just for fun

I'm adding a couple of new regular features on the blog, inlcluding "Just for Fun."

Why? Because who couldn't use more fun?

So, my good friend Laura and her friend Jeannie have this awesome question list called Uncle Jessie's meme (don't ask because I think involves having to choose between kissing Darth Vadar or Uncle Jessie from The Dukes of Hazard). I don't ask, but I do use it for my inspiration interviews. 

Just for fun - I'm going to change up one of their questions for today:

What song do you hate so, so, so much that you would risk life and limb to turn it off?

I have a first place winner and a runner-up.

Worst song for me EVER: Mr. Mister's Broken Wings 

Runner up: West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys.

These must have come out around the same time - the time period that I refer to as my very dark days. Blech!

Your turn!

Comments

[Mel]

Worst song ever: Don't worry be happy - Bobby McFerrin

Runner up: Flying without wings - Westlife

[janet]

I love Brad Paisley but I HATE his song "I'm Gonna Miss Her". He loves fishing more than his girl, it hits too close to home...... I will do anything to turn that one off.

[JustinV]

Wow! Can't believe I am first....

I REALLY had to think about this....I typicially don't hate any music that much...

I would say ANYTHING by Rush...just his voice is enough to make me cringe....

I am thinking, my reaction comes not so much from the actual music itself, but from the memories that it brings back. Kind of the way yours, Brene, makes you think of that period. Perhaps if I didn't associate this group with that time in my life, I might have a more favorable reaction....or maybe not : )

[JustinV]

almost first!

[Sarah Craig]

Oh my gosh- Hotel California by The Eagles. FOR SURE. As a child, it creeped me the hell out, and it's a feeling I just can't shake.

[kelly g.]

I'm so sorry to say this because it's two greats and a good message but Ebony and Ivory (Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder) makes me go insane. And my runner-up is Kenney Chesney "she thinks my tractor's sexy". Ugh. Great idea for a fun post.

[lisa]

For me, a worst would be "Oh Sherry" by Journey's Steve Perry - even though I did like Journey in high school.

A close second would be "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger.
Both songs bring me back to high school class parties where couples would make out to these sappy tunes, and I, not participating in those kinds of activities at the time, came to just hate those songs! Now they just irk me. (I and my husband choose to make out to other music! :)

[kelly g.]

oh oops--I have to go back and say I totally agree with Mel--Don't worry be happy is at the top of my list too.

[Chookooloonks]

Dude. "I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls. Seriously, how did that ever become popular?

HATE that song.

[Anna-Marie Still]

"Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen... it's just him screaming those 4 words over and over and over and over and over............ack!

[Cheri Andrews]

I hate anything by Lady Gaga. "Poker Face" and "Paparazzi" are current songs that play on the stations my teenage daughters listen to. I hate the lyrics, I hate her voice, I rush to change the station whenever one of these songs comes up. But the absolute WORST SONG EVER is Lady Gaga's "Love Games" with the lyrics "I want to take a ride on your disco stick." When I heard my teens being exposed to THAT, I wanted to smash the radio. Can't say anything else I've ever heard has come close to evoking such negative emotions in me as that one.

[Allison]

Any Christmas music sung by any teen sensation-particularly the Jonas Brother's version of "Joy to the World". My best friend's kid was obssesed last year and I learned I have an infinite amount of patience.

[tawnya]

Feliz Navidad. Seriously. And then anything country.

[Krista]

First place: Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. Never made my knees weak, but turned my stomach.

Runner up: More Than Words - Extreme. The result of a terrible dating accident in high school, yet generally sums up my feelings on all early 90s love ballads.

Thanks for the lunchtime diversion, Brene.

[Bria]

Oh yes! Feliz Navidad is the worst song ever!

Also, Time is on my Side makes me want to shoot myself in the eye and saw my ears off with a butter knife... Contemporaneously.

[Chani]

Would have to be "Careless Whispers" by WHAM!

Runner up, very close runner up: Anything "heavy metal".




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[Cheryl]

American Pie, the original by Don McLean......

[Leslie]

That would have to be In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly, hand's down.

[Lee]

Celebration by Kool and the Gang.

Gag.

[christy]

"Hey, Micky" by Toni Basil - my husband and I both rush to turn it off if we hear a note of it.
And, "Walking on Sunshine" makes me cringe.

[Ronda]

Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys)

40+ years of people saying, "Do you know that song?" Ugh... how could I not! People have been linking it to my name for my whole life.

[Lu]

Hands down, right now, Beyonce's Halo...I can not stand that song.
Second runner up, anything by Britney...I just can't...I can't

[Irene]

"Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer" (honestly, I think the person that wrote that should be punished for eternity to have to LISTEN to it) and "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.

[Sandi Keene]

The Macarena Song makes me convulse. Runner up would be YMCA. Gag. There are several songs listed above that I LOVE. Isn't that funny? Oh, Sherry, Sister Christian and More Than Words? Love them.

[Maureen]

Knights in White Satan, and Pretty Woman, just never understood why people loved them so.

[moo]

Without doubt, "Dying Inside to Hold You' by Timmy Thomas. I was dying inside everytime I hear that. And Michael Bolton's "Can I Touch You There".

[The Other Laura]

Here's a twist on the answer: Hotel California, The Eagles.

Every time I heard that song for YEARS my car would break down. I can recognize it and get to the radio in about two notes.

[Laura L]

Hands Down: The Cupid Shuffle.

Runner up: don't know the name, but the song that says "everybody clap your hands" (then everyone claps in unison.

[Rebecca]

(Whoa! The Hotel California thing is weird. Can anybody tell me, because I never worked it out, but is that song about vampires, or is it just my fevered imagination?)

My worst song: probably very English response, but anything by the Smiths. I hear Morrissey's voice and I throw things. He can only sing five notes, I swear!

Second: probably 'The Man in the Mirror' by Michael Jackson, which they are playing continually on our local radio station at the moment. At the risk of being stoned, it is so hollow and hypocritical.

[carlyn]

My heart will go on by Celine Dion..I was pregnant at the time it came out and had extreme morning sickness..That song takes me right back.. yuck ;)

[Brené Brown]

This is cracking me up! When you love a song you can't imagine anyone disliking it. When you hate a song you can't imagine anyone wanting to hear it.

Music is so communal, yet intensely personal at the same time. Weird.

Other Laura - love your "I can name that crappy tune in . . ."

[Allison]

Oh, I forgot. "I will Survive"
Damnitt....now I have it in my head!

[Lorie]

Wow, this IS a fun one! It is interesting some of the songs people have listed, I love! funny how different tastes are.

I would have to say Nights in White Satin, have always hated that one. and really any Sappy Crappy "love" ballad from the 80's hair bands, blech.

[Deb]

This is HILARIOUS!!!!


OK, Louie, Louie (don't know who sings it)

and any teenybopper bubblegum Britney music. including Hannah Montana herself!

[Laura]

It's actually between kissing The Emperor or Uncle Jessie.

Mine is "Money" by Pink Floyd. So bad. So, so bad. It's visceral.

In the holiday genre, "Santa Baby" is a truly awful song. Madonna managed to make it worse. Amazing!

P.S. "Broken Wings" made me laugh out loud!

[Nicole]

Insane in the Membrane by Cypress Hill
I am going to be sorry, probably for the next several hours, that I even typed those four words....

[Aubien]

Oh...I can't take the Rod Stewart song Forever Young....Oh...Makes me want to stick a fork in my eye every time! Thanks for letting me vent that one!

[tracy g]

We Built This City by Starship circa 1985 makes me vomit...almost on cue...during the year it assaulted me repeatedly about 20 times a day, I was pregnant, extremely morning/noon/night sick and was working in a Miller's Outpost in a mall near you selling Levi's 501 shrink to fit jeans. Anyone remember those??? Today, my children KNOW if this song comes on in the car (or elevator Muzak)....at any time...they must immediately change the station or hit the emergency button on the elevator or Mom might wreck or hurrrrllll!

[Aubien]

Oh....and the runner up...Michael Bolton's version of When a Man Loves a Woman. Ugh! Pure torture!

[Stephanie]

All-Time Worst: Honky Tonk Badonky Donk, Trace Adkins...Ick...this song gives country music a BAD name!

Runner Up: Don't Take the Girl, Tim McGraw...takes me back to a "dark time"...ugh

[Lisa]

I agree with many of the above, but the music that really makes my skin crawl is anything by Metallica.....just never got into the groove of heavy metal. But I have to say a close second is "We Built this City"....I'm totally with Tracy on that one!!!

[Renae C]

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender - my dad used to torture me with it

This is hilarious.

[Allison]

That song... I don't even know how to type it... it's called "Blue-" and I'm not talking about the LeAnn Rimes song. The words go either

"I'm blue if I was green I would die,"

"I'm blue and I'm in need of a guy,"

or, "I'm blue a dah ba dee bah da dy..."

Yeah. It's that bad!

[Dee Dee]

"Proud to be an American" by Lee Greenwood - so pushy and cloying.

Runner up: I don't know the name but that Midnight Oil song from about 1988 that had the "BUM BUM BUM" that started the chorus, followed by some yelling words, about 10 times during the song.

It's all cracking me up, both for the memories and the intense feelings we all have.

[Jessica]

1. "stir it up" Bob Marley
2. "baby it's cold outside" - especially if it's a duet.

[steve]

That Jethro Tull song with the flute. I guess any rock song that involves the flute has to be turned off with great haste.

[Relyn]

This was hilarious. So much fun. I have to agree - lots of awful songs mentioned here. It's funny, too, how aghast you feel when someone hates one of "your" songs. Great question.

[BIG RED]

The song that truly causes me to "retch" is THE FIREMAN song by the very hot george strait.

My second choice would be any song sung by tim mcgraw ..........no, billy ray virus.........

[Kathy WB]

Hands down it has got to be "Lady in Red" - bleck!

[katherine]

There are some good ones that could be my runners-up, but the one I HAVE to change even after one note is: Joey, by Concrete Blonde. Ackkkkk!