OT - Songs that make you cringe

[Boofhead]

Rolf Harris "Two Little Boys" is it for me,

On the other hand Rolf Harris' version of The Divinyls "I Touch Myself"  is pretty good.....

[Bill_F]

Boy bands :roll:

[Rodgre]

There are so many songs that make me cringe, some because they're just so bad, but most just because they're so overplayed that, just like the balogna sandwich I had everyday for three years, I don't care if I ever come in contact with them again.

That said, one recent thing that makes me cringe is anything off of the new Chili Peppers record that I hear on modern rock radio. I'll be an armchair producer here, but that's because that's what I do for a living.... Who told Anthony to sing? Who said, "hey buddy, okay, you've rapped enough. Let's start trying to sing a melody. Have you heard of melodies, Anthony?"

So this new record is SO completely over-autotuned that I can't even hear it. "By The Way" is just ridiculous. It's like "The Red Hot Chili Peppers featuring Robbie the Robot!"

Also, as the biggest Beach Boys fan that I know, I cringe when I hear "Kokomo".

"September 1963 (Oh What a Night)" drives me nuts too.

Roger

[sir_modulus]

PHhhht.... By the Way was one of the few albums I bought which has few songs in it I like. Most of the stuff from it they play on the radio is crap, but there is some good stuff in there (few but still good). Man there old stuff was good though.

[Fret Wire]

Anything by Journey :!:  :!:  :!:
An incredible waste of Neal Schon's guitar playing.
Great musician's in a band with a singer that makes you projectile vomit every time he opens his mouth.

There was this country song...I can't remember it's name. A classic example of how years later, the same words or phrases of a song can have a whole new meaning or connotation.  When it first came out, it was just June-Moon-Spoon surupy. When I reached my teens and heard it, I used to cringe. It was an acoustic song where the singer was talking about fond memories and things he liked.

He started every line off with, "I like.........."
Then he hits this line, "I like....little baby boys"

No doubt, at the time, he meant something harmless, like the joys of fatherhood or something. But now, it just doesn't cut it. Does anyone remember that song?

[KarbonHed]

Mustang Sally
Brown eyed girl
Alright Now

And many, many more. But those 3 make me spew.

[strungout]

If someone calls Avril Lavigne punk again, I'm taking it personnally   Nowhere near anything even the slightest shade of punkrock she is. I'm gonna resist going on a rant about so-called "punk" music that's basically another trend like the coming back of bell-bottoms. I mean those were cool. Were.

I have a pretty wide taste in music *cough* but it just so happens that most everything that hits the top10 (if not 50) is crap (read: Candy-pop song about "girlpower", hiphop songs about "bitches" and "mo'e-ney", and so-called "alternative" that's really not when you think about it..)  pushed by big record companies just to make some more cash while they look for the next big thing (that will bring in more cash) *cough* but most of country music makes me cringe and shiver (then again, I'm not a cowboy), I still like some folk stuff tho. And I'll be the first to praise screaming as an emotional enrichment (just like overdrive/distortion) to a song, but like RDV said, those nu-metal bands singer should consider that too much is like not enough. Some of them have really good songs but the singer sounds like they aren't singing so much as doing a very good impersonation of white-noise. *cough*If I want that, I'll switch my tv to a channel I don't get.*cough*

Well, I tried.

Ciao

[bwanasonic]

"September 1963 (Oh What a Night)" drives me nuts too.

Oh man! That's a great tune! I work in an enviroment where we have a radio set to a "Lowest Common Denominator" type station on, ands it's always interesting to see what makes other people cringe.  "I just don't know what to do with myself" by the White Stripes seems to annoy people. I like it OK when I don't hear it seventeen times a day. About a thousand years ago I used to work in a mall that had the soundtrack to "Annie" on continous loop. Forget cringe, how about homicidal rage? I suppose if I were forced to listen to Celine Dion or Boy Bands a lot they would make me cringe. But if a Celine Dion song comes on in the supermarket or something, I just laugh. Time heals all wounds they say, and I can now at least endure a lot of music that used induce seizures when it was current and in heavy rotation. Not sure what would happen if I were exposed to "Memories" from Cats though. Might swallow my tongue or maybe just die laughing.

Kerry M

[snorky]

Ok.  I agree to most of what was said about little Avril.  HOWEVER, the production on "Losing Grip" is AMAZING.  Really damn cool guitar work.
Turn it up and you'll see what I mean.  

Or not.  :-)

- Mark

[Paul Marossy]

Anything I have heard 5000 times.  :wink:

I used to work with these guys that listened to "the classic rock station". I heard the same songs about 3 to 4 times a day. It gets old real fast, but they never seemed to get tired of hearing the same freaking song over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... Ok, I'm sure you get the point.

[RDV]

I used to work with these guys that listened to "the classic rock station". I heard the same songs about 3 to 4 times a day. It gets old real fast, but they never seemed to get tired of hearing the same freaking song over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... Ok, I'm sure you get the point.

I can't for the life of me figure out the logic behind these "Classic Rock" stations that all play the same 150 or so songs. With thousands & thousands to choose from, they play those same songs. No way in the world should you hear the same song twice within 8 hours on a "Classic Rock" station, but you do. It's sickening.

Rant over & out.

RDV

[Torchy]

Anything by someone who wears an armani suit to play blues, lives entirely off the back of one decent record, and can reduce the great Robert Johnson to sterile pap .... sorry EC fans.

Designer Misery bands ... Papa Roach, Linkin Park, and all the other "hard-done-to", middle-class white trash that infect the charts

Anything and I mean ANYTHING by Guns 'n' Roses ... Axl thingy's whine and that pathetic sh*t Slash calls guitar playing ... and he's got a feckin signature model

Yngwie J "Dickhead" Malmsteen

Oh, and The Wurzels

There, thats my reputation shredded

[jrc4558]

Anything by Phil Collins
All current country music, especially S. Twain

[Adam Shame]

PS The solo on Wild Thing is an ocarina, which is a nice instrument...not exactly 'wild' so it was a little inappropriate, but it does sound nice in the right setting...

Hahahahahaha... I wonder if Yablo played the solo on that song?  

Creed makes me want to slit my throat.. but then I come to my senses and change the station.

[Dexter]

Eminem.Wait a minute... I m not sure it's even music ,the thing that he does.  :?

[runmikeyrun]

I hate everything on the radio.  I, too, became sick of the same old classic rock reruns to the point where i would only listen to the oldies station.  We used to have a great oldies station here in Cleveland until Clear Channel corrupted it and put all kinds of horrible 70's disco and BILLY JOEL on it, and renamed it "the most fun music of the 60's and 70's".  Gone are the great old 50's tunes except for a small nationally syndicated show on their sunday night dead air.  I hate radio so much i could scream.

If i'm caught listening to the radio anymore, it's NPR, or the local metal show on sunday nights, mostly trying to stomach the horrible local nu-metal in the hopes of requesting my band...

Anyone tried XM or other satellite radio?

[george]

achey breaky heart by billy ray styleless

(what the HELL kind of name is Billy Ray???)

[bwanasonic]

If i'm caught listening to the radio anymore, it's NPR, or the local metal show on sunday nights, mostly trying to stomach the horrible local nu-metal in the hopes of requesting my band...

Move to Boston! I worship my radio! Not commercial radio of course, but the wealth of college stations here is staggering. MIT, Harvard, Emerson, Boston College and Tufts all have great programming. Also a great local music scene. Check the streaming media from:

MIT -  www.wmbr.org
Harvard - www.whrb.org
BC - www.wzbc.org
Tufts - www.wmfo.org

Clearchannel hasn't taken over everthing yet! Have faith in your radio.

Kerry M

[Paul Marossy]

I hate radio, too. Too many commercials, etc.
I do listen to the local college station that plays jazz all day without all the BS, though. But mostly I listen to CDs, fusion and jazz- most of this stuff you'll never hear on any radio station, though. As a matter of fact, almost everything I have ever really liked and listened to were also things that you would never hear on the radio... that includes a lot of different types of music.

[Eb7+9]

I can't for the life of me figure out the logic behind these "Classic Rock" stations that all play the same 150 or so songs. With thousands & thousands to choose from, they play those same songs. No way in the world should you hear the same song twice within 8 hours on a "Classic Rock" station, but you do. It's sickening.

... it's part of a careful and deliberate plan - didn't Frank Zappa say something about keeping people stupid ?!

May I suggest effective anti-dotes for being exposed to the following:

Celine Dionne ... go listen to Jenny Hanh and Babe Ruth
Boy Bands ... go listen to Ted Nugent's "Call of the Wild" ...
AC/DC - Steve Miller ... go listen to Edgar Varese's "Ameriques" ... ah, fresh air !

I now very well understand why Keith Moon threw TV's out hotel windows - I personally can't work where's there's a ^%$%^@ radio blaring out that shit - I mean my hammer or nail puller could always turn into a weapon real fast ... the other guys usually understand this and they'll put on a classical station when they notice I've taken on a crazed look and I start pacing all over the place randomly ...  can't help it, if I hear "Back in Black" come on I'll suddenly stand straight up like a bear who's just heard a twig break nearby ... usually someone will run and grab the radio before it's too late ...

Careful Eugene !!