What song just drives you crazy?

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Don Firth
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 07:22 PM

Speaking of Teen Angel, a fellow named Dallas Williams who sang in Seattle's coffeehouses back in the Sixties wrote a parody called Teen Leper.

In the spoken part, backed by a "Do-Waa" chorus,

". . . My parents said, 'but son, she has leprosy!'
So I told them, 'Well, gee whiz, all teen-agers have complexion problems. . . ."

(And when she went away to the leper colony, she gave him her thumb as a keepsake.)

I figure if any song gets up your nose, that's an invitation to work up a parody.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 07:30 PM

Funny, cos my friend Johhny Death sings "Teen Angel", "Running Bear", and "Last Kiss" at the drop of a hat. I agree that they are dreadful, but he likes 'em! He also loves Bob Dylan. Try and explain that...

- LH

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: AliUK
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 07:34 PM

As the son of a scot and being subjected every New Year's Eve to Flower of sodding Scotland it ranks high on my list of songs that drive me crazy. Did Zager and Evans ever make any other records apart from in the Year 2525

....if man is still alive if woman can survive they may fiiiiiind

he he he

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From:
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 10:00 PM

HONEY by bobby goldsboro. WHAT THE HELL! Anything by bobby goldsboro

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: ermintrudeclaire
Date: 26 Aug 01 - 09:38 AM

try ' the lion sleeps tonight' but i do like most of the ones posted as other people's headaches - desparado, american pie, achy breaky heart etc - its all good fun!

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: GUEST,Frogmore
Date: 26 Aug 01 - 10:46 AM

In June of 1968 I had to drive straight through to Colorado from S.C. Roaring across Kansas before dawn, it seemed like the only song I could get on any station was "YummyyummyyummyI'vegotloveinmytummy." Gawd!

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Aug 01 - 01:36 PM

OOOOO! OOOO! OOOOO!

The Unicorn Song!!!!! (a "plastic paddy" number if ever there was one...)

- LH

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: richlmo
Date: 26 Aug 01 - 10:27 PM

FROGMORE, The Guest WINS!!

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Milkdud22
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 02:39 AM

The song I just hate is that one country song about "Because two people fell in love". If you've ever heard it, you'll realize just what a stupid, sappy song it is! I absolutely hate it!! I also do not enjoy the 12 days of Christmas. It's got way too many stupid verses!!

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 11:02 AM

Have you heard Doug & Bob McKenzie's version of it?

- LH

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: LR Mole
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 02:52 PM

If songs can be grown-ers, then some can be sigh-ers: the equivalent of first-you-look-at-your-watch-then-you-listen-to-it. "Oh, god, now "Stormy Monday" for the next year." But the all time offender is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
"Now I'm going to sing the same melody line for eight minutes and forty-three seconds.
"And just when you all are about to pass out, I'll ring a small vari-A-tion." Feh.

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Deda
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 03:07 PM

Not to beat a dead horse, the reason that I think the MacArthur Park metaphor is lousy is that (A) neither I nor anyone I've ever known or ever heard of has ever left a cake out in the rain, nor can I easily imagine such a thing, (B) no one who's ever baked any cakes would go into despair about losing one, (C) "I'll never have that recipe again" is completely meaningless -- there are easily millions of cake recipes, every newspaper in the world prints several every week, and none of them is worth getting hysterical about. Great metaphors, those in Homer and Virgil and a lot of other places, make you sit up and take notice because you recognize them as real, truthful, authentic, AND they evoke some other experience as well, the one for which they are a metaphor.

I agree about the teenager disaster songs, I could never stand them -- Take a message to Mary et alii. Now I'm going to deveop a rep for being a curmudgeon who only logs on to register my disagreeableness.

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 05:07 PM

But Deda!!! You have just listed the very reasons why it's such a stunningly great metaphor! After all,

a) Nobody I've ever heard of has left a cake out in the rain!

b) I can't easily imagine why they would.

c) It's unlikely (though not inconceivable) that the loss of said cake would cause such utter despair to the one who baked it.

d) And BEST OF ALL "I'll never have that recipe again!" has to stand out as the most spectacularly symbolic line in the whole song. Think about any love affair, and how it began. They're all unique. Thus one can definitely say of a love affair, if not of a cake, "I'll never have that recipe again." Believe me, I know about this, although I know diddly-squat about baking cakes.

Now while it may not be on the level of Homer or Virgil...well, not quite...it still stands up as a quirky and unique piece of songwriting for a 20th century pop song, and that's why it's remembered by so many people. Can I help it if the philistines are unable to appreciate its subtleties and layers of meaning?

By golly, I think we should get on the Jerry Springer Show or something and really get to grips over this McArthur Park issue!

Whack!!! The horse takes another boot in the head.

- LH (tongue firmly in cheek)

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: GUEST,iamjohnne
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 05:23 PM

Feelings nothing more than feelings

Trying to forget my

Feelings of Love

Feelings

whoa whoa oh

Feelings whoa whoa oh

Feeings ad nauseum

JOhnne

"going where the weather suits my clothes"

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: ddw
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 06:38 PM

Little Hawk — I don't think The Unicorn is a Plastic Paddy song. It was a pretty clever children's song written by Shel Silverstein that was sung by Plastic Paddies.

ddw — running for cover

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Amergin
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 06:50 PM

Personally, I love the song Teen Angel....it is one of the most hilarious songs I have ever heard....

Subject: RE: What song just drives you crazy?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 07:18 PM

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