I'm sure we've done this somewhere before, but always fun, and quite revealing. My lazy approach has been to pick works from the posts of other people with whom I clearly share certain revulsions:
Grieg Pf Cto
Dvorak: Symphony no. 9
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony
Vaughan Williams -
The Lark Ascendingafter which I have to think of a few of my own:
Milhaud -
Le boeuf sur le toitMozart - Piano concerto no.21
Canteloube - Songs of the Auvergne
Schumann - 4th symphony
Mendelssohn - Elijah
Pretty much anything performed by Édith Piaf
Shostakovich: 7th symphony
interminable, trite and boring
which was also my opinion until I performed the piece (well, actually I didn't - actually I had to hand over my sticks, and stand and count for a "star" drummer who was brought in at the last minute, and who it turned out couldn't read music. He was a good drummer, though, to be fair). After performing it I realised that, apart from most of the first movement, the rest is pretty damn good.
I found the exercise revealing because several of the composers on my list are particular favourites - perhaps there's an element of "I love you and in return you write
that thing."