Songs that make your flesh crawl...

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 12:13 AM

and it's "stupid ass" too.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 12:13 AM

That stupiad ass "Have You Forgotten" song about 9-11.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Amergin
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 12:02 AM

Muttley, I agree with you on the two John Williamson songs you you mentioned....Wrinkles is a beautiful song....

My neck hairs rise though when he is singing Raining on the Rock...especially the part "Uluru is/has power"

I lso love his Little Girl From the Dryland....and Galleries of Pink Galahs.

Anyways when I saw the title of the thread I instantly thought of that creepy Sting song....Every Breath You Take....

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Joe_F
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 09:31 PM

McGrath: Absolutely. It's not the worst rhyme in the world, or even in that song, but it haunts my memory as the epitome of sleaze.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 07:30 PM

Okay, folks, here is the final word on flesh-crawling recordings.

Listen in stunned disbelief to the ultimate and crowning melodramatic horror...as Paul Anka sings and mugs his way through "My Way" in a duet with Frank Sinatra's ghostly voice while a gigantic orchestra plays along. It must have been done as a tribute to Sinatra, judging by the format. Strictly black tie at this event. I bet the tickets were $600 apiece.

Anka and Sinatra do "My Way" together!

If you're still able to function after that, go and look up Sid Vicious doing the same song on YouTube. It's a good antidote to the usual version.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: jimlad9
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 07:16 PM

I understand that British Airways are planning to print the words to all Cliff Richards songs inside their 'sicky-bags'.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Ref
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 06:39 PM

Love Marc Cohn's "Walkin' In Memphis." Looking for lyrics to "Vimy." Almost any melodic anthem, national or otherwise, sung before a good crowd where the crowd JOINS IN! Our (USA) national anthem WHEN sung by some twit as though auditioning for American Idol and listened to by crowd in stunned silence, unable to figure in what direction the soloist is going!

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Old Grizzly
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:38 PM

I'll sing you one o .....


I'm outa there as fast as my legs will carry me !

D

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 11:54 AM

I'll have to second Jim Dixon's TO ALL THE GIRLS I'VE LOVED BEFORE.

I also wonder what made Willie want to sing with Toby Keith.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 06:50 PM

TO ALL THE GIRLS I'VE LOVED BEFORE was a low point for Willie Nelson, whom I usually like. What made him want to sing with Julio Iglesias anyway?

Anybody remember Barbra Streisand's MY COLORING BOOK?

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Brakn
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 05:56 PM

Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker and

most things by Oasis and similar.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Muttley
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 05:39 PM

Two Words: PAPER LACE !!!

Muttley

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:39 PM

How Do You Like Me Now? - Toby Keith

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:24 PM

That daft bloody thing by Prefab Sprout, with the meaningless line "Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerqe". Twee and complete horseshit.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:14 PM

You've got a set of lyrics which rhymes "love her" with "another", and "constantly" with "memory", Joe - and you pick out derted/heard it as the one to complain about!

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: GUEST,Connie Sewer
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 11:15 AM

Thanks to Capt Ginger for those examples of Morant's verse.

I've seldom heard a more unpleasant, indeed ugly, voice than whichever of the Spice Chicks it was that sung "It's raining men".

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 10:41 AM

When the brass band plays the Good Comrade, with the muffled drum sounding the Dead Roll on Memorial Day.
Can't stop my tears

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: GUEST,Nelie Clatt
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 04:24 AM

Anything by the Spice Girls, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want, is kick your collective heads in.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Alec
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 02:50 AM

And,of course, absolutely anything by Melanie but particularly her take on "Ruby Tuesday" is guaranteed to make me wince.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: kendall
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:32 PM

Breaker Morant is one of the best films I have ever seen.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:29 PM

McGrath: I agree that rhyming "deserted" & "heard it" is not, in itself, an offense. But after I heard it the tenth time in the local greasy spoon in the summer of 1957, it took on a patina of grease.
http://www.bestlyrics.org/K/0/katie-melua/learning-the-blues/
if you really want to know.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Muttley
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 07:38 PM

Stephen; you are CRUEL man - I've been trying to forget that one for years - - - - - successfully until now!!!

Muttley

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 07:33 PM

The disco version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony called "A Fifth of Beethoven".

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Richard in Manchester
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 06:57 PM

What's the difference between chicken-pox sores under the foreskin and "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners? One's the most excruciating irritant imaginable, the other will be gone in a few days.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Muttley
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 05:36 PM

"Sing!" Sing a Song! Make it simple - - to last your whole life long.

That what you were referring to there Sal?

Know what you mean: a couple are OK - John Williamson's version of Home Among the Gum Trees on his Family Album isn't TOO bad - though allt the voices in the chorus ARE his family including adults and kids.

Besides - have you ever heard the Australian Children's Choir doing "I Still Call Australia Home" for the QANTAS ad? REAL goose-pimple stuff. An absolute flersh-crawler in the best way possible: especially when they start singing:
"Someday we'll all be together once more
When all of our ships will come back to the shore..."

I just can NOT keep a dry eye when i hear that

Muttley

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:36 PM

Any song that uses kids to sing the chorus. Yuk!

Sal

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Muttley
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:34 PM

Fair Go, Ginger.

Morant's poetry was good but to put him in the league with Lawson and Patterson is stretching it a bit - sorta like putting James Herbert in the same league as Shakespeare or Chaucer.

Given that Harry Morant was (from memory) English-born; I'd put his interpretation of Australian life as expressed in poetry and prose in a league with that of Eric Bogle - the Scots-born lyricist who seems to have a far better understanding of the Aussie psyche than most Aussies (and I'd put him on a par just below that of John Williamson who is, in turn the step below Lawson and Patterson.

Mind you - Morant and Bogle would STILL be above Ted Egan and MILES above the likes of James Blundell & Lee Kernaghan.

If you recall the end of the movie that part where the men go to their seats in front of the firing squad and are walking towards them, they reach out and hold hands - that incredibly poignant depiction was a piece of inspired improv on Woodwards part - when they did that there wasn't a dry eye in the house: male OR female.

It was also the Breaker Morant incident that led to the decision to take control of Australian soldiers in France and Turkey - both tactical and disciplinary - away from the British High Command and place them under Australian commanders. This way no Australian soldiers would ever be executed 'as an example' as so many British soldiers were. The Captains Letter is a great example of the latter.

Muttley

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: bobbijo
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:30 PM

Really, really bad songs like 'Honey', 'Yummy,Yummy', and that Neil Diamond classic, 'I Am I Said' have their place in the camp pantheon. 'One Tin Soldier' is a good one too. Of that one I have fond memories. My daughter's misguided chorus teacher decided the 4th and 5th graders should sing it. The enterprising kiddies-- this being the year of OJ-- responded accordingly, coming up with a parody-- 'One White Bronco'. Out of the mouth of babes.

My skin crawls when I hear most contemporary childrens' songs. Deliver me from Raffi.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 02:53 PM

Edward Woodward sings "The Soldiers Of The King" over the credits for "Breaker Morant" and a sloppy love song in a flashback scene. I've heard him sing "The Way You Look Tonight" and it's rather lovely.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: jimlad9
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 01:19 PM

Thanks McGrath I had forgotten about Cliffs version of Living Doll infinitely improved by
'The Young Ones'.


I understand that before Cliffs backing group 'The Shadows' joined him it was proposed to employ a girl group called 'The Climax Sisters' but then it was found that they could not come every night.

Also the Righteous Brothers took a lot of persuading not to use their real names
'Norfolk and Goode'

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: mrdux
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 01:16 PM

today's Portland Oregonian published the results of a reader's survey of the worst love songs of all time. the countdown:

5. "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy": 1910 Fruitgum Company.
4. "You Light Up My Life" (Debbie Boone's version was highlighted)
3. "You're Having My Baby": Paul Anka
2. "Afternoon Delight": The Starland Vocal Band
1. "Muskrat Love": Captain & Tennille

also mentioned were the entire oeuvres of Michael Bolton, Bread and Air Supply.

I can't say that I have any substantial disagreement.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:03 PM

You usually can't tell a person's ideology from their musical tastes.

Now that'd make an interesting thread, as it got argued back and forth. I think it'd all come down to how "usually" was defined.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Bee
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:59 AM

Little Hawk, on another forum where I post very sparingly (like once a month), there is a fellow who likes most of the same music I do. He is, however, a Christian fundamentalist who is sure I'm going to hell, and posts 'at me' with enormous contempt and even anger because of my socialist leanings. But he's the first one to help me find a song I'm looking for, and so music is the only reason I ever post in his internet vicinity. You usually can't tell a person's idealogy from their musical tastes.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Scrump
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:54 AM

I never really understand how familiarity with a sung can evoke strong dislike for it in people who had liked it before. I tend to feel, possibly unfairly, that who people get all scornful about songs that have become perhaps over-exposed for their own good, there's an element of the fashionista.

How I see it is, if a song is good, it's good for ever, but maybe it's not a bad idea to rest it from time to time, so it can come across fresh, or maybe it doesn't fit a particular singer any more. Like clothes, really.

The above is a very interesting point made by McGrath of Harlow - probably worthy of its own thread.

Yes, maybe a song can go out of fashion because of over-exposure. But as a performer you would probably be sensitive to this and realise your audience would feel that way, and it would perhaps be daft to sing it in the face of this.

But you could be right, that a song might not suit a singer after a while, as things move on.

I guess things like Political Correctness might also influence a singer's decision to include a song or not, for fear of encountering opposition from the audience. Maybe it's a question of bravery or foolhardiness.

As there are plenty of good songs, I don't agonise too much if I have to leave the odd one out for reasons of over-familiarity or changing views.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: GUEST,Chris G
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:42 AM

Babes in the Wood

The Barley Mow

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:23 AM

Funny how Teribus and I can't agree on politics, but we click so well when it comes to songlists! ;-) I've noticed that with pdq as well.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:51 AM

That Spice Girls thing that goes Tell-you-what-I-want-what-I-really-really-want

My brain always expired at that point so I never knew what it was called, and (I can't believe I did this) I actually Googled it to get the title. Wannabe. So there.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:11 AM

At the risk of thread creep, the poem at the end of Breaker Morant was one of Morant's own. You'll find some of it here. His stuff is on a par with Lawson and Patterson in my view.
I don't know if anyone's set any of his stuff to music - Bob Bolton would probably know.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Alec
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:08 AM

Edward Woodward's interpretation of "The Way You Look Tonight" has long been a particular favourite.
Very few songs are strong enough to fully withstand the hideous indignity of being covered by Bryan Ferry.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Charmain
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:03 AM

Like I said its a very subjective thing - You're right about the "girl" thing too.

I've never fully understood it myself as virtually everyone I know likes the song - for some reason it makes me shudder...

I'm quite happy for it to be just me that feels this way!

What about the Madonna version of American Pie - not a flesh creeper just crap!

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:00 AM

Woodward is a pretty decent singer in his own right. I seem to recall a recording he did some 15 years or so back of folk and parlour songs which was very listenable.
Agreed about Breaker Morant - one of my Desert Island flicks.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Grab
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:52 AM

Oh yeah, Sonny's Dream is very odd - very Psycho. And Charmain, if your objection was to the Cher version of WiM, I entirely sympathise. My memory had thankfully erased memories of that. And the Madonna version of Fever - another travesty.

Still, "boy" when he's a young man ain't that bad. From the other side, think of My Girl, Girls just wanna have fun, Girl on a motorcycle...

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: GUEST,Skin Condition
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:41 AM

Yes, I thought it was E Woodward as well. Doesn't he recite some verse that sounds a bit like the R Kipling, R Service kind of idiom?
Agree with the opinion of songs that I know mentioned here, and would add the overlong "Wille McBride"/"Green Fields of France", and a hell of a lot of Bob Dylan. Anything by Cliff Richard. Anything by that moaning bastard from Dundee, is it Micheal Marra? Wonder what he'd sound like if they took him off the Mogadon.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:40 AM

Now you surely have to like this version - Living Doll with the Cliff Richard being assisted by The Young Ones.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Alec
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:36 AM

For me the ultimate expression of Self-satisfied & unjustified self-righteousness is "Earth Song" by Michael Jackson.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:36 AM

Terribus-

Here's support for your nomination of the sentimental claptrap song titled "Sonny's Dream." It's such a claustrophobic song.

Now I likes some nostalgic songs. Lord knows, C. Fox Smith composed enough nautical poems like that which have been adapted for singing. But they usually have some kind of hard edge to them. I'm thinking of "Mariquita," "Sailortown," and "Port o' Dreams" for starters. I'm also fond of two such songs that Bob Zentz adapted from poems: "The Old Grey Squirrel" and "Sea Dog." But maybe if I heard them too many times, they'd drive me up the wall as well.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:32 AM

Hey, Muttley and Terribus. Just to deviate a little. The film "Breaker Morant" with Edward Woodward and the book "Shoot Straight, You Bastards" are both excellent.
Cliff's "Lord's Prayer" makes me bilious BTW.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Charmain
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:31 AM

Good God - I'd forgotten about Cliff - think I'm going to vomit...

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: jimlad9
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:22 AM

In a Good way my flesh breaks out in Goosepimples at 'Flower of Scotland' 'Cwm Rhonddha'.
The froggie national anthem 'La Marsellaise' as well tho' I hate to admit it. It is way better than our German dirge 'God save the Queen'.



Now for skin crawling,puke inducing,cat kicking music.........

ANYTHING by Cliff Richards, but especially 'Living Doll'. It was sprung on the British public unannounced one evening and my gorgeous wife could not get a bucket in front of me quick
enough!.

Subject: RE: Songs that make your flesh crawl...
From: Bee
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:18 AM

Bobad, that would be 'no'. I haven't seen the movie in years, but the only scene I can remember which might have had anything to do with the lyrics was pretty unpleasant. There's no accounting for taste, of course. 'Lucinda', by Randy Newman, is a rather horrifying narrative, but makes my skin crawl in a good way (but maybe I'm really odd).

Lucinda

We met one summer evening
As the sun was going down
She was lying on the beach
In her graduation gown
She was wrapped up in a blanket
(I could tell she knew her way around)
And as I lay down beside her
You know she never made a sound
On down the beach came the beach-cleaning man
Scoopin' up the papers and flattening down the sand
Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda - we've got to run away
That big white truck is closin' in
And we'll get wounded if we stay
Now Lucinda lies buried 'neath the California sand
Put under by the beach-cleaning man
Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda - why'd you have to go?
They sent her to high school
They sent her to low school
She just wouldn't go further