Top 4 Most Annoying Songs Currently Stuck in My Head Right Now.
March 14th, 2010 | Posted by Drummer John1: Mercury – Bloc Party.
By the tenth or so second of listening this song, I already want to hit skip. Normally, I love Bloc Party. But this song overstays it’s welcome, and teaches you the meaning of the word: repetitive, and teaches you the meaning of the word: repetitive. M-Mercury’s in retrograde! What the hell does that even mean? Kele Okereke, you have done better than this.
2: Poker Face – Lady Gaga
This song is so annoyingly catchy, I decided to spare you, the reader, from having it’s electronic beat and unintelligible chanting of “roma roma ma gaga ooh la la!” forever imprisoned within your hippocampus. I decided to elevate the inimitable Christopher Walken to read out her lyrics for you instead. The song itself is what inspired this list, so give Gaga extra points or whatever.
3: Use Somebody – Kings of Leon.
Don’t get me wrong – I don’t mind Kings of Leon. I have the album, and I like a few songs off of it. But anyone who listens to any amount of radio will want to scratch their ears off with steel wool when this song crosses the airwaves. The normally full-bodied and distinct voice of Caleb Followill tries a little too hard on this song, entering Jonas Brother territory with its over-stated emotion and teenage camp. Did someone say overplayed?
4: You’re Beautiful – James Blunt
I cannot stand a thing about this man. Never mind the fact that he stole Jamie Lidell’s album cover(!), but this runaway radio hit “You’re Beautiful” is a testament to the over-hyping Next Big Thingtm mentality of most major record labels. His voice is displeasing to my ears, his instrumentation simplistic (as opposed to simple, which is not inherently bad) and his lyrics atrocious. Yet, people love it. Why they love it is beyond me.
Cheers,
~colin.
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March 14th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Thanks for posting the article, was certainly a great read!
March 15th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Can you explain your simplistic vs simple contrast; I have no idea what “inherintly bad” means, but I also fucking hate James Blunt!!
March 15th, 2010 at 12:41 am
Yeah, definitely.
To define simple, think of a song by Bob Dylan or Iron & Wine. The instrumentation in many of those artists’ songs is often very unsophisticated. It’s usually just a guitar and vocals with maybe a harmonica. The instrumentation in those songs is called for, and it works for the songs it’s used in. No more embellishments are needed.
Simplistic instrumentation means that the instruments play music that is dumbed down, and could be more sophisticated because the song calls for it. Instead, it’s boring, and it works against the song rather than for it. Picture a typical R & B/Rap song. Ignoring the vocals, it’s most often a repeated melodic hook set to a repeated drum track. That’s simplistic. (I guess though, only because the rap vocals are too busy/complex to allow for more complex instrumentation.)
K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a good thing. Some songs can be overly complex. But dumb it down too much and… you have James Blunt.
Oh, and inherently bad just means bad in and of itself. Maybe I should K.I.S.S with my words a little bit, heh.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
So you prefer simple songs to have a simple “orchestration” (no more instruments than necessary) — keeps it more personal, maybe?
I don’t know if I can agree that instruments that play “dumbed down” music is really a bad thing, but I think you make the same point. I’ll agree that most rap music is pretty lame — a dude sits at hits lap top, hits some buttons on a beat tracker, and bang its something to rap to. K.I.S.S. is good, I like it when music is kept really simple. Besides the larger the orchestration, the simpler each individual instrument has to play so it doesn’t just sound like a jumble of virtuosos trying to play over one another. This is what I think you’re getting at when you say “overly complex.”
Inspite of the fact that I think James Blunt can go suck a fat willy, I don’t think his songs would be any better if the music were more complex. Instead of sounding like a lame tune with simple orchestration, you’d get a lamer tune because it would be trying to make this cheezy ass instrumental appeal.
March 15th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Ahhh James Blunt. Can Christopher Walken please read for all of these songs, or at least do another Fatboy Slim music video? Add William Shatner in there too, I’d like to hear the two of them telling each either “You’re Beautiful” in such a deadpan tone.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:38 am
Yes, that would make me cream my jeans!!!
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March 29th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Great Compilation! Really Awesome!
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