A Conversation for Ask h2g2

Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 1

Mu Beta

I have an obscene number of these, but the best known:

Down Under - Men At Work
Mr Blue Sky - ELO
December '63 (Oh What A Night) - Frankie Valli
Stop - Spice Girls
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
We Built This City - Starship
C'est La Vie - B*Witched
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Picture Of You - Boyzone

smiley - erm I think I'll stop now. Anyone else want to share?

B


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 2

U1250369

YMCA

Agga doo doo doo shake my ........


Stop the Cavalry

smiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wahsmiley - wah


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 3

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

99 luftballons is the Nena song.


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 4

Gnomon - time to move on

Come, come, Master B! Why should you 'know you should hate' anything? That's the attitude that got you where you are today, disliking the Sound of Music!

Either you like something or you don't. There's no reason you should analyse it and decide whether you should hate it or not.


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 5

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

Sound of Musicsmiley - yuk


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 6

designmonkey AKA George The Gay Hippo

Toxic - Britney
and
that my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard thing, don't know what her name is though (is it Kelis or something?)
I'm into allsorts of music except I hate pop pap but these 2 are great.
DM
I also love 99 red balloons.


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 7

Casserole_lady

Sound of the Underground by Girls Aloud


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 8

intelligent moose (the one true H2G2 Moose)

Down Under by Men at Work is entirely justified! It's a good song!


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 9

Mu Beta

Thank you. smiley - ok

Gnomon - Being reasonable is not going to make me like the Sound of Music. Never.

Ralph - Nena did two versions of 99RB: one in English, one in German. So we're both right. smiley - winkeye

B


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 10

A Super Furry Animal

>> 99 Red Balloons - Nena <<

What's wrong with that? Or Men At Work, for that matter?

Busted - Year 3000

RFsmiley - evilgrin


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 11

liekki

Thinking of You - Hanson

*blushing as I type this*

Actually, a lot of Hanson stuff. Just for nostalgy reasons, I swear.smiley - flustered

smiley - run


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 12

DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me!

Yeah, Britney Spear's 'Toxic'.

smiley - erm I think 99 Red Balloons - Nena, is one of the greatest songs ever written, especially the German language version...


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 13

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

The German version doesn't have anything to do with the colour red.


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 14

The Groob

The cousin of this thread, songs you shouldn't admit you like: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=293449 I'd have to agree that "C'est La Vie" is a nice, vibrant, nicely structured song.


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 15

Beatrice

Songs I have no qualms at all about admitting that I like, cos I have no street cred whatsoever.....

Britney's Toxic (although the cover by Juliet Turner (?) is acesmiley - ok)
Brian McFadden - Real to Me
Spice Girls - Move it shake it prove it...whatever
Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground. And also Love Machine
Baz Luhrman - Sunscreen
*Nsynch - Pop
J-Lo - Play
Dolly Parton - Jolene (and no the White Stripes version is NOT better smiley - steam)
Rednex - Cotton Eyed Joe
David Cassidy - How can I be sure


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 16

Mu Beta

It was worth starting this thread just to watch lots of people write "Britney's Toxic" smiley - biggrin

B


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 17

Ged42

Various 80's power ballads.

eg. keeping on loving you by Reo Speedwagon and Broken wings by Mr mister


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 18

DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me!

<>

Yes!


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 19

Sheep in wolfs clothing

I keep finding myself tapping my toes to M bop by Hanson as it appears on an advert (chewing gum I think). Love it!


Songs That You Know You Should Hate But Can't Help Liking

Post 20

HarpoNotMarx (((2*1)^6)-6-(2*8)=42

smiley - musicalnote
Once upon a time there was a little white bull (little white bull)....

Tommy Steele [?] from somewhere deep in my childhood

Supertramp - Breakfast in America


Key: Complain about this post

Write an Entry

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."

Write an entry
Read more