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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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Sep 23, 2011 - 01:30pm PT
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Anything by the beatles.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Row, Calif.
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Sep 23, 2011 - 01:33pm PT
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Funny you should post this. A friend of mind infected me with this little gem this weekend. Maybe the worst music video and song I have ever watched to the end. It is not a case of being "so bad it is good," rather it is just a strangely compelling musical train-wreck that cannot be ignored. Enjoy.
"Friday" by Rebecca Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BI0szjpxJs
It's the apocalypse!
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Festus
Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
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Sep 23, 2011 - 02:11pm PT
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Bread, Air Supply and Wham alone ought to be able to fill out anyone's top 20.
You're welcome.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Sep 23, 2011 - 02:18pm PT
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I hate anything by Jimmy Buffett especially "Cheeseburger in Paradise!"
You haven't heard Jimmy do Math Sucks? Yes, it's worse.....
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Sep 23, 2011 - 02:26pm PT
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Survival, glad I missed that one. I have to admit that it makes me feel like the old fart that I am when someone says "anything by the Beatles".
But, my 28 yr old daughter says that whenever anyone of my generation hears a Beatles song being played "they get all starry eyed and drift off to some better time", she's probably right.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Sep 23, 2011 - 02:46pm PT
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Ebony and Ivory.
Or most everything by Paul McCartney, post Beatles.
EDIT: Haha! I see someone already nominated the Beatles. Yeah, grossly cliched, but after carefully avoiding listening to a single Beatles song for 40 years they are beginning to kinda sound okay again, at least in small doses. They had some creative tension between the band members.
McCartney by himself is so, so, so stunningly pleasant. Gack.
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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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Sep 23, 2011 - 02:49pm PT
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Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. Anything by neil diamond.
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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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Sep 23, 2011 - 02:50pm PT
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Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. Anything by neil diamond.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 23, 2011 - 02:55pm PT
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I was forced to go to a Captain and Tenille show 30 years ago. I still haven't recovered.
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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Sep 23, 2011 - 02:56pm PT
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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Sep 23, 2011 - 03:02pm PT
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Haaad to do it... for Johnny...
anyway... always thought aerosmith really sucked
specially "love in an elevator"... gotta be the worst song ever imo.
makes me cringe...
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Sep 23, 2011 - 03:05pm PT
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I am sure some of you like them but I feel anything by Steely Dan seriously sucks.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sep 23, 2011 - 03:07pm PT
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Sususudio.
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 23, 2011 - 03:11pm PT
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Pretty much every Christmas song.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Sep 23, 2011 - 03:16pm PT
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens.
While in college I worked a summer job at an aerospace company. One of my co-workers had a radio tuned to a station that played that song on a regular basis. Because I was just the summer help and he was a senior engineer, I could never get him to change the station. More than twenty years later, just the thought of that song makes me shudder.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Sep 23, 2011 - 03:34pm PT
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KFOG-FM has a "10 at 10" block of 10 songs they play at 10am weekdays, usually all from a single year in the past. When it's Friday the 13th, the theme is "Hits from Hell". Stuff that was once popular, but we wish now that we had not bought it.... Standard examples are mentioned upthread:
 Knock Three Times
Afternoon Delight
Here's a playlist from 2006:
"I Think I Love You" - The Partridge Family
"Knock Three Times" - Dawn
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" - William Shatner
"The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace
"Seasons In The Sun" - Terry Jacks
"Billy, Don't Be A Hero" - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
"You Light Up My Life" - Debby Boone
"Afternoon Delight" - Starlight Vocal Band
"Puttin' On The Ritz" - Taco
"Copacabana (At The Copa)" - Barry Manilow
http://sitting-here-reminiscing.blogspot.com/2006/10/kfogs-10-10-hits-from-hell-no-more.html
Now unpopular artists like Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond are included. ABBA used to make the list, but they "became cool" after the Muriel's Wedding movie, so they are no longer listed. Other disco stuff will often make it.
Here are some others:
Muskrat Love
Chevy Van
We Are The World
Timothy
They also have a related theme, "guilty pleasures". Songs that really rock, but we are embarrassed to hear in front of our friends. Billy Jean would be a good example.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Sep 23, 2011 - 03:45pm PT
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the all-time worst song to have in your head is "It's a Small World," although I see many other excellent candidates listed. From my own era, I thought "Ninety-Six Tears" by Question Mark & The Mysterians was almost vacuous, despite the great name of the band. I could add lots of mid-1970's music, but I don't know the names any more, because that music sent me off of pop and back to full-time classical.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sep 23, 2011 - 03:53pm PT
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I Did It All For The Nookie by Limp Bizkit
Dude Looks Like A Lady by Aerosmith
Who Let The Dogs Out
That " Bye Bye American Pie" song.
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Andy Middleton
Trad climber
Cow Hampshire
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Sep 23, 2011 - 04:04pm PT
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This has turned into a "most over played" or "songs I'm the most sick of" thread... So think of songs that made you puke the very first time you ever heard them.
1. McCartney "silly love songs"
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