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What song just drives you crazy?
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 17 Aug 01 - 06:43 PM Helen Reddy? OUCH! She may be the only person who has recorded more annoying songs than Paul Anka, fer chrissake! I had forgotten about "You and Me Against The World"... It's got to be among the top ten most annoying songs of all time. And so does "I Am Woman". ARRRGGGHHH!!! We should maybe get Ktel to put out a boxed set of this stuff, or else get William Shatner to do cover versions, which could be really novel and refreshing. - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Chicken Charlie Date: 17 Aug 01 - 07:29 PM Little Hawk-- Yeah, lovely critter. Some of my best friends are lizards. But what are the damn things doing "in the air??" 'Splain that one to me, like dude. Sian--good one on the 'Buffalo gals' thing. CC |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,doncam Date: 17 Aug 01 - 07:49 PM Can't get the first line of Richard Thompson's "Keep your distance" out of my head since I recently re-heard it: "If I cross-a your path today..." |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Nancy King Date: 17 Aug 01 - 07:49 PM He Stopped Loving Her Today.... Star Spangled Banner as performed by those described by Amos and Grab, above... Cheers, Nancy |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: fat B****rd Date: 18 Aug 01 - 03:11 PM These days "Imagine" still makes me cringe, always has. When I was 13 I got an underage job on the "Prom" at Cleethorpes, the arcade I worked in had a juke box at either end. Helen Shapiro's "Please don't treat me like a child was played on both jukeboxes every day for what seemed like weeks. I actually fell to my knees on one occasion and begged somebody not to play it. They did. It still fills me with horror if it comes up on an oldies show.!! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Aug 01 - 04:02 PM "He Stopped Loving Her Today"??? OUUUUCH!!! I'd forgotten about that one too. As for the alligator lizards in the air...well...I think they can jump quite effectively, so maybe that's what the lyric means...maybe. - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: RangerSteve Date: 18 Aug 01 - 09:00 PM Baby, I'm awant you, Baby, I'm aneed you. I'm anot remember who did that one, and I'm anot care. But if the lyrics anot fit the melody, one or the other should be changed. The same goes for Jimmy Buffet's lost shaker of salt. Both songs should be beaten with a hammer of sledge. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: AliUK Date: 18 Aug 01 - 09:17 PM Any song by the Cranberries....jeez I liked the first one but do they have to keep remixing it. Also Godamned "Close to You" by the carpenters...I'd like to sprinkle a little sulphuric acid into that dudes eyes, nevermind moondust...oh god! It's back, just remembering the lyrics...now I'll never get to sleep...AAAAARGH!!!! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,equalrice Date: 18 Aug 01 - 09:28 PM At the risk of being deemed sacrilegious, I have a standing policy of fleeing from the room anytime an earnest folkie cranks up "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Ugh. A friend told me about a parody of the song called "Puff, the Magic Drag Queen" that could prompt a policy reversal, however. Anyone know the words? |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Aug 01 - 10:54 PM I don't like "Puff" much either. The funniest thing about that song was all the hippies that theorized that it was actually code for smoking dope! Har! Har! Those turkeys thought everything was code for smoking dope or taking some other drug...
"Why do dogs crawl away and die Hee! Hee! - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: guinnesschik Date: 18 Aug 01 - 10:55 PM "Woah, woah, woah, my love does it good." At least it's better than "Silly Love Songs." I can thank Himself for this tonight. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Celtic Soul Date: 18 Aug 01 - 11:38 PM Wow. Good one! I have quite a few! How about that gawdawful "Blue" for starters? Anything, and I mean *anything* by Cher, but most especially that heavily synthesized recent travesty of hers. N'Sync? My daughter calls them InStink (I gotta agree). Is it any wonder I do not listen to much if any radio? And the list goes on, but I'll spare you all that. :D |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,johnne Date: 19 Aug 01 - 12:30 AM I really think all of you have hit the songs right on the head. But no one has mentioned "More" than the greatest love the world has known....this is the love I give to you alone.......ad infinitum BTW thanks for letting me post here. I am a newbie |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Lor Date: 19 Aug 01 - 07:28 AM i was subjected to cher's, "if you believe in life after love" yesterday on the grocery store muzak and realized i need to add that *song* to my list. i believe it's the combo of extremely dull lyrics with the electronic voice that makes my skin hurt. ye-ouch!! ~lor. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: sledge Date: 19 Aug 01 - 08:11 AM Brian Adams with his every thing I do, as bad as Whitney Housten and that song from the movie Body guard AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH Sledge |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Denise:^) Date: 19 Aug 01 - 10:47 AM Okay, RangerSteve, that was aDavid aGates and aBread. Funny; that song came on the 'muzak' in a store the other day, and I was thnking, "Why in the world did they sing it like that?" Never thought about it much when it was a big hit on the radio; I was about 10... Denise:^) |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST Date: 19 Aug 01 - 01:54 PM "In the year 2525" is the number one annoying song for me. And it's soooo loooong tooo.
Letty |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Aug 01 - 02:20 PM Did William Shatner cover that one? - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: RangerSteve Date: 19 Aug 01 - 07:26 PM Guinnesschik - Just those two songs? what about Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - what the heck is a butter pie? I believe Paul McCartney was invaded by Body Snatchers. The guy who wrote Yesterday could not have written these other songs. Also: That would be something, really would be something. That would be something, meet me in the pouring rain, mama, meet me in the pouring rain. Philip Glass puts more thought into his work. Maybe Linda cut off Paul's manhood.
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: guinnesschik Date: 20 Aug 01 - 08:10 AM RangerSteve, Paul was obviously drunk with love. |
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Subject: RE: what is a butter pie? From: GUEST,janeb Date: 20 Aug 01 - 09:35 AM A butter pie is a pie with just potatos and butter in it. A meat and potato pie, but with no meat. Also known as a preston butter pie ( but only on Liverpool) in Preston it is just a butter pie. Rather like a greek salad in greece. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: RangerSteve Date: 20 Aug 01 - 07:11 PM Guinnesschik - when you put it that way, I guess it makes sense. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Chicken Charlie Date: 20 Aug 01 - 07:23 PM Letty--My gawd, what an oldie. I remember being stunned by "2525" in college circa 1965. Seems to me it was about contemporary with the eminently forgetable "Little Black Egg with the Little White Specks" or whatever. CC |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Mark Cohen Date: 21 Aug 01 - 12:29 AM You guys have to read Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs. It's a treasure trove of garbage like this -- that is, the songs are garbage, not the criticism, which is funny! Well, some of the songs are funny, too. Like Neil Diamond and his strangely reticent chair. But if you do get the book, don't buy it through my link here. Go back to the top of this page, click on the fish in the banjo and access amazon.com or your favorite big broke bookseller that way, so Mudcat gets a sliver. And speaking of folk songs in this category, I must admit that whenever somebody starts up with "On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At", I get a stabbing pain in my bladder. I'm sure there are those who love the song. You're welcome to it. Elsewhere. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: English Jon Date: 21 Aug 01 - 06:32 AM American sodding pie. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 21 Aug 01 - 06:52 AM Amazing how potent cheap music is(N.Coward). Herself made a tape of her singles for a party many years ago and it still gets played. It includes many songs featured in 'Catters' most hated and "one-hit wonders" choices: 2525, You were on My Mind, It's my party, End of the World etc. Damn things are so catchy, bad or not, I have to play a good blast of Louis Armstrong, Leadbelly or Howlin'Wolf to get them out of my mind after it's been played! RtS (Built for comfort, not for speed) |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: M.Ted Date: 21 Aug 01 - 12:34 PM Chicken Charlie, I, for one, have not forgotten "Little Black Egg "--though it has been years, and I wish I could remember the words--anyone? |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Don Firth Date: 21 Aug 01 - 01:04 PM People who insist on clapping in rhythm -- or just insert claps into any rhthmic gap in a song, e.g., in The Wild Rover:--
No! Nay! Never! Drives me nuts! Don (Hampsterdance) Firth |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST Date: 21 Aug 01 - 01:18 PM Um, that's called "interaction". If we all wanted to sit quietly and listen, we might as well go back to college... |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Bardford Date: 21 Aug 01 - 01:34 PM My all time least favourite song is that jeezly Chicken Dance song that gets played at weddings. Dada deedle deedle dum, da da deedle deedle dum, dayah dump dump dump dump dump dump. Why, it's so bad, I have to start humming my second least favourite song just to eradicate it from my head. That song would be " I Love a Rainy Night." Goes a little something like this: I Love a Rainy NightI Love a Rainy NightI Love a Rainy NightI Love a Rainy NightI Love a Rainy Night its such a beautiful sight I Love a Rainy NightI Love a Rainy NightI Love a Rainy NightI Love a Rainy Night. Bardford |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Deda Date: 21 Aug 01 - 01:37 PM I'm amazed that no one has mentioned "Someone left the cake out in the rain (I don't think that I can take it, cuz it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe agaaaaiiin)". Terrible song, dumb, senseless lyrics, and at one time many years ago it was actually played all the time over and over and over. Thank god it doesn't get much air time anymore -- at least not that I am subjected to. Blech. Deda |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST Date: 21 Aug 01 - 10:25 PM I'm usually pretty tolerant of music-if it isn't waking me up, I like it. But the other day my sister was listening to the radio-Z100-and , honest to god, they only played 2 songs. For an hour and a half. With idiotic commercials. And I liked them, too. But now.... |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: emilyrain Date: 21 Aug 01 - 10:39 PM deliver it the letter i deliver it the letter i deliver it the letter i deliver it the letter i deliver it the letter i wriiiiiiiite |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Aug 01 - 10:54 PM Deda - I've got just one word to say to you. One word. Are you listening...? Metaphor. - LH p.s. "I write the songs that make the whole world..." GAAAAAHHHHH! RETCH! |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: richlmo Date: 21 Aug 01 - 11:12 PM Guest has a good point. It's the one that you hear when you wake up that stays in your head all day. Thanks for the response,everyone. hope the song you hear in the morning is a good one. I'm going to bed. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Mark Cohen Date: 21 Aug 01 - 11:54 PM Deda, MacAwful Park won Dave Barry's "Worst Song Ever" award. (Actually it was based on overwhelming reader response.) Which is quite an achievement, when you consider the competition. Aloha, (CLAP! CLAP!) Mark |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Armen Tanzerian Date: 22 Aug 01 - 12:34 AM That Song Is Drivin' Me Crazy -- Song by Tom T. Hall |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: John MacKenzie Date: 22 Aug 01 - 02:50 PM I don't want to see a ghost, Rather have a piece of toast. Desiree Death ray Jock |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Deda Date: 22 Aug 01 - 02:57 PM Yes, I do know about metaphors. But they should be good enough to hold water (like that one does). How could we have left out achey breaky heart?
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Chicken Charlie Date: 22 Aug 01 - 05:07 PM This is scary; I agree with Li'l Hawk. I think if someone WENT to M. Park & looked at the patina of weathering [OK, so part of it would be pigeon poop] on statues and such, one might think that a cake was melting in the rain. Alligator lizards in the air, however, are totally unredeemable. Which leads me to Einstein's General Theory of Mudcat Relativity: "If I don't like what you like, it's dumb; but if you don't like what I like, you're dumb." I think if we are honest, this is what this and all such like threads boil down to. CC |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Kim C Date: 22 Aug 01 - 05:16 PM Kumbaya. Or did somebody already say that? |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Aug 01 - 01:23 PM Metaphor once myself, we lost touch last year, but I'm glad now that I've metabolic, a pair in fact!! Jock |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: DMcG Date: 23 Aug 01 - 01:56 PM For folk songs is got to be The Wild Rover - I've hated this since the 5000th time I heard it. Probably the most over-exposed folk song of all time. However, I heard a group("in the interests of European harmony") sing a version of it in French to brilliant effect. All together now! Et C'est non, non jamias non, non jamias, ne plus ... |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,groverdog Date: 23 Aug 01 - 09:58 PM Uh-huh! She loves a monkey's uncle Yeah, yeah! She loves a monkey's uncle Whoa, whoa! She loves a monkey's uncle And the monkey's uncle's ape for me |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Aug 01 - 01:57 PM I always detested "Little Red Riding Hood", and I don't believe it's been mentioned yet... I think MacArthur Park could best be criticized on the grounds of being too melodramatic, rather than on the grounds of having senseless lyrics. The lyrics aren't senseless, they're symbolic...probably of a collapsed love affair. The lyrics are odd and unusual, that's for sure. I think a song with lyrics this odd has a certain distinction all its own. It's a whole level above songs which are not in any way odd, but just REALLY BADLY written, really mediocre, really hackneyed, and that sort of thing. This thread is full of examples of those. - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Aug 01 - 03:44 PM Oh yeah, and here's a total stinker... "MY BABY DOES THE HANKY-PANKY! MY BABY DOES THE HANKY-PANKY! MY BABY DOES THE HANKY-PANKY! MY BABY DOES THE HANKY-PANKY! MY BABY DOES THE HANKY-PANKY! MY BABY DOES THE HANKY-PANKY!" (repeat ad naseum...) - LH |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST Date: 24 Aug 01 - 04:03 PM Little Red Riding Hood is a thinly-veiled about a pedophile. |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: GUEST,Boab Date: 25 Aug 01 - 02:42 AM Being an already-crazy-Scotsman, I like the song---but can some body explain the logic of the words of pleading from a love-lorn swain----- "Ha'e ye seen the bonnie high hills------ "And ha'e ye seen the shepherd--- ---"And ha'e ye seen yon sojers----- --"Busk, busk, bonnie lassie, an' come awa' wi me, an' I'll tak' ye tae Glen Isla by Bonnie Glenshee!" |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: iamjohnne Date: 25 Aug 01 - 08:44 AM This thread gets more and more interesting by the day. I love to read everyone's opinions. Most of them I agree with.And of the ones that I dont well, at least we can agree to disagree on them. Some of these silly songs I had forgotten all about. Mcarthur Park being one of them. I think had anyone but Richard Harris been the artist we would have just let it drift off into obscurity. Gee does anyone remember "Running Bear" or all those late '50s or early '60s teen-tragedies "Teen Angel" or the recently revived "Last Kiss" They were pretty awful too. And the list goes on.. and the list goes on.... lah de dah de dee lah de dah de dah..... Johnne "goin where the weather suits my clothes" |
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Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy? From: old head Date: 25 Aug 01 - 12:11 PM my way. |
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