My discussion on favourite songs seems to be bubbling along nicely, so I thought I'd spice things up a little... What songs do you just hate?

Again, I'll go first.

The Lark In The Clear Air (Phyllis Tate) - A melody-free piece of utter schmaltz that disgraces the phrase "folk music" and is coincidentally on the ABRSM syllabus. My teacher actually wanted me to sing this musical obscenity for a Grade 4 exam and I refused point blank... that's how bad it is. I skipped straight to Grade 5 and never looked back.

Chart pop - Well, 99% of it anyway. I know, I know... easy target

singingsiren
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we are the cheeky girls, we are the cheeky girls, you are the cheeky boys, you are the cheeky boys... arrrrrrrrrrrgggggh!!! i hate that song but it always makes me laugh because its completely rubbish! I think there is a grade 2 singing piece called Bessie the Black cat or something like that. Oh that song drives me insane! I have heard it so many times at numerous school concerts.

Thankfully I never did Grade 2...

If we're getting into specific pop songs, here's one for you: "Why you gotta play that song so loud? BECAUSE WE WANT TO! BECAUSE WE WANT TO!" I went through a brief pop-liking phase about 5 years ago and I thought that song was the greatest thing ever... except for the Spice Girls.

I'd say anything in the dance charts. I just can't see much talent in "music" that's produced on a computer. Music is created by performers and their instruments, how much expression can a computer give out?

Daley

i think 90% of the pop songs ar bad.... um...classical....most of them ar good...but occationally bad... in my opinion...i dunn like the hymn "thine be the glory"....

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utter schmaltz

what does that mean? how does The Lark in the Clear Air go? I'd like to listen it so we can hear how bad it really is!

Schmaltz... hmm... I guess it's a Jewish word. It means something really sentimental and slushy, like Christmas-card poetry and cute teddies saying "I Love You". All right occasionally, but easy to overdose on.

As for "how does it go", I'd love to assist you but I have blanked its awfulness from my mind...

What about 'Something Wonderful' from The King and I....

I mean if you had a guy who was a self centred fantacist who occasionally remembered that you existed and brought you flowers how long would he last!!!!
That guy needs dumping fast.

what about hello young lovers from the king and i?

QUOTE (singingsiren @ Aug 10 2004, 08:40 PM)

If we're getting into specific pop songs, here's one for you: "Why you gotta play that song so loud? BECAUSE WE WANT TO! BECAUSE WE WANT TO!" I went through a brief pop-liking phase about 5 years ago and I thought that song was the greatest thing ever... except for the Spice Girls.

BILLIE PIPER!!!!!!

omg im so sad that i know her name and im ashamed to admit i had her album......and i sae the spice girls in concert

anyway that was a good few years ago and now i haet most chart music especially all the dance tracks that are being released yuck yuck!!

i looove classical music now!

JAVINE AND JAMELIA DRIVE ME ROUND THE BEND!!
they just merge into one and they can't sing! they mime all the time when they're performing. they are total rubbish (sorry all jamelia and javine fans if there are any on the forums but i can't stand them!)

I had Billie Piper's album My friend still does. And I bought Geri Halliwell's first solo effort, too... and liked it...

Anyone remember a song from years back called, um, Liquid Dreams? *snigger*

Yay, I've thought of more stuff I hate... get ready for a massive tirade

R'n'B sucks today. It used to be good but they've taken the blues out of it and made it into another mindless branch of pop. Destiny's Child were particularly annoying, with their constant God-bothering in their interviews and lyrics ("I'm not going to compromise my Christianity" - who even cares?) . Plus they did a song called Nasty Girl, that was basically telling a girl off for wearing skimpy clothes. I guess they hadn't seen their own stage act and album covers.

In the past couple of years there's been a lot of rather irritating duets. Any two of Ja Rule, Sean Paul, J-Lo, R Kelly, Ashanti and Beyonce would get together and sing yet another mid-tempo R'n'B-hip hop love duet. Notice the way these people have to sing their own names in their songs, or get someone else to rap it? So people can work out which identikit performer they're listening to at the moment...

I also nominate every single, yucky song from "The Sound Of Music"


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*Honey to the bee, that's you for me.*

QUOTE (singingsiren @ Aug 16 2004, 08:35 PM)

I also nominate every single, yucky song from "The Sound Of Music"

agree....i dunn reeli like them....

QUOTE (singingsiren @ Aug 16 2004, 08:35 PM)

Anyone remember a song from years back called, um, Liquid Dreams? *snigger*

ye i remember!!!!

i think it was by O-Town?!! oh dear how sad..............

I hate WESTLIFE!!! Argh!!! and also any rappers, hiphop artists, thrash metal (such as Slipknot) and Trance. Grrrrrrrr.

Classical piece that i dont like? Anything by Barry Russell (still living, had to sing a symphony wtitten by him specially for one of my choirs and it's associated orchestra.)

I'm one of those sad people who thinks that ALL music is great but i suppose there is ONE exeption ........ the "Cheeky Girls". They are really really really really really really really really awful!! I really hate all of their music!! It's RUBBISH!!

Let me take you on Siren's Nightmare Tour down memory lane, where the ghosts of (thankfully) forgotten melodies linger in the air...

"Liquid Dreams, my Liquid Dreams
Waterfalls and streams, these liquid dreams."

"Ice ice baby!"

"All the things she said, running through my head..."

"Mmm bop do be do ba doo bop"

"Mambo number Five!"

"E's are good, E's are good... he's Ebeneezer Goode..."

"Oh Mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey! Hey Mickey"

"Bob the Builder - can we fix it?
Bob the Builder - YES WE CAN!"

"Don't want no short (bleep) man
Eeny weeny teeny weeny shrivelled little short (bleep) man"

Wanna die yet?

such a horrible piece...urgh...

Oh help, I just remembered something. We had to sing this AWFUL song for our GCSEs called Generosity and Love. The tune wasn't bad but oh my God the words...

"Travel life's road light
Try not to hold the world too tight
It's alive my friend
The pain will come back to you in the end

Give it all away
Have nothing left at the end of the day
When the sun goes down
You can't take it with you when you go

Like a butterfly let it land
Rest in the palm of your hand
Free..ee...ee to take flight
Elegant in the light
Of Generositeeeeee... aaaand... Luuuuhve!"

It's exactly like every other "love yourself and be nice" song you've ever heard, isn't it? Amazing how some people can write a whole song without stumbling across one original thought. I've never come across this song before or since, not that I've exactly been looking for it, and I suspect my (otherwise brilliant) music teacher wrote it. I was squirming with embarrassment all through singing it. Of course the rest of my class loved the song to bits...

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My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion. In fact make that anything by Celine Dion.

QUOTE (Lucia @ Aug 24 2004, 07:18 PM)

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion.

i sang that song at our local police force´s xmas gathering type thing!!!!!!

Where the Bee Sucks... and Westlife

Aaaaah this list is making me want to scream... I agree with everyone!!!

i hate that "where the bee sucks"....

QUOTE (cheeble @ Sep 23 2004, 05:36 PM)

Where the Bee Sucks... and Westlife

So that's "Westlife, Sucks" then.

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So that's "Westlife, Sucks" then.

whatever...doesn't really matter, does it?

QUOTE (freda_bloogs @ Aug 11 2004, 12:24 AM)

I'd say anything in the dance charts. I just can't see much talent in "music" that's produced on a computer. Music is created by performers and their instruments, how much expression can a computer give out? Daley

Have you ever tried to create music using technology? I have the utmost respect for anyone who can create great music using music tech, its incredibly difficult. I used to think the same thing about DJs, that theyre not 'really' musicians, and then I tried it myself. What these people do is no less credible than playing a 'real' instrument, its just the tools are different. There is a great deal of talent in these genres, its just that most of us dont recognise it. Music technology takes years to master in much the same way as an instrument does.

Anyways, back to the topic.........songs I hate......mmmm yellow submarine by the beatles, and anything Charlotte Church sings, she has an uncanny ability to murder every song she attempts.

xxFlame7

QUOTE (Flame7 @ Sep 25 2004, 09:25 AM)

anything Charlotte Church sings

i really don't like her voice...

I absolutely DISPISE the Cheeky Girls and their music!! they have NO music talent what-so-ever!!!!!! i wish they would just shut up!! does anyone actually like them?? and i mean gennuenly like them, not just to laugh at them sort of 'like'? they are awful!!

i hate britney spears at the moment and has anyone heard of a chick from New Zealand called Hayley Westenra??

Lol... I hate the Hayley Westenra image, you know that wide-eyed innocence that makes mums and grannies all over the world go "ahh how sweet" and wish their own teenage girls were like that. Give me a singer with some backbone any day, someone who's not afraid to offend a few people (and not in the "Charlotte Church's T shirt" way either). I also prefer singers to be independent artists who know a bit about the music they're performing, rather than little pop stars singing songs their agents taught them. She does have a good voice though. I have a problem... I like her album, bits of it anyway, but every time I get the CD out her wishy-washy little face looks up at me and really puts me off the music. Should I make a new cover for it or something?



siren
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QUOTE (singingsiren @ Oct 19 2004, 07:03 PM)

every time I get the CD out her wishy-washy little face looks up at me and really puts me off the music. Should I make a new cover for it or something?

definitely... put a picture of something really scary on... like a picture of a viola... mua ha ha haaa

that's a joke by the way. i play the viola myself.

yea well da reason i said it is because im in new zealand and hayley went to my skol but she dropped out when she was in year 11 or 12 her sister goes there now and is weird and hayley used to go to my singing teacher and well yea so i was just wondering if anyone knew of her is she like famous to you in other countries ??

i wil never b caught with her cd's eva i dont think but cause i know her im a bit critical but one thing i hav to say is her vowels and things especially in pokare kare ana are absolutely terrible! she has now taken up talkin in a fake american accent soo hmmmm

I really struggle to see what people enjoy in rap, but maybe I'm just getting old.

My husband absolutely HATES Bohemian Rhapsody. Once, after a mild disagreement, I decided to wind him up, and I sent him a text message "Scaramooshe, scaramooshe, can you do the fandango" and he couldn't get the tune out of his head for hours! Talk about mental torture. I haven't had the heart to do it to him again!

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My husband absolutely HATES Bohemian Rhapsody

How?! I don't go a day without playing at least 10 bars of it!

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Have you ever tried to create music using technology?

Yes, thus why I feel I am justified for my opinion. Note that you said "great music", if I thought it was great, I wouldn't be knocking it! When someone creates great music on a computer, then I'll happily say that kicks ######

I hate "O Little Town of Hackensack" by P.D.Q. Bach. We have to sing it in choir and no one likes it. My teacher thinks the song is funny, but its not. Its not even stupid funny, its just.......pointless.

oh i like Hayley Westenra

Me too!!! I most of all i like her rendition of Wuthering Heights, Who Painted The moon Black, Amazing Grace, and Heaven

i like the original of wuthering heights...

Im sorry, but Pokarekare Ana is sooooo boring. Can't stand it!!!
I've just thought of something else to add to the list - a 3 part choral song called 'A la Cart'.

Here are the words -

'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Had a lovely little go cart
He took it out
Without a word
and rode it all around Salzburg

But as he hurtled down the Strausse
His Papa Leopold came after
He said 'my boy, get off that toy
Go home at once and write a symphony or two!'

Then Sister Nan came running double quick,
She said 'Papa, the harpsichord's been nicked,
Last night, twas swiped,
Poor brother Wolfgang will break his heart

...............and I cant be bothered writing the rest it's such a load of c**p!!!!!!!!!!!!

pokare kare ana is ok if u overlook the atroucious vowels and diction but you only hear criticism like this from new zealanders like me who have some idea of what it's supposed to sound like!in maori it's a love song so i mean hayley dosent have any experiance in that department i know cause i went to school with her!

I'm not too familiar with Haley Westenra. I don't have her CD because the songs looked really boring. I could be wrong though. I dunno, there's something about her that bothers me...

Sotto Voce if u eva meet her honestly she a nigthmare and her sister and mum r even worse! I hav made a pledge to myself say i will never buy a hayley cd if it is givin to me that is another story ...... I would probably listen to it once and then snap it and burn it !!! hehehe im evil

QUOTE (charlottethemuppet @ Nov 5 2004, 10:21 PM)

I've just thought of something else to add to the list - a 3 part choral song called 'A la Cart'.

That song is really funny! and great if you do it with a real choir!

There's something that bothers me about her too. She sounds like a machine (or at least her recordings do) - when I saw her sing live she didn't sound so good - kept singing out of tune, yet on the CD her voice sounds like it's been digitally retuned to the point of sounding fake. When I first saw the adverts for her CD & they spoke about "the beautiful sound of..." my immediate response was "autotune!" LOL

Her vibrato sounds like it was "drawn" in afterwards too. Not nice.

Oh dear... Billie Piper.... Have to say I quite liked 'Honey to the Bee' (judge me if you will). Fair play to her though, I loved Doctor Who!

Here's a song that bugs the life out of me. An old jazz standard call 'Misty'. If someone knows a GOOD version of that I'll be impressed. It's just soppy turgid whining. If people ask me to sing it my face spasms. Perhaps it needs a revamp, a new tempo....new words....hmmm, perhaps even a new tune?


Cheeky Girls should be hung drawn and quartered for heretic crimes against music.

Oh and Russell Watson's version of Bohemian Rhapsody. In the background you just about hear Freddie Mercury spinning in his grave.

Here's an obvious one - The Crazy Frog!

[QUOTE][quote=Car Expert,Jun 29 2005, 03:09 PM]
Here's an obvious one - The Crazy Frog!


Gahhhhh! It's soooo awful!! That's not a song, it's just what evil must sound like!