1. Vax, absolutely about Sir Paul....one extreme or the other - Let 'Em In was a great idea (like the Righteous Brothers' "Rock and Roll Heaven" or that "Night Shift" song by the Commodores?), but a putrid song. The one by Paul that kills me is "Junior's Farm". I actually used to like that song. I hear it now and it's painful.
2. Roger, the Singing Nun.....have to agree there
3. J, the Gordon Lightfoot song brings back a funny memory. Roy Firestone, a noted sportswriter and talking head, used to do imitations, and he did Gordon Lightfoot singing the national anthem to the tune of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald "while sitting in the 34th row with just an acoustic guitar"... imagine "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light"....
Speaking of "Imagine", Lennon's "Instant Karma" always gets on my nerves...
What really bothers me about that song is that Gordon reads you a straight history lesson to a song. Maiden does this in "Alexander the Great" and it's silly. It's a great song, but just hearing someone sound like their reading from a textbook is funny. Sing along: "King Darius the third, defated fled Persia, the Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes, then Egypt fell to the Macedonian King as well, and he founded the city called Alexandria".