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Weekend Rock List: Songs That Make You Want To Commit Violent Acts

8/17/07, 2:46 pm EST

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You know the progression: A song starts off as somewhat tolerable, then becomes annoying, then – with time and heavy rotation – becomes something that makes you actually want to hurt yourself or somebody else every time you hear it. Here are five tracks that do that to us. Which songs bring out the beast in you?


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Natalie Z | 8/17/2007, 3:06 pm EST

Lisa Loeb, “I do”

Daniel | 8/17/2007, 3:07 pm EST

Green Day – American Idiot or Blvd. of Broken Dreams

Anonymous | 8/17/2007, 3:10 pm EST

Velvet Revolver – Slither

David | 8/17/2007, 3:10 pm EST

any Mika song.

your mom | 8/17/2007, 3:12 pm EST

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” – Deep Blue Something

“Barbie Girl” – Aqua

currently “Love Today” (or whatever its called) by Mika

And in honor of two great films, “Stuck in the Middle With You” by Stealers’ Wheel (ok, one overrated film) and “I Think I Love You” by the Partridge Family (see Copycat)

Anonymous | 8/17/2007, 3:15 pm EST

Supersonic – Closing Time

Eric | 8/17/2007, 3:23 pm EST

this is why i’m hot
party like a rockstar

ROB | 8/17/2007, 3:31 pm EST

Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor” is for sure the most annoying song ever to be recorded in civilization’s history. Nobody can contest that!

jay | 8/17/2007, 3:38 pm EST

Journey. Anything by Journey.

Johnny Kickass | 8/17/2007, 3:41 pm EST

Uh…didnt RS do this ‘most annoying songs list’ poll, like, a month ago?

It’s officially ‘You’re Beautiful’ by James Blunt, so we can just call this off.

The ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ song would challenge my sanity when it was at its peak – horrible, horrible song.

LateNightRadio | 8/17/2007, 3:45 pm EST

Bad Day by Daniel Powder

I’ll give you an Effing bad day… arg

Rockstar70 | 8/17/2007, 3:50 pm EST

What it’s like-everlast

Sanchez | 8/17/2007, 3:58 pm EST

Miss World – Hole

Tim | 8/17/2007, 4:20 pm EST

“Shine” – Collective Soul
“Semi-Charmed Life” – Third Eye Blind

High as Balls | 8/17/2007, 4:22 pm EST

ANYTHING from Creed, Journey, Avril Levigne or Britany Spears.

adrianne | 8/17/2007, 4:23 pm EST

anything by Nickelback. seriously, how did they escape your list?

jill hives | 8/17/2007, 4:33 pm EST

totally recycled topic, but i’m bored at work, probably like the folks at RS, so i will say that “we built this city” by starship is pretty hard to top -
annoying, shockingly lame, dimwitted (it references rock ‘n roll in its chorus, yet there is nothing remotely rocking about the song itself), cynical money grab it basically embodies everything that is potentially evil about mainstream pop.

DAVID | 8/17/2007, 4:37 pm EST

PLease, hey, RS I was all pissed at you and all weith a ton of crappy lists recently and Zac Eron on your cover, but good job,.Really. Fantastic List, and It feels awesome to know that im not the only onw who now hates Unwriten,All Star and My Humps.heres my top 7.

7 Girlfriend (Avril)

6 Bad Day

5.This Is Why Im Hot

4.Party Like A Rockstar

3. Unwriten

2.My Humps

1.All Star

DAVID | 8/17/2007, 4:42 pm EST

oh, and nickleback. how can I forget. but NOT Savin Me OR Photograph. Those are decent songs. if you have Nickleback on your list it should be the Song Far Away. I mean, how cazn you not include Far Away

CN | 8/17/2007, 4:46 pm EST

There are way too many songs to list here. …yes.. agree with anything by Journey.
I would add Afternoon Delight by The Starland Vocal Band, but this is because I am from a different era here :)

leo3375 | 8/17/2007, 4:57 pm EST

“Bad Day,” Daniel Powter
“My Humps,” Black Eyed Peas
“This Is Why I’m Hot,” MIMS
“Dance Dance,” Fall Out Boy
Anything by Nickelback
Anything by Creed

DAVID | 8/17/2007, 5:02 pm EST

Anything by JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE!! And Plewase dont have Fall out boy. their ok. some of their songs eventully get annoyong, burt there are a crapload of more ‘deserving’ songs

nick29 | 8/17/2007, 5:16 pm EST

how could nobody say mmmmmbop,,that’s the soundtrack to hell right there

Lupe | 8/17/2007, 5:51 pm EST

Anything by Yes. Jesus they make me want to kill. And Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann. I feel blood vessels in my head swelling just thinking about these two.

night | 8/17/2007, 5:58 pm EST

Definitely “Umberella” and definitely anything by Nickelback. Also boulevard of broken dreams

sy | 8/17/2007, 6:00 pm EST

i cant believe no one has posted this…
“hey ya” by outkast

Joe | 8/17/2007, 6:00 pm EST

We already know everyone will use this forum to cite “bad song” even though RS is feebly changing the subject matter of the question. So the number one song that makes me want to hurt someone is “Suicide Solution” by Ozzy Osbourne. Just kidding. Most annoying song that makes me want to kill right now has to be “Umbrella” by Rihanna.

Joe | 8/17/2007, 6:06 pm EST

Oh and “A Bay Bay” by Hurricane Chris. There’s about 800 “rap” songs out now that sound alike and this is one of them, but the chorus could be shrunken down into bug form and placed in the ear of Chekhov and that black dude in the Wrath of Khan and be made to make them kill.

CJ | 8/17/2007, 6:46 pm EST

just about anything played on ryan seacrest’s radio station

Spencer | 8/17/2007, 7:53 pm EST

65 eiffel- blue
celine dion’s cover of ac/dc’s “you shook me all night long”

anything else by celine dion, the partridge family, creed, journey or boston.

Bukowski | 8/17/2007, 11:00 pm EST

“Monkey Wrench” by the amazing Foo Fighters. Yeah, that’s right!

Bukowski | 8/17/2007, 11:02 pm EST

Whoops, I sort of misunderstood the concept of this list. I thought we were picking GREAT SONGS that make you want to Violent Things. Sorry, Dave.

Mosta | 8/17/2007, 11:20 pm EST

Stone Temple Pilot’s – “Plush”. I beat up a boom box for playing that one too many times.

Keith | 8/17/2007, 11:42 pm EST

Its kind of funny picturing yourself going on a homicidal rampage to anything by the aforementioned artists, but even funnier picturing them as victims of a homicidal rampage.

Celine: *singing* My heart will go ooooo… what the h*ll are you doing on my stage? HELP! STOP! *screams*

G A M E O V E R

blaa | 8/17/2007, 11:43 pm EST

umbrella – rihanna
this is why im ho -mims
girlfriend – avril lavine
ANYTHING BY PUSSYCAT DOLLS!!!
especially Beep

cindy | 8/17/2007, 11:50 pm EST

chris brown – run it

dracula68 | 8/17/2007, 11:58 pm EST

“Believe” by Cher

“Roxanne” by The Police

every single Hinder song

every single Nickelback song. Plus Chad Kroeger’s damned poodle hair is annoying too. Was he going for a “10 year old girl circa 1983″ look?

“A Day In The Life” by The Beatles. Not annoying so much as too scary at the end.

tttttttttttttt | 8/18/2007, 12:18 am EST

Operator Please- “A song about Ping Pong”

happyboy | 8/18/2007, 1:17 am EST

how about all of sheryl crow’s crappy songs after the first one

alyssap | 8/18/2007, 1:44 am EST

chumbawamba- tub tumping

JD | 8/18/2007, 1:46 am EST

Chasing Cars- Snow Patrol
White Flag- Dido
Here Without You- Three Doors Down
Lonely No More- Rob Thomas
One Thing- Finger Eleven
The Reason- Hobonstank
Bad Day- Daniel Powter
I Don’t Wanna Be- Gavin Degraw
Collide- Howie Day
Drift Away- Uncle Kracker

bukowski | 8/18/2007, 2:29 am EST

If you want to see me take a plunge from a 7th storey window to my death, play: I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) By Meat Loaf. . .I’m sure more than one suicide can be attributed to this one.

Devo Sucks Moose Balls | 8/18/2007, 2:52 am EST

“Whip It” by Devo. De-evolution? Suck me, Devo. The correct term is: The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. You suck, “Whip It” sucks, and those fuckin’ Lego/Dildo hats suck too!

S | 8/18/2007, 3:53 am EST

monkey wrench? plush? A DAY IN THE LIFE? are you kids high?

and no ones mention shake that laffy taffy? or the real slim shady?

max_webber | 8/18/2007, 5:22 am EST

My Humps, You’re Beautiful, mr. roboto, copacabana, wannabe, Barbie Girl, Achy Breaky Heart, Who let the dogs out, blue da ba di, rico suave were intolerable from the start… these took some time to suck

10. Phil Collins – Against All Odds
9. Hall and Oates – Maneater
8. Charlene – Never Been to Me
7. Whitney Houston – Greatest Love of All
6. The Beatles – Ob-la-di Ob-la-Da
5. U2 – Discotheque
4. R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People
3. Chuck Berry – My Ding a Ling
2. Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life
1. Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy

Ugly Bastard | 8/18/2007, 7:35 am EST

“Don´t worry be happy” makes me want to puncture my eardrums with a saladfork.

not from mars | 8/18/2007, 10:46 am EST

dracula68,
You wouldn’t know “scary” if it snuck up and kicked you in the lateralus.

ash | 8/18/2007, 10:47 am EST

james blunt – beautiful

not from mars | 8/18/2007, 11:05 am EST

Cake is better than meatloaf.

Luis | 8/18/2007, 1:37 pm EST

The most creepy thing to from Spain besides Franco “Macarena”

Luis | 8/18/2007, 1:37 pm EST

The most creepy thing to from Spain besides Franco….. “Macarena” from los del Rio

mars attacks | 8/18/2007, 7:44 pm EST

Death is more satisfying than Cake or Meat Loaf

mars attacks | 8/18/2007, 7:45 pm EST

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall really gets on my last fuckin’ nerve!!!

Geobqn | 8/18/2007, 11:27 pm EST

“Mr. Lonely” by Akon made me want to have violent seizures.

Seth | 8/19/2007, 12:54 am EST

Basically everything vomited up in the past 10 years. All this recycled teen-angsty b.s. for kids to theme their MySpace profiles around. Anything calling itself emo or post hardcore that is not emo or post hardcore.

Dr John Bender | 8/19/2007, 2:33 am EST

One Week by BNL.

Most

Annoying

So ng

Ever.

Apollo 13 | 8/19/2007, 5:39 am EST

Macarena, That song by The Crash Test Dummies, Anything for Love by Meat Loaf, Sex and Candy, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

DT | 8/19/2007, 7:32 am EST

britney spears`songs are sooooooo anoying and stupid

peramitic | 8/19/2007, 11:03 am EST

any Justin Timberlake, Robbie Williams & Mika songs. Spin Doctors – Two princess, Cranberries – Zombie

max_webber | 8/19/2007, 2:44 pm EST

how about “don’t worry, be happy” by bobby mcferrin. when i hear that song it makes me wanna destroy everything not because im violently happy but violently annoyed.

J | 8/19/2007, 4:48 pm EST

Hey There Delilah

cd | 8/19/2007, 6:46 pm EST

“hey ya” by outkast, i woke up to that every morning on mtv so i just quit watching mtv…

james blunt “beautiful”

nelly “hot in here”

Led Zeppelin IV | 8/19/2007, 7:06 pm EST

Anything for Love by Meat Loaf and September by Green DAy

bukowski | 8/19/2007, 7:09 pm EST

You’re right. Party Like A Rockstar definitely makes me homicidal.

Lenny Bruce | 8/19/2007, 7:11 pm EST

September by Green DAy

Atilla Gorrila | 8/19/2007, 7:30 pm EST

“Anything For Love” by Meat Loaf

z-o-s-o | 8/19/2007, 7:34 pm EST

Barbie Girl, Don’t Worry Be Happy, Blinded By The Light, Paradise By The Dashboard Light, and that god-awful song by the Crash Test Dummies, makes me want to throw the stereo out of a 12th storey window.

^k^ | 8/19/2007, 9:09 pm EST

“The Reason,” Hoobastank. Oof.

TJ | 8/19/2007, 11:57 pm EST

-Mims – This is Why I’m Hot
-Anything by Fergie solo
-Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape
-Amy Fucking Winehouse – Rehab

Swan Song | 8/20/2007, 1:58 am EST

“Anything For Love” by Meatloaf

out-the-window | 8/20/2007, 4:08 am EST

All KISS, Rush, Genesis and Crash Test Dummies cd’s, which serve no other purpose other than to be used as hockey pucks, frisbees, or coasters.

English 111 | 8/20/2007, 12:15 pm EST

Anything For Love by Olive Loaf

Uptown Niggaz | 8/20/2007, 12:17 pm EST

Wake me up before you go go by Wham September by Green Day

Anonymous | 8/21/2007, 1:20 pm EST

I’m with that English111 fellow on this.I hear that song and want to hunt and kill 1.)The fuck-face that played it. 2.)The fucker that put it in the jukebox. 3.)The entire fucking band,their family,friends,and children.Oh,and the same applies to that “let me sleep on it” trite too.

/b/ rulez | 10/12/2009, 2:12 pm EST

Almost all ICP songs get on my nerves.
I mean I may just be old fashioned with metal and hard rock but any song, even and good song that depicts hurting a female, treating them badly, or anyhting that downright demeans them I feel is wrong.

But that is just me.
I’m not pointing any fingers(ICP and most rap) but it seems to happen a lot…

Oh and I am not saying that no one should listen to it either because if you do that’s fine with me bnut just don’t treat people that way you know?

Just thought I would give my opinion…

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