# Songs I never need to hear again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709 "2014-08-28T00:31:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/101 "2014-09-01T20:09:18Z")
I had great hopes for this thread - even showed you a model of how these work, and what do I get? a sickly thing on life support just to stay on first page. Shame. Instead of just listing the title (which not everyone knows) give us a title and 4-6 lines of it demonstrating WHY it should never have been allowed airtime. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/102 "2014-09-02T00:12:19Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > To save the others the trouble: Cat Carol > > In the video (you think I’m listening to it?) the cat shows up as a new constellation, not exactly going to Heaven (which would have pissed off a whole lot of people) To further save the trouble: The melody is just two phrases repeated over and over and over, and the lyrics don’t even come close to scanning. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/103 "2014-09-02T00:35:46Z")
I just read post #67. **Panache45** , I had blissfully forgotten that song until now. Curse you! ---
**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:** [September 3, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/104 "2014-09-03T01:29:05Z")
(You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me,) Lucille. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/105 "2014-09-03T02:29:32Z")
> [@scootergirl](#): > > Gosh, there are so many. Here is one for me - “MacArthur Park.” Such stupid lyrics. > > [Donna Summer - MacArthur Park Lyrics | AZLyrics.com](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/donnasummer/macarthurpark.html) Be glad they could not fit the whole of the lyrics from the original Richard Harris version. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/106 "2014-09-03T02:51:37Z")
I got no use for any _story_ songs. You know, shit like American Pie, Ode to Billy Joe, Dead Teenager songs, and Gordon Lightfoot with his drone on forever Edmond Fitzgerald. ---
**Author:** ![Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dustin_the_Wind)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/107 "2014-09-03T14:41:56Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Anything by Van Halen during the David Lee Roth era. Every time I hear that stupid screamy noise he makes, I want to chuck something through the speakers to shut him up. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Every time I say this, someone says, “That’s his style.” I don’t CARE if it’s “his style.” I HATE “his style.” With the passion of a thousand suns. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/108 "2014-09-03T14:49:13Z")
**Somebody** (not me) is making notes from this thread to create a mix tape for the next **DopeFest**. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/109 "2014-09-03T15:24:09Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > **Somebody** (not me) is making notes from this thread to create a mix tape for the next **DopeFest**. The next DopeFest is taking place in 1988? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/110 "2014-09-03T16:53:50Z")
Almost all of the radio played songs by AC/DC, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, etc, et al ---
**Author:** ![SPosting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@SPosting](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPosting)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/111 "2014-09-03T17:15:39Z")
That tonight is a good good night song ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/112 "2014-09-03T17:22:21Z")
Anything by: Led Zeppelin or Lynyrd Skynyrd ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/113 "2014-09-04T04:10:15Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > Rico - you still around? > > CJ ? Yep. Been busy IRL. Good to see everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/114 "2014-09-04T11:53:10Z")
Daft Punk’s _Get Lucky_. I win thread. Close it. I once lived in a dorm-style apartment configuration. If someone in an adjacent room, even across the hall, sighed, you could hear it (due mostly to duct-work). One idiot played that fucking irritating song 8! times consecutively. I hated the song (and the guy) _before_ that happened. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/115 "2014-09-04T19:04:35Z")
Amazing Grace. Nothing gets the TV muted more quickly than that. Especially if there are bagpipes involved. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/116 "2014-09-04T23:14:43Z")
> [@AllShookDown](#): > > Amazing Grace. Nothing gets the TV muted more quickly than that. Especially if there are bagpipes involved. You HAVE to be kidding. _Amazing Grace_ is the only song almost universally loved in the English-Speaking world. Bill Moyers did a PBS special about it - interviewing well known musicians from half a dozen genres who had recorded it in their unique styles - rock, folk, country, hillbilly (there’s a difference, it overlaps with Folk). The bagpipe version (I have the CD - it was recorded by a Pipe & Drum unit of the (Scottish) Army) was a mega-hit. I suspect it hit all the music charts - pop, C/W, Adult listening, maybe R&B! I didn’t know it still made the air - good for it! Damn few military units get famous for something people enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/117 "2014-09-04T23:18:21Z")
I have this as a signature - don’t know why mine doesn’t get displayed. There was Thunder, Thunder, over Thunder Road Thunder was his engine, white lightening was his load. The law swore they’d get him But the Devil got him first… ---
**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:** [September 4, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/118 "2014-09-04T23:51:55Z")
There was a song my brother used to parody endlessly, and now I’m not even sure what the real words are: “When you breathe, I want to be the air for you; when you sit, I want to be the chair for you; when you eat fruit salad, I want to be the pear for you; when you’re a dragon, I want to be the lair for you; when you depilate, I want to be the Nair for you.” Something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/119 "2014-09-05T06:45:43Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > There was a song my brother used to parody endlessly, and now I’m not even sure what the real words are: “When you breathe, I want to be the air for you; when you sit, I want to be the chair for you; when you eat fruit salad, I want to be the pear for you; when you’re a dragon, I want to be the lair for you; when you depilate, I want to be the Nair for you.” Something like that. “I’ll Be There For You” by Bon Jovi (not to be confused with the theme from “Friends.”) That’s one I can definitely live without. Others from the 90s include “How Do You Talk to an Angel” (theme from “The Heights”) and “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” As for the 80s, my choice would be “Break My Stride” by Matthew Wilder. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709/120 "2014-09-05T06:48:51Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > I can’t believe no one’s said [Macarena](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBYM6g8Tck) yet. That song drove me crazy. > > Ahem, crazier. Hey, that song does have one saving grace, you know. It allows people to line dance without having to listen to country music. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-never-need-to-hear-again/696709.md?page=7)