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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf there's one song playing on a constant loop in hell, what is it?
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Ocelot II
(115,743 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)Shoeless Louis
(73 posts)3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)I think this little ditty is universally despised. It shows up on every thread of this nature.
If I cannot get to the mute button fast enough, I stick my fingers in my ears and vocalize anything else very loudly until it is over.
electric_blue68
(14,915 posts)Twitter Post-
"1-800-Cars-4-Kids"
"I hadn't realized there is no other answer to the question until I read this."
dear lord
Bwah!
Casady1
(2,133 posts)Haggard Celine
(16,847 posts)They wore that song out back when it was popular, and I developed an allergy to it.
Yonnie3
(17,444 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 6, 2021, 02:42 PM - Edit history (1)
So many to choose from sheer annoyance value I'm picking Baby Shark Song.
XanaDUer2
(10,686 posts)Pinback
(12,157 posts)This song embodies pretty much everything awful about insipid pop music. The story behind the song (which made composer Dan Hill quite wealthy, I presume) is recounted here:
https://www.countrythangdaily.com/sometimes-when-we-touch-dan-hill/
He expected her to swoon. But what he got was a long sigh from the other end. She then told Hill that for a 19-year-old, he was way too goddam intense and that she was moving to North Carolina with a CFL football player.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,299 posts)Walleye
(31,028 posts)The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)'Honey' and 'Brandi' are serious contenders. There's always 'The Night Chicago Died', and of course 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree'....
Docreed2003
(16,865 posts)That song will be playing on the Muzak of my personal hell
https://m.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)electric_blue68
(14,915 posts)ShazamIam
(2,575 posts)catbyte
(34,406 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,967 posts)I was going to post this one also. I guess it is true, great minds think alike.
electric_blue68
(14,915 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)"I've Never Been to Me". I actually want to hurt myself when I hear it, which is usually in a supermarket.
Pinback
(12,157 posts)from user @grownuppunk --
2/2 So when my friends and I left, we pumped a lot of quarters into the jukebox and chose Im Too Sexy by Right Said Fred to play over and over - in Spanish
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I don't dare post my choice, because it's a song beloved by millions and there would be a thousand outraged responses with not only the original but also every agonizing cover of my Personal Hell Song.
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)Pinback
(12,157 posts)Of course, ANY song, even your favorite song of all time, would eventually become torture if you had to hear it over and over in an endless loop.
Here's a cover of the Zeppelin classic that I particularly enjoy:
Frank's transcription of the Jimmy Page solo for horns starting at the 6:30 mark cracks me up!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)by Ohio Express
And Pinback,
My friends and I were thrown out of a NJ pizza parlor back in the 70s for playing "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" too many times on the jukebox. By Loudon Wainwright III
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)That there is a fine tune. I'll dig up the thread.
I think we're going to have to disagree on this one.
Thanks for writing.
Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)the slam or the original novelty tune?
Did Ray Bolger do that? I'm doing other stuff right now.
Thanks.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)what was going on in your life at the time. Maybe things were going well for you. You hear "Muskrat Love" (to name one song mentioned), and it brings back fond memories.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)Ferryboat
(922 posts)Sugar sugar by the Archies certainly is in the running.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)I'll find one.
Thanks.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...of my high school graduation.
The songs of 1968 and 1970 were Hey Jude and Bridge Over Troubled Water (dont remember which year was which song and too lazy to look it up right now).
What the hell was the matter with the class of 1969?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)Bayard
(22,103 posts)And anything else by The Police.
One that's been popping into my head lately is the hellish, "Rhinestone Cowboy".
I really hate the trend in the past several years of youngers singing stuff that all sounds alike. I loathed rap too. Glad its gone.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)brewens
(13,598 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,461 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)I was scrolling to see if anyone had posted that one yet and found yours. You are absolutely correct!
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)Worked weddings for over 20 years and before DJs were as popular as they are EVERY terrible band in the world played Proud Mary as their rock&roll tune....
LW1977
(1,235 posts)Its the Jar Jar Binks of songs! Hate it hate it hate it!!!
Makes Kars4Kids sound like a Beatles song.
electric_blue68
(14,915 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)was the one on YouTube titled:
"Outkast - Hey Ya! but everytime they say 'Uh' or 'Alright' it gets faster"
Around 1:52 the song warps into another dimension. (If you do watch it, turn on the closed captions. The ending is just perfect.)
Midnight Writer
(21,769 posts)For a while there, this was played at every damn funeral I went to, and folks would actually start weeping when it played.
They eventually made a movie about the thing and how it was divinely inspired and changed the world.
It would be a delicious irony if all these phony Christians had to stew in Hell listening to this tripe on an endless loop.
Leith
(7,809 posts)The runners-up that have not yet been mentioned are:
Honey (See the tree, how big it's grown...)
Hey There Lonely Girl (or any man singing falsetto except Lou Christy)
But the only one that beats them all out is The Name Game. Every single thing about it is repulsive. Find your own link to the video.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I'm pretty much UP today!
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...revolting Ooga Chaka chant?
I really like the version performed by B.J. Thomas, but the stupid chant renders the song unlistenable.
And the male vocalists who sang that stupid chant must have been really desperate to have a singing career.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)I used to have to haul my niece and nephew to a nearby skating rink once or twice a week. That song seemed ALWAYS to be playing there at full volume. I also liked B.J. Thomas' version, but this ooga-chaka thing is just awful.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)I'm stunned this wasn't top of the list.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)YMMV.
Thanks for writing.
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...I wish I still had it.
Coventina
(27,121 posts)Worst. Song. Ever.
Red Mountain
(1,735 posts)Can't change the station fast enough.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)DFW
(54,410 posts)Especially if I can't get to the people who made it to make their eternity awful as well (and play "Feelings" for them in revenge)
sarge43
(28,941 posts)tanyev
(42,572 posts)From the comments:
Ethan Runnels. 1 year ago
It's amazing how music can take you to other places. For instance, this song was playing at Walmart, so now I'm in Target.
rurallib
(62,426 posts)OMG what a piece of crap -
But if you must have it proven to you, here you go:
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)With Satan playing the synthesizer riff non-stop.
Honorable mention to Charles Manson's insane music:
Harker
(14,024 posts)tavernier
(12,393 posts)Recorded by Vicky Carr
I throw up a little in my mouth every time I hear it.
blue neen
(12,322 posts)Gawd awful song.
sakabatou
(42,159 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,507 posts)Harker
(14,024 posts)pacheen
(58 posts)Worst Christmas song ever!
Harker
(14,024 posts)How about a pair of pink Topsiders with a bright orange pair of pants?
Noooooooooo!
Angleae
(4,487 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)Every morning when I first wake up I have a different, obscure song playing in my head for the first few minutes I'm awake. I can't always remember them and there's never a reason in which I'm aware. For instance, the other morning I recall it was the theme song to "F Troop"!! Where did that come from? LOL. After my last son was born, twenty-three years ago, I developed a sleep disorder and the song thing started around then.