# \_Worst\_ Rock and Roll Song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_worst_-rock-and-roll-song/21269>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 3, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_worst_-rock-and-roll-song/21269 "2000-06-03T05:43:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_worst_-rock-and-roll-song/21269/101 "2000-06-23T04:09:43Z")

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osiej: Now you commited blasphemy. You are singular proof  
that it not the music, but the listeners make themselves, go homicidal. Reunited is about a husband and wife seeing each other after being apart for some time. Which sort of fits Ashford and Simpson, who wrote the song, to a tee.

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**Author:** ![Dylan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@Dylan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dylan)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_worst_-rock-and-roll-song/21269/102 "2000-06-23T05:01:27Z")

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I have 8 words for you:

“How much is that doggie in the window?”

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**Author:** ![CVALLEYGAL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@CVALLEYGAL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CVALLEYGAL)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_worst_-rock-and-roll-song/21269/103 "2000-06-24T06:53:27Z")

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My vote for worst Rock ‘n’ roll song would have to be “Roxanne” Hated it so bad…can’t even remember who sang it! )Old timers disease I guess) The words are "Roxanne, you don’t have to turn on the red light…Roxanne…

Whoever it is that sings it, if I were to see them in concert, the urge to go up and slap them and say “get help” would be overwhelming!

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**Author:** ![SarumanRex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SarumanRex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SarumanRex)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_worst_-rock-and-roll-song/21269/104 "2000-06-24T09:37:29Z")

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> My vote for worst Rock ‘n’ roll song would have to be “Roxanne” Hated it so bad…can’t even remember who sang it! )Old timers disease I guess) The words are "Roxanne, you don’t have to turn on the red light…Roxanne…
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> Whoever it is that sings it, if I were to see them in concert, the urge to go up and slap them and say “get help” would be overwhelming!
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“Roxanne” is by the Police. I agree that Sting needs to be slapped but not for his music with the Police but for his entire solo career (with the exception of “Love is the 7th Wave” I liked that one song of his post-Police career).

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