Mine is Sympathy For The Devil Song by The Rolling Stones
I could not take the background singers and it would enrage me!
hoo hooo hoo hooo hoo hooo for 6 solid minutes!.
I studied the song and the story behind it and became at piece with it eventually.
I just heard it on a YouTube channel and realized I like it now.
The Cranberries’ Zombie.
I just didn’t get it, probably hadn’t learned about The Troubles yet. It was also pretty inescapable for a time when I was a kid. I just found the chorus to be irksome.
It was actually an Elizabeth Zaharoff video that opened my eyes to it again. She’s done that for a few songs that I either didn’t like, or completely missed out on.
It’s a really bloody weird experience as an Irish child of the 80s to be on a dancefloor in Kuala Lumpur and suddenly loads of Asians are moshing to a song about how your parents’ generation are going to get everyone killed for pointless hatred. “Why are you crying? Don’t you like Halloween?”
I worked at a restaurant when this first came out that had a jukebox with a “Play most popular” button. The thing was plays that came from that button counted toward which song was “most popular” so I basically ended up listening to that song on a near constant loop every day of every shift. It was maddening.