# Songs to take oversized mallets to **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 19, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183 "2020-02-19T17:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![martyg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@martyg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martyg)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/181 "2023-11-02T05:01:14Z")
I would take a sledgehammer to any songs by the Eagles in a heartbeat (although I like Joe Walsh on his own and with James Gang). I also would take a sledgehammer to Peter Gabriel (and the rest of Genitals, er, Genesis). See what I did there? I’m taking a musical sledgehammer to almost everything in my collection now. I can see my end in sight, so I am listening to everything I can before I go one last time, and my listening list is about 3 years long played 24/7 at the moment. I don’t know where I’ll take it if I finish it. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/182 "2023-11-02T15:32:33Z")
> [@martyg](#): > > I would take a sledgehammer to any songs by the Eagles in a heartbeat Same here. I feel so strongly about it that I’ll go so far to say I also dislike anybody that likes the Eagles. ( or any other corporate/yacht rock ) I don’t care for Genesis either but at least their stuff isn’t/wasn’t force fed to us by every “classic rock” station whose reason for being is to cater to people who wish it was 1977 forever. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/183 "2023-11-02T15:39:02Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > > [@martyg](#): > > > > I would take a sledgehammer to any songs by the Eagles in a heartbeat > > Same here. I feel so strongly about it that I’ll go so far to say I also dislike anybody that likes the Eagles. ( or any other corporate/yacht rock ) I’m thirding this. I hate the Eagles. Smug, self-serious, cocaine-fuled dreck. I don’t dismiss anyone out of hand if they’ve got a copy of Greatest Hits on their CD shelf, but if the rest of that shelf is Steely Dan and the Doobies I’ll make a break for it. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/184 "2023-11-02T16:07:06Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > _I’m thirding this. I hate the Eagles._ As one who played their songs on the radio, I found them rather boring, especially their early years when they sounded like a Neil Young knockoff. Joe Walsh gave them a harder kick but as a group placing albums on the charts, they were burned-out by 1979. I always thought of them as a quintessential 70s band, and once Pop music began to shift to other sounds in the 1980s, I thought they would be forgotten. Thus, I was mystified by their tremendously popular tour later on. Nostalgia sells, I guess. And if I never again hear “Hotel California,” I’ll die happy. ---
**Author:** ![martyg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@martyg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martyg)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/185 "2023-11-02T19:48:40Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > I don’t care for Genesis either but at least their stuff isn’t/wasn’t force fed to us by every “classic rock” station whose reason for being is to cater to people who wish it was 1977 forever. I got their true colours when “illegal Alien” came out. I get enough stereotypes from my heritage as it is. I don’t need them furthering it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/186 "2023-11-03T19:43:10Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > Same here. I feel so strongly about it that I’ll go so far to say I also dislike anybody that likes the Eagles. ( or any other corporate/yacht rock ) I guess you hate me, then, and pretty much anyone who listened to rock during the 70’s. _Hotel California_ and many others are true classics. > [@BrickBat](#): > > I don’t care for Genesis either but at least their stuff isn’t/wasn’t force fed to us by every “classic rock” station whose reason for being is to cater to people who wish it was 1977 forever. The late 70’s was the time of some of the best music, and no one is forcing you to tune in. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/187 "2023-11-03T19:57:18Z")
When I was 10-12 years old in the early 70s, I loved _Seasons in the Sun_ (not that I had taste or sophistication). I’ll still listen to it now every so often, only out of nostalgia, like a lot of songs of that era that are truly awful: Hues Corporation _Rock the Boat_, LIPPS Inc _Funkytown_, _Afternoon Delight_, etc. Today, they’re fun, only because they take me back to a time in my life that consisted of little more than playing Little League baseball, riding my bike with my friends, and Saturday morning cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/188 "2023-11-03T20:08:55Z")
> [@Leo\_Krupe](#): > > LIPPS Inc _Funkytown_ That’s still a great song. I enjoyed it when I was 11 and can still enjoy it unironically without being nostalgic about it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/189 "2023-11-03T20:26:02Z")
Yeah, Funky Town is awesome. So is Your Love for that matter. I’ll give y’all Afternoon Delight, though. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/190 "2023-11-03T20:37:19Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Funky Town is awesome Oh and the video is _dang hawt!_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uhzy7JaU2Zc/maxresdefault.jpg "Lipps Inc. - Funkytown (1980)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzy7JaU2Zc) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/191 "2023-11-03T20:57:11Z")
It’s kind of strange that neither of the two Lipps Inc. music videos for Funkytown feature the woman who actually sang it, [Cynthia Johnson.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Johnson) ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/192 "2023-11-03T23:04:26Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > _Yeah, Funky Town is awesome._ Only people who live near Philadelphia can appreciate this, but a few years ago I was watching the annual Mummer’s parade on TV, and a string band made Funky Town the basis of their whole routine. It was fabulous. ---
**Author:** ![martyg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@martyg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martyg)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/193 "2023-11-03T23:30:01Z")
> [@Leo\_Krupe](#): > > Hues Corporation _Rock the Boat_ I think “Rock the Boat” is extraordinary for being a disco song that actually shifts meters. When was the last disco song you heard like that? Silver, Platinum & Gold’s “I’ve Got A Thing” is in 6 to the bar, and those are the only two I can think of that aren’t straight 4 to the floor. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/194 "2023-11-04T07:02:42Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Oh and the video is _dang hawt!_ Yep, that is a true statement. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/195 "2023-11-05T20:11:33Z")
ISTR that the singer was heavily pregnant when the song was a hit, and either could not (due to medical issues) or chose not to appear in the videos. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/196 "2023-11-05T20:32:07Z")
Is “Heart of Glass” disco enough? Switches to sevens in one part. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/197 "2023-11-06T01:27:44Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > _Ballad of the Green Berets_ may be the sappiest piece of soldier worship ever. Maybe not. https://www.youtube.com/embed/4JoacW7woBY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RD4JoacW7woBY \*I am the proud (?) owner of this song. My favorite 45, aside from [“Wild Thing” by Senator Bobby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqqhLD2yJqs). ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/198 "2023-11-06T15:15:04Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Is “Heart of Glass” disco enough? Always wondered that about the Stones’ “Miss You”. (its base line anyway) (maybe a little too slow/slightly bluesy side to qualify?) ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/199 "2023-11-06T16:23:12Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Oh and the video is _dang hawt!_ no holds bra’d ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183/200 "2023-11-06T16:28:46Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Hey, Soul Sister This is literally the worst pop song I have ever heard. It was inescapable during its heyday, and it makes me irrationally mad every time I hear it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-take-oversized-mallets-to/848183.md?page=11)