Pieces of music that you absolutely hate?

[fuzzipueo]

10 hours ago, Vero Totem said:

Classic rock from the 60s through the 80s and pop, rock, and pop/rock from the 90s are basically the types of music I listen to every day.  I also enjoy Baroque music.  I find it soothing, but it annoys the living daylights out of my mother.  I can't stand most Russian composers (the only exception is Tchaikovsky) since I find most of the music from anyone that studied from the Russian school to be overly dramatic.  The German school used more subtlety, in my opinion.

Mind you, I'm referring to stuff that drives me up the wall, Steely Dan, The Who, Metallica, CCR, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Led Zepplin, etc.

 

I love 60s and 70s folk, acoustic, 70s disco& dance, R&B, New Wave, Grunge, electronica/trance, some hip-hop, hip-hop rock, mixed hybrid stuff, world beat, some classical, waltzes, jazzed up folk, country, bluegrass, and stuff I don't know how to categorize. Good music is good music regardless of origin.

[lilihierax]

Darude - Sandstorm

[Violetza]

Anything by Chappell Roan.

[SkyWorld]

I don’t really like anything by King’s of Leon. The instrumentals sound fine, but I’m not a fan of the vocalist’s singling style. I wouldn’t say I hate it though.

 

I stand “Grippy” by J Cole. That… that’s really bad.

[Siimo van der fietspad]

On 4/4/2025 at 2:48 PM, Vero Totem said:

 The German school used more subtlety, in my opinion.

With the possible exception of most Richard Strauss tone poems. Wind machine and thunder sheet! 

[Janus the Fox]

The album Return of the Giant Slits is uhh… quite a 180 from their punk rock best

[Vero Totem]

On 4/4/2025 at 6:48 PM, fuzzipueo said:

Mind you, I'm referring to stuff that drives me up the wall, Steely Dan, The Who, Metallica, CCR, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Led Zepplin, etc.

 

I love 60s and 70s folk, acoustic, 70s disco& dance, R&B, New Wave, Grunge, electronica/trance, some hip-hop, hip-hop rock, mixed hybrid stuff, world beat, some classical, waltzes, jazzed up folk, country, bluegrass, and stuff I don't know how to categorize. Good music is good music regardless of origin.

I could listen to Creedance Clearwater Revival, the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, and Def Leppard all day.  I know some people are absolutely annoyed by "Baba O'Riley" but I love it.  I will agree with you about Metallica, though.  I will never forgive them for absolutely ruining an Irish folk song.  Boo, hiss.

[lilihierax]

Any generic corporate modern American pop.  and Ed Sheeran.

[Gloomy]

Happy by Pharrell sounds like it’s being chanted by some weird happiness cult.

 

[AlsoKnownAs]

It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock is just . . . grating. It hurts my ears to hear it.

AKA

[fuzzipueo]

On 4/7/2025 at 1:58 PM, Vero Totem said:

I could listen to Creedance Clearwater Revival, the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, and Def Leppard all day.  I know some people are absolutely annoyed by "Baba O'Riley" but I love it.  I will agree with you about Metallica, though.  I will never forgive them for absolutely ruining an Irish folk song.  Boo, hiss.

RE: Def Leppard - I do like them. A number of years ago, a friend of mine wanted to treat mutual friend and me to a concert with Def Leppard - I surprised myself by not only enjoying the concert, but knowing some of the music. Since then, I've been several more concerts, one featuring Heart and the other featured Journey & Tesla. Good concerts all.

[bare_trees]

Just about anything by Train, Creed, Nickelback, Kid Rock, Imagine Dragons, and Tim McGraw

 

Most songs by Katy Perry

 

Some songs from my high school days that I really just cannot listen to and hated then:

 

LFO "Summer Girls"
 

Lou Bega "Mambo #5"

 

Crazytown "Butterfly"

 

Faith Hill "Breathe"

 

 

[Virelai]

"The Joker" by Steve Miller Band. I have hated this song since I first heard it like two decades ago. It's sooooo bad, it makes me want to vomit.

 

Also that Lee Greenwood God Bless the USA song. I first heard this song a couple of decades ago and it's always been bad. But with today's political climate in the US it's far worse now.

[PaleMoth]

The Take by tory lanes. To be fair, this style of music really grates on my nerves to begin with, but this stands out as particularly grim. I'm not a prude by a long shot. It just sounds so... slimy? Like I can SMELL  that song and it smells of sweat, shame and SLIME. DISGUSTANG!

 

Born to die (album) by lanabanana del rey. This is the most dreary album I think I've ever heard. It also feels very forced and more like she's trying to project a romanticised image of her issues than coming from a genuine place of raw emotion. 

[JordanIsMyPenName]

Setting aside secular Christmas music, which could be its own topic imo, two songs come to mind:

 

"Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan (shoutout to @Violetza, fellow Chappell Roan anti-fan). I HATE THIS SONG SO MUCH. I know it's supposed to be, like, a queer anthem about having the space (literally and figuratively) to be yourself, but. It just gives me the strongest "strip club" vibes. Hard pass.

 

"Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynard Skynard. Yes, that guitar lick is pretty sick, and iconic, and everything. But this song is overplayed, and it's also part of that wave of Dixie-apologetics from the late 60s through late 70s that I just cannot abide (Dukes of Hazzard, anyone?), which I associate with the White trashification of Southern culture, and its subsequent hijacking of the entire American working class. Sorry, but we do not need to keep glorifying the South as it stands in the popular imagination now. Maybe there was a time when the song was meant a little counter-culturally - a reminder to Neil Young (and America) that not all Southerners are the same - but it has been co-opted by the latter-day Southern Pride movement as, like, their theme song. Unironically. Un-subversively. You know who I mean: The folks who will fly the Stars n Bars right next to the Stars and Stripes and not see the inconsistency. The people who are still whining about their imagined "states' rights" to treat non-White, non-straight, non-male, non-Christian people as less-than-human. The ones who are offended that people want to tear down their statues of Confederate veterans. Sorry, The South: You lost the war; get over it. This song is absolute barf, ruined by association. Anyone who sincerely likes this song is in very bad company. 

 

I don't have strong opinions about this at all...

-Jordan, a former Southerner

[Violetza]

On 4/16/2025 at 2:04 PM, JordanIsMyPenName said:

Setting aside secular Christmas music, which could be its own topic imo, two songs come to mind:

 

"Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan (shoutout to @Violetza, fellow Chappell Roan anti-fan). I HATE THIS SONG SO MUCH. I know it's supposed to be, like, a queer anthem about having the space (literally and figuratively) to be yourself, but. It just gives me the strongest "strip club" vibes. Hard pass.

 

"Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynard Skynard. Yes, that guitar lick is pretty sick, and iconic, and everything. But this song is overplayed, and it's also part of that wave of Dixie-apologetics from the late 60s through late 70s that I just cannot abide (Dukes of Hazzard, anyone?), which I associate with the White trashification of Southern culture, and its subsequent hijacking of the entire American working class. Sorry, but we do not need to keep glorifying the South as it stands in the popular imagination now. Maybe there was a time when the song was meant a little counter-culturally - a reminder to Neil Young (and America) that not all Southerners are the same - but it has been co-opted by the latter-day Southern Pride movement as, like, their theme song. Unironically. Un-subversively. You know who I mean: The folks who will fly the Stars n Bars right next to the Stars and Stripes and not see the inconsistency. The people who are still whining about their imagined "states' rights" to treat non-White, non-straight, non-male, non-Christian people as less-than-human. The ones who are offended that people want to tear down their statues of Confederate veterans. Sorry, The South: You lost the war; get over it. This song is absolute barf, ruined by association. Anyone who sincerely likes this song is in very bad company. 

 

I don't have strong opinions about this at all...

-Jordan, a former Southerner

It does give strip club vibes I was shocked when someone told me it is about being in a gay club.

[Waist of Thyme]

I heard a song a long time ago that I immediately hated from the first lyric: "The purpose of a man is to love a woman, and the purpose of a woman is to love a man." I despise the lyric so much that I still remember it from a song I heard once or twice at most probably more than a decade ago. In addition to it sounding like something a homophobe would say, I don't like the thought of reducing peoples' "purpose" to loving someone, like any of someone's else hobbies, goals, or accomplishments don't matter.

 

Google tells me that the song is called "Game of Love" and that it's by a group called Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders. Common sense tells me I'm probably reading too much into the lyrics for what was likely intended to be a catchy love song from the 60s. I still don't like the lyric. 

[GNF54]

I hate Weezer 

[Eroell]

Any rap.

Also Nirvana.

[bare_trees]

On 4/16/2025 at 1:04 PM, JordanIsMyPenName said:

"Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan (shoutout to @Violetza, fellow Chappell Roan anti-fan). I HATE THIS SONG SO MUCH. I know it's supposed to be, like, a queer anthem about having the space (literally and figuratively) to be yourself, but. It just gives me the strongest "strip club" vibes. Hard pass.

I absolutely adore her music.  (Not everything she says in interviews...but her music).  I want to say people who hate "Pink Pony Club" just hate joy, and I guess that's how Swifties have felt over the years when I said I really didn't get what the big deal was with her. 😂

[Vero Totem]

On 4/28/2025 at 11:41 AM, Eroell said:

Any rap.

Also Nirvana.

I agree with the rap part, except for some old school rap like Salt 'N Pepa's hits or "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang.  I absolutely detest what has become gangsta rap.  To me, it just sounds like a bunch of posers who have either never been to prison or went for something mild/ridiculous like jaywalking.

About Nirvana -- them's fightin' words.

[halcyon.days]

Maroon 5 in general, but I find Moves Like Jagger to be especially terrible. I can't stand music with explicitly sexual connotations.

 

Also Dance Monkey by Tones and I, and anything by SIA.

[Squirrel Combat]

I just can't stand that "Boom Boom" blues song! I also don't like anything by Sabrina Carpenter, but that's more because she looks creepy to me and she does those concerts where she gets into a sex position on stage. ...And then her musical style just "pop bland".

[Ceebs]

On 5/11/2025 at 8:48 PM, halcyon.days said:

Also Dance Monkey by Tones and I

I despise that song with a very intense passion. 

[Jelle]

Last Christmas indeed. Ruins the festive mood for me.

 

Also, Dance Monkey. I turn the radio off every time it starts playing.

[Jelle]

On 5/12/2025 at 2:48 AM, halcyon.days said:

Also Dance Monkey by Tones and I, and anything by SIA

 

11 hours ago, Ceebs said:

I despise that song with a very intense passion. 

Yay I'm not the only one

 

And regarding Sia, she has some good and relatable lyrics, but her voice tears my nerves to shreds.

[UncannyDanny]

Most today's music. Not as great or original as classics nowadays.

 

Any songs that glorifies strong profanities. Ugh, it's just all "F this, F that, F the BS" crap nowadays. >_<

[Jelle]

THIS ONE.

 

 

It's particularly annoying in itself, and my stepson keeps torturing us with it in the car. My ears 😭😭😭

[Jelle]

On 4/20/2025 at 5:10 PM, Waist of Thyme said:

I heard a song a long time ago that I immediately hated from the first lyric: "The purpose of a man is to love a woman, and the purpose of a woman is to love a man." I despise the lyric so much that I still remember it from a song I heard once or twice at most probably more than a decade ago. In addition to it sounding like something a homophobe would say, I don't like the thought of reducing peoples' "purpose" to loving someone, like any of someone's else hobbies, goals, or accomplishments don't matter.

 

Google tells me that the song is called "Game of Love" and that it's by a group called Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders. Common sense tells me I'm probably reading too much into the lyrics for what was likely intended to be a catchy love song from the 60s. I still don't like the lyric. 

Many songs from the 60s seem to be love-focused, but this is particularly bad with these lyrics. And there's another song from about that time, with lyrics like "Everybody needs somebody to love" or whatever.

[wellburglemyturts]

On 5/11/2025 at 6:48 PM, halcyon.days said:

Also Dance Monkey by Tones and I

 

I HATE this song. The singer's voice sounds like she got the world's worst stuffy nose and swallowed sandpaper to try and fix it. It's physically painful to listen to.

 

Other songs on my Hatred List include:

Blinded By the Lights - played EVERY DAY of my high school life

Perfect by Ed Sheeran - related to horrible love-triangle drama that wreaked havoc on my friend group in middle school

Subway by Chappell Roan - My siblings adore this one, but it's not that great if you can't relate to the romance aspect of it

Most things by Taylor Swift - I just don't get the hype