# Music bad enough to be considered criminal **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-bad-enough-to-be-considered-criminal/338954 "2006-01-08T00:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-bad-enough-to-be-considered-criminal/338954/101 "2007-01-07T17:40:21Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] **Top Of The World** by The Carpenters [/QUOTE] I love this song. I love it and no one can stop me. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-bad-enough-to-be-considered-criminal/338954/102 "2007-01-07T18:37:09Z")
This thread is one year old today. “Happy Birthday to you.” Once upon a time: I took an job with a small manufacturing company that was owned by an older (in their '70s) couple. Their choice for a radio station was a low power AM station whose tag line was “Great songs and great singers of the '40s, 50s, 60s, '70s, and '80s.” My initial reaction was, “Good, I should get to hear a variety of stuff.” They had five decades of stuff to choose from. There was a lot of great music made in that time span. Wrong! I bet they didn’t play more than 40-50 songs. In an 8 hour day, you could sometimes hear one song three times. They were huge into Sonatra and Doris Day. If I never, ever, ever hear “Tammy” or “When I was Seventeen” ever again, it will be just fine with me. I wondered of their entire playlist was from a Time-Life boxed set. The only stuff they played from the '70s or '80s was the Carpenters, so “On top of the World” make my ‘cringe when I hear it’ list. That job could be described using the ‘frog in a pot of water where the temperature is slowly increasing’ metaphor. The music was just part of the torture. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-bad-enough-to-be-considered-criminal/338954/103 "2007-01-07T18:42:53Z")
I’m not sure if this counts since it was intended to be bad. John Trubee’s “Blind Man’s Penis”. [http://www.songpoemmusic.com/trubee.htm](http://www.songpoemmusic.com/trubee.htm) Here’s an audio interview with Trubee which includes the song. [http://www.shavedneck.com/johntrubeekzsu/JT4-BlindMansPenis.mp3](http://www.shavedneck.com/johntrubeekzsu/JT4-BlindMansPenis.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-bad-enough-to-be-considered-criminal/338954/104 "2007-01-07T19:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=commasense] How can this thread possibly have gotten to post #50 without a mention of … any of the top three songs from his list?\* [/QUOTE] The short answer to this is, it didn’t. Look at post #42. ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-bad-enough-to-be-considered-criminal/338954/105 "2007-01-07T19:26:19Z")
Ignore that last post. I got to the bottom of page 1 and failed to spot there were another two pages after. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-bad-enough-to-be-considered-criminal/338954/106 "2007-01-07T21:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] Any pop music sung by an opera singer. They all think they can pull it off, but they can’t. And bagpipe music. [/QUOTE] [But sometimes it can be done to great comic effect](http://youtube.com/watch?v=10aYSKpd9m0) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-bad-enough-to-be-considered-criminal/338954.md?page=5)