Musical Theatre Songs You Never Want To Hear Again

[Soaring29]

What are some MT songs that you absolutely can't stand listening to?  Here are some of mine: 

1. I Cain't Say No: This might be controversial, but I loathe the dialect used in this song due to it ruining the comedy(which isn't even that funny inherently anyway). Oklahoma! has some of the best songs in the R&H catalogue but this is not one of my favorites.  

2. Buffalo Nickel Photoplay Inc: Tateh is an annoying character to me and this song is grating. 

3. Revolutionary Costume For Today: This song is obviously an important one for the character of Edie and is brilliantly acted but is really unpleasant to listen to if you're just wanting to turn your brain off and listen to music. 

    Yours?

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

To be quite honest, anything with Harvey Fierstein.  He has a very unique and fascinating speaking voice, but I change the channel (usually Sirius XM on Broadway) when he comes along.  

[Soaring29]

I agree. 

[MarkBearSF]

Pretty much any song I've heard sung by pageant contestants more than three times. ("Tomorrow" and most of the score to Les Miz)

[BuddyStarr]

1) “This is the Moment” especially sung by off key/flat waiters (See 3 below)

2) “I dreamed a dream”

3) Typically anything the masses all know the lyrics to at Marie’s Crisis. 

[another sloe eyed vamp]

1 - Do Re Mi

2 - Anything from The Producers

 

[once a month]

Kinky Boots, any number

[ChildofEarth]

Waving Through a Window

[BalconyClub]

Though I love it when SEEING Rent, I always skip Over The Moon when listening to the CD.

[VotePeron]

The entire War Paint score. One of the most painful and miserable nights I’ve ever had at a musical.

[JBC3]

anything from Wicked

[OlBlueEyes]

"Pore Jud Is Daid"                                    (Sock it to Oklahoma.)

"pop.U.lar"                                                (Don't take this personally, KC)

"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"               

(No matches after "either" "neither." Who says "to.mot.to" or "larf.ter" or "er.sters" or "pa.jay.mus"?)

These three would pass if their length were cut in half.

"Brush up your Shakespeare"                   
"Always True To You In My Fashion"
"To Keep my Love Alive"

 

 
 

[SempreLiberal]

BalconyClub said: "Though I love it when SEEING Rent, I always skip Over The Moon when listening to the CD."

I agree. It shows how mediocre a talent Maureen is. In that case, it does the job very well. But it’s painful to listen to again. I always skip it. 

Same for me with “Your Eyes.” Roger clearly was not a great songwriter. The best part of the song is by Puccini: Musetta’s theme in the electric guitar.  It’s also funny that in the year it took to write this song, he couldn’t find a way of incorporating anything associated with Mimi’s La Boheme themes. 

Neither song reflects badly on Jonathan Larson, as he wrote for his characters. If they were masterworks, we’d look at Maureen and Roger differently.  

These two “bohemians” had heart, but not much evident talent. That’s what makes it so brilliant, as the show is about a phase in the lives of these young dreamers, and we all knew/know bohemians like that. 

Interestingly, Angel is an anomaly. She did not fit into the conventional gender categories of the time. She also didn’t fit into the typical creative/artistic categories of the time. She exudes the creative originality that Roger and Maureen lack. 

(For me, judgment is out on Mark. The video clip at the end of the show is cute, but because it is short and helps end the show sentimentally, I would feel premature writing off the character’s talents based on one clip.) 

 

[SempreLiberal]

The kids’ songs from Les Miz: Castle on a Cloud and Little People.

[broadwaysfguy]

none
i love musical theatre songs and focus on the good

[green waver]

 A tie between Master of the House and The Good Old Days from Damn Yankees. Way beyond heavy handed.

[NievesG]

Defying Gravity... I used to like it until high school when a classmate sang it (both parts) terribly off key while I visiting her home. I felt like a hostage. I still can't listen to it years later without laughing, sorry.

[BLs68]

Anything that Gleb sings in Anastasia. I love everything else about the show except Gleb’s songs.

Actually I lied, I hate the train scene too. We’ll Go From There? I think that’s the name of the song.

[bwayphreak234]

Anything from Something Rotten! or Dear Evan Hansen.

[rg7759]

45 minutes from broadway was made as a commercial and is therefore not art.

[Hannahbelle]

I was at Marie's Crisis with friends a few weeks ago and the piano player was a dick.  After we put money in the jar and asked for Rent, he said, "we do the screamier songs after my break.  We have to warm up our vocals first".  Then, he said he needed a shot before he played anything from Rent and asked my sister if she knew that there were musicals written before 1994.  After that, we decided to request the most annoying Broadway piano songs that we could think of.  We asked for Let it Go, Take a Chance on Me, Tomorrow, and On My Own.  Then, we ran out of the bar before anyone could kill us.

[green waver]

OlBlueEyes said: ""Pore Jud Is Daid" (Sock it to Oklahoma.)

"pop.U.lar" (Don't take this personally, KC)

"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"

(No matches after "either" "neither." Who says"to.mot.to"or "larf.ter" or "er.sters" or "pa.jay.mus"?)

These three would passif their length werecut in half.

"Brush up your Shakespeare"
"Always True To You In My Fashion"
"To Keep my Love Alive"
  Wow- That's one contrarian list! You really detest list songs, I guess.



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[OlBlueEyes]

Sorry, not understanding you.

And can you find an example of Sinatra introducing "Something" as being written by Lennon and McCartney, as I can produce numerous examples of his attributing the song to George Harrison and introducing it with a praise he gave to few other contemporary songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsTh_kCa7Rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRT42Sq_ibc

I know. Fact checking is tedious and takes a lot of time. Best to avoid if possible.

 

[SweetLips22]

Memory

Send in the Clowns

 

Hello Dolly [only jokin']

[NOWaWarning]

A movie musical song, but This is Me.