On the subjects of cards, ANYTHING put through an 8-bit low-frequency sample and then inserted into a greetings card. ARGH! I'd rather not get any cards than get one that bleeps and crackles at me!

Anything with the "gospel howling" mentioned above - I swear, gospel singers are constitutionally incapable of holding a single note and have to disguise it by hitting every note on the scale on the basis that one of them is probably right. If the guitarist inserted a screaming riff in the middle of a verse for no apparent reason, would the singer get annoyed? Of course they would. So why do singers perpetrate the same crime vocally?

And Alanis Morrisette. The line "the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me" is guaranteed to ruin that song, even if you liked it before (which I didn't).

Graham.