Your Most loathed music.

So I have been put in charge of music for some stupid party I never wanted to attend. I plan on doing such a horrible job that nobody will ever ask me to do such a stupid assignment ever again. So guys, what music can you absolutely not stand to hear? A couple of rules. It cannot contain vulgar language. It Hass to be safe for the work environment. And it also needed to be popular at some point in its life. Another words it needs to be relevant to a bunch of dumb office employees. Anything from the 90s works great.

so far: achy breaky heart, who let the dogs out, two princes from spin doctors, Barbie girl, I just wanna fly from sugar ray, mr. jones by counting crows. 

Body is a wonderland by the supreme douche himself- John Mayer.  Mambo #5. One hand in my pocket by Alanis Morissette. 

Anything that is ever played on any singing / dancing show on TV.  Ever.

90s pop top 40 on pandora. Done.

I hate myself for posting in this thread.....

Blue - Eiffel 65

I had to look them up. Terrible song 

Any modern country.

The Macarena. Mmmbop. I Feel Like a Woman on repeat for 48 minutes.

Adrian, I see you removed your inflammatory statement. Thank you.

Pretty much anything by Mariah Carey, especially All I want for Christmas

barefootskater said:

I Feel Like a Woman on repeat for 48 minutes.

He wants to annoy people, not trigger The Purge.

The problem is, its safe to say that a lot of people have poor taste in music (otherwise, explain modern country). So by playing bad music, you are actually catering to their tastes and therefore, will be considered successful. You need to play actual good music, which A) you will enjoy and B) will be viewed as "bad music" by the general populace and thus get you removed from your position as music provider.

But, terrible songs? How about that stupid berkeleying Pina Colada song?

That bro-country E36 M3. 

So you're upset that you got assigned a task you don't like, and because of that you're going to try and make the party tunes crappy for everyone?  Classy.

Also, music is so subjective, why all the vitriol?  Sure I don't like many of the songs you've noted, and I sincerely dislike the repetitive lazy beat of a lot of reggae stuff, but so what? that's my ditch to dig. 

At this point, if you go through with your plan, I kinda hope there's the half dozen folks there that love every one of those songs and decide to sing along, and ask you to repeat some.

Maybe you're playing it up some for conversation sake, but you're not coming off in your best light here.

NickD said:

The problem is, its safe to say that a lot of people have poor taste in music (otherwise, explain modern country). So by playing bad music, you are actually catering to their tastes and therefore, will be considered successful. You need to play actual good music, which A) you will enjoy and B) will be viewed as "bad music" by the general populace and thus get you removed from your position as music provider.

This. At least you can say you tried to provide what you thought were good tunes. Maybe you'll turn some people on to music they don't know and now like.

I tried to do the same thing. No one was upset about the music choices. I actually had fun doing it and ended up buying a couple of PA speakers for future use.

Party music can honestly be just about anything. Someone in the crowd will love it. 

In reply to NickD :

Anything that grates the ears. I suppose it doesn't have to be modern pop. But definitely can't make it seem like I'm intentionally doing this. For instance, that dumbass shark song and that fox song can't be played. They would know I'm deliberately sabotaging. I just want to be able to say "I put on music I thought my coworkers enjoyed" and the boss replies "ok, go enjoy the party while I fix this"

I would suggest any of the "now: that's what I call horseE36 M3 ##" albums, but fully believe that plan will back fire if you're playing to a bunch of office drones. Face it, odds are they are the reason top 40 has always sucked, somebody has been buying all the Taylor swift, marky mark, nickleback garbage through the years after all.

Just play E36 M3 you like and make them deal with it. Then you'll most likely never be tasked with it again. 

Tubthumping -Chawhumabwumba

How bizarre - I can't remember the artist

Owl City

Nickelback

Sublime

311

Oasis

Ludacris (sans southern hospitality)

Carley Rae Jepsin

Post 1994 Metallica

U2

Venga Boys

Moby

LMFAO

LFO

Vertical Horizon

Verve pipe

Tripping Daisy (I love them, but am in the minority)

10,000 maniacs "MTV unplugged album

Natalie Merchant' Tigerlily album

Natalie Imbrigulia

If it's a work event. Pink Floyd, Phish, Moe, String Cheese Incident, Bob Weir band. Just make sure your pee is clean. 

I think you're probably covered now. 

In reply to bluej :

Go ahead and see yourself to the door. 

barefootskater said:

The Macarena. Mmmbop. I Feel Like a Woman on repeat for 48 minutes.

Adrian, I see you removed your inflammatory statement. Thank you.

Winner. 

Carson said:

Blue - Eiffel 65

I had to look them up. Terrible song 

La da dee da da

That's the theme song for this car in the Flyin' Miata fleet. I threatened to have it play the song any time the ignition was on.

What I predict during this experiment will be that _ will play music that drives him bonkers and nobody else minds at all.

"poor taste in music" really means "different taste than mine".

_ said:

In reply to bluej :

Go ahead and see yourself to the door. 

keepin it classy, still. nice.

Keith Tanner said:

"poor taste in music" really means "different taste than mine".

I disagree.  There actually IS good and poor taste in anything, including music.

I do however, stipulate that not everything I like is in good taste and not everything I hate is in poor taste.

The Tubular Bells album by Mike Oldfield on an infinite loop?

You realize the danger here is that in selecting music that is objectively awful, you may find that you have inadvertently catered your soundtrack to the preferences of the general public, which are also objectively awful. The worst possible outcome here is that they actually like what you've chosen and you end up with the job forever.

Rather than the horrible earworm pop stuff, I think your ticket here may be obscure stuff no one has ever heard of. Preferably droning and dissonant, yet not something that fades into the background. Think 90s Finnish emo and Australian aboriginal chanting. When people complain - and they will - you can tell them this is what you like, and dismiss them as the uncultured heathens they are. Job done.