I'm interested in finding out what hit songs people absolutely
loathe. Sort of the reverse of Desert Island Disks.
Some common examples might be "Muskrat Love" (Toni Tenille), "Half
Breed" (Cher), "Havin' My Baby (Paul Anka), "Escape (The Pina Colada
Song" (Rupert Holmes), "Sailing" (Christopher Cross), "Kung Fu
Fighting" (Carl Douglas) and "Wildwood Weed" (Carl Douglas).
Definitely: "Afternoon Delight". gag...
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I just called to say I love you
Stevie Wonder
No offense, Stevie.
Nikki
American-In-Sweden
Baker Street - Jerry Rafferty
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
I've Never Been to Me - ?
The War Song - Culture Club
Kokomo - Beach Boys
There was a song several years ago by ? called "Solid as a Rock" that I
refuse to listen to in it's entirety...It makes me wretch...The Stevie
Wonder response remindes me that I can't stand "Ebony and Ivory" either...
-- scott
"Big Shot" - Billy Joel
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" - Yes
"Stand" -REM
"El Condor Pasa" - Simon & Garfunkel
Everything by Depeche Mode
Everything by Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey
Almost everything involving Sting
ahhhhhh...that felt good...
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I used to hate this one until I heard America's version on their live
album from the late 70's (which is not on CD). I kind of like it now.
I can't stand any of those car-wreck death songs from the 50's. Also another
poster mentioned "I haven't been to me"; that has to be the worst pop song
of all time.
The artist and title escape me now (Bob Seeger perhaps), but it's the song
where the artist is whining about having to go on the road and play concerts
in order to make millions more dollars than I ever will. Hearing that song
always prompts me to yell "find a different job if you think being a
musician sucks".
Anyway...
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Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin (yecch!!!!)
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How about "Ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman" by Joe Tex
from 1977?
Even worse, "Brand new key" by Melanie from either 71 or 72?
BTW, there is a book, "The 50 Worst Rock'n'roll Records of all Time"
which includes "I've never been to me" and "Brand new key".
-- Chris
Oh yeah, how bout "Oh babe, what would you say" by Hurricane Smith,
also in the book?
: I'm interested in finding out what hit songs people absolutely
: loathe. Sort of the reverse of Desert Island Disks.
I can't remember the name of the worst song ever performed, or the
performer, (my mind is blocking it, thankfully), but the lyrics are:
Sometimes when we touch, the honesty's too much,
blah blah blah,
I want to hold you till I die,
Till we both break down and cry,
I want to hold you till the fear in me subsides.
Now if I could just forget those sappy lyrics. Puke!
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coo...@lsil.com
I guess one song I really hate is "Hotel California" by the Eagles, from
2-26-77. Not only is it bad, but it's long, too! Six minutes and
29 seconds that must be endured. That's nearly as long as the two above
(3:32 + 3:52) put together. It would be nice if every copy of that song
on CD would vaporize without a trace. Three back-to-back playings of
"Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen from 12-7-63 would total slightly over
7 minutes, and would be much more pleasurable.
By the way, what are the lyrics to "Surfin' Bird"?
Chris
How about:
"You Light Up My Life" - Debbie Boone
"Stairway To Heaven" - Led Zepp
"Beth" - Kiss
"At the Copa" - Barry Manilow
"Hot Hot Hot" - Buster Poindexter
"Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Billy Don't Be A Hero" - ?????????
also,
I thought Jim Stafford did "Wildwood Weed"...
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: By the way, what are the lyrics to "Surfin' Bird"?
I think the lyrics to that song are: "Bird is a word," repeated ad
nauseum with some minor variations.
On the topic of songs both obnoxious AND LENGHTY, I will cast votes for
"Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd (which has been played to death for the
last 20 years by one of our local dinosaur-rock stations), and "Thick as
a Brick" by Jethro Tull, which runs the length of a vinyl LP.
SITTING ON A PARK BENCH...
I begin to spasm.
While we're at it, the single worst line in rock and roll follows shortly
thereafter:
Snot is running down his nose...
It pains me to even type the above.
Or the equally sappy lyrics to "Seasons in the Sun" (Terry Jacks) or
"Honey" (Bobby Goldsboro), two of the worst ever--I jump for the tuning
button whenever they come on the radio...
"...And I-I-I WIL ALWAYS LOVE YOUOUOUOUOU!!!!"
Arrrghghhghh! Every time I hear that..... (or anything by Whitney)
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How about "Torn Between Two Lovers", (Jennifer Warnes).
Sandy
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In a previous article, ecri...@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Anglin) says:
>By the way, what are the lyrics to "Surfin' Bird"?
Ah, well, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird bird bird, b-bird's the word
Well, don't you know about the bird?
Everybody knows that the bird is the word
Bird bird bird, b-bird's the word
SURFIN' BIRD! (BBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRR......)
Papapapapapapa-oom-mow-mow, papa-oom-mow-mow
Well, don't you know about the bird?
Everybody know's that the bird is the the word
(Ckfuing stupid, I know, but the song sounds amazing!)
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Frezier Balzoff (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada Email-...@Freenet.carleton.ca
"A man is measured by the depth of his anger."--Eddie
"Everyone in this room is wearing a uniform, and don't kid yourself!"--Zappa
Can you explain that second one to me? I found a similar statement in
the Rolling Stone Album Guide which called Thick As A Brick "virtually
unlistenable". Columbia House, on the other hand, in their catalogue
says something like "one of the most influential recordings of the last
20 years". I wouldn't go that far, but I kinda like it.
gus gassmann
gass...@earth.sba.dal.ca
YES! Good ol' "Free Bird", length 14:10, from 11/23/74.
OK. On the subject of lengthy songs that were bad, I'm suprised nobody
has mentioned:
In-a-Gadda-da-Vida Iron Butterfly 8/24/68 about 17 minutes?
American Pie Don McLean 11/27/71 8:27
MacArthur Park Donna Summer 9/09/78 17:47
Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie 12/13/69 18:30
I Want Your Sex George Michael 6/06/87 13:12
White Wedding Billy Idol 5/21/83 8:20
Flesh For Fantasy Billy Idol 7/13/85 7:05
Light My Fire Doors 6/03/67 7:05
Riders on the Storm Doors 7/03/71 7:14
Paradise By The Dashboard Light Meat Loaf 8/12/78 8:28
Purple Rain Prince 10/06/84 8:45
November Rain Guns n' Roses 6/27/92 8:53
Hey Jude Beatles 10/14/68 7:07
Layla Eric Clapton 5/13/72 7:10
Private Dancer Tina Turner 1/19/85 7:11
You Can't Always Get What...Want Rolling Stones 4/28/73 7:28
Let's Dance David Bowie 3/26/83 7:38
The Bird The Time 2/23/85 7:40
Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 1971 7:55
Rock Me Amadeus Falco 2/08/86 8:22
Hotel California Eagles 2/26/77 6:29
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Chris
I agree with your list but at least Arlo had enough musical sense
to write numerous great songs besides Alice's Restaurant. The
Doors also have some good ones - Hyancinth House is a favorite of
mine.
On the same theme, I can't remember the name of the song, but the band
Love put out an album around 1969 that had one of those entire-second-side
twenty minute rock "masterpieces" that featured the lines:
The snot has caked against my pants
It is turning into crystal.
If TV theme music is eligible, may I nominate the theme from the Patty
Duke Show, wherein the marvelously self-evident chorus "BUT THEY'RE COUSINS"
is screamed by a truly manic girl chorus with massively misplaced fervor.
It is also damn near impossible to get out of your head if you have had
the misfortune of hearing it recently ...
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Victoria, B.C. Canada
(Alternative e-mail address: uc...@freenet.victoria.bc.ca)
Yeah, Arlo's cool. I like his version of "City of New Orleans"
from 7/29/72 . It went to number 18 on the Billboard chart.
"Motorcycle (Significance of the Pickle) Song" is a lot of fun
to listen to. It's rather long, too: 6:28 . Guess I should have
put it in the list, too. :-)
Some more bad ones (length doesn't matter):
I Got You Babe Sonny and Cher 3:10 07/10/65
The Streak Ray Stevens 3:17 04/13/74
Knock Three Times Dawn 2:57 11/21/70
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round
The Ole Oak Tree Dawn 3:17 02/17/73
The Night The Lights Went
Out in Georgia Vicki Lawrence ??? ???????
Telephone Man Meri Wilson 1:59 06/04/77
Cheeseburger in Paradise Jimmy Buffett 2:51 04/22/78
Dead Skunk Loudon Wainwright 3:06 01/27/73
Me and You and a Dog
Named Boo Lobo 2:54 04/03/71
Making Our Dreams Come True Cyndi Grecco 2:30 05/08/76
Happy Days Pratt and McClain 2:35 04/03/76
Chris---
> By the way, what are the lyrics to "Surfin' Bird"?
I don't know what "Surfin' Bird" iss doing in this "WHAT SONGS DO YOU
ABSOLUTELY LOATHE" thread - it's the second-greatest rock 'n' roll record
ever made (the greatest - as if anyone needs to be told - was the Kingsmen's
"Louie Louie", "Surfin' Bird"'s companion in the US Top 10 in early '64)...
but since you asked, here are the lyrics:
"Surfin' Bird"
(Frazier-White-Harris-Wilson)
intro:
[N.C]
A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird
verse 1:
E7
B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
B7
A-well-a don't you know about the bird?
A7
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
E7
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a... [N.C.]
[drum break]
verse 2:
A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a don't you know about the bird?
Well, everybody's talking about the bird!
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird...
break:
[N.C.]
Surfin' bird
Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb... [retching noises]... aaah!
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow
verse 3:
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-oom-oom-oom
Oom-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-a-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Well don't you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
coda:
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow [repeat to fade]
Close but no cigar... the "twenty-minute masterpieces" was "Revelations" from
the second Love LP, "Da Capo" (1966); the lines you quote above are from "Live
and Let Live" from their third album (and, coincidentally, noted net.crank
AWR's third favorite LP of all time), "Forever Changes".
>If TV theme music is eligible, may I nominate the theme from the Patty
>Duke Show, wherein the marvelously self-evident chorus "BUT THEY'RE COUSINS"
Yeah! What the hell are "identical cousins" anyway? Any geneticists out
there want to comment?
>is screamed by a truly manic girl chorus with massively misplaced fervor.
It's pretty amazing how pathetically out-of-touch whoever scored the theme
songs from 60's teen-oriented shows must have been - did they really think
that rock 'n' roll circa '65 was supposed to sound like bad outtakes from
the "Bye Bye Birdie" score?
Andrew
How about that new one by Meatloaf? Does it really deserve air time? (I
would do anything for love or ... Someone forgot to put me out of my
misery the first time around)
HOw about anything by Meatloaf?
Hasn't this gone on long enough? Or longer?
What the hell does this have to do with CDs?
This is worse than the usual crap in this group that has nothing to do
with CDs...
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So, I suggest a new topic:
"What Songs Do You Loath MORE Than `It's a Small World'?"
:-)
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Well, I guess you're sorta right. I checked out the /usr/spool/news/rec/music
directory structure on my machine and noticed rec.music.misc and found
the main discussion there. I guess that is the best place for it. Several
people have been following up to messages in this thread here though.
Just thought I'd let everyone know that the main discussion of songs to
loathe seems to be in rec.music.misc . I did not know it existed until
a few minutes ago. I've been reading rec.music.cd for months, though.
Chris --
A few months ago, at a business meeting, I heard a story which made my
skin creep and my stomach crawl. Seems that the guy had taken his kids
to Disneyland a few weeks before, had succumbed to their pleadings to be
taken through "It's a Small World", and the ride got stuck. He (and
they) sat there for 45 minutes(!), with the song tape looping over and
over and over... nobody in Ride Central had the mercy to turn off the
music while they got the ride going again.
He's a tougher man than I - he survived with most of his sanity intact.
I'd probably have been dragged out in a straightjacket, screaming my
fool head off.
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Redwood City, CA 94063
First- does anyone know who sings this song? I remember listening to this song a long time ago! I liked it.
Second- I work part time on weekend's in Edwardo's Natural Pizza. All of the cooks in the kitchen are Mexican. Late on Saturday nights when the crowds slow down, I am able to do some cleaning in the back and talk to the cooks in spanish. They play their Mexican radio stations and when I have a chance to hear it, I remember listening to "El Noche en Que Chicago Se Murio... nanana nanana nanananana... Chicago Se Murio!!!" which is the Night Chicago Died in Spanish. Hilarious!!!
8-> Paul
NO! Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" from 12/23/78
--- Chris
>First- does anyone know who sings this song? I remember listening to this song a long time ago! I liked it.
The group was Paper Lace - it was probably the only song they ever recorded. I
think if you heard it today, you would feel differently about it.
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Olivia Newton John - Any and all songs done by this shlockmistress
Rick Astley - ditto, except he's a schlockMASTER
Richard Marx - ditto
Beck - ditto
Toni Basil - ditto, mistress
Madonna - ditto
Haircut 100 - remember them? UGH!
Bob Hassell
Owner of 523 CDs and counting....
Also: Rock On - David Essex
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"The Wantagh State Parkway: 65 years later and still fulfilling the vision
of moving recreational traffic."
The LP was "Forever Changes" (more like 1971-72, I think) and (I must confess)
is one of my favorites.
Maybe it's the drugs I was taking at the time...
Whitney Houston - most - esp. "One moment in Time", "I will always love
you" - the wowing voice and moist jawbone are quite excruciating.
Also Bryan Adams. And Mariah Carey...
Yep, yep.
Plus:
Ace of Base
Toni Braxton
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Eh. Pretty much all Hip Hop and rap.
And:
Boston, Kansas, Steve Miller Band. The Eagles. Magina (Madonna).
Depeche Mode and Erasure. Morrisey. All one-name singers.
Ooh boy, this is fun.
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John Kim
k...@cs.umass.edu wiLL pRoGRam fOr fOOd
(413) 545-0067
Maybe it's just me, but the line "I love you from the bottom of my pencil
case" almost caused spastic convulsions every time I heard it.
(The Beautiful South - "Song For Whoever")
Stephen
'Round here, we always stand up straight...
'Round here, we stay up very, very, very, very, very,
very, very, very, very, very, very late...
I hate Counting Crows.
...she must be tired of something...
peace/ba
"Stop yourself without any words.
Got so high I scratched till I bled.
Love myself better that you.
I know it's wrong, but what should I do."
-kc
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how about "Muskrat Love" Captain and Tenneal and Willis Allen Ramsey
My all time favorite hate: 'Dub Be Good To Me' by some band who's name the
scar tissue of my memory has thankfully healed over. Makes me scream every
time I hear the meaningless drivel rap bit in the middle.
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