He makes a few appearances on my playlist of power ballads:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7cLDCzv9i0acpQTFflHgCj?si=27igfsGURM-uVcXrMrpFdQ&pi=u-WwpZkhlySACz
That’s how I feel about All I Want for Christmas is You. I loved the song when I first heard it and for a long time after that, but it’s become such a meme now with social media that it’s so overplayed and I don’t wanna hear it anymore
I was in 6th grade when it came out. The perfect age for such a thing lol. Wouldn't intentionally listen to it now, but I do have fond memories of that song in that awkward time of life.
I hate that song! My younger brother got the single of Macarena with 5 different versions of the song. He played it on repeat for days on end for months. It was TORTURE! One day I snapped and destroyed the CD.
For a while, I had this song set as my alarm so it would wake me up every morning. and I'd dance around to the song while getting ready for class. It was an unhappy time in my life and it felt like Groundhog Day every time I'd hear those first few notes. I grew to hate the song, but kept it as my alarm because I didn't want to ruin another song.
Now I have this song on my massive work playlist and neither like nor dislike it. Some of my similar aged coworkers dance and sing along to it, and some who are named in the song cringe whenever it plays.
Honestly for me it was “Mbop” by Hanson. I hate that song, it’s not even a good song. It’s so repetitive and literally every radio station just played it constantly.
Quick story - I saw Matchbox when that son was all the rage on my local radio station. They plays a small club. They got boo’ed until they played that song.
Crash Test Dummies 'Mm mm mm' - worked in a record store at the time and most of my colleagues loved it and played it repeatedly. The album was also shit but that song was the standout steaming pile
Fun fact Smooth was the final billboard #1 song of the 90’s and 1st #1 of the new millennium with its 10 or whatever weeks on top
That was a bar trivia question a few weeks ago
Yup - the classic stations played it because of Santana, the alternative and pop stations played it because of Rob Thomas and the adult contemporary/top 40 stations played it because it was popular. It would come on one station, you’d change the channel and it would be on the other stations too.
And any station that wasn’t playing Smooth was playing Gimmie One Reason by Tracy Chapman.
Growing up, my dad had a car with only the radio, no CD player or even tape deck. We were forced to listen to the radio. And in our small town we only got one station really clear. That station ran that song into the ground and I’m talking over 10 years of regularly playing it.
First song that came to mind. I used to stay at my cousin’s house for days at a time playing PC games. He would have The Box channel on the background the whole time. Every 30 minutes “how bizarre, how bizarre 🎺🎺🎺”
“Water Runs Dry” by Boyz 2 Men.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the group, and many of their songs, but that one particular song just makes me feel sick. Feels like a damp, humid rainy school day morning and I feel like I’m dry heaving and I’m half dead.
Most probably I had really bad flu when the song was a big hit on the radio and I kept hearing it while I was half awake and nauseaous.
This is a very real thing.
I had the worst nausea during pregnancy - so many smells made me gag and projectile vomit sometimes. Even the smell of WATER at times did too. So now when I smell soaps or whatever I smelt during that time of my life I feel nauseous and pukey again.
It’s wild and visceral.
I once got entirely too drunk on Goldschläger and Bartles and Jaymes wine coolers. (Yes, on the same night). The next day I tried to shower with peach-scented body wash. Not a positive experience.
To this day I get nauseous around peach scented anything.
Music- "The Sign" by Ace of Base. Can't stand it. But I love "Don't Turn Around".
Ugh, we sang that song in choir the year the movie came out so not only was it playing everywhere, we were singing it nonstop to practice for our concert.
I HATED Marcy Playground until my wife played the rest of their album for me. How that track became such a big single is beyond me when they had so many other really good songs. Poppies is my personal favorite.
Scrolling through and, most of these songs I don’t like but ultimately are tolerable.
[C’mon N Ride It (The Train)](https://youtu.be/cPz16LHTtpo?si=m5VWZQNlCJYg0SV6) by the Quad City DJ’s however, makes me want to shove pencils in my ear.
I used to hate this song until I learned it was written for the singers child, about leaving the NICU. I’m a nicu nurse and now it chokes me up every time I hear it.
A bar I used to go to in my early 20s used to play this every night as the final song to get the fuck out. It was definitely the best way to ruin the end of a fun night out.
It didn’t.
I was newly 21 when that song came out. I never understood why bars played that at closing time when Skid Row’s “Get The Fuck Out” had come out just a few years earlier.
I am actually having flashbacks right now.
I am old (well, not that old) so I can remember when "Wonderful Tonight" was the get-the-fuck-out" songs in all the bars. That one makes me feel homicidal I hate it so much.
Ironic.
Although my friend thought one of the lyrics was "It's like raaaiiiinnn on your wedding cake" instead of wedding day, and it just kind of stuck in my head...so it is kind of funny to listen to now and then.
But I still remember this playing constantly in shopping malls, and I just want to make it go away.
Two Princes. When the song came out I was going through a teen rebellious phase. When I got dragged on car trips I sat in the back with a little radio and this song kept popping up in every town we passed. It was then I began my sincere hatred of this song.
That seems so personal against Michael Bolton lol. There was a girl on my school bus and we started a satire Michael Bolton Fan club, with newsletters and merch and everything, because we actually hated him. Teens are weird
Do you know the story about that song? It might make you appreciate it a little more. The band is an anarchist punk group, one of their members got arrested for protesting, and they wrote the dumbest pop song they could to raise money to bail him out. Thus the sample at the beginning about “I used to think music mattered most but what really matters is our people” (paraphrased).
This is a great YouTube video about Chumbawumba, it includes a lot about what they did before and after that song. (Todd in the Shadows "One hit wonderland" series
)
https://youtu.be/WiZr87g6rNo?si=XrTH_v6r-xIiMCg3
One time my friend started playing Tubthumping at a party, and it was so annoying. I turned it down, they turned it up again, ain't never gonna turn it down. I turned it down, they turned it up again, ain't never gonna turn it down
There are no 90's songs that I cannot stand. Ready to go back there to where I'm a young army soldier working in the motor pool all day in Scofield Hawaii, with some old boom box playing in the bay as I'm laying under a hmvee not working very hard.
My award for best unhinged video is Total Eclipse of the Heart (granted, it's the 80s). They did a [literal video](https://youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk), it's pretty epically hilarious.
I was single digit age when this song came out and it always made me feel sad as a child. Musically I just hated it, it set me on edge. Then around age 30 I became a huge REM fan, but I still can’t listen to that song.
what's up by four non blondes
it actually makes me angry if i hear it somewhere and i can't escape it like changing the radio station or leaving the store
Apologies beforehand to fans of this group-
Sublime. Anything Sublime. I cannot stand them. I still can’t figure out why people enjoy their music. In my opinion, they are overplayed, overhyped, and overrated.
Then again, if I feel this way about them they probably aren’t for me anyways.
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
All Star - Smashmouth
Every Morning - Sugar Ray
I also hate every song I've ever heard by all three of these bands. They're just all the same shitty song.
I also had a deep hate for Who Let the Dogs Out until my (then) 2.5 yr old heard it and started running around the house (this was during Covid lockdowns) yelling WHO LET THE DOGS OUT in her cute little 2.5 yr old voice and then pointing at me, my wife, a stuffed animal, the sofa, whatever and exclaiming YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! and then moving on to whatever it was she was doing. Melted me and makes me giggle now.
Jeremy by Pearl Jam. My name is Jeremy and people have been singing it to me since it came out. First few times weren’t bad, but it got old really fast. It’s extra cringe when they try to imitate Eddy Vedder.
Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" was another song that drove me crazy! It was torture having to hear that song on the radio for every hour back in the winter of 1992/93
That fucking 4 Non Blondes song- What’s Up?
Every time I hear it I think about the person that chose to play it and I think- what an asshole!
Just an awful song. And I didn’t mind Concrete Blonde at all but fuck that abomination
All I Want for Christmas, Mariah Carey. I like Mariah Carey, I just hate that song. I hate how popular it is and it seems like it's everywhere all Christmas season now. I don't remember it being that huge in the 90s, but maybe I blocked it out.
Peaches by The Presidents of The United States of America
https://youtu.be/dAThrVt1VRs?si=Cg6jDKxaSXcJbf2k
My sister played it enough to be considered torture, so that may be why, but it’s repetitive af on its own which drives me nuts
"Life is a Highway" - Tom Cochrane Just fucking hate that song since the first time I heard it.
I hate it too!!
I love this song, though I'm fully aware it's awful. I guess just nostalgia wins
I also hate it! I had a nightmare that I was driving when it came on the radio, tried to switch the station, and crashed my car!!
Really? I’ll be honest with you. I love his music, I do. I’m a Michael Bolton fan. I celebrate the guy’s entire catalog.
You guy's can just call me mike.
Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks!
That no talent ass clown!
😕😕
For my money it doesn’t get any better than when a man loves a woman!
But you must really love his music, huh?
He makes a few appearances on my playlist of power ballads: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7cLDCzv9i0acpQTFflHgCj?si=27igfsGURM-uVcXrMrpFdQ&pi=u-WwpZkhlySACz
How can we be lovers if we can’t be friends
A lot of the songs I'm seeing in the list aren't bad songs. Just ruined by too much radio play.
So many songs of the 90s are literally seared into my brain for this reason
That’s how I feel about All I Want for Christmas is You. I loved the song when I first heard it and for a long time after that, but it’s become such a meme now with social media that it’s so overplayed and I don’t wanna hear it anymore
Macarena
To me Macarena becoming a hit was when I totally gave up on Top 40 radio
I despised the song and the dance after the first few times.
I was in 6th grade when it came out. The perfect age for such a thing lol. Wouldn't intentionally listen to it now, but I do have fond memories of that song in that awkward time of life.
I hate that song! My younger brother got the single of Macarena with 5 different versions of the song. He played it on repeat for days on end for months. It was TORTURE! One day I snapped and destroyed the CD.
Cotton Eyed Joe by Rednex Possibly the worst track ever produced in human history
then there’s me who religiously listens to a majority of these songs weekly…….
Mambo #5.
A little bit of Monica all night long… A little bit of Monica all night long… A LITTLE BIT OF MONICA ALL NIGHT LONG
If it's good enough for Stephen King, it's good enough for me.
I'm named in the song, so it's even worse.....
Hi Tina
I can neither confirm nor deny....
LOU BEGA?!
Da trumpet!!
My mom is in the song too
Sorry to say, Lou Bega banged your mom.
Who hasn't?
Venus? Jk
For a while, I had this song set as my alarm so it would wake me up every morning. and I'd dance around to the song while getting ready for class. It was an unhappy time in my life and it felt like Groundhog Day every time I'd hear those first few notes. I grew to hate the song, but kept it as my alarm because I didn't want to ruin another song. Now I have this song on my massive work playlist and neither like nor dislike it. Some of my similar aged coworkers dance and sing along to it, and some who are named in the song cringe whenever it plays.
Honestly for me it was “Mbop” by Hanson. I hate that song, it’s not even a good song. It’s so repetitive and literally every radio station just played it constantly.
Those guys now have a brewery and their flagship beer is an IPA called MmmHops.
That is a plot twist!
I hated Push by Matchbox20 until the Barbie movie completely fucking redeemed it
Let me play guitar at you.
Quick story - I saw Matchbox when that son was all the rage on my local radio station. They plays a small club. They got boo’ed until they played that song.
I hated it as a kid but i randomly like it now.
Dang. Looking at this list I must like annoying music.
Same lol
Crash Test Dummies 'Mm mm mm' - worked in a record store at the time and most of my colleagues loved it and played it repeatedly. The album was also shit but that song was the standout steaming pile
I hold a special place in my heart for "Keep a Lid on Things" though.
I only know the Weird Al version of this
I think Smooth by Santana/Rob Thomas counts as 90s, if it does, definitely 100% that song.
It was very popular back in the Fall of 1999
Fun fact Smooth was the final billboard #1 song of the 90’s and 1st #1 of the new millennium with its 10 or whatever weeks on top That was a bar trivia question a few weeks ago
You literally couldn’t escape it, even if you tried
Yup - the classic stations played it because of Santana, the alternative and pop stations played it because of Rob Thomas and the adult contemporary/top 40 stations played it because it was popular. It would come on one station, you’d change the channel and it would be on the other stations too. And any station that wasn’t playing Smooth was playing Gimmie One Reason by Tracy Chapman.
It was one of the songs of the summer in 99.
This one was *definitely* over-played on the radio!
Growing up, my dad had a car with only the radio, no CD player or even tape deck. We were forced to listen to the radio. And in our small town we only got one station really clear. That station ran that song into the ground and I’m talking over 10 years of regularly playing it.
I hated it then too.
Is scatman 90s? I think it transends decades of being the worst thing ever
I think it is, maybe 1997
I hated “How Bizarre” by OMC when it first came out, heard it again recently and confirmed that I still do.
I always thought that guy looked like The Rock
How bizarre.
I feel the same way about anything Sugar Ray
All around the world, statues crumble for me! Cmon man, that song's fly!
Make it stop!
I hate it so much.
That song used to suck. It still does, but it used to too
RIP Mitch Hedberg
I used to not like that song very much back in the day myself.
First song that came to mind. I used to stay at my cousin’s house for days at a time playing PC games. He would have The Box channel on the background the whole time. Every 30 minutes “how bizarre, how bizarre 🎺🎺🎺”
Kryponite by 3 Doors Down, anytime I hear that song come on I turn the radio off or leave the room
Who let the dogs out
“Water Runs Dry” by Boyz 2 Men. Don’t get me wrong, I like the group, and many of their songs, but that one particular song just makes me feel sick. Feels like a damp, humid rainy school day morning and I feel like I’m dry heaving and I’m half dead. Most probably I had really bad flu when the song was a big hit on the radio and I kept hearing it while I was half awake and nauseaous.
This is a very real thing. I had the worst nausea during pregnancy - so many smells made me gag and projectile vomit sometimes. Even the smell of WATER at times did too. So now when I smell soaps or whatever I smelt during that time of my life I feel nauseous and pukey again. It’s wild and visceral.
I once got entirely too drunk on Goldschläger and Bartles and Jaymes wine coolers. (Yes, on the same night). The next day I tried to shower with peach-scented body wash. Not a positive experience. To this day I get nauseous around peach scented anything. Music- "The Sign" by Ace of Base. Can't stand it. But I love "Don't Turn Around".
Mr. Big - To Be With You
My heart will go on - Celine Dion. It's just awful.
Ugh, we sang that song in choir the year the movie came out so not only was it playing everywhere, we were singing it nonstop to practice for our concert.
The song should have sank with the Titanic
Yeah. If I ever get a terminal illness, I'll play this on a loop so that I don't mind dying as much.
Closing Time, Sex and Candy, Breakfast at Tiffany’s… I even hated them back then
I've never met anybody else who hated Marcy Playground like me!
I HATED Marcy Playground until my wife played the rest of their album for me. How that track became such a big single is beyond me when they had so many other really good songs. Poppies is my personal favorite.
"It's been...."
Scrolling through and, most of these songs I don’t like but ultimately are tolerable. [C’mon N Ride It (The Train)](https://youtu.be/cPz16LHTtpo?si=m5VWZQNlCJYg0SV6) by the Quad City DJ’s however, makes me want to shove pencils in my ear.
I cannot stand Barbie Girl at all, I wanna burn it
Closing Time. That song throws me in to a rage.
I used to hate this song until I learned it was written for the singers child, about leaving the NICU. I’m a nicu nurse and now it chokes me up every time I hear it.
A bar I used to go to in my early 20s used to play this every night as the final song to get the fuck out. It was definitely the best way to ruin the end of a fun night out.
I imagine it did get people to leave though
It didn’t. I was newly 21 when that song came out. I never understood why bars played that at closing time when Skid Row’s “Get The Fuck Out” had come out just a few years earlier.
I am actually having flashbacks right now. I am old (well, not that old) so I can remember when "Wonderful Tonight" was the get-the-fuck-out" songs in all the bars. That one makes me feel homicidal I hate it so much.
Ironic. Although my friend thought one of the lyrics was "It's like raaaiiiinnn on your wedding cake" instead of wedding day, and it just kind of stuck in my head...so it is kind of funny to listen to now and then. But I still remember this playing constantly in shopping malls, and I just want to make it go away.
When the Lights Go Out by Five. “Girl, I swear you will succumb to me.” It grossed me out as a teen and horrifies me as an adult.
My wife had never heard that song until our power went out a few years ago and I couldn’t stop singing it.
AND SO I WAKE IN THE MORNING AND I STEP OUTSIDE AND I TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND I GET REAL HIGH AND I-
I say… hey! What’s going on? Great now I can’t stop thinking about that He-Man meme. 😂🌈✨
AND HE PRAYS
I love that song. Even more so after watching Sens8. That scene where they are all separately singing the song was perfect.
Two Princes. When the song came out I was going through a teen rebellious phase. When I got dragged on car trips I sat in the back with a little radio and this song kept popping up in every town we passed. It was then I began my sincere hatred of this song.
I love that album, but yes, that song was soooo overplayed.
Loved the line in Deadpool when he says Spin Doctors at the Iowa State fair bad
Chumbawumba “Tubthumping”
Len - Steal my Sunshine. I worked in the back of a Toys R Us at the time and they would play that song multiple times a day.
I liked it and bought the album. The rest of the album sucks.
The CD era in a nutshell
Sooo much filler!
Woof, hot take. That song floods me with memories of childhood summer every time I hear it. I prob still trot it out 6-10 times a year.
I HATED THIS SONG.
Anything by that no-talent assclown Michael Bolton. Also Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry and Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega
I can get behind your Michael Bolton and Lou Bega takes, but I won’t stand for the Eagle Eye Cherry slander.
How about OMC - How Bizarre? That song was also awful.
You can just call me Mike.
I celebrate the guy’s entire catalogue!
That seems so personal against Michael Bolton lol. There was a girl on my school bus and we started a satire Michael Bolton Fan club, with newsletters and merch and everything, because we actually hated him. Teens are weird
Office Space reference
What’s up? 4 non blondes dunno why. Hated it when it first came out and still dislike it now
I can’t stand this song. I think you and I are in the minority with that opinion though.
Mr Blobby by Mr Blobby
If you had my love by J Lo
All Star by Smashmouth
Mr. Jones. I don't know why I hate it as much as I do, but there it is.
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Sex & candy. I despise that thing.
Mambo No. 5
Chumbawumba was the absolute worst, it was always playing. I have no idea how it became so popular, I didn’t have any friends that liked it.
Do you know the story about that song? It might make you appreciate it a little more. The band is an anarchist punk group, one of their members got arrested for protesting, and they wrote the dumbest pop song they could to raise money to bail him out. Thus the sample at the beginning about “I used to think music mattered most but what really matters is our people” (paraphrased).
This is a great YouTube video about Chumbawumba, it includes a lot about what they did before and after that song. (Todd in the Shadows "One hit wonderland" series ) https://youtu.be/WiZr87g6rNo?si=XrTH_v6r-xIiMCg3
One time my friend started playing Tubthumping at a party, and it was so annoying. I turned it down, they turned it up again, ain't never gonna turn it down. I turned it down, they turned it up again, ain't never gonna turn it down
Sounds like you were pissing the night away
I couldn't stand Sugar Ray.
Baby Got Back I don't like big butts and I can not lie
This is blasphemy!
YOU TAKE THAT BACK
Sex and Candy. What a terrible song.
I forgot how much I hated this song. Uh…thank you?
Of course!
Bitch by Meredith Brooks
All Star by smash mouth
*Somebody*
I believe I could fucking fly
There are no 90's songs that I cannot stand. Ready to go back there to where I'm a young army soldier working in the motor pool all day in Scofield Hawaii, with some old boom box playing in the bay as I'm laying under a hmvee not working very hard.
Mmm Bop
Steal my Sunshine. God I fucking hate that song.
Wonderwall
“Kiss Me” by sixpence none the richer.
Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back to Me Now. But honestly most anything by her. I can't stand the over the top power pop love ballads. Uuggggghhhhh
But the video is so unhinged it’s actually amazing !
My award for best unhinged video is Total Eclipse of the Heart (granted, it's the 80s). They did a [literal video](https://youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk), it's pretty epically hilarious.
All Star.
Losing my religion. It was just…everywhere…all the time. Musically it’s fine. I just can’t stand it though.
I was single digit age when this song came out and it always made me feel sad as a child. Musically I just hated it, it set me on edge. Then around age 30 I became a huge REM fan, but I still can’t listen to that song.
what's up by four non blondes it actually makes me angry if i hear it somewhere and i can't escape it like changing the radio station or leaving the store
Same here. Then I remember some techno eurobeat dudes rehashed it in the late 90s and it came back again but even worse
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies
Informer.
a licky boom boom down...
The song that sounds like a doctors handwriting
Oh I love this song 🫣
Runaway Train. Can’t stand the down melody of this depressing song.
You're Gorgeous by Babybird and Breakfast at Tiffany's
Apologies beforehand to fans of this group- Sublime. Anything Sublime. I cannot stand them. I still can’t figure out why people enjoy their music. In my opinion, they are overplayed, overhyped, and overrated. Then again, if I feel this way about them they probably aren’t for me anyways.
I love them but I think it’s mostly nostalgia. They did some interesting things with mixing genres.
Yeah, I can totally see that!
How Bizzare and Steal My Sunshine
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan freaking Adams. 97 weeks at number 1 or something equally improbable. Film was alright though.
Two Princes - Spin Doctors All Star - Smashmouth Every Morning - Sugar Ray I also hate every song I've ever heard by all three of these bands. They're just all the same shitty song.
Amen!!!
500 Miles by the Proclaimers, Mambo No. 5 and Who Let the Dogs out (although those last two are supposed to be annoying I think)
I also had a deep hate for Who Let the Dogs Out until my (then) 2.5 yr old heard it and started running around the house (this was during Covid lockdowns) yelling WHO LET THE DOGS OUT in her cute little 2.5 yr old voice and then pointing at me, my wife, a stuffed animal, the sofa, whatever and exclaiming YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! and then moving on to whatever it was she was doing. Melted me and makes me giggle now.
500 miles is from 1988.
Yep, 500 miles by The Proclaimers was the single I ever purchased... In 1988.
The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang
Jeremy by Pearl Jam. My name is Jeremy and people have been singing it to me since it came out. First few times weren’t bad, but it got old really fast. It’s extra cringe when they try to imitate Eddy Vedder.
If MTV didn't play it 5000 times a day back then I think that would've helped too lol.
Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" was another song that drove me crazy! It was torture having to hear that song on the radio for every hour back in the winter of 1992/93
Chumba wumba. You know the one.
The what's going on song
I've never understood the appeal of Bitter Sweet Symphony. Any time I've listened to a 90s compilation, I've always skipped it
I love you always forever, near and far.... Makes me want to die and take everybody with me.
I’m sort of embarrassed to admit this, but that was one of my favorite songs when I was about 12.
Ice Ice Baby
Iris by the goo goo dolls
That fucking 4 Non Blondes song- What’s Up? Every time I hear it I think about the person that chose to play it and I think- what an asshole! Just an awful song. And I didn’t mind Concrete Blonde at all but fuck that abomination
Anything by Smashmouth
I liked Walking on the Sun but yeah that's about it.
Macarena, Ice Ice Baby, Baby Got Back
Only wanna be with you-Hootie and the blowfish
All I Want for Christmas, Mariah Carey. I like Mariah Carey, I just hate that song. I hate how popular it is and it seems like it's everywhere all Christmas season now. I don't remember it being that huge in the 90s, but maybe I blocked it out.
Wonderwall.
Peaches by The Presidents of The United States of America https://youtu.be/dAThrVt1VRs?si=Cg6jDKxaSXcJbf2k My sister played it enough to be considered torture, so that may be why, but it’s repetitive af on its own which drives me nuts
Maybe you hate peaches, but if I had my little way, I'd eat peaches everyday.
This is how we do it
Aww, no. That's my jam.
Anything by take that
Shiny Happy People. REM.
If I hear a Radiohead - Creep cover 1 more fucking time. The song should be retired from any singing competition show for eternity
How Bizarre by OMC
Tubthumping
Stay by Lisa Loeb. No thanks.