Because ‘ah’ just can’t be counted as an actual word, after all. 
:o
At my last job, my boss insisted all modern music was vapid crap, and put on a station playing music from the 30s 40s and 50s.
There were some good songs on that station. Some good old swing, the odd bit of jazz or show tune. A couple solid 50s pop tunes.
They were few and far between, though.
A selection of the wonderfully deep and intellectual songs the station played:
RAGGMOPP.
Some pile of dreck based around puns on the names of all the states. (A quick Google search suggests it’s Delaware, by Perry Como.) The tortured pronunciations of several of the states and absurd names characters to make the puns are what really kills me, although the music and delivery are awful, too.
Johnny Get Angry (“Oh, Johnny get angry, Johnny get mad/Give me the biggest lecture I ever had/I want a brave man, I want a cave man/Johnny, show me that you care, really care for me”)
Not only should all of these piles of crap (and most of the other ‘music’ played on that station) be considered criminal, inflicting them on people should be justification for homicide.
KD Lang sang that on SNL. I guess it had the virtue of we all knew she was kidding (She was inexplicably dressed as the Joker; purple tails and an orange shirt).
:eek: I remember them. In fact I…er…um…sort of bought their album. I didn’t think they were that bad…well pretty cheesy, but catchy for a few tunes.
I’ll see the corporate holiday dreck, and I’m going to raise you Christmas albums recorded by Jewish singers. Hearing Barbra Streisand singing “Christmas Memories” or “Silent Night” or, best of all, “The Lord’s Prayer” makes her seem like a money-grubber. That she isn’t the only one who’s done it (Manilow and Diamond are guilty of this offense, too) makes me weep.
Robin
Seasons in the Sun was the #1 song for the year it was released.
“I’ve Never Been To Me”, by Charlene. Especially the spoken bit in the middle. Can’t believe it hasn’t been mentioned yet…
And “My Ding-a-Ling” was Chuck Berry’s only #1 hit (now that’s criminal), but they both suck.
Hee. I was just thinking about that one. Very evil. And I have no desire tro be to her.
Many of these songs are terrible, but Sheryl Crow’s “Strong Enough” or some such title actually offends me. So it has to win any contest for true horror for me.
For just random horribleness, Starship’s “We Built This City.” Ack.
Is he? I mean, did Goldboro’s wife actually die? This would make songs like “Honey” at least understandable. Otherwise it is just an excercise in adding anoying, molodramatic sap to the world.
I don’t think so. He didn’t write it; Bobby Russell did. Russell is also responsible for such musical crimes as “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” and “Little Green Apples”. Russell died in 1992, so we’re not going to be forced to listen to any more of his songs, thank God.
Robin
Huh? So Jews aren’t allowed to sing about Christmas memories? 
Last I heard, they pray to the same God. The authorship of the Lord’s Prayer may be attributed to Jesus, but it’s a prayer to the same guy that everybody calls God.
Do you extend the same scorn to atheists who sing Christmas songs? What about Scientologists? Ought there be a Christian Seal of Approval stamp on every Christmas product asserting that it’s been made exclusively by believers? I’m guessing you don’t buy Christmas ornaments that aren’t manufactured in the Bible Belt, right?
I agree that “Summer the First Time” was a powerful, surprisingly hip song for 1973 top-40, and it still holds up.
Re: Coleman’s stuff: I would slash my wrists if I had to listen to it for any length of time. But a lot of musicians I know and respect claim there’s something there. I tell them that I simply don’t “get” it, and we agree not to discuss the matter further.
“Strong Enough” seems to be one of those songs that people either love or hate. A woman I was dating when it came out liked it and played it for me, and I agreed that it has a startling honesty and vulnerability. But a woman I dated a few years later wanted to throw the radio out the window when it came on.
I think it comes down to accepting the song as a statement of Crow’s personal feelings, and not a claim that all women feel this way.
I couldn’t agree more about “We Built This City”, just for the sound of it. I’ve never been too clear on what the lyrics are saying. Is it about San Francisco?
First of all, I’m Jewish, so I’m not in the market for any kind of Christmas paraphernalia.
Second, I’m not going to re-hash my feelings about Christmas music, but my point was that singers who have self-identified as Jews (as the three I used as examples are) come across as cynical and somewhat exploitative when they release Christmas (and especially specifically Christian) songs. I know they are very popular and sell a lot of albums, and it’s certainly their right to do whatever they choose, but to me, it’s more about money than it is about music or the holiday and that’s not a good thing.
Please don’t read more into that than what I said. I’d feel the same way if a Christian singer released an album of Jewish liturgical music.
Robin
Mike Douglas, who performed (mostly talked) The Men in My Little Girl’s Life.
<shudder>
For some reason I read that as “Rod says he wants to play in my backyard”
and I thought “oh, hell no.”
OMG, that song is VERY high on my list of “makes me run screaming out of the room” songs.
And thanks NOT AT ALL for the earworm now, QtM, dammit.
DAMN YOU! I WANTED TO BE THE FIRST!!!
OK then, “They took Paradise… and put up a parking lot!”
Ah, the theme song of the Anti-Industrial Revolution!
Actually, it’s “They paved Paradise…” but your point still stands. 