Hatesong

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  HateSong !!!’s Nic Offer hates “The House Of The Rising Sun”

  “It just becomes part of the whitewashed sound that’s just not interesting anymore.”

  May 6, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  HateSong Har Mar Superstar’s Sean Tillmann has no sympathy for Eric Clapton’s “Tears In Heaven”

  “People who want to cry to that are the most base individuals. If that tugs at your heartstrings, then you’re fucking 1 foot deep.”

  May 2, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  HateSong Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch on why he abhors “With A Little Help From My Friends”

  “I’m surprised John bothered.”

  April 25, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  HateSong Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman on why he hates “Mambo No. 5”

  “I feel like 90 percent of people hating music is because of surface reasons.”

  April 23, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  HateSong Awkward.’s Molly Tarlov on love-hating Christina Perri’s “Jar Of Hearts”

  “I’m addicted to it, but I hate it at the same time.”

  April 16, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  HateSong Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba on why he hates Spin Doctors’ “Two Princes”

  “The way this song starts is just like a fart in a moonsuit.”

  April 4, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  HateSong Robyn Hitchcock hates “Arthur’s Theme” like he hates clean underwear

  “It’s as if you found that you had just become incontinent and soiled your clothing, but you’ve just been given an enormous amount of painkillers so it doesn’t matter.”

  March 5, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  HateSong The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon can’t get down with Weezer’s “Hash Pipe”

  “There was a certain sense of apathy going on in that song, and that pisses me off. Any kind of apathy in a songwriter pisses me off.” 

  February 26, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  HateSong Eugene Mirman on why The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” is just the worst

  “It’s like a 9-year-old’s dream of what fun or promiscuity is.”

  February 19, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  HateSong Pissed Jeans’ Matt Korvette on why he hates Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”

  More specifically, he hates the acoustic version, and yes, that exists.

  February 12, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  HateSong Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison on the inhuman cheer of Mika’s “Love Today”

  “It seems to wash over the potential for disaster every day.”

  February 5, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  HateSong High On Fire’s Matt Pike on why he really, really hates Aerosmith’s “Dude (Looks Like A Lady)”

  “They’re a polished turd. You dress them up in clothes, but they’re still a piece of shit.”

  January 18, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  HateSong T.J. Miller doesn’t get The Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow”

  This “terrifyingly vague” song is so 2000 and late.

  January 11, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  HateSong Mastodon’s Brent Hinds on why he hates Santana’s “Smooth”

  “It’s just like someone taking a carrot peeler and gouging it into your ears and skinning your ears.”

  January 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  HateSong Mike Rosenberg of Passenger can’t stand Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”

  “It’s just everything I dislike about music wrapped up into four minutes of cheese.”

  December 24, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  HateSong Jonathan Coulton takes on the crass commercialism of “Jingle Bell Rock”

  “I, for one, think it’s time to shake off the shackles of our cultural masters and begin to create our own nostalgia.”

  November 30, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  HateSong Kyle Kinane pa-rum-pum-pum-pum’s his way through hating “Little Drummer Boy”

  “That’s never been a good idea in the history of the world, playing a drum at a newborn baby.”

  November 23, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  HateSong Steve Albini integrates the history of music fads into his hate for Cher’s “Believe”

  “The world is crawling with a million terrible songs. But when it’s a terrible song that gives all your friends brain cancer and makes shit foam up out of their mouths, that’s when it’s a problem.”

  November 16, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  HateSong Future Of The Left’s Andrew Falkous hates on Mr. Big’s monster ballad “To Be With You”

  “I was willing to forgo a potential sexual liaison and drinks with my teenage friends in order to never hear this banal collection of fuck-fluff again.”

  November 9, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  HateSong P.O.S. on why he hates Kid Rock’s “Bawitdaba”

  Why mashing rap and rock can be the worst idea.

  October 23, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  HateSong British folksinger Frank Turner on why he hates John Lennon’s “Imagine”

  “It’s so utterly vacuous. It’s a Hallmark card set to music. There’s a pretty high dose of hypocrisy in here as well.”

  October 4, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  HateSong Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner on why she hates Papa Roach’s “Scars” 

  “I can’t talk that much shit about this song without feeling guilty. And now I’m going to feel guilty for the rest of the day.”

  September 14, 2012 | 9:00am -

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  HateSong Jon Wurster on why he hates Kiss’ “Room Service” 

  New feature: The A.V. Club asks our favorite creators to talk about the one song they hate most.

  August 9, 2012 | 10:00am -