5. REM – ‘Shiny Happy People’

“I hate that song” – Michael Stipe. 

6. Lorde – ‘Royals’

Lorde doesn’t hate this song per se, but she doesn’t think it sounds good when other people sing it. “I listen to people covering the song and putting their own spin on it,” she’s said, “and I listen to it in every single form except the one I put out… and I realise that actually it sounds horrible! It sounds like a ringtone from a 2006 Nokia! None of the melodies are cool or good! It’s disastrous. Awful… But for some reason, in the context of the way I released it, it just worked.”

7. Led Zeppelin – ‘Stairway to Heaven’

Robert Plant got so sick of playing this one live that he’s said: “I’d break out in hives if I had to sing that song in every show.”

8. Pretenders – ‘Brass in Pocket’

Chrissie Hynde called this song “so obvious” – it was a song she “hated with a vengeance”. In 2004 she told The Observer: “I wasn’t very happy with it and [I] told my producer that he could release it over my dead body”.