Except when it was performed by Anne and Nancy Wilson at the Kennedy Centre Honours. Plant had tears running down his face and full of love for Jason Bonham on the drums.
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Terrible song : A whiter shade of pale…
Reason : totally naff.
10 years ago my younger brother married for the first time in his late 50s to a lady of the same age who had spent her entire life with her parents, they were and still are an unusual couple.
It was at a quaint village church in Somerset and all was very twee.
The vicar announced that he was quite happy for the congregation to wander around the church taking photos during the proceedings.
There was folk type music playing from what sounded like a recording and then the song by Wet Wet Wet started playing ( memory tells me the original was by the troggs? ).
I did as the vicar advised and as I walked around the back of the congregation I found where the music was coming from.
Not a recording but the absolute double of the folk couple who sang the same song in Four Weddings and a Funeral!
The same couple sang at the reception held in the village hall, not a lavish affair that people spend £1000s on today (if they bother to tie the knot) but one where the food was provided by friends and those same people set up and tidied away afterwards.
The wedding was like a step back in time mixed with the film set of the afore mentioned film.
This is my brother, he doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet!
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I saw that concert, they did a cracking version of Kashmir too
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Nana Mouskouri did a stonking vocal version of that. Not even sure Céline Dion could have done it as well.
There’s a better one. 
My cousin got married in a Druidic handfasting ceremony in a “Druid Temple” (upstairs above a gift shop) in Glastonbury.
His wife’s idea… they are not together any more. I don’t recall if there was any music, but if there was I’m sure it would have been quite folky.
As in so bad that hearing it once is enough…? There certainly are songs like that.
At one point in my life I’d probably have agreed with you. However, that was before understanding the background of how it came about. I now consider it one of the greatest songs ever produced (as opposed to written - Bo Rap is all about the production).
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Ouch!
We’ll be agreeing to disagree, hopefully.
Purple Rain.
Amazing singer and guitarist sings nonsense and plays a nonsense guitar break, all feedback and lines that never go anywhere.
I’m not aware of hearing excessively played songs per se, but what grates on my ear, on LBC and TV, is the incessant ‘webuyanycar.com’ advert. I hate hate hate it!
It is so irritating because it is so often repeated on radio & TV!
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And yet, you had to share it with us 
I’ve got to admit that I really resented using them a few weeks ago to get shot of my right hand drive car, just because of the advert.
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You’re welcome! Anytime.
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Everything she sings. Radio is muted instantly. Torture
Coldplay I can tolerate, but fail to understand why anyone would enjoy what passes for singing.
Fortunately Robbie Williams doesn’t get much airtime these days.
Never too much Abba for me.
On the subject of advertising I hate shopping in Sainsbury’s because of their in- store broadcasts. The woman’s voice who repeats ‘welcome to Sainsbury’s’ every few minutes I find intensely annoying.
Simply stunned…absolutely brilliant song which never tires.
I would go for songs like the theme to Titanic and all those other ‘power ballads’ by the likes of Whitney Houston.
Also…
Money for Nothing and Loveshack.
Just about anything by Adele makes me want to drive my car into a tree.
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Thankfully our local one in Godalming doesn’t do that! You get the usual calls for so-and-so to go to the checkouts, but that’s about it.
Maybe my fellow customers complained, I don’t know.
i’ve complained more than once. Now I take noise cancelling headphones and listen to something interesting on BBC Sounds. If things go to plan we will in the near future be shopping in Carrefour, Cahors. P&Q and lots of very interesting looking products to eat.
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