Hate Pit Jukebox!

[iAmBaronVonTito]

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!!  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.")
 

well...you got bills to pay.

[Gilly]

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.

[Matt]

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!

[Emerson]

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.

[samir]

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.



For the hate pit, let's just leave it at My Humps.
The. Worst.

[masterofsparks]

"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.

[emma]

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!

[yesno]

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.

[emma]

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.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

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

[Gilly]

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.

[AaronC]

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.

[yesno]

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."

[Gregory]

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.

[Sarah]

B4-4 = vile.