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[slipjig3]

Now here's where the fun begins. From rubian77:

10 Least Favorite Songs Ever

1) "Barbie Girl," Aqua — The song most likely to spontaneously trigger a hostage situation.
2) "From a Distance," Bette Midler — The only song on the planet that can make "Wind Beneath My Wings" even remotely palatable in comparison.
3) "Red Red Wine," UB40 — I don't know why. For some reason, this one comes on, and my eyelid starts twitching, and then my fists start clenching, and then it's the bleeding ears and the begging for mercy.
4) "She's So Cold," The Rolling Stones — "I'm so hot for her, I'm so hot for her, I'm so hot for her, and she's so cold." And in case you didn't catch it the first time, Mick Jagger will now elaborate. FOREVER. ("Shattered" isn't much better.)
5) "Suzanne," Leonard Cohen — I would probably have more tolerance for this one if open mic "performers" didn't insist on mud-stomping this one over and over again.
6) "All for You," Sister Hazel — Not only did they come up with the most grating vocal hook of the '90's ("It took a long, long TIII-iime..."), they made a point of repeating it 673 times.
7) Metal Machine Music, Lou Reed — Double album, but counts as one song. One very...very...painful song. The musical equivalent of a root canal.
8) "Seasons in the Sun," Terry Jacks — Dear gods, no. Did anyone ever actually like this?
9) "I Love You Always Forever," Donna Lewis — I'm still not convinced that there's a song in that song.
10) "Ode to My Family," The Cranberries — I remember hearing an NPR annual music wrap-up for that year, wherein the host and the commentator were talking about Dolores's "amazing voice." I nearly laughed myself off the couch.

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Comments

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"Barbie Girl," Aqua — The song most likely to spontaneously trigger a hostage situation.

Unless the hostage starts to sing it.

Thank you for not putting "Paralyzed" on this list. That has its charms. Its deranged charms. (He suffered for that song, now it's our turn.)

I only know Metal Machine Music by reputation -- specifically, by Lester Bangs's "WTF??!" essay about it.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Go into Amazon's mp3 search, and look for Metal machine Music. It HURTS.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I'm more likely to search for John Cage's 4'33. ;-)

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Easy joke that's been done before, but I can sometimes do the easy jokes.

True (I believe!) story: composer Hans Zimmer was writing what would be his very influential score to the 1989 film Black Rain. A Paramount executive HATED the score and said no, score this scene like the music in this scene from Rocky. Dutifully, Zimmer rented Rocky and fast-forwarded to the scene. It had no music. As Zimmer later said, "I can do that." (He scored the scene the way he wanted, with director Ridley Scott's backing.)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

There's a rumor that MMM was a great big "FU" to the record company, that LR was forced to produce it because of a contractual obligation to produce one last album before he was free of his contract with the record label. So he set out to make a pile of, essentially, unlistenable and unsaleable crap.

I'm surprised there's no Celine Dion in the list. "My Heart Will Go On" is certainly enough to set my teeth on edge.

[auntiegrizelda.livejournal.com]

I have a great fondness for 3 and 9. I don't know why.

But I'm gonna go on a limb here and agree with you about "Suzanne." I popped over to Amazon to listen to a clip and ya know...it's completely awful.