The worst song....

[Rick and Roll]

to me has always been the Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville"... BUT...

last night flipping around the radio I heard something that I've managed to avoid for years...in the recesses of my mind...something so formulaic and overdone and sappy....that I had to listen to it when it came on. And it got stuck in my head. Like watching an accident, i couldn't pull away....


Asia's "Don't Cry". What a crappy song!

Any other strike you the same way?

[PeterG]

I had a similar experience but it was excruciating... I was at a restaurant for Breakfast and a christmas song came on and it was painful. I couldn't get away and i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.

Maybe you know Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime.

Ugggg.... Damn what a bad song; what a moronic hook it is worse than Sir Paul's Ebony and Ivory.

So, we are finishing up and we were able to get out without suffering the whole song....

...the next night, i wake up in the middle of the night with that stupid 'hook' circleing around in my head. i didn't even get a break with a stupid verse... just.. .

"Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... "

Wanted to jab two, eight-inch stainless steel spikes in my head to make it stop... but, I didn't have any handy.


PeterG

Now Jeff Beck is a GREAT guitarist but did he have to record "Hi Ho Silver Lining"?

EVERY Damned party I've ever been to (including my own 50th) it gets played and every time it comes on you get a host of BAD air guitar players jumping around during the solo.

I know because I WAS that cricket bag.............

[DEzerov]

I worked at an FM radio station, a rocker, back in my undergrad days, usually overnites or weekends and people always over-requested two tracks that I still loathe 25+ years later...Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Rush's Workin' Man...

Plus anything by most of those "hair bands" in the 80's...Great White, Cinderella, Poison, Ratt, Motley Crue...

(Must admit some of Twisted [FCKing] Sister, Whitesnake, Dio and Y&T was alright...)

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by PeterG

I couldn't get away and i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.
Wanted to jab two, eight-inch stainless steel spikes in my head to make it stop... but, I didn't have any handy.


PeterG

What a great story! And those two lines I must remember...crack me up

Sir Paul...didn't he recently say to his estranged wife "Those are MY breasts"?

[mossy]

ooooo, rick. agree margaritaville is up there with the worst but there is one more that beats it out ...

cracklin' rosie by Neil Diamond.

uggh.

[mossy]

also, song sung blue - Neil Diamond

I'm sure he's a nice guy but..

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by mossy

also, song sung blue - Neil Diamond

I'm sure he's a nice guy but..

My wife and mother and sister paid a hundred each to see him.... always crack up when he sings xmas carols.....jewish

Longfellow Serenade.......

[DEzerov]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

My wife and mother and sister paid a hundred each to see him.... always crack up when he sings xmas carols.....jewish

Longfellow Serenade.......

"Hey little boy, I couldn't help but hear,
you feelin left out of Christmas cheer.

Well I've come to say you that you shouldn't be sad,
this is the one month that you should be glad.

Cause it's nice to be a Jew on Christmas.
You don't have to deal with the season at all.
You don't have to be on your best behavior, or give to charity.
You don't have to go to Grandma's house with your alchoholic family..."

[podakayne]

dang -it sis!....now i got those damn songs in my head...

posted lovingly by the lady mossy
"...song sung blue - Neil Diamond...worst but there is one more that beats it out ...cracklin' rosie by Neil Diamond."

...help me peter...where are those damn spikes!!!!!

Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
"I couldn't get away and i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.
Wanted to jab two, eight-inch stainless steel spikes in my head to make it stop... but, I didn't have any handy."

[roger]

> i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.

THAT is classic.

[sharcnorris]

Genesis- Misunderstanding, Makes me want to pee sitting Down

[podakayne]

...sorry sharc i dont see what the problem is with that

[teermin8r]

Sing by the Carpenters. It still brings back memories of Big Bird and Kermit.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

I still maintain that "Domanique" by The Singing Nun has got to be the worst song ever recorded. Period.

Roger -Dot- Lee, Trust me on this.

[julieval]

Originally Posted by Roger -Dot- Lee

I still maintain that "Domanique" by The Singing Nun has got to be the worst song ever recorded. Period.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ur_sourire.png Here is an actual picture of the singing nun with her axe.

I have laughed so much reading this thread. We purposely don't keep 8 in stainless steel spikes in the house for this very reason.

The song that brings the taste of a gun barrel to my mouth is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. Kill me now. And throw me in Lake Superior.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by PeterG

I had a similar experience but it was excruciating... I was at a restaurant for Breakfast and a christmas song came on and it was painful. I couldn't get away and i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.

Maybe you know Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime.

Ugggg.... Damn what a bad song; what a moronic hook it is worse than Sir Paul's Ebony and Ivory.

So, we are finishing up and we were able to get out without suffering the whole song....

...the next night, i wake up in the middle of the night with that stupid 'hook' circleing around in my head. i didn't even get a break with a stupid verse... just.. .

"Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... "

Wanted to jab two, eight-inch stainless steel spikes in my head to make it stop... but, I didn't have any handy.


PeterG

Paul McCartney penned some wonderful songs; he also penned some awful crap.

My votes go to Let 'Em In and Silly Love Songs.

[Rick and Roll]

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".

[DEzerov]

Can't agree with you on Instant Karma, Rick...imho...it's vintage Lennon...

How about Bill Shatner's Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds.... Oh My God...

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by DEzerov

How about Bill Shatner's Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds.... Oh My God...

I guess what I really mean are songs that try to be good. Shatner's never tried to be anything but camp. That's not even his worst..."Rocket Man", now that's funny!

Still thinking about the "taste of a gun barrel" along with the "spikes"...you two must have a fun relationship