# Songs to kill a buzz **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134 "2018-07-02T02:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/61 "2018-07-02T19:23:13Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > The Pina Colada song is unsufferable when repeated. It’s insufferable when played once. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/62 "2018-07-02T19:34:32Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > The Pina Colada song is unsufferable when repeated. I never knew you didn’t like Rupert Holmes. :escapes: ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/63 "2018-07-02T19:58:19Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I never knew you didn’t like Rupert Holmes. > > :escapes: … golf clap… A Rupert Holmes hater. Oh, well, whatcha gonna do about him? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/64 "2018-07-02T20:41:46Z")
> [@Mr.Me](#): > > Lou Reed’s [Metal Machine Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMSbKU2oZM). It’s what I play when I want people to go away, it usually works quite well. It has to be part 3. That is where it really hits its stride. ---
**Author:** ![dstarfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dstarfire/32/5762_2.png) [@dstarfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dstarfire)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/65 "2018-07-02T22:11:07Z")
Google, a company that invest billions of dollars in machine learning, a byword for web searches, couldn’t find me sh\*\*, but one thread here and I’ve opened up a bottomless can of worms. So many different approaches and reasons why a song/genre is obnoxious. _L_ I love it. > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I don’t have time to follow untitled YouTube links, and suspect this may have already been suggested. “What’s New, Pussycat” played over and over forever, with “It’s Not Unusual” played once every eighteenth time or so. Nope, that has **not** been suggested yet, but I do remember a comedian talking about that prank. … and now I have to go find that clip. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/66 "2018-07-02T22:47:48Z")
How about the Pepto Bismol theme song? (Just heard it on a commercial, and changed the channel for the duration.) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/67 "2018-07-02T22:48:35Z")
Incidentally, I actually like most of the songs I’m suggesting (e.g., Ministry, Leonard Cohen). I just think they’d do the best job at killing the positive mellow buzz. That said, I forgot to submit the following. This falls in the “dark and depressing” category since most people associate it with emotionally devastating scenes in movies and national tragedies. Samuel Barber - [Adagio for Strings, op. 11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGMwNe9WWmE)- conducted by Leonard Bernstein. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/68 "2018-07-03T00:42:00Z")
Whenever this question comes up, and it seems to often enough, I always suggest [bagpipes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsxjXArvdXU). Now, I like bagpipes enough, but I will be the first to admit I don’t have popular tastes. On top of that, there’s two other reasons I recommend it. For one, it’s mostly high register. You won’t be wasting any of your watts trying to pump soothing bass. It’s all raspy high end drone that’s easy for your speakers to blast out at high volume. You might actually hit the volume of acoustic bagpipes if you’re not careful. Related to that, since it’s high register, it’s pretty directional sound compared to bass, which generally radiates out in all directions. So, you’re able to more accurately aim all of your watts in the direction of your enemies. And again, I like bagpipes. Lots of other people seem angered when they are in their vicinity. If they are actual stoners, I can’t argue against [It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n Roll)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIzTobLZAk) strongly enough - not nearly enough bagpipes in the mix. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/69 "2018-07-03T00:48:32Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > The Pina Colada song is unsufferable when repeated. > [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > It’s insufferable when played once. > [@running\_coach](#): > > I never knew you didn’t like Rupert Holmes. Is Rupert one of the People That You Never Get to Love? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/70 "2018-07-04T14:00:20Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > 1. Dark and depressing enough to make you want to slit your wrists: [In that vein.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkL2wGlktlQ&frags=pl%2Cwn) \*actually, I find the song relaxing, so it might have the opposite effect of what’s intended. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/71 "2018-07-04T16:12:05Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I don’t have time to follow untitled YouTube links, and suspect this may have already been suggested. “What’s New, Pussycat” played over and over forever, with “It’s Not Unusual” played once every eighteenth time or so. > > But for me the nuclear option would have to be Zappa’s “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” (the track, not the album). I had a different Zappa track in mind – [“I Come From Nowhere”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsa4WSOGAJY) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/72 "2018-07-04T21:57:38Z")
This one is depressing, dark, _and_ disturbing. I guarantee your neighbors will seek counseling immediately after listening to it. Suicide - “[Frankie Teardrop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igT-iS4nfzs)” ---
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/73 "2018-07-04T22:27:36Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > How about the Pepto Bismol theme song? > > (Just heard it on a commercial, and changed the channel for the duration.) It’s especially annoying with the visuals, though. I don’t know how it will work without the visuals. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134/74 "2018-07-05T11:08:13Z")
Florence Foster Jenkins (really bad opera singer.) Though for people who are high, they just might find it funnier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-kill-a-buzz/817134.md?page=3)