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05 Jul 2011

Tune Room 101

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Posted By : Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more flange..and more cowbell.. | Comments : 57

songs that really piss you off when you hear them

anything by the beautiful south

young at heart by the bluebells, especially that violin solo

american pie don mclean

time warp rocky horror picture show

chumbawumba tubthumping

i will survive gloria gaynor

the macarena

all the above seem to be pop, o im trying to think of rock songs that really get me annoyed..

theres loads more, what have you got?..

Comments

# Posted by James - Metalleeka - 05/07/2011, 19:46 (GMT)

I dont hate them but get irked by the following

TK
SOF

(see I cant even type their names, but everyone will know what I mean)

# Posted by The Troll - 05/07/2011, 19:47 (GMT)

Dont start me on that.LOL.
I agree with your choices ,but i dont mind young at heart.

# Posted by The Kasuals Solid Sixties Musi... - 05/07/2011, 19:48 (GMT)

Anything to do with Celo Green, if you shut your eyes he sounds like a whaling baby..............Wanker!!!

Lee :)

# Posted by viking - 05/07/2011, 19:51 (GMT)

totally with you "american pie", bro-hate that song with a vengeance!! (long story-woman history!!)

"without you"-neillson (although i LOVE "ken lee"!!)

don't know iffen this acksherly qualifies as "rock tune" (in my opinion) but-"bat out of hell"-maltloaf

"xmas in new york"-pogues ( i probably can't even get the titlle right on thatone-SFW!!! lol!!)

lots of tunes by "kiss" !!

and what james said-i can't type 'em either!! yeeuch!!

i'm sure i can think of loads more. ;-D

# Posted by Drum Bloke™ - that bloke that... - 05/07/2011, 19:51 (GMT)

I get what you mean about the Violin in Young at Heart..it just irritates me too.

Not going to be Mr Popular here ...but a couple of Oasis songs especially the one where he rhymes cousin with oven and blister with sister.

I can't quite get with Keane's 'somwhere only we know' either...

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 05/07/2011, 19:52 (GMT)

I could be at this all night, but will limit it to topical things. Anything performed by the Beatles, the Stones or Bob Dylan.

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 19:54 (GMT)

for me, until i think of more, this is the gold medal.absolute annoying drivel

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 19:57 (GMT)

im glad james has encoded that one, cos any other sof and tk long discussions after herein will be deleted! haha, theres already enough deja vu on this site..theres already enough deja vu on this site

# Posted by Drum Bloke™ - that bloke that... - 05/07/2011, 19:57 (GMT)

.. all songs that have been over played ...

I didn't use to mind the missessus playnig tunes by Adele but now the tone of her voice just really grates on me and is begining to sound 'whiny' and contrived.
God I'm a whingeing old git me..

# Posted by viking - 05/07/2011, 19:58 (GMT)

and another "Rock"(???) one-"i believe in a thing called love"- the darkness...that where it should be left, i reckon-in darkness!! ;-/

@ drum bloke-with you all the way on yours, bro!! into "nwb room 101" with the lot of 'em, say i!! ;-(

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:00 (GMT)

uptown girl by boyzone, they have poisoned a song i actually used to really like as a young pup, you know ..80s village hall discos etc, girls sat on one side, lads on the other, great days RUINED by that "cover"

# Posted by Alyerpal - 05/07/2011, 20:03 (GMT)

Whiskey in the Jar by Metallica - I WILL switch the radio off!

Anything by Adelle

Happy Xmas War is over by Lennon 'and so this is Christmas and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun' WRONG - that isn't Christmas, it's New Year you stupid c**t

No offense

AYP

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:04 (GMT)

youve just inspired me to change the blog title my Nordic Friend, i also wanna jump into my longboat and sail off when i hear the following two Beatles songs(although im a big fan of them)

although this isnt a Beatles blog again so dont go off on one with that discussion LOL

# Posted by TEX & THE HARDCORE TROUBAD... - 05/07/2011, 20:06 (GMT)

Just put Bono in room 101 fer starters far as I'm concerned

# Posted by James - Metalleeka - 05/07/2011, 20:08 (GMT)

@AlyerWhiskeyHatingPal - its known by me as the song that should not be played... I know Mr Viking hates it too... but unfortunately we are the minority...

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:09 (GMT)

the grease medley get pretty annoying, although i love the frankie valli tune

beach boys (bad) vibrations, i dont care what studio effects were pioneering blah blah blah its BILGE

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:10 (GMT)

hey james we do it early on in the set !

haha

# Posted by Alyerpal - 05/07/2011, 20:10 (GMT)

@ James - i wouldn't mind so much if ALL their songs were crap!!

:-)

AYP

# Posted by The Troll - 05/07/2011, 20:13 (GMT)

OK im gettin wound up now,im in.
Spice girls.Rap.Trad jazz.Crap backing tracks.Elbow.Coldplay,apart from fix you.Stairway to heaven.Tainted love.and all favourites of karaoke lovers.thers loads more but ..you know how it is.

# Posted by Roj (Black Rose) - 05/07/2011, 20:14 (GMT)

Rene and Ronarta.

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:16 (GMT)

roj thats class!! in a real cheese funny in a so bad its good way!

(does evil laugh when looks at gig interlude playlist)..

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:19 (GMT)

if metallica like thin lizzy why couldnt they have done another one instead haha?, would love to hear them do one of the others i know James and Kirk love em, when i saw em on the cunning stunts tour they insisted on playing thin lizzys jailbreak album thru the PA!

i dont dislike whiskey in the jar, but its one of those wouldnt miss playing it much songs..although under a lie detector i worry the polygraph would tell otherwise..i still cant decide whether i actually secretly like it.. f**k!!

# Posted by MICK NASH - 05/07/2011, 20:19 (GMT)

I'm with James on:
TK
SOF
I can't bring myself to write their names either.
Also
MS

Peace

MN

# Posted by James - Metalleeka - 05/07/2011, 20:21 (GMT)

not to dwell.. but the audience enjoy it.. but for I have to remember the video to make it put a smile on my face.. lol

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:22 (GMT)

i agree Jim lad ! the video redeems it somewhat!

# Posted by James - Metalleeka - 05/07/2011, 20:24 (GMT)

+1 MS..

.. and I'll add SOSN, great tune but played it live for 10 years or more and it has been overplayed by every pop/cabaret band.. because its popular.. my ears however are tired of it.

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:28 (GMT)

shudder..

# Posted by Willow (of somebig™Fish) (Reti... - 05/07/2011, 20:38 (GMT)

Dancing In The Moonlight

by Toploader!!

Aaaaaaaarggghhhhhh

# Posted by viking - 05/07/2011, 20:39 (GMT)

any and all of them there "house". rap or whatever they call themselves alleged tunes that can't have it played without the words "biatch", "homey", hood" or "brother" or some such in the lyrics.

with james again on metallica's cover of "whiskey"-why they bothered i really don't know-the attempt at an irish accent is laughable!!

and with troll 100 per cent on his choices too.

anything by john "kittenfur" mellancamp.

oh-and as mentioned in a previous blog a while ago-"comfortably numb" -scissor sisters!!! they should have been shot for that, i reckon.

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 05/07/2011, 20:41 (GMT)

+1 on toploader!

# Posted by Drum Bloke™ - that bloke that... - 05/07/2011, 21:01 (GMT)

Posted by Willow (of somebig™Fish) - 05/07/2011, 20:38 (GMT)

Dancing In The Moonlight

by Toploader!!

Aaaaaaaarggghhhhhh

+2

Toploader what sort of name is that ? Topbollocks more like..

# Posted by 45's - 05/07/2011, 21:46 (GMT)

I absolutely love Mike Oldfield's stuff but this Trio really piss me off. Grrrr !

# Posted by Smitten Kitten - 05/07/2011, 21:50 (GMT)

747 stranger in the night by Saxon!!!! Can't bloody stand it!

# Posted by Jez (Route 69) - 05/07/2011, 22:44 (GMT)

Smitten - wash your mouth out!!!

Summer of 69 for me - fucking dreadful!

Springsteen - any!!!

Baracuda by Heart (I think they did it), kick the stereo time!

millions more.... I will be waking up later and posting on this!! LOL

:0)

# Posted by The Cottonhouse Shakers - 05/07/2011, 23:03 (GMT)

Mmmmm...there's loads of them but my top 10 is-

1. Grease Lightning or anything else from the film.
2. Time Warp - couldn't agree more
3. That Nickbackback song which starts "once there was a girl"
4. Summer of 69
5. Bycicle song (I'm not too keen on Bohemian Rapsody either)
6. Knocking on Heavens door - G&R version
7. anything by Right said Fred
8. Tainted Love - Mark Almond version
9. Up That Bloody Tree - Blamange (a feckin Darrener as well!!!)
10. what you really really want - Spice Girls

Have to disagree with lots of the above suggestions (especially 747) but then again I'm sure that many of you will disagree with mine - and it shouldn't be any other way.

# Posted by The Kasuals Solid Sixties Musi... - 05/07/2011, 23:08 (GMT)

Can't leave this one out from the 90's, now lads, no line dancing in the kitchen with the missus. :-)

Lee :)

# Posted by The Kasuals Solid Sixties Musi... - 05/07/2011, 23:17 (GMT)

Then there is shit like this which is played to death..............Horrible song!!!

Lee :)

# Posted by "CRUSH" - 06/07/2011, 00:29 (GMT)

Enter Sandman!............. exit music!......

# Posted by Willow (of somebig™Fish) (Reti... - 06/07/2011, 00:44 (GMT)

Anything that goes by the name of

"enter descriptive word here" Metal
i.e. death, grindcore, thrash, doom ........... etc etc especially that icelandic hardcore speed death black satan metal!!!

# Posted by The Cottonhouse Shakers - 06/07/2011, 01:48 (GMT)

I'm actually rather partial to a helping of black satan metal....usually after church to settle the kids down. ;-)

# Posted by LAST GANG IN TOWN - 06/07/2011, 07:04 (GMT)

Anything that mentions turning back time...but I smashed fuck out of my radio when Nelly & Kelly did that god damned awful duet...don't listen to radio anymore.
There is one other song that makes me cringe when I hear it played in a pub but the title escapes me --8-)

# Posted by LA80 [mark] :o) - 06/07/2011, 08:04 (GMT)

Kharma fuggin Chameleon......

Any Micheal Jackson song that didnt have eddie VH and steve Lukather making it palettable

# Posted by LA80 [mark] :o) - 06/07/2011, 08:07 (GMT)

oh and any song that mentions xmas in the title or trys to 'plug' into that 'big xmas nostalgia' dollar... grinds my gears

# Posted by Ramones1234 - 06/07/2011, 08:48 (GMT)

@LA80.....except the Slade musical masterpiece that is Merry Xmas Everybody!!

....lol.....EEEeeeerrrrkkkk I'm grinding my teeth now.....make a cup of tea and calm down....

# Posted by Mutha Humbucker - 06/07/2011, 09:18 (GMT)

That Barbra Streisand song... hate it it boils my urine

# Posted by Ian - Rocking Horse - 06/07/2011, 10:02 (GMT)

Under the Bridge - like everything else by the Chilli peppers absolutely tuneless dirge
Good Riddance (Time of your life) - Like most things Greenday, as much melody as a fart but this one worse than most
Live and let die - Guns and Roses. Please Axle you can scream but you can't effing sing give it a rest
Anything by Status Quo
Centerfold - J Giels band

# Posted by grooverman - 06/07/2011, 10:11 (GMT)

anything by the following

anything by Coldplay
anything involving Mick Hucknell simply red
anything involving Eric Clapton other than the beano album and some early cream stuff
anything by the wanted (sorry guys change you name to "not wanted"
Live and let die - Guns and Roses, out of tune guitars arent nice to listen too
Rap especially white guys
Ndubz especially that thin guy
anything to do with X factor
Chryl cole

I think american pie is brilliant if you understand the meaning of the lyric (google it)

# Posted by Ian - Rocking Horse - 06/07/2011, 10:13 (GMT)

it's been voted in the top 5 songs of all time in the rock n roll hall of fame Daz, it's an incredible piece of songwriting

# Posted by Synthy Mike - 06/07/2011, 10:49 (GMT)

I'm afraid I'll have to give American Pie another vote, I can't stand it. Profound lyrics or not, I've never liked it and my heart sinks whenever it comes on the radio or on a night out. Runners up are "Build Me Up Buttercup" by the Foundations and "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealer's Wheel. If I never heard those three songs again in my life I'd be a happy man!

# Posted by The Extras - 06/07/2011, 10:51 (GMT)

That tune on the telly with the fat bloke. "Go Compare" I think it was originally Gilbert and Sullivan but it does my tits in now

# Posted by the stories - 06/07/2011, 12:48 (GMT)

lets live it up ...lets kick the fuck out of you more like .
i should be so lucky ...no you shouldnt, you should be run over with a f...g train.
any stock shithead & waterman.
candle in the wind (english rose verson ) how pathetic !
any bowie after 85 .
groovvy kind of shit by phil "im rich" collins ......blahblah

# Posted by James - Metalleeka - 06/07/2011, 13:27 (GMT)

I don't mind "Americana" music but pretty much everything by Springsteen, too bland musically.

# Posted by Squizz - 06/07/2011, 13:35 (GMT)

I'll go stand with the above who nominated Dylan, and the Beatles. Ruined a perfectly nice meal out once with them being played all night. Add a good mix of anything where the 'singers' warble (X Factor esp) Telly = off CD's = on. Don't get me started on bloody Halo or what ever it's called. The neighbour loves it.

# Posted by Synthy Mike - 06/07/2011, 13:51 (GMT)

Please can I add "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry to the list? Urghhh!!!!

# Posted by Face It! - 07/07/2011, 11:52 (GMT)

Ah so many...some come to mind immediately: Sweet Child O' Mine, Sweet Home Alabama, anything by Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Summer of 69...I could go on for days. I've given this much thought before me and a friend actually compiled a playlist on Spotify of 'terrible songs', it currently stands at 496 tracks.

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 08/07/2011, 10:40 (GMT)

i got a stock aitken and waterman greatest hits off ebay for 99p, its ace haha, awesome cheese!

# Posted by Synthy Mike - 08/07/2011, 23:20 (GMT)

Ha ha ha ha. SAW records are hilarious. Though not without conspiracy. Now, if you've got the equipment, rip "I Should Be So Lucky" to your PC and try slowing it down by about -5 semitones (or -7) and tell me that you don't hear Rick Astley. I also note how Kylie's post-SAW voice is very different. Was she "doing a Milli Vanilli"?

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