# Improper music at improper times. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642 "2005-07-01T04:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/1 "2005-07-01T04:27:30Z")
Funeral: _Break on Through_ by **The Doors** 9/11 tribute: _Free Falling_ by **Tom Petty** There is never a situation where it is wrong: _Yakety Sax_ by **Boots Randolph** ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/2 "2005-07-01T04:37:20Z")
Honeymoon: Too Drunk to Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/3 "2005-07-01T04:39:08Z")
Speech in front of a large crowd: _I Touch Myself_ by the Divinyls. Unless you’re behind a large lectern. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/4 "2005-07-01T04:41:37Z")
At your wedding: **The Kiss** , by The Cure ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/5 "2005-07-01T04:50:04Z")
One I’ve actually seen: the \*\*Dies Irae \*\* from \*Mozart’s Requiem \* as background music to a television advertisement extolling the safety virtues of tyres. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/6 "2005-07-01T05:00:28Z")
Wedding - Just about anything by Meatloaf, but ‘Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad’ and ‘Paradise By The Dashboard Lights/Waiting For The End of Time’ come to mind, specifically. \>\_\> Muzak for a vasectomy clinic - Detatchable Penis. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/7 "2005-07-01T05:09:39Z")
Suicide crisis hotline hold music: “Jump,” among many many others. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/8 "2005-07-01T05:25:19Z")
The Police’s _Every Breath You Take_ at a wedding? At a feminism rally, _He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)_. At the filing of an “Enzyte” commercial, _Short Dick Man_. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/9 "2005-07-01T05:26:28Z")
:smack: At the fil[i/]M\*ing… ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/10 "2005-07-01T05:46:17Z")
At a Presidential Inauguration: _Take This Job And Shove It_ ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/11 "2005-07-01T06:05:15Z")
At a Seventh-Day Adventist congregation: “Let’s Get Drunk And Screw” ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/12 "2005-07-01T06:14:13Z")
At a wedding, obviously: _I knew the bride when she used to rock’n’roll_ ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/13 "2005-07-01T06:48:21Z")
At a drug rehab clinic - _Comfortably Numb_ At a Kindergarten graduation ceremony - _Hell is For Children_ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/14 "2005-07-01T07:20:35Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > At a Presidential Inauguration: _Take This Job And Shove It_ At the opening of the Bill Clinton Library: _Hit 'Em Up Style_ by Blu Cantrell ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/15 "2005-07-01T09:48:12Z")
This is terrible… but as a teenager, I went on a 24 hour fast with a church group (I didn’t belong to that church, or that denomination, but a bunch of my friends were going to be there, and it would be like a huge sleepover, with boys and girls, but no food, just hourly juice… so I went and raised a little money for some starving kids in Africa). Anyway, about an hour before our fast was over, it was announced that we would be taken to the hall for a huge pancake breakfast, with bacon, eggs, toast, donuts, juice, and pancakes, of course. This excited me. You see, I was hungry. During that final hour, we were herded into a room to watch a documentary about the poor starving children. I felt bad for them. I really, truly did. But I only had one thing on my mind by that point. And I couldn’t resist, singing softly (but just loud enough for most to hear), in a squeaky, cartoon-y voice: “_Food around the corner! Food around the corner! Food around the corner for **me** _!” (it was the song that little flea sang, in a Disney or Warner Bros cartoon). It was deemed terribly inappropriate. However, the supervisors laughed and just told me to cut it out. But I was well known for that song for many years after the incident. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/16 "2005-07-01T13:45:59Z")
Hope this doesn’t bring down the mood: A few weeks ago a family friend was shot and killed while having lunch at an outdoor cafe with her two daughters. After my wife and I found out we jumped in the car to spend time and console the friend’s family. As we started the car the song _Right Place. Wrong Time._ by Dr. John. Talk about bad timing. Wasn’t there a commercial a while back with a hearse driver playing _Another One Bites the Dust_ by Queen? That really cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/17 "2005-07-01T13:47:02Z")
Whoops. I meant that the Dr. John song was on the radio as we started the car. ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/18 "2005-07-01T13:48:38Z")
One that honestly happened at my own wedding. It was in a small, rural town. We asked the DJ to simply play appropriate classical music during the dinner. It was pretty clear that the small town, rural DJ didn’t play much classical music, but he looked game. The first music, after everyone was seated and began eating: Mozart’s Requiem. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/19 "2005-07-01T15:43:01Z")
From reality: after I and Lady Mung saw The Passion of the Christ (and an excellent date movie it was…thank Og we were already serious at the time) we get into the car and turn on the radio and whaddya know…_How Far is Heaven_ by Los Lonely Boys. But that’s not all. I change the station and get _What if God was One of Us_ by Joan Osborne. I turned off the radio and lit a cigarette. Too weird. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/20 "2005-07-01T16:50:32Z")
Suicide Hotline hold music “Yesterday” Mothers Against Drunk Driving meeting: “Beer Run” Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting- “Closer” My favorite would be Yakkety Sax at any somber event. I want it for my own funeral. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642.md?page=2)