"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?

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Everybody on the internet, or REAL PEOPLE?

[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]

Anything by The Doors.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK maybe it will flounder :(

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Oh, then 'Come On Eileen' by a million miles.

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

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

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

'Trouble' by Shampoo?

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Sorry! The answer is 'Imagine', which enough people still rate - not only is it a crap weedy tune, it has odious smug sentiments as well.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

...possibly

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If only everyone did rate that!

Clearly we haven't played it at you enough.

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

Blasphemy!

[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.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

If only there was a club we could go to where we might hear this song!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

But everyone DOES love that.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If only indeed :(

My problem with answering this qn is that apart from the huge bugbear classics which nobody I know in RL likes (i.e. "Imagine") I can argue myself round to liking almost anything, and I'm left rather feebly answering the question with "most overrated" not worst. Erm erm "Rehab" or that Camera Obscura one...that sort of thing. "Matinee" by the Frank Fergusons. "Frontier Psychiatrist" for that matter!

[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!

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the point of the original question?

[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]

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.

[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]

This is quite possible, then. Here it is mandatory that every third song should feature Mr Eyebrows because he is 'one of the boyos' despite the fact he is very possibly the worst musical thing to come from Wales EVER.