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23 November 2007

Is this the most irritating song ever written? I heard it on the radio today and it's still in my head. It's got to be the most annoying song ever. Unless, of course, you know different ...

post by: essexjan at: 11:04 | 16 comments

It's no Lean Like A Cholo

posted by drezdn 23 November | 11:27

It's cheesy, but I wouldn't have called it annoying.

And it's no The Ladies' Bras.

posted by chrismear 23 November | 11:49

i'm pretty sure that this is far more annoying.

posted by syntax 23 November | 12:03

Hey, I like the Ohio Express song!

The one essexjan posted is pretty awful, though. I'm afraid to click on the others.

posted by BoringPostcards 23 November | 12:15

It's bad, but pretty much anything Olivia Newton-John ever recorded is worse, by my lights.

*shivers with remembered awfulness of ON-J. Not gonna look any of that crap up*

posted by paulsc 23 November | 12:18

Are you including Xanadu in that?

I'm afraid to click on the others.

Do not click on The Ladies Bras. It will be the death of you.

posted by cillit bang 23 November | 12:58

Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex. Great, now it's in my head. Oh God, make it stop!

posted by reenum 23 November | 13:07

Ok, reenum. Click here.

posted by essexjan 23 November | 13:16

Oh hell, "yummy yummy yummy" makes me want to vomit it's so terrible. All those other songs were ok, I thought.

posted by puke & cry 23 November | 14:56

The Song That Doesn't End only annoys a select few. Don't slam the door!

Barney is still the king of vomitus.

posted by mischief 23 November | 15:23

The opening electric piano almost sent me running off screaming. The dialogue format (what? the woman doesn't get credited?) was obnoxious, the Kenny G-esque saxophone breaks... this is the complete package.

"You can thank your lucky stars that we're not as smart as we'd like to think we are." This is so close to being a brilliant lyric, yet misses the mark in just such a way to become almost Bulwer-Lytton-esque.

The "artist" (I use the term loosely) has a website and he has the lyrics to his other musical monstrosities there.

And I thought I remembered hearing it before (but had consciously blocked it from my memory)... 1978, almost 30 years ago, when I was in the radio biz working for a station that would be likely to play that kind of thing. Which reminds me of the then-overplayed "Sometimes When We Touch". AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

posted by wendell 23 November | 16:15

Everything Paul McCartney did solo. Notably Wonderful Christmas Time.

posted by stavrogin 23 November | 16:38

Which reminds me of the then-overplayed "Sometimes When We Touch". AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!! is right! How about Never Been To Me? AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

posted by LoriFLA 23 November | 16:57

Don't make me haul out the worst of the 1970s... Four words: Playground In My Mind.

You know, I thought the fact that MTV and VH1 didn't start until the 80s would have protected us from videos of these songs...

posted by wendell 23 November | 18:05

I've had "Smell yo dick" by Riskay stuck in my head for the last four days. Surprisingly, I don't mind that much.

posted by pieisexactlythree 23 November | 18:12

"the ballad of Bilbo Baggins" - Nimoy

posted by chuckdarwin 23 November | 20:18

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