Most hated song?

IdleRich

IdleRich
The Christmas topic brings up the fact (no doubt alluded to throughout this thread) that to really hate a song its almost essential that you're forcibly exposed to it over a somewhat prolonged period.
I think for transcendental hatred to occur there needs to be more than for it to just be a really really bad song. Something extraneous has to give it that further shove to lift it from just music to a truly hated life experience. And yeah, the most common way for that to happen is for it to have been forced on you again and again - and when that happens it's normally cos you're in a menial or at least lowly job in which someone else selects the music, someone in HR or middle management probably unthinkingly sets the dial almost randomly to what happens to be the shittiest station, not even dreaming of the sheer misery that that casual flick of the wrist will inflict on possibly hundreds of his underlings.
So that's the classic triple-whammy; a shit song that you hate, which takes you back to a shit job that you hated where it was inflicted on you so repeatedly it reached torture levels.
But there must be other situations... the song that was on the radio when you're girlfriend dumped you or whatever, things that you associate with bad news or simply a bad period. Any suggestions for songs that take you instantly back to a place you never wanted to go to?
 

woops

is not like other people
I've never recovered from listening to dark side of the moon on the come down from my first ever acid trip. Hate that record

I used to do a media monitoring job where we had to listen to hours of radio and note what tunes had been played. Once I was assigned to do a regional dance station that had been recorded with the aerial set up wrong. So I spent several hours straining to hear what shit dance track was being played through layers of radio distortion. All part of my glamorous career
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I've never recovered from listening to dark side of the moon on the come down from my first ever acid trip. Hate that record
To me, that sounds like a better answer, "most hated song" is asking for something more than a bad song, some kind of personal element has to be involved. To me, after five pages of not realising it, it seems obvious that it has to be that kind of thing that differentiates most hated from worst.
 
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