Standards-U-Hate.

andy-hughes | 14:54 Tue 23rd Jun 2015 | Music

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A song becomes a 'standard' because it is popular and therefore heard often.

I am even more opinionated about music than anything else in life (hard to believe I know!) and there are some hugely popular songs that I absolutely can't abide.

Two spring to mind - Baker Street, which was just on the radio, and I have always loathed, and Whitney Houston's version of 'I Will Always Love Yahoo'.

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hc4361

He does nothing for me, Elina

Elina

Music is a very personal choice hc, I respect he does nothing for you x

baza

I'm not in love...10cc after the first 2 bars who cares.

Elina

It's just a silly faze you're going through !

237SJ

I can`t get that blasted Ruby song out of my head now...
A friend of mine is the same with that Brim Full Of Asha song - he can`t stand it and if he hears it, it`s stuck in his head all day.

Sipowicz

^^^^ Lol!

Fanriffic

There's a few songs that I hate and yet everyone thinks they are brilliant.
I have to turn the radio off or 'tune out' if I can't switch off.

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Happy Xmas - John Lennon & Yoko
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Anything & Everything by Mariah Carey.

I'm sure there's more but I just love my music in general.
Music keeps me sane.

BlueScorpion

@ Fanriffic

I have to agree about Mariah Carey - especially the awful All I Want for Christmas

aargghh !!!

Elina

I love that one too Blue :0/

toalisi

My Way -An overrated, overplayed song trotted out by everyone.

Stephen_G

Anything by Whitney Houston has me reaching for the OFF Button.

Agree with Fanriffic about I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor.

I can't stand most of the Christmas songs either (Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie and I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake are the exceptions).

nannybooby

Anything by Enya ......mad Irish monk music g4rr .....oh loves it so I get in the car and its going g full blare

Captain2

Weather with You by Crowded House. I hate it with a passion.

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yogi-bear

Too many to mention but a few that I go 'aaarghh' when played are:

Seasons In The Sun.....Terry Jacks
Love Is All Around....Wet Wet Wet
Everything I Do ( I Do It For You ).....Bryan Adams
I Will Always Love You.....Whitney Houston
Bat Out Of Hell........Meatloaf
Wonderwall.....Oasis
Fairground.....Simply Red

That'll do, but anything mainly from Boyzone and Westlife except the 'World Of Our Own', which was decent, at best. Loads more though.

sp1814

andy-hughes

I am ashamed to say that I love Baker Street. It reminds me of a particularly happy holiday I spent at the seaside as a kid.

And even worse - I have a lot of time for 'I Will Always Love You'.

However, I acknowledge that I have fairly appalling taste in music.

The 'standards' that are like nails on a blackboard to me are:

1. 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor (reminds me of too many rubbish wedding receptions, where the wives/girlfriends drunkenly dance to it, whilst furiously gesticulating at their husbands, who are inevitably ignoring them by the free bar)

2. 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra (turgid)

3. Everything by Elvis apart from 'A Little Less Satisfaction' (an even then, only the remix by Junkie XL).

4. 'Heal The World' by Michael Jackson (like being beaten to death with a Valentine's card).

5. 'Purple Rain' by Prince (after the first seven minutes, I'm like "Enough already...I get it...just FINISH THE DAMN SONG")

6. 'Lovely Day' by Bill Withers (okay, so you can hold that note for like 30 seconds. Whatever, I can hold my pee for over ten minutes).

7. 'I Just Called To Say I Love You' by Stevie Wonder (cheers, and I'm going to return the call with the message that out of all your fantastic songs, THIS is your only UK solo number one???)

8. 'Sailing' by Rod Stewart (every time I hear it, I throw up a little bit in my mouth)

9. 'When The Going Gets Tough' by Billy Ocean (written by a computer and sung by a man with a head the same size as one of those statues from Easter Island)

10. 'I Believe I Can Fly' by R.Kelly (my fervent wish is that you test this out from the top of The Shard).

Prudie

I have 2 I cannot stand, always list them and they are:
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (mainly because someone really yukky played it to me as a way of expressing his feelings)
Come on Eileen, don't know why but the dungarees were a factor.