Okay, to follow up on the favorite songs item, we have of course the LEAST favorite songs item--- which songs do you really hate? which songs make you retch? which songs make you want to take an axe to your stereo every time they come on the radio? Be merciless...you know there are lots of bad songs out there that deserve a thrashing!113 responses total.
Here are a few of the worst I can recall--- 1. My Heart Will Go On (Theme song from Titanic-- Celine Dion)-- If I hear this song one more time I will scream. Celine Dion sings it well but it is sooo corny! 2. Anything by Pink Floyd-- listen to Floyd for an hour and you want to kill yourself-- music to get depressed or stay depressed by. 3. "I just called to Say I love You" (Stevie Wonder)-- the low point of Stevie's career--- Stevie should convert to catholicism just so he can go to confession and repent for writing this. 4. "Feelings" Feeeeeeeeeeeeeelings...woe woe woe woe feeeeeeeelings...nothing more than feeeeeeeelings-- hard to believe but this was a number one hit in the seventies. 5. "I Write the Songs" (Barry Manilow)-- I mean who would write a song called 'I write the songs"?!
Re #1 - is your #4 the same song that has the line "Bring back that loving, woh oh oh that loving feeling, now it's gone gone gone" I would have to say that I can't stand 1) The song that never ends. My little sister loves it, i hate it. 2) Anything by the Beastie Boys 3) Any rap song in which you can't hear what the singer is saying 4) "Ironic" by Alannis Morissette
1. I *don't* think Sea Lion Dion sings it well! Her phrasing is all effed up. She breaks words and sentences in awkward places. Not what I want for a ballad. 2. But the fact that "Dark Side of the Moon" stayed on the Billboard charts from 1973-1988 teaches us a valuable lesson: Write music that people like to listen to while smoking pot. Get baked enough, you're bound to lose a record or two. More sales, bay bay. 3. Point taken. But I still maintain that far worse was Stevie's appearance on "The Cosby Show", in which he sampled the kids voices and sang that song with Claire. It's true that without the song there would have been no scene, but you gotta admit, it got worse. 4. Hard to disagree. Although I liked it better (ie, at all) in Spanish. 5. That's an easy one. Bruce Johnston.
Literally every single song Barbra Streisand has recorded since about 1964. She even ruined "Guilty," which had BeeGees sex appeal if not for her. Bob Dylan singing Bob Dylan. Others singing Bob Dylan are not so bad, unless it's Barbra Streisand. "Nights in White Satin." Gag, barf. Most "evil" metal, or goth rock, or whatever it's called. Picture a pimple-faced pencil-necked geek who actually thinks he's Satan's spawn, droning pretentiously on and on. You want to give him an atomic wedgie, or if that's too much effort, just stick out a foot and trip him. Christian rock, especially the faux-heavy-metal variety. Like they're fooling anybody. Stick to "Lift High the Cross," fellas.
(#2 slipped in, so my #3 is in response to #1.)
Oh my. Where do I start. Anything The big B Streisand ever recorded. She is mean and needs to go away. That damned "Loving You" song with that ungodly high AAAAAA!! note. It's on Burger King commercials. It's evil.
Butterfly Kisses. Major smarm. Anything by Melissa Etheridge. Somebody put her out of her (and our) misery.
While Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" was the most
chart-successfull song on Billboard ever, ?1978-1980? or so, it is
ranked as one of the top tune-out songs, and now, not played on the
radio.
Minnie Ripperton ("loving You") died of throat cancer at 27.
4 octave voice. Better used when she was with Rotary Connection.
As much as I like Christmas music, Cheech & Chongs "Santa Clause
and his old lady" narrative comedy bit is tune-out, tape advanded, cross
the room to gong it on the CD player when it comes on.
I'll second Tim's nomination for the Burger King song as one of the
worst of all time. Also:
Joan Osbourne's "What if God Were One of Us", which she fought to have
taken from the album.
Skinny Puppy's out-takes, including "Stairs and Flowers"
Anything by Imperial Teen
The entire genre of pop R&B
Anything by Metallica - they just WANT to look mean...ugh. Celine Dion - anything Any ghetto rap where they mumble or sample another song. Anything by Jewel - quit whining!!! "Rockabye" - ??? "Hold On" - Wilson Phillips "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - the cheesy remake that came out a few years ago
<Tune in to the "Bad Song Prison" bit Fridays on "Albom in the Afternoon">
Sarah- I agree with you on the "Total Eclipse of the Heart" re-make, I so hate that song... It's sad and they gave it a dance mix? <shakes her head>
I like most anything. However, the one song that irritates me to no end is Cannon in D by Taco Bell. (I know it's Pachelbel, and I also know it's a Canon in D.) But it's so irritating, I cannot listen to it without laughing.)
By Taco Bell? <rotfl> I'm going to remember that for my conductor.
Actually, years ago I heard something with that exact name. Someone had just figured out how to use a sampler, and the entire tune was played out with... uh... various human noises.
I was once driven out of a book store on Cape Cod by Pachelbel's Canon. They were playing a CD over the store's sound system that consisted of endless repetitions - at least 30 or 40 minutes' worth - of that piece, with an accompaniment of New Ageish nature sounds (generic birds twittering, the wind sighing in the trees, etc.). Up to that point, I'd thought of P's Canon as a minor annoyance, easily avoided. After that, I realized it had become sonic prozac for aging and increasingly anxious baby boomers. If letting the world know you have crappy taste soothes your nerves, Pachelbel is your boy.
...Lynard Skynard.
Anything that is prettyboy cheese rock. Prominent examples include "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind, "Real World" by Matchbox 20, and "Slide" by the Goo Goo Dolls. You'll note that all these artists share an utter lack of integrity, like to pass themselves off as ultimately cool sex symbols and do "hot" live performances, and have horrible names to begin with. I can't say enough bad things about them. There are some other notable evil songs that I have to include. "Whatever" by Oasis is the epitome of awful awful songs produced just to get airplay. The tomahawk chop must die. And Only Wanna Be With You needs to be shot.
"Muskrat Love"-- the Captain and Tennile, ecch! "Afternoon Delight"--Starland Vocal Band, ugh!
ANything by Whoopie and the Blowhards needs to be removed from the general playlist. Brink in the Wall pt. 2 remade by Class of '99 is awful...it takes away from the origional song. Also, for as much as I like Metallica, their remake of "Turn the Page" Just really ruins it.
Bob Seger. Bleh. Michael Bolton. Wilson Phillips. They had mercy on us all and broke up. Spice Ho's. Eh, their 15 minutes is up.
I'm so sick and tired of hearing the following that I want to kill the DJ: "Hotel California" - the Beagles (yes...I know...I did that on purpose) Hanson Spice Whores Third Eye Blind Savage Garden Bootie and the Ho-fish Sea Lion Dion (thanks eieio...I love that) Barenaked Ladies (cute for five minutes...then it must die) N-Sucks, (should be sprayed with) Mace, Pus Daddy, etc
Yeah Barenaked Ladies is getting lotsa overkill, which sucks because their earlier CD "Gordon" was cool. Commercial success is killing them. The Beach Boys... I mean first of all they're 90 years old, and the very name sounds silly. They've all gone to rehab and gotten hip replacements and it's just aged them terribly. And their music sucks ass. It just does. Alanis. spit. Yep, Celine Dion. How sad that her vocal talent is wasted on cheese-hein songs. Kenny Rogers, why? Dolly Parton, why? Together? WHY?!
Alanis Morrisslut? HATE HER.
Hey, don't dump on Seger. He did OK on a few songs and can rock. However, a few of his songs are annoying. Hootie is pretty cool in my book. I agree with mostly everything else.
I like Seger's "Boomtown Blues." I've never understood why Alanis Morissette inspires such extreme hatred in some people. What's mainly annoying about her is the way her popularity is so out of proportion to her music's value. The music itself is unobjectionable. She might turn out to be more interesting as a celebrity than as a performer, like Madonna or Jewel.
Meg- it's Whiney, not Whoopie.<grins> That man always sounds too whiney for me. I just want to smack him.
Alanis's music is fake. She doesn't write her own stuff, and so it's like she throws in this false anguish yet she's yammering about stuff she's never experienced. So, I think the extreme repulsion stems from people simply not liking being lied to or pandered. People see through that. She is singing what sells, not because she has anything to say. Seger? Eh. I dunno. I just can't deal with him. Eddie Money needs to go away. They keep playing him on the radio here and it needs to stop. Even the name... Eddie Money? Come on.
I like Bob Seger, but it's more because I have happy memories associated with his music. I love "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man", though...great beat and I can yell it while driving. =)
most of the songs by Mariah Carey-- she's got a great voice and to her credit does covers, but she comes across as really really conceited. "God Bless America" because Irving Berlin insulted the rest of the world by implying that America is God's favorite country, and that it belongs to God. This song is the reason Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is YOUR Land... this land is OUR land" "Sooo..Sooo...Sooodio" (or however its spelled) Phil Collins-- Good thing Phil did this on a solo album and didnt insult Genisis by putting it on one of theirs! Olivia Newton John, "Lets get physical"-- you'll notice Olivia's career didnt exactly stay hot after this was released.
I could do without hearing anything done by a band assembled purely by music agents trying to make a buck off of hype. Singers who can't, meaningless songs that can't even avoid repeating themselves, and "musicians" who might know two chords are teeming like flies on a corpse. I listen to public radio to avoid having to deal with this junk, but one song which keeps repeating "when the dogs begin to smell her" somehow was played around me long enough to recall as an exemplar. Put them out of my misery now, please. I shall only mention genres which could go away: rap, the Jamaican version (I think) known as "ska", "Christian" rock (what did the apostles say about being publicly and obviously pious?) Re #28: If you want fake, think about whats-her-name who won a CMA award for "Blue". At her age she had no idea what being blue was about, and you could hear it in every note.
Lee Anne Rimes must die. Slowly and painfully. Anney: That was my mothers name for Hootie...:)
Hey, I like LeAnn Rimes. She reminds me of Patsy Cline.
Radio and MTV have tried very very hard to kill Christian Rock. Heh. Okay, numerous songs annoy me like this, but "Jump" by Van Halen is the absolute worst of the bunch.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas music.
Christian rock isn't ALL bad. No, I don't listen to it anymore. But I think their motive, for the most part, is to give Christian kids something cool to listen to. I mean, they aren't gonna listen to gospel. So they use the lyrics to project their beliefs. And since it's usually Christian kids listening to this stuff, it's not like they're imposing a view upon them. It's something the kids already accept. And yeah Christian music can suck as much as anything else.
my very religious mother who play piano in her church refers to contemporary x-ian music as "jesus disco"
(( winter agora #102 <---> music #174 ))
It's amazing how much of the music here is stuff I've enjoyed listening to - even Alanis Marmoset. I hate 50s "doo wop" music (duke duke duke duke of earl duke duke... :P). Those songs drive me up the wall. Like many people, I once liked Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall", but now despise it.
a lot of mainstream acts are borderline christian acts-- U2 comes to mind. There are a lot of religious references in their music. Elvis Presley released whole albums of christian religious music. So did Johnny Cash. Leann Rimes has a nice voice, but ten years from now she'll be doing dinner theater in Jersey City, New Jersey like Deborah (Debbie) Gibson-- her marketability will fade as she ages. You can sell a million records one day and wake up a few years later and noone has ever heard of you. Its a recurring theme of the VH1 Behind the Music documentaries. For instance, I'd list New Kids on the Block in this item, because I hated their music, but they are long gone. Sold ten million albums back in the late 80's but now who cares. Andy Warhol was right!
Except that Deborah is a long way from the dinner theater circuit. Believe it or not she has enough legit Broadway credits behind her to keep her out of Jersey City for quite a while.
I don't think LeeAnn Rimes will fade out quite like Debbie G. has. LeeAnn's songs, while not earth-shattering, are not the cheesy teen pop crap that Debbie did. She has much more vocal talent than Debbie ever had. New Kids... bleh. I hated them when they were popular, when I was in high school. I recall my dad asking me if I liked them. I replied that they gave me intestinal cramps. He smiled and said, "Ahhh, I'm proud of ya, sweetie." My parents were also relieved I wasn't into Prince/the Purple Rain era crap. They even like Pink Floyd.
re #31: not quite sure what you're trying to say, but ska is not the Jamaican version of rap but a rhythm'n'blues=influenced precursor to reggae with a distinctive beat and traditionally horn-heavy instrumentation.. perhaps you're thinking of toasting, raggamuffin, or dancehall? also, despite the amount of crappy ska and ska-hybrids being turned out these days I'd be pretty sad if the whole genre went away -- it includes some of my very favorite music..
Mmm, I thought ska and reggae co-evolved. Certainly there's a lot of
similarity between first-wave ska and reggae, and many of the central artists
of first-wave are also reggae performers.
SKA isn't like Raggae, nope. I was a SKA child. Ska now a days just isn't the same. Why I remember int he good ole days... never mind...
pachelbel was the original one-hit wonder.
I dunno, I bet David got pretty tired of requests for Psalm 24.
But since the bible is a myth and David never even existed, how could he get tired of anything?
Erm... "The Little Drummer Boy" by ANYONE (I hate hate hate that song) and anything by the guy with the high voice whose name I am blanking on but who sang things like "Walk Like A Man" (funny song for someone who sounds like a castrato to sing, I woulda thunk...)
Frankie Valli, wasn't it? I think he also sang that "Oh What a Night" song, which I kinda like.
LMAO re: #48 (see name, ignore id ;-)
I was most fond of New Kids on the Block. <grins> But then I was a young teen wtih poor taste in music. <chuckles> As for Debbie Gibson, well, I liked her too... And didn't she just finish playing Sandy in Grease on Broadway?
Thanks for noticing, Kevin. (Btw, I think Psalm 23 is the one David got sick of playing over and over at concerts, not 24.)
Yeah, I like Frankie Valli-- others may not, but his performance on "Oh What a Night" as well as Barry Gibb's "Grease" is nice. Write it off as 70's disco trash, but I don't think it's at all near the most embarassing moments of that decade. Yes, I *hate* teen superstars that have songs written for them about pain they have no knowledge about. LeAnn Rimes and Alanis Morrisette must fade back into no-name nothingness, and perhaps die slow deaths. I dated someone who worshipped Alanis, and it drove me crazy. New Kids? Yeah, they suck. But the Spice Girls aren't as bad as they were. Seriously, I posted an item why preteens love 'em and we hate 'em. We hate their unabashed pretensiousness and their saccharine pop stylings. We hate the fact that boys and girls love them when they have no idea what hoochy mamas they are and that they're singing about sex. I mean, 6-year old girls sing their songs and have no idea about the lyrics. I do not agree Pink Floyd sucks-- I rather like their music because it's mellow, and no, I don't toke. I also enjoy the legend of watching "The Wizard of Oz" to the _Dark Side Of The Moon_ soundtrack. I'm also manic-depressive, which may explain why I like Depeche Mode. So sue me! Speaking of Pink Floyd, The Class of '99 sing 'Another Brick In The Wall, Part II' like they're fried and smashed at the same time. Blech. It also reminds me of some band unknown to me who brutually murdered Three Dog Night's "One" on the X-Files movie soundtrack. Help! Help! I love Three Dog Night, and that was traumatizing. "Any Man of Mine." As I said, it should be more like "Any Slave Of Mine." Blech, Shania Twain, nothing but shallow beauty in the music biz. I can't stand country and all their new emphasis on ultra-beautiful people and bubblegummy stuff. New country would largely be pop if it wasn't for the singer using a twangy voice. Not that I like traditional country much, either, but I could tolerate some of its 80's crossover incantations. So stone me since I like Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers (I'd call them more folk rock than I would country). Why the blast on Christian rock? Oh, sure, it seems sacreligious and oxymoronic, but generally, these are people who enjoy various music styles. Many of these musicians were into the drugs, sex, and moodiness rock sometimes glorifies. When they decided to change their beliefs, and subsequently their lifestyle, they wanted to do music that celebrated their new-found happiness. Now I'll admit I don't really dig praise music, and some Christian rock really smacks of 'praise the Lord' and 'He saved me' lyrics, but I think they've got guts. I've especially admired Christian bands and artists who have had hits on the mainstream charts because religious references were subtle and more thoughtful than straight-out praise. Jars Of Clay and d.c. talk have some notable songs. Even the Christian 'metal' bands deserve some credit. I thought Stryfer in the 80's was a real cool act (although they'd be counted as glam, probably). I think Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You" was sweet. So blast me as a hopeless romantic who enjoys sappy songs :P I hate Hootie and the Blowfish but I will make an exception for their song "I Only Want To Be With You" Barbara Streisand post-1964? Agreed. Bob Dylan singing his own songs? Agreed. He's an incredible songwriter, but he can't carry a tune in a bucket for long, nor sing out of a paper bag.
The lounge-lizard version of "Brown Sugar" in the Kahlua commercials is blasphemous.
Just one entry:
"We Are the World"
Yuch.
Steve & Edie's rendition of "Black Hole Sun". This could also be cross referenced to the "Just... no" item.
Pretty much any classic bit of music that has been sleazed around to make it the soundtrack for a commercial. I recall a Sony ad a few years back featuring Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me" with some extra percussion added. The really ironic bit was that the song is about pollution, to which Sony contributes thanks to all the semiconductor manufacturing Sony does.
if i remember rightly, "oh what a night" was recorded by a band called paper lace, and frankie valli wasn't the singer. i'll happily sit corrected, though.
The original was Done by Frankie Vallie and the 4 Seasons, as was the remake. I could be wrong on that, but....:)
RE #59-60 BTW, the name of the Frankie Valli/Four Seasons song in question is "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)."
Originally labeled as "December 23, 1963". That was not a good night in the Ryan household.
It's not all bad. My best bud arranged a portion of the recent Lincoln Mercury "Save The Best For Last" jingle. Every time it plays, his two year old gets slightly further from eating store-brand cereal.
Paper Lace recorded "The Night Chicago Died."
truly a great song! "I heard mah momma cry... I heard her praaaaay the night chicago died."
::puke::
Paper Lace also did the original version of "Billy Don't Be A Hero," a cover of which was a #1 hit for Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods.
The problem with Christian music (and Christian philosophy and Christian art and Christian fiction and...) is that the music is secondary to the message. In other words, its "success" is based on how accurately the lyrics convey the theology in question, rather than on whether it's any damn good to listen to. Which it therefore usually isn't.
I tend to agree with #68 that the problem with Christian music is that there's generally more Christian and less music (you know what I mean..) but I have another problem with it as well. Despite the fact that if you pinned me down I'd probably describe myself as Christian, the views and emotions sung about in most of what you hear on Christian radio stations are foreign to my personal experience of Christianity -- they just seem really hokey and irrelevant to real-life religious beliefs and spirituality to me..
True. Which is why I no longer listen to it.
r68: why is that a problem for you? :)
Well, it's just a message that I have heard countless hundreds of times, and don't really have any desire to hear again, and coupled with music that is generally not even third rate, this makes a rather unpleasant listening experience. It is not really a "problem", however, since I don't listen to it. :)
shhh...careful...any grant might hear you!
Anything that begins with "hooked on..." :-)
Amy Grant has in fact separated from her husband of 16 years, Gary Chapman (also a christian singer, and host of Prime Time Country on The Nashville Network). So I reckon she has her own issues to deal with right now.
i'll bet she gets herself a beefin' boob-job...
I'd imagine the lyrics are relevant to certain people. The problem is that first and foremost the lyrics are relevant to the artist, and generally Christian music artists have a lot more security in things than, say, me. Thus it's harder to relate.
The Whitney Houston song from the Bodyguard soundtrack. Ugh. And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always love you. Celine Dion - All By Myself. "Don't want to be all byy myself. All by myself. All by myself. All by myself. Dont wanna be all by myself." Can the song get any more repetative?
RE #78 Actually, the Celine Dion song you mentioned was a cover of a mid 1970's song by Eric Carmen called "All By Myself."
The Last Noel. That's a repetative song. Almost every hymn in the Presbiterian Hymnal, with a few exceptions.
Wasn't it "The First Noel"? Or is this the Christmas song you sing right before the apocalypse?
resp:79 Eric Carmen, hmmm? I *knew* I'd heard that song before. I grew up on a lot of 70's and 80's lite rock; I suppose my parents chose it on the radio pretty often to calm us kids or themselves down. resp:78 "I Will Always Love You" was another cover, too. Dolly Parton wrote the song for _The Little Best Whorehouse In Texas_, and it was a much more wistful, tender, and gentle song. Whitney Houston bought the rights to the song when she recorded it for _The Bodyguard_ soundtrack, and turned it into the 90's power ballad mess it is today. By the way, I heard a rumor that Parton asked Houston once if she could sing the song one more time for a charity concert. Houston flatly refused, claiming the song was hers to keep. I wonder if that's true, because I would have slapped the bitch. (This legal thing about music is going out of hand.)
I'm sure I've heard a version of that song with a man singing it. I have no idea who it might have been, though.
Who do you think it should have been? <Garth Brooks, Bob Segal...heh heh)
RE #82 Dolly Parton originally recorded "I Will Always Love You" in 1973 or 1974. The version on "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" was recorded with a noticeably different arrangement.
Linda Ronstadt recorded it, also. You don't need permission to perform or record any song that has been previously recorded.
seriously? Wow, that's a bit odd.
I absolutely detest the song from Old Navy's new comercials.
To perform it, no. To make money off of it, yes.
Don't need permission to make money off it. You just need to pay your license fees (7.1 cents per song per copy pressed, not sold) if you record it.
Then how did Keith and Mick make anything off of Bittersweet Symphony?
That was sampling, wasn't it? That's not the same as covering a song.
But apparently they did get sued out of a lot of their profits from that particular song. Someone else will probably know the details better'n I do.
So if you take an entire song, it's fine, but if you take only part of it... we have strange laws. Then again, maybe not, since a cover is creditted to its original performers, which samples are still credited to the person who did the sampling.
Covering a song is fine, and usually appreciated by songwriter. But copying a song or parts of a song, and passing it off as your own is not. When you cover a song, you're not supposed to alter it without permission, either.
The alteration is the key. Bittersweet Symphony was a significant alteration of the original, and permission was therefore required. The re-made covers were not "alterations" needing permission, and therefore could be recorded and released under the compulsory license scheme. BTW, Senna, 2 Live Crew did a remake of Pretty Woman that was a significant alteration, and permission was requested and denied. However, the US Supreme Court ruled that it was parody, for which permission is not required. More confused now?
Also, in Bittersweet Symphony, it was sample taken directly from someone else's recording. Had they rented their own orchestra and recorded their own version of the string part, I don't think it would've been an issue.
I think orinoco's closest to the correct answer -- the salient issue in the Verve vs. Rolling Stones fight over "Bittersweet Symphony" was the unauthorized use of a significant amount of material from a Rolling Stones recording (had the Verve re-recorded the portion used they probably would've had to pay for performance rights for the Stones' song but that's much different than using the actual Stones recording..)
I'm not sure that's right. By sampling (rather than re-recording), the Verve simply violated two copyrights rather than one. Not having heard the original, I can't say how much Bittersweet Symphony differs. But there is the possibility that it would not have been similar enough to obtain a compulsory license, even if an orchestra was hired. However, I think you are right about paying to re-record. Even if a compulsory license is not available, organizations such as Harry Fox often have the authority to license in the manner you suggest (and the Stones seem to be quite willing to license their stuff, at least of late).
Does anyone know how long the sample is? I'd heard that current law
on sampling had a minimum length before legal action could be taken.
I'd be interested in hearing if there is; it sounds like one of those copyright myths that makes the rounds in the music community and on the net.
What consists of alteration? Rage Against the Machine remade Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," but reworked the music quite a bit. It's quite brilliant, and the lyrics are still the same. Would that require permission?
Well, if they copped the lyrics word for word, then they probably got permission or a compulsory license (depending on whether the new music was substantially different from original). As far as the definition of "alteration" goes, that's the word I chose based upon what people have been saying here. You should check the US Copyright Office Web site to see the actual language for the statutory licensing scheme. As I recall, it uses phrases like "shall maintain the character of the original version" or words to that effect. BTW, is Springsteen mentioned in the credits for the Rage Against the Machine version?
I don't know. Probably. I dont' own the actual single, which is bundled with a live album.
There is also some rule about how much of a song you can play or sing on radio or TV before mechanical reproduction rights have to be paid. Similair, but not the same as using a sample of a song in another song. This is the case of 'stand alone' elements. Otherwise, Alexander Courage would be much richer from the number of time Kenvin Ubanks uses The Theme from Star Trek: The First Few Notes.
Again, if you know where this is written, please tell me so I can find it. I think you are refering to a myth.
Sorry to interrupt-- but is anyone experiencing a switch of y and th on Backtalk?
Well, sure. :-) The April Fooleth's Prank, I would say.
RE#100? -- ANy length of a sample. There is no minimum length. Getting back to the items topic, it's sad to me to see many songs that I like being listed as the worst ever. But there's no risk with this one: Don Johnson "Heartbeat" IT gives me the willies just thinking about it.
Did anyone catch the MTV special of the worst videos? They decided that the top 10 on the list would never be played again. My favorite moment was when Vanilla Ice destroyed the master of "Ice Ice Baby" on the air, guaranteeing that it would never be played again.
I did! It was hilarious :) However, I don't think MTV would really play anything that old, really-- I doubt its target audience is thrilled with most of the 80's. I always figured MTV sent its old stuff to VH1.
(...or to M2. I remember catching Marky Mark's "Good Vibrations" there over the summer.)
I wouldn't know-- you usually don't get M2 out here unless you've got satellite.
You have several choices: