# That song you love - you put it on and everyone goes WTF!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502 "2011-01-30T13:23:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/61 "2011-02-04T16:30:54Z")
[Theme from ‘Ice Castles’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIzPR8i9lcI) ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/62 "2011-02-04T17:29:49Z")
Okay, here’s my foreign offering (unless you’re Turkish), [Dostum, Dostum](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvadwxCzz-A), from the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/63 "2011-02-04T18:13:28Z")
Okay. I’m bookmarking this thread. You guys would have been great with us on college radio during the early to mid eighties, when we tried our best to make the station sound like [CFNY](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFNY-FM#The_Spirit_Of_Radio). One of my favourites: [Reparata](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYXX_QeRj-o), found as described in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=556090). ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/64 "2011-02-04T18:28:20Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Rai music makes some people go screaming into the night. I have no idea why. How great is this? > Chaba Zahouania with Cheb Khaled - [“Ya Laoulid”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EevyKQLYUM) (I heard that they never actually met for this recording. They recorded their parts separately and the producer edited them together. It works!) How great it is? Very. How about [Rachid Taha](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAz924KyoB8)? Hilarious vid, too. As a bonus I’m adding the original version, which falls into the category of [TTFU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afrr-fKlaXM&feature=related)\*, which is a shame as really like the Brel-ish vocal. \*Tune the Fuck Up ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/65 "2011-03-19T00:42:31Z")
I bumped the other music thread from a month ago that I really liked, so I figured why not bump this awesome music thread too. “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” by the Flaming Lips. I can’t explain why, but I always thought this song sounded pink. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-W-4Izjwc) And here’s something completely different. “Paddy’s Lamentation,” from the Gangs of New York soundtrack. Damn warmongering Lincoln. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_VCX-Zdz5qA/hqdefault.jpg "The Irish in the American Civil War- Paddy's Lamentation") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCX-Zdz5qA) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/66 "2011-03-19T01:04:36Z")
[Theme from ‘Ice Castles’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thW967KaAng) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/67 "2011-03-19T01:11:08Z")
[Sleepers Awake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ZUUbb8CWg), …and [Koeeoaddi There](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuHeseIT1HA&feature=related), of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/68 "2011-03-19T01:59:39Z")
The only song I’ve gotten shit for is Whitesnake’s [Is This Love?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnH4yNqL8E), but I don’t care. I fucking love that song, and not “ironically,” but sincerely, and I don’t care who knows it. I have hundreds of popular tunes from the 1920s-1940s, old prison hollers and cowboy songs collected by Alan Lomax, medieval ballads and folksongs, the entire Beastie Boys discography, homemade recordings of people reading bad short stories out loud, children’s songs sung by Weird Al and Kate Winslet in a duet, WHAM!'s “Last Christmas”, you get the idea…and nobody bats an eye. But Whitesnake comes on and that somehow is going too far. t:mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sakuma\_Drops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sakuma\_Drops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakuma_Drops)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/69 "2011-03-19T03:01:36Z")
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the _Katamari Damacy_ video game series. I’m a big fan of the soundtracks from the games, which feature a potpourri of songs performed by various Japanese acid-heads and extraterrestrials. They’re some of the craziest, catchiest, happiest songs I’ve ever heard. Here’s a sampling: [Katamari on the Rocks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMH49ieL4es&feature=related) [Katamari Mambo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZFjR_9z1A) [Baby Universe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=307G3wMK0sU) …and if you think those _songs_ are insane, you ought to play the games. ROYAL RAINBOW!!! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/70 "2011-03-19T03:23:56Z")
There’s a new song by the band IAMX called [Bernadette](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt4OXVtMd-g) that I think is pretty awesome, but I can imagine most people not finding the appeal. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/71 "2011-03-19T03:26:26Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > There’s a new song by the band IAMX called [Bernadette](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt4OXVtMd-g) that I think is pretty awesome, but I can imagine most people not finding the appeal. I kinda love that. That’s a theremin, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/72 "2011-03-19T09:31:45Z")
> [@Sakuma\_Drops](#): > > I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the _Katamari Damacy_ video game series. I’m a big fan of the soundtracks from the games, which feature a potpourri of songs performed by various Japanese acid-heads and extraterrestrials. They’re some of the craziest, catchiest, happiest songs I’ve ever heard. Here’s a sampling: > > [Katamari on the Rocks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMH49ieL4es&feature=related) > > [Katamari Mambo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZFjR_9z1A) > > [Baby Universe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=307G3wMK0sU) > > …and if you think those _songs_ are insane, you ought to play the games. > > ROYAL RAINBOW!!! I love the music from these games! We got so hooked on the songs that we would randomly start singing them in the grocery store. We finally just went ahead and got the first soundtrack. I’m not much of a gamer but all of my friends are. This is the only game I can kick ass at. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/73 "2011-03-19T10:37:36Z")
I have a deep and abiding fascination with Yehoram Gaon’s Ladino recordings, which is kind of weird for an Ashkenazi boy like me. [El Rey Nimrod](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZtU3yNAuMA&feature=related) [Un Kavretiko](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5XRpN4_TY&feature=related) [Avre tu Puerta](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j2Y7SiKjI0&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/74 "2011-03-19T10:57:32Z")
I like screamer songs, where one part of the song you can scream as loud as possible while karaoke’ing (with bonus trivia quiz! I give the song lyric, you guess the song! No fair googling!): 1. “NOW I’M JACKING OFF” 2. “OHUUUUUAAAGH AAAAAAAGH AAAAAA WAAAAAAAA” 3. “SHE LICKED MY ASS” ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/75 "2011-03-19T13:42:55Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I have a deep and abiding fascination with Yehoram Gaon’s Ladino recordings, which is kind of weird for an Ashkenazi boy like me. Any interest in more modern Ladino stuff like [Yasmin Levy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rmK99BZsKo) - rather wonderful IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/76 "2011-03-19T13:57:09Z")
Very nice, although she lacks Gaon’s perfect diction - I don’t speak Ladino, but listening to him, I feel I could transcribe the entire song without a single error. ---
**Author:** ![Pandoranoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/77 "2011-03-19T14:50:54Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Anything by Rasputina. Here’s Led Zeppelin’s [Rock and Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YSdy8vEo-I), and here’s [Wish You Were Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdMp7C8T-ts). Count me as another who doesn’t understand why anyone would dislike Rasputina. I tried to play Joanna Newsom’s first cd at the bar I worked at once–it did not last long. Another acquired taste: Kirsten Hearsh’s solo albums (especially the one with all the Appalachian folk songs about murder) and Throwing Muses (especially ‘In A Doghouse’). ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502/78 "2011-03-21T00:15:32Z")
Anything by **Gentle Giant**. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UtCqZVL6wgg/hqdefault.jpg "GENTLE GIANT Free Hand 07 Mobile") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCqZVL6wgg) You’d think I’d just put **Wilson Phillips** on or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-song-you-love-you-put-it-on-and-everyone-goes-wtf/569502.md?page=3)