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Are there songs that you hate for two reasons?

1 Because they are terrible insipid songs with no redeeming value to begin with, and 

2. Because they get stuck in your head

The familia and I went to Fiesta Texas and while we were in Pete's Eats, they played "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies.

I have heard this song a couple dozen times in my life and I absolutely despise it.  In part, because it attaches to my brain like a bacterial infection and repeats itself over and over again.

I don't want a candy girl.  I just want. to. be. left. alone.

Why isn't there an app for that?  Or OTC medication?  Or something?

The songs from commercials always get stuck in my head.   Like the Farmers-Only jingle, or the "Ford is the BEST in Texas" song. 



As far as full fledged songs, I'm glad the Gangham Style song went out of mainstream play because that one got super annoying.  Made that S.Korean guy rich, though, so I guess it was a bit of a phenomenon but I always had to change the station when it popped on because I'd have that beat going on in my head unwillingly for far too long for my liking. 

I'll preface this by saying that I like Hall and Oates.  I think "She's Gone" and "Sara Smile" stand up well as R&B ballads.

But along about 1981 they had this song called "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" that must've been maliciously and repetitiously calculated to worm its way into a person's frontal lobe and stay for days or weeks on end.

Kenny Loggins.

You know, Jim Messina kept him tethered to real, if not entirely profitable music.  And then he just went nuts.

Seriously isn't Highway to the Danger Zone just the fourth verse to I'm All Right, with Footloose being the second and Lindsay Buckingham chiming in with Holiday Road as the third?

I'll preface this by saying that I like Hall and Oates.  I think "She's Gone" and "Sara Smile" stand up well as R&B ballads.

But along about 1981 they had this song called "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" that must've been maliciously and repetitiously calculated to worm its way into a person's frontal lobe and stay for days or weeks on end.

Brian McKnight covered "I Can't Go For That" on one of his early albums, and it kinda has the same effect.  There's better songs on the album, but that on track was always what kept popping up in my head.  

I consider Hall and Oates to  be pretty close to yacht rock, and I think one defining characteristic of yacht rock, is that ALL of those songs were maliciously and repetitiously calculated to worm their way into a person's frontal lobe.

Please note, I'm not saying I don't like yacht rock, I actually love most of it.  But, it's definitely evil sometimes.

Think... "I'm alright... nobody worry 'bout me... why you got to put up a fight?... why can't you just let me be?..."

Yeah.  You're welcome.

Ever see those old Yacht Rock videos on YouTube?  Not sure if it's a small niche that just happened to land on my particular sense of humor, musical taste, and trivial knowledge, but I thought they were hilarious back when they came out.  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U       First one.  

Yacht Rock???

I'm not familiar with the term or it's definition

and I'm happy to stay that way

sounds absolutely dreadful

now wondering if it's an optional station on Pandora?

It has its own Sirius/XM station, so I'm certain you can call it up on Pandora.
And you, being the late 70s music listening mofo I know you to be, have no doubt experienced-- and ENJOYED-- yacht rock.