# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/21 "2005-07-01T18:10:53Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > There is never a situation where it is wrong: _Yakety Sax_ by **Boots Randolph** This looks like a perfect time to recyle my post from [Is a bumper sticker with “So Many Christians, So Few Lions” offensive?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=322252) > [@Scott Plaid](#): > > My god, you people are disgusting. How can you support such a thing that would bring up a mental image of a wild animal eating a human being. For shame! > > ::Loading:: > > Huh? > > ::Loading:: > > Wait, what? > > ::Loading complete:: > > ::Suddenly, Scott’s mental image of a Christian, back in Rome, vs. a Lion is being dubbed by the Music from Benny Hill, [Yakety Sax](http://www.discoverynet.com/~ajsnead/allsongs_1/yaktysax.html) . He is overcome by the hilarity. The chase scene reminds him of those old sports blooper videos.:: > > Oh, that was great. But really, no, I am not offended. \ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/22 "2005-07-01T19:14:48Z")
I’ve got one! How about Iggy Pop’s paen to heroin “Lust for Life” being used to advertise a family friendly cruise line. What’s that?..You’re kidding me. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/23 "2005-07-01T20:04:04Z")
ELO’s _I’m Alive_ would be interesting at a funeral. If the deceased is being cremated, then perhaps _Cat People (Putting out the fire with gasoline)_? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/24 "2005-07-01T20:54:21Z")
My Aunt Doris requested that, at her funeral, the featured music should be “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” Unfortunately, after my aunt died, those in charge of arranging the memorial services decided against honoring this request. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/25 "2005-07-02T00:14:50Z")
When I started getting into 78rpm records many years ago, one of my first was of the Hal Kemp Orchestra playing 2 songs written by some dude named Brooks Bowman. Later I found out that both Bowman and Kemp died young in car accidents. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/26 "2005-07-02T00:29:57Z")
“Leavin’ on a Jet Plane” for a 9/11 Memorial. “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” at a cancer clinic. “Catch a Wave” at a memorial for Tsunami victims. The opening of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” for \*\*any \*\*occasion. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/27 "2005-07-02T00:33:52Z")
My second cousin really did choose “I Will Always Love You” to play while the bridesmaids entered the church at her wedding. I guess she didn’t notice that it was a dumpin’ song. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/28 "2005-07-02T02:24:11Z")
“Mack the Knife” at a bris. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/29 "2005-07-02T02:29:03Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > My Aunt Doris requested that, at her funeral, the featured music should be “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” Unfortunately, after my aunt died, those in charge of arranging the memorial services decided against honoring this request. So I suppose I shouldn’t expet my request for _Forward to Death_ to be honored?? 😕 Bummer. Guess I can’t die then. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/30 "2005-07-02T03:08:34Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > 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. I have already told my wife numerous times that I want this kid or someone very much like him driving the hearse at my funeral playing the song. I want people thinking “Fuck it, we laughed when he was alive!” At Anwar Sadat’s funeral: _I Love A Parade_ ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/31 "2005-07-02T03:15:26Z")
We were asked, I kid you not, to play “Dust in the Wind” for a wedding song. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/32 "2005-07-02T07:22:00Z")
The first thing I thought of when I saw the title was in Gilmore Girls, probably season 3 or 4, when Rory has sex with Dean, and then the radio comes on. Dean asks her to change the song, so she puts on “Candy Man” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, declaring over his protesting that this will henceforth be “their song.” It’s kind of hard to explain, if you haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/33 "2005-07-02T19:40:51Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > We were asked, I kid you not, to play “Dust in the Wind” for a wedding song. Sheesh. Yikes. Was this a “shotgun wedding,” by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/34 "2005-07-03T11:03:10Z")
Before the SATs: _Boy or Girl?_ by Electric Six ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/35 "2005-07-03T17:19:53Z")
Suicide Hotline: Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/36 "2005-07-03T17:57:29Z")
During an Amber Alert: _Pre-Skool Prostitute_ by GWAR. Ha-HA! Going to hell for that. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/37 "2005-07-03T19:08:23Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > 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. An outstanding commercial for Aiwa car stereos, that was. 😛 My inappropriate suggestions would be at a wedding: Tammy Wynette’s _D-I-V-O-R-C-E_, Gin Blossom’s _Can’t Call it Cheatin’ (She Reminds me of You)_, or Asleep at the Wheel’s _This is the way you make a Broken Heart_. ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/38 "2005-07-03T19:20:16Z")
Last year, the Embassy where I worked got shut down for a week due to some rocket scientist sending in a letter full of talcum powder and sending us into an anthrax scare. The first day officers were allowed back in I played “Another one btes the dust” REALLY loud until my boss told me to knock it off. ---
**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 3, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/39 "2005-07-03T20:16:19Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > During an Amber Alert: _Pre-Skool Prostitute_ by GWAR. > > Ha-HA! Going to hell for that. Or Faith No More’s “Edge of the World.” Here’s a lyric: “Just sit right down…lay your head on my shoulder It’s not the point that I’m 40 years older You can trust me…I’m no criminal But I’d kill my mother to be with you” Another wedding song…Weird Al’s “Good Enough for Now” “I suppose I’m relatively lucky That’s why my love for you is fairly strong And I swear…I’m never gonna leave you, darlin’ At least ‘til somethin’ better comes along” ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642/40 "2005-07-04T00:33:37Z")
So, I was driving back from a study group for an AP chemistry test, when my cd player came to the song \* The Test That Stumped Them All\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/improper-music-at-improper-times/310642.md?page=3)