# Need horrible music for my Pledge Drive Crapfest! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864 "2010-04-12T18:42:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/21 "2010-04-12T19:57:45Z")
[Here’s the best source of bad music I’ve found.](http://www.aprilwinchell.com/) Prepare to spend all day there. Also, you need some [Wesley Willis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0AcpqdF00M&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/22 "2010-04-12T19:59:09Z")
Maybe a bit too obscure for what you’re looking for, but anyway… Click on the song “My Gift To You Is My Words” by Black Nova: > **[Black Nova](http://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandid=118066)** > > Electronic/Experimental Black Metal #metal #synth #blackmetal #blackNova #synthBlack This will either cause more donations than you can handle, or your listeners will all commit suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/23 "2010-04-12T19:59:37Z")
How about something for the avant-garde? The Holy Modal Rounders’ first two LP’s were amazing psycho-delic Old-Timey. Two guys singing, playing guitar, banjo & fiddle. Still classic. Later, they added more musicians & took a lot more drugs. (Amphetimines, mostly.) Some of their later albums have their moments, but [Indian War Whoop](http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Whoop-Holy-Modal-Rounders/dp/B00004U8W0/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_lnk) is really painful. Long unavailable, it’s inexplicably back in print. You can’t order it in time for tonight’s show. But ask you neighborhood old hipsters if they have any copies; they will probably pay you to take them off their hands. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/24 "2010-04-12T20:06:17Z")
Billy Joel’s “She’s Always a Woman To Me” should have the donations pouring in. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/25 "2010-04-12T20:07:22Z")
Is it really bad that I love some of the songs y’all are posting here? ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/26 "2010-04-12T20:07:30Z")
Anything from Pat Boone’s “metal” album, “No More Mr. Nice Guy”. “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” - Cher “Indiana Wants Me” - uhhh, I forget “Swingin” - John Anderson(?) “Loving You” - Minnie Ripperton “Alone Again (Naturally)” - Gilbert O’Sullivan Alvin and the Chipmunks Slim Whitman Boxcar Willie ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/27 "2010-04-12T20:13:23Z")
How could I forget the awful '70s song “[Wildfire](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire_%28song%29)”? The song with the dude warbling about his girl and a pony, getting “lost in a killing frost.” Dave Barry referenced a reader who wrote to him that a “killing frost” will kill your vegetables, not large mammals, and certainly not be the cause of anyone getting lost. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/28 "2010-04-12T20:14:07Z")
Jethro Tull’s “Thick As A Brick” - that crapfest is an entire album-length song. I’d throw in one side of _Metal Machine Music_, too, but since your show’s called the Zen Arcade, that might appeal to your target audience. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/29 "2010-04-12T20:18:12Z")
Somewhere about 40 years ago WBAI was having a pledge drive. Steve Post had Marshal Efron on. They decided that until the pledge came in, they were going to play “Mr. Bojangles” by Jerry Jeff Walker again, and again, and again. I think it worked pretty well. The badness of a song increases exponentially with the number of times it is played. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/30 "2010-04-12T20:20:14Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > _Memory…all alone in the moonlight, > I can smile at the old days, > I was beautiful then…_ Oh, you have just _got_ to hear the [cover version](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00123I0MY/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk12) by Big Daddy. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/31 "2010-04-12T20:22:00Z")
“Backfield in Motion” – Mel and Tim “Rosecrans Boulevard” – Johnny Rivers. By Jim Webb, who wrote “Mcarthur Park.” This is worse. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/32 "2010-04-12T20:25:19Z")
I actually kind of like it, but I bet “The Last Farewell” by Roger Whittaker gets on a lot of people’s nerves. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/33 "2010-04-12T20:27:20Z")
[“Do You Wanna Hold Me” - Bow Wow Wow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7BwRL2yhGQ) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/34 "2010-04-12T20:28:08Z")
There’s a lot of bad jazz out there. I’m not just talking about that “smooth” pap that’s an insult to the name of jazz. I’m talking about the stuf that consists of random banging with fists on the piano, horn players trying to blow small rodents out their spit valves and random pointless drumming all mixed together in different time signatures. A couple minutes of this may be tolerable, but any more of that just shatters the nerves. Of course for your purposes, this may count as nuclear warfare and your victims may be in no condittion to accede to your demands, but… ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/35 "2010-04-12T20:35:16Z")
Rod Stewart, “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” Paul Anka, “Havin’ My Baby” Anything by Bobby Sherman Anything by Anthony Newley Donna Fargo, “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.” You also might want to check out the Portsmouth Sinfonia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth\_Sinfonia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/36 "2010-04-12T20:36:42Z")
Take Good Care of Her, by the Partridge Family Actually, threaten them with a whole Partridge Family hour. . . ::Evil Laugh:: ---
**Author:** ![YamatoTwinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/cc9497/32.png) [@YamatoTwinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YamatoTwinkie)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/37 "2010-04-12T20:42:05Z")
No one has mentioned Rick Astley - “Never Going to Give you Up” yet? C’mon, just playing the song is an [internet meme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling) itself. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/38 "2010-04-12T20:48:05Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Actually, threaten them with a whole Partridge Family hour. . . ::Evil Laugh:: No, if you want to do a full hour by one artist, I say you have to go with [Lou Reed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/39 "2010-04-12T20:49:21Z")
How about some of the sappier songs used in Fallout 3? “Way Back Home” - Bob Crosby And The Bobcats “Happy Times” - Bob Crosby And The Bobcats “A Wonderful Guy” - Tex Beneke ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-horrible-music-for-my-pledge-drive-crapfest/535864/40 "2010-04-12T20:51:31Z")
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