Can’t stand God Bless America. I just don’t like the song. I hate the song.
All those events and the 7th inning stretches could have just as easily used America the Beautiful which has a much catchier tune.
I much prefer purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain to oceans white with foam (no offense to New Jersey).
There’s God Bless America and God Bless the U.S.A. Too many blessings to keep track of!
America the Beautiful is my favorite patriotic song.
Picking patriotic music is challenging - most of it is so overplayed. Picking something that says “Americana” is challenging, too. When someone decided that Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog was a good song to include in the 4th of July fireworks celebration, the local paper got a bunch of angry letters from readers.
All the hate lavished on “She’s Having My Baby” – which it deserves – reminds me how much I love (in a so-bad-it’s-good kind of way) Tammy Wynette’s “You Make Me Want To Be A Mother” (" . . . and walk around with pride / with your son inside"). If you’re going over the top, go all the way!
I also share the contempt of many for America’s “Horse With No Name,” while remembering that, for a while (and heavily influenced by a crush on the only blonde girl I ever really had a crush on) my favorite song on the radio was America’s “Sister Goldenhair.”
One more truly hated song: “Play That Funky Music, White Boy.” I love to dance; I love funk. But I won’t dance to that. Unfortunately, wedding bands are apparently required to play it to maintain their licenses or something.
^ Who really believed in HS that they were saying “Funky”?
Did my CC friends miss “Bread”? You seem to have listed nearly everyone else lol. The father of kids I babysat in the 70s always had this album on when I arrived (his wife wasn’t home when I started my gig)…I swore he was trying to hit on me (where’s the puking emoticon when you need it?)
FWIW, I like nearly all music but my husband is a heavy metal guy and it just goes right through me unless I’m in an exceptionally good mood which isn’t all that often haha.
Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline creeps me out, given that supposedly he wrote this about young Caroline Kennedy (as as an 11 year old girl.)
“Hands, touching hands, Reaching out, touching me, touching you.”
Perhaps because of these lines, he has more recently backed off from his original story that he wrote it about her and now claims he wrote it about his wife but needed a three syllable name.
@happy1 - I’m not a huge JCM fan either. “Jack and Diane” is probably my most hated song ever. About the only thing he ever did that I liked was “Scarecrow.”
About John Mellencamp, he was chosen to sing at the Kennedy Honors for Paul Simon. The honorees supposedly don’t know in advance who will do their tributes. Poor Paul Simon, just about everyone came out and butchered his songs including Mellencamp.
Abba is my secret vice. Great gym music.
“Waterloo I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo promise to love you for ever more
Waterloo couldn’t escape if I wanted to
Waterloo knowing my fate is to be with you
Oh, oh Waterloo finally facing my Waterloo”
And the hits just keep on coming. 
I like Miss Otis Regrets sung by Tammy Grimes. I general don’t like cabaret style singing, but for some reason there’s one album my parents had of hers that just brings on so much nostalgia I love it. I also love her version of “Anything goes”.
I really hate the line in God Bless the USA in which Lee Greenwood sings, “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free.” What do you mean, at least??? Are there better things about being an American than being FREE?
“One more truly hated song: “Play That Funky Music, White Boy.” I love to dance; I love funk. But I won’t dance to that. Unfortunately, wedding bands are apparently required to play it to maintain their licenses or something.”
ROTFLMAO
@Wellspring --yes, a very dumb line. At least is so grudging.
Lee Greenwood lives near me!
How about “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy”?
^^^LOL!!!
Well after Take me out to the ballgame, and sometimes God Bless America in the middle of the 7th inning, at least at Fenway Park, they play this in the middle of the 8th and everyone has some fun with it.
In a classy move, the Yankees played it at Yankee Stadium after the marathon bombings
I also don’t care for Rap Music!
^^^I didn’t like rap at all until I heard the Hamilton CD (seeing show the end of July) . Just brilliant.
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Fortunately or not, I never got to listen to that song with high school ears. But what else could they be saying? They are playing music recognizably of the sub-genre “funk,” albeit a little too fast, and furiously quoting/ripping off other, better songs in the genre.
Make mine the P-funk. I wants to get funked up.
I am generally allergic to Scandinavian pop geniuses working in English. Starting with ABBA and continuing through Max Martin and Dr. Luke, and certainly including Robyn, Peter Bjorn & John, and Jens Lekman. Although I will admit to some fondness for Lykke Li, the Raveonettes, Bjork, and recently the ultra-cute My Bubba song, “Dogs Laying Around Playing” (find a video, part of the ultra-cuteness is the coordinated hand jive My and Bubba do when they sing it). Bjork and Bubba are Icelandic, anyway; I think that isn’t considered Scandinavian.