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My nominee for this dubious distinction is the Beatles' Hey Jude. Every year over the Memorial Day weekend, when the Beatles channel on Sirius satellite radio plays the Top 100 Beatles songs as voted on by their listeners, that song always is in the top five. One year at least, it was number one.
(This year it was number one or two. I was listening but wasn't able to listen to the top two because I had to stop listening to deal with an emergency. Somebody please tell me what those top two were. I'm sure Hey Jude was one of them.)
I can't stand that song. It is WAY too monotonous, it goes ON and ON and ON and ON, and even before all the seemingly endless na-na-nas begin, it does little for me. I love the Beatles, I think they're the best band EVER, nobody else is even close, and yet, there are a few Beatles songs I don't like. Just a few, but Hey Jude is at the top of that list. When Hey Jude comes on the Beatles channel, I change the channel, or turn the radio off. I just simply cannot take the monotony.
Ron

True Dough
(23,530 posts)That just seems so cruel!
She wants to be a donor.
FYI, I Got the donors card punched on my drivers License lest you consider me crass and without feeling. Okay I can be crass.
True Dough
(23,530 posts)Krasnov, on the other hand, not welcome at all!

Didn't like the movie
Celine is okay but she has no subtlety in her interpretations.
Just my opinion.
Ilsa
(62,990 posts)Thanks for sharing the clip! Just hysterical.
"Oh, she's a destitute lounge singer from Quebec and Let's keep it that way, please."
Priceless.
Enjoy your week, Ilsa.
Diamond_Dog
(37,494 posts)catbyte
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catbyte
(37,207 posts)read the comments. I laughed until I cried.
AllaN01Bear
(26,003 posts)
BOSSHOG
(43,054 posts)A picture of All four Beatles standing around and one asks the others any ideas on how to finish Hey Jude?

I searched, but couldn't find the DU post.
PJMcK
(23,869 posts)It was so much fun back in the long ago day.
As usual, Everything Trump Touches Dies and this song will forever be connected to the Felon-in-Chief.
Mad_Dem_X
(9,963 posts)who loved the song. Now, it just reminds me of the Orange Menace.
BlueKota
(4,339 posts)Betty Davis Eyes. I hated that song and would rush to turn the radio station, anytime it played. I still loathe it. I made one of my friends at work laugh, because I said some one should send Kim Carnes four dozen crates of throat lozenges and do us all a favor. My throat hurt just listening to her. Torture on my ears.
Boomerproud
(8,834 posts)nt
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Skittles
(165,573 posts)screamed by Ms. Houston
UGH
yellowdogintexas
(23,350 posts)Polybius
(20,399 posts)FWIW.
yellowdogintexas
(23,350 posts)Polybius
(20,399 posts)I'm 0 for 2.
Skittles
(165,573 posts)the reason I mentioned it was because I heard it while shopping for groceries just a few days ago and I was gritting my teeth and almost abandoned my merch to flee......I was literally saying under my breath, shut up, SHUT UP! I do admit I have misophonia so a LOT of sounds drive me nuts. As far as that OTHER song goes - it's good in the movie, NOT so good standalone. Yes INDEED.
Dave Bowman
(5,395 posts)milestogo
(21,078 posts)but when everybody in the world started singing it - especially those who don't have a prayer of singing it right - they just wore it out.
Skittles
(165,573 posts)I hated it the first time I heard it......treacly screeching.
peacebuzzard
(5,593 posts)The Beatles did have some monotonous songs. For me, right up there is also Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I love the Beatles and don't mean to list two, but their Yeah Yeah Yeah songs were very bland to me.
sop
(14,955 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,593 posts)as in, soppy.
Johonny
(24,034 posts)They're the one 70s act I just can't stand. There is just nothing there for me.
PJMcK
(23,869 posts)Steely Dan's music is extremely sophisticated and the musical performances from every musician on every track are professional and profound.
Still, I understand some people's reticence because their lyrics are so obtuse as to be somewhat incomprehensible.
Yet their orchestrations and performances demonstrate superior musicianship. For example, listen to their song "Aja.": The structure of the composition is sophisticated and the playing by the musicians is amazing. Listen to Wayne Shorter's sax solo! And Steve Gadd's drum solo at the end of this epic song is beyond description except to say he's inspired!
And yet, to each their own. We recently saw the Bob Dylan film and I hate his voice and performances. Yet many of his songs are exceptional. Timothy Chalamet was terrific and he actually plays all the guitar parts! I didn't want to see the film but my wife insisted. Chalamet won me over. (I still hate Dylan's voice and performances!)
I've been a Dan Fan since Katy Lied. The song "Doctor Wu" has an incredibly inventive piano part and it inspired some of my musical endeavors.
Enjoy whatever moves you! That's one of the many things that makes music incredible.
chicoescuela
(2,084 posts)MuseRider
(34,760 posts)I was just learning about them when I saw them on a double, they were new and opened for Zappa (with Flo and Eddie). I was taken by them. Not a huge fan by any means but I do think there is a lot of talent there. Wayne Shorter, what a huge loss to music that was.
Just poking in because I wanted to put a star on Dan. I really hate judging music like this. It is such a personal love. I am a retired classical music player and the things said about that are sometimes just stupid funny.
Paladin
(30,882 posts)Brilliant musicianship, inspired lyrics. Great band. My favorite Steely Dan song? Probably "Do It Again."
dchill
(42,660 posts)My favorite? Probably "Aja." Or maybe "Babylon Sisters."
Paladin
(30,882 posts)Again, for me it's the musicianship and the intelligent lyrics.
lastlib
(26,200 posts)...and hasn't gotten any beter. One of the worst song of all time--almost as bad as "Muskrat Love" or Danny's Dumb Song."
returnee
(588 posts)Steely Dans music is so beautiful. It is quite revolutionary in its rock, pop, jazz melding. The musicianship is awesome. I personally love the lyrics as much as the musicIts all so beautifully inevitable. Funny how its labeled yacht rock because to me its so un-yachty.
chowder66
(10,859 posts)Though I think I like one of The Beach Boys songs.
ProfessorGAC
(73,366 posts)I can't stand them & consider them the most overrated band in rock history.
Dire Straits I loved until Mark bought a distortion pedal. They lost their uniqueness when that guitar tone went away, and I thought he chose very poorly on his distorted tone. So, we disagree there.
As to Steely Dan, we disagree tremendously.
Bit, since the one we agree on is the Beach Boys, that's plenty good enough.
Oh, and I don't like ANY of their songs.
Diamond_Dog
(37,494 posts)Agree on Steely Dan
. I dont understand the Steely Dan hate out there.
chowder66
(10,859 posts)There are loads of artists that people would hate that I love.... so I get it.
ProfessorGAC
(73,366 posts)The first is easy. They're the artists I like.
The second is those bands I don't care for, but understand why others do.
The third are bands I don't like and can't understand why anybody does.
The Beach Boys are leading the parade in Category 3.
chowder66
(10,859 posts)Johonny
(24,034 posts)Mike Love is a horrible loathsome toad.
Hence, most people's love hate relationship with the beach boys.
chowder66
(10,859 posts)Just couldn't get into their sound.
highplainsdem
(57,020 posts)They are an act I should like. But for whatever reason they don't do anything for me. 2 great composers, but they're not a real band and thus they have no album flow is I think the reason I could never get into them.
I tried listening to them, but they really don't do much for me.
Danmel
(5,471 posts)Dulcinea
(8,666 posts)To each their own.
bif
(25,796 posts)Just bland, light jazz/pop.
Scrivener7
(56,199 posts)House of Roberts
(6,097 posts)I've actually changed stations when that came on, returned ten minutes later, and the song was still playing.
Midnight Writer
(24,296 posts)Tarzanrock
(1,138 posts)Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5. I watched a co-worker kick a jukebox in when he got tired of that damn song playing on the jukebox.
highplainsdem
(57,020 posts)PJMcK
(23,869 posts)highplainsdem
(57,020 posts)their songs and recognized one title - I Think I Love You.
Which was horrible, so I will now try to forget it again.
Diamond_Dog
(37,494 posts)Polybius
(20,399 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,760 posts)where he brags about getting laid.
Wolf
MIButterfly
(708 posts)I was visiting my best friend and her sister put on a CD of his greatest hits and that's when I realized I didn't like any of his songs.
Ritabert
(1,277 posts)MichMan
(15,313 posts)Polybius
(20,399 posts)Those songs are perfect 10's.
Doodley
(11,154 posts)Buzz cook
(2,737 posts)Of the Lost Chord. Schmaltz either way.
Judi Lynn
(163,625 posts)whatever burbled in Hallelujah all over again.
Hard to imagine anyone else could have written it.
Both make one's spirit gag.
Thank you.
Scrivener7
(56,199 posts)Sibelius Fan
(24,709 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,971 posts)The repetition gives me a headache.
chicoescuela
(2,084 posts)grade. Seems like yesterday but over 55 years ago. Sigh
Jeebo
(2,466 posts)Has beisbol bene berra berra gude to you?
Ron
lastlib
(26,200 posts)And every song Michael Jackson and his siblings ever did. I'll stop there.
MIButterfly
(708 posts)Here's a guy who's telling his woman how he was never there for her; never paid any attention to her; little things he should have said and done, he "just never took the time" but he was thinking about her. Is there really a woman out there who will say "Awwww, that's so sweet. You totally blew off all the time but you were thinking about me. That's more than enough for me; of course I'll give you another chance." Please.
Another song, and I hate to say this because I love Stevie Wonder and think he's a musical genius, is "I Just Called to Say I Love You." It's as if he just came out of anesthesia after major surgery and was told he had minute-and-a-half to write a song and that's all he could come up with.
mwmisses4289
(1,394 posts)Our joke was they only know three chords.
Figarosmom
(6,563 posts)ProfessorGAC
(73,366 posts)...uses 5 chords.
Nearly every one of them.
Figarosmom
(6,563 posts)It was so overplayed I can't stand hearing it.
Doc_Technical
(3,684 posts)by Barry Manilow
hunter
(39,599 posts)Especially if she had a gun and it was your radio.
MIButterfly
(708 posts)Back in the day, even people who absolutely HATED Barry Manilow loved that song!
True story.
Eugene
(65,526 posts)Morbius
(548 posts)I hate Culture Club. Every time the song "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" would come on I would shout out, "Yes! I really do want to hurt you!"
MIButterfly
(708 posts)
Emile
(35,573 posts)Now I have it my head and will be humming it to myself all day, yikes.
justaprogressive
(4,392 posts)Free Turd.
ProfessorGAC
(73,366 posts)...all of which go nowhere.
Hammer pentatonic riff 8 times, then hammer a pentatonic riff 8 times, then hammer a pentatonic riff 8 times....
For 6 minutes.
There is no good guitar playing on that song with the possible exception of the opening slide riff.
As you can tell, I'm not a fan either.
justaprogressive
(4,392 posts)...give me Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Lowell George and Sonny Landreth
Dave Hole has chops too...
ProfessorGAC
(73,366 posts)A few more i think are excellent:
Dickie Betts
Don Felder
Billy Gibbons
Ronnie Montrose
Joe Walsh
The 5 of them all very different, but play superb stuff.
BTW: what are your go-to guitars?
For me it's a JS-1000, a MiM Strat, a MiA Tele. I have 4 more, but these are the 3 I rely on.
On acoustic my main 6 string is a Martin D-18CE, and a Carvin Cobalt as my main 12 string.
I have 4 others, in different tunings, 3 six & 2 twelve strings..
justaprogressive
(4,392 posts)A Jackson Dinky Rev Professional (DK5) made by superb builders Chushin of Japan
their products equal the best 90's US made Jackson/Charvels
Schecter Solo 6 gold top... swapped out w/P90s
and my all-time favorite guitar is my Parker PM-20 Mappa Burl with its heel-less neck..
hmmm
here you go:
and the front:
ProfessorGAC
(73,366 posts)I have a Schecter, too.
It's a C-1 Blackjack. It's the guitar is use when I just have to have humbuckers & a fixed bridge.
Still a Fender scale, so not a Les Paul substitute. But, it plays easily, sound & looks good.
Since I have all my guitars hanging in the rec room (on the walls where the piano isn't), so looking nice is a pretty big deal.
FishBones51
(21 posts)The lyrics are about liberal progressivism
FishBones51
(21 posts)The lyrics are about liberal progressivism
genxlib
(5,921 posts)The ultimate nepo-baby even right down to the name check.
That song is so cringe.
But honestly, the "duo" she recorded for "Unforgettable" was the worse. Absolutely ruined a classic from an all time great.
FuzzyDicePHL
(728 posts)Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
Take On Me (a-Ha)
Low (Flo Rida)
I Melt With You (Modern English)
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
A Bar Song (Tipsy) (Shaboozey)
Red Solo Cup (some Country galoot)
Dulcinea
(8,666 posts)Whoever decided that song should be part of every sporting event should be shot.
Jeebo
(2,466 posts)Seemed appropriate. I didn't hate Sweet Caroline, just indifferent to it, but generally I can't stand Neil Diamond. His raspy voice makes my skin crawl. But this thread is supposed to be about specific songs that lots of people love, but you can't stand.
Ron
mucifer
(25,219 posts)She makes a horrible screeching sound.
SarasotaDem
(226 posts)Christmas song
The torturing of rhymes is downright sadistic.
Iggo
(48,951 posts)I dont care what its about, I hate fucking sea shanties, and anything that sounds like sea shanties, like Boston bar songs. (Im lookin at you, Billy Joel.)
The Madcap
(1,263 posts)I detested that song.
doc03
(38,045 posts)Country Roads
boonecreek
(1,070 posts)"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. That "bustle in the hedgerow" line makes me want to flee, retching.
Dulcinea
(8,666 posts)In fact, anything by Billie Eilish. Who told her she could sing? She's terrible.
LudwigPastorius
(12,822 posts)doesn't matter which one, because they are literally the same.
Johonny
(24,034 posts)I like country, but modern country is really paint by numbers song crafting. If AI were a genre, modern country is the target.
oasis
(52,417 posts)
bif
(25,796 posts)I liked the original British blues band. But then they sold out and just made a bunch of commercial garbage.
Ritabert
(1,277 posts)MIButterfly
(708 posts)People I mention it to act like they've never even heard of it.
Ritabert
(1,277 posts)"There's a place down in Mexico where man can fly over mountains and hills"...
Diamond_Dog
(37,494 posts)Their later stuff that everyone raved about sounded like banal pop to me.
bif
(25,796 posts)Paladin
(30,882 posts)Midnight Writer
(24,296 posts)It's a drag.
peacebuzzard
(5,593 posts)Their harmonies were like fingernails on the chalkboard.
Ritabert
(1,277 posts)Can't stand that one about the lights going out in Massachusetts.
peacebuzzard
(5,593 posts)it was all about the party and dance...
Ritabert
(1,277 posts)Leghorn21
(13,912 posts)Great workout song, too, if one is inclined to do such a thing (along with Wooly Bully as well)!!
spooky3
(37,618 posts)And Come on, Eileen
Diraven
(1,425 posts)Something about his singing voice just bugs me.
Mad_Dem_X
(9,963 posts)Sting solo is whiny as hell too.
Upthevibe
(9,611 posts)Almost ALL disco songs....It's hard for me to even call them songs.
There are a couple of ones that I enjoy (You Make Me Feel, Sylvester; I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor).
Scrivener7
(56,199 posts)I can appreciate that her voice is amazing. But the songs were ... dopey.
JoseBalow
(7,781 posts)
by Cream
Never liked the sound or vocals on that song.
To this day when it comes on the radio I change the station.
And I have always been a blues/ rock guy
Iggo
(48,951 posts)The guitar hook is gorgeous, but its played out after four bars.
After that, theres nothing new.
(I do like the drums, though.)
ScoutHikerDad
(48 posts)Is to die every time I hear Mariah Carey's grossly overplayed song!
Pisces
(6,045 posts)She can't sing for crap. I don't get her at all, but I'm not an angsty teenage girl. Give me a good screaming punk every time!
Justice Brandeis
(63 posts)I don't "hate" it, but it is massively overrated. It's the Derek Jeter of songs.
Archae
(47,245 posts)Especially "Rocking' Me Baby."
No-talent musicians, lousy singer, lyrics written by a total asshole.
Paladin
(30,882 posts)My late father-in-law worked for a large pharmaceutical company back in the 1970's as a "detail man." He visited doctors in their offices in Dallas, marketing his company's line of medicines and trying to persuade the doctors to prescribe them for their patients. My wife and I had dinner at the in-laws' place one evening, and my father-in-law kept chuckling about something that had happened that day. He'd had a sales appointment with a doctor he'd always enjoyed dealing with, but on that day, the doc was absolutely furious: He ended up divulging that his practice had done particularly well during the year, and that he'd made over $1.5 million. My father-in-law asked him what he was so mad about, and the doctor---did I mention that it was Dr. Miller we're talking about?---said his rock & roll musician son had made twice that amount, during the same period of time. I was a Steve Miller Band fan before I learned about his dad, and I remain a fan to this day...
Captain Zero
(8,060 posts)Thanks for sharing.
Harker
(16,449 posts)He was a total asshole. Came on stage and said, "everybody expects me to do this, so I'll get it out of the way" before playing for twenty seconds with the guitar behind his head. I can't recall what else he said, but he was condescending, rude, conceited, and thoroughly insulting.
Paladin
(30,882 posts)Bonus feature: Bunches of high school-aged kids sitting around us, singing along with Miller's songs; they knew the lyrics word-for-word, and most of the songs were written before those kids were even born.
Harker
(16,449 posts)Maybe I caught him on a bad day.
Paladin
(30,882 posts)Harker
(16,449 posts)Gary Wright and Peter Frampton were enjoyable, too.
Paladin
(30,882 posts)Harker
(16,449 posts)A beautiful day at Mile-Hi Stadium, Denver. I lived in Boulder, which was Tommy Bolin's adopted home.
One of my fondest memories was of sitting on a curb for an hour, alone, listening to the The Tommy Bolin Band practicing in a house on University Hill.
Good times.
Danmel
(5,471 posts)In 1977. Saw Springsteen that year too.
Archae
(47,245 posts)He was a total idiot.
ArnoldLayne
(2,219 posts)JMCKUSICK
(2,927 posts)Peg, or anything else lol.
bif
(25,796 posts)Paladin
(30,882 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,298 posts)Thought it was a joke when it first came out, haven't changed my mind since.
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MenloParque
(540 posts)And anything by Bruce Springsteen
jls4561
(2,468 posts)I was in New York visiting my friend Lucy after college. Lucys parents had been up in Connecticut visiting and Lucy s mom had picked mushrooms, which she cooked and served for dinner. Lucy declined to eat any, and her little brother declared that he despised mushrooms. They were very yummy, so I had two helpings. Couple of hours later, I was in the bathroom, violently throwing up. Lucys little brother was playing Goodbye Yellow Brick Road over and over and over again, as junior and kids are wont to do. Not the whole album, just the one song. The next thing I knew I was in the hospital, along with Lucys parents.
Lucys mom had picked some wrong mushrooms.
Dont get me wrong. I thought it was a good song, and still do. I just cant listen to it anymore because even typing about it makes me slightly nauseous.
Alpeduez21
(1,943 posts)
returnee
(588 posts)Its amazing to me how so many top level musicians think this is the greatest song ever written. Any song purporting to be a love song that starts the lyric with I may not always love you is a loser right off the bat. The music is beautiful. The lyric ruins it.
Harker
(16,449 posts)milestogo
(21,078 posts)
KTB2025
(26 posts)I guess it's not inherently bad; just too many people think it's profound or emotional or universal or whatever, when it's really just a very long way of saying, "thanks, you were a great audience, good night." And rock star songs about being a rock star always seem superficial to me...
Captain Zero
(8,060 posts)I'll listen to one on the car radio, but only because I have to pay attention to traffic
SheltieLover
(70,620 posts)Yuck. Lol
The Madcap
(1,263 posts)Oh....Muskrat Love....come to think of it, nobody liked that.
Charlie Chapulin
(370 posts)Journey, Boston, Foreigner for starters.
The Madcap
(1,263 posts)Corporate Rock.
whathehell
(30,181 posts)I know there's more, and I wish I could remember them all but it's late.
This one was played on the radio back in the late 70s. It's a beautiful song but because it was played too much people hated hearing it when it come on the radio.
subterranean
(3,647 posts)I liked it the first few hundred times I heard it, but it eventually became too much of a good thing!
malaise
(285,960 posts)Overkill - they played it over and over and over - every wedding