# Glurgiest songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068 "2010-03-28T00:48:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/41 "2010-03-29T03:45:57Z")
An oddity from “Mad Men” days, Mr. Jack Jones, singing the cautionary tale of Wives and Lovers.[http://oldielyrics.com/lyrics/jack\_jones/wives\_and\_lovers.html](http://oldielyrics.com/lyrics/jack_jones/wives_and_lovers.html) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/42 "2010-03-29T04:01:09Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I guess I’ll go to hell if I nominate _One Tin Soldier_ by anyone who’s ever covered it. > > Yah, yah, yah, war is bad, peace is good. I still find this song super glurge-shlock. I kind of makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. If you’re going to hell, I’m there with you. We used to have to sing this in elementary school. I almost dislocated an eye from rolling so hard. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/43 "2010-03-29T06:29:52Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > If you’re going to hell, I’m there with you. We used to have to sing this in elementary school. I almost dislocated an eye from rolling so hard. Maybe you could have suggested you all sing “Iron Man” instead. It’s got a tin soldier _in_ it, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/44 "2010-03-29T12:59:02Z")
> [@Rrose\_Selavy](#): > > Can’t believe no ones so far mentioned > > [Deck of Cards](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPjeHr5WK0g) Well, I came IN to mention it; does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/45 "2010-03-29T13:26:26Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Well, I came IN to mention it; does that count? Too busy playing cards in church were you? - ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/46 "2010-03-29T14:07:32Z")
Since no one else mentioned this one, enjoy! Quite a video with the song, too! [Cher- You Better Sit Down, Kids](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-MWOGG3eB4) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/47 "2010-03-29T15:17:50Z")
“Tie a Yellow Ribbon” What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/48 "2010-03-29T15:25:17Z")
Why do we automatically think of the 1970s when it comes to sonic glurge? Here’s [an excerpt from a post I made a few years back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=193492). > [@](#): > > Driving across the country this past week, I passed through many a radio wasteland, where the only stations that would make their way to the car receiver are … well, just country. > > Old country music themes included pickup trucks, railroads, prison, eighteen wheelers, the West, and so on. However, the country music I heard had themes of patriotism, Christianity, and the family. Most songs sounded like slightly rewritten glurge stories. the sort middle-aged administrative assistants send to everybody they know. > > So … is popular country music really getting “glurgier?” If so, why? As others here have mentioned, contemporary popular country music has a level of glurge the weepy adult contemporary tunes of the 1970s can’t even approach. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/49 "2010-03-29T15:35:30Z")
_I’ve Never Been To Me_, all about whorin’ in the Greece isles and makin it with the preacher man. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/50 "2010-03-29T15:41:07Z")
_Seasons in the Sun_ by Jacques Brel in French with English version by Rod McKuen. This was covered by Terry Jacks in 1974. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/51 "2010-03-29T15:45:03Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > _Seasons in the Sun_ by Jacques Brel in French with English version by Rod McKuen. The French version is _Le Moribund_ and is most certainly not glurge. It’s acerbic and cruel. Rod McKuen needs a slap for what he did with it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/52 "2010-03-29T15:49:46Z")
Pretty much all country music. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/53 "2010-03-29T16:08:14Z")
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) by Looking Glass I actually liked this song when it first came out, but it got so much radio play that I grew to loathe it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_6ybb6myGE4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ybb6myGE4) I checked the song on wikipedia and it mentioned the Barry Manilow song **Mandy** was originally name Brandy, but he changed it to Mandy to minimize the confusion. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandy\_(You’re\_a\_Fine\_Girl)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandy_(You're_a_Fine_Girl)) Come to think of it, **Mandy** should be on the list also. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/54 "2010-03-29T16:18:48Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > **Patches - Clarence Carter** > > God I hate that song. Yeah, that’s pretty glurgey, but how about the other “Patches”, by Dickey Lee? A classic example of the “teenage death” song, an entire genre which I guess pretty much qualifies for this thread. This would also include “Teen Angel”, probably the glurgiest of the bunch. (She got OUT of the burning building and RAN BACK INSIDE to get his HIGH SCHOOL RING!!!???) ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/55 "2010-03-29T16:34:01Z")
Honorary mention to [Daddy , Dont you walk so fast,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLzXEqg7Dxg) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/56 "2010-03-29T16:44:03Z")
C.W. McCall’s song _Roses for Mama_, from 1977, is just about the glurgiest song I ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/57 "2010-03-29T16:47:06Z")
“My Way” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/58 "2010-03-29T17:16:32Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Yeah, that’s pretty glurgey, but how about the other “Patches”, by Dickey Lee? A classic example of the “teenage death” song, an entire genre which I guess pretty much qualifies for this thread. This would also include “Teen Angel”, probably the glurgiest of the bunch. (She got OUT of the burning building and RAN BACK INSIDE to get his HIGH SCHOOL RING!!!???) I thought it was a railroad track. Mind you, I’ve only read about it (in Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs). ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/59 "2010-03-29T17:21:56Z")
How can we forget [Christmas Dinner](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7QVGRKZKXY) by _Peter Paul & Mary_, lyrics [here](http://www.cduniverse.com/lyrics.asp?id=15106230). I have to say I loved this song when I was 13. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068/60 "2010-03-29T17:22:51Z")
_Memory_ from CATS, but mostly because people insist on singing it like a funeral dirge. It’s supposed to be a reflective song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurgiest-songs/534068.md?page=4)