Most Hated Songs #1: "I Love Rock & Roll" by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

At last, the gold medal in the Kill Me Right Now category goes to my #1 most-hated song of all time, "I Love Rock & Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Bridgett had this as her #10, and my sole comment was, "Too low." I never had any doubt when putting together this list that this song would be at the top. I've hated it since junior high.

I disliked it when I first heard it, but like so many of these songs on my list, it was played to death by my town's sole FM rock station. Today's kids don't understand how limited entertainment was just 40 years ago. This song was what used to be called "maximum rotation," which seemed to me to mean that it was played 4-5 times an hour.

Musically, it's moronically simple. Vocally, it varies between chanting and shouting. Lyrically, it has all the depth of a cheap greeting card. I've been subjected to this song about a million times like some kind of musical karma punishment. Given the opportunity, this is what I would to do every copy of this song in existence:

I'd rather...listen to all the songs on my list #2-#20 as a Spotify playlist on an infinite loop than ever listen to this song again.

Dante's Inferno Level Nine: solitary confinement in a soundproof room where no music is ever played, for eternity

Listen instead to: "Misery Business" by Paramore, a far better example of a diminutive yet powerful female vocalist—Hayley Williams—fronting a rock band.