Songs That Make You Cringe

[NoBlackTShirts]

In the Sixties I'd go into places that my Liberal friends were afraid to drive by, but modern R&B makes me ill.

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[davidgoldman]

Butterfly Kisses

 

[steamthief]

Old Time Rock And Roll by Bob Seger, every time I hear that song I see Tom Cruise sliding across the floor in his underwear!!!

^THIS!^

Also anything with Perry Farrell on the mic.

 

[bassbully]

Old Time Rock And Roll by Bob Seger, every time I hear that song I see Tom Cruise sliding across the floor in his underwear!!!

+ 1 Million add... Brown Eyed Girl and knights in white Satin

 

[Rob Lewis]

Anything with that horrible vocal pitch correction. I daren't check him on YouTube for fear of violence, but isn't this Bieber chappie a major culprit?

 

[GregDunn]

Wow - a thread where I pretty much agree 100% with all the posts.

For me, anything with a tone-deaf or whiny vocalist makes me stab the mute or station change button. Sadly, that's an increasing number of artists.

 

[MatticusMania]

Most songs performed by 'all originals' bands.

No good original bands in Madison, eh?

 

[62bass]

I no longer gig and haven't for a long time, but when I did, there were some songs that were crowd favorites (and radio hits) but were just plain awful, and made you feel silly to play/sing. Remember, I'm going back to the 70's, but lets face it, bad is bad regardless of the decade. My most cringe worthy? 'Take the Money and Run' by The Steve Miller Band. Ewwwwwwwww!

That's pretty bad but The Joker is worse in my book.

Of course, some songs make me cringe just because they've been played to death on the radio but not because they're particularly bad songs. But how many times can you listen to Brown Eyed Girl and still smile and nod your head along?

However, anything by Celine Dion makes me cringe upon first listen.

 

[kenfxj]

Celebration by Kool and the Gang. Too many weddings in the 80s.

 

[stiles72]

Man In The Box, Enter Sandman, Crazy Bitch, Bad Girlfriend, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Sweet Home Alabama, Free Bird, Play That Funky Music, and my most cringe-worthy...

Brown Eyed Girl

 

[JukeBoxHero]

Smile Empty Soul-Silhouettes or Buckcherry-Crazy Bitch

Everything about these tunes just gets me angry, whether it be the generic instrumentation or the incredibly weak vocalist.

 

[bobwhite]

Barricuda. Or should I say, "BarriCUda". Arrghhhhh!!!!

And one more--Hot Child in the City

For much of the really awful stuff today I have changed channels within a measure so I cannot really tell you what the names are. My radio switching hand in the car has gotten superquick.

 

[KimblesNimble]

Christmas Shoes, and more recently, Kei$ha, anything buy her (tic toc and blah blah, they could be one in the same but regardless she's terrible)

"Woke up in the mornin with a bottle o' Jack", I mean come on, really?

 

[DiabolicLow B]

Sweet Home Alabama
Mustang Sally
Knocking on Heavens Door...

 

[stepswork4me]

Anything by Nickelback or any other four chord wonder.

 

[COBRARI]

I have to agree with most the above posts. However, I really cringe listening to our playback recordings in my band when we are attempting to get a "new song" together.
That is one reason why this cover band I am in is working on
originals. The cringing goes down a bit.

 

[Beginner Bass]

'80s hair bands.
Most new music.
Viva la Vida-Heard it about 2,000,000 times too many to enjoy it any more.

 

[becker4567]

That's pretty bad but The Joker is worse in my book.

Lets face it mate, Steve Miller may have been a guitar hero, but he wrote some of the worst songs in rock history. One word.....Abracadabra!

 

[Thor]

Exactly what I was going to say.

The guy that wrote Living in the USA dropped that turd onto
FM (read AM) radio. He made money but that one hurt.

Others I can't stand. Bread. Carpenters. 60's Bubblegum pop.
Amazing that you could get Yummy Yummy Yummy served up
on the radio during the Hendrix, Mayall, James Gang and Cream years.

Add Sugar Sugar by the Archies (yeah, I know, Chuck Rainey
did the bass line. Bet you he was only in it for the money).
Those songs induce a gag reflex.

 

[pedro]

Exactly what I was going to say.

The guy that wrote Living in the USA dropped that turd onto
FM (read AM) radio. He made money but that one hurt.

Others I can't stand. Bread. Carpenters. 60's Bubblegum pop.
Amazing that you could get Yummy Yummy Yummy served up
on the radio during the Hendrix, Mayall, James Gang and Cream years.

Add Sugar Sugar by the Archies (yeah, I know, Chuck Rainey
did the bass line. Bet you he was only in it for the money).
Those songs induce a gag reflex.

dang I love 'Living in the USA'.