A list of the most BORING SONGS of all time

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

(also: On Bended Knee by Boyz II Men)

I've never liked any version of "Lean On Me" tbh

this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(also: On Bended Knee by Boyz II Men)

― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:04 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

fuck you, suck a dick, DIE, bitch (cheap sound effect of tek blast)

oh come on that song is a pile...

I didn't even mention "I'll Make Love to You" bcz it does have a memorable chorus despite its (almost transcendent) plodding sappiness. But On Bended Knee, the follow-up? Feh!

Brand New Heavies - Dream On Dreamer

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

aka the theme song from the Hills. Terrible but not boring.

That minimalist piano instrumental on Talk Talk's Missing Pieces.

The 4 songs on "Tales From Topographic Oceans" are tied for this honor.

I want to add "You Gotta Be" by Des'Ree.

"45" by cornershop

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Gordon Lightfoot

^^^^^^otm

I saw NRBQ close a show with this song back in 1982. Terry Adams was reading the lyrics from a piece of paper and kept pretending he was falling asleep as the band slogged through it. They left the stage to thunderous applause, came back for an encore and started right back up again with the same song. This time boos.

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