Songs you'd prefer to NEVER hear again.

[bungeejumper]

"I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves

I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company..."

Any further questions?

BJ

[bungeejumper]

And "Ebony and Ivory", probably the most insipid piece of musical output in modern history. For me, Stevie Wonder has the unique distinction of having released both some of the worst tracks ever (aforementioned, "Isn't She Lovely", "I Just Called To Say I Love You", ...) and some of the finest ("Superstition", "Higher Ground", "Master Blaster", ...).

Mr Wonder was just making an astute business decision. Somebody said to him, "listen Stevie, all you've got to do is write a heavy-emotional song for every occasion that people will normally send a card for, and your back catalogue will keep you in clover for ever."

Marriage, check. New baby, check. Birthday greetings, check. Totally besotted love, check. Christmas, a whole album, check. Racial harmony, check. I don't think he's done a gay rights song yet, but maybe that wouldn't have been easy after that little misunderstanding in 2012? https://www.nme.com/news/music/stevie-wonder-22-1248408 .

Kerching, anyway. He's still one of the greatest, and I don't even like soul music.

BJ

[kiloran]

"My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry. Love Chuck, hate that song.
It was recorded live at a concert in Coventry and I had tickets to go, but was laid low with the flu.

I did finally see him live around 1994 but thankfully he didn't play that song.

--kiloran

[CommissarJones]

"In the Year 2525," Zager and Evans. One of the worst #1 songs ever, IMV.

[panamagold]

10. Tiptoe thru’ The Tulips – Tiny Tim.

9. Anything by Gordon Sumner.

8. Anything by Phil Collins.

7. Anything by Rod Stewart.

6. Anything by Steely Dan.

5. Deck of Cards - Wink Martindale.

4. Rockstar – Nickelback.

3. My Humps – Black Eyed Peas

2. Imagine - John Lennon.

With One Billion+ hits on YouTube.

1. November Rain – Guns N’ Roses

Sweeping orchestral symphonic ballad. Really?

[orangepekoe]

Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree.

[Slarti]

"American Pie" was always for me about a glorious affair in the summer of 1972 which, along with "Layla" and "School's Out for Summer" defined that year. You cannot seperate the music from the context and the time.

No, the real dross back then was Prog Rock - ELP, Genesis, Ten Years After, ELO, Moody Blues - who listens to any of that crap these days? Although I was always rather partial to King Crimson. We all have our weaknesses.

Got to agree about context. for me "Streets of London" brings back memories of my first serious girlfriend who dragged me along to a folk club (not my usual scene) because this star was going to be there. As BJ said he was drop-dead handsome and she thought if she could get near she might stand a chance. Not with his wife and kid there, she didn't

Anyway, to Prog. No way were Ten Years After or ELO prog, ELO being plain pop and TYA blues/rock

Early Genesis, some Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Yes, Camel, Caravan and Deep Purple all still get played. And my son has introduced his mates, mainly in their 30s, to them to some appreciation. But, I never got ELP or King Crimson.

Slarti

[PinkDalek]

Got to agree about context. for me "Streets of London" brings back memories ...

As do many of the tracks mentioned, some good, some bad.

My replies were based on the OP's Songs you'd prefer to NEVER hear again. However skilled Ralph McTell is/was, for example, I don't wish to hear the song again (but I might be tempted should someone go to the trouble of finding and posting a youtube link).

[kiloran]

10. Tiptoe thru’ The Tulips – Tiny Tim.

AAARRGH! NO!!! It took me years to recover from PTSD after hearing that back in the 60's and you've just reopened all the old wounds.
I'm not sure I'll survive the horror this time around.

--kiloran

[stevensfo]

Off the top of my head, Anita Bell 'You can ring my bell'. I had a summer job at a factory that had Radio 1 blaring out all day and I heard that song so many times, it makes me cringe! Actually, that one summer job put me off pop music for quite a few years.

Going back even further, we had a horrific activity at Infant/Junior school called, I think, Music and Movement, and I sometimes hear the music from those lessons. The only one I vaguely remember by name is '.... and his dancing bear.' Brings back too many memories of feeling and looking a right prat. These days I can do that all by myself.

Steve

[PinkDalek]

Going back even further, we had a horrific activity at Infant/Junior school called, I think, Music and Movement, and I sometimes hear the music from those lessons. The only one I vaguely remember by name is '.... and his dancing bear.' Brings back too many memories of feeling and looking a right prat. These days I can do that all by myself.

Covered by none other than the Muppets. What's not to like?:

Muppets - Scooter & Fozzie - Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Th ... ORM=VRDGAR

[CommissarJones]

Muppets - Scooter & Fozzie - Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear

A Randy Newman song, no less. Good taste, those Muppets.

[UncleIan]

Songs that make me reach for the off switch?

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
- dislike queen anyway, but after it being used on the super sad documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, and on repeat at the end of a funeral of a dear dear teenager I went to, I just can't.

Mike and the Mechanics? - The Living Years
Urrgh. Just associate it with illness and death, why would I want to listen to that?

Led Zep - Stairway
To quote the obscure Wonderstuff track "Good Night Though":
"Well, there's a lady that knows
All that glitters is not gold
She said, "Don't play that awful song
Don't play that awful song", she said
"'Cause then we'll know the party has gone on too long"
Quite.

ABBA - generally, all of them, but especially dancing queen
That's nails on blackboards for me.

[Gaggsy]

Anything by Paloma Faith.
God knows why the BBC keep plugging her. She must have some dirt on the commissioning editor.

[Gaggsy]

Oh, the United Kingdom Eurovision entry.
Fortunately, we probably never will hear it again.

[Watis]

'All About That Bass' - Meghan Trainor.

I first heard this on Terry Wogan's Radio 2 weekend show in 2014. I fully expected its airing to be followed by an apology along the lines of having selected the wrong track to play. But no, it really was on the playlist.

I detest the song and its social message, the snarling delivery, and the arrangement. The whole package, in fact.

Watis

[Charlottesquare]

Off the top of my head, Anita Bell 'You can ring my bell'. I had a summer job at a factory that had Radio 1 blaring out all day and I heard that song so many times, it makes me cringe! Actually, that one summer job put me off pop music for quite a few years.

Going back even further, we had a horrific activity at Infant/Junior school called, I think, Music and Movement, and I sometimes hear the music from those lessons. The only one I vaguely remember by name is '.... and his dancing bear.' Brings back too many memories of feeling and looking a right prat. These days I can do that all by myself.

Steve

Anita Ward, not Bell. Anita Bell singing "Ring My Bell" would have been too much to bear.

"Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear" , here is Randy Newman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tynMSsRz8ZE

[Charlottesquare]

I would go for vast majority of Christmas songs as the ones to be banned under my dictatorship. Some I can just about tolerate, but sorry, The McCartney one, Cliff Richard, Bing and Bowie, and a fair few of the others can all go to Room 101 as far as I am concerned.

Also, some that are not on the playlist should get an outing- 3 or 4 years of" A Spaceman came Travelling "would likely see it banished but it does not get that much airtime (neither does Greg Lake).

"All I want for Christmas" I can tolerate, as I like Mariah's voice (though it should be rationed), the Wham one should go on the grounds of the haircuts in the video.

If I really start thinking about this question I could be typing here most of the day.

[TheMotorcycleBoy]

What songs might trigger you? Perhaps bizaare^ one-off's aside, fortunately you don't tend to hear those old one's much as it is - but tracks that you find other's still consider enjoyable classics, that to you are burnt out beyond redemption.

"Sussudio" - Phil Collins,
When I'm in the garage, it doesn't matter how greasy/dirty my hands are, the volume is turned to zero whenever Planet Rock play that one.

[AleisterCrowley]

I'd forgotten Chris de Burgh and have now, sadly, remembered him again..