I think about this almost everyday, for I have minimal control over the radio station which is chosen while at work. You guys must have similar experiences – cringing when a certain radio jingle is played, burning with rage when a song is played.
For example, at this moment, some song to which the only lyrics seem to be “American Man” is on the radio. It’s absolutely ridiculous: the guy is practically yelling, sings the same thing over and over and over and over and over, and the whole loudness and immodesty of it pretty much sums up the stereotype of the heterosexual, Bush-voting, football-watching, McDonald’s-eating, pickup-truck-driving American man, IMHO.
Anyways, please share. Tell me what songs make you want to shoot the radio into pieces.
Here in Chicago, there’s a jewelry store called Jared’s House of Design or something like that. Their radio commercial features what I imagine as a big-haired Jersey girl wailing at the top of her lungs.
BHJG: OHHHHHHH OH OH ::saxophone squeal::
Announcer: Jared’s House of Design has Chicagoland’s largest selection of insect-themed brooches, just in time for Father’s Day!
BHJG: THAT’S JAREEEEED
Announcer: Head to Jared soon and get your complimentary gold-nugget-colored tie tack with every $9000 purchase.
BHJG: IT COULD ONLY BE JAAAAREEEEEED
As soon as I hear the opening wail I change stations. It’s as bad as the Joe Rizza Ford TV commercials on Sunday morning in the late '80s. Number one, number one, Joe Rizza Ford is number one!
Oh my goodness I’m laughing so hard. Yes! I live in Chicago, too. I LOATHE Jared’s jingle.
How about the one that’s like “You get a great deal and A GREAT DEAL MORE!” Everyone who sings is terribly out of tune and the jingle itself has no identifiable key… Drives me nuts!
Do you ever listen to WNUA 95.5? Can you believe that they play the “Double-you-enn-you-aye ninety five point fi-ive” jingle twice between every fucking song?
Wow that’s so funny. “That’s Jared!” And also the Mattress Giant woman who sounds like she’s having an orgasm.
Would you like a laugh? I asked for that CD for Christmas two years ago. I got it. I also got laughed at but I got the CD so it was all good. I love my husband.
“Killing me softly” was definitely overplayed in it’s day and it is kind of sappy. That’s why I loved how that song was used in the film “About a Boy”.
I always hated this song called “Children of the Sun” by Billy Thorpe. I looked up the lyrics–it seems to be about an alien invasion. I just can’t stand the melody and the style.
Who ever is familar with 95.1 Will Rock in Wisonsin and Illinois might know this one.
An ad for a Mitsubishi dealer, over and over this f*cking woman sings “Larry Roche, Mitsubishi Man”. GO TO HELL BITCH!!
2 songs and one commercial jingle are enough to make my skin crawl.
Loving You by Minnie Ripperton. I felt ill typing it.
Close to You by The Carpenters. I once walked out of a store while waiting in line to check out when this song came on over the PA system.
And locally, the Tulalip Indian casino jingle drives me crazy. And there is no warning. One commercial ends and then a female voice from hell sings out “TULALIP” over and over again. While this is going on a bad Barry White impersonator comes on to tell you what is happening at the casino. I even sent them an email saying I would never visit their casino because I hate the commercials so much. I never heard back.
I am so glad I am listening to the new Led Zeppelin CD as I type this. If any of the above was to take over my subconcious I would become a very dangerous person to be around.
There’s a community college or something around here (Kansas City)and they have the most annoying jingle EVER. Imagine the most annoying, most nasal voice you have ever heard, then multiply by two (because it sounds like two people trying to sing in harmony) and then…
“PATHways, PATHways to AVILA”
repeat several times.
Also, I heard a muzak version of No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” at a Popeye’s once, and that was pretty godawful.