Worst songs for a stripper to perform to

Sigh elelle, a couple of times over the years I’ve gone back to a linked thread, seen a forgotton post and thought “Huh?”

… and yet for the upper 5% of performers this could be tantalizingly fitting.

Boy, there’s been some doozies here. I gotta throw Johnny Cash’s Hurt into the mix as well. Well, that and Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.

A few more:

Helen Reddy: I Am Woman
Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla
Clint Holmes: Playground In My Mind
Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died
Anything from the Jewish liturgy, except perhaps Lecha Dodi.
Ani DiFranco: Not a Pretty Girl

Even when it’s Mel Tourme?

Only Women Bleed :eek: - I think it’s by Alice Cooper

Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Clair”

Perhaps the smell would overpower the quality of the music.

D’oh! I knew that, too…I was singing the song in my head as I typed and got distracted. (ETA: I knew the title, but not that it was Peter Cetera – thanks for the info!)

Radiohead – “Bulletproof”
Peter Gabriel – “I Grieve”
Morrissey – “Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together”
Elvis Costello – “Kinder Murder”

Spelled like that, it’s kind of hot, but it makes me think of Bai Ling. :eek:
I nominate “Goodnight Saigon”, “going down” notwithstanding.

I don’t know. I’m listening (in my head) to the intro and that introductory part where the cymbals or drums or whatever do the BOM-BOM BOM-BOM BOM-BOM part would fit pretty well with certain types of boobage…

[ul]
[li]Ain’t No Sunshine (the Al Green version is probably best known)[/li][li]Cats in the Cradle- Harry Chapin[/li][li]Life in a Northern Town- The Dream Academy[/li][li]Welcome to the Machine- Pink Floyd[/li][li]White Rabbit- Jefferson Airplane[/li][/ul]

The Beatles - “Helter Skelter”
Chicago - “Wish You Were Here”
Mozart - “Requiem”
Lloyd Weber - “Pie Jesu”

I’m uncomfortable just thinkin’ about these as stripper songs…

Lyrics to A lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying

Any song that references “The Stinky Pinky Gulp N’ Guzzle Big Rig Snooze-A-Stop” has to be a classic. :smiley:

Sorry, I have already witnessed a stripper dance to this song. And it was not as bad as you would think, especially when she got to the “do me! do me! do me! DOOOO MEEEE!” part.

The worst one that I actually saw has to have been “Automatic” by the Pointer Sisters.

Gloomy Sunday, Billie Holiday version.

And just for total WTF and because imagining the dancing to it makes me laugh: Somebody Told Me, by the Killers.

Pachelbel’s Canon

Anything by John Cage, especially 4’33"

Ave Maria

When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Carole King’s Mockingbird
The Ballad of Davy Crockett

It’s gotta be the dogs barking “Jingle Bells.”

I can’t believe no one has mentioned “Entrance of the Gladiators”, that ubiquitous circus/carnival music. Appropriate perhaps if she’s the bearded lady or wearing clown makeup, but I’d pass…

“Uhce. Tice. Fee Times a Mady!” by Buh-weet

“Foggy Mountain Breakdown” by Flatt and Scruggs