• randomdeadguy@lemmy.world
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    In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins. Yeah it’s meant to be emotional, and I’m sure it was groundbreaking in the early 80’s, but damn. It just does not hold up. Plenty of things from that time still hold up, and maybe I’m a philistine that isn’t receptive to this particular “slow burn” but fuck me I’d rather listen to Barney the Dinosaur in Guantanamo

    • droans@lemmy.world
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      The song about that one guy who could’ve saved that other guy from drowning but didn’t? Then Phil saw it all and at his show he found him?

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    Ain’t No Sunshine by all the fucking bands covering it and fucking it up. Absolutely hate that song.

    Truly the Mustang Sally of this era.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    Tom Sawyer by Rush. Hellfire, anything by Rush, I can’t stand the singer’s voice.

  • kazerniel@lemmy.world
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    anything from Billie Eilish - I hate that barely audible “singing” style, like someone mumbling the lyrics of a half-remembered song under their nose while doing housework

  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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    Jessie’s Girl. It’s very catchy, but the lyrics are about being jealous of your friend, and the description of the girl involved is just so ridiculously minimal - she has eyes she looks with, she has a body, and she loves Jessie. That’s everything single thing said about her.

  • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “Losing my Religion” by REM. It’s what fingernails on a chalkboard sound like if the music industry made us listen to it over & over again in grocery stores.

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
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    You know what? I love generally terrible pop music, and half this thread are sings I’ve listened to this week.

    But god fucking dammit, if that Paul McCartney Christmas song comes on, it causes a flight response in me. My body wants me to run away.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go for a run blasting all these bangers.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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    Mustang Sally can burn in hell. Fuck that song. Repeating a one line chorus for a million fucking years is not a god damned song, it’s a method of torture.