Terrible songs you can't get out of your head

Ever since the Grammy's, I can't get that terrible Billy Joel song our of my head. Not the instantly forgettable new song that took him (with a co-writer) 30 years, three wives, and two families later to write…but the old "classic" that everyone loves…"You May Be Right."

Anyone have a terrible song in their head that want to have swapped out for mine?

I'd argue that Billy Joel has written far, far worse songs than "You May Be Right". Is it an abomination? I'd argue that "We Didn't Start The Fire" or "The Longest Time" are atrocities that should be banished into a black hole. Anything remotely awful that I abhor (pretty much anything from the "Cocktail" soundtrack, Starship, etc.) that I accidentally hear usually means my brain gets a cleanse with "Bazooka Joe" by Big Black, "Nervous Breakdown" by Black Flag or "Green Light" by Sonic Youth.

I would agree that You May BE Right is one of his less offensive songs (I remember actually liking it in 8th grade, when our bus driver would play the Glass Houses cassette every day on the one hour drive to school. But that was when I was 13, and before I discovered anything great from 1980 or before.)

Thank you for replacing it in my head with some much worse Billy Joel songs!

I randomly get Christmas songs in my head all year long, but I unironically love Christmas songs, so I never mind.

Usually it's random, out of left field songs…so random I almost have no idea why they pop into my head.  But thanks to this thread and me racking my brain to find a song, it forced that awful 4 Non Blondes song into my brain.  Thanks!

nkotb wrote:
it forced that awful 4 Non Blondes song into my brain. 

This is easily one of my top 3 most-hated songs of all-time.

Bombay wrote:

nkotb wrote:
it forced that awful 4 Non Blondes song into my brain. 

This is easily one of my top 3 most-hated songs of all-time.

I think the ones that throw me into a blind rage are "Run-Around" by Blues Traveler, "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys, and "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin. But "Ants Marching" by Dave Matthews and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" are serious contenders too. I guess that's my top 5.

bearman🐻 wrote:
I think the ones that throw me into a blind rage are "Run-Around" by Blues Traveler, "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys, and "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin. But "Ants Marching" by Dave Matthews and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" are serious contenders too. I guess that's my top 5.

This is a solid list. I (thankfully) cannot say I have heard Kokomo is twenty years but the mere thought of it rockets it very high up my list.

I know it is inferior Beach Boys but I wouldn't put Kokomo on that level.

How about These Dreams by Heart (who have a handful of excellent dongs?)

Vengaboys - We Like To Party

This is the worst, greatest song of all time. Oh no, it's now in my head . . . must not open Spotify.

Damn, too late.

Space wrote:
I know it is inferior Beach Boys but I wouldn't put Kokomo on that level.

How about These Dreams by Heart (who have a handful of excellent dongs?)

Admittedly, I was unaware the members of Heart were Trannys.

500 Miles
Mr Jones
Most Jimmy Buffett

Man, this is going to be an A+ thread; I can tell.

This one is so odd and horrible, bur oh so delicious as it eats its way through my brain:

Sex Pistols - "Who Killed Bambi?"

I do think i would KILL this at karaoke, tho.  I'd really commit

Bombay wrote:

nkotb wrote:
it forced that awful 4 Non Blondes song into my brain. 

This is easily one of my top 3 most-hated songs of all-time.

nkotb wrote:
I do think i would KILL this at karaoke, tho.  I'd really commit

Bombay wrote:

nkotb wrote:
it forced that awful 4 Non Blondes song into my brain. 

This is easily one of my top 3 most-hated songs of all-time.

Admittedly, this used to be a song I sung to my kids at bedtime… Sorry!

Blow, wrote:
Vengaboys - We Like To Party

This is the worst, greatest song of all time. Oh no, it's now in my head . . . must not open Spotify.

Damn, too late.

Damn you I don’t think I’ve ever heard this song in its entirety before today and it’s pure ear candy

OK, to go back to Space's original question, I have a proper answer.  The song I DETEST that can get stuck in my head is "Informer" by Snow. The "licky boom boom down" line in particular sticks to my brain like a used rotting condom. Ugh. And there it is.

along the lines of BMJ's "terrible" song, what's stuck in my head today is Self's reworking of Gigantic as Titanic

it has a lot of "Hey Jack Hey Jack I'm going to jump off the back" along with "TITANTIC TITANTIC TITANTIC A BIG BIG BOAT"

https://youtu.be/khIBo4xzdag

kosmo wrote:
along the lines of BMJ's "terrible" song, what's stuck in my head today is Self's reworking of Gigantic as Titanic

it has a lot of "Hey Jack Hey Jack I'm going to jump off the back" along with "TITANTIC TITANTIC TITANTIC A BIG BIG BOAT"

https://youtu.be/khIBo4xzdag

That's at least funny. Criminal, yes. My guilty pleasure somewhat in that vein (but not quite) is the Smithfits, the mashup band on SoundCloud that does "Still Evill", "SHE in a Coma", and "I Want the Skulls I Can't Have".

kosmo wrote:

Blow, wrote:
Vengaboys - We Like To Party

This is the worst, greatest song of all time. Oh no, it's now in my head . . . must not open Spotify.

Damn, too late.

Damn you I don’t think I’ve ever heard this song in its entirety before today and it’s pure ear candy

Ex,cellent

In honor of the point of this thread:

I can't fucking stand this song, but damn, it's catchy,

George Strait. - All My Ex's Live In Texas