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Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: soak on 14 Sep 2005, 21:52
DISCLAIMER: My intention here is not to bag out other peoples taste in musics - merely to share with you a peculiarity of my profession that has lead to me dispising a particular artist.

I work in the AV industry, specifically in integration as a programmer (whoop de doo). Anyhoo we do a fair few shows to get the public interested in what we do and we also have a fairly impressive showroom so I get to play with a lot of new neat stuff on a regular basis, however all of this has a big draw back.

In order to demonstrate the sound quality of our systems we use music DVD's that have been recorded in 5.1ch surround. These discs have become more common recently, however their used to be only a few that were suitable to be played for audiences of various tastes, therefore the de facto standard has become the Eagles - When Hell Freezes Over. We do demonstrations all day long.

I have heard the damn thing that many times that my stomache clenches whenever I hear the opening chords of desperado, hotel california et al.

Thanks for letting me purge.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: La Creme on 14 Sep 2005, 22:08
Keep on purging. Fuck the Eageles.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Tartar Martyr on 14 Sep 2005, 22:18
Weezer - Beverly Hills

Every time I hear that song start up on the radio at work I run for cover... it's just so aggravating.  I miss the 1990's Weezer :(
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: soak on 14 Sep 2005, 23:23
I know - I love pink triangle
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Inlander on 14 Sep 2005, 23:27
The Knack - My Sharona.  Words cannot express how much I despise that song.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: JLM on 15 Sep 2005, 00:13
Hmm...tough call.


Whole Lotta Love by Led Zepplin.

Growing up, the only station I could ever get in clearly in my room was 97 rock, this awful classic rock station in Buffalo that mostly played crappy southern fried rock, zepplin and the who, which wasn't bad but got really boring really fast.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Kid Amnesiac on 15 Sep 2005, 01:46
Quote from: Tartar Martyr
Weezer - Beverly Hills

Every time I hear that song start up on the radio at work I run for cover... it's just so aggravating.  I miss the 1990's Weezer :(


This man speaks the truth.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: southern_dan on 15 Sep 2005, 03:54
voodoo child - that new 1 i cant stupidly think of the band argh
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: TrueNeutral on 15 Sep 2005, 04:34
None of you can beat the fucking Macarena.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: salada on 15 Sep 2005, 06:05
most of everything, actually. even things i like. not to go and take this thread title literally, but i think only being able to listen to everything once would be kinda cool. think of all the new music you'd get to listen to.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: thrashbluegrass on 15 Sep 2005, 06:29
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's

That song was in heavy rotation at one of the worst jobs I ever had.

I thank god that it died off quickly, but every once in a while I'll hear a snatch of something that brings back the memory.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Saturday on 15 Sep 2005, 06:42
whoa, lots of tracks... i can probably name of loads of tracks that i hate but itīs more interesting with tracks that you kinda like or enjoyed but well, it was just too much

radiohead - creep.
the beatles - love me do
the beatles - ob la di ob la da
led zeppelin - stairway to heaven
lots of ramones songs
green day - basketcase
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: southern_dan on 15 Sep 2005, 07:20
Quote from: Saturday
whoa, lots of tracks... i can probably name of loads of tracks that i hate but itīs more interesting with tracks that you kinda like or enjoyed but well, it was just too much

radiohead - creep.
the beatles - love me do
the beatles - ob la di ob la da
led zeppelin - stairway to heaven
lots of ramones songs
green day - basketcase


*cries**cries**cries**cries**cries* meh im over it i knwo what u meen but totally all been over played
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: KharBevNor on 15 Sep 2005, 10:38
Quote from: TrueNeutral
None of you can beat the fucking Macarena.


You see, whenever I hear that, I just think of Brujeria's cover version of it. The one called 'Marijuana'.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: sjbrot on 15 Sep 2005, 13:44
My work has been playing this one Paula Abdul song over and over again. I can't remember the name, but she does a "rap" in the middle of it.

It didn't help when my manager complimented the girl who chose the station on her taste in music.

Also, "100 Degrees" by Shout Out Louds. It's a great song, but it's easy to get sick of something when you just lay there with it on repeat.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Not An Addict on 15 Sep 2005, 14:08
Quote from: sjbrot
My work has been playing this one Paula Abdul song over and over again. I can't remember the name, but she does a "rap" in the middle of it.


Sounds like "Cold Hearted". And I'd probably compliment the girl's music taste, too, if only because Abdul's worst song would still be better than the crap on the modern rock stations.

I would die a happy man if I never again heard "If I Had a Million Dollars" by the Barenaked Ladies, who I honestly do believe are the worst band in the history of music.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: sp2 on 15 Sep 2005, 14:16
There are a variety of terrible covers of good songs that fit into this category.

This includes, oh, just about fucking everything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Gryff on 15 Sep 2005, 15:28
duh duh duh duh "I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime. Played it 'til my fingers bled, it was the summer of '69"
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 15 Sep 2005, 15:32
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends

Oh how clever you are, green day, by using the current situation in Iraq to play on the emotions of 17 year old girls and thus sell more albums.

also, anything by My Chemical Romance and The Killers

(yeah I watch MTV after hours at night when nothing else is on even though I hate it)
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: sp2 on 15 Sep 2005, 15:53
Quote from: Signum_Tenebrae
Green Day


That's really all you needed to say.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Kai on 15 Sep 2005, 16:15
Quote from: Signum_Tenebrae
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends

Oh how clever you are, green day, by using the current situation in Iraq to play on the emotions of 17 year old girls and thus sell more albums.

also, anything by My Chemical Romance and The Killers

(yeah I watch MTV after hours at night when nothing else is on even though I hate it)


Truer words haven't been spoken. Seriously, Green Day. shut up.




(I watch it too! although Fuse kinda takes the cake for "Shitty late night music televison", simply because they tote themselves as the original, "indie" network when they play the exact same damn songs as MTV with less rap)
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Kid_Disaster on 15 Sep 2005, 21:19
Anything by Creed.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Not An Addict on 15 Sep 2005, 21:22
What's weird about "Wake Me Up..." is that it's not even about September 11th, or Iraq, it's about the death of Billy Joe's father. But I suppose that would make for a boring video, so bring on the bombs!
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 15 Sep 2005, 21:29
Every european summer hit ever, especially the Las Ketchup one, they even made it in a christmas version with jinglebells.
It was just sad..
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Simulacra on 15 Sep 2005, 22:01
anything by puffy.


filthy hack.


i will never forgive him for remixing "every breath you take".
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Maui on 16 Sep 2005, 05:26
Quote
Growing up, the only station I could ever get in clearly in my room was 97 rock, this awful classic rock station.


ZOMG! ANOTHER BUFFALO PERSON! But yea, that station is good at times, but they seriously overplay some stuff eh.

Anyways, that DAMN milkshake song. Tons of people at my school would be singing it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Gah. The exact same thing goes for that song stacy's mom.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: YoungGrassHopper on 16 Sep 2005, 08:50
Seal-kiss from a rose.

Phantom of the Opera selections.



both played over and over and over at a snooty restaurant/resort I worked at. All day long...either the lame local mainstream station (lame even as mainstream stations go...just the same 5 songs in rotation all day long) or the "piano versions of questionably popular Andrew LLoyd Weber (hack) tunes" cd.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: amok on 16 Sep 2005, 10:33
Quote from: TrueNeutral
None of you can beat the fucking Macarena.


You can do the Macarena perfectly in time to Slayer's Mandatory Suicide

anyway, for me it would probably be By The Way by RHCP. I worked at ASDA for a good few months, after the store closed. When the public had all left they put ASDA FM on the tannoy, and this was one of TWO songs which would be played on repeat, between adverts, over and over. For 6 hours.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Eldirial on 16 Sep 2005, 11:41
That Fantana's song they play at the movie theatre.

I think that's how you spell it- it's a commercial kinda thing for "Fanta" I believe.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Merkava on 16 Sep 2005, 16:26
Quote from: YoungGrassHopper
Seal-kiss from a rose.



WTF. That's, like, his only good song, and a really good one in general. Meh.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Kai on 16 Sep 2005, 18:28
Quote from: Eldirial
That Fantana's song they play at the movie theatre.

I think that's how you spell it- it's a commercial kinda thing for "Fanta" I believe.




FANTA FANTA, DONT U WANNA
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Johnny C on 16 Sep 2005, 18:32
Quote from: Gryff
duh duh duh duh "I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime. Played it 'til my fingers bled, it was the summer of '69"

I've actively wished for Bryan Adams' death a couple of times.

There is a story as to why I hate the song "Freshmen" but the fact that I hate the song is all you need to know.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Jeridus on 17 Sep 2005, 13:53
Dragostea Din Tei (often called "Numa Numa") actually makes my ears bleed, and I start to hallucinate, as images of dancing internet nerds flash through my head... I've had nightmares about that "dance"
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: KharBevNor on 17 Sep 2005, 14:27
Quote from: Jeridus
Dragostea Din Tei


Remember when it was cool and ironic to like that song?

Why I dislike hipsters, in a nutshell.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: practicality on 17 Sep 2005, 18:40
Quote from: Tartar Martyr
Weezer - Beverly Hills

Every time I hear that song start up on the radio at work I run for cover... it's just so aggravating.  I miss the 1990's Weezer :(


Second'd... at least the hating 'Beverly Hills' part.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Eldirial on 17 Sep 2005, 18:57
Quote from: Kai
Quote from: Eldirial
That Fantana's song they play at the movie theatre.

I think that's how you spell it- it's a commercial kinda thing for "Fanta" I believe.




FANTA FANTA, DONT U WANNA


GAH! NO!

Seriously though, that is one scary song, and one scary commercial.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Reno on 17 Sep 2005, 19:17
That Missy Elliot song that is ALWAYS on the radio....I dont know the name
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Spike on 17 Sep 2005, 19:34
Nine inch nails-closer.  

Every time I hear that song I want to stab someone in the gut then knee them in the crotch.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Kai on 17 Sep 2005, 20:17
Pretty much every fucking thing by HiM.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Not An Addict on 17 Sep 2005, 20:48
Quote from: Reno
That Missy Elliot song that is ALWAYS on the radio....I dont know the name


"Lose Control", which I was humming while I read your post. Freaky.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: screenaged on 18 Sep 2005, 03:31
Anything by ABBA, Fleetwood Mac, Clannad, The Eagles, Chicago, Boston, Toto or Bon Jovi (except Always which I quite like actually.)
i.e. anything my parents subjected me to on long car journeys until I got a Discman.

Imagine driving for nine hours with nothing but Abba and Fleetwood Mac on the radio. Nine hours. And then there was four hours with the Eagles, and the same again going home.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: KharBevNor on 18 Sep 2005, 04:30
Quote from: screenaged
Imagine driving for nine hours with nothing but Abba and Fleetwood Mac on the radio.


Bliss!
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: normz on 18 Sep 2005, 04:37
Quote from: Spike
Nine inch nails-closer.  

Every time I hear that song I want to stab someone in the gut then knee them in the crotch.



awwww and thats part of my make-out mix too (so cliche)


and i hate pop in general but the spice girls and hanson particularly hurt my head (i think its the fact i used to actually like them at one stage)
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Everest on 18 Sep 2005, 07:51
Quote from: Praeserpium Machinarum
Every european summer hit ever, especially the Las Ketchup one, they even made it in a christmas version with jinglebells.
It was just sad..

THIS AIN'T NOTHING BUT A SUMMER/WINTER JAM!!!
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: saturnine1979 on 18 Sep 2005, 12:35
Four Non Blondes
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: practicality on 18 Sep 2005, 13:48
Most of Joss Stone's songs.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: soak on 18 Sep 2005, 14:37
Quote from: screenaged
Imagine driving for nine hours with nothing but Abba and Fleetwood Mac on the radio. Nine hours. And then there was four hours with the Eagles, and the same again going home.


I feel your pain. My girlfriend used to go on holiday with her parents to the same place every year and her Dad played the same set of Mix tapes every year for ten years. I only went twice but that was enough.

Whenever we are listening to the radio in the car and anything of one of those tapes come on we shudder, especially April Sun in Cuba by Dragon.
Title: Songs you could live without hearing ever again
Post by: Not An Addict on 18 Sep 2005, 19:17
Quote from: Spike
Nine inch nails-closer.

Every time I hear that song I want to stab someone in the gut then knee them in the crotch.


And that's his one good song, too. SNAP.