# "annoying" music that you adore **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042 "2008-04-27T04:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/41 "2008-04-27T19:58:09Z")
Man, I think we need a support group for _“Several Species…With A Pict”_ aficionados because I love that track–that, and most of the rest of _Ummagumma_ is my all time favorite Hallowe’en music soundtrack. **Big Bad Voodoo Lou,** what can I say? Buncha savages in this town… 😛 We’ll just keep on keepin’ on with our stylin’ selves and they can all just go hang! What’s your favorite Dick Dale track? Mine’s _“F Groove,”_ I’ll listen to that fifty times in a row, easy. Yeah, people really hate it when I point the media player at my general music folder and hit shuffle–there’s no telling what might come up! Cab Calloway followed by Marilyn Manson followed by Bette Midler followed by The Hellecasters followed by Cornershop followed by The Hollies followed by ICP followed by CSNY followed by The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band followed by Radiohead followed by Sonny Boy Williamson followed by The B-52’s followed by Rob Zombie… you get the idea. I think it’s hilarious and that’s my preferred method to listen to music but if there’s anyone else in the room they get hinky after a while. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/42 "2008-04-27T20:06:47Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] **Big Bad Voodoo Lou,** what can I say? Buncha savages in this town… 😛 We’ll just keep on keepin’ on with our stylin’ selves and they can all just go hang! What’s your favorite Dick Dale track? Mine’s _“F Groove,”_ I’ll listen to that fifty times in a row, easy. [/QUOTE] I know it’s practically a cliche, but I can’t help but break into a wide, Joker-like smile every time I hear the opening chords of Dale’s “Miserlou.” It brings me back to being an angry, awkward, confused 11th grader and seeing Pulp Fiction on its opening day in 1994 and being blown away. I loved the hell out of that movie and the song (and all the other surf music on the soundtrack), and really played a large part in shaping both my musical and film tastes in the years that followed. “Miserlou” just psyches me up and makes me happy, no matter what. If I was a pro wrestler, I’d strongly considering having that play as my theme music when I walked down to the ring. Either that or “The Final Countdown.” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/43 "2008-04-27T20:54:31Z")
_Death Rape 2000_ by Wiseblood, three notes rapidly repeated for 9 minutes. _Christianity is Stupid_ by Negativland, the Rev. Ivan Stang screaming, “And the loud speaker spoke up and said, 'Christianity is stupid! Communism is good! Give up! Give up!” to really bizarre music. A great way to relax. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/44 "2008-04-27T21:12:41Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Only seen her live once, though. [/QUOTE] I saw her at UCLA a couple of weeks ago. You’ll be pleased to know that she drove about 1/4 of the audience from the hall over the course of a two hour concert. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/45 "2008-04-28T01:35:24Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] Pft…pikers. Now…[If’n y’want annoying](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj8iOWg8MsI). The music, her voice, they should both be annoying as all hell. But I simply can’t get enough of the damn song. There’s a bizarre charm to it. [/QUOTE] Hmm. Don’t like that song much. But, oddly enough, I do love[this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhv8bjHZL8Y) one. This used to be the _jam_ at my house! Also, I love the 5.6.7.8’s. I like ‘Wipeout’, but I will not go so far as to say I am a surfing music fan. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/46 "2008-04-28T03:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] I’m a supersecret Aqua fan. I have played “Barbie Girl” and “Cartoon Heroes” back to back repeatedly… [/QUOTE] We must be separated at birth… this is what I came in to say! Also, Mickey! “Oh Mickey, he’s so fine, he’s so fine, he’ll blow your mind! HEY MICKEY!” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/47 "2008-04-28T04:05:54Z")
I have an **Animaniacs** CD and a classic **Sesame Street** music boxed set that made it into my digital music collection. The songs come up on the iPod in the car, or on my computer here, right along the metal and the rap and the rock and the funk. It’s very soothing to all of a sudden hear “Rubber Ducky” or “Countries of the World” right in the middle of the day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/48 "2008-04-28T04:32:06Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] I have an **Animaniacs** CD and a classic **Sesame Street** music boxed set that made it into my digital music collection. [/QUOTE] Hey! Is “From Your Head” by Betty Carter on that Sesame Street CD? That’s my _song._ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/49 "2008-04-28T04:43:01Z")
[QUOTE=bigdfrombigd] I absolutely love Ofrah Haza- she was a Yemeni folk singer, kinda like the “Madonna of the arab world” 😃 Whenever I play my cd in my car my friends say “Oh no, she’s playing that belly dancing music again!” :smack: [/QUOTE] I started a thread about her, too, recently. Heh. And me too for _Several Species_. By the way, there is a Floyd cover band in the Baltimore/DC area by the name of “Several Species” that is SO amazing and well worth any amount of money spent. Just FYI. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/50 "2008-04-28T04:44:22Z")
My mp3 player is full of Sesame Street, Muppets, Animaniacs and Tiny Toons songs, in with everything else! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/51 "2008-04-28T04:47:02Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] Hey! Is “From Your Head” by Betty Carter on that Sesame Street CD? That’s my _song._ [/QUOTE] Yep! That’s a good one. I sat back and listened to it the other day when it came on, and I was all “wow, this is deep…” 🙂 I like the “How Do You Do?” song with Grover and Lena Horne, myself. [Here ya go](http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Street-35-Years-Sesame-Street/dp/B00133KENQ) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/52 "2008-04-28T16:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] I enjoyed the little bit of Philip Glass that I heard in my music appreciation class, and have meant to go look his stuff up sometime–is that a good album to start with? [/QUOTE] Koyaanisqatsi is (IMHO) one of his more approachable works. It’s a film score, so it’s debatable if he “diluted” some of his repetitive and atonal tendencies for a more popular appeall. Something like \*Satyagraha \* isn’t bad either - it’s an opera, so it had to be structured so humans could sing it. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/53 "2008-04-28T17:30:16Z")
[QUOTE=Aesiron] Barring gospel, I can – my library’s constantly on random and it’s not uncoomon for Dr. Dre or Eminem to follow Sarah McLachlan and then be followed by Dwight Yoakam or Tool – and I would think anyone who truly loves music would be able to as well. [/QUOTE] You’ve got the idea, but way more extreme shifts in feel and tonality. Try more like from [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCE48O6U4Yw) to [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBwu83RR6ZU) to [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNkCtQo3Z0c) to [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNyr6BJZuI) [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRNlDx4JUOs&feature=related) back to [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bR56-eDgMw) like it’s nothing. Most of the time when I grab control of the stereo at a party I quickly end up hearing “Um, no dude.” while someone comes over and wrests control away from me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/54 "2008-04-28T17:54:10Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] Koyaanisqatsi is (IMHO) one of his more approachable works. It’s a film score, so it’s debatable if he “diluted” some of his repetitive and atonal tendencies for a more popular appeall. [/QUOTE] Judging from what I remember of Koyaanisqatsi from my freshman Earth Science class 22 years ago, there was no toning down of any repetitive tendencies… ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/55 "2008-04-28T18:49:34Z")
Yo, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want! So tell me what you want, what you really really want! I wanna (huh), I wanna (huh), I wanna (huh), I wanna (huh), I wanna really really really wanna zig-a-zag ah! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/56 "2008-04-28T22:31:09Z")
[Derek Bailey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XE2N4mxeRw&feature=related) I have lots of friends who don’t believe me when I say it takes phenomenal skill to be able to play like this… ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/57 "2008-04-29T00:07:17Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] I’m a supersecret Aqua fan. I have played “Barbie Girl” and “Cartoon Heroes” back to back repeatedly… [/QUOTE] I own both _Aquarium_ and _Aquarius_. And I’ve been known to sing “Freaky Friday” at the top of my lungs in the car. But don’t tell anyone. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/58 "2008-04-29T00:35:22Z")
I’ve got a couple of Car Talk CD’s. Which reminds me that it’s past time to check whether they’ve put out another one. I usually don’t like every song on the disc, but that’s the case with most albums. My favorite tracks are Grandpa’s Advice and Duct Tape Madrigal in C Major. I’ve got a couple of bagpipe CD’s. I have to be in the right mood for those. Except for the Christmas one. That just has to be the right season. Now about those Disney albums. Does that include the full hour It’s a Small World? 'Cause I’ve got that on vinyl. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/59 "2008-04-29T03:46:34Z")
I just can’t stop listening to [The Ding Dong Song](http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=iPrnduGtgmc) since hearing it in an anime music video. _Oh, you touched my ta-la-la!_ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042/60 "2008-04-29T04:35:40Z")
[QUOTE=Le Ministre de l’au-delà] [Derek Bailey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XE2N4mxeRw&feature=related) I have lots of friends who don’t believe me when I say it takes phenomenal skill to be able to play like this… [/QUOTE] Back in my college days I played some Derek Bailey for a friend who objected, “But he’s just screwing around!” Without a word I handed him a guitar. Fortunately my friend was smart enough to recognize that the ensuing attempt at free improvisation was not in the same league as what Bailey was doing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-music-that-you-adore/447042.md?page=4)