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Steve Hitsman
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Waterloo, IL
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Posted 5 May 2006 10:10 am |
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Working in the construction business subjects me to a lot of radio stations playing 'classic rock' (the apparent preference of most subcontractors, painters being the worst). I can stand most of it, since I used to listen to a lot of it myself, but there are a couple of tunes that are so bad they make me cringe: "Radar Love" (the guy actually says 'almost they-uh' instead of 'almost there') and "Alright (ugh) Now". I could include "The Day the Music Died" ('drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry'... come on, the levee is supposed to be dry, that's its job) but I always seem to catch a lot of flak over that one.
The assignment today is: what song or songs make you either immediately change the radio station, leave the room, or turn the painter's boom box off with a 28 ounce Estwing framing hammer. It doesn't have to be '70's rock, after all, I'm sure we all agree on "Achy, Breaky Heart".
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 5 May 2006 10:12 am
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| "My Baby Does the Hanky Panky" |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 5 May 2006 10:34 am
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Hmmm... 1910 Fruitgum Company...
Asbestos underwear available at Wally World...
1. Anything by Barry Manilow, or Vicki Carr
I dunno, "Yummy Yummy Yummy (I've got love in my tummy) by the Ohio Express takes me back to high school...[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 05 May 2006 at 11:35 AM.] |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 5 May 2006 10:49 am
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What gets me is that an oldies station that boasts the best of the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, etc....can have such a limited playlist. I mean, you think you'd be able to listen for weeks on end before you heard a repeat.
It seems like every time I turn on the oldies station here in LA I hear "Build Me Up Buttercup" or something equally as trite. |
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 5 May 2006 11:19 am
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I don't change stations, I have stoped listening to commercial radio quite a while ago because it is nothing but boring, no interesting music. No matter what music they play, I think they never have a playlist that includes more than 300 or 400 songs.
Beatles? They play Yesterday, Let It Be plus two three others...
Stones? Angie, Satisfaction plus two or three others...
CCR? Proud Mary, Looking Out My Backdoor etc.
Sinatra, Dean Martin, Deep Purple, Elvis, Jerry Lee, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Simon & Garfunkel, Billy Joel...always the same four or five songs, as if the complete work of an artist is only defined through these handful of songs. Just a waste of time for me!
Kind Regards, Walter
www.lloydgreentribute.com
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf [This message was edited by Walter Stettner on 05 May 2006 at 12:20 PM.] |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 5 May 2006 11:36 am
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More Than A Feeling-Boston- sounds like he has visegrips on his privates and they play it 50times a day.
Carrie Underwood-Jesus Take The Wheel-an example of how long she can bend a note and how high she can sing it.
Elvira-Oaks-too much oom poppa mow mow
I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night-the double kick drum is way over done-oh yeah by KISS
Any grunge music-Metallica,Pantera-sounds like they are po'd at the world.
anything by Curt Cobain[This message was edited by Craig A Davidson on 05 May 2006 at 12:37 PM.]
edited again for the correct band-Thanks Jason S. I still hate the song.[This message was edited by Craig A Davidson on 06 May 2006 at 06:38 AM.] |
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Smiley Roberts
From:
Hendersonville,Tn. 37075
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 5 May 2006 12:51 pm
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| Not to mention "Gimme Three Steps"! |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 5 May 2006 2:01 pm
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I'm going to restrict my list to a few items that seem to recur with appalling frequency on country radio....
'Do The Shake' (I've forgotten which musical miscreant is responsible for this, but it's an awful song very badly sung.)
'... Water Melon Crawl' Mindless.
'If You're Gonna Play in Texas...' Dreadful!!!
The worst of all? 'A little Less Talk & A Lot more Action' (not sure of the 'artist', but have you heard how out-of-tune the singer is?)
Oh yes, and I can't stand that 'Play Me Some Mountain Music' with its contrived change of tempo.
How does such drivel get played and played and played?
....or maybe there's something priceless about these gems that I 'don't get'.....
RR |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 5 May 2006 4:05 pm
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| How does such drivel get played and played and played? |
Roger, your list certainly contains some of the most banal songs ever to sell millions! Why do they sell, and why do they get played? Put quite simply, the (mostly young) mass audience that likes this drivel has a taste for $#!&. These songs were all written for dancers, not for listeners. 
I gotta admit, all you guys (so far) are pretty much right on in your choices! Also, I gotta admit that I liked most all of Don McLean's stuff, but I gotta agree that "American Pie" is his most sucky song. Hard to believe that hand that wrote that one also penned "Vincent" ("Starry, Starry Nights"). If that ain't the Alpha and the Omega of songwriting, I don't know what is!  |
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Henry Nagle
From:
Santa Rosa, California
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Posted 5 May 2006 4:50 pm
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| God! There's so much music to hate. It's hard to narrow it down New generic R&B? New generic jazz? New generic country? Most of the music I like is older than I am...... Oh! I got it. "Foreigner". I don't like to hear Foreigner at work or anywhere. |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 5 May 2006 6:09 pm
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| ANYTHING by Bruce the BOSS. |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 5 May 2006 6:20 pm
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| P.S.,Smiley ,If Sweet Home runs you out of a club,All you could do in this area would be stay home every night and watch Law and Order reruns.Good thing I do like it,sometimes have to play it twice a night. |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 5 May 2006 6:33 pm
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| At least have'nt had to play achy breakey for a while,always had trouble with that complex chord structure. |
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Jesse Pearson
From:
San Diego , CA
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Posted 5 May 2006 7:35 pm
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| I play everything from Charlie Parker to Bach. I love "Alright now" and "Sweet Home", fun songs. I quit a band once because the other guys on the bus were always listening to Styx and Kansas, that's what I call quivering white boy music, ugh! |
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Jim Peters
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 5 May 2006 8:18 pm
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| Any Barry Manilow. JP |
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Henry Nagle
From:
Santa Rosa, California
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Posted 5 May 2006 8:49 pm
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| Even Mandy? |
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Jason Schofield
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Posted 5 May 2006 9:08 pm
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Classic rock stations are just terrible. I can say my biggest influences come from the "classic rock" genre. But their playlist are so limited that you hear the same tunes over and over. We have Dish satellite radio at work and they only play the classic rock station. I hear the same tunes every single day of my life. So many great album cuts that never get heard. It's a shame. Boston, Kansas, Styx, Bad Company, B.T.O. Frampton, Skynard, ect.... over and over.. uggh...
P.S. "More Than a Feeling" is Boston not Journey.. Classic rock must die.. at least the format.. !!!!! |
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Leslie Ehrlich
From:
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 5 May 2006 11:24 pm
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| Mainstream top 40 pop/rock/country music all sounds like it's coming from a machine. All songs tend to merge into each other... one song is as good as the next. I think for most people it's just background noise. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 6 May 2006 12:51 am
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The SUPREMELY mindless Girly Bar music here
can put any self-respecting musian off his feed.
"We Are The Chicky Girls" is about par for the pits...
I would ALMOST rather hear "Feelings".. but not quite.
I agree about some fine artists being represented to posterity by some of their worst music.
Louis Armstrong is a classic example.
The 1st Styx album was really good,
but as Tommy Shaw's influence was over-ridden by Dennis DeYOung's,
it all went pearshaped in a big way.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 06 May 2006 at 01:52 AM.] [This message was edited by David L. Donald on 06 May 2006 at 01:53 AM.] |
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Pat Kelly
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Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 6 May 2006 1:55 am
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Must be the fumes.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 6 May 2006 6:54 am
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Bird is the word - Papa U mow-mow. (Same song?)
There are MANY others, but these two top my list.[This message was edited by Barry Blackwood on 12 May 2006 at 06:14 PM.] |
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Larry Robbins
From:
Fort Edward, New York
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Posted 6 May 2006 7:59 am
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Roger Rettig speakes for me! MAn, I cant stand those tunes!! The only one I will add is "Achey, Breachy, Heart" ...no matter how many times I vomit, I still feel the need to hang myself!
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 6 May 2006 8:37 am
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New Yawk New Yawk
i'm saturated w: this tune since the chauvinist French seem to have it on TV & radio all the time
Wooly Bully
man' there are a lot of tunes make me change stations or jes turn the darn thing off |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 7 May 2006 9:26 am
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| "Babe" by Styx and "Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights" by some old band that I can't recall. Anything by Bad Company is usually a channel-changer for me as well. |
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