# Sappy Songs You Turn (Punch) Off Instantly **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904 "2005-09-16T01:58:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/81 "2005-09-17T20:26:23Z")
> [@Rock-n-Rolga](#): > > _Playground In My Mind_: I’ve heard actual toddlers’ songs that were infinitely more mature and intelligent than that insipid namby-pamby sing-song drivel. That’s one that shoulda _stayed_ in your mind, pal. _Heeuuurrrrghhhh!_ While I agree with your opinion of the song, I must admit that when it comes on the radio I cackle as I turn up the volume and sing along. The children in the backseat wail and claw at their ears. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/82 "2005-09-17T20:49:00Z")
I guess I’m a big old sapp 'cause I like many of the songs here… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/83 "2005-09-17T20:55:05Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > I’m embarrassed to know this, but… > > _Seasons In The Sun_ is about a man who is about to be executed. He had killed his old friend (since the age of 9 or 10) after the friend had an affair with his wife. Or maybe it was the wife he killed. > > It was based on a French song, allegedly less sappy, though I’ve never heard it myself. To quote from [this page:](http://www.superseventies.com/1974_3singles.html) > [@](#): > > “Seasons in the Sun” had been written in French in 1961 under the title of “Le Moribond” (The Dying Man), by Belgian poet-composer Jacques Brel. In 1964, it was translated into English by Rod McKuen and recorded by Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio. Although that version didn’t sell well, Terry heard it, and the tune remained in the back of his mind. The Beach Boys’ rejection – coupled with the death of a close personal friend of Terry’s, which made the song’s theme more meaningful to him – finally sent Terry back into the studio, accompanied by guitarist Link Wray. > > Terry received permission, but not credit, for changing part of “Seasons in the Sun.” He rewrote the last verse and rearranged the words and chords in the chorus in order to “lighten up” the song. If you’re interested (and know French), you can read the _Le Moribond_ lyrics [here.](http://www.lyricsondemand.com/j/jacquesbrellyrics/lemoribondlyrics.html) **SanibelMan** : _Bless The Broken Road_ is performed by [Rascal Flatts](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/rascal-flatts/bless-the-broken-road-14110.html). ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/84 "2005-09-17T23:23:38Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > Can’t believe noone’s mentioned **James Taylor** yet. Every time I hear one of his songs come on the radio, not only do I want to take his guitar and smash it against the wall, I want to take _him_ and smash him against the wall. Hey, whoa. Take it easy, buster. That’s JT you’re talkin’ bout, there. :dubious: Though if you had limited your violence to, say, “Shower the People,” I would’ve understood. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/85 "2005-09-18T00:49:14Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I like Dolly Parton (who wrote the damn thing) singing I Will Always Love You. Word. When Dolly sings it, she means it. Whitney uses it as an excuse to shatter glassware. The difference between the two is the difference between a good song and a two-liter bottle full of the Devil’s flatus. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/86 "2005-09-18T00:54:44Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Word. When Dolly sings it, she means it. Whitney uses it as an excuse to shatter glassware. The difference between the two is the difference between a good song and a two-liter bottle full of the Devil’s flatus. A-freakin’-men! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/87 "2005-09-18T00:56:34Z")
I wholeheartedly agree with the unbearable stinkitude of most of the songs listed in this thread, and I am about to be very, very evil. No one has mentioned: Harry Chapin. You know. “Taxi.” “Cat’s Cradle.” Yessssss, it hurrrtsssess doesn’t it? Also, there are some songs that I know are useless treacle, but I like to wallow in their crapulence anyway. Mind you the songs aren’t having their intended effect on me, it’s more like MST3K listening. “The sailors say Brandy, you’re a fine girl” Just bouncy fun if you realize it’s drivel and just … go with it. Also, I like “Woman, Have You Got Cheating On Your Mind?” by Gary Puckett (and the Union Gap!) because in my mind I have this picture of a wallscreen behind me as I karaoke it, full of images of women leering and licking their lips making obscene hand signs behind me as I gravewly intone: “A woman has a certain look/when she is on the move”. Adds a lot to the song, lemme tell ya. “Young Girl, Get OUt of My MInd” has a similar wallscreen, except the women are all in their 30s (because the singer is in his 50s) and they’re doing things you can’t show in non-adult theaters. It’s pure self-defense, and it works. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/88 "2005-09-18T04:06:39Z")
“Shannon has gone I heard, she’s drifted off to sea, she always loved to swim away…” ---
**Author:** ![Truus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Truus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904/89 "2005-09-18T14:36:16Z")
I can’t escape workplace radio. Often the powers that be turn it to a station that specializes in sappy golden oldies. One of my pet hates is this song in which a whiny guy does the ‘I’m soooo sensitive and hurting and sorry’ bit while he sings he “should have known better than lie to one as beautiful as you (ay ay ay ay ay!!!)”. WTF? If she hadn’t this inner or outer beauty it would have been alright? You underestimated she has a spine (comes with the inner beauty territory) and now you’re all upset your actions do have consequences and she dumped you? The bad thing is that this is exactly the kind of self indulgent ‘emotion for beginners’ loser whining that attracts females with serial bad relationships. “oh,he’s soooooo romantic and suffering”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sappy-songs-you-turn-punch-off-instantly/321904.md?page=4)