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What does it mean when we say we hate a song?
There are nice songs that just need a rest. Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a good song, but nobody should play it for five years. Same goes for "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." These songs are like proud horses that have been ridden into the ground. It's not pretty to watch them stumbling.
Then there are songs that probably never should have been written in the first place, like "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me," which, as Dave Barry pointed out, contains the lyric "Girl, you're a hot blooded woman-child. And it's warm where you're touching me."
This is probably the wrong moment to point out that the man who wrote "You Light Up My Life" recently killed himself.
Some songs we don't mind ... the first 100 times we hear them.
And sometimes, it's just a personal quirk. (I don't like anything by Led Zeppelin.)
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Songs Our Panelists Hate:
Joan Holliday:
Allman Brothers - Whipping Post
Bob Seger - Night Moves
Tori Amos - Crucify
Van Zant - These Colors Don't Run
Eric Danton:
Fleetwood Mac - Secondhand News
Daddy Yankee - Pose
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Deja Voodoo
Wally Lamb:
Rupert Holmes - Escape (Pina Colada Song)
Donna Fargo - The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA
Chicago - Colour My World
Bobby Golsboro – Honey
Chion Wolf:
Tegan & Sara - Back In Your Head
Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough
Colin McEnroe:
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
P!nk – F**kin' Perfect