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.
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.
I just read post #67. Panache45, I had blissfully forgotten that song until now. Curse you!
(You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me,) Lucille.
Be glad they could not fit the whole of the lyrics from the original Richard Harris version.
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.
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.
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?
Almost all of the radio played songs by AC/DC, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, etc, et al
That tonight is a good good night song
Anything by:
Led Zeppelin or Lynyrd Skynyrd
Yep. Been busy IRL. Good to see everyone.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Hey, that song does have one saving grace, you know. It allows people to line dance without having to listen to country music.