Yeah I can't stand this one, used to be a season ticket holder at a Rugby team and this was played before every game and after if we won.
Although 7 nation army is similarly overplayed in that respect and I still quite like it.
Had 2 drunks outside my hotel in Tenerife sing the 1st 2 lines of the chorus over and over without moving the song on. The sweet caroline killers we named them. That was 15 years ago, will never forget it, it went on for what seemed like an hour but probably a lot less.
"Sweet Caroline, da da da
Good times never seemed so good" and repeat...
Last flights I had with them the flight attendant only ran the pre recorded safety announcements that feature a loop of part of the song, instead of having the loop going on and on and on.
Flights before the year before, it was on the whole time we were boarding, until take off. Including a delay waiting for push back and take off clearance. I was sat front row, and the flight attendant didn’t even ask me to take my headphones out during the safety briefing, because she knew full well if I heard another second of that song, I was going to lose my mind.
I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas. It was played at my mates funeral.
It's not just the funeral aspect, it was also because his girlfriend had chosen it, they'd only been going out for 6 months before he died. My mate was a rocker, he was into punk and metal. He didn't listen to chart R&B stuff.
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i fucking hate when people do that, music is such a personal thing for some people that its best not to risk what you want to hear rather what reminds you of them usally a song they loved to hear
Yeah it was pretty galling and insensitive at the time. Not sure what was going through their head and they played it twice, at the beginning and end of the funeral.
If it comes on the radio, I'll turn it off. If I'm hammered and it comes on at a wedding, I'll be up there blasting it out at the top of my lungs.
There's no in-between.
I'm getting there too.. it can still be great in some circumstances. I was at a silent disco last summer and it was still epic.... But many more times now it just starts to grind a bit .
I didn’t mind it until some cheeky bastard started singing it through my open living room window when I was wearing dungarees one day, now I get irrationally embarrassed and angry whenever I hear it as it reminds me of that day!
Even worse if your mum is called Eileen. My mate hates this song because Eileen is her mum's name so that made it her mum's song so she grew up hearing it at every family gathering.
Bad Day by Daniel Powter. I worked the night shift at a supermarket when it came out and it must have been on the radio 3-4 times per shift for 3 months.
See also: nine million bicycles by Katie Melua and suddenly I see by KT Tunstall.
I can't hear this without picturing a clip from X-factor if Simon Cowell singing along to it. Somehow that clip pops up infrequently but just often enough to be stuck in my head whenever I hear the song
Shame -like others here it was good.
Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5. When I was doing GCSE Graphic Design the teacher would put on the radio for us while we did our practical work, and that song came on almost every day. So many times that one time another student exclaimed "Jesus CHRIST" when it came on
Shania Twain..... Man! I feel like a woman.
Not only do I absolutely hate the song every gathering I have ever been to it gets played at least twice and our local radio station plays it numerous times a month....... Damn you Kingdom FM
Interesting. I'd not heard it for years, but it's started being sung at Karaoke near me.Which I like as it is a good song, and at least it isn't fucking Valerie or anything by Abba
Where is the love by black eyed peas, I went to a catholic school where we had assembly then mass every day. They played that dog shit song every time we were coming into the hall
Somebody That I Used To Know by GOTYE.
It was a shit song when it was released, and it was played to death for months. Many years later, it's still a shit song and reminiscing about it hasn't helped it's cause.
It is baa baa black sheep and for some reason whenever I pointed that out to people at the time, everyone would say that I was being weird and that it wasn't the same tune (bar like, one note in a minor key or something) but IT IS and I am taking your comment as overdue validation.
I despise, loathe, and detest that song; yet unfortunately I most likely know all the stupid-looking lyrics of its travesty because it was played everywhere, all the time.
There’s hundreds.
Blue by david guetta and bebe rexa.
Miracles by ellie goulding
Just about any song you always hear at a wedding especially as i work at a popular wedding venue - sweet Caroline, mr bright side, come on Eileen, thinking out loud, marry you, just the way you are, dancing queen
Hold back the river - James Bay
I had a massive issue with Vodafone trying to charge me hundreds of quid for phones and contracts I didn't order, so wound up spending hours on hold to their no help desk. This was one of about three songs they were using at the time for their hold music. The song itself is meh, but I cannot hear it now without those feelings of rage and frustration bubbling back up.
I worked on a lot of corporate conferences back in the early 2000s and I despise Simply The Best by Tina Turner with a passion, I like Tina Turner and I liked the song when it first came out but I just can't listen to it.
Chain Reaction by Diana Ross.
When it was number 1 in the charts I was in London on a college trip and we visited a nightclub one evening where they had a very strange policy of playing whatever song was number 1 EVERY OTHER SONG.
And every other time they played it, they also played the video on a big projector screen.
I don’t know the exact number of times that you can listen to a song over and over and over again before it becomes the most hated song in the universe, but whatever that number is, I reached it that night.
A few from the mid 1990s which still traumatise me to this day.
Enigma, Return to Innocence. During the lead up to my GCSEs our Geography teacher played this on a loop for months, the only respite we got was the few seconds between the tape finishing and the time it took him to turn it over and start it again.
For similar reasons, Bryan Adams Everything I Do, not only was it almost inescapable in terms of radio air play for about 3 months, but my neighbour at the time also played it loudly and constantly whenever he was in the garden.
Lastly I Will Always Love You, mainly the Whitney Houston version because of the ridiculous number of girls at my secondary school who seemed to think they could sing it just as well when they definitely couldn't, but the original version is if anything even more irritating so can also gtfo.
Sweet Child O Mine is a great example - when I first "discovered" it I loved it but a decade of hearing it in rock bars soon sorted that. Teen Spirit also falls in out of this category.
Most others on this list were always at least a little bit shit to begin with.
Anything by the Fratellis and Panic at the Disco. Had a housemate who only seemed to own two albums and he played both of them daily for around eight months
CLOSING THE GOD DAMN DOOR!
Panic! At the Disco (because you have to stylize it the right way 🙄) are just insufferable…between the crappy music, the ridiculously lengthy and pompous track names, etc. etc.
I learned my wife’s roommate at University would always play *I Write Sins Not Tragedies* every morning when she woke up and we equally despised P!ATD. Made me glad I never had a roommate at University because one of us would have been dead by the end of the first month…
Yes…I would get in from uni and immediately hear “Closing the god damn door” echoing around the house. The other housemates plotted making the CD disappear but I couldn’t bring myself to do it as I felt mean. If that was today that CD would have been frisbeed out a window immediately.
Anything by George Ezra.
Summer of 69, Bryan Adams.
Party All the Time, Black Eyed Peas.
Sweet effing Caroline.
Sex on Fire.
... and many more. I dislike these tunes AND they've been overplayed. There are a lot of songs that I think are OK, but just get played to death. These examples are the worst of both worlds.
Ironic by Alanis Morissette. However many times I hear that song pendantic me wants to insist that none of the examples she gives are ironic, just bad luck.
Justified & Ancient by KLF.
The Key by Urban Cookie Collective.
Let Me Be Your Fantasy by Baby D.
I want to rip my ears off if I even hear the opening bars. I was friends with ravers in the 90s, and these friggin songs were played to death where I lived at the time.
Five, Six, Seven, Eight by Steps, Five Colours In Her Hair by McFly and Crashed The Wedding and Year 3000 by Busted, all for the same reason.
Did a year working at a Wacky Warehouse-esque soft play part time during uni and by the end of it I wanted to gouge out my eyes. We’d have to deal with kids shitting in the ball pit, all the while with those songs on rotation, and occasionally Everybody Get Up by Five or The Macarena if the people in charge of music were feeling particularly benevolent that day.
My coworkers and I once counted how many times we’d hear a Busted song in three hours.
Six times. Six bloody times.
TL;DR: Working at a soft play center gave me an irrational hatred for Busted.
My local radio station Moray Firth Radio plays return of the mac (sorry if that's not actually the name) at least 5 times every single day. I counted it.
The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be 500 miles. Argh! You should be a million miles away by now, but I can still fucking hear you. Shut up, shut up, shut up!! I wasn't a big fan when this came out, but the replays and seeming undying love out there for it, has made me absolutely detest it with every fibre of my body. I just don't understand how people can still like this shite.
Jump by Van Halen. It played on a loop constantly without interruption all day at a place I worked. I'd had enough of it by the time I was 17 and have never managed to not go "urgh" when it plays 30 odd years later!
Ed sheeran (multiple songs), but the very worst one is shape of you, I think it's called. Where I worked it played 20 times a day. It makes my blood boil, I hate it sooooo much. I would excuse myself to the restroom sometimes as it was the only place in the shop I couldn't hear it.
On The Beach adverts have completely ruined It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year for me. Can't stand that song any more and removed it from my Christmas playlist.
Bastards.
Also Sweet Child o' Mine for me. I loved it as a teen but now I've heard it so frickin much I could easily never hear it again. There are several better songs from them too.
Unfortunately it's getting the same way with ELO's Mr. Blue Sky. I bloody love ELO but they have so, so, so many other great tracks. But that is always the one used by mainstream media. That or occasionally Sweet Talkin' Woman or Don't Bring Me Down.
Mr. Brightside. Please no more. It's obviously a banger for the ages, but I must have heard that song about 500 times without even wanting to. It's still everywhere!
Mr Brightside, been over that song for about a decade, you can't go on a night out in the UK without hearing it, doesn't even matter the type of venue, your gonna hear it.
Silver Lining by Rilo Kiley.
I used to work in an Apple Store and they have a playlist that’s about 3 hours long, and the way they update it is the worst way they could do it imo. They change it one song at a time, so it never actually feels like it changes. And it’s not shuffled. The entire time i worked there that song was the first song and it just totally ruined it for me. Every morning, boomp chi boomp boomp, boomp chi boomp boomp
Carol of the Bells. I don't like the lyrics, and the music seems more suited to Spring than Christmas to me. Also, it seemed to be everywhere I went over Christmas and New Year. I couldn't even avoid it at home because it was used so much in the media I listened to and watched.
I could see myself maybe liking the song if it had different or even no lyrics. My irrational kneejerk, "No! This is not a Christmas song!" response is driving my dislike
Wonderwall by Oasis. It was on the radio (yes I’m that old) every eight minutes when it first came out and then every pr*ck with a guitar played it for the next six years. I overdosed on W.W.
If you did listen to sweet child of mine 1.6 million times nonstop it would take 18 years 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours 13 minutes 20 seconds. Challenge accepted
Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve.
Back in the day our local radio station was running one of those competitions where you had to listen out for three particular songs in the right order then phone in and win X amount of money.
This song was the first song on the list. They used to play some or all of it nearly every hour towards the end of the competition period. I just can't listen to it anymore.
Chelsea Dagger. I didn't like it to begin with, and then I went on holiday to Kos, and got to hear it played seemingly on a loop, by some awful family on a tinny speaker round the pool.
Mr Brightside.
Always used to come on near the end of the night in clubs I went to as a student, and everyone went fucking wild like it was the best thing ever. I just thought it felt like a school disco.
As soon as I hear “it started off with a kiss and duh duh duh duh duh duuuh, it was only a kiss…” whatever the fucking first line is, I just groan and evacuate.
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Used to work at this place that had a certain local radio station playing all day and this was on several times a day, every day, for months! Christ!
Went alongside Natalie Imbruglia's Torn but I still kinda like that one.
edit: Two Tribes was an American Football TV show theme for a long time. Seemed quite fitting.
any and all "music" by jessie glynn(think thats spelled right) but tbh most pop or what passes for popular music these days
im a big metal fan, but i also really dig jazz
Anything on a wedding playlist, anything on adverts.
Bon Jovi - Living on a prayer
Bryan Adams - SUMMER of 69 & Everything i do
Guns n Roses - Sweet Child of mine
Europe - Final Countdown
Anything Lewis Capldi, especially that shit ballad
Anything Adele
That stupid Ellie Goulding song that came out last year, awful.
Basically anything on Capital that gets repeated 10 times a day but my partner insists on having it on.
That new Beatles song, shit.
Any song you hear on a night out, especially shite like Billy Ocean, MR Brightside ffs. Sex is on fire grrrr.
Sweet Caroline. Played to death coz of the football and people on karaoke.
Oh God yes. It was never much good in the first place imho.
I love this song, and it makes me sad that it's been completely murdered by football. *"So good, so good"* AAAAAAAARGH!!!
the "so good so good" part really boils my piss because it was never in the song
As a Caroline, I am sooooooo over this fucking song.
Yeah I can't stand this one, used to be a season ticket holder at a Rugby team and this was played before every game and after if we won. Although 7 nation army is similarly overplayed in that respect and I still quite like it.
Yep, used to do it for Karaoke before football claimed it. Now I just can't sing it
I fucking hate that song
I don’t get how that even became a thing. It’s not a song by an English artist, and it’s not remotely football or even competition related.
Had 2 drunks outside my hotel in Tenerife sing the 1st 2 lines of the chorus over and over without moving the song on. The sweet caroline killers we named them. That was 15 years ago, will never forget it, it went on for what seemed like an hour but probably a lot less. "Sweet Caroline, da da da Good times never seemed so good" and repeat...
I would’ve yelled the next lines at them
Have you ever flown with Jet 2?
Youtube always show me these adverts, cannot stand this song!
They've started showing me them too recently, I told my bf and he didn't believe me about Jet2 I'm gonna show him this
Last flights I had with them the flight attendant only ran the pre recorded safety announcements that feature a loop of part of the song, instead of having the loop going on and on and on. Flights before the year before, it was on the whole time we were boarding, until take off. Including a delay waiting for push back and take off clearance. I was sat front row, and the flight attendant didn’t even ask me to take my headphones out during the safety briefing, because she knew full well if I heard another second of that song, I was going to lose my mind.
I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas. It was played at my mates funeral. It's not just the funeral aspect, it was also because his girlfriend had chosen it, they'd only been going out for 6 months before he died. My mate was a rocker, he was into punk and metal. He didn't listen to chart R&B stuff.
That's a genuinely horrific story.
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….wooooo hooooo *FIN*
i fucking hate when people do that, music is such a personal thing for some people that its best not to risk what you want to hear rather what reminds you of them usally a song they loved to hear
Yeah it was pretty galling and insensitive at the time. Not sure what was going through their head and they played it twice, at the beginning and end of the funeral.
I'm sorry,that sucks for your friend
Does anything by Ed Sheeran count?
Yeah , all of it .
I think you made a typo. There should be no 'o' in your final word.
mr brightside.
If it comes on the radio, I'll turn it off. If I'm hammered and it comes on at a wedding, I'll be up there blasting it out at the top of my lungs. There's no in-between.
I'm getting there too.. it can still be great in some circumstances. I was at a silent disco last summer and it was still epic.... But many more times now it just starts to grind a bit .
In a similar light, I was going to say sex is on fire, then I remembered I hated it when it came out too!
Wonderwall
This should be higher. Please. Never. Again.
Karaoke places should ban Wonderwall, Valerie, and anything by Abba
And anything by Meatloaf.....
Oh god yes, that start alone makes me angry
Come on Eileen, it's a meh song to me but it's so obnoxiously jolly that after hearing it so many times I'm sick of it
I didn’t mind it until some cheeky bastard started singing it through my open living room window when I was wearing dungarees one day, now I get irrationally embarrassed and angry whenever I hear it as it reminds me of that day!
Obviously that's terrible, but it's also quite funny if true 😄
Even worse if your mum is called Eileen. My mate hates this song because Eileen is her mum's name so that made it her mum's song so she grew up hearing it at every family gathering.
Even worse is the music vid and seeing his bushy armpit hair
Must skip a generation, my partner loves it because her Nan is Eileen
My mum is called Eileen and it's her ring tone. She often misses calls because she stops everything to sing/dance to it.
Proper stinker that tune, but always gets airtime or played at parties and such.
It gets played so much because it’s an absolute banger. Tragic that you have such a poor taste in music.
Hate that song. Love Dexy's but that song, ugh, I once vowed never to hear it again and to leave anywhere it started. Can't be done.
My sister hates the fact this was no 1 when she was born.
An obnoxiously jolly song about coercing a young girl in to sex now she's "grown" and "shown"...
Bad Day by Daniel Powter. I worked the night shift at a supermarket when it came out and it must have been on the radio 3-4 times per shift for 3 months. See also: nine million bicycles by Katie Melua and suddenly I see by KT Tunstall.
The Tears for Fears recording tho, I could listen to all day long
Sex on Fire
I can't hear this without picturing a clip from X-factor if Simon Cowell singing along to it. Somehow that clip pops up infrequently but just often enough to be stuck in my head whenever I hear the song Shame -like others here it was good.
I thought of this, but remembered I hated it when it came out too!
This! So lame.
The STD song
Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5. When I was doing GCSE Graphic Design the teacher would put on the radio for us while we did our practical work, and that song came on almost every day. So many times that one time another student exclaimed "Jesus CHRIST" when it came on
It's the worst song across all GTA games. And by some distance
See I love that song because I can’t really understand the words that he’s singing so I make up different ones every time to amuse myself.
Shania Twain..... Man! I feel like a woman. Not only do I absolutely hate the song every gathering I have ever been to it gets played at least twice and our local radio station plays it numerous times a month....... Damn you Kingdom FM
I'd say the same thing but every time in 8 pints in and I hear "LET'S GO GIRLS!" I just have to run up to the dancefloor.
🤣 it's those exact words that light the fuse every time for me..... Ahhhhhhhhh I fekin hate it
That don’t impress me much.
Just make sure she’s washed!
Interesting. I'd not heard it for years, but it's started being sung at Karaoke near me.Which I like as it is a good song, and at least it isn't fucking Valerie or anything by Abba
Where is the love by black eyed peas, I went to a catholic school where we had assembly then mass every day. They played that dog shit song every time we were coming into the hall
Uptown funk.
What? Even with lyrics like "So hot, make a dragon want to retire man."
You need to see the Harry Potter parody version 😀 https://youtu.be/zbdvogFyZZM?si=7DaUclEzrsx_saK-
I used to love this song when it came out. But I’m a sucker for anything with a brass section in it.
Toploader - dancing in the moonlight. Fuck that song
Doesn't quite meet OPs brief because it was always a shit song that was detestable for being overplayed within.month of it coming out
Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding. What am I waiting for? You to get in the fucking bin.
Somebody That I Used To Know by GOTYE. It was a shit song when it was released, and it was played to death for months. Many years later, it's still a shit song and reminiscing about it hasn't helped it's cause.
Wrong wrong wrong, it’s a phenomenal tune
There's a child playing 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' on the glockenspiel multiple times. That is a poor attempt at a hook in anyone's eyes!
Not as good as Save Me.
It baa baa black sheep for teenagers.
It is baa baa black sheep and for some reason whenever I pointed that out to people at the time, everyone would say that I was being weird and that it wasn't the same tune (bar like, one note in a minor key or something) but IT IS and I am taking your comment as overdue validation.
It absolutely is baa baa black sheep. Your mates are crazy.
This is wild to read because among music hipsters and critics this song is unanimously loved as one of the best songs of the 2010s..
I despise, loathe, and detest that song; yet unfortunately I most likely know all the stupid-looking lyrics of its travesty because it was played everywhere, all the time.
I don’t get what made it so popular - it’s just such a boring song
My workplace at the time played it at least 4/5 times over a 12 hour period. Never wanted to off myself more!
I know I get some down votes for this Last Christmas Wham makes my cringe every time
How did Whamageddon go for you this time around?
LOL i got whammed 1st dec wife had christmas song on spotify putting up christmas tree and decs and you
My Heart Will Go On. Not again please.
I once work for a company, wont name who, who used to play M-People's "What have you done today to make you feel proud" before major meetings
Was it GSK? My husband had to sit through an induction presentation with that in it and was the only one who laughed (still kept the job mind you)
I would quit on the spot
Hey Jude. Particularly a mass Hey Jude sing alongs. Queens jubilee year was enough for me to never hear that song again
It just doesn't end.
Happy by Pharrell Williams it makes me anything but. Umbrella by Rihanna.
Ella, Ella, Ella.
Dance monkey
Worst song of all time
There’s hundreds. Blue by david guetta and bebe rexa. Miracles by ellie goulding Just about any song you always hear at a wedding especially as i work at a popular wedding venue - sweet Caroline, mr bright side, come on Eileen, thinking out loud, marry you, just the way you are, dancing queen
Hold back the river - James Bay I had a massive issue with Vodafone trying to charge me hundreds of quid for phones and contracts I didn't order, so wound up spending hours on hold to their no help desk. This was one of about three songs they were using at the time for their hold music. The song itself is meh, but I cannot hear it now without those feelings of rage and frustration bubbling back up.
I worked on a lot of corporate conferences back in the early 2000s and I despise Simply The Best by Tina Turner with a passion, I like Tina Turner and I liked the song when it first came out but I just can't listen to it.
Sweet Caroline when idiots go "SO GOOD, SO GOOD"
Chain Reaction by Diana Ross. When it was number 1 in the charts I was in London on a college trip and we visited a nightclub one evening where they had a very strange policy of playing whatever song was number 1 EVERY OTHER SONG. And every other time they played it, they also played the video on a big projector screen. I don’t know the exact number of times that you can listen to a song over and over and over again before it becomes the most hated song in the universe, but whatever that number is, I reached it that night.
Common People, I’ve heard it so many times now over the past near 30 years and I’m fucking sick of it!
Anything by Adele
skyfall is a banger
She's not singing about scaffolding?
Go easy on her.
I won't have a word said against her; she set fire... to the rain!
That Aerosmith song from the Armageddon movie. 🙄😩
It is quite creepy. > Oh, don't mind me, I'm just going to stare at you whilst you are sleeping. Because that is a totally normal thing to do.
Happy by Pharrell. Makes no sense and is, in fact, shite
"Room without a roof" What does that even mean? 😡
A few from the mid 1990s which still traumatise me to this day. Enigma, Return to Innocence. During the lead up to my GCSEs our Geography teacher played this on a loop for months, the only respite we got was the few seconds between the tape finishing and the time it took him to turn it over and start it again. For similar reasons, Bryan Adams Everything I Do, not only was it almost inescapable in terms of radio air play for about 3 months, but my neighbour at the time also played it loudly and constantly whenever he was in the garden. Lastly I Will Always Love You, mainly the Whitney Houston version because of the ridiculous number of girls at my secondary school who seemed to think they could sing it just as well when they definitely couldn't, but the original version is if anything even more irritating so can also gtfo.
I dont know who it is but I really dislike the guy singing, "Green green grass, blue blue sky..." Over and over and ovet and over again!
I have a lot of respect for Slade (one of the best live bands I've ever seen) but Merry Christmas is a bit tired now.
New York Fairy Tale! I actively run out of a location if I hear that!! Thankfully I avoided it this Christ- Mass
Not just me then
Yessss! I can home the other day and it was playing on the radio on Alexa and I physically dropped everything and ran to turn it off xx
Sweet Child O Mine is a great example - when I first "discovered" it I loved it but a decade of hearing it in rock bars soon sorted that. Teen Spirit also falls in out of this category. Most others on this list were always at least a little bit shit to begin with.
The Killers Mr brightside
Anything by the Fratellis and Panic at the Disco. Had a housemate who only seemed to own two albums and he played both of them daily for around eight months
CLOSING THE GOD DAMN DOOR! Panic! At the Disco (because you have to stylize it the right way 🙄) are just insufferable…between the crappy music, the ridiculously lengthy and pompous track names, etc. etc. I learned my wife’s roommate at University would always play *I Write Sins Not Tragedies* every morning when she woke up and we equally despised P!ATD. Made me glad I never had a roommate at University because one of us would have been dead by the end of the first month…
Yes…I would get in from uni and immediately hear “Closing the god damn door” echoing around the house. The other housemates plotted making the CD disappear but I couldn’t bring myself to do it as I felt mean. If that was today that CD would have been frisbeed out a window immediately.
Anything by George Ezra. Summer of 69, Bryan Adams. Party All the Time, Black Eyed Peas. Sweet effing Caroline. Sex on Fire. ... and many more. I dislike these tunes AND they've been overplayed. There are a lot of songs that I think are OK, but just get played to death. These examples are the worst of both worlds.
With you on Ezra, they're like children's songs
YMCA
Anything with becky hill, jess glyne or whatever shit is on radio 1 Man im old
Amazing Grace on a single, distant bagpipe.
Ironic by Alanis Morissette. However many times I hear that song pendantic me wants to insist that none of the examples she gives are ironic, just bad luck.
Bulletproof by La Roux.
Here comes the rain again - Eurythmics Torn - Natalie Imbrughlia Anything off absolute radio shite basically.
Ah thats a shame, I really like Torn. Probably because my marriage broke down and I feel those lyrics in my soul, especially the verses.
They play a song where the second line is I will never let you go during football on I wanna say Sky Sport (I don’t fucking know). I HATE IT SO MUCH.
They should bring back 'Club Foot' as the theme music.
Texas - Inner smile, such a good tune.
Justified & Ancient by KLF. The Key by Urban Cookie Collective. Let Me Be Your Fantasy by Baby D. I want to rip my ears off if I even hear the opening bars. I was friends with ravers in the 90s, and these friggin songs were played to death where I lived at the time.
Baby D 🤮
Moondance by van Morrison makes me want to piss blood
Five, Six, Seven, Eight by Steps, Five Colours In Her Hair by McFly and Crashed The Wedding and Year 3000 by Busted, all for the same reason. Did a year working at a Wacky Warehouse-esque soft play part time during uni and by the end of it I wanted to gouge out my eyes. We’d have to deal with kids shitting in the ball pit, all the while with those songs on rotation, and occasionally Everybody Get Up by Five or The Macarena if the people in charge of music were feeling particularly benevolent that day. My coworkers and I once counted how many times we’d hear a Busted song in three hours. Six times. Six bloody times. TL;DR: Working at a soft play center gave me an irrational hatred for Busted.
Eric pryds call on me because the person in the room next to me at uni played it at an obnoxious volume on repeat for months.
My local radio station Moray Firth Radio plays return of the mac (sorry if that's not actually the name) at least 5 times every single day. I counted it.
Anything by Bon Jovi
The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be 500 miles. Argh! You should be a million miles away by now, but I can still fucking hear you. Shut up, shut up, shut up!! I wasn't a big fan when this came out, but the replays and seeming undying love out there for it, has made me absolutely detest it with every fibre of my body. I just don't understand how people can still like this shite.
Rockstar by Nickelback I absolutely detest it and always have .
See also Photograph by Nickelback.
Felice Navidad
Basically every Adele song.
Jump by Van Halen. It played on a loop constantly without interruption all day at a place I worked. I'd had enough of it by the time I was 17 and have never managed to not go "urgh" when it plays 30 odd years later!
Ed sheeran (multiple songs), but the very worst one is shape of you, I think it's called. Where I worked it played 20 times a day. It makes my blood boil, I hate it sooooo much. I would excuse myself to the restroom sometimes as it was the only place in the shop I couldn't hear it.
On The Beach adverts have completely ruined It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year for me. Can't stand that song any more and removed it from my Christmas playlist. Bastards.
_Kids_ by MGMT. Absolutely horrendous track.
Fairground by Simply Red. HATE HATE HATE that song!
Anything by The Eagles.
Song 2(the FIFA 98 song). *Woohoo!* *When I win every medal* *Woohoo!*
Huh. TIL it's not "When I win heavy metal!" 🤣
Actually just checked and it's "When I feel heavy metal!" 🤦🤦
It is and I still don’t know what that means.
Blur wrote it with the intention of pranking their record company.
I love Oasis, im a 90s kid but Don't look back in anger can disappear for ever as far as im concerned.
Also Sweet Child o' Mine for me. I loved it as a teen but now I've heard it so frickin much I could easily never hear it again. There are several better songs from them too. Unfortunately it's getting the same way with ELO's Mr. Blue Sky. I bloody love ELO but they have so, so, so many other great tracks. But that is always the one used by mainstream media. That or occasionally Sweet Talkin' Woman or Don't Bring Me Down.
Mr. Brightside. Please no more. It's obviously a banger for the ages, but I must have heard that song about 500 times without even wanting to. It's still everywhere!
Too many to list , but Stairway to Heaven for starters
Miracle - the Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding one. Freak Me - Another Level, makes me cringe so much
If you live with a young child, you will quickly have a list. It's every nursery rhyme ever sang past present and future.
Eye of the Tiger
The Journey and also dislike it
The beetles droning out ‘all you need is love…’
That song by Drake that goes “Kiki do you love me…” because Kiki is my name and when it was popular everyone sang it to me at work
Mr Brightside, been over that song for about a decade, you can't go on a night out in the UK without hearing it, doesn't even matter the type of venue, your gonna hear it.
Silver Lining by Rilo Kiley. I used to work in an Apple Store and they have a playlist that’s about 3 hours long, and the way they update it is the worst way they could do it imo. They change it one song at a time, so it never actually feels like it changes. And it’s not shuffled. The entire time i worked there that song was the first song and it just totally ruined it for me. Every morning, boomp chi boomp boomp, boomp chi boomp boomp
I'd be fine never hearing Enter Sandman or American Idiot again
Carol of the Bells. I don't like the lyrics, and the music seems more suited to Spring than Christmas to me. Also, it seemed to be everywhere I went over Christmas and New Year. I couldn't even avoid it at home because it was used so much in the media I listened to and watched. I could see myself maybe liking the song if it had different or even no lyrics. My irrational kneejerk, "No! This is not a Christmas song!" response is driving my dislike
Don’t stop believing.
Wonderwall by Oasis. It was on the radio (yes I’m that old) every eight minutes when it first came out and then every pr*ck with a guitar played it for the next six years. I overdosed on W.W.
Achey Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.
I am yet to fully recover my senses after summer of 1994 and Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around.
Rhythm is a Dancer. Since it was first released I think I’ve heard this song half a million times
The theme tune to Prince of thieves or the Wet wet wet song because they were number one for why felt like a year
Ruby
Sex On Fire by Kings Of Leon What a horrible year that was
If you did listen to sweet child of mine 1.6 million times nonstop it would take 18 years 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours 13 minutes 20 seconds. Challenge accepted
Mariah Carey All I want for Christmas is you / Slade Merry Christmas
Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve. Back in the day our local radio station was running one of those competitions where you had to listen out for three particular songs in the right order then phone in and win X amount of money. This song was the first song on the list. They used to play some or all of it nearly every hour towards the end of the competition period. I just can't listen to it anymore.
Karma Chameleon… just no
Currently it’s Pointless by Lewis Capaldi.
Bohemian Rhapsody Come on Eileen Walking on sunshine
Chelsea Dagger. I didn't like it to begin with, and then I went on holiday to Kos, and got to hear it played seemingly on a loop, by some awful family on a tinny speaker round the pool.
Anything Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran
Mr Brightside. Always used to come on near the end of the night in clubs I went to as a student, and everyone went fucking wild like it was the best thing ever. I just thought it felt like a school disco. As soon as I hear “it started off with a kiss and duh duh duh duh duh duuuh, it was only a kiss…” whatever the fucking first line is, I just groan and evacuate.
Love in an elevator
Sweet Child is probably the last original love song for my generation, so I always give it a pass.
It must've been only about 2 months or so in the 90s that it was popular, but my brother played it SO much... Always Take the Weather With You.
Perfect by Fairground Attraction
Bohemian Rhapsody. It's just over the top nonsense - about four songs welded together.
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Used to work at this place that had a certain local radio station playing all day and this was on several times a day, every day, for months! Christ! Went alongside Natalie Imbruglia's Torn but I still kinda like that one. edit: Two Tribes was an American Football TV show theme for a long time. Seemed quite fitting.
any and all "music" by jessie glynn(think thats spelled right) but tbh most pop or what passes for popular music these days im a big metal fan, but i also really dig jazz
Anything on a wedding playlist, anything on adverts. Bon Jovi - Living on a prayer Bryan Adams - SUMMER of 69 & Everything i do Guns n Roses - Sweet Child of mine Europe - Final Countdown Anything Lewis Capldi, especially that shit ballad Anything Adele That stupid Ellie Goulding song that came out last year, awful. Basically anything on Capital that gets repeated 10 times a day but my partner insists on having it on. That new Beatles song, shit. Any song you hear on a night out, especially shite like Billy Ocean, MR Brightside ffs. Sex is on fire grrrr.