# Worst songs for a stripper to perform to **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074 "2007-07-09T18:34:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [July 10, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/81 "2007-07-10T04:38:07Z")
Elliott Smith – “Needle in the Hay” Chicago – “Fight for Your Honor” The Clancy Brothers – “The Foggy Dew” The Eagles – “Desperado” Neil Diamond – “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show” Patsy Cline – “Just a Closer Walk With Thee” The Smiths – “Asleep” Tori Amos – “Me and a Gun” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/82 "2007-07-10T04:53:47Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] … The first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth symphony … [/QUOTE] I have to disagree on this one. hmmmmmm… Disco Beethoven… ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/83 "2007-07-10T05:02:13Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Refute, “Honey”, Go ahead. Bring a barf bag, and swelter in the heat until ya watch the tree grow and see the people under it, too. [/QUOTE] That’s pretty bad, but speaking of people and trees, I think **Ranchoth** ’s suggestion of “Strange Fruit” trumps it. Naked women and that song go together like motor oil and backgammon. (And just to be clear, I’m not peeved that this idea’s being done again – it’s a fun topic.) ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/84 "2007-07-10T05:02:48Z")
Al Stewart - _Roads to Moscow_ ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/85 "2007-07-10T06:17:50Z")
Maybe not the worse, but I have a Stripper Polka fantasy to the tune of Weird Al’s “MY Bologna”. Accordion music really turns me on. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/86 "2007-07-10T06:28:18Z")
[A certain song by John Lennon.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_is_the_Nigger_of_the_World) ♪ We make them paint their face and dance ♫ ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/87 "2007-07-10T06:56:04Z")
Long ago, I watched a c-grade dancer grinding to _Who’s That Lady_ and _Three Times A Lady_. She apparently didn’t know TTAL was written about the composer’s grandmother. I still cringe when I hear either one of those songs. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/88 "2007-07-10T07:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=gallows fodder] Chicago – “Fight for Your Honor” [/QUOTE] Actually that song one of Peter Cetera’s solo works, and the correct name is “Glory of Love”. It’s off the _Karate Kid 2_ soundtrack. Which reminds me, can anyone even consider stripping to Carl Douglas’ “Kung Fu Fighting”? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/89 "2007-07-10T08:25:10Z")
Watching Scotty Grow. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/90 "2007-07-10T08:47:17Z")
Oh, I know the worst… _Desperado_ by The Eagles. That would kill my lust pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/91 "2007-07-10T09:16:25Z")
“MacArthur Park” ---
**Author:** ![Carnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carnick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnick)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/92 "2007-07-10T09:21:45Z")
The Crying Game ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/93 "2007-07-10T09:53:35Z")
“Is That All There Is?” by Peggy Lee “Another Man Done Gone” by Johnny Cash “Wichita Lineman”. The disconnect between lyric and action would be, errr,… disconcerting. mm ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/94 "2007-07-10T09:54:47Z")
[QUOTE=MEBuckner] “MacArthur Park” [/QUOTE] On the other hand, can you think of another way to make “MacArthur Park” listenable? ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/95 "2007-07-10T10:09:21Z")
The song that popped into my head when I first read the op was “Spreading the Disease” by Queensryche. Although perhaps the music without those lyrics would be pretty cool to strip to. I guess. I mean, you know, for someone who did that. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/96 "2007-07-10T10:10:22Z")
[QUOTE=MEBuckner] “MacArthur Park” [/QUOTE] That’s what I was thinking. Any song from the soundtrack to _The Sound Of Music_ - “Climb Every Mountain”, “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria”, “Edelweiss”… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/97 "2007-07-10T10:13:30Z")
Simon and Garfunkel in general sounds like it wouldn’t be too adequate… but maybe I need more imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/98 "2007-07-10T10:37:08Z")
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant (that’d need a stripper with stayin’ power) ---
**Author:** ![Offkenter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Offkenter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Offkenter)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/99 "2007-07-10T10:56:11Z")
I would pay good money to see a strip version of the Chicken Dance. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-songs-for-a-stripper-to-perform-to/411074/100 "2007-07-10T12:13:03Z")
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