Whew. I'm so glad you said that, anna. I thought I was the only one who couldn't stand their voices.

As for a song being "ruined," I've always had a favorite Yiddish lullabye, called Oifn Pripetshik, probably the most well loved of all Jewish lullabyes. In the movie Schindler's List, there's a heart-wrenching scene where a huge group of children are being led to their deaths by female Nazi guards, all holding hands as if they were being led to a nursery school picnic. In the soundtrack, a children's chorus sings that song as they are led away.

I have never been able to hear that song since, without feeling the pain of that scene.