I’m sick and tired of the Offspring, especially “Pretty Fly for a White Guy,” “She’s got Issues,” and “Get a Job.” If I never heard those songs again, I could die a happy woman.
But the song that absolutely boggles my mind as the current dumbest and yet most often played song is “Black Back Pack” by Stroke 9. So far as I can tell, it’s about beating someone up and stealing and black back pack. I dunno and I don’t care, I just know hearing the phrase “Just don’t expect to get your little black back pack back” repeated ad nauseum makes my brain ache.
Sublime’s entire catalog needs to be taken off the air, too. “Santeria,” “What I Got,” “Wrong Way,” et al suck big green donkey, IMHO, and I’m sick and tired of them being played every single day like they’re still new. It’s a shame the lead singer didn’t take them with him to his grave.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
I Hope no ones gonna say Ice Ice Baby!
The weird thing is,Every time I go to my local Gian Eagle(grocery)that song:I want it that way comes on.Yesterday,I asked the checkout girl :Do they play it every hour?
I dont like it anymore.
My vote?:Hit me baby one more time.
I’ll take the challenge. I hire x amount of DJ’s, with different ages/nationalities/genders/what have you. The station rule: You can play anything you want. But you cannot play the same song/track twice in the same month. Funding for the station will come from my vast charity bank account. No advertising.
I agree with Jinx. “Walk on the Wild Side” is good enough to stand up to about two repeat listenings. Which makes it about one one-thousandth as good as it needs to be for all the times I’ve heard it. Okay Lou! You’re a jaded sophisticated urbanite! I get the message now! You know all sorts of hookers! Damn you’re sophisticated! Quit singing that song!
Any similarity in the above text to an English word or phrase is purely coincidental.
In spite of working for a music magazine, I pretty much hate everything but country, and I hate most of that, too. Particularly Faith Hill’s, “Breathe,” which 1) isn’t a country record at all, and 2) has a very peculiar premise. Faith bellows for about ten minutes about hearing her boyfriend breathing. Seems to me the bigger deal is when you can’t hear him breathing.
“She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” is also too creepy to bear thinking about. “She’s always starin’ at me/While I’m chuggin’ along…”
I’ll take Country over any of these: Metal, Hip Hop/Rap, Top40 Boy Bands, whatever the hell category Mariah Carey and her ilk fall into, New Age Yanni-type crap, and Golden Oldies.
Give me Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, The Mavericks, Lee Ann Womack, Mark Chesnutt, Bob Wills, Patsy Cline, etc. any day.
I guess hideousness is in the ear of the beholder.
Lets do a roast of LFO and N*SYNC. Then do a warm up burn on say um TLC, followed by flame tests on most current music, especially the remixing wonder formerly known as Will Smith. Can anyone remember the last song he didnt STEAL!!! and RUIN!!!
Take this to the pit folks, I wanna get downright midevil on some asses!!
(swallowing hard and adjusting tie, and apologizing to fellow chemists in room)
ooops that was all outloud too huh?
I haven’t heard a Will Smith song in years (not since the DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince days). Has he really been stealing stuff too? Are you sure you’re not thinking of Sean “Puffy” Combs, AKA Puff Daddy (how the hell many nicknames does one guy need?)? Just checking
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
Everlast’s “What It’s Like” was playing every morning when my alarm went off. Weird.
The “Counting Blue Cars” from a coupla years ago.
Anything Aerosmith after “Pump”
(I like Mambo #5)
Well … hmm I’m about an hour west of the Mississippi, so I guess I’d have to be KPUF, not WPUF. Do I get to kick out the country station that currently occupies 100.5? How about a shiny new 50,000 watt transmitter?
I would never allow a song to be played twice in one day. Arnold’s “once a month” seems kind of excessive.
I’d play 3 songs, and once they ended, I’d play a quick recording with the names and artists of those songs. No DJ’s babbling incessantly; just tell me what you played and shut the hell up.
I’d play B-sides, many of which are often better than the stuff they play on the radio.
You’d know when I’m going out to smoke a joint when I play something like Dogs by Pink Floyd (17 minutes long).
Maybe I’d try organizing the songs by mood. Play sad songs for an hour, happy songs the next hour, etc.
I’d scour the world for the best tunes I could find. Some of that foreign language stuff ain’t too bad. No Latin music, of course, because that is just pure vomit. I’m talkin’ rock 'n roll here.
I’d also have a show where I played the best music of other formats that wouldn’t otherwise get played on my station.
I actually did have a radio show similar to this. The high school I went to was one of only 4 schools in the state of PA that had a radio station. The other 3 stations were like 10 watts apiece. We had 3,000, which meant you could hear us a couple of towns away. They let us play whatever we wanted from a vast collection of CD’s and LP’s. I was in heaven.
Then I got kicked out for - get this - possessing tobacco products on school property. I was walking across the school yard on my way home from the station smoking a cigarette, got caught, and got fired. Oh well… It was fun while it lasted.
