Songs That Make You Want To Rip Your Ears Off

CHRISNOIR
CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
edited April 2008 in The bottom bracket
I’ve had a few months to mull this one over now and have reached the conclusion that ‘Rockstar’ by Nickelback really might be the worst song ever. Ever.

The sluggish ‘rawk’ noise, the ponderous, baffling lyrics, the way the bloody great ape singing it says ‘basebaawl’ all adds up one of the biggest wastes of studio time ever.

Is the whole thing meant to be sound this bad? Is it actually a superb bit of satire?

If you can manage to make it to the end of the track without wondering how easy it would be rip off your own ears you’re made of tougher stuff than I am.

Are there any songs make you feel almost sad that music was invented?
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Anything by Celine Dion.

    Everything I do, I do it for you.

    By the way, ripping your ears off won't stop the sound - the pinna (outside flappy bit) only directs the sound in. I recommend a hot knitting needle through the eardrum. Painful, but effective...
    :wink:
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • Red Rock
    Red Rock Posts: 517
    Out of my iTunes collection I think Sister Siam by the Whip, and You are the one by Shiny Toy Guns are the two worst songs. Not keen on anything Phil Collins sings.

    Oh, and I agree with CHRISNOIR, that Nickelback track is woeful.

    Red Rock
  • portuguese mike
    portuguese mike Posts: 695
    Definately that Basehunter tripe that was number one recently and the recent one from the Feeling 'i thought it was over but it's not' both make me violently ill. in fact i genuinely don't undestand how a band as terminally mediocre as the feeling has a record contract much less actually sells any records.

    oh and yes anything from Celine Dione is a given - pass the shotgun

    I tthink i need to go and listen to some Kings of Leon to purge myself from having to think about such s**te
    pm
  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    Anything by Queen

    Anything by Phil Collins

    Anything by Dido
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,717
    The Elvis Ain't Dead thing. YES HE DAMN WELL IS!
  • shazzz
    shazzz Posts: 1,077
    It pains me to type these words, but has to be

    Razorlight - America

    Uh, oh, oh, woah!
  • TheBoyBilly
    TheBoyBilly Posts: 749
    Most of the Beatles nursery rhymes, sorry, music - anything by George harrison, everything by Paul Mccartney or Wings, and the vast majority of John Lennon's dirges. Ringo? What the....?
    To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity - Oscar Wilde
  • fto-si
    fto-si Posts: 402
    Anything that has originated from X Factor
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  • grpics
    grpics Posts: 6
    That awful noise produced by Leona Lewis, masquerading as music.
    I think the tone deaf public were confusing singing with screeching when they voted for her.
  • campagone
    campagone Posts: 270
    Anything you hear on radio one.
  • chronyx
    chronyx Posts: 455
    So many kindred spirits :D

    Anything by:

    The Feeling
    The Hoosiers
    The Fratellis
    Razorlight

    Are you seeing a theme here? :lol:

    Scouting for Girls
    The Killers

    Aaaargh I hate it! BLAND DERIVATIVE NOISE POLLUTION!
    2007 Giant SCR2 - 'BFG'

    Gone but not forgotten!:
    2005 Specialized Hardrock Sport - 'Red Rocket'
  • pdstsp
    pdstsp Posts: 1,264
    Moonlight shadow - Mike Oldfield - absolute sh1te
    Beatles and Beatles Light, sorry I think they are called Oasis.
    Another vote for Phil Collins
    Bruce Springsteen - and unfortunately my wife loves him and is taking me to see him in May,
  • andy advanced
    andy advanced Posts: 46
    campagone wrote:
    Anything you hear on radio one.

    I second that, total garbage, get a digital radio theres some really good stations playing real music :D
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,719
    chronyx wrote:
    So many kindred spirits :D

    Anything by:

    The Feeling
    The Hoosiers
    The Fratellis
    Razorlight

    Are you seeing a theme here? :lol:

    Scouting for Girls
    The Killers

    Aaaargh I hate it! BLAND DERIVATIVE NOISE POLLUTION!

    Agree totally - i can't tell a single one of those apart

    plus that Fascination duet one is just boring, but the worst is that dance number with the essex girl in the middle going come on boy come on boy come on boooyy.......AAARRRGGGHH god i want to kill her so much
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • chronyx
    chronyx Posts: 455
    Yeah I'll add that one to the slate :lol:
    2007 Giant SCR2 - 'BFG'

    Gone but not forgotten!:
    2005 Specialized Hardrock Sport - 'Red Rocket'
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    Gavin Gilbert wrote:
    Anything by Queen

    Anything by Phil Collins

    Anything by Dido
    Yes yes and yes.

    I'd like to add U2 and REM to that list thank you very much.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

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  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    I have a Throbbing Gristle cd that makes me want to curl up in a corner and weep it's so bad.

    Anyone want a free cd?
    Winner: PTP Vuelta 2007 :wink:
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    scwxx77 wrote:
    I have a Throbbing Gristle cd that makes me want to curl up in a corner and weep it's so bad.

    Anyone want a free cd?

    Heretic!

    You just don't understand it. Which one is it?

    Ummm, Duffy fills me with huge amounts of rage. I'm sure she's a nice enough lass and all but what a load of tosh her music is. And all the dullards who buy one album a year think she's the second coming.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • TheBoyBilly
    TheBoyBilly Posts: 749
    pdstsp - "Bruce Springsteen - and unfortunately my wife loves him and is taking me to see him in May"...............

    .........can I have your ticket if you don't want to go? :wink:
    To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity - Oscar Wilde
  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    iainf72 wrote:
    scwxx77 wrote:
    I have a Throbbing Gristle cd that makes me want to curl up in a corner and weep it's so bad.

    Anyone want a free cd?

    Heretic!

    You just don't understand it. Which one is it?

    Heathen Earth (The Live Sound of T.G.)

    Almost bearable until the vocals start :cry:
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  • Ruari
    Ruari Posts: 217
    Agreed, Nickelback's has to be the most annoying apart from that 'Soulja Boy' rubbish.

    I don't know if I'm being picky, but surely the lyrics '...and a dictionary of the worlds who's who...' should be ' ...and an ENCYCLOPEDIA of the worlds who's who...'?! I know it doesn't rhyme, but think about it...
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  • johncp
    johncp Posts: 302
    FFS Ruari it's a pop song not bleedin culture! You go down the road of expecting pop songs to follow common sense or, god forbid, grammar, and you'll lose your mind before long! :lol:
    If you haven't got a headwind you're not trying hard enough
  • pdstsp
    pdstsp Posts: 1,264
    The boybilly - I would have no problem with that arrangement, and she might actually prefer it, but then I would have nothing to moan about. By the way the same week she has bought two tickets to the Osmonds - luckily the eldest daughter put her hand up for that one before she realised what she has let herself in for.
  • TheBoyBilly
    TheBoyBilly Posts: 749
    The Osmonds - eek!!!
    To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity - Oscar Wilde
  • bikerbill
    bikerbill Posts: 269
    Anything by that wailing bint Mariah Carey I really hate. In fact any of that repulsive modern R'n'B sort of wailing, male or female is just detestable

    I also detest Hip Hop and all the boy/girl bands, Elton John, Cliff Richard, Status Quo, Queen, U2, Pink Floyd, Genisis and anything of that ilk. And don't get me started on eighties "poodle rock" heavy metal. That was truly awful.

    In fact the minuses far outweigh the pluses, but having said that, there is still plenty enough around to keep my ears happy.

    Cheers,

    Bill
  • popette
    popette Posts: 2,089
    aw, you're all so cool, I haven't a clue of half the stuff you're on about. :wink: Disney CDs are what I'm mainly listening to at the moment. High School Musical - yehhhhhh!!!!! :wink:

    I can't stand "come on eileen".
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  • gumball3000
    gumball3000 Posts: 14
    That Ameican Boy track by (Skoda) Estelle.....

    I work in a Gym and we have to have Galaxy FM on for the dance type music for the youngsters.....

    The song is pretty poor anyway but am I the only one that thinks the cow is out of tune? It really grates me.....

    The instrumental chorus bit in tears of a clown by smokey Robinson sends shivers down my spine..... Worse that downing a pint of slush puppy... No idea why, it just gives me the fear!
  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    popette wrote:
    I can't stand "come on eileen".

    That's one of my favourite songs. Reminds me of a wedding in Newcastle when I was 5 and king of the dance floor! 8)
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  • Parkey
    Parkey Posts: 303
    "Nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me, nobody knows it but you have a secret smile and you use it only for me"

    @# LYRICS YOU LAZY GITS! :evil:

    Can't believe my girlfriend actually likes that song.
    "A recent study has found that, at the current rate of usage, the word 'sustainable' will be worn out by the year 2015"
  • gumball3000
    gumball3000 Posts: 14
    Don't get me started on lyrics.....

    Thin Lizzy - "Tonight there will be a Jail Break, somewhere in the town......"

    That will be at THE JAIL then.... How many drugs do you have to take, over what period of time before you can't work that out....

    Spandau Ballet - "I bought a ticket to the world, but now i've come back again.."

    WTF is that all about... One ticket to the world please..... w4nkers.....

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