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annoying songs
As long as there's radio, there will be annoying songs. Sometimes, an annoying song will drive you to the point of fuming anger, particularly when it's played about twelve million times a day by every radio station in the city. By putting up this page, I'm hoping to exact some kind of private revenge upon "artists", managers, radio station DJs and program directors who subject us to horrendous drivel. :-)
I realized there are way too many annoying songs to limit this to a top ten list. So it's just going to keep growing as long as I find annoying songs.
| 13. XTC - I'm The Man Who Murdered Love | Those of you who have heard this song know how irritating it is. It goes something like this: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm the man who murdered love - whaddya think about that, yeah!" And that obnoxious yeah is there every time the lead singer goes through this painful bloodletting exercise. How about I become the man who murders the singer. |
| 13. Eric Clapton - My Father's Eyes | What can I say -- this man has done covers of "I Shot The Sheriff" (see below). Now, he releases a song about a piece of his father's anatomy. Stan has renamed this song "My Father's Thighs". |
| 12. Oasis - Champagne Supernova | Liam Gallagher once again manages to force me to change the station every time I hear this song. I wish *I* could get paid for talentless nasal whining. |
| 11. Lenny Kravitz - Rock and Roll Is Dead | Take a wild guess who this guy's musical influences were. Could it possibly be Bob Marley (see below)? Lenny seems to have inherited Bob's worst characteristics: annoying voice and repetitive lyrics. There aren't more than fifteen unique words in any of Lenny's songs. Also, he uses the same chord progressions again and again, and from song to song. (By the way, I just discovered that Lenny Kravitz has recently released a "Greatest Hits" album. What, are they shipping blank CD-Rs?) |
| 10. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get | The "impression that I get" from the bozo leading this band is that he can't sing. If you notice, the radio single has someone singing background vocals, to make up for the fact that all the lead singer in this band can do with his voice is make frog-like noises. I had the misfortune to watch this band perform on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago; I was waiting through their entire performance for the lead "singer" to stop growling and actually sing a note. No such luck. |
| 9. Sisqo - The Thong Song | So much for Darwin. |
| 8. OMC - How Bizarre | When I first heard this song the first thousand times, I seriously thought the lead singer (speaker?) was saying "Habaza, Habaza". Besides the fact that he can't sing (if you haven't noticed, he speaks the lyrics to the entire song) he can't pronounce the words that he's speaking, either. |
| 7. Sugar Ray - Fly | You know it's going to be a bad Monday when you wake up to Sugar Ray on the radio. As if he wasn't a bad enough rapper already, he has to hire someone to stick in irritating comments throughout the song ("hiya hiya hiya hi hi hi!" and other such nonsense). The rest of the song is his drivel (essentially, his grating voice singing "Aaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiii just wanna fly... putcha arms around me babeee") interspersed with the annoying black guy. |
| 6. Bob Marley - I Shot The Sheriff | Having heard this song, I can truly say that I have never heard any man's voice go that high, without the benefit of sharp objects shoved into bodily orifices. It makes you wonder, it really does. |
| 5. Alanis Morissette - Unsent | You know, if you can't write meaningful lyrics, at least write lyrics that will match the music. Have you ever heard songs that have one or two lyrics that sound like they don't quite rhyme or match the music? That just about sums up this entire song. |
| 4. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On | Celine is usually pretty intolerable, but this is ridiculous. She makes a complete farce out of a fine-sounding tune, with her non-English, non-French pronounciations ("you" --> "yyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!") and pretentious singing. Then there's the video to accompany this song. She has way too much eye makeup on, her skin is bleached white, and she's coming at the screen at a high velocity, with a dark background behind her. Coupled with that horrendous neck vein sticking out of her throat -- or maybe it's her esophagus, as she's so thin? -- it felt like I was playing Doom for a second |
| 3. Baz Luhrman - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) | I can't believe that people actually referred to this as a "song" and discussed the "lyrics". Basically, I have no respect for Baz essentially going and reading an essay and recording it, and setting it to some synthesized beats. I bet if he hadn't been the director of Romeo & Juliet nobody would have permitted him to pull this stunt. |
| 2. Shawn Mullins - Lullaby | Here's another example of someone who speaks his song and gets away with it, but this time, the text sucks. It's so corny! "She's so pretty, but she'd be prettier if she smiled once in a while. But even when she smiles, her smile is like a frown." What the fuck does that mean? |
| 1. Eminem - My Name Is | The song goes something like this: "My name is <gutteral noise>, my name is <gutteral noise>, my name is <gutteral noise>, SLIM SHADY!" Of course not only are the gutteral noises obnoxious, but "Slim Shady" sounds like "Bam Zany" or "Zamboni". I can't quite figure it out. Either way, he successfully creates another copy of the R&B (Repetitive and Boring) stereotype song, in that there's mindless, annoying gibberish inserted every five seconds. |