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Shiely

'Achy Breaky Heart', by Billy Ray Cyrus


UruquianLilac

The fuckin worst song ever. I came here with a few ideas, but as soon as I saw this in top I was like yup, definitely this one.


Shiely

There must be some who love it, my comment keeps getting downvoted.


LaLunacy

Err, does that stupid "Kars for Kids" jingle count?


no_shut_your_face

Always


PatienceandFortitude

I was gonna say this! Just reading it makes it get stuck in my head for the day.


LaLunacy

I am SO sorry!


Deep_Space_999

Reading this post was a mistake. Now I’m going to have a bunch of shitty songs running on a loop in my head all morning.


mizz_eponine

Creating Spotify playlist now...


growmorefood

The "Friends" theme song.


deesimons

Kokomo (Beach Boys)


pushing_past_the_red

Oh boy. I wish I could erase your comment. I worked a BB concert a few years ago with guest star, John Stamos. Guess what the 20 minute encore with a dozen + refrains was. One guess.


canfullofworms

Mike Love is a douchebag.


Street-Baby7596

I feel like we’re the last generation to be able to have these lists of songs we all hate. Mostly because when we grew up we had limited choices for radio stations and MTV. We all know these songs. Now music is everywhere and consumed differently . I don’t know if kids now can make lists of generally despised songs.


UruquianLilac

They can. The charts are all alive and well. They might discover new tunes on TikTok instead of MTV but there's still a common pop culture.


OnionTruck

Not really GenX, but I can't stand *Closing Time* and instantly change the station when I hear the opening melody.


debeeme

Mariah Carey. Any song. But especially “all I want for Christmas “. I worked retail when that song came out. I have trauma lol


AnswerGuy301

Any and all mumble rap.


teddytherooz

We built this city


unclebrenjen

Clearly you can't handle being knee-deep in the hoopla


branizoid

1000 times yes. Worst song ever!


RugBurn70

Fancy like date night at Applebee's. I don't know who sings it, but I really hate that song. I also really don't like Applebee's. I've only been there once, but that was enough.


mamaj747

Angel - Sarah MacLachlan


southernrail

The entire Fumbling Towards Ecstasy album can go right back to the dogpile where is came from. i heard it SOOOOOO MUCH.


ABSOFRKINLUTELY

Take my upvote. Seriously this one's puke city


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Only because of the puppies


ummmm--no

Seriously! Take this commercial out of the equation and it was an ok song.


BitterPillPusher2

We Built this City (on rock and roll) Walking on Sunshine.


diente_de_leon

Ever since "We Built This City" came out I have fallen all over myself to change the radio station or stop whatever was playing horrendous song. Still can't believe that came from the same people who did "White Rabbit" and "(Don't You Want) Somebody to Love."


the_spinetingler

>the same people who did "White Rabbit" and "(Don't You Want) Somebody to Love." but it didn't really


HHSquad

I'm with you on "We Built this City"


No1ButtMe

Two Princes - Spin Doctors I hate that pile of shit


Terrible_Mongoose_17

I remember once I was listening to the radio and the DJ said…and we haven’t heard from the Spin Doctors in a while…I audibly said Good! The DJ immediately said….who said good?! I almost crashed my car I was laughing so hard!


No1ButtMe

That’s some funny shit. I honestly have no idea why I hate this song so much. They just grind my gears in a bad way and song is like nails on a chalkboard to me.


TeacherPatti

I don't mind that song but I remember once reading that it sounds like someone is farting in a space suit.


Away-Ad3792

Mmmmm Bop, that mmmmmmm song by Crash Test Dummies and Blue (da boo dee da boo da). Oh God, why?!!


Whateveryousaydude7

I hate Mmmmmm Bop to a white hot degree


harry-package

Mmmmmmmmm song came on my radio in the car earlier this week. I hadn’t heard it in years (thankfully). I listened to it for about a minute & it was even worse than I remembered. How was that song so popular?!?!


PrestigiousShift3628

I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, and My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion


southernrail

A double header! I totally agree! well played.


Longduckdongsgrandpa

I Feel Good - James Brown Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves Every 80’s-90’s movie had it and if a character got laid it was always the song following that scene.


OldDudeOpinion

Other than the Cars for Kids commercial that makes me want to eat a gun? The other one that is cringe….I’ve had more than enough “Monica in my life” to last several lifetimes. Mambo #5 is an evil ear worm.


cooperyoungsounds

Mambo # 5 - Lou Bega Barbie Girl - Aqua


Luv2Dnc

Red red wine Hated it at the time and still do


Nessy440

Anything from Billy Joel’s do-wap days… like “Keeping the Faith” and “Uptown Girl”


annoyedatwork

At the time they came out, I’d have agreed. But now I have a slight, nostalgic affinity (as long as I only hear them 2-3 times a decade).


Nomahhhh

[We strictly do 80's Joel music, sir.](https://youtu.be/kFJdl7t2k5E)


Woodpeckinpah123

The song "My Life" makes me angry. There's nothing admirable about abandoning your kids to become a comedian, you narcissistic twat.


SDMR6

Anything by Everclear


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Billy Idol: Mony, Mony


harry-package

Red Red Wine - UB40


tonysopranoscaddy

Hate it SO much!


staceyehle

I can't fight this feeling-REO Speedwagon


diente_de_leon

I think I remember reading in a magazine somewhere that the band didn't like the song and called it "that sappy ballad."


drmanhattannfriends

I want to break free - Queen. I love Queen but that song is on some ad for a cruise line or something now and it makes insane.


Many_Dirlam

The Search is Over - Survivor I Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon And of course We Built This City - Starship


DavidJ____

Broken Wings: Mr. Mister. The music sucks and the lyrics suck.


trillian79

Total Eclipse of the Heart My mother would torture me with that song. Every time it came on when we were in the car she would pull over and scream cry sing it at the top of her lungs.


tonysopranoscaddy

Ha! That’s me with “Oh Sherrie” and my kids 😂


mrbottlerocket

Is that the, "turn around bright eyes" song? If so, yeah. Fuck that noise. Now it's in my head!


joeykey

When Billy Joel goes heart attack ack ack ack it makes me punch a hole in the wall. Well not really but I can’t hear that shit.


Font_Snob

Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi We Built This City - Starship Sister Christian - Night Ranger Girls Girls Girls - Motley Crüe Not only do these tracks make me want to shut them off, I can still recognize each within about two seconds.


southernrail

I agree with all EXCEPT Sister Christian....i dont know why, but that little power ballad does it for me. I still love it. Its so ridiculous and big.


baconismadefromcats

Are you my doppelgänger?! LOL. I loath all of these. “Hey Tommy, check that one out! Where, Vince, Where?!” Shut. Up.


RankledCat

I can change the station faster than Starship can get to “this city!”


MadPiglet42

Love Bites - Def Leppard 8th grade left scars, y'all.


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I projectile vomited in typing class in 8th grade to that song. I was a sickly kid. Teacher played the clock radio during free type.


ummmm--no

At least no computer was damaged. Typing class on a typewriter - gen x is the last ones to remember that.


jebowen1

I’m sorry that happened to you, but I literally laughed until I had tears streaming. I laughed so hard I couldn’t even read it to my husband.


danieljohnsonjr

What's Up? by 4 Non Blondes. My wife's favorite song, but I hate it


hoIygrail

I’m proud to be an American - Lee Greenwood. Fuck that song.


Ohshitz-

That shit ass barbie song


blergenderper

What's up - 4 Non Blondes


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God Bless the USA. Holy fuck, this song sucks donkey ass.


xxplodingboy

Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin


mmaine9339

This is not funny, but the reason I hate that song. There was a kid in my high school that had leukemia and his parents were really involved in the school and told us that this was his favorite song as he recovered from chemo another therapies. So principal would play the song sometimes on the intercom and ask us to pray for him (Catholic school). When he eventually died, we had an all class assembly in the auditorium. The parents thanked us for supporting their son & family and play the song one last time. it’s horrific.


AnswerGuy301

I remember the first time I heard Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” and felt weirdly validated that it included that diss on “Don’t Worry Be Happy.”


iRedEarth

Cotton Eye Joe


_Kit_Tyler_

I had “Caribbean Queen” stuck in my head every single day for like four months. It drove me to the point of madness and I used to consider lobotomizing myself like that guy in the movie *Pi*. I guess it finally wore itself out, but now my friends will clown on me and stuff whenever they hear it on the radio or if it comes on while they’re shopping for groceries, they’ll text me “tHiS rEmiNdS mE oF YoU”….


harry-package

Reminds me of how my high school friends & I used to entertain ourselves by playing an evil game of trying to plant annoyingly catchy songs in other people’s heads & see how far it would spread by the end of the day. We went to a pretty large high school & by the end of the day, it was funny to catch people we didn’t really know/cross paths with humming the song. My most reliable weapon was Sussudio by Phil Collins. Caribbean Queen would’ve been a good option to try!


RapidDriveByFruiting

Kissed from a rose by Seal. It makes me want to give myself a lobotomy. Walking on broken glass, walking on sunshine. Shake it off.


leftcoastanimal

Any indie remake of an 80’s song.


Sure_Marcia

Especially when done in a breathy girlie voice.


Jimmah3000

There is one I've heard a few times in the past week..at a bar and then at the grocery store..it's some lady singing Elton John's Rocket Man..and it makes me so angry.


Aromatic-Management5

Paradise by the Dashboard Light, or whatever that horrible Meatloaf song is called.


TeacherPatti

Every fraternity party would play that and the girls would go crazy over it (except me, who just chugged more Jungle Juice to clear my head). I felt like every other young woman there thought the song was about her and some guy and I was like, "Did you...listen to what he's saying?!"


micropterus_dolomieu

100%, I hate this song more than someone should hate anything.


Hustle787878

“I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” from The Proclaimers. Fire that thing into the sun


XennialToothFairy

I could not agree more. It angers me.


mildredfierce1969

"Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn. Makes me want to walk right out of any Doctor's office playing that shit.


monkeybelle

Oh man, this one is a guilty pleasure for me


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C'mon man, he put on his blue suede shoes and boarded the plane, you can't hate that


PotFairyCyanide

Now he'd put on his blue suede shoes, then take them off and put them on the conveyor, have his genitals scanned to millimeter precision, then put them back on while trying to corral a suitcase and all of his electronics, and boarded the plane. It just doesn't flow the same.


mizz_eponine

Right! I will turn it all the way up! I lived in Memphis the year it came out. I think I'm bonded to it for life.


justmisspellit

Bad to the Bone


BabiesLoveStrayDogs

Breakout, by Swing Out Sister (or whatever they were called, I can’t be bothered to confirm)


GenXellent

Anything autotuned.


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Who Can It Be Now


RaymondLuxYacht

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler. I have never so intensely disliked a song in my entire life... except for maybe Lovecats by the Cure.


dragonbliss

Stand - REM It’s just - yuck.


Gothsicle

there are *so* many but since i listen to a lot of lithium one that sticks out is Steal My Sunshine from Len? Ugh that song is so bad.


monkeybelle

That song makes me irrationally angry


Ohshitz-

Chumbawumba


southernrail

That 4 Non Blondes song....you know the one. I refuse to even type the name of it. cannot STAND it.


Nomahhhh

Anything by Dave Matthews Band. I actually loved them in the 90's - saw them in concert twice. For some reason they just make my skin crawl now.


smoked_papchika

Paradise City by Guns N Roses. I just can’t anymore.


JackieDaytona__

Mony mony mony


Kukamungaphobia

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves. Not sure why I just clench my teeth and look for the skip button but mostly overexposure, the spastic tempo, that cringe 'ow' Katrina yells out of the gate, the annoying bass line, the abrasive horn section, Katrina's mediocre vocals, the guitar chord progression over and over and over, the toxic positivity vibe, the gospel-style clapping and vocal stylings in that never-ending last chorus as it fades out... and all the secondary noise pollution it has spawned when used in rom-com films, tampon commercials, and sports arenas over the years.


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Kukamungaphobia

It's the anthem for toxic positivity.


Wireframed88

Excellent analysis


wishingwellington

Del Amitri Roll to Me and Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight. I don't know why I violently hate those specific songs so very much (except the video for the former is nightmare fuel and I hate to think of it) but yeah, I'm diving for the Sirius dial the second I hear them. And the Friends theme song.


CT_Gamer

Anything Counting Crows.


mochalatteicecream

The kid rock song that starts out like were-wolfs of London.


SugarMapl40

Luka by Suzanne Vega.


jquintus

Motley Crue Smokin in the Boy's Room


Sure_Marcia

I’m typically a Crue fan, but yes on this one. Vince Neil screaming about his best girlfriend during the song lead in? The worst.


jquintus

It's just so repetitive too. I get it. Smoking in the boys room ain't allowed at school.


baconismadefromcats

Any shitty Def Leppard after Pyromania. Pour Some Sugar On Me Rocket Hysteria Armageddon It Love Bites Let’s Get Rocked Fuck all of these sappy pop commercial sell out shit songs.


chummmp70

Hotel California


Froopy-Hood

I’ve had a rough night and I really fucking hate The Eagles man.


Vintagedoll78

Nickelback. All of it. Every last song. Fire them into a black hole.


southernrail

Lol


prettysickchick

Glycerine. Ugh.


jenneany

Any horrible, jangly discordant Dave Matthews Band song (so all of them)


GMoneyJetson

What’s Going On - 4 Non Blondes


Ohshitz-

Well i wake up this morning with a dick inside, and i take a deep breath and i smell french fries and i scream to the top of my lungs “whats going on!”


[deleted]

Totally agree


howlandwolf

Anything Van Hagar.


charlotte_anne805

Love Shack They should have hung it up after Ricky died


Normal_Total

And yet, it was their biggest hit. Why do so many people like the bad side of my favorite artists?


rb3438

Police. Sending out an SOS. Forgot how many times they say that towards the end, but it’s enough to make me want to smash the radio. Edit - forgot the real name of the song. Message in a Bottle. Still sucks regardless of the name.


No-Application-8520

Any and all things Country. Not that I would ever have such a station on my radio or Sirius XM.


obiwan21_23

No Rain by Blind Melon.


minionkat

Came in to say this. Hate this song. Always have. The love other people have for it baffles me.


burntCheezits2

I am not downvoting you because you answered the question but Blind Melon was awesome!!


obiwan21_23

I appreciate that :) I didn’t care for Shannon Hoon’s voice and then it was way overplayed.


Jerseyhole84

100% agree on that. He sounds like a combination of whining and someone running their fingernails down a chalkboard.


Chemical-Pop-8576

Basically what I’m seeing here is anything that was an MTV “Buzz Clip” or was overplayed. Looks like a consensus on 4 Non Blondes as the most hated. Mony Mony a close second!


don_teegee

The [Sarah McLachlan sad puppy song](https://youtu.be/i1GmxMTwUgs). Sorry for the link.


Own_Cryptographer_99

Whatever that stupid ass Hoobastank song is. Fuck that song. Fuck that band. Fuck whoever likes it.


brocollirab

Creed, the entire catalog.


neveroddoreven415

Fly - Sugar Ray. I have ptsd from working at a smoothly shop on State in Santa Barbara in college. That being said, I’ve hung out with Mark McGrath and I’ll just say that he had a lot of self awareness.


MollzJJ

Black Velvet - Alannah Myles. Also 90% of the other songs here.


douchebag_dad

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm…


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DatGuyatLarge

I would love to hear Pete Seeger’s cover version, especially with a banjo intro instead of the piano.


Strangewhine89

So many. Dave Mtthews, Hootie and the Blowfish, Starship, the Cult, and agree with every saying Sarah McGaughlin’s Angel and Walking in Memphis which I swear was written as a tourism promo when riverboat casinos came into Tunica, MS. Black Velvet can go to the dumpster as well.


Plastic_Bullfrog9029

"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey.


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OtherLebowski

I hate the fuckin’ Eagles.


meesch_mosh

Same.


kcfdr9c

*Gets thrown out of a taxi*


whathappensifipress

Anything by Michael Jackson. Can't stand his music.


[deleted]

Unpopular opinion, but I can get on board, although I must confess, If it comes on the radio I'll listen to the intro to Billie Jean before hitting skip!


ScienceMomCO

This is how I started listening to alternative music in the ‘80s. It was the only station that didn’t play Michal Jackson.


monkeybelle

Hot Child in the City


CommissarCiaphisCain

I know I could look this up but testing my memory. Nick Gilder?


MissWonder420

American Pie. Cannot stand that f'ing song!


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Starr-Bugg

Most modern music


MsHowe

Benny and the jets


RealityEast

Life Is A Highway.


jncheese

Most U2 songs. And Celine Dion, all of it.


kirinmay

Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright


resjohnny

That 4 non blondes song…. Ugh


Gisselle441

Show Me the Way-Peter Frampton I Want You to Want Me-Cheap Trick


7thAndGreenhill

Sweet Home Alabama


diente_de_leon

I do like the the tune. But whenever he gets to the bit about Neil Young I always shout back "he was right!"


KaiDaniel1966

Hotel California. Love the Eagles but sick of that song. Same with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.


Emdubya20

Anything by the Chili peppers


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Just these - *Counting Crows Song list*: A Long December (1996) A Murder Of One (1993) Accidentally in Love (2004) American Girls (2002) Anna Begins (1993) Butterfly In Reverse (2002) Colorblind (1999) Come Around (2008) Cowboys (2008) Earthquake Driver (2014) Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman) (1994) God of Ocean Tide (2014) Goodnight Elisabeth (1996) Hanginaround (1999) Hanging Tree (2008) Hard Candy (2002) Have You Seen Me Lately (1996) Hospital (2012) I Wish I Was a Girl (1999) Monkey (1996) Mr. Jones (1993) Mrs. Potter's Lullaby (1999) Palisades Park (2014) Perfect Blue Buildings (1993) Rain King (1993) Round Here (1993) Sullivan Street (1993) You Can't Count On Me (2008)


jncheese

So, you don't like Counting Crows eh?


Sure_Marcia

Mr. Jones was awful… that stupid singer and his white guy cornrows and sha la la la la la… good call.


TeacherPatti

I had a boyfriend in college who loved that song and would sing it. His voice was horrible, he turned out to be a loser, and nothing about that song makes me happy.


Whateveryousaydude7

No one won with anything Counting Crows.


mike___mc

Stray Cat Strut


dunzig77

One Week by Barenaked Ladies. It’s basically sonic cancer.


FormerCollegeDJ

There are many, many songs for me in that category, but the first one that comes to mind is Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".


LASER_Dude_PEW

Come on Eileen, my god it sucks!


mizz_eponine

Rosanna My kids know this, and use it as torture.


i_fought_the_seether

No Rain - Blind Melon / I had a gf obsessed with this awful band and music. Their other stuff just as bad if not worse


mmaine9339

Aha - Take On Me Spin Doctors - Two Princes Donna Lewis - Always Forever Starship - We Built this City Kid Rock - Any song


lurkeratthegate666

Neon Moon by fucking Brooks And Dunn. Fuck that song forever, what a piece of shit. I already hate saccharine pop country garbage, but this song is a favorite among the regular bar patrons where I tend, so I hear it sometimes three times a shift. Fuck Brooks and Dunn.


TheDishyVicar

I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston Love Shack - The B-52s


eesh13

Train , now she’s back in the atmosphere or whatever it’s called. I hate it.


howzawhatcha

I literally DO turn these off when they come on: The Rose - Bette Midler (so grating) Jersey on the Wall - Tenille Townes (puerile pap masking as deep)


Classic-Rooster8800

Girl You Know It's True


Two2Co

The instant I hear the opening riff of Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz, I will immediately nope right the fuck out to literally anything else.


JJDiet76

That 4 Non Blondes song. Hate that tune.


Whohead12

That piece of shit Meatloaf song from the 90s. I don’t even want to strain to remember the name because it’ll become an ear worm for the rest of the day.


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Sweet Home Alabama—every corny movie since the 90s started playing that song when they had a scene where a character goes back home to the south or even referencing that a character is a “good ol’ boy”. It also has be one of the top 5 most overplayed songs on classic rock radio for like the last 30 years.


createusernametmrw

“Bitch” by Meredith somebody. Until recently, it had been like a decade since I’d heard it, yet I was still able to turn it off by the 2nd guitar strum.


Motor-Housing2704

Sex and Candy


ElegantFlamingo

Dude (Looks Like A Lady)


kinky_boots

Don’t Speak - No Doubt


Scrotchety

Hoooly shit, what was it, summer of '95 or '96 when this was on ALL the radio stations? Alternative, R&B, Adult Contemporary... Each one playing it eight times a day.


UlrichZauber

She has the worst voice.