I can’t imagine that that particular rule of thumb could possibly serve anyone well, considering how many genres of music there are, and how common the word is. So pray tell, what type of music do you listen to? Or was your comment meant in jest?
What about “Soul Sacrifice” by Santana?
What about post #24 by Contrapuntal?
Yeah. I TiVo everything, and haven’t listened to music radio in probably a decade. (iPod FTW!) So my exposure to catchy pop tunes is easily self-modulated.
Please remember that sexual insults are not allowed in the Pit, and refrain from such comments in the future.
No warning issued.
I can’t stand this piece of crap song either. I put it in the same category as “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt or “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter a few years ago. All sung by whining crybabies. Who are the idiots who actually buy this diarrhea and make it popular?
I remember what you said. It’s just that your thumb is a jackass.
I should have known.
I don’t like “Hey Soul Sister” much but it’s seemed to have finally smothered “How To Save A Life” by The Fray in ads, so it has that going for it.
I did say “In My Opinion” and I stand by it. Drops of Jupiter benefits from not being as well enunciated as Meet Virginia, I never understood half of what they’re saying in DoJ.
I realized tonight why it’s in so many commercials. Samsung is using it for a couple different product commercials, their fridge and washing machine and maybe more.
Women and their boyfriends who will put up with it in the hopes of getting some action.
Soultans of Swing?
Soul Ong, Farewell?
As I said in my Cafe Society thread, I hate this song. I loathe it. I think it is one of the worst pieces of dreck ever made. There is nothing redeemable about it…nothing. My opinion of you goes down a little if you admit you actually like it…and I guess that includes some people here. I’m sorry but…it’s terrible. Truly God-awful. It’s horribly repetitive, the singer sounds like a whiny, pathetic loser, the actual music (if you can call it that,) is simplistic and required no skill or talent to write or play, and I could go on but I’ll stop.
And the funny thing is, we switched radio stations we listen to at work because the one we used to listen was was un-bearable repetitive. Someone told me that the way they did their “mid day” songs was all by online voting. Well I guess the only ones voting were 20-30 year old women, cause the playlist was pretty much nothing but Train, Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, etc…but not so much in a “Top 40” station kind of way, because there was no hip hop. R&B, or even that smidge of alt-rock that occasionally makes it way there. Nope, nothing but the most simplistic, inoffensive, bland pieces of crap all day long, over and over again.
So yay, we had something different! And what happens? All those fucking songs I finally got out of my head are in every fucking commercial. This song is in at least four…two by Samsung (a TV and the washer/dryer,) a piece of shit movie, and…a car? I don’t know, I’m 90% sure there’s more.
I hate you with the burning passion of 1000 dying stars.
Ever since this thread began I have been plagued by the most persistant earworm EVER. I’ve even tried It’s a Small World and THAT didn’t work.
I don’t CARE if Mister Mister is on the radio, stereo ARGHHHH!!!
Who are you that is so wise in the ways of silence?
I have no idea what this song is or how it goes, and I’d like it to stay that way.
A search for “soul” on my iPod reveals:
“Soul Kitchen” by X
“All We Have Is Soul” by The Kleptones
“Birdhouse in Your Soul” by They Might Be Giants
“Body and Soul” by Charles Mingus
“Nomad Soul” by Yoko Kanno
“The History of the Concept of the Soul” by The Mr. T Experience
“Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” by Gnarles Barkley
That entire song is a demonstration of what happens when you give your nephew a rhyming dictionary for his birthday.
Sweet Soul Music by Arthur Conley
I wish Train would DIAF.
Your opinion is wrong, in my humble opinion. “Drops Of Jupiter” isn’t just the worst song ever; it’s the worst anything ever.
I think we CAN agree than Train is some sort of CIA sonic weapon experiment.
Me, I can’t believe that Train managed to jumpstart their career with that song. Their last big hit, “Drops Of Jupiter”, came out like 9 years ago and similarly got overexposed and played to death.