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What song just drives you crazy?
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Subject: What song just drives you crazy? From: richlmo Date: 13 Aug 01 - 10:42 PM Just responded to the thread about the worst song you ever heard. Made me think of songs that aren't always bad songs, but they just get in you head and drive you NUTS. "Man I Feel Like A Woman" - Shania Twain is the one in the last few years that makes me want to scream. If I hear it in the mornings my day is shot. What song gets in your head? |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: twister Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:37 AM I'd have to say that that song is annoying but not as bad as Fly away like a Bird, or something like that, by Nelly Furtado. It just gets on my nerves. It's not a bad song, I just hate it. -Twist |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: SINSULL Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:40 AM bRYAN bOWERS "cLUCK oLE hEN" I may need a week or two in the Neil Young Center for the Terminally screwed, if it doesn't stop soon. Sometimes eight, sometimes ten Plenty of eggs for the railroad men" Somebody please help me! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:42 AM Any one that gets into my brain and won't go away and I find myself waking up at 5.00am and singing it, like that bloody annoying Mambo No. 5 which was bad enough when it was the original, disgusting when it was 'a little bit of Monica in my life' and now it's been hijacked by Bob the Builder! AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 14 Aug 01 - 07:06 AM You guys are lucky. At my work, I have to listen to Spanish radio all day, and if you have ever been to the Costa del Sol, you know how trite and insidious these Spanish pop songs can be. Currently I have about ten of them buzzing around in my head. Murray |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 14 Aug 01 - 07:31 AM ma na ma na num naaa manaaaaana ma na ma na num naaa manaaaaana na nup ma na ma na num naaa manaaaaana bada da bada da ba ba ba ba badup bup (think Muppet show) ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Naemanson Date: 14 Aug 01 - 08:45 AM It's a small world, after all, It's a small world, after all, It's a small world, after all, It's a small world, after all, It's a small world, after all, It's a small world, after all, It's a small world, after all, It's a small world, after all.... AAAAAAHHHHHHEEEEEEE! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: RangerSteve Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:21 AM da da da da da da da da dum Macarena, da da da da da da da da dum Macarena, da da da da da da da da dum Macarena, Hey, Macarena. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: MMario Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:34 AM this is the song that never ends, it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on And the smurf theme song! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:56 AM The best remedy is to stop watching TV entirely, AND to stop listening to radio also. In this way you can avoid annoying songs, plus 95% of all advertising! You can also avoid hearing all kinds of bad news that you can't do anything about anyway, and it will greatly improve your daily state of mind, which will help the world a lot more than worrying about the bad news ever did. If we all did this, we could wreck havoc on the commercial system around us. Another course of action I recommend is regarding junk mail with a return evelope, postage paid: collect a bunch of 'em, fill out their forms with totally bogus information, then mix them all up so that the form for one is in another's envelope, and mail 'em back. They pay for it, and it wastes their time...which is only fair, considering they have wasted yours ever since you reached adulthood. One more suggestion: Get an unlisted phone number. If you still get called by a telemarketer somehow, there are a number of highly creative ways of wasting his/her time too, such as placing the receiver next to a stereo speaker on which is playing Dylan's song "Like A Rolling Stone". That usually drives 'em away fairly quickly, unless they are Dylan fans, and research has proven that very few telemarketers are. There was a song driving me nuts a few days ago, but I have fortunately forgotten what it was...thank God! - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: MMario Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:06 PM LOL LH! However - even without TV or Radio if you have contact with kids you will probably be given a number of annoying earworms... |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 01 - 01:33 PM You are right, Mario! However, I don't have any kids either. I have a Master's Degree in avoidance. - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 14 Aug 01 - 01:57 PM The pepsi song with that little kid bugs me. Mul of Kyntire ??? by Paul McCartney used to drive me crazy till I started sing "Canadian Tire" instead. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: LR Mole Date: 14 Aug 01 - 02:27 PM "Kumbaya", led by someone with an endless supply of gerunds (Someone's flying, Lord...weeping...fishing...changing a tire...selling insurance...workingwithdiophantineequationsinthemathdepartment...playing D,A,E,A until cramp sets in...) |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: twister Date: 14 Aug 01 - 02:41 PM I hate kumbaya. It's like the song that never ever ends!!! This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends.............. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 01 - 05:26 PM I guess the justification for such songs is that they're really easy to learn, and teach to a bunch of school kids. The one I really detested was "Reuben and Rachel". They used to divide the class into males and females and force us to sing alternate verses. What torture! (specially for the boys, who were mostly embarrassed out of their minds). Mind you, I'd really like to hear William Shatner's version of "Reuben and Rachel" sometime. I have the feeling he could give it a whole new twist. - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Denise:^) Date: 14 Aug 01 - 05:38 PM There are certainly songs that drive me crazy, but there are certain 'treatments' of some songs that just about make me batty... ...like when some one sings, "Happy Birthday to you, CHA-CHA-CHA...Happy Birthday to you, CHA-CHA-CHA!" or "Dashing through the snow, In a one-horse open sleigh, O'er the fields we go, Laughing all the way--HA-HA-HA!" Stuff like that makes me want to scream! Just one of my personal quirks, I guess! Denise:^)
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 01 - 06:26 PM I wonder if they could put out a new Billy the Talking Bass that sings snatches of popular Christmas carols...just in time for the next holiday season! Whaddya think, Spaw? - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Nancy King at work Date: 14 Aug 01 - 07:05 PM My son Ken says that the antidote for any song that gets stuck in your head is "Gary Indiana"... Cheers, Nancy |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Callie Date: 14 Aug 01 - 07:07 PM All - the people - living in one world. ARRRRGGHHHHHH! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: RangerSteve Date: 15 Aug 01 - 12:57 AM The Candy Man can, cause he sprinkles it with love and makes the world taste good. To Sammy Davis' credit, he hated that song, but the record company made him record it. That's why you should only do private issue recordings. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: SINSULL Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:13 AM Gary Indiana Gary Indiana Gary Indiana...Thanks! The hen is gone. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: John MacKenzie Date: 15 Aug 01 - 02:53 PM I got you babe, Sonny & Cher ( The original Cher not the plastic copy ) Je t'aime.... SergeGainsbourg & Jane Birkin Jock |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Kim C Date: 15 Aug 01 - 03:09 PM She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Denise:^) Date: 15 Aug 01 - 03:14 PM Any song in which Reba McIntyre distorts her vowels into strange and nearly undecipherable sounds... |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 15 Aug 01 - 03:35 PM "Desperado" makes me queeze "Summertime" just makes me sneeze I'll ask you kindly, please, Oh Please... "The Wreak of the Edmund..." disagrees. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Amos Date: 15 Aug 01 - 06:17 PM Any song where the singer insists on stretching two notes into ten, thinking that this proves her virtue (it is most often her) as a vocalist. It seems this is a recent fad, perhaps an extension of the beutiful gospel technique of putting octave stretches pausing at bluesy intervals in certain places, but now exagrrated until it sounds ridiculous, affected, unmusical and pretentious -- preee Teh-heh-heh-heeeeehn-cio-ou-ou-oussssss! Beepopwaaawadaaa!! Yuck!! A |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: richlmo Date: 15 Aug 01 - 11:46 PM Amos, are you sure Reba didn't start that? At least Mariah Cary (sp) had a big part in it. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,banjo__Lady@webtv.net Date: 16 Aug 01 - 12:23 AM the song from monty python: Oh I cut down trees, I wear high heels, suspenders and a bra, I wish I were a girlie, just like my dear papa |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: ddw Date: 16 Aug 01 - 12:42 AM It's not a particular song, but does it run anybody else nuts to go into a restaurant and have the staff all gather around somebody and sing (or, usually, chant) some incredibly stupid "Happy birthday" thing for some poor embarrassed schmuck? I went into a Red Lobster about five or six years ago and had to endure it five times during the meal. Since then I've taken to calling the manager immediately and complaining about the disruption of my meal. david |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Bert Date: 16 Aug 01 - 02:00 AM It gets even worse when the song intrudes on one that you're trying to write. For the last few days I've been working on a song and "Grandfather's Emigrant Eyes" keeps intruding and taking over the melody. Kept me awake half the night on Tuesday. I think I'll have to just finish it usimng that melody and change the melody AFTER I've got the lyrics done. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: M.Ted Date: 16 Aug 01 - 05:50 PM LittleHawk, I like you once, but now that I know that you are the idiot that sends those cards back--it is all over. I worked for a small company that made electronic/microprocessor-based control equipment--we used to get a few pieces a month returned, all in the same handwriting, and all with the same stupid, nasty messages written on them--The were a real pain for all of us(I hope you enjoyed yourself)--who were, after all, just people trying to make a living and take care of the family. And they weren't such a bad bunch, either, in our little factory, the sales mgr was a drummer with a great working band, all three of the design engineers were guitar players(two played "Chet Atkins fingerstyle")--their were three or four other guitar players in the repair section, one of the salesman was a guitar maker, and there were a couple of whole bands working back in production--Even the photographer had a band(and a folk band, to boot)--altogether, that factory and those ads supported about eight working bands(my band played folkdance music)-- So thanks a lot for all the grief, buddy, your fellow musicians really appreciated it-- |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Aug 01 - 06:34 PM Hey, Ted, it wasn't you guys in your little factory...it was Time Magazine, Reader's Digest, American Express, and other various mega-outfits like that. Your place sounds pretty unique to me. Be that as it may, I have a lifelong hatred of advertising that seems to be growing stronger, not weaker. This may be one of my personality flaws or it may be a genuinely revolutionary impulse...or both. Who was this guy you were sending several ads to per month? Oh, I guess you don't know... But why would you send several ads per month to the same person? Well, I don't think it was me. Did he send you back a card with a caricature of Winston Churchill in the nude giving the finger? If so, I think I know who it was. If, on the other hand, it was a cartoon of Groucho Marx uttering various obscenities, I can't help you. I have no idea who's behind that one. - LH p.s. I also want to vote for "I Got You Babe". Anybody seen "Groundhog Day"? |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: M.Ted Date: 16 Aug 01 - 07:56 PM Well, OK, I am sorry then, and you are back in my good graces--though there is probably someone else opening envelopes for a very low rate of pay, getting depressed everytime they get something from you. Really that was the thing, too, sitting in some windowless office, breathing recycled air and being abused by complete and anonymous strangers--one of the less well known aspects of the American experience--anyway- Keep in mind that this stuff is bulk mailed, a lot of it was postcard packets, generally to the subscriber lists of magazines--since most of our books were controlled circulation(which means that they were free to people who qualified by being employed in certain industries) we really couldn't tell where the guy(or guys) were--above and beyond the magazine--and the thing is that the person was recieving the magazine and the packets because they had requested it-- I remember a rubber stamp with the finger, but I don't know that I remember Winston Churchill--anyway-- For what it is worth, advertising keeps the economy moving and growing, and, in its place, is a good thing, however, I think the place ought to be restricted to magazines, newspapers, and TV(TV ads tend to be better than the programming, so they probably ought to stay). I hate the fact that my in-box is suffocated with gambling opportunities, penis extension kits, a and opportunities to make $10-50,000 in the next 30 days. I also hate the fact that there are ads on the mats in the bottom of urinals(though it is a fitting place), and that I get recorded phone advertisements in addition to the almost daily solicitations for long distance and aluminum siding-- Except for the fact that the song is totally un-memorable, the music to that Faith Hill Pepsi ad would drive me crazy--
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:34 PM LOL! Sounds like we've been getting the same mail and spam ads. Some outfit tries to send a fax to my girlfriend's phone number, every afernoon. It doesn't get through, because there is no fax on the line. Reader's Digest sends us forms suggesting strongly that we have won a million dollars, if we will just put the fancy stickers on the embossed certificate and order some book or something. As for the penis extension kits, I fear that that may be what happened to Spaw. He is completely housebound as a result. Too much advertising can seriously mess up your life...specially if you're sitting in a windowless office hour after hour opening letters from sickos like me! Talk about thread drift... - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: guinnesschik Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:49 PM It's 3 AM, and you've just returned home from a gig. You turn on the television, and playing is a commercial for a '70's CD collection. Since Saturday night, I have had "I heard my mamma cry, I heard her scream the night Chicago died." It will not go away. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:55 PM Isn't it "I heard her pray the night Chicago died"? Not that it really matters. "Scream" might actually be more appropriate in the case of that song... - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Chicken Charlie Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:03 PM Me, I just always hated "Horse with No Name." Also the one with the line about "alligator lizards in the air." Tied for the senseless lyric of the millennium. I guess I just got no soul. CC |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:15 PM The song is "Ventura Highway". Alligator lizards are actually really neat looking lively creatures that live in dry terrain from Canada on south... For the Canadian alligator lizard visit: http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/allizard.htm For its southern cousin visit: http://www.sdnhm.org/fieldguide/herps/elga-mul.html For care and feeding of your alligator lizard visit: http://expage.com/page/draconisherpshenry Senseless lyric, indeed! Hrumph!!! Philistine! :-) - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: twister Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:51 PM The monty python one, banjo lady, is called the Lumberjack song. I thought it was hilarious. And I'd have to agree that Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana, works like a charm. Until you get that stuck in your head. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: M.Ted Date: 17 Aug 01 - 01:53 AM Thanks for posting the Alligator Lizard link, LH--I was pretty depressed, and the little critter just turned the day around--lizards are like that-- If you are haunted by "The Night Chicago Died", maybe you can clear it out by humming a few bars of "Billy, Don't Be a Hero"--Does anyone remember any of Helen Reddy's other hits? just the thought of "You and Me Against the World" is enough to spoil a day-- |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Denise:^) Date: 17 Aug 01 - 10:33 AM "I am Woman, hear me roar, In numbers too big to ignore..." ...and that one's a classic, compared to,
"Angie Baby, you're a special lady, Unfortunately, I have quite a memory for lyrics, and rarely forget what I've heard. And if it's something I've had to learn--say, back in choir or something--then FORGET IT. It's there to stay! (I had forgotten that I'd ever learned "The Windmills of Your Mind" back in 11th grade, but somebody on another thread mentioned it, and IT'S BACK...
"Round, like a circle in a spiral, Grrrrrrr....... Denise:^) |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,djh Date: 17 Aug 01 - 11:05 AM I can't believe no one said Margaritaville. I run in the other direction when I hear it so I don't have to spend a week looking for my lost shaker of salt. I think I like the song , but there is only so long any song is allowed to occupy space in my head. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: sian, west wales Date: 17 Aug 01 - 11:21 AM Two come to mind: You picked a bad time to leave me, Lucille puts me in a seriously bad mood. What an a**hole! Didn't mind that she left - just that she left at an inconvenient time. Also, the guy at the next desk to me used to sing something he picked up from some TV show (someone in UK is bound to know which one): to the tune of 1st half of Buffalo Girls Won't you Come Out Tonight:
I know a song that'll get on your nerves And guess what? It really really does. sian |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Denise:^) Date: 17 Aug 01 - 11:31 AM ...that's, "You picked a *fine* time to leave me, Lucille..." |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Grab Date: 17 Aug 01 - 11:40 AM On the subjects of cards, ANYTHING put through an 8-bit low-frequency sample and then inserted into a greetings card. ARGH! I'd rather not get any cards than get one that bleeps and crackles at me! Anything with the "gospel howling" mentioned above - I swear, gospel singers are constitutionally incapable of holding a single note and have to disguise it by hitting every note on the scale on the basis that one of them is probably right. If the guitarist inserted a screaming riff in the middle of a verse for no apparent reason, would the singer get annoyed? Of course they would. So why do singers perpetrate the same crime vocally? And Alanis Morrisette. The line "the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me" is guaranteed to ruin that song, even if you liked it before (which I didn't). Graham. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Kim C Date: 17 Aug 01 - 11:58 AM Heeheehee! Guest Denise, I had the SAME EXACT THOUGHT about Reba!!! :-) I have said this in another thread, but I really hate Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses, which was a HUGE hit for Kathy Mattea. I like lots of Kathy's other stuff (especially what Don Henry writes for her - he is a NUT) but this one was pap-n-drivel. I have probably said this before too, but growing up in the South, you get REAL tired of Free Bird. I'm thinkin I'll take my flintlock out and shoot that damn bird! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Wesley S Date: 17 Aug 01 - 01:52 PM DJH - You think YOU'RE tired of Margaritaville ?? I grew up in Florida. Try living there and see how old it gets - quickly. Since someone already mentioned "A Horse With No Name" { or no melody either for that matter } I think I'll have to mention all of those inventive DJ's who trot out "Riders On The Storm" by the Doors whenever it starts to rain. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Whistle Stop Date: 17 Aug 01 - 02:23 PM Unfortunately, there are a lot of these songs -- I think I agree with every post so far ("Horse With No Name" and Margaritaville" meriting specific endorsement) . My personal contribution is "Good Morning Starshine," especially when it gets to the "glippy gloop gloopy, nippy noppy noopy la la la la la" part; maddening! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST Date: 17 Aug 01 - 04:08 PM The Bouncy Ball Song! |
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