# If life is a rock and the radio rolls me... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975 "2002-03-30T22:52:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/261 "2002-04-13T10:44:13Z")
One awful heavy metal song (sorry, I don’t remeber that much of it, but it’s less than 10 years old. ) \*Yeah, they come to snuff the rooster, yeah, yeah You know he ain’t gonna di-i-e.[i/] Come to think of it, I’m not sorry at all. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/262 "2002-04-13T18:28:26Z")
Her name was Bertha! Bertha Butt! One of the Butt sisters! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/263 "2002-04-13T21:06:02Z")
Cruel to be kind, in the right measure Cruel to be kind, it’s a very good sign Cruel to be kind, means that I love you Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind **[font=arial]YOU’RE NOT TRYING!!![font]** ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/264 "2002-04-13T21:09:53Z")
Note: Hitting ‘Stop’ immediately after ‘Submit Reply’ has no effect… :o ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/265 "2002-04-15T16:26:19Z")
Bird, Bird, Bird The Bird is the word… (shivers running up my spine) ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/266 "2002-04-15T19:31:46Z")
Nice effort, I guess… - Funniest sound I ever heard (A papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow) But I can’t understand a single word (A papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow) Well if he’s serious or if he’s playin’ Woo my my it’s all he’s sayin Papa-papa-hoooo (A papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow) Papa-papa-papa-hoooo (A papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow) \* pegging the creep-o-meter (and there are 17 more tracks on just THIS CD) let’s see post count, this thread: hh: 84 Rico: 34 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/267 "2002-04-16T01:36:35Z")
Hold it now and watch the hoodwink As I make you stop, think You’ll think you’re looking at Aquaman I summon fish to the dish, Although I like the Chalet Swiss I like the sushi ‘Cause it’s never touched a frying pan Hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes Big like Leann Rimes Because I’m all about value Bert Kaempfert’s got the mad hits You try to match wits You try to hold me but I bust through Gonna make a break and take a fake I’d like a stinkin, achin shake I like vanilla, It’s the finest of the flavors Gotta see the show, Cause then you’ll know The Vertigo is gonna grow Cause it’s so dangerous, You’ll have to sign a waiver How can I help it if I think you’re funny when you’re mad Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad I’m the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral Can’t understand what I mean? Well, you soon will I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve I have a history of taking off my shirt If I have to be up against a Heathen, I’m glad it’s you! LOL ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/268 "2002-04-16T01:46:58Z")
WHAT was THAT!? (never mind, I’m sure I’d be happier not knowing) - Well! People call me crazy every single day \ But I don’t care what the people may say \ I don’t know what it looks like or what it can do I keep looking for that ring dang do \* p.s. watch the copyright! ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/269 "2002-04-16T04:52:48Z")
Apologies to \*\* happyheathen \*\* for skipping out on this little lovefest a few days ago. Taxes, and other nasty obligations, called. Speaking of nasty, I don’t recall this one: Hey (hey) What’s the matter with your head? yeah… Hey (hey) What’s the matter with your mind and your sign? And-a ooh-ohh Hey (hey) Nothin’s a matter with your head, baby, find it Come on and find it Hell, with it, baby, 'cause you’re fine and you’re mine And you look so divine Come and get your love ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/270 "2002-04-16T05:11:11Z")
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy… ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/271 "2002-04-16T05:15:50Z")
They call it mellow yellow (quite rightly) ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/272 "2002-04-16T05:55:17Z")
Donovan?! gotta watch out for that Sch. A an’ such… “I think I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese, I really THINK SO…” ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/273 "2002-04-16T06:05:36Z")
Last post of mine was an excerpt from “One Week” by the Barenaked Ladies. Here’s a little older piece for your dreckjoyment… Don’t drink don’t smoke - what do you do? Don’t drink don’t smoke - what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow There must be something inside ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/274 "2002-04-16T06:47:12Z")
(that, dear friends, was ‘Goody Two Shoes’ by Adam Ant - which I BLESSEDLY missed) now, for pure shock value: SHE LOVES YOU, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, SHE LOVES YOU, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH And with a Love like that, you know you should be glaaa-dd… ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/275 "2002-04-16T07:07:35Z")
tomorrow, all… ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/276 "2002-04-16T10:31:26Z")
**Rico** , you beat me to _One Week_, but I think we’ve managed to miss this one. _I am the egg man They are the eggmen I Am the Walrus Coo-coo-ca-choo_ ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/277 "2002-04-16T17:56:49Z")
Just a dang ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/278 "2002-04-16T18:09:13Z")
Sorrry for the stutter. What I was TRYING to say was, JUST A DANG MINUTE on the She Loves You lyrics. The lyrics are admittedly simple, I will certainly give you that – but they are FAR from “dreck.” Simplicity in itself is not dreckish (no more than complexity is free from the same). And if we are equating the “yeah, yeah, yeah” with dreck, then every singer who throws in a “yeah” or a “baby” would have to be consigned to dreckdom. And that, I suspect, would leave us with damn near nobody left. And this ain’t just a boomer-generation issue. My 24-year-old and my 18-year-old are both major Beatles fans. This phenomenon, by the way, is reported by other boomers whose kids have taken them up. OK, I feel better now. Thanks for letting me vent. If it’s dreck you want… It never rains in California But girl, let me warn ya It pours - man, it pours ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/279 "2002-04-16T18:21:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hometownboy \* > \*\* > > If it’s dreck you want… > > It never rains in California > But girl, let me warn ya > It pours - man, it pours \*\* Oh boy are you in for it…Heathen will be all over you, seeing as that song was done back on page 1 or 2…LOL Here’s one we seem to have missed… Can you hear the drums Fernando? I remember long ago another starry night like this In the firelight Fernando You were humming to yourself and softly strumming your guitar I could hear the distant drums And sounds of bugle calls were coming from afar 😛 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/280 "2002-04-16T19:27:40Z")
\*\*HOMETOWN - \*\* re-posting the **13[sup]th[/sup]** friggin’ song? dreck is dreck, no matter HOW tasty. **Rico -** ABBA?! Don’t make me get nasty… Now, from the B-52’s: Well the Love Shack is a little place where we can get together Love Shack baby! Love Shack baby! Love Shack, that’s where it’s at! Love Shack, that’s where it’s at! Huggin’ and a kissin’, dancin’ and a lovin’, wearin’ next to nothing Cause it’s hot as an oven The whole shack shimmies, when everybody’s movin’ around and around and around! Everybody’s movin’, everybody’s groovin’ baby! Folks linin’ up outside just to get down Everybody’s movin’, everybody’s groovin’ baby Funky little shack! Funky little shack! I actually listened through the entire thing, just for the sake of this thread. How I have suffered for my art! thirteenth post showing up on page 6. The Shame! The Shame! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=15)