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Location: SE Michigan | All right, I know this has been covered on other boards, but I would be interested in hearing this forum’s opinions.
Tell me your top-five most despicable, nauseating, make you wish you were unconscious, should-be-banned from the western hemisphere songs:
Mine are
(1) EVERYTHING BY FOREIGNER - but especially "Hot Blooded". This song could be used to extract information from Iraqi prisoners, but that would be in-humane, I think the prisoners would prefer to stick to the dogs and sexual humiliation. Who ever taught Foreigner how to make up rhymes should be deeply ashamed.
(2) Annie Lenox - "Why". Why did you write this song? Why do you keep singing why? Why couldn’t you think up some other words to add to this song? Why are you so depressed? Maybe you would feel better if you stopped singing.
(3) "Don’t worry be happy" - How could an advance civilization allow this to happen?
(4) "I will survive" by Diana Ross - No you wont.
(5) "How am I supposed to live without you" Michael Bolton. Somebody make him stop whining please! Be a man and figure out another way to go on.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Such a wide subject! Maybe I'm just getting more opinioniated as time passes.
Michael Bolton's voice is pretty nasty.
I have had totally enough of the led zep song that caddilac is using (that is LZ, right?)
anything and everything hip/hop. I think that alone puts me well past 5. |
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Location: Parkersburg, WV | Five that I've heard recently(unfortunately):
1. Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys
2. Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
3. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
4. Feelings - Morris Albert(?)
5. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
All of these are somewhat dated, so my dislike for them has been a long one.
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Location: Vernon, CT | Some of the stuff by Boston. I think Tom Sholz (spelling ?) wrote one major piece of music and just changed the words for each lyrical portion. Cheesy at best! Play On!
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Location: Central Florida | Wow!
If I listed every song that I really thought belongs in this category I'd be posting all day! So, to approach it from a slightly different angle, these are songs that really aren't bad songs, but I had to play them SOOOOO much during my days playing clubs that if I never have to hear them or play them again it will be fine with me...
1) Freebird
2) Old Time Rock & Roll
3) Sweet Home Alabama
4) For The Good Times
5) Help Me Make It Through The Night
I could go on, but since you asked for just five...
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Location: south east Michigan | Billy Don't Be a Hero
Any song that rhymes "wine" with "fine"
Styx (see Foreigner)
Seasons in the Sun
Hip-Hop*
*except......
The radio in the stockroom is set on the urban station most of the time. Currently there is a song out loosely based on "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies. It has more music than most hip-hop and is kinda creative..
Honey....aw sugar sugar
Will you be my nasty girl...and let me do that dirty dance with you?Honey....I gotta alot of moneyWill you be my nasty girl....and let me do that dirty dance with you?
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Also...there is a hip-out out that say's "Y'all gonna make me loose my mind..Up in here...up in here." In the interest of employee relations I joined in the chorus but instead of "up in here", I thought it said "bumpin' heads...bumpin' heads". That black man laughed till he was in tears. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I know the guy that sings 'Billy don't be a hero', he's married to the sister of one of the guys at work.
I hate anything that's computer generated (instead of using people). |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | To tell the truth, I've never heard the song. He did come over for a couple of jam sessions and he is a good singer. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Does rap or hip hop count as music or crap? |
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Location: Omaha | Currently, anything by AC/DC. My son bought one of their TAB books and is trying to learn as many of their songs as he can...why is it that when kids choose to like older music, they pick the stuff their parents can't stand?
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Location: State College, PA | 1 - American Pie (no contest, really)
2 - Bad to the Bone (No you're not...)
3 - Free Bird (yecccch)
4 - Knights in White Satin (total presumption)
5 - Horse with No Name (would've been better w/ no song...)
Special category - simply the worst song ever recorded - makes you wince - but sticks to you like ear wax: MacArthur Park, by Dumbledore... |
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Location: State College, PA | Gotta add another:
Joan Baez's version of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down -
She sings: "...till so much cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again,"
She tried to figure out the lyrics by ear, never checked her history, and left her artsy ignorance out there for everybody to enjoy.
It was Stoneman, dear, Stoneman's cavalry...
If you're going to sing about it, maybe you could learn a little about it...
And while we're at it, could someone, please, just sink the masters for "Diamonds and Rust" in the Marianas Trench? |
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| Who did "Blinded by the Light"
Well they gotta go! If it's not bad enough by itself; I actually heard an elevator music tune done to this thing!
It's just gotta stop Cuz...........
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Location: NC | I know I will take heat for this but Bob Seger........I hate his voice!
Any rap song or rapper..........laike that was a mystery!
Michael Bolton is ranked high as well.
The song, "I like boys".......from the 80's from some no hit wonder!
As for a fifth............I will let you know.
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Location: Tennessee | Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods did "Billy Don't Be a Hero". They were a good band, just did cheesey music.
I believe it was Gloria Gaynor who did "I Will Survive".
Springsteen originally did "Blinded by the Light". It's probably Manfred Mann's version you despise.
"I Like Boys" was Missing Persons. They also did "Walking in L.A.". They were a poor man's version of Berlin.
Songs that will make me switch the radio over to Michael Savage:
I Will Always Love You -- Whitney Houston
Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
Muskrat Love - America
The Macarena Song
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Location: Australia | Well for me :
1."Key Largo" - Bertie Higgins
2."Achey Breakey Heart" - Mullet King Cyrus
3."Sometimes When We Touch, The Honesty's Too Much" - ?
4."Mickey" - Toni Basil ?
5.The worst of all time
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Location: Georgia USA | Oooh, this is tough.
1) Break My Stride by (don't remember and don't care)
2) We Built This City by Starship (Grace Slick was the worst)
3) Did Someone say "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"?, but Laura Brannigan's was even worse
4) I have to agree with Freebird. It didn't stand the test of time.
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Pick any Barry Manlow song and add it to the list. Also, "Our House" by Graham Nash comes to mind."two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard"...........eech. I think thay play that song down in hell, over and over and over.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I have to go way back:
"Sunny Side of the Street" by anyone
"What's He Doing in My World" Eddie Arnold
"Candy Kisses" by whatser name's daddy
Anything by Eddy Rabbit called country
All country songs on today's top 20 on CMT (this is really one song as they all sound the same awful attempt at rock without the appeal or substance of REAL country rock, almost makes me wish Garth was back)
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Whew, this thread brings back a lot of painful aural memories. On behalf of Canada I apologize for inflicting Celine Dion and Dan Hill ("Sometimes When We Touch")on the world.
On the assumption that rap and hip-hop don't even count as music, I'll add these to the Music Hall of Shame (I'm sure I could think of many more, but...):
1) Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes), by Edison Lighthouse.
2) Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (I've Got Love in My Tummy), by the 1910 Fruitgum Company.
3) Feelings, by ?
4) I'm Henry the Eighth, by Herman's Hermits.
5) Mandy, by Barry Manilow.
6) I Write the Songs, by Barry Manilow.
7) Having My Baby, by Paul Anka. (Again, on behalf of Canada I apologize.) |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Don't forget about these beauties:
1) Who shot the Sheriff (forget the sheriff, shoot the singer).
2) The Night the Lights went out in Georgia (ouch...just typing the title hurts)
3) Don't Worry, Be Happy (I really do hate this song).
4) Reggae Music
5) Rap |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | This will date me but here goes:
[list]
I'm the Pied Piper/?
Sweet Pea/?
Talahache Bridge/Billy Joe's girlfriend
These Boots are Made for Walkin'/Nancy
The End of the Beginning/David Phelps
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | There are just too many songs to make the effort to remember, therefore I am modifying my list to catagories:
1) Most "required" wedding reception standard overplays, including, but not limited to Shout, Old time Rock N Roll (not a bad song, just ruined by association), and the Macarana (howeveryouspellit)-or any other song requiring people lining up to dance in unison.
2) Most "required and overplayed" standard rock setlist requirements including Brown Eyed Girl, Margharitaville, Sweet Home Alabama, and American Pie. Not bad songs necessarily (the first 500 times). I just feel a little piece of my soul die everytime I HAVE to play em.
3) Most angry, growling, modern metal. I must admit, I've gotten old if I'm saying it's too heavy. Metal used to be fun (often humorous), rebellious and musical, but not a hate assualt weapon to deteriorate the senses and induce heart attacks. I have enough stress without it.
4) Most rap.
5) Most anything sung by Eddie Vedder or Celine (she's a talented singer, but I can only take her in very small doses- and he just doesn't sing in key).
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | "(not a bad song, just ruined by association)"
That reminds me of another one to add to the Music Hall of Shame: Cherish, by The Association. |
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Location: hatzic lake, bc, canada. | 1.Yellow submarine. The beatles
2.Yellow submarine. The beatles
3.Yellow submarine. The....Ahh i guess that should cover it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Anything where William Shatner sings!
...or talks! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Didn't he just release a new cd? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes he did but it's still not called singing. Even Spock hates it. |
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Location: Columbus, OH | So many interesting choices so far. I disagree with several, but then again I still like to play and sing Mustang Sally.
But there's one song with lyrics so horrible I can't understand how it became a hit, let alone a classic.
MacArthur Park. Someone left a cake out in the rain.....
Who the f**k cares??? It's a freaking CAKE!!! And maybe you shouldn't have had that recipie in the first place!!!!! Oy....
But then again, listen to the words of the incredible song Sitting On The Dock of the Bay... |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | I can only assume the recipe called for a liberal amount of marijuana to be baked into the cake, which WOULD make leaving it out in the rain a bit of a disaster. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | For those of you too young to get the William shatner reference - you can "Buy it Now".
You might need to borrow a turntable though!
Shatner LP |
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Location: Las Vegas | "Who the f**k cares??? It's a freaking CAKE!!! And maybe you shouldn't have had that recipie in the first place!!!!! Oy...."
What NEVER ceases to amaze me is, with about 99% of ALL the pop songs in the universe being about love and relationships, is that SOME PEOPLE STILL can't understand a simple metaphor for a FAILED RELATIONSHIP. And the metaphor extends all the way to God's despair at the ruination of all creation.
Unbelievable. McArthur Park is a GREAT song by a GREAT songwriter, and an ever GREATER record by that same great PRODUCER/ARRANGER, Jimmy Webb. And I am TIRED of people THAT DON'T GET THE OBVIOUS, trashing it out of their own inability. On MANY levels. Inability to write, inability to create, inability to produce decent music period.
Just for your information, almost every other song mentioned in this thread got on the radio in the first place by airtime being bought and paid for by payola. McArthur Park, on the other hand, was the ONLY song that got on the radio because ONE woman at ONE radio station loved it enough to play it for the program director, who put it on in the middle of the night. From there THE PUBLIC (who apparently are smarter than the folks bitching here) GOT IT, and made it the hit it was. NO promotion, NO payola, a more than 7 minute song by an ACTOR became a number one pop music hit. One single instance out of an entire decades-long pop music MYTH that cream actually does rise to the top.
Crap will always sell if someone pays enough to get it heard and enough people hear it enough. And for every song listed here, there is someone somewhere to whom that song is probably their favorite song for SOME reason or the other, if only because they heard it so many times and relate it somehow to something in their lives. THAT'S WHAT POP MUSIC IS.
Get over it. Useless thread.
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Location: SE Michigan | OK, you have inspired me; my second set of five hated songs
Just A Gigolo – David Lee Roth. Imagine how much better Van Halen could have been without this clown.
Take the money and run – Steve Miller – another case of pushing rhymes to the very limits common decency.
One Week by the Barenaked Ladies – reminds me of when I drink too much coffee. I like most of this band’s stuff but this song makes me want to go and lie down.
Candle in the Wind – English Rose - Elton John. Take a classic great song and a great person (Princess Dianna), combine them, and it’s an insult to both. If you liked her that much Elton, at least write her her own song, after all it's not that hard for you.
All I really want – Alanis Morissette – Again someone whose material I generally like, but could this song be any more bitchy? You have got to have pity on the man her life. |
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Location: south of munich, Germany | I really love it, German Pop-Singers do songs in english language... best (or worst) example:
Sasha: I Feel Lonely (Lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely)
most hated "Band":
Modern Talking (German Duo started in the 80s.. everything sounds the same...)
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| Springstien Did Blinded by the Light??? Yeah it's the Manfred Mann dudes. They just gotta go!
Ohh yeah were do I get a copy of Billy Shatners greatest hit's?
I'm gonna bury it in the back yard with my Cat Steven's records!
Right after I whizz on em!
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | My understanding is that "The Boss" wrote Blinded By The Light, but it was the Manfred Mann version that was a hit. Nobody could understand the words following "blinded by the light" in the chorus, but websites about misheard lyrics suggest it's "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night." Supposedly "deuce" is a reference to the Little Deuce Coupe hot-rod.
Springsteen wrote the song, but I don't know if he recorded it. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I did hear a live recorded version of his version of Blinded By The Light, and I hardly recognized it.
I'm not saying whether that's a good or bad thing. |
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Location: Tennessee | Springsteen released the song on his first album, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.". |
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Location: Columbus, OH | Yes, I have no ability to recognize a shitty song. Yes, it's a simple metaphor. I don't think it's a particularly good metaphor. I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid. I understood what the song was about. Frankly, I still think it sucks. Obviously many others disagree. This stuff is objective. You can't tell me that's it's good or bad. You think it's an amazing piece of music. I think it sucks. Neither of us is wrong.
What NEVER ceases to amaze me is that people like you think your opinion, and I stress it's an opinion!, is the only valid one. The thread wasn't useless at all. In fact, I found it quite entertaining.
P.S. regarding another post, Just A Gigilo was not a Van Halen Song. It was a post Roth era solo tune from the king of schmaltz. And we know what VH was without Roth; a hit making machine with Sammy Hagar. And a pos with Gary Cherone. I like Roth VH and I like Hagar VH. I prefer the songs of the Roth era. Stupid lyrics and all. ;-)
What NEVER ceases to amaze me is, with about 99% of ALL the pop songs in the universe being about love and relationships, is that SOME PEOPLE STILL can't understand a simple metaphor for a FAILED RELATIONSHIP. And the metaphor extends all the way to God's despair at the ruination of all creation.
Unbelievable. McArthur Park is a GREAT song by a GREAT songwriter, and an ever GREATER record by that same great PRODUCER/ARRANGER, Jimmy Webb. And I am TIRED of people THAT DON'T GET THE OBVIOUS, trashing it out of their own inability. On MANY levels. Inability to write, inability to create, inability to produce decent music period.
Just for your information, almost every other song mentioned in this thread got on the radio in the first place by airtime being bought and paid for by payola. McArthur Park, on the other hand, was the ONLY song that got on the radio because ONE woman at ONE radio station loved it enough to play it for the program director, who put it on in the middle of the night. From there THE PUBLIC (who apparently are smarter than the folks bitching here) GOT IT, and made it the hit it was. NO promotion, NO payola, a more than 7 minute song by an ACTOR became a number one pop music hit. One single instance out of an entire decades-long pop music MYTH that cream actually does rise to the top.
Crap will always sell if someone pays enough to get it heard and enough people hear it enough. And for every song listed here, there is someone somewhere to whom that song is probably their favorite song for SOME reason or the other, if only because they heard it so many times and relate it somehow to something in their lives. THAT'S WHAT POP MUSIC IS.
Get over it. Useless thread.
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Location: Las Vegas | Originally posted by DavidE:
[QB]Yes, I have no ability to recognize a shitty song. Yes, it's a simple metaphor. I don't think it's a particularly good metaphor. I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid. I understood what the song was about. Frankly, I still think it sucks. Obviously many others disagree. This stuff is objective. You can't tell me that's it's good or bad. You think it's an amazing piece of music. I think it sucks. Neither of us is wrong.
Yes, I'll just have to take solace in the fact that Jimmy Webb wrote many great hit records and you wrote, ah yes, NONE. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | And Martin goes and makes not one, but two, Jimmy Buffet signature models, the Pollywog (term for a sailor who hasn't crossed the Equator) and the Shellback (term for one who has). Go figure...
As for xbj's last comment, I guess that means that, unless you've written a hit record, you're not allowed to have an opinion about music. Well, that leaves me out; I guess I'll have to zip my lip from now on. |
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Location: NJ | "Free Bird"
"Born to Run" (at one time some asswipe actually proposed a referendum to make it the "official state song of NJ" . . . . probably never bothered to read the lyrics).
"Sweet Home Ala(f^%#*g)Bama"
80's HairMetal
Any and All post-9/11 "anthems" written/performed by some 10-gallon in-bred jaggoff capitalizing on a tragedy so that he/she got to play their "song" at national sporting event. |
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Location: Las Vegas | As for xbj's last comment, I guess that means that, unless you've written a hit record, you're not allowed to have an opinion about music. Well, that leaves me out; I guess I'll have to zip my lip from now on.[/QB]
That's NOT what I said. What I said is, if you've never written a hit record, you have to have the RIGHT opinion about music!
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No, actually what I was really saying is that the grain of salt you have to take certain opinions with is proportionate to the acheivements of the person making the opinion. Opinions of critics that "can't do" should and actually do matter far less than opinions of critics that "can do" and "have done". That's why Grammy awards are still valued far more than the many "People's Choice" awards. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | But after all that is said and done, McARTHUR's PARK still sucks, right? Webb has written some great stuff, but in my opinion McArthur isn't on the list. At least the original version. Now, the Larry McNeely instrumental version rocks! That's the one to cling on to. Saw a Jimmy Webb and Art Garfunkel solo concert (just vocals and piano) about 2 years ago and it was fantastic.
Funny thing about this thread, I would easily list dozens of my "most hated" songs. Then come back tomorrow and list dozens of my "favorite" songs and some songs would probably be on both lists. I think our frame of reference is always changing. At least that's what Einstein said.
Bottom line, if you are stupid enough to leave a cake out in the rain, you deserve to go to bed hungry. As far as failed relationships, I have a hard time topping Michael Jackson and his Rat named "Ben". |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Sorry, xbj, I don't buy your argument. You're making sweeping generalizations. Writer/critic Robert Hughes may not paint or sculpt, but his analyses of art demonstrate a razor-sharp intellect and a profound knowledge,understanding, and appreciation of the subject.
You're also making a big assumption in implying that Grammy-winning music is by definition quality music. |
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Location: Columbus, OH | "Yes, I'll just have to take solace in the fact that Jimmy Webb wrote many great hit records and you wrote, ah yes, NONE. "
Boy are you naive. There are many hit records that have nothing to do with good music. And there are innumerable great songs that will never be a hit record for any number of reasons. You make absolutely no sense. |
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Location: SoCal | This is one of the sillier discussion this board has ever had. And the saddest comment is that this is my first post on it. I'm slipping. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Paul,
Maybe you should go back to scaring off new guys!
:rolleyes:
The terms "Good Music" and "Artist" are so subjective it isn't worth getting wrapped around the axle. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | "There are many hit records that have nothing to do with good music."
Ain't that what this thread is all about? It may be silly, but I've had a few good chuckles reading people's lists of "stinkers." |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | I've got to stop laughing!!!... Now I've got songs playing in my head that I thought I had gladly forgotten... But noooooooooo... you guys had to bring up McCarther Park!.... I've got to go have a few cold ones at happy hour and hope they've got some decent music playing!!....
My worst:
Under Cover Angel.... Donald O'Day
Rap
Rap
Rap
and Rap
and most of the ones everyone else has already posted.... This thread has been too funny but also too painful because of the bad songs I've got bouncing around in my head...
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Location: SoCal | Woodrow, I stopped trying to scare off new people when I couldn't scare you off. Hell, you just seemed to get more comfortable and feel like you were home.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Gerald
Dang You, I was doing fine till you said "songs in my head" and suddenly my all time hated song that I have managed for years to keep out of my conscious thought returned with a vengeance.
I am now cursed, probably till I die as I don't have many years left, with Tim McGraws "Please Don't Take The Girl" ensconced in my waking and sleeping worldly experience.
5 most hated
1) Please Don't Take the Girl
2) Please Don't Haunt My World
3) Please Don't Take My Brain
4) Please Don't Sing So High
5) Please Leave Before I Die
Much worse than McCarthur Park (which I sort'a like)
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by DavidE:
There are many hit records that have nothing to do with good music.
"Ooo Ahh Ooo Ahh poop poop diddy" suddenly started running through my poor tired unprotected brain.
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Location: Converse, Texas | 5 most hated songs... let's see if I can narrow it to just 5. 3 of them are tied for first!
1) Billy Don't Be A Hero -- I hate this one so bad I can't remember who did it.
1) S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night -- Bay City ROllers
1) Don't Worry Kyoko -- Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band
4) Back Off Buggaloo -- Ringo Starr
5) Smells Like Teen Spirit -- Nirvana |
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Location: NJ | I once went to a jam and started playing "don't worry kyoko ...." The bass player started playing it along with me and also knew the tune. I promised never to drink that much again. |
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Location: Florida | Aw man....
On that list has got to be
Smoke on the Water
Bohemian Rhapsody
Knowing Me Knowing You
Hooked on a Feeling
and the classic
Jerimiah (Was a Bullfrog) |
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Location: Las Vegas | Here's what I'm going to do:
Long after every last molecule of American soil has been blasted into its respective atoms, I'm going to keep every note, every word, every nuance of the performance of, not only McArthur Park, but of every song on the two albums Jimmy Webb produced with Richard Harris, alive in my memory and in my soul so that they can be shared and appreciated with people that, when someone says the word "America" they will go "Huh?" with a blank stare.
Long after America has been long forgotten, Jimmy's and Richard's music will be available to the delight of God and to all those who have ears to hear and minds to understand and REMEMBERED. God willing, I might even hook Jimmy and Richard up again with 100 or so musicians to produce even more.
That's MY promise.
You see, Brooks and Dunn aside, music was intended as spiritual communication with God, and few even bother to attempt it. Those that do, and against all odds, somehow succeed, are dumped on by those that will never get it.
Which is fine. Nothing wrong with not being able to "get it."
Now, for those that do have ears to hear now, and do get it, this is something I threw together 12+ years ago. I have to thank you for making me dig it up. Of course today I quite blessedly have access to real musicians and a real harpsichord and piano, drums and other instruments to produce such music, but for two proteus, modules, one R-8 drum machine, one DX-7, and a brand new used (at the time) VS-1680, it ain't half bad, and just maybe one person who doesn't yet get it will go "Oh."
Maybe.
http://lvdi.viawest.net/~xbj/LeslieLeeBell_McArthurPark.mp3
Oh, by all means, keep firing away.
Leslie Bell |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Leslie:
Thanks a lot for putting that song in my head... |
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Location: SoCal | Jimmy Webb has written some of the best songs the world has ever heard. And there are some lines in MacArthur Park that are wonderful, such as
"And after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
and wondering why"
I love that. Trouble is, you gotta listen to the rest of the song to get to it. Such is life. |
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May 2003
Posts: 425
Location: SE Michigan | You know, I always kind of liked MacArthur Park, and I started this thread. I think its a beautiful song and the orignal version is well -performed. At least it doesnt grate on my nerves like "Hot Blooded" or Achy-Breaky Heart" |
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October 2002
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Location: Queens, NY | I will probably get beat up for this, but even though I consider Led Zeppelin one of my favorite bands ("When the Levee Breaks" is one of my all time favorites), a handful of their songs were real clunkers:
The Crunge
D'yer Mak'er (Deep lyrics "Oh Uh Oh Oh Ah Oh Oh...")
Kashmir (nice guitar riff, but drags on too long and Robert Plant sounds like he just rolled out of bed with a head cold)
Stairway to Heaven (Not that it's a bad song, but it's just been played to death)
Also:
Roundabout, Yes (See "Stairway to Heaven")
Toccata, Emerson Lake and Palmer (just too weird for me)
Bad, but in a good sort of way:
Why Don't We Do It In The Road, The Beatles
Farmer John, Neil Young and Crazy Horse |
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October 2002
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Location: Queens, NY | Hizzoner,
I may be wrong, but I think it was John Lennon that screamed "I got blisters on my fingers!" at the end of "Helter Skelter". |
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Location: California | Let us not forget, "Ice, Ice Baby" by the genius that is Vanilla Ice. |
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Top 5 most hated songs