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Thread #1621   Message #54372
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
16-Jan-99 - 03:12 AM
Thread Name: Folk Songs to Ditch
Subject: RE: FOLK SONGS TO DITCH
OK here are my nominees 1The Unicorn. This song is true vomit fodder."Humpty-backed camels" for Christ sake. 2Where are you going my little one. They ran this behind a Kodak ad years ago on tv until I had to cover my ears and shout obscenities to drown it out.3 I'd like to teach the world to sing. Another commercial craw-sticker featuring hundreds of happy robots holding hands and singing and trading bottles of coke4Ballad of the Green Berets. This one had it all..God, Country. Death. Fearless men who jump and die. GET A PARACHUTE!!! 5 Eve of Destruction. Other side of the coin from the Berets, but just as loathsome.This guy had the nerve to rhyme "red China" with "Selma Alabama" 6 Green green grass of home. The definition of maudlin tripe. Another great rhyme- "Padre" and "daybreak" 7 Houses Made of Ticky Tacky Now here was some condescending, repetitive, lets-sit-in-the-coffeehouse-and-make-fun-of-the-straight-people garbage. Seeger (not Bob...Pete) should serve 10 to 20 in a tract home outside Cleveland for that one. 8 Sunshine on my Shoulder...or was it Annie's Song. Bet this was a contributing factor in John Denver's divorce.9 A Man needs a Maid. This was almost redeemed by the hilarity it engendered in all who heard Neil Young sing it.Was he seeking a housekeeper? 10 The wreck of the....well you know the rest. You could hear the beginning of this on the radio, get out of the car, have lunch and the damn thing was still stumbling on like the inevitable onslaught of a large wounded animal. ......of course,take all this with a grain of salt. I was nuts about MacArthur Park