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Public Address

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:35:57 +1300

Discussion from blog post.

Tom Ackroyd

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:35:57 +1300

I think I'm allergic to this bloke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWcyIpul8OE

Danyl Mclauchlan

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:39:33 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WehN8X_VkE&feature=relmfu

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:40:44 +1300

Reggae.

Sorry, but I just can?t stand it. And no, I won?t be linking ;-)

Sean Murgatroyd

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:41:19 +1300

The Phantom of the Opera is appalling.

A deconstruction of the main, and opressively dominant musical motif:

Start at the top of a minor scale. Go down to the third. Go back up again. That's all. No refunds for the short ride.

Good on ya, Lord Lloyd Webber.

Otherwise, my?

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:41:44 +1300

As suggested by Dan News, Creed ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBqjGd3fHQ

SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:42:11 +1300

Reggae.

Sorry, but I just can't stand it.

You're banned.

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:42:26 +1300

This ? the perfect storm of mind-bending awfulness. So many people who should have known better blurping through a banal song grossly over-produced, and it just refused to go away?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ82q2wNeho

bob daktari

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:47:13 +1300

brostep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86khmc6y1yE

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:47:43 +1300

How do you do the long url? Which one is that?

kiwiyankee

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:53:41 +1300

This is the worst. I spent a summer working in a feezing works where this was repeated on the radio at least once each hour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urdlvw0SSEc&ob=av2e

Paul Brislen

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:53:56 +1300

Otmar Lieber.

I worked in a restaurant and we had ONE Otmar Lieber CD and we played it over and over and ...

One of the waiters left and as a parting gift he destroyed the CD. Oh how we cheered until the manager turned up with another copy just?

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:53:56 +1300

How do you do the long url?

Either copy and paste it from the address window in your browser, or click "Share" then choose "Long Link" in the little Options menu and copy and paste that.

Dovil

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:54:21 +1300

So working at HMV was akin in living in the same house with my mother then. With regards to the Phantom of the Opera, that is. Not a big Public Enemy fan.

Florence and the Machine and their like always sound as if they're creating music purely to be part?

DeepRed

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:55:33 +1300

This ? the perfect storm of mind-bending awfulness. So many people who should have known better blurping through a banal song grossly over-produced, and it just refused to go away?

To me, it's more of an accidental period piece – a by-product of the Muller Thurgau-soaked excesses of the pre-1987?

Leopold

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:58:15 +1300

I suppose Barry Manilow is too obvious?

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:01:40 +1300

Anything by Leonard bloody Cohen (all three of my husbands have liked him).

Sacha

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:03:39 +1300

Never heard them but the answer is Nickelback, right?

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:03:39 +1300

This is a so bad it's bad thread right? I'm tempted to put in some 'so bad it's goods'.

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:04:39 +1300

I'll have to get back to this, but just a little white whine, reading this on an iPhone is its own form of torture.

'Worst song ever!'
'Flash not supported.'

Flash is the worst song [sic] ever.

Joe Mahoney

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:05:30 +1300

Weezer: I love the Blue album. Pinkerton is *perfect*. The Green Album and Maladroit have their place. There's one song on Make Believe that's really good. The Red Album has three fantastic tracks.

Then they did this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nKNhNifp6M

How am I supposed to tell my kids their music sucks when?

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:11:06 +1300

This is a so bad it's bad thread right? I'm tempted to put in some 'so bad it's goods'.

It's not meant to be a "so bad it's good" thread. It's a "so bad I want to self-harm" thread. But, hey, since when have PA threads kept rigorously to topic?

3410

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:14:35 +1300

One man?s Meat Puppets is another man?s Poison

Ain't that the truth. I actually like about half of the suggestions posted so far.

Sorry, but after reading that article – again – I kinda feel that this game is a little bit in bad taste. That said, something I really?

Shaun Lott

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:15:37 +1300

On the subject of 'Phantom', it seems worth to quote the final lines from Roger Waters' 'It's a miracle.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyy4zeS4-5o

We cower in our shelters
With our hands over our ears
Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff
Runs for years and years and years
An earthquake hits the theater
But the operetta lingers?

Joe Mahoney

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:15:39 +1300

Nickleback, Creed, et al are bad but I don't think they fall into the category of torture, cos at least you can have some fun with their tunes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDgs1iroYyY

Sunn O))), on the other hand. How do you have fun with them? Surely this is the perfect noise to encourage?

Emma Hart

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:15:40 +1300

My best friend taught singing in high schools for over a decade. Nobody hates Andrew Lloyd Webber like she does. Yous should get drunk and discuss it some time.

When I was in the Halls of Residence in 1990, the girl in the next room broke up with her boyfriend.?

Tim Michie

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:18:47 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNTQvXSsfA

Ana Simkiss

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:19:44 +1300

God totally I HATE novelty songs.
Novelty covers particularly get my goat. The latest awfulness that seems to be everywhere is a reggae cover of all of Nirvana's Nevermind. The awful unecessariness of this makes me run screaming out of shops and restaurants.

Phil Sargent

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:21:15 +1300

I spent six months working on a floor where Country FM was played. This was on the playlist for the whole time .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zoTLwrm9QE

BenWilson

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:25:57 +1300

Any music can turn to torture with sufficient thrashing just as drops of water in the Chinese Water Torture are reputed to feel like the blows of a sledgehammer eventually.

I used to like the soundtrack from The Big Chill until they played it non-stop for 3 weeks when I?

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:31:49 +1300

On the subject of 'Phantom', it seems worth to quote the final lines from Roger Waters' 'It's a miracle.

That is awesome.

Sacha

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:34:24 +1300

Shaun, leave out the usual Public Address square brackets and the link turns into an embedded clip automagically.

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:43:15 +1300

Pizza Express Chriswick, all of 1987. And no, you can't have extra fucking pepperoni.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhE2JgJ59VQ

James Butler

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:44:36 +1300

Reggae.

Sorry, but I just can?t stand it.

At the risk of alienating 90% of the PAS community, ME TOO. But I think some of my antipathy comes from growing up in Wellington in the 90s.

That said, I'm rather fond of the moments in various Bad Brains albums when?

Gareth Davidson

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:44:50 +1300

Yep. If ever there was a band that could plagiarise themselves – mashup of two (okay, it's a loose definition of "two") Nickleback songs panned L & R:

WARNING: NSFLTIWTLIL (NSF listening to if will to live is low):

http://musicforants.com/assets/vs/How%20You%20Remind%20Me%20Of%20Someday.mp3

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:46:00 +1300

The all-time winner on my loathsome list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&ob=av2e

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:47:58 +1300

If you wanted information out of me, and I absolutely would not give it to you, no matter what you tried (I'm incredibly good at keeping secrets so torture probably wouldn't work on me), your last resort would have to be country music. I cannot, and will not, abide it.?

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:47:59 +1300

Reggae.

Sorry, but I just can?t stand it. And no, I won?t be linking ;-)

Dude, that's just hurtful.

Gareth Davidson

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:48:15 +1300

He he, reminds me of driving down Blenheim Rd in Ch-Ch many years ago, listening to RDU when they played no fewer than seven different versions of SLTS back-to-back, including Tori Amos, the Gregorian Monks and The Moog Cookbook:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLyaZ4Le1g

Andrew Stevenson

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:49:00 +1300

Tracy Chapman, Fast Car in particular, is so depressing it makes me want to slit wrists – and I like Leonard (gloom in a room) Cohen (and Mazzy Star and Elysian Fields...)

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:50:38 +1300

Finally, the one who scarred me for life. On many Sunday mornings when I was a teenager my father would put Patrick O'Hagan on the rekkid player at full blast to get me out of bed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXETlESqpuU

Ana Simkiss

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:55:36 +1300

I too was tortured as a young person by my Dad's intolerable musical taste. In his case, avant-garde, up its own arse jazz. Loud, on Sunday morning.

The Horror.

Sharon McIver

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:56:14 +1300

"I worked in a restaurant and we had ONE Otmar Lieber CD and we played it over and over and ..."

Had the same thing with Vaya Con Dios..unitl one Sunday afternoon when one of the Restaurant managers and I agreed it had to go so we did a mexican?

James Butler

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:58:11 +1300

As for my top musical torture, I nominate anything by Sky. This one in particular gives me nightmares:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1q1r4jqI4I

EDIT: On reflection, deleted the "almost" before "anything".

Will de Cleene

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:00:08 +1300

Anything by Kenny effing G.

Ross McA.

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:02:16 +1300

I challenge anyone to go the distance with this hellish excuse for a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-x6ijqgIBo

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:03:41 +1300

My partner loves that Nico album but we've agreed that it should probably never go on in my presence. Velvet Underground & Nico? Sweet as. Nico on her own? Yeh nah, no thanks.

She also loved Bob Dylan but I've managed to convince her that he's an appalling old charlatan who?

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:11:31 +1300

I have my headphones on, and am rocking away quite nicely. Never heard of Sky – thanks!

James Butler

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:12:36 +1300

Never heard of Sky – thanks!

Oh god oh god what have I done

James Butler

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:16:34 +1300

Also Roger Whittaker, a man so square he couldn't bring himself to sing "don't" for "doesn't" when covering Streets Of London:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKpa-VWCf4

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:17:21 +1300

Reggae

You're banned.

Dude, that's just hurtful.

I'll admit that my dislike of reggae hails back to my younger and more intolerant days. These days I actually like some of the older and more raw sounds from Jamaica.

However, UB40 will always make me want to drill out my ears.?

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:17:52 +1300

I love instrumental music. It's okay – I won't inflict any on you! (And I have heard their stuff – searching through videos, the Toccata is what I remember the most.)

nzlemming

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:17:57 +1300

My partner loves that Nico album but we've agreed that it should probably never go on in my presence. Velvet Underground & Nico? Sweet as. Nico on her own? Yeh nah, no thanks.

My brother had a dog called Nico. I always thought it was appropriate...

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:18:21 +1300

Also Roger WhittakerI really should leave this thread before PTSD hits.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:18:32 +1300

I mean, how can you not love that guitarist's jersey?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbgUrp1a70

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:19:43 +1300

However, UB40 will always make me want to drill out my ears.

Heh, funnily enough it was hearing some of UB40s 12" dubs as an impressionable young man that got me hunting out the good stuff from likes of Scratch and Tubby.

Your point still stands though.

Toby Gillman

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:21:46 +1300

What, no hate for Hotel #*cking California? Oh god, that guitar solo...

James Butler

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:22:17 +1300

I really should leave this thread before PTSD hits.

Heh. Actually I just realized that my real musical torture is "all the tapes my Dad used to play in the car on the drive to Napier". Coming up next: Dave Brubeck.

Adrian Coysh

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:23:08 +1300

I used to work in a pub in London in the early 1980's (strange for a kiwi). You soon get to hate the hit of the day, which got relentlessly played on the jukebox. Under Pressure by Bowie/Queen was a huge hit, and I still loathe it with a passion?

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:23:49 +1300

Can I throw in a late shout for Arcade Fire as well please? Seems to have an amazing ability to make me switch a radio off.

Also, funnily enough, almost anything that Kim Hill plays...

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:25:40 +1300

Oh James. Now you've just broken my heart. If I was on a deserted island, all alone, and I could take the back catalogue of only one artist, it would be hard to choose from Elton John, and Dave Brubeck. Oh, I couldn't do without Simply Red. Or Pet Shop?

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:26:38 +1300

Torture tinged with nostalgia.

The torture is obvious, but it also reminds me of a roller disco in Mangere in 1981.

Guess you had to be there. Which I was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHm4ro_l8s&ob=av2e

Bohemian Rhapsody

You just haven't heard this guy doing it. Via R Sproull on Twitter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqymcJRSbxI&feature=youtu.be

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:28:17 +1300

What, no hate for Hotel #*cking California?So bad it's good. I loved that in my teens growing up in the suburbs; then I hated it as a city would-be in my 20s and 30s. Then I came to love it again. This, on the other hand, is appalling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QK8RxCAwo&ob=av2e

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:32:02 +1300

I am officially the cool kid in this conversation because I like the music that nobody else does.

hayden ward

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:32:48 +1300

growing up in a town with only one or two middle of the road radio stations it has to be these guys... or anything fleetwood mac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BwOXlGbW6Q

Glenn Pearce

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:33:34 +1300

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

My wife loves it when I quote ZMW lyrics to her...

Tamara

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:33:34 +1300

The Mama Mia movie soundtrack. Just no.

BenWilson

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:55 +1300

I like practically everything people have hated on here (I did once like even the album I hated on). I expect this thread is going to end up being littered with the greatest music ever made, whose only crime was to be loved too much by too many of the?

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:36:30 +1300

Aww this is just lovely — the face that launched a thousand sluts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIcnf-zveGE

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:39:52 +1300

You are absolutely fashion forward.

Ethan Tucker

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:42:24 +1300

One summer working a student job in a well-known bookshop chain I was subjected to the Priscilla Queen of the Desert soundtrack on endless loop, for what may have been the entire 2-3 months. Teeth grating ensued. It was eventually replaced – oh joy! – with the Gipsy Kings -?

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:43:22 +1300

Squee! No-one has ever said that to me before. I will love you always for that.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:43:38 +1300

Me too buddy, me too.

Gareth Ward

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:45:38 +1300

The.... Grease soundtrack. That was hard to even type.

I think I realised there is actually one OK song in that movie somewhere but there is no f*&%ng way I'm putting myself through listening to it to find out.

3410

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:47:17 +1300

All together now: 'DOO do, do do de do do DOO doooo...'

Um...
I Dream of Jeannie ?

Ethan Tucker

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:50:35 +1300

Preferable. Infinitely preferable.

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:50:37 +1300

I like practically everything people have hated on here (I did once like even the album I hated on).

We'll be having words if you like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rju9b_Uk8Sw

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:51:41 +1300

The.... Grease soundtrack This is sososo hideous it made Grease preferable at the time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4MFxcFofkY

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:54:05 +1300

The Mama Mia movie soundtrack. Just no.

Thank you. The 'friends' who insisted on giving it to our children don't come around here no more. Well, they do, but it's banned when I'm home.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:56:46 +1300

ooh, I know that one.....

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:58:55 +1300

I've loathed Dire Straits forever. This youtube clip has a Suzuki shopping basket ad on before it; perfectly targeted marketing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ffIJ7ZO4U

Gary Elshaw

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:01:36 +1300

Whitney Houston songs always annoyed the hell out of me, especially I Will Always Love You. Awful thing to say, but when she left this world I really hoped she might take that song with her. This however always makes me run away from where ever it is playing, or?

Grant McDougall

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:04:19 +1300

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis and U2 really bug me.

ScottY

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:07:43 +1300

As a prog rock tragic I quite like some of Genesis' early work.

But what Phil Collins has done since leaving the band should have him up for crimes against humanity.

Exhibit A:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI

Richard Stewart

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:09:57 +1300

Anything from Oasis just sounds whiny and annoying to me. But how awesome is this Mike Flowers cover of Wonderwall!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBBlt4bajM

DeepRed

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:11:33 +1300

We?ll be having words if you like this.

Or anything else Leo Sayer did for that matter. Bulldozer Brownlee has previously confessed to being a fan. Maybe Lordi could be brought in from Helsinki to administer some, well, corrective therapy?

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:13:45 +1300

This is sososo hideous it made Grease preferable at the time

Awww, c'mon. I don't own the first Meat Loaf album but it's a classic in its way. Otoh, Steinman has a lot to answer for for inventing Wagnerian pop.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:14:36 +1300

You know what I'm going to say, don't you? I defy you not to tap your feet to this one, though.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVuqOzG-TM

Well, alright, you might not. But I LOVE it.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:15:24 +1300

Good grief. Down to the way he holds the microphone and does a little shuffle.

Stephen Doyle

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:16:48 +1300

Bubble gum music from the late 60's. Shudder.

Stupid

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:19:12 +1300

Who was that dick flatmate at Knowles St who played this every fucking morning...???!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQfjIw3mivc

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:25:09 +1300

I've loathed Dire Straits forever. This youtube clip has a Suzuki shopping basket ad on before it; perfectly targeted marketing.

Good call. Music for young (at the time) accountants and metal fans who turned 30 and needed to get sensible

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:25:22 +1300

Keep it coming, Stupid. I am dancing in my chair.

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:26:58 +1300

This is sososo hideous it made Grease preferable at the time
Awww, c'mon. I don't own the first Meat Loaf album but it's a classic in its wayThe core difference between men and women is encapsulated in your comment. Or maybe it's this: I love it, my partner loathes it:?

Jacqui Craig

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:28:14 +1300

That awful 'Shaddupa your face' or whatever the title is – gets me rather incoherent with rage and make throttling motions with my hands towards the radio. My husband played a whole Bob Dylan album on a car trip once and that was pretty awful but I couldn't start laughing?

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:28:22 +1300

Okay, okay. You can all hate on whatever music you like. But please please do not hate on the people who might like it. Music snobbery is never attractive. Never.

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:30:52 +1300

This is sososo hideous it made Grease preferable at the time

Alex Petridis at The Guardian said he liked to stir his Springsteen fan mates up by telling them that "Bat out of Hell" was the album that Bruce would have made if he'd had more talent.

Hardy har har.?

Tom Beard

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:31:13 +1300

There have been times in my life when I'd have been tempted to answer "anything with guitars", but that would rule out New Order. What I really can't stand is rawk, especially grunge: sweaty AND angsty is a particularly grating combination.

That said, there's a whole circle of hell that?

Shaun Lott

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:34:01 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyy4zeS4-5o

Like this?

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:36:24 +1300

Now I love you even more. Heather Small is one of my favourites.

Russell Clarke

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:37:10 +1300

U2.

'nuff said.

DeepRed

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:37:19 +1300

Who was that dick flatmate at Knowles St who played this every fucking morning...???!!!

Gack. I'd almost forgotten about that 1970s cheese.

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:37:30 +1300

My 14-year-old son's You Tube favourite at present. Good thing for humanity he goes to a peacenik school

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_3TqxF_02Y&feature=related

George Darroch

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:40:55 +1300

I find it really difficult to hate. Nothing on the pop charts affects me enough to inspire great negative emotion, and since I live in a post-radio bubble anything frequent is my own now. Those months when I?m back in Auckland my loathing is frequently directed at the buffoons bFM?

Phil Stewart

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:45:44 +1300

For you youngsters who think it was all fine and dandy in the ?60s, spare a thought for those of us who endured a summer of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_b6xaVvgeM

Christopher Nimmo

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:50:17 +1300

The Pastoral Symphony is pure dreck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9HWo4THnHA

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:54:24 +1300

The core difference between men and women is encapsulated in your comment. Or maybe it's this: I love it, my partner loathes it:

As I noted somewhere else recently, I once got busted playing 'Search for the Hero' on bFM at, like, 8am on Boxing Day. Caller was enraged at?

Russell Clarke

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:55:21 +1300

Also a special mention for Lulu.

I have never forgiven her for this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPp8N98urc

Tamara

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:56:03 +1300

Ha, my children's grandmother gave it to them and she's unbannable.

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:57:01 +1300

You're forgiven for Meatloaf then. But Paradise by the Dashboard Light? I don't think so.

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:57:03 +1300

Loathe Pearl Jam, love Nirvana, just don't get LA?

Tamara

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:59:45 +1300

oops, misread your comment briefly! Yes, I also make sure it's not on when I'm around.

Emma Hart

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:04:07 +1300

The core difference between men and women is encapsulated in your comment. Or maybe it's this: I love it, my partner loathes it:

In our house? One of us loathes Fleetwood Mac. One of us loathes Billy Bragg. In fact, seeing as Karl can't be here, here's the song he?

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:04:23 +1300

Pretty much all the bands that came out of England in the nineties. Oasis, Coldplay, Radiohead. Actually, I didn't even hate them, they were just a giant MEH. It still grated because I was constantly being told how awesome they were.

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:05:49 +1300

I still have nightmares about the music played ? at great volume ? by a group of hippies camped near us at Glastonbury one year. I think it must have been bad early 70s British folk music.

We were lying in the dark trying to get a little sleep before?

BenWilson

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:07:33 +1300

OK, you got me. Not everything that we hate was once good. There's no moment of vulnerability when such a song would have ever had me tapping my feet. Ironic.

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:09:30 +1300

Radiohead and Billy Bragg? I'll be sulking over here in the corner.

In the mean time;

Or maybe it's this: I love it, my partner loathes it:
I love/loathe this at the same time, because it has been played so much in our house/car, with everyone trying to sing along.?

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:13:15 +1300

OK, you got me. Not everything that we hate was once good. There's no moment of vulnerability when such a song would have ever had me tapping my feet. Ironic.

Heh. I'm totally okay with 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing'. It's a good little pop song.

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:14:35 +1300

Heh. I'm totally okay with 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing'. It's a good little pop song.

Russell Clarke

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:17:29 +1300

Love it, more for the memories associated with it, than for the song itself.

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:18:15 +1300

My shameful like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ&ob=av2e

Richard Grevers

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:18:41 +1300

This was never good – and its strong hook makes it bad earworm material:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDjMZKf-wg

Talking of earworms, Nothing Compares 2 U was mine the other day – totally out of the blue.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:19:03 +1300

Oh. Oh oh oh. I used to love this song. I can see why your girls would love it.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:19:35 +1300

You people are breaking my fucking heart.

Lew Stoddart

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:20:18 +1300

Practically anything with the fucking autotune; or to be a bit more specific, anything that relies on the fucking autotune to mark out its register as ?cheap trick music for empty souls?.

Seriously, it?s like the music-production equivalent of huffing hydrocarbons. Seems like it might be good for a lark,?

Ngaire BookieMonster

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:21:34 +1300

Any song which includes a spoken word interlude.
And yes, that includes Blerta's Dance All Around the World which makes me want to gouge my ears out.

The only exception to this rule is anything by the Shangri-Las, but only because they are the best pop band ever.

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:32:12 +1300

Talking of earworms, Nothing Compares 2 U was mine the other day – totally out of the blue.

Weird, I found myself humming a song the other day that I had no idea where it came from. The supermarket or the service station maybe. In the end I had to?

Scott Chris

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:33:04 +1300

Be Afraid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcwsfns7KPQ

Problem is, having not heard it for so long, I actually rather enjoyed it.

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:33:34 +1300

Any song which includes a spoken word interlude.

Isaac Hayes "By the Time I get to Phoenix"? No, say it ain't so!

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:35:04 +1300

Oh, Peter. How can you possibly say that about Arcade Fire???

I think there is quite enough to wince over already but if you reassess some older music, it just doesn't sound as it good as we once thought it was. Janis Joplin, for instance. Bellowing rather than singing.

What?

JoJo

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:35:59 +1300

I was in a [multi-national chainstore] the other day, and the staff were bitching about the music playing. Every month, some philistine in head office sent them a DVD with ten 'popular' songs on it, and they had to play that DVD every day, all day. Ten songs, eight hours?

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:36:21 +1300

To my horror it was this song by Cat Stevens.

And it was news to me that it's his composition. Dude must have some publishing income!

Scott Chris

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:37:21 +1300

Worst vocal performance, and most over-rated band of all time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYOXyy1ToI

Lew Stoddart

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:41:17 +1300

In these parts, this seems likely to make you even more of an unperson than the reggae-haters.

(I agree, but it just ain't my genre.)

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:41:48 +1300

Worst vocal performance, and most over-rated band of all time:

Boom!

That Hendrix was rubbish too. All fingers and thumbs...

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:42:17 +1300

You people are breaking my f^&*#g heart.

You brought it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OX2WErOvD4

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:43:38 +1300

Oh, Peter. How can you possibly say that about Arcade Fire???

Hey, plenty of people seem to love them and all power to them. I just don't seem to get it.

Joe Wylie

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:44:02 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo__EIXzAco
P. P. Arnold. First to have a hit with First Cut, never bettered IMHO.

Any song which includes a spoken word interlude.

Isaac Hayes "By the Time I get to Phoenix"? No, say it ain't so!
Fair enough, just lay off Barry White OK?

Ngaire BookieMonster

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:50:51 +1300

You all heard me!
:)

Ngaire BookieMonster

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:51:54 +1300

Anything with Piggy in it: instant classic. I mean, just look at that snout.

Scott Chris

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:52:37 +1300

Sorry guys?was never a fan of anti-prog naive pop. Don?t ?get? the Smiths either. Morrissey?s poncy voice and one dimensional melodies curl me toes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGnjrTkv1gs

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:53:10 +1300

Geoff, you know that I am very fond of you. But, no. Just no.

Joe Wylie

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:53:17 +1300

While we're in that neck of the woods, how about Demis "Songs of the Humpback Whale" Roussos?

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:53:58 +1300

Worst vocal performance, and most over-rated band of all time

Back in the day, my 16 year old self would have introduced you to my Doc Martens for saying that.

Hans Versluys

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:54:53 +1300

Come on Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners: The rhythm is perfect for drunk morons who can't dance even when sober. The lyrics shouted by said drunk morons at dreadful parties give me a worse hangover than cheap liquor.

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:56:15 +1300

Any song which includes a spoken word interlude.

I seem to be partial to the odd spoken interlude. This one is Yeats after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVSN9DMvl6I&feature=related

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:56:28 +1300

.P. P. Arnold. First to have a hit with First Cut, never bettered IMHO.

And mine.. Whatever happened to her?

Never got Morrissey, with his bloody gladiolis and his flat, bordering-on-out-of-tune voice.

Roger Lacey

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:57:35 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrHr6MLUnrs
This is the gorgonzola of cheese.

Simon Grigg

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:58:29 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh5R0o_gEB8

Isaac Hayes "By the Time I get to Phoenix"? No, say it ain't so!

Or Ike's Raps #s I to VI for that matter.....

And if anybody disses the above tune, they're instantly blocked.

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:00:53 +1300

Sorry guys?was never a fan of anti-prog naive pop. Don?t ?get? the Smiths either.

Can I just ask, are you actually trolling, or is it just you happen to hate everything that defined my youthful musical taste?

What's next? Let me guess, Cocteau Twins and The Jam?

Ana Simkiss

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:02:34 +1300

you've just reminded me of part two of the AWESOME "Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?" series by the AV Club's Steven Hyden: Axl vs Kurt.
I really recommend the whole series especially to those who grew up in the 90's Here is a link to all of it.

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:03:00 +1300

Geoff, you know that I am very fond of you. But, no. Just no.

Are you seriously saying you don't like Lucinda Williams? I mean, we can still be friends, but ...

Joe Wylie

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:05:52 +1300

Never got Morrissey, with his bloody gladiolis and his flat, bordering-on-out-of-tune voice.
Poor Morrissey.
Danny Hellman's Morrissey VS Ted Nugent.

Alec Morgan

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:11:24 +1300

Sorry Values Party people, for me it is anything by John ?Garden Fresh? Hanlon, incl. his more recent release CDs.

Simon Grigg

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:12:21 +1300

Hey, plenty of people seem to love them and all power to them. I just don't seem to get it.

I'm with you Peter. Mostly my list is songs – some of which I used to love but never want to hear again, which may or may not be of?

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:12:25 +1300

P. P. Arnold. First to have a hit with First Cut, never bettered IMHO.

I love Norma Fraser's version — 1967 Coxsone production.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AKF9pCAmp4

Hmmm ... when I'm posting late 60s rocksteady I've definitely veered off the "music I hate" topic ...

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:12:55 +1300

I am seriously saying that. That sort of music just doesn't speak to me. It's like – I know I should like Melissa Etheridge, and I don't. KD Laing? Nope. Anyway, if our friendship relied solely on our musical tastes, I think we would be in big trouble.

3410

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:14:41 +1300

Norma Fraser's version

That's the one.

Ross Mason

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:19:09 +1300

This has got me seriously worried. I have read all the posts and am now having implosive thoughts about which music I like let alone hate!!

But into the pot comes.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSFQzyNJzj0 | Snoopy's Christmas

Simon Grigg

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:19:25 +1300

Hmmm ... when I'm posting late 60s rocksteady I've definitely veered off the "music I hate" topic ...

There was a whole series of 60s albums full of rocksteady covers of pop. You'd look at the titles and go eechh, but somehow voices always pulled you through and they were?

Tim Michie

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:20:30 +1300

pparnold.com has some interesting stories...

Joe Wylie

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:22:52 +1300

Norma Fraser's version
Interesting, thank you.

A good listing from Simon.

Special mention for Smokie & Dr Hook. As sultans of smarm they take some beating.

Ross Mason

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:23:26 +1300

What was interesting is how people associate their moments in life with music. And thoughts of your own when you hear. eg

Dire Straits – First heard in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The view immediately springs to the fore at the first chords.
Bye Bye American Pie – The?

Tom Beard

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:24:12 +1300

I don't like Country & Western.
I don't like rock music.
Ehm, I don't like, I don't like Rockabilly.
– Rock'n'roll in particular –
I don't like much, really, do I?
But what I do like, I love passionately.

From a song I actually do like.

Peter Darlington

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:25:16 +1300

Happy fucking funky house with "sunshine" in the lyrics.

And the saddest part about that is the "sunshine" lyric is often a ripoff of this stone cold classic from Roy Ayers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M36OGCfYp3A

Lyndon Hood

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:28:26 +1300

Has nobody remarked on the ad placement? http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/1203/doyourworst.jpg

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:32:44 +1300

Anyway, if our friendship relied solely on our musical tastes, I think we would be in big trouble.

True dat!

Steve Barnes

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:33:08 +1300

I challenge anyone to devote an entire 3 minutes 49 seconds of their life to this but the clip is just so cheesy.
Bring on the dancing horses WTF?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9oq_IskRIg
The thing about the musical, Hair, was they just didn't have a clue about the culture they were trying to?

Dean Papa

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:34:54 +1300

let's not forget Rodney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP52cgknJUU

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:35:39 +1300

That Hendrix was rubbish too.Heh. And anyone shortened to their last name and enunciated with reverential look; "Clap-tonn", "Towns-end".

Steve Barnes

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:38:29 +1300

But wait...
there's worse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_br0ZnqnhVY&feature=fvst

Possibly one of Jackie's favourites.
;-)

Scott Chris

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:39:51 +1300

What?s next? Let me guess, Cocteau Twins and The Jam?

Not at all and no, I?m not trolling. I?m an admirer of Paul Weller especially.

In the end, it comes down to what you subjectively like in music, and barring a few exceptions I have a preference for conventionally strong?

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:39:57 +1300

I mean, we can still be friends, but ...

Wasn't that a Todd Rungren song?

Ngaire BookieMonster

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:40:36 +1300

Heh, I can't hear that without thinking about Arrested Development.

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:43:06 +1300

pparnold.com has some interesting stories...

Oh yes, I recall now seeing her name associated with the Sandy Denny tribute show. Something in common there ie self-mutilation in I'd Rather Go Blind?

Ngaire BookieMonster

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:43:07 +1300

I'm so glad someone mentioned the Cocteau Twins. Love them but so bloody hard to sing along to.

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:46:25 +1300

What was interesting is how people associate their moments in life with music. And thoughts of your own when you hearHad one of those moments 20 minutes ago: I involuntarily heard this on the car radio and was instantly dumped back in the worst relationship of my life. Not that?

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:47:13 +1300

This is fun but I must get on with preparing Monday's lecture...

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:48:35 +1300

Possibly one of Jackie's favourites.
;-)

See, I'm fine with 'Afternoon Delight' too. It's just a one-hit wonder pop song.

It's rock pomp that really raises my hackles.

Roger Lacey

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:48:36 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ArZEFwRsY
I have vague memories of this being played on high rotate by the neighbours many years ago. It still makes me want to pour neat dettol in my ears. Eeeugh,

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:49:35 +1300

Possibly one of Jackie's favourites.Dunno about Jackie, but I've always found that harmonising rather good.

Kris V

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:49:43 +1300

I don?t think this crime against non-hearing impaired people has been mentioned yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo

or indeed this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc

you can thank me later

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:50:42 +1300

Patches, Sydney, 1982ish. Along with Malcolm McLaren. It was good at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgvJY9xxcA

Danielle

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:51:53 +1300

Any song which includes a spoken word interlude.

In our house, there is a rule. All songs which:

– have a spoken word interlude
– contain handclaps
– mention the days of the week

are fucking ace songs. That's all there is to it.

Additionally, I am stunned that a)?

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:54:08 +1300

It's dreamy, you coldhearted bastardss.

Ana Simkiss

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:56:20 +1300

- contain handclaps
o Yes.

And a shouty chorus. And the letters of the alphabet.

Gareth Davidson

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:59:35 +1300

Dude must have some publishing income!
Yeah, just like Jeff Buckley (well, his estate) and "Hallelujah"

Danielle

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:07:41 +1300

Red Sovine! Excellent! We have an entire collection of Red Sovine songs because dude, they are HILARIOUS. There's always a 'camper full-ah kids' the trucker has to avoid on a snowy road and he plunges to his death to save them (or something). Truckers: they're heroes, you know.

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:11:41 +1300

Just a thought...didn't we get enough of this with Matinee Idle over summer? Stopped listening to that about two years ago.

Ross Mason

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:13:06 +1300

Favourite?? Favourite???

Wrong thread. Move on.

Ross Mason

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:19:25 +1300

And just down the list from the Xmas song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQYTVfqPuDw&feature=related

Hebe

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:21:56 +1300

You can't like Bread? Surely not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr6S4aCJ2X4

Which leads naturally to the Partridge Family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYSu2OVCGM

And Donny Osmond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyXzwtIlZyg

My work is done :-)

James Butler

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:29:25 +1300

Dude must have some publishing income!

Yeah, just like Jeff Buckley (well, his estate) and ?Hallelujah"

Gary Elshaw

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:32:02 +1300

Take it back or step outside.

James Butler

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:33:45 +1300

Worst vocal performance, and most over-rated band of all time

Don?t ?get? the Smiths either.

I walk away from a thread for an hour, and look what happens ):

Although I can't help thinking that if you don't get The Smiths, that's because the joke's on you.

B Jones

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:36:36 +1300

Anyone who's worked retail at a certain time of year is likely to have issues with Christmas music. Someone did a horrific 90s boy band version of I'll be home for Christmas that was on high rotate in the mall I worked in. I'd pay to never have hear that?

Will de Cleene

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:37:48 +1300

Celene Dion, Mariah Carey and all those other crooners and warblers set off my tinnitus, but that's more of a daily pain than cruel and ununsual. Room 101 would be a mix-tape of 70's and '80's dreck my parents liked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdup2Xku0oM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9PUiNbyz8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4jVfRLtzlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYU3995mieo

Psychological violence like that makes Black?

Tom Ackroyd

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:38:46 +1300

I mean, how can you not love that guitarist's jersey?
I, too, don't mind this inoffensive noodling.

JacksonP

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:42:00 +1300

Yeah, just like Jeff Buckley (well, his estate) and "Hallelujah"

Except that would go to Leonard Cohen.

We haven't played this yet, have we? I know it holds a special place here in some people's hearts, including my own. So I'll post it without judging.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pJVdIKHO8o

Jackie Clark

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:43:31 +1300

Oh, Hebe, no! I love Bread, inordinately. There isn't much they did that I don't like.