Songs on the radio that make you turn it off

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ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I used to work in a small factory and between them my workmates had about 20 radios tuned to Radio 1 all day long.

We had a grumpy machinist named Gordon who didn't like anything played on the station and used to moan about it every day. Then to our great joy, Jilted John came along ...



I know it was a bit cruel and childish, but we used to sing along and call out "Gordon is a moron!" in time with the record. Gordon would be running round turning the radios down and people would be running round behind him turning them back up! :laugh:
 

Diggs

Veteran
Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
Possibly the worst song ever and probably the reason I haven't seen the film
 
There are some songs which are kind of OK but then they run out of ideas and keep repeating, not in a normal verse/ chorus kind of repetative pattern and not repeat with a twist, but on and on and fecking on. Enough already.
 

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
Location
The Red Enclave
There's a particularly annoying trail on 6music at the moment that makes me switch back to 4 for a few minutes...

The Gilles Peterson one, by any chance? It's intensely irritating. Anything involving Tom Ravenscroft's voice usually has me reaching for the dial as well.

I like 6music generally but there are a few tracks that have been on their playlist recently that really grate - and because I work from home, with 6music as my background listening, that means I've been subjected to them at least two or three times a day for the last couple of weeks. The worst offender is that appallingly whiny Conor Oberst dirge. Pretentious lyrics, awful voice, dismal tune. Absolutely nothing to recommend it at all. And that new Pete Doherty one is as bad as everything else he has ever done too.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
With not working for months i've been listening to Radio Lancashire quite a bit With it being BBC it's thankfully mind numbing commercial free,but they don't half play some crap tunes and play them over and over. The Lighthouse Family and the Corrs are two of their favourites. When they come on, the radio goes either off or down in volume for three minutes.
 

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
Back in 1981, employees of an academic institution not a million miles from Madame Tussauds used to go to the pub at lunchtime on the corner of Marylebone High Street. (We went to many in the area actually). Shortly before Christmas, a group of young ladies played this on the jukebox three times in a row.
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A colleague did a quick whip-round and jammed the jukebox with the most raucous, anarchic and fun punk offerings for the next forty five minutes. I think we returned to our offices at about 3:15pm, entirely Birdie-free.
 

ozboz

Guru
Location
Richmond ,Surrey
Mmmm,
Phil Collins, all his songs
Living years, Mike & Mechanics
Heavy Metal stuff
Simply Red songs
 

Milzy

Guru
Chris moyles was an arrogant pig and radio 1 but that Grimmy Nick Grimshaw is even worse and not because he's a pillow biter, he's just so annoying and false.
 
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Brandane

Legendary Member
Another "off switch" song just came to mind. Thank you, Smooth Radio, who have an annoying habit of playing THIS bollix of a song at least 3 times per day and sending me back over to Radio 2 in the hope that Evans, Carr, Vine, Norton, etc. are not chuntering on with their inane "presenting" between songs.
As soon as I hear those annoying twittering birds that continue throughout the song, OFF it goes!

 
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