You know what? I love generally terrible pop music, and half this thread are sings I’ve listened to this week.

But god fucking dammit, if that Paul McCartney Christmas song comes on, it causes a flight response in me. My body wants me to run away.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go for a run blasting all these bangers.

Butterfly by crazy town

Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell and covered by Counting Crows. I had to look up the actual name of the song because I just know it by the lyric " Paved paradise, put up a parking lot". It’s just repetitive, depressing, and unimaginative.

Mustang Sally can burn in hell. Fuck that song. Repeating a one line chorus for a million fucking years is not a god damned song, it’s a method of torture.

“US Male” by Elvis Presley. At least some of his other bad songs are funny. This one just sucks.

Anything by Cake. I have a visceral reaction.

Kids birthday. Around 2010. 11am till 6pm. Non stop Its Time for Africa.

I remember trying to sneak off the premises for 1-2 minutes of silence.

Last Christmas

“Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

After years of hating it, I’ve basically boiled my criticism down to the fact that it’s

Banal, saccharine, faux-folksy bullshit.

I’m pretty sure I’ve written that exact string of words dozens of times over the years whenever this topic comes up. But I’ll expand on it a bit.

It drags on for a little over 5 minutes, it’s too damn long for having no real substance

Half of the lyrics are just cutesy-sounding words with no real significance

There’s a weird spoken word bit in the middle telling a story that just kind of doesn’t go anywhere basically just “remember that time you fell out a window and I drove you to the hospital? That’s when I fell in love with you”

Why? Are you attracted to women who are bleeding all over your car? Do you get turned on by gravity? Did she say something funny? Did she at least look cute? There’s just no fucking payoff.

There’s not really even anything particularly interesting musically interesting going on there.

And what’s with the fake southern drawl? You’re from L.A. my dude. That’s Los Angeles, not Louisiana. And by the way “Edward Sharpe,” you forgot to even use that bullshit “alter-ego” name in this song, you’re not even keeping your own made-up lore straight, just drop the fucking act.

I’m pretty sure if I asked the crappiest LLM out there to write a “bullshit folksy love song for basic white teenage girls” it would spit out something better.

And for some reason the radio stations around me played this song to absolute death, not to mention my sister practically listening to it on repeat. It’s burned into my head and I absolutely fucking hate it.

Fucking Staind. It’s Been Awhile is one of the whiniest piece of shit songs with the dumbest lyrics ever written. Louie Louie is Shakespeare compared to that song. It came out right around the time Clear Channel was barfing out Christian rock garbage and I’d rather listen to Creed telling me about Jeebus’s arms wide open a million times before I’d listen to someone repeat the same emo trash “I’m 13 and this is deep” line in a song 14 fucking times.

Honestly, “Happy”. Not because of the song itself, thats completely fine, but my wind orchestra had an arrangement with the least inspired tuba voice I have ever played.

Cotton-Eye Joe by Rednex makes me want to stab myself in the temple with a letter opener.

24 karat by Bruno Mars pisses me off so much that I immediately want to turn off the radio.

The disconnected randomness just ticks me off.

Paradise by the dashboard light