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 Flinticus 16 Dec 2021

Any song that has you reaching for the off switch?

For me its Franz Ferdinand's current track 'Billy Goodbye'. Thankfully my wife thinks the same otherwise she'd be singing it to me.

 Lankyman 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Whenever I hear the Archers theme tune it's off pronto

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 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

God there's hundreds....

Come on Eileen, Groove is in the Heart, Love Shack, Dance Monkey...  anything at all by Talking Heads or Kasabian.  I could go on but I'd sound like a right miserable sh!t.

Way I see it, in order to love some music you've got to hate some too?

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OP Flinticus 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

> God there's hundreds....

> Come on Eileen, Groove is in the Heart, Love Shack, Dance Monkey...  anything at all by Talking Heads or Kasabian.  I could go on but I'd sound like a right miserable sh!t.

> Way I see it, in order to love some music you've got to hate some too?

Groove ITH...yes! It annoyed me back in the day as retro club lite and still does

Love Shack...with you on this

But all Talking Heads??

 Hat Dude 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Anything by Queen

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 Wainers44 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

> Groove ITH...yes! It annoyed me back in the day as retro club lite and still does

> Love Shack...with you on this

> But all Talking Heads??

Totally disagree.  Back in the day, yes hated pretty much all of that.

Now, watching the vids,  especially Kate Pierson in Love Shack, gives me a warm feeling that most contemporary stuff is devoid of. That maybe nothing to do with the music though.....

 Cobra_Head 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Cliff Richard - Christmas time, but now it's stuck in my head and I don't have the option of turning it off!!

Cheers, merry fooking christmas

 graeme jackson 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

anything by oasis and fairytale of new york. 

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In reply to Flinticus:

Any Billy Joel song has me in full fight or flight mode

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 OwenM 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Any Barry Manilow.

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 Lankyman 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Wainers44:

> Now, watching the vids,  especially Kate Pierson in Love Shack, gives me a warm feeling that most contemporary stuff is devoid of. That maybe nothing to do with the music though.....

Her contribution to 'Shiny, Happy People' makes it one the few REM songs I like much (they all hated it apparently).

Edit: 'Roam' by the B-52s was better than Loveshack

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 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Yeah Groove is... is one of those tracks that just will not die... Retro club lite is a brilliantly succinct way of describing it.

Love Shack, it's the guys voice.  Awful.

I know hating Talking Heads is a bit weird, but 10 years back or so I was hanging out with a lot of  fashion-y types and the only thing they ever played at parties was goddam Talking Heads so they really began to jar on me.  Can't stand David Byrne's voice.  

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 artif 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Coldplay

Elbow or anything to do with guy garvey???? Completely ruins weekend radio 6

Oasis

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 Lankyman 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

> Can't stand David Byrne's voice. 

Yeah, once in a lifetime's enough

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 Wainers44 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Lankyman:

> Edit: 'Roam' by the B-52s was better than Loveshack

Agree that Roam is a far better song. 

 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Lankyman:

Ha! Very good!

 DaveHK 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Lankyman:

Announcer: 'and now it's time for The Archers'

Dave: 'not in this f-ing car it's not'

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 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to artif:

I don't like any of these (well apart from the first Oasis album, that was a banger), but don't reach dial when they come on... 

 Ridge 16 Dec 2021
In reply to artif:

> Coldplay

> Elbow or anything to do with guy garvey????

We'll, Elbow are Coldplay for people who don't like music.

 eric the good 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Rap and Reggae!

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 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to eric the good:

Wow.  That's two whole genres of music, covering a wide gamut of styles and sounds over the decades they've been produced.

And I thought I was being a bit gauche writing off all of Talking Heads.

 Mike Stretford 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Anything by Oasis.

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 Lankyman 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Mike Stretford:

> Anything by Oasis.

Why did Oasis order the soup?

'Cos you got a roll with it

 mik82 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Anything by Maroon 5

 Queenie 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Anything by Adele. Long, drawn-out, maudlin and samey.  Typically building to a wailing chorus. Very much overplayed on most  mainstream radio stations.

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OP Flinticus 16 Dec 2021
In reply to artif:

You and my wife...share that hatred

 Bobling 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

"Just a minute" theme.....ahhhh!   Similar to the Archers hate for some but I can bear the Archers much more easily, but what's with all the funky versions of the Archers theme? The Saturday Omnibus goes full Ceilidh!

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 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Thought of another one...

American Pie.  A load of mawkish, misty-eyed cheesy Americana.  I've never owned a Chevy, drove it to a levee (why?).  This song doesn't speak to me at all.

And it's 8 and a half bloody minutes long.

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 Robert Durran 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Any f****** Christmas music from later than about 1910. Apart from Christmas in New York,

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OP Flinticus 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

There's a lot of Bjork I'll turn off too.

Just too intentional kooky

 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Oh man I f*cking love Bjork

Hyper-balled I think is one of my favourite tunes of all time.  

That said I f*cking hate "Oh So Quiet" and skip it every time I listen to that album (the rest of which is really strong).  Dunno why she did that.  It's a lot of people's only reference point of her music (I don't mean you, you clearly her output better than that!), so it bugs me even more so.

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 Maggot 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Paul McCartney 🥴🥴🥴

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 profitofdoom 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

"Walking in A Winter Wonderland"

Drives me INSANE

And now it's running through my head again. Probably 24 hours a day until December 30

Help

 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to profitofdoom:

Then by all means allow me to introduce you to the very worst cover of this abomination of a song  youtube.com/watch?v=Nryo91pHK8s&

 Hooo 16 Dec 2021
In reply to eric the good:

I can't stand rap in any shape or form, but any kind of reggae is great.

Can't stand any Christmas songs, apart from Fairytale. That one is OK. I especially hate the Slade one, absolutely loathe it.

If I happen to be listening to 6 music on a Saturday afternoon and Giles Peterson comes on I will literally scream out loud and run to turn it off.

The Verve's Urban Hymns. The absolute epitome of pompous whining indie twaddle. Can't bear it.

I'm sure there's more...

 profitofdoom 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

> Then by all means allow me to introduce you to the very worst cover of this abomination of a song  youtube.com/watch?v=Nryo91pHK8s&

Thanks very much 

I made the inevitable huge mistake of clicking on the link 

That was awful 

So amateurish 

Now it's stuck in my head till April or May 

I need therapy 

Bah humbug 

 graeme jackson 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Hooo:

> Can't stand any Christmas songs, apart from Fairytale. That one is OK. I especially hate the Slade one, absolutely loathe it.

This sentence is the exact opposite of my feelings

 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to profitofdoom:

It's really, really spectacularly awful in every imaginable way isn't it?

I'm sorry.

In reply to Ridge:

That's quite a statement considering Coldplay already set that bar pretty low. Utter drivel

OP Flinticus 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

It's that particular song that R6 play all the time. Has tainted my view on her ouput (bar what she did with The Sugarcubes!)

OP Flinticus 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

Not even gonna click on that. NSFMH.

 Carless 16 Dec 2021

Hey guys

Relax a bit

I grew up in full punk era when you weren't supposed to listen to anything else: never understood why - so be prepared to listen to everything (well... maybe not death metal and too much rap)

OP Flinticus 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Carless:

> Hey guys

> Relax a bit

> - so be prepared to listen to everything (well... maybe not death metal and too much rap)

I have listened! Now trying to unlisten...

My tastes are eclectic, from Bicep to Led Zep but there is a quality filter in place!

 Kryank 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Lankyman:

> Why did Oasis order the soup?

> 'Cos you got a roll with it

I remember a quote by Noel talking about Liam once that went along the lines of

”Liam is a man with a fork in a world full of soup!” 
 

still makes me chuckle! 

 TechnoJim 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Anything by Abba, Queen, T f*cking Rex or Amy Winehouse. 

The Archers needs to get in the bin, along with most of the Radio 4 'comedy' offerings. Ideally, what I want from Radio 4 is Dr Hannah Fry reading the shipping forecast in a low voice, on a loop, forever. YMMV.

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 Hooo 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

I like Talking Heads but I can see that. To truly hate a record it has to recall a time and a place. A crap record is easily forgotten, it's the popular ones that you don't get the appeal of that become unbearable.

Donald Fagin's The Nightfly. The most awful cheesy pretentious muso twiddling. I should never have even heard of it, but when it came out I was working as a lighting tech and every sodding soundcheck the sound guy would play this. Apparently it's really well produced or something. So every time I heard it, it meant that I should have been finished setting up and out of the building, but I was still there trying to fix something. I still find it unbearable.

Totally with you on GIITH. Hated it the first time I heard it. Hated it more every time since. One of the few records that has no nostalgia value, I just hate it.

In reply to Flinticus:

> Any song that has you reaching for the off switch?

> For me its Franz Ferdinand's current track 'Billy Goodbye'. Thankfully my wife thinks the same otherwise she'd be singing it to me.

I was thinking very much along these lines the other day. It sounds like some horrible glam rock reject to these ears.

 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Hooo:

So true, the association of some music with a miserable time and place can really taint things that, had I heard them in a different time and place, mightn’t have been so bad.

I worked a crap job in a horrible shop for a while and everything we used to play in there I detest. If I ever hear “If I See a Chance” by Stevie Winwood ever again in my life it’ll be too soon (to be fair, that is awful though, so maybe a bad example!).

 Andy Hardy 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

If you want a real piece of shitevinyl there's a record that appeared for a brief period in the mid 70s by Wigan's Ovation called, I kid you not, "skiing in the snow". It is officially* the worst record in the history of recorded music. Not played often (which in itself is possibly proof of an all merciful deity) but when it is, I aim to get to the off switch by the end of bar 2.

*I am the official arbiter here

 nigel n 16 Dec 2021
In reply to graeme jackson:

try fairytale of stornoway (peat and diesel)

 Hat Dude 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Ridge:

> We'll, Elbow are Coldplay for people who don't like music.

Similar to my thoughts on Queen, a Rock Band for people who don't actually like Rock

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 john arran 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Hat Dude:

> Queen, a Rock Band for people who don't actually like Rock

I always knew there must be a reason for why I liked Queen. Thanks!

 Hat Dude 16 Dec 2021
In reply to john arran:

> I always knew there must be a reason for why I liked Queen. Thanks!

Ach John and you were one of my heroes

 Iamgregp 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Hat Dude:

Like Eminem is hip hop for people who don’t listen to any other hip hop. 

Same as Kenny G for Jazz, Bob Marley for Reggae…

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 pec 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Lots of examples for me but the stand out ones are the Archers theme tune (glad to see I'm not the only one) but most of all 'I Want You To Want Me' by Cheap Trick. Hearing even the first few notes before I can get to the radio makes me feel violated.

 grectangle 16 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

"We Will Rock You" makes me wish humans had never evolved from apes.

Likewise the rest of their god awful catalogue and anything by Simon and Garfunkel, The Eagles, and the Steve fkn Miller Band.

Also that goddam song "Happy" that was everywhere a few years ago can get fcked.

Thanks, I feel better now.

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In reply to Flinticus:

Lady in Red. Objectionable on every level.

 Bog ninja 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

My wife introduced me to this, it’s excellent compared with most Christmas music 

 Hooo 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

Fairytale of New York is the Christmas song for people who don't like Christmas songs. 

 Iamgregp 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Bog ninja:

It's fantastic. Discovered it a few years back and have been playing it every xmas, makes a change from all the cheese! 

 Iamgregp 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Hooo:

Yeah that's fair...

 sandrow 17 Dec 2021
In reply to nigel n:

> try fairytale of stornoway (peat and diesel)

Love it!

cb294 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Iamgregp:

Arrgh, hand me the brain bleach!

CB

 Iamgregp 17 Dec 2021
In reply to cb294:

If it would let me I'd go back and put a health warning on the link.  I don't think I gave peope fair warning in my original post and I'm deeply sorry

 cragtyke 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

TV wise, the first notes of the music for EastEnders, the One Show and Strictly have me wincing and scrabbling for the remote.

 PaulJepson 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger

Both make me want to end lives. 

 TechnoJim 17 Dec 2021
In reply to PaulJepson:

> The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger

God yes, the worst kind of lowest common denominator indie landfill with a chorus seemingly purpose written to be bellowed by idiots.

 Hooo 17 Dec 2021
In reply to cragtyke:

Yes. All of those. I would add Coronation street to the list but I'm not allowed to turn that off. I have to leave the room instead.

 Lankyman 17 Dec 2021
In reply to TechnoJim:

>with a chorus seemingly purpose written to be bellowed by idiots

A whole 'song' for cretins:

Agadoo! doo! doo! Push pineapple shake the tree!

Utter and complete bilge

 PaulJepson 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Lankyman:

My old music teacher produced that song and had either a gold or platinum disk for it. I got the impression he was quite ashamed of having had anything to do with it!

In reply to Flinticus:

Anything with a metronomic, unvarying 120 beats a minute (but no real rhythm) practically drowning out the rest, one or two note "melodies", zero harmonic interest, and tediously repetitive lyrics (as in Police's Message in a Bottle - I am only referring to the lyrics in this case).

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 Hooo 17 Dec 2021
In reply to Lankyman:

The canonical appalling holiday song. Whenever I hear it I think of the (far superior) Spitting Image spoof version.

Waaave a chicken in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose. Buy a jumbo jet, and then bury all your clothes.

 Lankyman 18 Dec 2021
In reply to Hooo:

> The canonical appalling holiday song

Yes Sir, I can boogie (but I need a certain song)

In reply to Flinticus:

Pretty much anything which is on Capital FM.

OP Flinticus 18 Dec 2021
In reply to TheDrunkenBakers:

I don't even give that station a chance.

I'm afraid I'm sinking into an echo chamber as I switch over to Spotify play lists. Even there though, it once suggested a list containing Ed Sheeran! 

 nathan79 18 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Those who know me will claim I hate virtually everything and everyone but it's not true.

Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" has me bolting across rooms whilst uttering various expletives to save my ears from that soulless bilge.

Pink Floyd's "the great gig in the sky". 200 minutes of unbearable warbling or so it seems.

Any other Snow Patrol, Coldplay (because it's never "The Scientist", their only good song), Ed Sheeran, U2, Bon Jovi (aka Bon Jobbie), Rihanna, Beyoncé all have me reaching for a channel change.

With regards to Christmas songs, I can't stand The Waitresses "Christmas Wrapping" is the type of the hate last.

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In reply to Flinticus:

Katie melua. And Ellie Goulding. 
 

but mostly Ed Sheeran. Music’s Michael Macintyre. 

In reply to Hooo:

> The canonical appalling holiday song. Whenever I hear it I think of the (far superior) Spitting Image spoof version.

Its the time of year
Now that Spring is in the air
When those two wet gits with their girly curly hair
Make another song for moronic holidays
That nauseate-ate-ate
In a million different ways
From the shores of Spain
To the coast of Southern France
No matter where you hide
You just can't escape this dance

Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
Paint your left knee green
Then extract your wisdom teeth
Form a string quartet
And pretend your name is Keith

 

If I remember correctly, the B side was “I’ve never met a nice South African”. 

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In reply to grectangle:

> "We Will Rock You" makes me wish humans had never evolved from apes.

> Likewise the rest of their god awful catalogue and anything by Simon and Garfunkel, The Eagles, and the Steve fkn Miller Band.

> Also that goddam song "Happy" that was everywhere a few years ago can get fcked.

> Thanks, I feel better now

In any world where this abomination exists, the examples you give above don’t even register:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_at_Christmas

well, except “happy”. As earworms go, it was a parasitic one that a tropical medicine specialist would prescribe course of ivermectin for…

 PaulJepson 19 Dec 2021
In reply to nathan79:

> With regards to Christmas songs, I can't stand The Waitresses "Christmas Wrapping" is the type of the hate last.

U wot

It's the best Christmas song !

 Hooo 19 Dec 2021
In reply to no_more_scotch_eggs:

Did you actually remember all the lyrics or did you have to look it up?

In reply to Hooo:

Copy and paste; but I did remember a worryingly large proportion of them… 😁

 Tom Valentine 19 Dec 2021
In reply to cragtyke:

Yes, always had you down for an Emmerdale man.....

 Tom Valentine 19 Dec 2021
In reply to Hooo:

I quite liked it the first 2000 times i heard it but now am much happier listening to the jiingle jangle guitar of" 2000 miles ". 

 Calvi 20 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

The jingle from the postcode lottery advert.

 ripper 20 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Anything by Elton John. Apparently he's strongly rumoured to be playing Glasto 2022, for which the Mrs & I have tickets. I would walk a very long way across a lot of fields to avoid having that shit poured into my ears.

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OP Flinticus 20 Dec 2021
In reply to ripper:

Glasto...not the same since the end of the new age traveller era...

 ripper 20 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

I once played at an impromptu 'peace convoy' festival when they rocked up at deeply vale for a weekend, back around the mid to late 80s. I've never yet been to glasto but imagine it will be absolutely nothing like that. Tbh it's a bit of a bucket list thing for the Mrs, I'm not really expecting to like it much. 

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OP Flinticus 21 Dec 2021
In reply to ripper:

Went a few times in the mid 90s. Twice rained out, once 🌞 . 

All I now know is it features in The Suday Times every year...

 Mike-W-99 21 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Its not their finest moment is it?

Dont listen to the radio but whenever New Orders "I told you so" comes round on the car mp3 player it gets skipped.

 Iamgregp 21 Dec 2021
In reply to ripper:

I've been 5 or 6 times and have tickets to the next one....

I've no doubt you'll love it - the thing I love about Glasto is it's so huge that you can really have any type of festival you want... If you want to go go a chilled out village green type of area, drink real ale and listen to acoustic bands on a tiny stage you can do that, or watch huge stadium rock, or get off your head and dance all night to Techno, or spend the weekend doing arts and crafts or, or, or....

Basically you can do what you want there, you just have to find your Glasto....

 Hooo 21 Dec 2021
In reply to ripper:

I suspect the main reason it isn't how it used to be is because all the tickets go to people who have it on their bucket list The sort of people who made the old Glasto what it was couldn't get it together to obtain a ticket. I've tried a few times but never managed it. The last time I went was the last one where you could climb the fence, and to be fair something had to be done as it had got seriously out of hand.

 ripper 21 Dec 2021
In reply to Hooo:

Well the list of mine that it would be on is 'things I'm not really too arsed about, either way'. So hopefully I'll enrich the event by my very presence.

 squarepeg 31 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

The dreadful angels by the dreadful Robbie Williams (dick head). Maungy shite. 

 aln 31 Dec 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Philistine! Groove is in the heart is an all time classic. If you like dancing it's impossible to stay still when it's on. 

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OP Flinticus 02 Jan 2022
In reply to aln:

It has me moving across the floor

To the off switch 

 Bulls Crack 04 Jan 2022
In reply to Flinticus:

Anything from Otto von Slivovitche's demi-orchestral works Opuses CXX11- CLVII; he really lost it around here I think and has me reaching for the dial every time. 


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