# What songs have been ruined for you by being associated with a negative event? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 3, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-been-ruined-for-you-by-being-associated-with-a-negative-event/527495 "2010-02-03T05:35:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [February 5, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-been-ruined-for-you-by-being-associated-with-a-negative-event/527495/41 "2010-02-05T05:03:36Z")
> [@labtrash](#): > > Sarah McLachlan’s haunting song \*Angel [/] > [@Baggins111](#): > > Same here, but because it was my Mom’s favorite song to listen to on her mp3 player after she had her stroke. She was 62, I used to have to play it for her over and over. After about 4 months, she gave up the fight and passed away. So now I can’t hear the song without… well, you know. > > And I hate the fact that they use it for that commercial. I somehow manage to spare myself the experience of watching commercials, but when my mom passed away last Christmas, my sister put together a collection of photos of her, and gave it to the mortuary to run turn into a montage, with that song in the background. It was played on continuous loop at the viewing, and the following evening at the reception following the funeral Mass. Thing is, at the beginning of the sequence, the viewer is treated to a glider’s-eye view of floating through the clouds, and I kept expecting an airline-costumed Patrick Warburton to step into the frame and start the safety spiel he does at the beginning of the _Soaring Over California_ ride at Disney’s California Adventure. _Hello!, and welcome to the McCormick/Rice Mortuary memorial montage for Kathy Brown. My name is Patrick, and I’ll be your chief flight attendant today…_ Oh, and the song that’s ruined for me is _Don’t Worry, Be Happy_, because the Bush41 campaign used it in 1988. Made me think less of Bobby McFerrin for letting them. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-been-ruined-for-you-by-being-associated-with-a-negative-event/527495/42 "2010-02-05T05:11:24Z")
‘If you leave me now’ - was played at a work colleague’s funeral. Devastating. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-been-ruined-for-you-by-being-associated-with-a-negative-event/527495/43 "2010-02-05T05:37:09Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > **“Start me Up”** by the Rolling Stones, microsoft used it as the ad for Windows 95 IIRC, Windows95 was released on Thursday, August 24, 1995. On Monday, August 28, 1995, a co-worker told me the following joke: “I spent all weekend trying to get Windows95 installed on my computer. I think they need to change that song to ‘Losing My Religion.’” ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-been-ruined-for-you-by-being-associated-with-a-negative-event/527495/44 "2010-02-05T05:57:05Z")
> [@Baggins111](#): > > Same here, but because it was my Mom’s favorite song to listen to on her mp3 player after she had her stroke. She was 62, I used to have to play it for her over and over. After about 4 months, she gave up the fight and passed away. So now I can’t hear the song without… well, you know. > > And I hate the fact that they use it for that commercial. If it’s the one for the ASPCA, I know what you mean. That song seems to be the generic “sad song” these days. ---
**Author:** ![sulamith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sulamith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulamith)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-been-ruined-for-you-by-being-associated-with-a-negative-event/527495/45 "2010-02-06T03:19:32Z")
I can’t listen to Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” because it was played at my husband’s cousin’s funeral. Yeah, I know. Wierd. They played it in the church, at very low volume at the beginning of the service. It was bizarre and it creeped me right the hell out because the family was so devastated and it seemed totally out of place. It is a long redneck story, but the short version is that this cousin was killed by his sister’s boyfriend…shot in the back in his own home because he was trying to stop said boyfriend from battering his sister. His father (my husband’s uncle) died a few years later of a broken heart over this incident. This murdered cousin was a dirt track stock car racer, and this Bon Jovi song was his favorite at the time of his death in about 1990-91 (somewhere in there), and my husband and I weren’t even particularly close to that branch of his family, but whenever that oh-a oh-a og-a o-wa intro comes on the radio I can’t change the station fast enough despite the fact that this happened 20 years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-been-ruined-for-you-by-being-associated-with-a-negative-event/527495.md?page=2)