# Ruin a favorite song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 13, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806 "2021-03-13T04:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/21 "2021-03-13T23:56:50Z")
The opening lines of England Dan and John Ford Coley’s “Really Like to See You Tonight”… Not sure if I need to blame Dan or John, so they both deserve to be strangulation candidates for proferring this conversational inanity: _Hello, yeah, it’s been a while_ _Not much, how 'bout you?_ Oh, that’s so nice of you to ask - I’m doing fine, as well, thank-you, just contemplating your destruction, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/22 "2021-03-14T01:18:53Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Oh man don’t get me started on Red Barchetta. I asked on this board before whether the entire song is just the imagination of the singer and his uncle. That is, there is no car, no reckless disregard of authority. (The authority exists, just that everyone is cowed,) I got about 50% either way. > [@Sitnam](#): > > Cowbell. Turns out it’s in far more than _Don’t Fear the Reaper_ . I’ve got a fever, but I STILL can’t hear (more) cowbell in that song! I can’t figure it out. That damn “whoo whoo” in SFTD - now that, I can hear it now! It’s in my head! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/23 "2021-03-14T03:03:18Z")
> [@digs](#): > > [Grenade (Bruno Mars)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs) > > I’d catch a grenade for you, > Throw my hand on a blade for you, > I’d jump in front of a train for you, > You know I’d do anything for you… > _(Except that train thing, that’s pointless!)_ > > Wait, wait, see, I could probably throw that grenade away, and heal from a knife wound… so I’d be saving your life… with a chance we’d be together afterwards. > > _But jumping in front of a train for you?_ > > Girl, if you’re… (what, tied to the tracks? I’m TRYING to picture a situation where you need someone to play chicken with a locomotive)… I am not even going to slow it down one mph. We both dead there, girl, now 'scuse me, I’ve got a song to rewrite. …and a new girlfriend to find, probably. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/24 "2021-03-14T03:34:36Z")
In “All Right Now” by Free, they forgot to take the click track out of the mix. Now you can’t unhear it. In “Ridin’ the Storm Out” By R.E.O. Speedwagon, Cronin sings " watchin’ the full moon crossing the range / ridin the storm out" Aren’t storms usually cloudy? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/25 "2021-03-14T05:52:11Z")
RE: Don’t Fear the Reaper I’m pretty sure that is a Wood Block, and not a Cow Bell. God, I hate to spoil that whole thing. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/26 "2021-03-14T06:52:55Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > In “All Right Now” by Free, they forgot to take the click track out of the mix. Now you can’t unhear it. In, “Get Together” by The Youngbloods, all throughout the song, in the left channel, someone is going, “do-do-do-do.” It’s more noticeable in the quiet parts, and in the beginning. . . and if you use headphones. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/27 "2021-03-14T06:58:18Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Oh man don’t get me started on Red Barchetta. I mean, I love the song, but it makes no sense when you really start to think about it. Motor vehicles have been outlawed for “fifty-odd years” but there’s still gasoline to run the car? The tires haven’t rotted off of it? They still have bridges that are too narrow for the “air cars”? (I’ve never been sure what an air car is, but I always assumed it was some sort of hovercraft, which makes me wonder why it would need a bridge anyway…) It makes a little more sense if you’ve read [the short story that Peart based the song on.](https://www.mgexp.com/article/a-nice-morning-drive.93#utm_source=alias&utm_medium=mgexperience.net) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/28 "2021-03-14T07:03:42Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’d catch a grenade for you, > Throw my hand on a blade for you, > I’d jump in front of a train for you, > You know I’d do anything for you… > _(Except that train thing, that’s pointless!)_ > > Wait, wait, see, I could probably throw that grenade away, and heal from a knife wound… so I’d be saving your life… with a chance we’d be together afterwards. It’s another lyric in the song that bothers me; _Should’ve known you was trouble From the first kiss You had your eyes wide open Why were they open?_ How do you **know** her eyes were open unless yours were too, you hypocrite? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/29 "2021-03-14T18:41:53Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > In “All Right Now” by Free, they forgot to take the click track out of the mix. Now you can’t unhear it. Some folks say the clicks were made with claves, and were intentional. And the timing is not consistent throughout the song. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/30 "2021-03-14T18:49:10Z")
And speaking of things that can’t be unheard, check out [St. Vitus Dance by Black Sabbath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6fkywpKqUs). You can hear Tony dragging on the strings between chord changes. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/31 "2021-03-14T18:57:35Z")
Not only that, I can see Leprechauns dancing in my head. That is the funkiest song Sabbath ever did. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/32 "2021-03-14T21:58:49Z")
Truly a favorite song [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ivVJzGgcq0) _I’m young, I know, but even so_ _I know a thing or two I’ve learned from you_ _I’ve really learned a lot, really learned a lot_ _Love is like a stove -_ Like a what?? **A fecking stove??** What’s in your _soul_, fer chrissakes - pans? Kitchen utensils? What about _Flame_ - would _Flame_ work? Did you not think of that? _Love is like a flame, burns you when its hot._ Don’t tell me that flames are always hot - just do the fecking line! Thing is, it’s “stove” in the Everly Brothers version, and so far as I’m aware that’s the original, so I assume that’s how Baudelaire Bryant wrote it. Gah. j PS: I am aware that other versions do indeed use _Flame_. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/33 "2021-03-14T22:05:05Z")
_Love is like a stove_ _You have to pre-heat it_ _Love is like a cake_ _First you beat it, then you eat it_ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/34 "2021-03-14T22:52:15Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > And speaking of things that can’t be unheard, check out [St. Vitus Dance by Black Sabbath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6fkywpKqUs). I just looked up the lyrics, and I fail to see what in the world they have to do with St. Vitus Dance. St. Vitus Dance in the middle ages meant uncontrollable movement in the extremities. By the time real diseases were being identified (the germ theory and microscopy), an infection of the brain or spinal fluid called Sydenham’s chorea pretty much became synonymous with St. Vitus Dance, but as recent as the 1950s, laypeople still used the term to refer to anything from cerebral palsy to Tourette’s syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/35 "2021-03-15T00:38:13Z")
Today I had a “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” earworm, Platters version. “Now, laughing friends deride Tears I cannot hide” What _assholes!_ ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/36 "2021-03-15T00:53:07Z")
Okay, fine. > _Anything you want, you got it._ > _Anything you need, you got it._ > _Anything at all, you got it, baby._ I want your bank account number and password. Actually, I think I need them. And don’t call me “baby.” ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/37 "2021-03-15T08:30:43Z")
_You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen_ _Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen_ _But do you recall_ _The most famous reindeer of all?_ This makes no sense. If Rudolph is the most famous reindeer of all, you would surely recall him before the others. _Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_ _Had a very shiny nose_ _And if you ever saw it_ _You would even say it glows_ If it’s shiny it means it’s reflective. But it _also_ glows? How can it be reflective _and_ glowing? And the only mechanism I can think of is bioluminescence. Why didn’t Santa get a surgeon to take care of it? _All of the other reindeer_ _Used to laugh and call him names_ _They never let poor Rudolph_ _Join in any reindeer games_ So Rudolph is being bullied to the point where he can’t even play games. Children reindeer are assholes! And where are the parents in all of this? Are they also assholes? And why did Santa turn a blind eye to it? _Then one foggy Christmas Eve_ _Santa came to say_ _"Rudolph, with your nose so bright_ _Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?"_ First of all, if his nose glows due to bioluminescence, it’s not very bright. Certainly not bright enough to cut through fog. (And if it _were_ bright enough to cut through fog, it would be blinding Rudolph on a daily basis.) Secondly, Santa is going to put him on the sleigh with absolutely no training at all? Seems that would be a huge liability. _Then how the reindeer loved him_ _As they shouted out with glee_ _"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_ _You’ll go down in history"_ Ahhhh, so the lesson here is, “It’s O.K. to bully someone _unless_ they achieve celebrity status.” Fuck those reindeer. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/38 "2021-03-15T09:06:31Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Ahhhh, so the lesson here is, “It’s O.K. to bully someone _unless_ they achieve celebrity status.” Fuck those reindeer. Jack Johnson’s cover adds some lyrics to address that; _But Rudolph, he didn’t go for that He said “I see through your silly games How can you look me in the face When only yesterday you called me names?”_ _All of the other reindeer, man They sure did feel ashamed “Rudolph, we’re really sorry We’re truly gonna try to change”_ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/39 "2021-03-15T09:12:03Z")
I saw the Stones performing in Tel Aviv six years ago. After the show, as the crowd was shuffling out of the park, suddenly someone started singing “Woo-woo!” in a loud voice. Soon, hundreds of people started singing along: “Woo-woo! Woo-woo!”. This went on for about 30 seconds, and then the whole crowd broke into laughter. So yeah, I guess people hear it. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806/40 "2021-03-15T18:18:57Z")
You feel sympathetic towards the singer but I can’t help feeling he’s an unreliable narrator and the girlfriend is trying to get rid of this overly clingy guy. Despite nobody agreeing with me I still feel that _Let it Go_ from Frozen sounds like it’s being sung by a woman who’s one step away from becoming a super villain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806.md?page=3)