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The discussion centers around the most annoying music, with participants sharing their least favorite songs and artists. Common grievances include repetitive lyrics, overexposure, and lack of musical depth. Songs like "It's a Small World," "Friday" by Rebecca Black, and works by Andrew Lloyd Webber are frequently mentioned as particularly grating. Many express disdain for modern pop music, citing its reliance on auto-tune and formulaic structures, while others criticize specific genres like rap and country for their perceived lack of authenticity. The conversation also touches on the subjective nature of music taste, with some participants humorously acknowledging that what is annoying to one person may be beloved by another. Overall, the thread highlights a shared frustration with certain musical trends and artists, while also inviting a light-hearted exchange about personal preferences in music.
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Not all threads need to be constructive. So tell me your worst, most annoying music out there. What tune makes you rip your hair out??
 
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With apologizes to Zz, "It's a Small World (After All)"
 
Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog.
Rock the Casbah.
Songs from the 50s that tell a story, e.g. "Last Kiss" (yeah Pearl Jam covered it, and I love Pearl Jam, but that song sucks even when Pearl Jam does it!)
 
Macarthur Park.
 
Any thing that does not come from the UK, except Abba.
 
[STRIKE]Some band called Velvet Underground are pretty bad[/STRIKE] :biggrin:


Micromass made me retract my previous statement. I'm sorry for any disruption caused.
 
rollcast said:
Some band called Velvet Underground are pretty bad :biggrin:

Banned.
 
the rolling stones save satisfaction
 
MaNaMaNa was irritating as can be, and it got played everywhere for a while.
 
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Everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber. (I mean his entire output, I don't know or care if he ever wrote a song called "Everything").
 
  • #11
This video:

Watch it if you haven't already. Rebecca Black - "Friday".
 
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Well, if we're going with youtube, there's always "Ken Lee".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
 
  • #13
The justly celebrated Florence Foster Jenkins: .
 
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Wing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqa-HYihaZo
 
  • #15
You guys haven't lived long enough to know what a really BAAAD song is!

 
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AlephZero said:
Everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber. (I mean his entire output, I don't know or care if he ever wrote a song called "Everything").

I had to suffer through a performance that was a review of his most known songs for the sake of offering "culture" to the students I was teaching last summer. Thankfully, nobody realized that the lemonade and iced teas the faculty were drinking in the back row while chaperoning them were actually whiskey sours and long island iced teas. I finally asked the two faculty who were teaching music and theater in the program if all of his songs were the same melody with different lyrics. They nodded in agreement and were as tortured by the experience as the science and math faculty. If this year's program involves anything by him, I'm volunteering to be the person who drives the smaller van to transport sick kids home early rather than chaperoning on the buses that have to stay the whole time.
 
  • #17
Whatever is on popular radio today.

(damn kids, get off my lawn).

Seriously though, I like (fringe) electronic music, I like silly, psychedelic nonsense, I have quite an open mind for music, but I cannot abide the trash they are playing on the radio the last couple of years with the one-note synthesizer and the LMFAO, and auto-tune, and the complete absense of melody, harmony, rhythm and groove. I mean, what is left when you remove all of those things? I might as well put my head in the toaster!

</rant> hehe
 
  • #18
Moonbear said:
I finally asked the two faculty who were teaching music and theater in the program if all of his songs were the same melody with different lyrics. They nodded in agreement and were as tortured by the experience as the science and math faculty.

I guess every family has its black sheep. His father William Lloyd Webber was a teenage musical prodigy, organist, composer, and eventually teacher at two of the main London music colleges (and his music is probably about due for a revival, after being completely forgotten). One of WLW's often-repeated criticisms of his students' compositions was "why did you write 6 pages when you could have said as much in 6 bars".

Like many kids, I guess ALW ignored parental advice.
 
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atyy said:
The justly celebrated Florence Foster Jenkins:

Nooooooo... some thngs are so bad, they are good.
 
  • #20
Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back".
 
  • #21
I find Weird Al Yankovich somewhat annoying. Also, Woody Allen on clarinet, Sesame Street, and gangsta rap. I almost got through an episode of American Idol once. That was annoying. Classical "atonal" or "12 tone" (is that what it's called?) stuff (Schoenberg, etc.) is annoying. The songs of certain birds, such as the warbling finch, are annoying. And, last but not least, anything by Simon and Garfunkel.
 
  • #22
AlephZero said:
I guess every family has its black sheep.

Yes, it's too bad. He might have made something out of himself.

I can like almost any music given the right mood. But if it gets too hard, or violent, that's it for me. I learned to hate country music after moving to Oregon, but that was a function of my job while attending college. Once I didn't have to listen to it eight hours a day, I slowly started to enjoy some country again.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Yes, it's too bad. He might have made something out of himself.
He could have turned out like his brother Julian (the cellist), for instance.

If you think "stinking rich" = "successful", then ALS is a success, but this thread was about music.
 
  • #24
All but one song from a list that I commented on last year in the "Best Songs Ever" thread.

OmCheeto said:
...
I predict that in the next 5 million years, none of your selections will make it onto the billboard top 100,000. Unless of course cats take over the world.

Fortunately, half of the videos have been removed from the internet. Unfortunately, the one that sounded like a room full of cats scratching a room full of chalk boards is gone, so I have no evidence for the cat reference.
 
  • #25
Anything by Yoko Ono.
 
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AlephZero said:
He could have turned out like his brother Julian (the cellist), for instance.

If you think "stinking rich" = "successful", then ALS is a success, but this thread was about music.

He is successful because people love his music. If the point is to write music that no one likes, I can see why he went the other direction.
 
  • #27
Vanadium 50 said:
With apologizes to Zz, "It's a Small World (After All)"

When I was a kid and too young to run off on my own, we usually went to Disneyland at least twice a year. This meant listening to "It's a Small World" many, many, many times; first as we waited in line for and hour or two, and then for the ride.

I'm with you on this one. After the first 10,000 plays, it got a bit old.
 
  • #28
Feel free to flame me, but basically all Christmas music. Death by infinite overexposure if not done in by triteness.
 
  • #29
Any Pop music of the last 2-3 years has been garbage and it keeps getting worse.. Agreeing with adyssa auto-tune and superficial music with no actually music is what the kids are into these days
 
  • #30
Ivan Seeking said:
He is successful because people love his music.

I would argue he makes lots of money because tourists in big cities tend to select a night out on the basis of already knowing the name of the show and/or the stars in it, rather than making a judgement on its musical quality. It's the power of positive feedback.

ALW's most successful achievement is as a theater impresario, not a musician, IMO.
 
  • #31
Polka dot panties.

 
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PAllen said:
Feel free to flame me, but basically all Christmas music. Death by infinite overexposure if not done in by triteness.

There's plenty of good Xmas music that hasn't been played to death like
 
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  • #33
If it wasn't comedy, it would not get much worse than this:



Maybe with the exception of Phil Collins...
 
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  • #34
micromass said:
Not all threads need to be constructive. So tell me your worst, most annoying music out there. What tune makes you rip your hair out??

Pink Floyd is the worst band ever... Pure provocation... :biggrin:...
 
  • #35
nazarbaz said:
Pink Floyd is the worst band ever... Pure provocation... :biggrin:...

Well, I love Pink Floyd. I have almost all of their albums in vinyl. Of course, it's inevitable the someone's worst is someone else's fave.
 
  • #36
PAllen said:
Well, I love Pink Floyd. I have almost all of their albums in vinyl. Of course, it's inevitable the someone's worst is someone else's fave.

I am joking... A lifelong fan of progressive and psychedelic rock in general and Pink Floyd in particular...
What I really can't stand is rap (or crap)... A gabby pseudo-music...
Not consensual, I'm afraid...
 
  • #37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y
 
  • #38
Pure noise pollution ...

 
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(These three should have known when to quit.)
In general, some of the worst music I feel is that begins
relatively well, but way overstays itself by being so
repetitious and needlessly lengthy (particularly in vocals) are:


Grank Funk Railroad - - - - "I'm Your Captain"


The Beatles - - - - "Hey Jude" (a vocal phrase is repeated
consecutively about 23 times)


The Police - - - - at least one of their songs is very repetitive
vocally at its end, but I don't know the song's title


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Waitresses - - - - "I Know What Boys Like"
 
  • #40
checkitagain said:
(These three should have known when to quit.)
In general, some of the worst music I feel is that begins
relatively well, but way overstays itself by being so
repetitious and needlessly lengthy (particularly in vocals) are:


Grank Funk Railroad - - - - "I'm Your Captain"


The Beatles - - - - "Hey Jude" (a vocal phrase is repeated
consecutively about 23 times)


The Police - - - - at least one of their songs is very repetitive
vocally at its end, but I don't know the song's title


-----------------------------------------------------------------


Waitresses - - - - "I Know What Boys Like"

Whenever talking about repetitive lyrics definitely we have to meantion Coldplay's Paradise.

No guys its not,

"PARA - PARA - PARADISE" * How long does it take to fill a track.

Unless you have some sort of weird speech impediment or stutter.
 
  • #41
Lady Gaga

Motley Crue

Warrant

Def Leppard

Poison

basically any 80's glam/butt rock
 
  • #42
Number one song in America right now...

 
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  • #43
I can't say I'm a big fan of Gregorian Chants...
 
  • #44
Derrezed said:
Number one song in America right now...

Yeah, that wasn't very enjoyable at all.
 
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chiro said:
Anything by Yoko Ono.
I forgot about her. Does it get any worse?



 
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  • #46
ThomasT said:
I forgot about her. Does it get any worse?

If Yoko Ono accompanied Gregorian chants, I think it would be worse.
 
  • #47
lisab said:
If Yoko Ono accompanied Gregorian chants, I think it would be worse.
Yeah, that would be really annoying.
 
  • #48
By the way, this is, potentially, a great thread. There should be more negative threads like this, imho.
 
  • #49
I must be pretty dumb with jazz music. I get very annoyed by all the Coltrane saxophone music.
 
  • #50
jobyts said:
I must be pretty dumb with jazz music. I get very annoyed by all the Coltrane saxophone music.

Music is like foreign languages... If you don't understand them, you can't appreciate their beauty... There's a kind of cerebral turn in the history and aesthetics of jazz that could be a bit difficult to follow... I admit it...
Going beyond harmony is tricky but necessary... Take any tune you want and play it many times... After a while, you will feel the need to switch notes, play them in different tones and rythms... The outcome is the deconstruction of melody...
John Coltrane is a genius in that...
 

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