A list of the most BORING SONGS of all time

bah, 90% of these songs are too awful and grating and hateable to qualify as boring. the other 10% are genuinely good & some of you people are insane. this may as well be a worst songs of all time thread with some contrarian bullshit thrown in for good measure.

(uh yeah, what Sean said)

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the best I can come up with is The Kinks' "No Return", which I just looked up on Wikipedia and listened to on Youtube to confirm that it actually exists. nothing offensive — it's just a blank spot on one of my favorite albums, and it vanishes from my brain without fail about 30 seconds after it ends, even though I've heard it many dozen times.

see, my first nominee ("picture") is a song I consider both infuriating and boring. like when something is boring, I can't wait for it to be over so that my interest can be piqued again. and that's how I feel when I hear the song.

do we need to set groundrules in this thread? I don't think we should conflate "boring" with "unmemorable" as they aren't necessarily the same thing (although they certainly can me).

a song can definitely be boring and memorable at the same time. "Picture" is so bland and sappy and MOR that (I assume) it sticks in your head as a particular bad relic of the early '00s. it's definitely boring, but it's dullness is mitigated somewhat by the fact that it distinguishes itself as a terrible song.

to be the most BORING SONG of all time, rather just a run-of-the mill boring song (of which there are thousands), requires a particularly high level of unmemorableness, to the point where it barely even registers as offensive. That Kinks song is the best I can do right now, but it just got a little less boring now that it's been nominated for something.

Whitney Houston and Enrique Iglesias - Could I Have This Night Forever

so boring you couldn't even remember the title properly.

tbh i like quite a few of these songs! :'(

Every syllable that ever left the mouth of James Taylor. He always sounds completely disinterested, like he's singing the song with roughly the same amount of passion reserved for eating a sandwich or trimming his toenails. To a slightly lesser extent, the sae is true of Jackson Browne.

whatever silversun pickups songz they play on alt radio

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

If a song is memorable then isn't it in a way innately not boring?

anything with Alicia Keys, but she bores me so much that i actually get irritated, so idk if she counts

I find Ruby by the Kaiser Chiefs to be an incredibly dull song, especially when it gets to the guitar solo which has no imagination and just copies the boring vocal melody of the verse.

I heard Chasing Cars recently but I'm not sure that's any more boring than the songs already mentioned by them on this thread.

so boring you couldn't even remember the title properly.

Interchangeable, really.

bah, 90% of these songs are too awful and grating and hateable to qualify as boring. the other 10% are genuinely good & some of you people are insane. this may as well be a worst songs of all time thread with some contrarian bullshit thrown in for good measure.

Hey Jude

ILX just exploded

everyone around here is bored by hey jude. except me.

"Careless Whisper" is beautiful.

I meant to say that instead of bumping would have to include "Careless Whisper" and "Sex and Candy

I don't care about "sex and candy"

time can never NAH NA NAH NA NA NAH NAH the careless whisper HEY AY JUDE. I never wanna dance again JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY AAAAAAAAAAAA of a good friend. and canday xpost.

baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby

BREAD ....Everything I Own....and all covers of it. In fact, NO Bread is really worth anything. I love oldies but Bread HAS NO REDEEMING VALUE AT ALL.

FUCK BREAD

The Cars "Fine Line"
Gary Numan "This Is Love"

I love Gary Numan, but you're right...he does have some dreadfully dull songs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_(band)#Discography

wtf careless whisper is a CLASSIC

the saxophone bit alone=happiness

I used to love 'This Is Love' but I'm guessing it probably is quite dull.

I find a lot of emo and metalcore of the last ten years boring just because it's so interchangeable. Bands such as Athlete, Snow Patrol and Coldplay are bordering more on offensive but are still pretty fucking boring.

I wonder if anyone finds minimal house/techno/electronica or ambient music boring...

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you bread haters are crazy!

I love bread

usually white, but sometimes wheat tickles my fancy more

however Bread can eat a bag of dicks after they've been dipped in cocoa butter

My gf and I - both completely out of the "indie" loop - recently decided we'd listen to the new National album to see what all the fuss was about. I downloaded it and put it on my iPod and we tried listening to it in the car - AND 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.

That's far worse a fate than hearing "Lady In Red" and demanding it be turned off immediately (which I have done). Who was it that said the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference?

"No Return" is madness, that song rules. "If...If I could see / just...how lonely MY LIFE would be / if yooooou...passed me by..."

Indeed. Lady In Red is Abu Ghraib torture. The National is... what exactly? I've heard three albums by them and seen them live three times and I couldn't tell you a single thing about them...

i had a high school friend who was really into Chris DeBurgh -- never could figure out WHY.

My gf and I - both completely out of the "indie" loop - recently decided we'd listen to the new National album to see what all the fuss was about. I downloaded it and put it on my iPod and we tried listening to it in the car - AND 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.

this happens to me with a lot of albums, not just indie ones. and yeah, it's partially true with this new nat'l album, but i have to exclude bloodbuzz ohio from that assessment. that song's a compelling, memorable monster.

most boring songs fron bands who arent boring:

Love - Revelation

LCD Soundsystem - Somebody's Calling Me

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congrats assholes/airport, you're the 47 thousandth guy to talk about how the national is boring!

not sure what the point of the music in the car thing was, I lose focus on music in the car all the time, has to do with the fact that I dunno, YOU'RE DRIVING and stuff.

In some ways I think the car is the ideal place to experience an album for the first time. Home is where I'm distracted.

When we listened o the new Swans album on the same trip, we both just shit right the fuck up and let it play. Then we wanted to hear it again.

I mean yea I get distracted at home too but I can't listen to really involved things like progressive rock in the car cuz I miss too much due to concentrating on the road.

"Solo Dolo" from the Kid Cudi album, mostly because it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SLOW.

it's pretty inoffensive but puts me to sleep

there are no boring songs only boring people

Anything from Roddy 'Idlewild' Woomble's solo album. Utterly dreary earnest folk rock, about as charismatic as a piece of toast. Was subjected to this in Artisan Roast, Glasgow. Nice coffee, but sort your music out!

Faithless - We Come One
The Lighthouse Family - Lifted

OTM x10000

keep reading this as MOST BONING SONGS

Tom Jones - Sex Bomb
George Michael - Jesus to a Child

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.

The only post you need in this thread is all in this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Essential_Kenny_G