# Songs that make you want to stick pencils in your ears **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163 "2019-06-27T16:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/161 "2019-07-03T21:43:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I like “Brandy,” too. Definitely a song of its time, but a sentimental favorite of mine. Hey, don’t nobody knock “Brandy”! :mad: On the other hand … Two convicts are facing execution. For his last request, the first guy asks to hear **this song** one last time: The second guy says "Please, kill me first!" ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/162 "2019-07-04T00:34:03Z")
Rolling in the Deep is a good song, but much of Adele’s catalog is the very definition of caterwauling. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/163 "2019-07-04T00:52:03Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Hey, don’t nobody knock “Brandy”! :mad: > > On the other hand … > > Two convicts are facing execution. For his last request, the first guy asks to hear **this song** one last time: > > The second guy says "Please, kill me first!" I did clinicals on an Indian reservation in the spring of 1994, and they had a community radio station where anyone who wanted a show could have one, within reason of course. There were some kids who came in after school and played music, and the #1 request was that song as performed by The Chipmunks One of my preceptors said, “What the hell is this crap?” lol ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/164 "2019-07-04T01:24:46Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I did clinicals on an Indian reservation in the spring of 1994, and they had a community radio station where anyone who wanted a show could have one, within reason of course. There were some kids who came in after school and played music, and the #1 request was that song as performed by The Chipmunks One of my preceptors said, “What the hell is this crap?” > > lol Back in the 1990s, I worked at one of Moscow’s first commercial radio stations. I did the news five nights a week while the DJ (an American) played Adult Contemporary. During the station breaks, I’d check the AP wire at my work station, which was in a room shared with the Russian staff. One night, the Russians were playing **this song** when I came in to check the wire: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KEZHVoTFt8o/hqdefault.jpg "David Allan Coe - Stand By Your Man") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEZHVoTFt8o) I immediately said “What the hell is this crap?” in my best Butt-Head imitation. Thirty seconds later, my DJ walked in and immediately said “What the hell is this crap?” The Russians in the room (who all understood English) convulsed in laughter! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/165 "2019-07-04T04:54:21Z")
Have we had Lukas Graham’s “Seven Years” yet? Man that song sucks butt. Especially since there seems to be a serious contingent of people who LIKE it and insist on PLAYING that bunch o’ crap on the radio ALL THE TIME (ok, not so much now as two years ago … but we’re still not safe from it) ---
**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:** [July 4, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/166 "2019-07-04T05:20:16Z")
What if 73% of all music makes me want to stick pencils in my ears? Or, like, Bluto - a pencil up each nostril? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/167 "2019-07-04T05:29:13Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > What if 73% of all music makes me want to stick pencils in my ears? Or, like, Bluto - a pencil up each nostril? Seven years of college down the drain! ---
**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:** [July 4, 2019, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/168 "2019-07-04T05:39:26Z")
Indeed. And speaking of that, I could lodge a good #2 HB where the sun don’t shine after hearing the [_Animal House_ theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgydWBJt_lo), sung by buddy who brought us: “On and on…She just keeps on trying / and she smiles when she feels like crying”, and was the proto-hippy on the basement stairs whose guitar gets bashed in by Bluto. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/169 "2019-07-04T19:36:16Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > … was the proto-hippy on the basement stairs whose guitar gets bashed in by Bluto. Heheheheh. A highpoint of Western cinema: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V\_hCqO6UQs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_hCqO6UQs) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/170 "2019-07-05T13:11:34Z")
Yesterday, for the first time in ages, I heard Tony Orlando & Dawn’s Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/171 "2019-07-05T14:12:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Seven years of college down the drain! “ZERO point ZERO.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/172 "2019-07-08T16:11:16Z")
Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” creeps me out. I haven’t heard it all the way through in years. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/173 "2019-07-08T16:16:21Z")
Firefalls You Are The Woman That I’ve Always Dreamed Of is pencil worthy ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/174 "2019-07-08T17:20:19Z")
nevermind ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/175 "2019-07-08T17:26:33Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Firefalls You Are The Woman That I’ve Always Dreamed Of is pencil worthy That sure jogged my memory. 70s cloying schlock at its best…I mean, worst. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/176 "2019-07-13T14:02:21Z")
Nobody’s mentioned Rod Stewart? Anything by Rod Stewart. Especially “Tonight’s The Night.” I need a whole forest of pencils for that one. C’mon angel my hearts on fire Don’t deny your man’s desire You’d be a fool to stop this tide Spread your wings and let me come inside ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Ducky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrs_ducky/32/6227_2.png) [@Mrs\_Ducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/177 "2019-07-13T20:00:34Z")
Midnight at the Oasis by Maria Muldaur. 'Nuff said… ---
**Author:** ![mako88sb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@mako88sb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mako88sb)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/178 "2019-07-15T02:07:26Z")
First thing that came to mind was Silver Conventions “Fly Robin Fly”. Made the mistake of checking out the video for it and now can’t get the flipping song out of my head. AARRRGGHHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/179 "2019-07-15T04:18:26Z")
I liked Styx’s “Come Sail Away” the first dozen or so times I heard it. No more. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163/180 "2019-07-15T17:32:40Z")
> [@mako88sb](#): > > First thing that came to mind was Silver Conventions “Fly Robin Fly”. Made the mistake of checking out the video for it and now can’t get the flipping song out of my head. AARRRGGHHHHH!!! When I was a kid, hearing that playing on a tinny radio, I always thought it was “Fly rocket, fly”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-want-to-stick-pencils-in-your-ears/836163.md?page=10)