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The Song That Works Your Last Nerve

Saturday, 3 November 2018, 16:32 BFH Uncategorized 134

This was a Facebook question.

I have many answers, but I have to go with this—>

The video does not help… at all….

134 Comments on The Song That Works Your Last Nerve

  14. ATM-

    Regarding Saturday in the Park,

    I hate the lyric.

    I “think” it was the 4th of July.
    Really?
    You don’t know if it was 4th of July or not?
    We’re you drunk? Stoned?

    And it’s 4th of July but a guy is “singing Italian songs.”
    Sing your Italian songs on Columb.. Indigenous People’s Day, like
    every other good Italian.

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  15. Speaking of Thin Lizzie, Jailbreak.

    “Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak. Somewhere in this town.”

    Somewhere in this town? Had they ever stopped to consider that a jailbreak would, by definition, occur at the fucking jail?

    OK. Joe Cocker, you are so beautiful sucks huge rubber donkey dicks. And that other ‘you’re beautiful’ song by ????? Let’s just say any song with the word ‘beautiful’ in it. Like up,up and away with my beautiful, my beautiful BABOOOOOOON!!!

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  17. Bad_Brad, I had mercifully forgotten that song existed. Thanks. 😉

    The Pina Colada song, Loving You by Minnie Ripperton, and Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree, which launched the awful curse of the never-ending awareness ribbons.

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  18. Slow Ride, by Foghat

    If ever there was a song to put on continuous loop at gitmo, this would top my list of Geneva Convention violations.

    Also, please add the title and band when posting. Every time I click on a YouTube link right now I’m getting political ads before the video, most of them democrat and anti-Walker. I’m sorry, but I won’t be click on YouTube links for a few days.

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  22. Proud Mary! Used to be when everyone was juiced up enough at weddings this song would be played. No one wants to see Uncle Louie “rollin on the River…”. Now I leave before that can happen.

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  23. ANYTHING by Queen, which will AGAIN be over-played because of yet another movie. They sucked in the 70’s but were over-played, then Wayne’s World had to bring back that POS “Bohemian Crap-Sodomy” and now they’ve dedicated an entire movie to the third rate glam-band.

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  32. Bad_Brad November 3, 2018 at 4:41 pm

    yep…trumpets don’t sound right in a R & R band. Dire Straits said that in Sultans of Swing: “it ain’t what they call Rock & Roll”.

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  37. Any song with the word ‘beautiful’ in it. I don’t care if it’s Joe Cocker, you are so beautiful, that suck ass song that came out a few years back, or the Fifth Dimension flying up, up and away with their beautiful BABOOOOON.

    Suckage on stilts

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  41. This little exercise is really giving me a headache.
    I’m spinning around in the mid-60s right now, and there was so much crap coming out, there is no way to make a list. Mrs. Brown had a lovely daughter, but the song about her sucks.

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  42. Back in the 50’s, so many songs used the word “part,” meaning break up, etc. Why? Because it was easy to rhyme.

    I have never used “part” as a verb, other than “part my hair.” (Hmmm, been a while since I said that, too.)

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  44. Agree with most everything so far, but I think my all time worst…I’m gonna break somethin’ if that keeps playin’…is “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights”.

    I’d link to it, but then YT is gonna be suggesting it to me for the next 3 weeks. And I WILL break somethin’…

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  45. Pretty much any song with “dancing” in the lyrics.

    Leo Sayer has TWO of them.

    -You Make Me Feel Like Dancin’
    -Long Tall Glasses (You Know I Can’t Dance)

    Add his 2 other hits and you have, I submit, the worst 4-time hit artist.

    -When I Need You
    – More Than I Can Say

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  48. Popcorn by Hot Butter.

    Funky town.

    Born to be alive.

    All that late 70s bullshit.

    Truly horrible. A miserable disco infestation. Excruciatingly awful. – Leonard Pinth Darnell.

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  61. “Try going through the desert on a horse with no legs….
    Now you have a song.”
    That sounds like it could really drag on.

    a horse with no legs. . .
    It really rips up the Grass

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  74. Yep and it sucked. I hate all those weepy teen angst songs from the 50’s. Crying In The Chapel by Elvis sucks as well. Blue Christmas also by Elvis. And The 3 Bells (Little Jimmy Brown) by The Browns makes me cringe but the worst is anything by Bobby Goldsborough or Pat Boone. Imagine by John Lennon, or Yoko Ono for that matter, In The Year 2525 by Zager and Evans, One Tin Soldier by Coven, Afternoon Delight by The Starland Vocal Band, Muskrat Love, just because. And probably way too many other one hit wonders and stinkeroos as well.

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  77. Yeah douchebag. You’d like the National anthem better if it started with Jose’

    I’m offering up a gift of kindness to you. Here’s a hanky. You’ll need it Tuesday night.
    Now slither off to your safe space.

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  78. anybody called ‘You’re Having My Baby’ yet?

    or ‘I’d Like To Buy The World A Coke’? … ‘with apple trees & honey bees & snow white turtle doves …’
    or ‘The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia’?
    or ‘You’re So Vain’? …. ‘you probably think this song is about you’ … IT IS, YOU MORON!!!

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  81. Stop the world (and dance with you)
    Don’t care who sang it, hate it.

    Soft Cell. The entire group, every song.
    Everything from Tears for Fears. Everything. But mostly ‘everybody wants to rule the world’

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  82. or …
    ‘Christmas Bells’ … “Merry Christmas mein friend”
    ‘Chuckie’s In Love’
    ‘Judy In Disguise’ … my little brother’s first record purchase … I ‘accidentally’ broke it … really!
    ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’ … always hated that song since my first Jack-In-The-Box
    ‘My Ding-A-Ling’ … worse song EVER from old perv, Chuck Berry

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  88. oh …
    & Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ … so tiring … Zeppelin did it better w/ ‘Kashmir’

    & for all the ‘Layla’ haters … admit it, the song’s much better w/out that insipid piano coda

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  94. Was it Crystal Gayle (Gail, Gale?) and her “Afternoon Delight” or “Midnight at the Oasis” (“send your camel to bed”) that drove us all stark staring mad in the 70s?

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  103. @geoff the aardvark: Actually The Three Bells by The Browns is a schmaltzy second-rate knockoff of the original French song, Les Trois Cloches. Here’s a version (in French) sung by the legendary Edith Piaf which knocked my socks off the first time I heard it. I wouldn’t have believed a tiny 4′ 10″ woman could outsing a whole chorus of French guys, but she did:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVuKLxx-ETY

    If you’re interested, here’s the English translation:

    https://lyricstranslate.com/en/les-trois-cloches-three-bells.html

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  104. And, We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off, to Have a Good Time. Because it’s been struck in my head since I had to give my very first bed bath, to an old man, in nursing school. It’s been haunting me for 25 years!

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  106. Wait a minute.

    How did we miss “Seasons in the Sun”?

    Hello my friend it’s hard to die…

    Terry Jacks I think

    I think we just created a K-Tel infomercial here. The best of the worst of the one hit wonders.

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  109. Hotel California. January of 1977. Moving from west coast to east coast in the coldest January ever in a Uhaul with a broken heater. As one radio station faded out, playing that song, the next radio station faded up playing that song.

    And the miniseries Roots played that week.

    And Jimmy Carter was sworn in during that trip.

    That was definitely a low point.

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  110. “We’re where it’s at”
    — President Donald J. Trump

    I got two turntables and a microphone
    Where it’s at
    I got two turntables and a microphone
    Where it’s at
    I got two turntables and a microphone
    Where it’s at
    I got two turntables and a microphone

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  115. I’d almost include the Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive but it has one saving attribute. For some reason, anybody who has heard that song (and who other than undiscovered Amazonian Indians hasn’t) when they “play” it in their heads they get the tempo very close to the original recording. And that tempo is exactly the right tempo for CPR compressions. You might help somebody stay alive by humming Stayin’ Alive as you give ’em cardiac compressions.

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  117. “Rod Stewart’s Tonight’s the Night

    Plus everything else Stewart’s sung, but especially THAT one.”

    He couldn’t use any of that money to buy throat lozenges and something more spendy than a Supercuts’ haircut?

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  119. “Honey,” by Bobby Goldsboro. It’s not just the horrifying banality of the original that kills your brain cells but the ever increasing banality of all of the sickening covers:

    Ed Ames (1968)

    Sandro (1968) (“Querida” – “Quiero llenarme de ti”, 1968)

    Björn Ulvaeus (Swedish-language version called Raring, 1968)

    Eddy Arnold (Romantic World of Eddy Arnold, 1968)

    Percy Faith (Angel of the Morning-Hit Themes for Young Lovers, 1968)

    David Houston (Already It’s Heaven, 1968)

    John D. Loudermilk (Country Love Songs Plain and Simply Sung, 1968)

    Charlie Louvin (Will You Visit Me on Sunday, 1968)

    Roger Miller (A Tender Look at Love, 1968)

    Jimmy C. Newman (Born to Love You, 1968)

    Gary Puckett & The Union Gap (Young Girl, 1968)

    Tammy Wynette (D-i-v-o-r-c-e, 1968)

    Dean Martin (Gentle on My Mind, 1968)

    Leon Ashley (Mental Journey, 1969)

    Jack Greene (Love Takes Care of Me, 1969)

    Hank Snow (Hits Covered by Snow, 1969)

    Lynn Anderson (Big Girls Don’t Cry, 1971)

    Orion (Reborn, 1978)

    Jim Nabors (Country Side of Jim Nabors, 1994)

    Roger Whittaker (Feelings, 1994)

    Sil Austin (Great Sax, 1995)

    Billy Joe Winghead (Precious Moments with Billy Joe Winghead, 2003)

    Lawrence Welk (Upstairs at Larry’s: Lawrence Welk Uncorked, 2004)

    Hana Zagorova (Hany, 1973)

    Andy Williams (Honey, 1968)

    Daniel O’Donell (From Daniel With Love, 2004)

    Frankie Laine (Take me back to Laine Country, 1968)

    Lawrence Welk (Upstairs at Larry’s: Lawrence Welk Uncorked, 2004)

    Hana Zagorova (Hany, 1973)

    Andy Williams (Honey, 1968)

    I mean, c’mon. Roger Miller? Gary Puckett and the Union Gap? Dean Martin? Jim Nabors? Lawrence welk? C’mon, really, LAWRENCE WELK??!? GIMME A BREAK!!!

    That should leave you guys screaming for mercy. I’m sure the Swedish language version is a real treat. It could take the place of waterboarding.

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  123. Eugenia, Drop kick me Jesus thru the goalposts of life is awful. I have a pastor friend who absolutely detests that song. No one mentioned all the other so called crap Jesus songs from the 70’s like Are you on the top 40 of your Lordy, Lordy, Lordy by Sha Na Na, Jesus is just all right with me by the Doobie Brothers, Oh lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin and anything from Jesus Christ Superstar or the Godspell musicals.

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  124. Eurythimics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of this).

    Can’t stand it, and I can’t figure out what instrument is used to do those short bursts of ugly sound throughout the entire song.

    “Everybody is looking for something”…well, many of us have found it in God.

    “Some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused”…Lennox and Stewart must live on the sick and seedy side of the tracks.

  130. When Maria Muldaur sings “You won’t need no camel honey, when I take you for a ride”.

    If it’s an Arab guy, it’s probably a toss-up: “Hmmm, let’s see…Maria or the camel?”

  132. Dianny November 3, 2018 at 4:59 pm

    “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” by Roberta Flack. Good grief I hate that song with every fiber of my being.

    How about these to kill a romance:

    “The First Time Ever I Smelled Your Breath”
    “The First Time Ever I Heard You Fart”
    “The First Time Ever I Saw You Pick Your Nose”.

  133. Jimmy November 3, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    There was a very odd rock song (supposedly rock) from Europe in the early sixties that has yodeling in it. Yes, that’s right, YODELING. I guess it was from a Swiss or Austrian band. It was very strange.

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