worst "popular" songs ever

[War Wagon]

I'm talking about songs that somehow still get airplay on pop radio, as if there were people they polled who voted "yes, I want you to play that at my funeral, and every day beyond".

This could be a long list, and others may add to it, but for me, absolutely, at the top of that list, never to be dethroned, even if I never use another comma the rest of my miserable life...

The B-52's - Love Shack

That comes on the radio while I'm driving, I can't change the station fast enough. Just hearing one note of it makes me want to go bezerk, cross the center line into oncoming traffic, because the first person I ram may be listening to it and I want to end their misery as well.

But I don't do that because I believe that when I die and go to Hell, I'll be forced to listen to it, over and over, for all eternity. I don't want to hasten the inevitable.

[Dinsdale]

Agreed, Brother.

Not sure if it counts as pop, but I contemplate random killings any time Elvis Costello comes on the radio.

Or just about anything by U2.

Anything after about 1980 by Tom Petty? Pitchforks and torches. I want to kill the first dork ass baby-boomer I see that enabled such crap.

Not that I ever listen to pop stations per se, but if I hear Madonna... seething rage.

Mellencamp? I hear that, and I furiously leaf through the phone book looking for people named Mellencamp to hunt down and pluck their eyes out.

I'll come up with more.

[Screw_Michigan]

Anything after about 1980 by Tom Petty?

Full Moon Fever was a pretty good album by Petty standards. Same with Into the Great Wide Open. Die of a superbug enabled STD you inherited from some skank.

[Screw_Michigan]

I don't listen to FM radio other than NPR so I guess I don't have anything to contribute to this thread.

[Goober McTuber]

I don't have anything to contribute to this thread.

Sig material.

[BSmack]

I'll take "Any post 1980 Aerosmith" for 200 please?

[War Wagon]

Anything after about 1980 by Tom Petty? Pitchforks and torches.

Agreed... 'cept for his stint with TW.

[mamamustanger]

War Wagon....... While tuning into tune town I usually agree with your choices in music and your likes but I also like the B 52's. Their music is fun and upbeat and love shack is one Of my favorites


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[Smackie Chan]

anything by U2.

Never did get why they were such a big deal.

Anything after about 1980 by Tom Petty? Pitchforks and torches. I want to kill the first dork ass baby-boomer I see that enabled such crap.

Gotta disagree. I'm not a big Petty fan, and if I never hear "Refugee" or "Breakdown" or "Don't Do Me Like That" or most of the other songs from their heyday (except "I Need to Know"), I'll be just fine. I'd much rather hear these two from 2010:

Mellencamp? I hear that, and I furiously leaf through the phone book looking for people named Mellencamp to hunt down and pluck their eyes out.

I can tolerate "Paper in Fire," but other than that, I'm with ya. "Jack & Diane" makes me wanna commit seppuku.

[Felix]

"Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks. Can't get much worse than that shit.

seriously??????



I thought listening to the studio version was hard, but a live version of this steaming pile??????


and the worst evah......



if I could catch either of them, I'd probably shoot them on site just for principle

[Dinsdale]

Sorry Felix, but you cited 3 tunes that all have fucking as the subject.


Sam's is about being terminally ill.

So I guess if forced to grade magnitude of suckiness, I'll take fucking over dying. Other than that, pretty much a wash.


Hmmm.... Terry Jacks. Sammy Johns. Both have two first names. Coincidence?

[Dinsdale]

Maybe we should just declare the 70's off-limits?