A list of the most BORING SONGS of all time

Wow, I'm way surprised "Careless Whisper" is so widely considered classic. It just sounds unbelievably cheesy to me. I just think of, like, two people massaging each other in a candle-lit hot tub with rose petals all around and a Barbara Walters glow. In some Lifetime movie in 1995

It's not that bad imo but not worthy of indignation. The only Wham! song I really like is "Everything She Wants".

Everything She Wants is great. I think all the Wham singles were mostly great, their album tracks were extremely boring though. "Credit card Baby"?

Careless Whisper is definitely pretty cheesy. Also brilliant.

I love oldies but Bread HAS NO REDEEMING VALUE AT ALL.

Balls. "Guitar Man" = awesomeness.

Beatles own this thread IMO

I like a bit of Blondie now and then, but "One Way Or Another" has to be one of the most mind-meltingly boring tracks of all time.

U2

k lock this thread, the challops are becoming self-aware

Sarah Mclachlan

snow patrol are really awful and dull but i love that song that martha wainwright sang on (set the fire to the third bar ft. martha wainwright, a song so good that they even apparently put her name in the song title so you'd know which, of the dozens of boring snow patrol songs, was the good one)

I like a bit of Blondie now and then, but "One Way Or Another" has to be one of the most mind-meltingly boring tracks of all time.

― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:45 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

wowwwww

Any and all versions of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" or "Light My Fire".

I'm quite interested in boredom and repetition in music so I have a couple of questions about this thread. As this is a list thread, it may be best to post your answers on this thread - Dude, this music is so BORING.

The first is this - Would any of you who have posted boring tracks mind explaining why you think they are boring?

The second is - To what extent are you distinguishing between songs that are boring and songs that you don't like and, if you are, how are you doing so?

Rolling Stones - I'm Free - especially the Soup Dragons version
Stereo MCs - Step it up

I find a lot of stuff from the baggy era unlistenably boring; it might be the repetition, or the tempo that's unbearably slow or plodding while the music is kind of trying to force an upbeat style... I don't know. There's probably stuff I love that could be described in that way.
Also when the tune doesn't go anywhere or there's one sample that's just played over and over again with no variation.
There's a lot of music I don't like but if something's boring as well it makes it 1000 times worse.

Oh yeah, "Have a nice day" by the Stereophonics

The "humorous" songs by Barenaked Ladies are fucking excruciating. The "earnest" songs by Barenaked Ladies are fucking boring.

Toad the Wet Sprocket is hella boring.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters are goddam boring.

James, lately I've been trying to give you a chance to win me back over, but I'm pretty sure you are essentially boring.

Doors-Riders on the Storm. Aural Ambien.

I like him usually but Tom Petty's "Learning to Fly" has always seemed like the dullest, most generic single possible.

― clotpoll, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 01:48 (Yesterday)

NO

over my head - the fray

aw i like this song. i (unfairly) extrapolate from the song that they're a boring band but i like the song

WE KEPT FORGETTING THAT IT WAS ON. We'd listen for a few minutes, then get distracted by something, start talking, and then be all "shit, let's go back, we just missed like three songs," and we'd go back, and the same thing would happen.

I quite often put something on and then realise that I haven't paid any attention at all for 3 tracks. Quite often it's a compilation, and I've missed tracks by bands I wanted to hear, and I'll rewind but be completely unable to take any of it in after 20 seconds again.

But on one occasion I didn't even realise it had been there without me listening. I actually went up to the CD player to put something else on and was surprised it was already playing. "Oh... this aural wallpaper thing is music I deliberately put on, I remember now." Can't even remember what that was, which is how unmemorable it was, or I'd vote for it here.

Tracy Chapman's Fast Car, which just goes on and on and on in a whiny, whiny way

OK JUST STOP IT

Most things by Train

Train is a very, very boring band.

finally something I can agree with!

"Wonderful Tonight" is the most boring song ever, proven by science. A trite chord progression, played at a turgid tempo for what seems like forever, with a riff that barely qualifies, as if Clapton were just checking to see if he was in tune after bending a string. Even he can't be arsed to care about the melody, and the bass line came out of a white box with black lettering reading "BASS LINE (1)."

.. and those are its good points.

oh my God do I hate Wonderful Tonight.

i used to like that song, way -- way -- back, and now i can't stand a single measure of it.

i really can't stand much eric clapton. not sure why. he is a very good guitarist, i'm sure, but . . .

Tracy Chapman's Fast Car, which just goes on and on and on in a whiny, whiny way

― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:09 AM (7 hours ago)

whoa, I didn't know Parts & Labor played on that song. is there an extended mix with a drum solo or something?

funny that a song that is extremely short goes "on and on and on"

I think Thom Yorke's solo bunk is painfully boring.

Anything by Neil Diamond

die

hahaha

I second Neil Diamond. I have 0 tolerance. I'm sorry.

Part of my irrational dislike of Diamond, however, stems from an awful road trip through Canada or the Poconos or something, where my dad + stepmom INSISTED on playing Neil Diamond Gold on repeat in the car, and the only thing I had to combat it was The Bends, but one side of my headphones was broken, so it was the infuriating futility of trying to play Radiohead loud enough in one ear to block out Neil Diamond from the other.

There is nothing boring about Hot August Nights. That is GOLD

An A+ live album if I may say so

I found the real list...

http://stereogum.com/477821/nme-50-best-new-bands-of-2010/top-stories/lead-story/

scroll down.. there is a soundcloud playlist of the 50 most boring songs i've ever heard in my life.

funny that a song that is extremely short goes "on and on and on"

boredom induces relativistic time dilation

I second Neil Diamond. I have 0 tolerance. I'm sorry.

― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, August 20, 2010 3:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Boring does not = bad, people! FFS. If you hate neil diamond, whatever, but his songs are like the opposite of boring. They're fun pop songs.

KInda suspect that the most boring songs would be totally forgotten by everyone, making their appearance here pretty unlikely, and making the thread kinda self-defeating.

Sorry if someone's already made this point - I'm too drunk to read the entire thread.

PS - Just realized that the George Harrison song I just finished listening to w/out its making a single impression on me - thus making it a viable contender - is called "Run of the Mill", which is pretty amusingly appropriate.

i love brian eno as much as anyone, but i put on the first disc of that instrumentals box today at work and jeez i was bored to tears. had to take it off. i mean it was probably my mood but it just sounded so zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz to me at the time.

That song that is in every commercial for a romantic comedy made now with the lyric that goes "FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN"

This is "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield, which is kind of fun, even if it's not very good.

I vote for "Have A Nice Day" by the Stereophonics. It just doesn't DO anything.

I've never liked any version of "Lean On Me" tbh, it has a nasty false positive vibe in my head. That Snow Patrol song about lying down in the middle of the road and wanting a cuddle off a gurly-wurly is probably pretty boring too but it brings me out in so much spitting radge that it's hard to tell.

Stereophonics songs may not do anything but dude's voice is like sandpaper on the eardrums, thus ruling them out of "boring"

Think that David Gray album was probably playing during 50% of restaurant meals between 1999 and 2003 but I can't remember anything off it except the title line of "Babylon". Like, Coldplay are pretty boring but I can manage to hate them for it; David Gray was just there, and maybe you'd notice, maybe not.

Look at me with my up-to-date musical references. At least that turn of the century coffee-tablism seems to have died out a bit. Though there's a bunch of stuff these days which is just edged out of boring by fucking awful autotuned vocals, so maybe the kids who grew up with autotune can find that stuff dull, but it sets me on edge too much.

Don't buy the "truly boring songs are forgettable" idea tbh. Truly boring songs are memorable for boring you to tears every time you hear them imo

there are no boring songs only boring people

― max, Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:44 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink