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richard
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LEAST favorite songs!!
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Feb 1 23:38 UTC 1999 |
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!
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richard
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response 1 of 113:
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Feb 2 00:01 UTC 1999 |
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"?!
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hhsrat
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response 2 of 113:
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Feb 2 02:27 UTC 1999 |
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
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eieio
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response 3 of 113:
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Feb 2 02:31 UTC 1999 |
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.
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md
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response 4 of 113:
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Feb 2 02:51 UTC 1999 |
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.
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eieio
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response 5 of 113:
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Feb 2 03:36 UTC 1999 |
(#2 slipped in, so my #3 is in response to #1.)
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beeswing
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response 6 of 113:
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Feb 2 04:06 UTC 1999 |
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.
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katie
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response 7 of 113:
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Feb 2 05:09 UTC 1999 |
Butterfly Kisses. Major smarm.
Anything by Melissa Etheridge. Somebody put her out of her (and our) misery.
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tpryan
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response 8 of 113:
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Feb 2 05:34 UTC 1999 |
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.
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jazz
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response 9 of 113:
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Feb 2 17:31 UTC 1999 |
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
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gypsi
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response 10 of 113:
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Feb 2 19:47 UTC 1999 |
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
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albaugh
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response 11 of 113:
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Feb 2 19:51 UTC 1999 |
<Tune in to the "Bad Song Prison" bit Fridays on "Albom in the Afternoon">
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mooncat
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response 12 of 113:
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Feb 2 20:18 UTC 1999 |
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>
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omni
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response 13 of 113:
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Feb 2 20:23 UTC 1999 |
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.)
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gypsi
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response 14 of 113:
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Feb 2 20:30 UTC 1999 |
By Taco Bell? <rotfl> I'm going to remember that for my conductor.
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eieio
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response 15 of 113:
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Feb 2 21:07 UTC 1999 |
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.
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md
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response 16 of 113:
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Feb 2 21:54 UTC 1999 |
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.
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steve
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response 17 of 113:
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Feb 3 01:29 UTC 1999 |
...Lynard Skynard.
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senna
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response 18 of 113:
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Feb 3 01:33 UTC 1999 |
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.
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mrmat
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response 19 of 113:
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Feb 3 01:40 UTC 1999 |
"Muskrat Love"-- the Captain and Tennile, ecch!
"Afternoon Delight"--Starland Vocal Band, ugh!
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eeyore
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response 20 of 113:
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Feb 3 03:56 UTC 1999 |
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.
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beeswing
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response 21 of 113:
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Feb 3 05:00 UTC 1999 |
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.
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gypsi
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response 22 of 113:
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Feb 3 07:24 UTC 1999 |
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
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beeswing
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response 23 of 113:
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Feb 3 07:42 UTC 1999 |
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?!
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gypsi
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response 24 of 113:
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Feb 3 07:47 UTC 1999 |
Alanis Morrisslut? HATE HER.
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