"The worst song that everyone likes ever"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

katstevens said this about "House Of The Rising Sun"

But what's your nomination?

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

This will flounder on the reefs of the Lex.

Actually, how about "Lay Your Hands"?

Is "Hey Ya" the best song that everyone hates?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It won't, cos I'm not asking whether everyone actually likes it! I don't care about that, it's the individual's perception of "everyone liking". & who "everyone" is I guess.

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

Do you mean "Place Your Hands", by Reef?

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Everybody on the internet, or REAL PEOPLE?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK maybe it will flounder :(

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

Anything by The Doors.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

But lots of people really dislike the Doors (blame Val Kilmer!) so I dunno if that counts as 'everyone likes'. Well, I thought that they were definitely divisive as a band.

UNLIKE OASIS hahaha revenge!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

'Trouble' by Shampoo?

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

Blasphemy!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

But everyone DOES love that.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

'Hotel California' came up while I was discussing this in the pub with someone the other day. I think the average pub jukebox's most played tracks might probably reveal the answer to the question though (god forbid it is 'Angels,' the lyrics to which (complete with karaoke style instructions like 'repeat to fade' they have PRINTED ON CANVAS, IKEA-style and put on the wall above the jukebox in my local to the mystification of literally everyone concerned, that's even without mentioning that 'The Drugs Don't Work' is also there in similar fashion) and I suspect this means it is something by the Stereophonics ('A Thousand Trees?') although this may just be due to the Law of Wales.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

My grammar is really appalling today, please attempt to ignore it wherever possible.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

It might be the Law of Wales, since it's my perception that most people hate the Stereophonics, and only the obsessive purchases of subterranean mole men who see Kelly Eyebrows as their king has kept them from being droppped.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

When I said that about HotRS I firstly meant that lots of poptimists were ticking it!

But it is also true that it spans many a demographic:
- Dads
- Metallers
- Folk/Blues dudes (obv)
- Grandparents (some crossover with 'Dads' here I guess)
- Garage Bands (cf 'Easy Guitar Tunes Book 1')
- Anyone who's ever scammed the rest of their band by volunteering to pop down to the office and register the song with PRS, and put themselves as the Trad Arr. and get £royalties++

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

has anyone ever heard another version of this song? (which the animals did not write iirc)

the actual real answer = LOVE WILL TEAR US APART

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Dylan's version is fairly well known, I would imagine.

Also: Love Will Tear Us Apart's only crime is being overplayed.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I've heard a reggae version.

(Though this might just mean, "I can imagine a reggae version")

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

OMG THIS IS SO TRUE. :(

I hate that song.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm missing the point here, but surely 'House of the Rising Sun', 'Hotel California', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' - these are actually very good songs, well constructed and performed. And not everyone loves them. Surely the purpose of this was to find a song that is actually a "bad song" (i.e. poorly written, poorly performed), despite which everyone still loves it? I repeat my original assertion that it's Shampoo.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How is "Trouble" poorly performed!!?

More answers

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"

If this is too indieist then U2 - "One" though maybe stevem78 is the only person who actually likes it.

Re: More answers

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

also "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

red alert by basement rub

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

no objections? great, i win.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Toto- Rosanna?

Maybe that is just me, however. Also 'Luca' or whatever that song about a girl living on the second floor is. AND ALSO 'Rio.'

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I did a poll on this once! The hightlights of the answers given were:

Television - Marquee Moon
Bright Eyes!
Schnappi!
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
My humps

No points for guessing which is the Lex.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bright Eyes is actually awful though.

Wedding Disco Selection

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Brown Eyed Girl
anything by Hot Chocolate
Unchained Melody

Re: Wedding Disco Selection

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

HOT CHOCOLATE CANON PLS.

They were grebt. "It Started With A Kiss" is the deathblow to the whole cute/creepy childhood sweetheart thing I was talkin about on the 1964 thread.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Wild Thing by the Troggs. Awful lyrics, three chord Louie Louie pattern and a recorder solo, FFS, but still loved by all.