Songs that make you switch radio stations

[NoNeed]

scissor sisters, anything by them but mainly the i don't feel like dancing ste.

[RizzoTheRat]

I also quite like a fair few of the songs mentioned so far

It's normally the DJ's that get me to switch over rather than the songs, as I like to listen to music n the car. My Mrs always switches it to Radio 2 if I'm giving her a lift home form work, to a show that has people phoning in and droning on for ages. Why the hell would I be interested in listening to the Smith family driving down the M62 to visit Aunt Mabel for her 63rd birthday? Just play some frigging music!

[anonymous-user]

I generally listen to mostly internet radio now, so I kind of know that I'll like most things that will be on, but there are 3 genres of songs that make me want to switch off straight away:

EDM - Avicii, Swedish house Mafia, David Guetta, newer Calvin Harris stuff... It all makes me want to pull my ears off! Cheesy, dreadful music for idiot 'douchbag' Americans to fist-pump to. It's the lowest form of dance music and I don't even really want to call it dance music.

Modern RnB - Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Drake, Jason Derulo... Arrrrrgh!!! Utterly rubbish commercial trash... Vocodered to death... Hate all of it.

1960's - Beatles etc.. Awful.

Like most everything else though

[vixen1700]

When I hear 'We Built This City'.

So hard to believe somebody who sang so many great songs with Jefferson Airplane could sing something so horrific.

[Mafffew]

Radio 1 is pure crap now. Shame because Chris Moyles was good, as was Zane Lowe. The tosser that replaced Moyles needs to be shot.

[bucksmanuk]

Music - anything that’s already been played to death.

Free – All Right Now – not for me it isn’t - you unimaginative play list creating turds… all that music out there, and you choose to play THAT one again….
Abba – Dancing Queen – god forbid - not again
Gloria Gaynor – I will survive – no doubt the song will anyway- unfortunately, sang along to on the dance floor by “women of a certain age”.
Coldplay - almost anything of theirs.

Not music, but Moira reading the news on Chris Evans. If the Radio Guardian approach to news isn’t bad enough, it’s the ad-libbing afterwards, it’s like listening to the village idiot- hardly a single coherent sentence has ever passed her lips.

[RobinBanks]

Anything by Bob Marley.

I don't believe that people actually like reggae - I think that they just pretend to like it for some social reason.

[thismonkeyhere]

RobinBanks said:

Anything by Bob Marley.

I don't believe that people actually like reggae - I think that they just pretend to like it for some social reason.

Reggae only really works if you are on the beach, or other similar sunny place, doing not very much.

Otherwise, no.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Fastchas said:

My instant turn off is...

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul.
You know the one..."Say I'm the only bee in yurrrrrr bonnet!"

You can't be serious. That's a classic. Love it.

[davhill]

That 'Lovely day' thing...wince.

That 'Africa' song. Quite good but for that line☆

"Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an island above the Serengeddy."

It isn't a line, it's a fking haiku, plus three syllables.

[MarshPhantom]

James - Sit Down

Ruined many a student disco back in the early 90s.

[Bluedot]

bucksmanuk said:

Gloria Gaynor – I will survive – no doubt the song will anyway- unfortunately, sang along to on the dance floor by “women of a certain age”.

[thismonkeyhere]

'Smoke on the Water'.

Everyone else seems to think this is awesome, not least for it's 'powerhouse riff' or something.

Whilst I like the majority of Deep Purple's music, I can't stand 'Smoke..'. I find it a dismal, plodding song, and I can't sit through it.

[daytona365]

'Imagine' by John Lennon......What st.

[J4CKO]

MarshPhantom said:

We Built This City On Rock n Roll - Starship

Yeah, I know what you mean, Absolute 80s have a guarantee that they wont repeat the same song in a 24 hr period, it isnt that big a deal really is it when you have a whole decades worth of music to go at.

However they still manage to drag that heap of st out of the bag every single day, that and "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman, words cannot express how much I hate that song, she doesn't even give any details about the car, I will decide if I consider it fast, she gives no stats and just starts wibbling on about how much her life is crap, alcoholism, hostels and working in supermarkets, but still no BHP figures or details of make, model or modifications.

Then we have "La Bamba", that makes me st down my leg on purpose.

"Mustang Sally", reminds me of that whole "Commitments" wk a thon from the nineties.

Everything by the Eurythmics apart from Sweet Dreams

Everything by the Pete Shop Boys apart from West End Girls

Everything my youngest likes which is usually a bloke with a cap on the wrong way round listing how many clothes (including the brand and where he stores them), hoes, guns, cars, money, alcohol etc.

Mumford and Sons

But mainly, Fast Car by Tracy Champman, I can even cope with Tanita Tikaram's husky, studenty whining, or Alanis Morisette being a mad, vindictive stewer of bunnies or completely missing how the concept of irony works, but not Tracy Chapman, it is the evil Coffee one in the musical bag of Revels that is Absolute 80's

[V41LEY]

Anything by The Pretenders, UB40, The Specials, Elvis Costello or Dexy's.
80's tosh

[thismonkeyhere]

J4CKO said:

"Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman - no BHP figures or details of make, model or modifications.

You may have missed the whole point of that song.

[MarshPhantom]

V41LEY said:

Anything by The Pretenders, UB40, The Specials, Elvis Costello or Dexy's.
80's tosh

I disagree with all bar UB40.

[austinsmirk]

well like everyone else, probably all of the above.

I can't listen to Radio 1 anymore- its vile.

I guess stuff I hate is: Mustang Sally, American Pie, more than words by extreme, another vote for Tracy chapman, Fairground attraction, Perfect, another vote for the beatles (but I get their place in time/history)

All the RnB, rap, whiney mincey, pretend hard gangsta bkss, i.e white kids pretending to be black. Slightly brown kids pretending to be super black and their struggle in the ghetto or hood.

we don't have such places in the UK, get over yourself.

If you are struggling in da'hood, wiv police oppression and ting: try stopping being a criminal, dealing drugs and perhaps working for a living.

[br d]

That god-awful Snow Patrol song that was everywhere for ages, I don't even want to remember what it was called.