# David Soul-Dead at 80

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-soul-dead-at-80/995665>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 5, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-soul-dead-at-80/995665 "2024-01-05T17:54:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-soul-dead-at-80/995665/21 "2024-01-07T18:04:19Z")

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Not that I’m aware of, but “It Don’t Matter to Me” has to be at the top of the list.

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-soul-dead-at-80/995665/22 "2024-01-07T18:09:10Z")

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One of my sisters loved that fucking Best of Bread album and played it all the time. I tried so hard to forget it and now I have a horrible ear worm. That Diary song is the worst in my opinion.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-soul-dead-at-80/995665/23 "2024-01-07T22:01:15Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> One of the world’s wussiest songs ever, right up there with Bread’s “It Don’t Matter to Me.”

I’d say a guy who regularly goes off his head, then sweet-talks his SO into taking him back by basically telling her she’s a heartless bitch if she doesn’t, is more of a weasel.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-soul-dead-at-80/995665/24 "2024-01-08T00:57:32Z")

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Either way. he’s a whiner.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-soul-dead-at-80/995665/25 "2024-01-08T05:36:01Z")

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> [@hajario](#):
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> Is there a Bread song that isn’t wussie?

Nope.

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**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 8, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-soul-dead-at-80/995665/26 "2024-01-08T05:44:53Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> I couldn’t believe my ears when the DJ announced “Don’t Give Up on Us, Baby” had knocked ABBA out of the No. 1 spot in the space of one week.

Written by [Tony Macaulay](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Macaulay), who also wrote “Build Me Up Buttercup”, “(Last Night) I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All,” and “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)”

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