Most un-favorite song topics

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Bill Cameron
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 09:46 AM

Oh yeah, the ballad of Lt Calley. That has one of those previously mentioned spoken words parts, doesn't it?

A real tear-jerker. The little boy that ran around the house shooting his cap gun, and just wanted to grow up and serve his country, right?

Bill

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From:
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 02:23 PM

Migod- Somebody else remembers it.

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Bill in Alabama
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 02:27 PM

Steve:

I was just a baby when the Americans entered the war, but I recall one that went:

You're a sap, Mister Jap; You make a yankee cranky--/ You're a sap< Mister Jap--Uncle Sam is gonna spank' ee... and so on.

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 04:25 PM

Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goal Posts of Life

Subject: Lyr Add: I FEEL, I FEEL (Clayton/Kraemer/Sprung)
From: Songbob
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 04:46 PM

Well, I guess whin(ge)ing (note the bilingual/bihemispheric spelling) sonoger-singwriter songs are my least favorite "topic," but what really gets me is ones with the typical new-age (rhymes with s....) topics of sensitive men, strong women, urban legends and lower taxes that aren't even crafted well. There was one local songstress with a song about the Baltimore-Washington Parkway that used to set my teeth on edge (she insisted on singing it) because it had this damnedly-poor meter to the chorus.

Of course, some friends and I couldn't leave well-enough alone, giving rise to this:

I Feel, I Feel


I feel I should tell you how I feel, I feel it's important to you.
I'd like to share my inner self; you must listen while I do.
My ruminations solipsistic
You might perceive as narcissistic,
But I think they're mystic --
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?
-- Of course you do.

I feel the pain of every bite, and I feel you should, too.
I bear the stain of every slight -- I'll show them all to you.
These deliberations so dramatic
From my hidden-horrored mental attic
I prefer to spoken social static --
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?
-- Of course you do.

Oh, I have so much to say, I cannot think of a better way
Than to offer you my song today, and tomorrow, too.
I really feel you'll understand, it's all within a master plan,
You can believe, I know you can, and feel the way I do
....Be do be do...

I feel so in touch with my feelings at last; come walk a mile in my shoes.
I'll show you the place where I keep my face, in a case with a trace of the blues.
I bring these thoughts to you tonight,
My intellect is my delight,
I think I'm captivating, quite!
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?
-- Of course you do.

Oh, I have so much to say, I cannot think of a better way
Than to offer you my song today, and tomorrow, too.
I really feel you'll understand, we're all part of a mystic plan,
So reach out for my grasping hand, and feel the way I do
.... Be do be do...

Since childhood days I knew I had the strongest tendency
Toward tuning in the universe, and sensitivity --
These gifts I know are very rare,
I think I've got so much to share --
And modesty beyond compare,
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?
-- Of course you do!


Copyright ©1996, Bob Clayton, Pete Kraemer, Joan Sprung. All Rights Reserved

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Bert
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 05:01 PM

Songbob,

I love it, I do be do be do.

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Old Timer
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 05:45 PM

Didn't Johnny Cash sing one about 20 years ago that said:

"She flushed me from the bathroom of her heart"?

OT

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: McMusic
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 08:53 PM

Heard this one about twenty years ago-- "Whoever Turned You On, Forgot To Turn You Off". And while we're on the subject- Does anyone remember Barry Sadler's "Ballad Of The Green Berets"? I'm a Viet vet, but that song, with its over-dramatized, over-blown patriotism, gets on MY nerves!

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 09:03 PM

Mc Music,

As you linger longer on the Mudcat, you will come to believe that more likely than not, the song you seek is already in the DT. Were you really looking for "BALLAD OF THE GREEN BERETS"?

As they say on-line "When you know, you know."

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: McMusic
Date: 24 Nov 98 - 09:55 PM

Roger--wasn't looking, just commenting. Thanks anyway.

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Alice
Date: 25 Nov 98 - 11:26 AM

Songbob, I loved it... especially appreciate newage rhymes with s**age. Anyone else besides me get annoyed when you find Celtic music filed under newage in music stores? alice

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Earl
Date: 25 Nov 98 - 12:10 PM

The best description I ever heard of newage is "White boys practicing their scales." Thank god the songs don't have lyrics.

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Barbara
Date: 25 Nov 98 - 04:44 PM

Me, Alice, me, and it bugs me to find all this stuff in there that is hardly Celtic, and now I can't find other genres by their location either (Hawaiian Slack key for example can be with Hawaii, South Seas, or Newage, gaaa). This too shall pass. And sometimes it gets folk interested enought to look further and find real Celtic music.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Bert
Date: 03 Dec 98 - 08:16 AM

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Eurovision Song Contest.
I know it's not really a 'topic', more of a 'style', but it's one that can be taken only in very small doses.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Alice
Date: 03 Dec 98 - 09:29 AM

Bert, tell us more.. 'Eurovision Song Contest'? Expound, please.

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Bert
Date: 03 Dec 98 - 11:24 AM

Alice,
Way back in The Fifties when it was really an achievement to transmit and receive television across the English Channel, The Television companies in Europe decided to hold an annual song contest.

Each country would submit an entry and an international team of judges would pick the 'best' one.

After the first few contests were won by catchy cutesy up-beat little numbers, all subsequent entrants have strived to 'out-catchy-cutesy' each other.
A search for 'eurovision song contest' in Hotbot will turn up more than you ever wanted to know.

To be fair there have been one or two good ones over the years but taken as a whole they are just too much to bear.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Doctor John
Date: 03 Dec 98 - 03:59 PM

Rock

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: McMusic
Date: 03 Dec 98 - 05:55 PM

Alice-- YES!!!!! Only a little more than when I hear Celtic pronounced "Seltic", rather than "Keltic."

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 07:37 AM

Bert, which were the good ones? I must have missed those years. But then, I only go back as far as 'Sing little birdie'. (Actually, I was rather fond of Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson!)

Steve

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 07:38 AM

Bert, which were the good ones? I must have missed those years. But then, I only go back as far as 'Looking high high high' and 'Sing little birdie'. (Actually, I was rather fond of Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson!)

Steve

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: alison
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 08:36 AM

Hi,

The only good one was a few years ago now... the one from Dublin where they did Riverdance for the first time.

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: O'Boyle
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 11:32 PM

Any omg that mentions "Unicorns"

Rick

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Dec 98 - 10:09 AM

Early twentieth century Irish American Pop. Ugghhh!!!! Drives me crazy when I get a request to do "Irish" songs like that.

Mick

Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
From: Alice
Date: 05 Dec 98 - 11:24 AM

Rick. Unicorns, yes. And Merlin, the holy grail, and such. Could that be the difference between folk and filk? In folk, unicorns and wizards are an undesirable topic, in filk, almost necessary. I do like some of the older traditional folk lyrics about legends and mythological creatures. An example I do like is "Silent O Moyle", about the Children of Lir, and the allegory about the starving homeless during the Irish famine, 'Shortcut Through the Rosses'. But you'll find no unicorns there.