Everybody shut up--THAT SONG is on the radio?

Cafe Society
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Or even just the CD player.

This morning, Mrs. Rhymer & I were driving my nieces to the mall when Melissa Etheridge’s I’m the Only One started playing. We immediately shushed the girls, as there is a rule in the Rhymer household: Unless the statement begins with “I have just been bitten by a cobra!” NO ONE is allowed to talk while that song is playing (except to sing along) in recognition of its rockingness. The fact that Mrs. R had this opinion before I met her is one of the many reasons I love her so.

But that’s just us. What songs do you demand silence for?

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Desperado!

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I don’t think I currently have this rule, but I recall an incident when I was a teenager when my brother and I suspended a fight we were having in order to give our full appreciation to the rockingness of Dokken’s In My Dreams. :smiley:

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Howard Jones, “No One Is to Blame”

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“It’s My Life” or “Have a Nice Day” by Bon Jovi.

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Smooth by Carlos Santana (from the Supernatural album). Not only can no one talk, but you have to clear the floor so my sister and I can dance to it.

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For a while for me it was “White Horse and a Cherry Tree” by K.T. Tunstall. If it comes on now, it’s still “SHHH!” but only because it’s played so rarely anymore.

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Bright Eyes, sung by Art Garfunkel, is my “silence, please, till the song is over” song.

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Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, which has made me stop dead in my tracks on a busy NYC sidewalk because it was playing on a street vendor’s radio. One of the best-sung records on the planet.

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Hurt by Johnny Cash

Cloudbusting by Kate Bush

In the first case, there’s hardly any need to say it - by the end no-one is capable of speech anyway. In the second case everyone just sings along.

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Bridge Over Troubled Water, by Simon & Garfunkle, although I can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone else even try to cover it.

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Willie Nelson did.

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I have no idea what that song means, but damned if it doesn’t sound awesome. Also, K.T. Tunstall haunts my dreams. I’m happily married, but she is quite easy on the eyes.

Anyway, “Rock Around the Clock” must never be interrupted. I have it on tape somewhere, but hearing it unexpectedly on an oldies station is just sublime.

ETA: By the way, it’s “Black Horse and a Cherry Tree”

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Either “Armageddon It” by Def Leppard or “Turn Up The Radio” by Autograph.

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Well, naturally I get it wrong… :smack:

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+1

S^G

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“Love Song”, by Tesla.

My children know that if it starts up as I’m pulling into a parking lot, we will sit in the parked car until it’s over.

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Yes, it’s “Black Horse and a Cherry Tree,” ya goof. :wink:
I love that song! It was one I played in the car while on my way to a class a couple years ago, to get me pumped up.

Right now, it would be “All Summer Long” by Kid Rock. I have to turn it up and sing along.

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Lots of people have covered it, but they can’t touch the original.

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Here’s an obscure one for you:

Tony Furtado’s Swayback Jim. Hankie time for me, too.