Thursday, March 18

The Dire Straits thing got me thinking... what other songs make me want to peel my fingernails off, grate my knuckles and sear my eardrums out with cigarettes? Here's five.

Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
- fuck, it hurt me to even type that. STUPID song title. Stupider band title. YOur careers didn't deserve to go any further
after this. This song annoys me in ways that even mosquitos and fleas cannot. Clearly though, this was written to immediately become the anthem of every male in a bar that you seek to avoid.

Why anyone feels cool screaming this crap while loaded is beyond my comprehension. Being drunk isn't even a good enough excuse. Piece of trivia
that ABSOLUTELY seals the deal for me on this song's pure irritation factor? In the Home Improvement series finale, the song was set to a montage of the main character's many pratfalls and accidents. Barf.

Bad Moon Rising - CCR - UGH and fuck me with a flaming torch. If I never hear this again it will be enough
to infuriate me. Calling to mind the drunken singalongs of pseudo hillbillies who smell like they've never met a bar of soap they liked, this song makes me want to blow up the world. Trivia that seals this one in the books of douchery? It has been used as an entrance song for UFC fighters Dustin Hazelett and Jim Miller.

500 Miles - The Proclaimers - this one has annoyed me ever since I was in college and it somehow became a
must listen, designed to scrape your ears empty and bleed your brain dry. Pretentious sing along shite, this is another one of those drunken asshole rants (fuck, I probably should have picked better bars in my younger years). Piece of trivia? THEY AREN'T IRISH YOU FUCKING GOOFS. So stop using this as some sort of St. Patrick's day soundtrack.

Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz No... don't wake me up for this one. I'm
so bored of this I can't even be bothered to find any trivia but if I did I'm sure it would be boring too.


Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles - AAARGH please!! Now let it be known that I DESPISE The Beatles... but this song in particular arouses waves of anger like you wouldn't believe. Do people dance to this shit? Can you picture that? Can you? (take a look below, did it look like THAT?) And people who sing along to this? Sigh...what is WRONG with your head? This is worse than the most obnoxious children's song, I love you, you love me... included. Trivia? This was the theme for TV's Life goes on. Appropriate in more ways than the obvious.


11 dirty hippies blowing your mind:

viggaz said...

the only one i can agree with is Tubthumping ... i fucking hate that song! but i love Ob-Li-Dee Ob-La-Da!

for me:

'We Built This City' - Starship
'Dancing Queen' - Abba
'Barbie Girl' - Aqua
'I'd Do Anything For Love' - Meatloaf
'We Didn't Start The Fire' - Billy Joel

i'd rather go at my nutsuck with a can-opener then listen to any of these songs.

Gage1 said...

Oh We didn't start the fire... yes that one is painful...and We Built this city is just pure garbage. The other ones I can totally listen to before ANY Beatles.

viggaz said...

Dancing Queen makes me want to dip a pencil in alcohol, jam it in my ear, and light it on fire.

why scuh a hate-on for The Beatles? they were awesome.

Alyson said...

Of all the terrible, terrible songs in the world... I'd have to say "The BAd Touch" by The Bloodhoung Gang is the one song that makes me want to throw myself off a balcony.

I'm irritable just THINKING about it, eugh!

Gage1 said...

BLEARGH! Yes the bad touch is vile!

Gage1 said...

It's hard to explain but the Beatles just bore me and rub me the wrong way...

Christopher said...

I'm down with your selection of songs to grate on the nerves...let me add:
Barbie Girl-Aqua
ANYTHING by Lady CaCa
ANYTHING by Beyonce...too many to list, now you've got me thinking!

La Dick said...

you forgot the most important one: The Motherfucking Safety Dance. KILL. ME.

Gage1 said...

ugh Safety Dance is terrible!

I forgot three others that drive me NUTS...DOn't stop Believin-Journey, somehow that became the must hear song this year, I guess we can blame Glee for that, I just find it HIDEOUS...GOD it's annoying.

The Violent Femmes, Blister in the Sun, I have ALWAYS absolutely HATED this song and I hate it so much I must have mentally blocked it because it should have been on the original list. It was like embarrassing loser fuel back in the day, it really made people act like fucking retards. I can hear the rhythm and the beat of it in my head right now... it begs for moron movement like some kind of Pied Piper of Lameness scenario.

Also, Tainted Love by Soft Cell makes me want to put a bullet through my head, always has, always will, that song is like an eruption of everything that sucked about the 80's. A massive, infected eruption.

Dr Zibbs said...

haha. Wow. Those people in that video are wild!

liz said...

One time while on LSD I listened to CCR's greatest hits and still to this day I associate "bad moon rising" with a really awesome acid experience, so you know.

But I totally agree with you on "tubthumping", Jesus that song angers me.