# Come up with an inappropriate song for an event **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 4, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657 "2021-01-04T21:25:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/21 "2021-01-05T05:51:16Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover” at a wedding reception… “I Will Always Love You”, which is about a _breakup_, at a wedding. I swear some people only read titles. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/22 "2021-01-05T06:59:09Z")
Just as X reaches the point if telling Y it’s all over: After You’ve Got What You Want, You Don’t Want It. My brother the priest told me he"d lost count of the number of people he’d had to dissuade from choosing Blaze Away or Smoke Gets In Your Eyes for a cremation. And for the OP, You’ll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the fans of Liverpool FC, after it became a hit for a group whose leader, coincidentally, died recently: [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/04/how-youll-never-walk-alone-came-to-define-liverpool-fc-spirit-gerry-marsden](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/04/how-youll-never-walk-alone-came-to-define-liverpool-fc-spirit-gerry-marsden) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/23 "2021-01-05T07:03:41Z")
_Losing My Religion_ should go down well at a Confirmation party. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/24 "2021-01-05T07:06:57Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5TS8hvbLMRA/maxresdefault.jpg "See You In Hell") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TS8hvbLMRA) Avoid playing this at a baby shower. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/25 "2021-01-05T07:07:13Z")
Or this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RkI_H-C2edY/maxresdefault.jpg "Since I Lost My Baby") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkI_H-C2edY) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/26 "2021-01-05T08:00:33Z")
**ZZ Top** ’s _Drivin’ While Blind_ at a DUI Victim Impact Hearing ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/27 "2021-01-05T15:30:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > > > “Stayin’ Alive” at a funeral. - > > “Another One Bites The Dust.” Same event. > Either song also provides the proper rhythm when performing CPR. The night that John Lennon got shot, it was the last day of classes of my first semester at college, so a few of us had gone out drinking. We didn’t hear the news until we got back to the dorm. Being drunk and young and stupid, we decided it would be funny to call the local radio station and request songs like the Beatles’ “Happiness Is A Warm Gun”, Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust”, and Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/28 "2021-01-05T16:26:55Z")
This one really happened and I still find the choice of song bizarre and puzzling: [“You can’t always get what you want” played at Trump Rallies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Always_Get_What_You_Want#Trump_campaign_use). ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/29 "2021-01-05T17:25:41Z")
This one might be a bit feeble, but as muzak for a doctor’s waiting room, how about “Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen”? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/30 "2021-01-05T17:36:17Z")
> [@minlokwat](#): > > Wedding reception. [Get an Ugly Girl to Marry You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ZJiBHh-Yw) Or Dr. Hook;s “When You’re In Love With a Beautiful Woman”. The tune is mellow, and the title sounds perfect, as long as nobody listens to the lyrics: “You know that it’s crazy, you want to trust her, then somebody hangs up when you answer the phone”. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/31 "2021-01-05T17:38:38Z")
Ninja’ed by Burpo! (Havin My Baby / Planned Parenthood) ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/32 "2021-01-05T17:51:23Z")
At an anniversary celebration - I’m in Love the Other Woman ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/33 "2021-01-05T17:53:31Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover” at a wedding reception… I had the bluegrass band at our wedding play “Man of Constant Sorrow” as my new wife and I were walking back down the aisle - I think she and I were the only ones who got it. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/34 "2021-01-05T18:45:52Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > At an anniversary celebration - I’m in Love the Other Woman When my husband and I were planning our 25th anniversary celebration, I posted here asking for song suggestions. One poster suggested “Me and Mrs. Jones”. He was mortified when I pointed out that it was a song about adultery. Whoopsie! We did NOT use it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/35 "2021-01-05T23:30:44Z")
“Junk Food Junkie,” at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. Or Jenny Craig. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/36 "2021-01-06T04:38:01Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > This one really happened and I still find the choice of song bizarre and puzzling: > [“You can’t always get what you want” played at Trump Rallies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Always_Get_What_You_Want#Trump_campaign_use). I would think the correct song would be [this one](https://youtu.be/GPTmWrUl-Y4). (Give Me Some Money – Spinal Tap) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/37 "2021-01-06T06:49:09Z")
I was at Key Bank 3 years ago when the sound system played “Take the Money and Run” (by Steve Miller band). ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/38 "2021-01-06T09:48:43Z")
For a political rally or any event to honor someone that might be considered “a real motherfucker of a gentleman” (as Freddie Mercury put it)… Death on Two Legs by Queen [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kqVpk0qxmfA/hqdefault.jpg "Queen - Death on Two Legs (Official Lyric Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqVpk0qxmfA) ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/39 "2021-01-06T17:19:04Z")
At any nonagenarian’s funeral: “Only the Good Die Young” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/40 "2021-01-06T17:52:19Z")
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