Just trying it out.
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"Kokomo" The Beach Boys
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I have do disagree on Kokomo. That song is very nice. Carl did a great job on the chorus.
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I have do disagree on Kokomo. That song is very nice. Carl did a great job on the chorus.
I can only blink, lost in my confusion.
Hey, you know what, taste is taste. If you like Kokomo, don't let anybody tell you any different.
First they came for the Mike Love fans, and I said nothing.....
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A Mike Love fan I'm not. Sure, "Kokomo" is perched far below the lofty heights of Friends, 20/20 or Holland ... let alone Today! or Pet Sounds ... but I can't bring myself to hate anything with the Beach Boys' trademark blend of dopey escapism and wistful melancholy. To my way of thinking, it could have been so much worse.