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Title: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: CapeCodder on February 08, 2018, 03:08:18 PM
What songs do you find to be annoying because they are overplayed, and or are just poorly done?

1970's

#1 Green Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf. I have never liked this song. The local classic rock station around here plays it constantly and it wears out quickly.

#2 Spill the Wine by War. Another song that has been played to death here on the cape.

#3 Brandy (You're a fine Girl) by Looking Glass. You know, aside from the cheesy story the song just reeks of early 70's music cliches.

1980's

#1 Pilot of the Airwaves by Charlie Dore. Hard to tell if it's a 70's song or an 80's song. The song sounds incredibly dated.

#2 Shattered Dreams by Johnny Hates Jazz. I like Sophisti-Pop, but JHJ brought that likeability down perhaps. Overall, there are better songs/groups out there in the genre e.g. The Blue Nile, Deacon Blue, and others.

#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.

Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: hotdogPi on February 08, 2018, 03:09:47 PM
Pretty much anything created after 2000.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: tchafe1978 on February 08, 2018, 03:42:22 PM
That stupid Ed Sheeran song "Shape of You" or anything like it that is overly repetitive in its beat, melody, and/or lyrics. Also, most hip hop/R&B/pop/country.
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Post by: cjk374 on February 08, 2018, 05:40:10 PM
Anything by Sting & The Police. Sends me into raging barfing fits.
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Post by: roadman65 on February 08, 2018, 05:58:29 PM
Back in the early 00's that Hey Now song was totally overplayed as well as Eminem and that song he did with D-12 called My Band.  Of course the latter one is because of Eminem has an ego the size of Alaska and of course he is enjoying swearing (if you hear the unedited version you hear him swearing to be his usual cool self just like those he sung that song) and of course he is not in a band.  D-12 is far from a band as all they are is rappers without an instrument.

Then there was Shakira's Your Hips Don't Lie, cause of its overplayed status and four or five different versions.  Most of all the line in the song "No fighting, No fighting" which is ghetto in tone no different than saying "Lets fight, lets fight!"  Then later I learned the meaning of why its in there and that is to show that lots of male fans want to be with Shikira being the gorgeous celebrity she is and fits in with the them of the song which promotes guy's attraction to a girl who moves her hips.

Than Kirk Franklin's Stomp annoys me, as some of the lines of the song when he has the Gospel singers in it what appears to sound like Elroy Jetson's song that Jet Screamer Sang in the 70's HB Cartoon Eeee Ah Oooh Ah or whatever that song was.   FYI Kirk Franklin is a James Brown lookalike who is a man who really can dance ( I will credit him for that at least) who is a Christian artist, but IMO his music that he puts together is not my cup of tea.  At least he can be original instead of copying a cartoon.
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Post by: Flint1979 on February 08, 2018, 06:15:56 PM
Anything by Thin Lizzy.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Rothman on February 08, 2018, 06:18:46 PM
Overplaying hits has been an epidemic since the 1980s.  I actually liked "Shape of You" the first couple if times I heard it.  By the 53rd, not so much.
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Post by: roadman65 on February 08, 2018, 06:25:14 PM
That Wham Song What She Wants.  Although I love the keyboards  and bass on it, I think the title should be the chorus line.  What She Wants is better title for Careless Whisper. 

To get back on track, I just think that line "Somebody Tell Me etc. is too redundant and after he repeats is a few times it's ancient already.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: 74/171FAN on February 08, 2018, 06:31:08 PM
Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 08, 2018, 06:33:23 PM
Quote from: 74/171FAN on February 08, 2018, 06:31:08 PM
Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.
Considering she started out as country she sure caught the fame fever.  I, though, must admit some of her new stuff is not bad, but then again its not classic Taylor Swift though.
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Post by: KEVIN_224 on February 08, 2018, 07:07:24 PM
The single worst for me from the 80s, bar none, was "Mickey" from Toni Basil. Hated N.K.O.T.B. with a passion. That moved to d-bags like Justin Beiber and other pretty boys since. I was OK with Taylor Swift when she was mostly country and just starting out. I even saw her in person once (Mohegan Sun Casino in 2009). I could care less about her now.
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Post by: 74/171FAN on February 08, 2018, 08:38:12 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 08, 2018, 06:33:23 PM
Quote from: 74/171FAN on February 08, 2018, 06:31:08 PM
Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.
Considering she started out as country she sure caught the fame fever.  I, though, must admit some of her new stuff is not bad, but then again its not classic Taylor Swift though.

I am specifically talking about her last album "Reputation" that came out in November.  She was good IMO until that first single.
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Post by: HazMatt on February 08, 2018, 08:56:10 PM
Any time I hear Photograph by Nickelback I pass out and wake up later with blood on my hands.
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Post by: mgk920 on February 08, 2018, 09:04:30 PM
Any 'gangsta' crap.  Also death metal and almost any country released after about 1981.

:banghead:

:verymad:

As for artists, I change the station whenever either Barbara Streisand or Cat Stevens comes on.

:-o

Mike
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Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 08, 2018, 09:38:41 PM
That awful song that kept repeating the lyrics "15 in a 30, I ain't in no hurry."
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: 7/8 on February 08, 2018, 10:10:20 PM
"Cold Like Minnesota" by Lil Yachty

QuoteYou need to stay up out them streets if you can't take the heat
Cause it get cold like Minnesota, cold like Minnesota

I bolded the part that especially annoys me. How does this make sense? Not to mention his singing in the chorus is awful.

I don't like rap to begin with, and I only know the song because of my brothers, but this song is one of the worst IMO.




"On My Mind" by Ellie Goulding

I just really hate the chorus; it's repetitive and obnoxious (IMO).

QuoteWhy I got you on my mind
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Scott5114 on February 08, 2018, 10:24:53 PM
Quote from: 74/171FAN on February 08, 2018, 06:31:08 PM
Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.

Look what she made you do–post this.

Quote from: roadman65 on February 08, 2018, 05:58:29 PM
which is ghetto in tone

Really?
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 09, 2018, 02:06:59 AM
For me, just about any rap or country song (Weird Al's rap songs and The Devil Went Down to Georgia by the Charlie Daniels Band are pretty much the only exceptions). While most rap is generic and pretty much the same to me, there are a few country songs that I personally absolutely despise partially because they don't have the balls to be true country songs and instead try to also be some kind of lite rock song at the same time, even though, IMHO, they'd probably sound much better if they were just straight country songs.
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Post by: adventurernumber1 on February 09, 2018, 02:35:23 AM
Anything by The Chainsmokers has the tendency to do this to me, especially their song "Closer." That stuff makes me cringe so much, and I absolutely cannot stand it.


Also, recently for the first time I heard that "Rockstar" song.

Here are the lyrics: https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tppwkidybeuxatigyn5skeetsue?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-songlyrics

I genuinely could not stop laughing every time I heard this - I could not contain myself. The lyrics were so stupid and terrible that it was just unbearably cringy and hilarious. Needless to say, I hate that song.

Side Note: After reading those lyrics, did he actually try to make a random reference to Jim Morrison of The Doors (which is one of my favorite bands) - Light My Fire (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKU74Uns9_0) was one of their most famous songs.  :eyebrow:


And honestly, there are a lot of other songs that do this to me as well, which mostly fall under the majority of modern rap/hip hop and pop and EDM (a.k.a. Electronic Dance Music) (there are some very rare good artists in those genres in the modern age, but the majority is not in regards to my personal musical tastes).
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: LM117 on February 09, 2018, 06:50:57 AM
Dollar General has been blaring the everlasting shit out of this lately:


Me every time I hear it:
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Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: 20160805 on February 09, 2018, 07:02:02 AM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on February 08, 2018, 03:42:22 PM
That stupid Ed Sheeran song "Shape of You" or anything like it that is overly repetitive in its beat, melody, and/or lyrics. Also, most hip hop/R&B/pop/country.

Glad to know I'm not alone in hating this steaming pile of rotten fecal matter.

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on February 08, 2018, 09:38:41 PM
That awful song that kept repeating the lyrics "15 in a 30, I ain't in no hurry."

Sam Hunt - Body Like a Back Road (2017)

I hate that song too, and as a roadgeek it seems almost insulting.  Sadly, there are far worse, including "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons from the exact same year.  And to think that they were actually DECENT around 2012 when they were new.

I also agree about the Chainsmokers, who have never released a song I'm even neutral to, with the worst offender from them IMO (excluding "Selfie" (2013), which was really just a novelty song, although don't get me wrong, it's terrible too) being 2017's "Something Just Like This".  Just a typical canned love/relationship song with dumb lyrics, and then after four minutes of being complete crap pop, they throw in a GUITAR SOLO at the end during the last drop.  I'm a rock fan.  This is nowhere near rock.  If this is what rock music is nowadays (and yes, I have actually heard it on a rock station), then not only is rock dead, but it's beyond saving.  [/rant]

The 80s song I hate the most would be REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling (1984).  Horrible cheesy power ballad taken to the extreme, and this is by a crappy band in general.  The song is also five minutes long, for Pete's sake!
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Post by: formulanone on February 09, 2018, 09:21:10 AM
I say if a song is truly sending you into a rage, then it's doing its job properly. Music is supposed to invoke emotions.

Otherwise, we're blurring the distinction between a song one doesn't like or a song with no impact, from a masterpiece that really gets you off your ass and hopefully leads to something spectacular (or at least, an error-free and nicely-performed chore where you really got lost in the moment).
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 09, 2018, 09:29:07 AM
Quote from: CapeCodder on February 08, 2018, 03:08:18 PM
What songs do you find to be annoying because they are overplayed, and or are just poorly done?

1970's

#2 Spill the Wine by War. Another song that has been played to death here on the cape.

1980's

#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.

Oh yes.  I hate those songs as well.

A few others...

At This Moment - Billy Vera and the Beaters
I've Had the Time of my Life - Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley
American Pie - Don McLean


Almost everything by Joe Cocker, Bon Jovi
Absolutely everything by coldplay
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: formulanone on February 09, 2018, 09:56:16 AM
Quote from: CapeCodder on February 08, 2018, 03:08:18 PM
#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.

This is one of those songs that was kind of terrible in [any year], and was long forgotten (the way a lot of music goes). It was probably rarely played again, because something new, fresh, or better came along. Maybe it was played sparingly, as a novelty. But I doubt anything other than a college radio station played it in say...1996.

Then, suddenly...the 1980s became "retro"; played a few times during those programming hours. Now we have Instant Nostalgia, so it's one of those silly staples that returned from obscurity and can be found daily. The problem is that the kitsch wore off, so it's now a Zombie Song*, it really should have died off but remains seemingly eternal. And it's probably because it's a cheap song that doesn't have the same royalty charges as a Michael Jackson or Bee Gees number.


* Not to be confused with White/Rob Zombie.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: CapeCodder on February 09, 2018, 10:03:47 AM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 09, 2018, 09:29:07 AM
Quote from: CapeCodder on February 08, 2018, 03:08:18 PM
What songs do you find to be annoying because they are overplayed, and or are just poorly done?

1970's

#2 Spill the Wine by War. Another song that has been played to death here on the cape.

1980's

#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.

Oh yes.  I hate those songs as well.

A few others...

At This Moment - Billy Vera and the Beaters
I've Had the Time of my Life - Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley
American Pie - Don McLean


Almost everything by Joe Cocker, Bon Jovi
Absolutely everything by coldplay

Billy Vera and the Beaters' song as well as the Warnes/Medley number, yes. I'm neutral on American Pie.

I forgot to mention the song Angel Eyes by The Jeff Healey Band.
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Post by: Henry on February 09, 2018, 10:13:15 AM
Let's just agree that all Top 40 music sucks. Which is why I refer to KISS FM-branded stations as SUCK FM (with the exception being if they do not play any Top 40, like 106.1 here in Seattle, which is actually a Hot AC station, and I can tolerate that format because it plays the older 90s hits that I like better). Also on my hate list: all other music that was made beyond 2005, with 35 (the age I turned that year) the natural cutoff point for new music purchases. So to the likes of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Sam Smith, Rihanna, Beyoncé and even Adele, that's a no for me.
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Post by: inkyatari on February 09, 2018, 01:04:05 PM
Quote from: Henry on February 09, 2018, 10:13:15 AM
Let's just agree that all Top 40 music sucks.

No.

In the last 10 years or so I started listening to Gorillaz, Linkin Park, and Panic! At The Disco, and I pretty much have gotten into the music of all three groups, especially Panic!
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Post by: renegade on February 09, 2018, 02:17:23 PM
Quote from: CapeCodder on February 08, 2018, 03:08:18 PM#3 Wild, Wild West by Escape Club. This is a great example of why some people hate 80's music. The lyrics are cheesy and the beat is incredibly repetitive.
Actually, that one is one of my favorites.

The song that used to drive me crazy was Mr. Big's "To Be With You."  I thought it was a really weak, overplayed single for a band that had a lot of potential.

However, I was saddened to hear of the passing of drummer Pat Torpey on February 7.
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Post by: allniter89 on February 09, 2018, 11:58:02 PM
 :hmmm: Dream Weaver by Gary Wright?, You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone.
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Post by: index on February 10, 2018, 12:26:57 AM
The background music in Home Depot and NAPA Auto Parts' advertisements.
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Post by: adventurernumber1 on February 10, 2018, 03:04:19 AM
Oh, I just remembered something else:

"Barbie Girl" by Aqua

I would find it hard to believe that too many people on this forum like this song, or anywhere, for that matter.

I definitely cannot stand the song.  :ded:
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: 20160805 on February 10, 2018, 07:14:28 AM
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on February 10, 2018, 03:04:19 AM
Oh, I just remembered something else:

"Barbie Girl" by Aqua

I would find it hard to believe that too many people on this forum like this song, or anywhere, for that matter.

I definitely cannot stand the song.  :ded:

"Come on Barbie, let's go potty!"

Somehow I've been lucky enough to manage not to have heard that song, but doing a quick read-through of the lyrics, it sounds entirely too sexual for a song about a plastic toy doll for little girls.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: CapeCodder on February 10, 2018, 11:01:46 AM
Quote from: 20160805 on February 10, 2018, 07:14:28 AM
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on February 10, 2018, 03:04:19 AM
Oh, I just remembered something else:

"Barbie Girl" by Aqua

I would find it hard to believe that too many people on this forum like this song, or anywhere, for that matter.

I definitely cannot stand the song.  :ded:

"Come on Barbie, let's go potty!"

Somehow I've been lucky enough to manage not to have heard that song, but doing a quick read-through of the lyrics, it sounds entirely too sexual for a song about a plastic toy doll for little girls.

"Oh, I'm having so much fun!" "Well Barbie, we're just getting started!"

That one was bad when it came out. We Like to Party! by Vengaboys was bad too. When it came to Eurodance I liked Snap! and Culture Beat.
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Post by: SectorZ on February 10, 2018, 11:51:45 AM
This thread is great because it's literally a random amalgamate of dislike.

"Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night. As a metalhead I love my classic rock, but that song sends me for the stratosphere.

Also, most any pop music post-1992 or so, along with every bit of hip-hop that goes with it.
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Post by: cjk374 on February 10, 2018, 07:01:47 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 08, 2018, 06:33:23 PM
Quote from: 74/171FAN on February 08, 2018, 06:31:08 PM
Any of the new songs from Taylor Swift.  "Look What You Made Me Do" makes me wonder what I did to her.
Considering she started out as country she sure caught the fame fever.  I, though, must admit some of her new stuff is not bad, but then again its not classic Taylor Swift though.

Taylor Swift..... GAG ME WITH A SPOON!!!!  :banghead:  She has always reminded me of an 80s Valley Girl born in the wrong decade for some reason.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Takumi on February 11, 2018, 04:30:05 PM
Quote from: CapeCodder on February 10, 2018, 11:01:46 AM
Quote from: 20160805 on February 10, 2018, 07:14:28 AM
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on February 10, 2018, 03:04:19 AM
Oh, I just remembered something else:

"Barbie Girl" by Aqua

I would find it hard to believe that too many people on this forum like this song, or anywhere, for that matter.

I definitely cannot stand the song.  :ded:

"Come on Barbie, let's go potty!"

Somehow I've been lucky enough to manage not to have heard that song, but doing a quick read-through of the lyrics, it sounds entirely too sexual for a song about a plastic toy doll for little girls.

"Oh, I'm having so much fun!" "Well Barbie, we're just getting started!"

That one was bad when it came out. We Like to Party! by Vengaboys was bad too. When it came to Eurodance I liked Snap! and Culture Beat.
I know what I want and I want it now.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: CapeCodder on February 11, 2018, 07:15:17 PM
Quote from: Takumi on February 11, 2018, 04:30:05 PM
Quote from: CapeCodder on February 10, 2018, 11:01:46 AM
Quote from: 20160805 on February 10, 2018, 07:14:28 AM
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on February 10, 2018, 03:04:19 AM
Oh, I just remembered something else:

"Barbie Girl" by Aqua

I would find it hard to believe that too many people on this forum like this song, or anywhere, for that matter.

I definitely cannot stand the song.  :ded:

"Come on Barbie, let's go potty!"

Somehow I've been lucky enough to manage not to have heard that song, but doing a quick read-through of the lyrics, it sounds entirely too sexual for a song about a plastic toy doll for little girls.

"Oh, I'm having so much fun!" "Well Barbie, we're just getting started!"

That one was bad when it came out. We Like to Party! by Vengaboys was bad too. When it came to Eurodance I liked Snap! and Culture Beat.
I know what I want and I want it now.

I want you, 'cause I'm Mr. Vain!

Would I Lie to You? by Charles and Eddie. No one in our house liked that song. I also have a dislike of Tina Turner's I Don't Wanna Fight.
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Post by: Hurricane Rex on February 11, 2018, 08:47:05 PM
Any song that is marginally sexual (a lot of post 2010 songs) but to me that doesn't compare to this song.

United we Dance by Vicetone. For whatever reason it has 6 versions on Pandora and all 6 come up on my running station when I turn it on (I refuse to use thumbs down as my dad likes that song). It plays once every 2 hours compared to one of my favorites: Hero by Pegboard Nerds and that has 2 versions and only comes up once every 8-12 hours (once to twice a week). That isn't even mentioning repeating bad beats IMO.

A lot of remixes.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 12, 2018, 07:44:26 PM
Manfred Mann's Blinded By The Light.  Especially the middle verses.  They are not in the original Springsteen composition and fact is there is a version (the single version) that leaves that out particularly.   

When I drove through Kansas and Oklahoma I found radio stations playing the short single version and it sounded much better that the long version with the slowdown part.   Right after the Early Birdie Whirlly ( or little Early Curly) the song would go into the outro and then the song that is played out so much is done.

Margarita, that song from the mid 90's, that the DNC I believe wanted to use for their song.  To me that one was so annoying mainly because it had the line where the girls said something to the effect of fooling around because the boyfriend was a loser, where if the genders were turned it would be sexist and mean to women.
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Post by: wanderer2575 on February 12, 2018, 10:11:09 PM
I can deal with most Christmas songs, even the novelty ones, but Lord help you and your radio if I hear it playing "Feliz Navidad."
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Post by: roadman65 on February 12, 2018, 10:20:01 PM
I cannot stand Jackson Five I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus with young Michael Jackson saying "I did, I did, see Mommy Kissing Santa,"  copying Tweetie in Sylvester and Tweety "I did, I did see a putty tat."
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Post by: CapeCodder on February 12, 2018, 10:39:13 PM
Quote from: wanderer2575 on February 12, 2018, 10:11:09 PM
I can deal with most Christmas songs, even the novelty ones, but Lord help you and your radio if I hear it playing "Feliz Navidad."

For me it's not so much that one as it is Christmas Shoes.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Rothman on February 12, 2018, 11:26:37 PM
Quote from: CapeCodder on February 12, 2018, 10:39:13 PM
Quote from: wanderer2575 on February 12, 2018, 10:11:09 PM
I can deal with most Christmas songs, even the novelty ones, but Lord help you and your radio if I hear it playing "Feliz Navidad."

For me it's not so much that one as it is Christmas Shoes.
I loathe that stupid Christmas shoes song.  Yep, Jesus cares what shoes your mother wears, so spend time at the store spending your last dime on them rather than with her.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: 20160805 on February 13, 2018, 07:04:51 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 12, 2018, 07:44:26 PM
Manfred Mann's Blinded By The Light.  Especially the middle verses.  They are not in the original Springsteen composition and fact is there is a version (the single version) that leaves that out particularly.   

When I drove through Kansas and Oklahoma I found radio stations playing the short single version and it sounded much better that the long version with the slowdown part.   Right after the Early Birdie Whirlly ( or little Early Curly) the song would go into the outro and then the song that is played out so much is done.

Margarita, that song from the mid 90's, that the DNC I believe wanted to use for their song.  To me that one was so annoying mainly because it had the line where the girls said something to the effect of fooling around because the boyfriend was a loser, where if the genders were turned it would be sexist and mean to women.

I love Blinded by the Light  :no:

"Wrapped up like a douche...another runner in the night..."

And yes, most Christmas music is utterly bland and does not deserve to be forced onto us for two months (!) out of every year.  The exception is Bob Rivers - "The Twelve Pains of Christmas" (1988) :D
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Post by: plain on February 13, 2018, 07:58:25 AM
"You Rock My World" by Michael Jackson makes me wanna snap.

I despise most R&B that came out after 1990. To me that's when it lost its funk, soul, and originality. Just boring after 1990.

Don't care much for Rap that came out after 2005 or so, the lyrics are especially dumbed down after 2012 (aka "mumble" rap) and money, sex and violence has basically dominated everything radio-wise since about 2000 anyway.

I don't care for Rock that came out after about 1988.

Can't stand Country, period.
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Post by: ET21 on February 13, 2018, 08:12:25 AM
Rebel For Kicks or whatever that song is called that appeared over the last 6 months.....
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 13, 2018, 08:57:26 AM
"Amy Grant's new song is lame
She should hang her head in shame
Ask anyone and they'll tell you it's true
Amy Grant's new song sounds like poo."
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: mgk920 on February 13, 2018, 09:49:47 AM
Quote from: 20160805 on February 13, 2018, 07:04:51 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 12, 2018, 07:44:26 PM
Manfred Mann's Blinded By The Light.  Especially the middle verses.  They are not in the original Springsteen composition and fact is there is a version (the single version) that leaves that out particularly.   

When I drove through Kansas and Oklahoma I found radio stations playing the short single version and it sounded much better that the long version with the slowdown part.   Right after the Early Birdie Whirlly ( or little Early Curly) the song would go into the outro and then the song that is played out so much is done.

Margarita, that song from the mid 90's, that the DNC I believe wanted to use for their song.  To me that one was so annoying mainly because it had the line where the girls said something to the effect of fooling around because the boyfriend was a loser, where if the genders were turned it would be sexist and mean to women.

I love Blinded by the Light  :no:

"Wrapped up like a douche...another runner in the night..."

The correct lyrics is:
"Revved up like a deuce....", as in a hot-rodded mid 20th century two-door coupe.

:-P

Mike
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: CapeCodder on February 13, 2018, 10:20:29 AM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 13, 2018, 08:57:26 AM
"Amy Grant's new song is lame
She should hang her head in shame
Ask anyone and they'll tell you it's true
Amy Grant's new song sounds like poo."

EVERY POO BREAK BELONGS TO YOU!
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman on February 13, 2018, 02:16:35 PM
Quote from: wanderer2575 on February 12, 2018, 10:11:09 PM
I can deal with most Christmas songs, even the novelty ones, but Lord help you and your radio if I hear it playing "Feliz Navidad."
As annoying as it can be, I can never get mad when I hear Feliz Navidad.  That's because the first time I remember hearing it was on a new clock radio on Christmas morning in 1972, which was three days after my mother was released from the hospital - she had suffered a heart attack four weeks earlier.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: 20160805 on February 13, 2018, 05:23:44 PM
Quote from: ET21 on February 13, 2018, 08:12:25 AM
Rebel For Kicks or whatever that song is called that appeared over the last 6 months.....

Portugal The Man - Feel It Still (2017)

Quote from: mgk920 on February 13, 2018, 09:49:47 AM
Quote from: 20160805 on February 13, 2018, 07:04:51 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 12, 2018, 07:44:26 PM
Manfred Mann's Blinded By The Light.  Especially the middle verses.  They are not in the original Springsteen composition and fact is there is a version (the single version) that leaves that out particularly.   

When I drove through Kansas and Oklahoma I found radio stations playing the short single version and it sounded much better that the long version with the slowdown part.   Right after the Early Birdie Whirlly ( or little Early Curly) the song would go into the outro and then the song that is played out so much is done.

Margarita, that song from the mid 90's, that the DNC I believe wanted to use for their song.  To me that one was so annoying mainly because it had the line where the girls said something to the effect of fooling around because the boyfriend was a loser, where if the genders were turned it would be sexist and mean to women.

I love Blinded by the Light  :no:

"Wrapped up like a douche...another runner in the night..."

The correct lyrics is:
"Revved up like a deuce....", as in a hot-rodded mid 20th century two-door coupe.

:-P

Mike

I know the correct lyrics; I just wrote the misheard lyrics because they're funnier. :)  I also know it's "little Early Pearly came by in his curly-wurly" and not "...gave my anus curly-wurly", which in the UK (where Curly Wurly is a popular brand of chocolate bar) would refer to shoving chocolate where the sun don't shine.  :wow:
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Scott5114 on February 13, 2018, 05:39:20 PM
Quote from: roadman on February 13, 2018, 02:16:35 PM
Quote from: wanderer2575 on February 12, 2018, 10:11:09 PM
I can deal with most Christmas songs, even the novelty ones, but Lord help you and your radio if I hear it playing "Feliz Navidad."
As annoying as it can be, I can never get mad when I hear Feliz Navidad.  That's because the first time I remember hearing it was on a new clock radio on Christmas morning in 1972, which was three days after my mother was released from the hospital - she had suffered a heart attack four weeks earlier.

Most Christmas music isn't annoying by itself. It's the fact that you have to hear the same 25 songs for a month straight (each covered 4 or 5 times by different artists being the only variety) that makes it awful. It's fine if you can control the music and get some respite, but if you work in a place with a house PA system playing music it is deeply disgruntling.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 13, 2018, 05:55:36 PM
You figure with all the Christmas songs ever released they would have more of a pic.  No they still play the same ones and alternate some covers every other year.  Like David Bowie and Bing Crosby's Little Drummer Boy which Magic 107 ommited this year, but will probably play next season while another song goes on hiatus.

Christmas Shoes, like one user said, is not what will happen as when we die, we do not rise again with our clothes we get buried in (unless you do not believe, but I say it for the scenario of the believer).  However that song is not about looking good after death, but the thought of the child  and the guy who paid for the remaining balance of the shoes who decided to help the kid as his act is pointing out the spirit of giving.

Anyway, yes for over 30 days straight of hearing Carpenters There is No Place Like Home For The Holidays 24 times a day can get on your nerve if you are hearing it at work over the PA.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: paulthemapguy on February 13, 2018, 05:57:18 PM
Quote from: ET21 on February 13, 2018, 08:12:25 AM
Rebel For Kicks or whatever that song is called that appeared over the last 6 months.....

I also can't stand this song.  It pretty much just announces what's so stupid about Milennials..."I'm rebelling, but only for the fashion statement."  Every rebel that ever actually accomplished something is rolling in their graves.

My gf informed me yesterday of the glorious booing that took place, when Ed Sheeran's lamest song ever won the Grammy for best pop song.  It was up against some actually meaningful and heartfelt music, and it pales in comparison to the quality of music Ed Sheeran usually releases (which is average to above-average).  I echo the audience's booing: screw the fact that that bullshit song got a Grammy. I got so sick of hearing this song during our May 2017 trip to Vegas that I reworked the lyrics.

"Last night you were in my room
Now my bedsheets smell like poo
'Cause my bed is your potty"
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 13, 2018, 06:08:49 PM
There is another song that Michael Jackson did with Paul McCartney besides Say Say Say where both in the song have a friendly argument over a girl.  Well, considering we know what Michael's sexuality was, I am enraged by Michael even saying he loved a specific girl.  Not madly raged, but seeing as irony when the King of Pop had no interest in women.

If he did IMO it was to prove he was not living an alternative sexuality as many used to mock him for being weird in appearance especially in the 80's.  In my high school you could not openly admit you liked disco and especially if you liked Michael, as you would be considered a geek or a sissy unless you had a voice and body language showing you could take those who pick on you.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Roadgeekteen on February 14, 2018, 03:05:23 PM
Jingle Bell Rock is not only the worst Christmas song, but also the worst song ever created. Second place is the garbage Frozen soundtrack.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: SectorZ on February 14, 2018, 03:07:24 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 13, 2018, 06:08:49 PM
There is another song that Michael Jackson did with Paul McCartney besides Say Say Say where both in the song have a friendly argument over a girl.  Well, considering we know what Michael's sexuality was, I am enraged by Michael even saying he loved a specific girl.  Not madly raged, but seeing as irony when the King of Pop had no interest in women.

If he did IMO it was to prove he was not living an alternative sexuality as many used to mock him for being weird in appearance especially in the 80's.  In my high school you could not openly admit you liked disco and especially if you liked Michael, as you would be considered a geek or a sissy unless you had a voice and body language showing you could take those who pick on you.

The Girl Is Mine?
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 14, 2018, 03:08:21 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on February 14, 2018, 03:05:23 PM
Second place is the garbage Frozen soundtrack.

I hate frozen as well, but I can tolerate this...

Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 14, 2018, 05:39:18 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on February 14, 2018, 03:05:23 PM
Jingle Bell Rock is not only the worst Christmas song, but also the worst song ever created. Second place is the garbage Frozen soundtrack.
38 Special did a great job in covering theirs.  It really sounds more of a rock song when they do it.

The worst song that I can think of is My Favorite Things as its got nothing to do with Christmas at all.  Its a song Julie Andrews sung in The Sound of Music which was a film I seem to remember that was not about Christmas but a nun who fell in love with her master and his children who married him right before Hitler drafted the man which led to the great escape in the end.  Unless you want to say the snow of Austria is Christmas, then why is not Do-Rei-Me a Christmas song also? 

Then the Charlie Brown Theme as well from the Peanuts cartoon is considered a Christmas Song as well yet its played in al the non Christmas cartoons as well as the Christmas one.  Yes, I know its called Linus and Lucy and performed by a musician named Vince Geraldi. :bigass:
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: adventurernumber1 on February 14, 2018, 07:01:42 PM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 13, 2018, 05:57:18 PM
My gf informed me yesterday of the glorious booing that took place, when Ed Sheeran's lamest song ever won the Grammy for best pop song.  It was up against some actually meaningful and heartfelt music, and it pales in comparison to the quality of music Ed Sheeran usually releases (which is average to above-average).  I echo the audience's booing: screw the fact that that bullshit song got a Grammy. I got so sick of hearing this song during our May 2017 trip to Vegas that I reworked the lyrics.

"Last night you were in my room
Now my bedsheets smell like poo
'Cause my bed is your potty"

+ 1

I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't stand this song. Several months ago, my brother showed me the music video; I thought it was pretty weird and funny. But the thing is that, as a result of both that, and the lame quality of the song itself, I actually thought it was a joke song, or a parody of some sort. I thought it was a joke - I truly didn't believe that it was an actual song, until I heard it played a million times on the radio. The song is really indeed not that great in my opinion. Now this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNuNhJo8kU) is how you do a song of that kind - that is good stuff, and it is 70s Country gold.  :nod:

Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 13, 2018, 05:57:18 PM
"Last night you were in my room
Now my bedsheets smell like poo
'Cause my bed is your potty"

Now that is pretty funny.  :clap:  :-D  :rofl:


Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on February 15, 2018, 12:49:58 AM
You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone.  So sappy and hokey.  Used to hear it all the time at work and I'd have to go hide in the back room somewhere away from the speakers. 

Another one that drove me crazy during its time was the Unforgettable remake with Natalie and her dad. I would hear it at the gym when I worked out, and it kind of was a buzzkill.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on February 15, 2018, 01:23:31 AM
Blur - "Song 2"
GNR - "Welcome to the Jungle"
Spandau Ballet - "True"
Led Zeppelin - "Whole Lotta Love"
Beatles - "Yesterday" and "Blackbird" (and the Beatles are one of my favorite bands...just not these two)
Anything by shitty 90s-00s pop punk bands

Honorable mention for every single damn time I have to go to a high school sporting event and they arbitrarily play "Sweet Caroline" with a bunch of kids screaming the two words they know plus the annoying Fenway chants that seeped into the rest of society.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: SD Mapman on February 15, 2018, 01:37:27 AM
The "Shut up and dance with me" one... THAT was overplayed.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: ET21 on February 15, 2018, 08:46:19 AM
Quote from: SD Mapman on February 15, 2018, 01:37:27 AM
The "Shut up and dance with me" one... THAT was overplayed.

Oh God that one...... You could not get through one day in 2016 and the first half of last year without hearing someone play it
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: paulthemapguy on February 15, 2018, 09:18:57 AM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on February 15, 2018, 01:23:31 AM

Anything by shitty 90s-00s pop punk bands

Honorable mention for every single damn time I have to go to a high school sporting event and they arbitrarily play "Sweet Caroline" with a bunch of kids screaming the two words they know plus the annoying Fenway chants that seeped into the rest of society.

I heartily agree with these.  My greatest musical disdain is for the entire generation of manufactured garbage that was barfed out for teenagers who don't yet have the wherewithal to discern what is good music.

This is an amazing parody that sums up all the 90s/00s meaningless pop music garbage.


And Sweet Caroline is hilariously pathetic.  The blandest most boring people get excited by this song because they only have to contribute a total of 3 notes.  "BUH BUH BUH??  I THINK I CAN HANDLE THAT!  BEHOLD MY PROFESSIONAL SINGING DEBUT!!"  :pan: :pan: :pan:
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Henry on February 15, 2018, 10:31:34 AM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on February 15, 2018, 01:23:31 AM
Honorable mention for every single damn time I have to go to a high school sporting event and they arbitrarily play "Sweet Caroline" with a bunch of kids screaming the two words they know plus the annoying Fenway chants that seeped into the rest of society.
Oh yeah, this. As much as I liked Neil Diamond, this song gets on my freakin' nerves to the point where I have to mute the TV whenever it plays that Hyundai commercial where the two drivers are singing along to it.

Also, Frank Sinatra's New York, New York can get annoying, thanks to its excessive use at Yankees games.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: tchafe1978 on February 15, 2018, 03:42:00 PM
Quote from: Henry on February 15, 2018, 10:31:34 AM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on February 15, 2018, 01:23:31 AM
Honorable mention for every single damn time I have to go to a high school sporting event and they arbitrarily play "Sweet Caroline" with a bunch of kids screaming the two words they know plus the annoying Fenway chants that seeped into the rest of society.
Oh yeah, this. As much as I liked Neil Diamond, this song gets on my freakin' nerves to the point where I have to mute the TV whenever it plays that Hyundai commercial where the two drivers are singing along to it.

Also, Frank Sinatra's New York, New York can get annoying, thanks to its excessive use at Yankees games.

"Sweet Caroline" is always played at Wisconsin Badgers football games, and somehow, the inebriated students manage to sing along with the actual first verse of the song. It's cute, in the same way the House of Pain's "Jump Around" gets the crowd jumping. But hey, tradition! I'm a Badgers fan, BTW, and if it wasn't for that, I'd probably find them annoying too.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: 20160805 on February 15, 2018, 05:05:23 PM
Quote from: SD Mapman on February 15, 2018, 01:37:27 AM
The "Shut up and dance with me" one... THAT was overplayed.

IMO the last truly good song.

Quote from: ET21 on February 15, 2018, 08:46:19 AM
Quote from: SD Mapman on February 15, 2018, 01:37:27 AM
The "Shut up and dance with me" one... THAT was overplayed.

Oh God that one...... You could not get through one day in 2016 and the first half of last year without hearing someone play it

Are you from outside the United States?  It was released in September 2014.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: english si on February 15, 2018, 05:21:08 PM
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on February 10, 2018, 03:04:19 AM
Oh, I just remembered something else:

"Barbie Girl" by Aqua

I would find it hard to believe that too many people on this forum like this song, or anywhere, for that matter.

I definitely cannot stand the song.  :ded:
I hated it intially, and unlike you I was alive in 1997. However, when was nearly twice that age, it grew on me along with other cheesy 90s songs I hated the first time.

Now, sure it's no Dr Jones, or Turn Back Time, but it's not that bad - especially when you realise that it's a send up of Bubblegum music (of which Aqua did a lot of - it was their brand), coupling stuff aimed at young kids with tons of innuendo and blatantly inappropriate lyrics.

Quote from: CapeCodder on February 10, 2018, 11:01:46 AMWe Like to Party! by Vengaboys was bad too.
This song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyiQ4I-mcQ

For years I thought they were basically the same tune and the Vengaboys were idiots who couldn't write more than one tune. Still not that annoying, IMO, just bad.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on February 14, 2018, 03:05:23 PMthe garbage Frozen soundtrack.
Just let it go.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: plain on February 15, 2018, 06:16:59 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on February 14, 2018, 03:07:24 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 13, 2018, 06:08:49 PM
There is another song that Michael Jackson did with Paul McCartney besides Say Say Say where both in the song have a friendly argument over a girl.  Well, considering we know what Michael's sexuality was, I am enraged by Michael even saying he loved a specific girl.  Not madly raged, but seeing as irony when the King of Pop had no interest in women.

If he did IMO it was to prove he was not living an alternative sexuality as many used to mock him for being weird in appearance especially in the 80's.  In my high school you could not openly admit you liked disco and especially if you liked Michael, as you would be considered a geek or a sissy unless you had a voice and body language showing you could take those who pick on you.

The Girl Is Mine?

Yeah that's the song he's talking about. I could actually stand that song but the one from the pair that really became annoying was "Say Say Say". That was played to death! For years!


Also, I thought of another song. "Dancing Queen" by ABBA.

In 1994 or 95 while traveling to my first visit to Chicago (I was a teen), I was in the car with my mother and her boyfriend at the time (he was a Chi native) and they brought along only a limited amount of tapes. I heard Dancing Queen so many times that trip that I found the tape a day after we got back to Richmond and destroyed it. To this day my mother thinks it got "lost" lmao
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Roadgeekteen on February 15, 2018, 07:03:13 PM
Quote from: SD Mapman on February 15, 2018, 01:37:27 AM
The "Shut up and dance with me" one... THAT was overplayed.
YES! That song is literally living garbage, and I never want to hear walk the moon sing this garbage ever again!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: vdeane on February 15, 2018, 07:11:10 PM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 15, 2018, 09:18:57 AM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on February 15, 2018, 01:23:31 AM

Anything by shitty 90s-00s pop punk bands

Honorable mention for every single damn time I have to go to a high school sporting event and they arbitrarily play "Sweet Caroline" with a bunch of kids screaming the two words they know plus the annoying Fenway chants that seeped into the rest of society.

I heartily agree with these.  My greatest musical disdain is for the entire generation of manufactured garbage that was barfed out for teenagers who don't yet have the wherewithal to discern what is good music.

This is an amazing parody that sums up all the 90s/00s meaningless pop music garbage.


And Sweet Caroline is hilariously pathetic.  The blandest most boring people get excited by this song because they only have to contribute a total of 3 notes.  "BUH BUH BUH??  I THINK I CAN HANDLE THAT!  BEHOLD MY PROFESSIONAL SINGING DEBUT!!"  :pan: :pan: :pan:
You can dance to it, which is basically all that matters to most people in their teens and 20s.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: lepidopteran on February 17, 2018, 11:54:55 PM
"Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)" by Rod Stewart
Let's see, a guy gets a girl home, asks her to stay away from the doors and window, and disconnect the phone.  And tries to get her drunk (Let me pour you a good long drink) and isn't the least bit subtle about what he wants from her, saying she's a fool if she says no.  Don't we have a different name for this type of activity nowadays?

"California Girls" by The Beach Boys
A bit too objectifying of women.  True, a lot of popular songs do that, but this one is just so... blunt?

I do like most of the other songs by these artists, though I have my doubts about the line "We've never missed yet, with the girls we meet" from "I Get Around" by the latter.  (What does "never missed yet" mean?) I used to be annoyed by their "Kokomo" song, but that was only because the radio stations were overplaying it.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 18, 2018, 10:24:50 PM
In an earlier post I mentioned a song called Hey Now annoyed me when it was out.  I stand corrected it was called Hey Ya by Outkast which was overplayed to death when it was first out back in 03 and 04.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: sparker on February 19, 2018, 01:57:56 AM
Anything released by Starship post the 1984 departure of Paul Kantner & David Freiberg (Kantner legally took the "Jefferson" part of the band's name with him as well!).  Yeah, Kantner's late-in-life obsession with sci-fi was becoming merely annoying, but the sugar-coated baby pop of the remaining group was indeed cloying!  We Built This City has to be one of the biggest piles of excrement ever foisted on the listening public.  Eventually anyone with a creative bone remaining in the group (Sears, Chaquico, Slick) drifted safely away one at a time until it was just Mickey Thomas' voice singing ersatz Tin Pan Alley stuff just for the paycheck.  As Bluto Blutarsky might have put it -- Twenty years of music down the drain!   
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 19, 2018, 08:57:41 AM
Quote from: sparker on February 19, 2018, 01:57:56 AM
  We Built This City has to be one of the biggest piles of excrement ever foisted on the listening public. 

Which was written by the usually pretty amazing Bernie Taupin.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 19, 2018, 09:22:53 PM
I actually like We Built This City. IMHO, it's not a bad song and doesn't deserve all the hate that it unnecessarily gets. I almost wonder if the hate for it mostly stems from the several former members of the band leaving and the remaining members taking the group in a new direction.

Black Water by The Doobie Brothers is another song that I hate as it just annoys me. Especially since the group produced Long Train Running which is one of my favorite songs.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Buck87 on February 19, 2018, 09:37:36 PM
Van Halen's version of "You Really Got Me"
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: adventurernumber1 on February 19, 2018, 09:57:31 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on February 19, 2018, 09:22:53 PM
I actually like We Built This City. IMHO, it's not a bad song and doesn't deserve all the hate that it unnecessarily gets. I almost wonder if the hate for it mostly stems from the several former members of the band leaving and the remaining members taking the group in a new direction.

I agree. I like the song as well, and I have never understood why it gets so much hate.  :hmmm:

Jefferson Airplane was a great band from the 1960's (and they had some good music), which later evolved into Jefferson Starship (through member changes and such), and then eventually into Starship (after even more members left), which is the artist of the song "We Built This City." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD31tQ7un24) It may not equal the great work that came out of the original state of the band in the past, but I still don't see why so many people think it's that terrible. Who knows, maybe it might be just because of different members being in the group, but I haven't a clue.  :-D  :hmm:


Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Rothman on February 19, 2018, 11:01:11 PM
Don't forget Starship's song from Mannequin. :D
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Buck87 on February 19, 2018, 11:07:49 PM
This talk of We Built This City reminds me of one of my favorite misheard lyrics:

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.quickmeme.com%2Fimg%2F59%2F59e6ee5fdbb00a5e5ad556754a4889ce24256950ae0e399726f422628b5cdc45.jpg&hash=fcdb6431fcf123a7e15c3f3c52293c6575c73d93)
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: sparker on February 19, 2018, 11:18:10 PM
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on February 19, 2018, 09:57:31 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on February 19, 2018, 09:22:53 PM
I actually like We Built This City. IMHO, it's not a bad song and doesn't deserve all the hate that it unnecessarily gets. I almost wonder if the hate for it mostly stems from the several former members of the band leaving and the remaining members taking the group in a new direction.

I agree. I like the song as well, and I have never understood why it gets so much hate.  :hmmm:

Jefferson Airplane was a great band from the 1960's (and they had some good music), which later evolved into Jefferson Starship (through member changes and such), and then eventually into Starship (after even more members left), which is the artist of the song "We Built This City." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD31tQ7un24) It may not equal the great work that came out of the original state of the band in the past, but I still don't see why so many people think it's that terrible. Who knows, maybe it might be just because of different members being in the group, but I haven't a clue.  :-D  :hmm:

My own disdain for the song is based not so much on the new composition (or devolution, depending upon one's standpoint) of the band -- when the album was released in late '85, I actually purchased a copy, hoping for the best.  But the album was full of formulaic pop, devoid of virtually all of the musicianship (tasty Chaquico riffs being prominent by their absence) that made the group listenable even in its more mundane and/or lugubrious moments.  The addition of co-producer Peter Wolf's synthesized rhythmic lines (full-on forward in We Built This City, but echoing his first appearance on the previous (w/Kantner & Co.) album Nuclear Furniture (1984) with the forgettable ditty Magician, which had decent Slick vocals (although she seemed like she was running out of breath) but set against a truly annoying synthesizer rhythm section, courtesy of the aforementioned Mr. Wolf.  Repeating himself in We Built....., it doesn't fare better on a decidedly treacly song.  Maybe I'm just pissed that the fact is that the city -- or at least a large part of its musical history --  was built on the original Jefferson Airplane and successors, not Mr. Wolf and his dependence on electronic trickery.   Maybe the revered Mr. Taupin had a good (if presumptuous) song in him -- but the end product hardly did anyone involved justice.     
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: sparker on February 19, 2018, 11:24:46 PM
Quote from: Rothman on February 19, 2018, 11:01:11 PM
Don't forget Starship's song from Mannequin. :D

You mean Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now?  Standard-issue Diane Warren song (her compositions were all over the charts in the late '80's and early '90's; even Heart recorded one of her numbers and another one ended up in the James Bond film License To Kill); Starship was merely the vehicle for delivering that song; it required two distinct vocals, and Slick & Thomas did that reasonably well.   At least it was competently written and recorded, unlike much of their album fare.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 20, 2018, 09:13:11 AM
I totally forgot "Candle in the Wind."

I love Elton JOhn, but this song..  I hated the Marilyn Monroe version, and loathed the princess di version.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 21, 2018, 09:44:16 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 19, 2018, 08:57:41 AM
Quote from: sparker on February 19, 2018, 01:57:56 AM
  We Built This City has to be one of the biggest piles of excrement ever foisted on the listening public. 

Which was written by the usually pretty amazing Bernie Taupin.
I remember once a station in NYC called Z100 who changed the lyrics to We Built This City on Z100 in the first verse.   They dubbed over the word Rock N Roll to add in their own chorus to say Z100 to be funny.

I also heard that WPLJ did the same thing with Huey Lewis' Power Of Love as that station used to call themselves Power 95 and a friend of mine heard it ( I did not though) but he said they overdubbed Lewis signing the Power of Love part to fit the station's nickname.

To me that was annoying as We Built This City was all right by me.  I know most down hard Starship fans hated that song even Paul Kantner who was a life long member of the band.  I believe he booked right before the song came out as Nuclear Furniture was his last appeared album (at least for the first run of the band as I heard they reformed again using the name over as they did with Jefferson Airplane in 1989).   Kantner hated the sound that the band was leaning for and that song was the poster song of his point.  The song was not typical Starship sound and therefore it got criticized just as when Genesis came out with the album And Then There Was Three, the first album by that band with the later sound and not the traditional Genesis Progressive sound, or even Van Halen 5150 where everybody did not want to like any song off that album cause David Lee Roth was no longer singing them.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: sparker on February 22, 2018, 01:13:50 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 21, 2018, 09:44:16 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 19, 2018, 08:57:41 AM
Quote from: sparker on February 19, 2018, 01:57:56 AM
  We Built This City has to be one of the biggest piles of excrement ever foisted on the listening public. 

Which was written by the usually pretty amazing Bernie Taupin.
I remember once a station in NYC called Z100 who changed the lyrics to We Built This City on Z100 in the first verse.   They dubbed over the word Rock N Roll to add in their own chorus to say Z100 to be funny.

I also heard that WPLJ did the same thing with Huey Lewis' Power Of Love as that station used to call themselves Power 95 and a friend of mine heard it ( I did not though) but he said they overdubbed Lewis signing the Power of Love part to fit the station's nickname.

To me that was annoying as We Built This City was all right by me.  I know most down hard Starship fans hated that song even Paul Kantner who was a life long member of the band.  I believe he booked right before the song came out as Nuclear Furniture was his last appeared album (at least for the first run of the band as I heard they reformed again using the name over as they did with Jefferson Airplane in 1989).   Kantner hated the sound that the band was leaning for and that song was the poster song of his point.  The song was not typical Starship sound and therefore it got criticized just as when Genesis came out with the album And Then There Was Three, the first album by that band with the later sound and not the traditional Genesis Progressive sound, or even Van Halen 5150 where everybody did not want to like any song off that album cause David Lee Roth was no longer singing them.

Actually, Kantner was really pissed at Mickey Thomas, whom he (with some justification) suspected of colluding with Peter Wolf and the RCA A&R department to force him out of the group.  By that time, Thomas had been collaborating on songwriting with mostly Craig Chaquico but occasionally with Slick.  Since Kantner had been the one to hire Thomas in the first place (replacing the ever-moody Marty Balin) he felt that his trust had been betrayed; it was a bit less so with Chaquico (who stuck with the group until about 1988), since Kantner had brought him on as a 16-year-old wunderkind on his duet (w/Slick) album Sunfighter back in 1971.  However, Kantner never worked with Chaquico again, replacing him on later efforts (the ill-fated KBC Band of 1986 and the later Jefferson Starship iterations) with another "young gun", Mark Aguilar.  Chaquico eventually went on to do "New Age" acoustic guitar work.  And Mickey Thomas still plies the trenches on occasion with "Mickey Thomas' Starship" (still churning out treacle, IMO).  Kantner was still playing (as much as his health would allow) with those J.S. iterations until his death in early 2016; the fact that he made it to age 74 (considering he was a 2-pack-a-day smoker) was itself something of a physical miracle.  To the end, he'd hold court at Vesuvio's Bar on Columbus Ave. in S.F. at least three nights a week, taking over the big back booth with his various cohorts and pontificating on all things political and social -- I'd get into arguments with him there on a regular basis back in the '80's:  he the unreconstructed radical, myself ever the old-fashioned pragmatic liberal (he certainly didn't appreciate that particular combination).  The last time I talked to him at that place was back about 2014 when my GF and I were coming out of dining next door at Brandy Ho's Hunan restaurant; we were walking up the street and saw him through the window, so I decided to introduce her to Paul.  Right off the bat he made the off-the-cuff comment to her that "are you sure you can't do better than him?"  -- referring to me sarcastically (his forte'!).  She had a good laugh about that.  He didn't look terribly well that evening -- but was smoking like a chimney anyway; we engaged in a bit of small talk and left.  That was the last time I saw Kantner before he died a bit over a year later.  He does leave a legacy of a whole genre of music (IMO a must-have album is his 1970 quasi-solo effort Blows Against The Empire).  RIP -- he didnt' have a lot of P in his lifetime.   
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 22, 2018, 08:48:43 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 21, 2018, 09:44:16 PM

I remember once a station in NYC called Z100 who changed the lyrics to We Built This City on Z100 in the first verse.   They dubbed over the word Rock N Roll to add in their own chorus to say Z100 to be funny.

I also heard that WPLJ did the same thing with Huey Lewis' Power Of Love as that station used to call themselves Power 95 and a friend of mine heard it ( I did not though) but he said they overdubbed Lewis signing the Power of Love part to fit the station's nickname.


I remember that the local music station when I was a kid, WLS, had the song Fire by The Pointer Sisters.  They changed the lyric "You turn on the radio" to "you turn on WLS"

I also remember that the Huey Lewis song "The Heart of Rock and Roll" had a list of cities at the end, and they mentioned every big city in the US EXCEPT Chicago.  I'm guessing the local radio station contacted the record company, because a version where Chicago and Kansas City were added was released soon after. I've never been able to find this version.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 22, 2018, 11:07:23 AM
The Safety Dance! I don't think it's good for general listening, but just good humor from the music video and the history behind it.

And nowadays I'll hear Hotel California being overplayed.


iPhone
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: 20160805 on February 22, 2018, 05:33:41 PM
Quote from: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 22, 2018, 11:07:23 AM
The Safety Dance! I don't think it's good for general listening, but just good humor from the music video and the history behind it.

And nowadays I'll hear Hotel California being overplayed.


iPhone

TSD is my 6th favorite song :(
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: CapeCodder on February 22, 2018, 06:13:05 PM
Quote from: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 22, 2018, 11:07:23 AM
The Safety Dance! I don't think it's good for general listening, but just good humor from the music video and the history behind it.

And nowadays I'll hear Hotel California being overplayed.


iPhone

You know, we can dance if we want to.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 22, 2018, 10:25:37 PM
Quote from: CapeCodder on February 22, 2018, 06:13:05 PM
Quote from: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 22, 2018, 11:07:23 AM
The Safety Dance! I don’t think it’s good for general listening, but just good humor from the music video and the history behind it.

And nowadays I’ll hear Hotel California being overplayed.


iPhone

You know, we can dance if we want to.
We can leave your friends behind...
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance...
Well they're no friends of mine.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 23, 2018, 12:22:54 PM
When Men At Work first came out I hated them for the new sound they had.  Remember that was the time rock progressed into something different as previously the 70's sound still ruled pretty much.

Friends of mine used to argue with me and say it was the Police and not Men At Work that were the first to pioneer the sound.  To me the Police still sounded 70 ish but now that I look back at it the Police do sound very 80's and a ton of other bands before Colin Hay started singing "Who could that be knocking at my door" had the new sound.

Also when Bowie did Lets Dance that through me into a rage as it was not the normal Bowie sound I was accustomed to hear.  In fact to everyone around I grew up with we though David went disco as even R & B stations were playing that particular song on their playlists of the time. It did have a new kind of beat I must admit and hard to get used to.

Now I do not mind that song as I got older.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman on February 23, 2018, 01:28:55 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 20, 2018, 09:13:11 AM
I totally forgot "Candle in the Wind."

I love Elton JOhn, but this song..  I hated the Marilyn Monroe version, and loathed the princess di version.

When I first heard the Princess Di version of "Candle in the Wind", my immediate thought was "Wow.  Here's a man with all this great talent, and he decides to remake a mediocre song instead of creating something original."
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 23, 2018, 04:10:37 PM
I can relate to being fond of Elton John, but Bennie and The Jets... I just find annoying.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 23, 2018, 05:16:36 PM
Quote from: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 23, 2018, 04:10:37 PM
I can relate to being fond of Elton John, but Bennie and The Jets... I just find annoying.

That's my absolute favorite song of his!
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Brandon on February 23, 2018, 07:21:10 PM
Nothing sends me into a rage, but I do have some I strongly dislike:

Bon Jovi. :-C~
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 23, 2018, 07:41:55 PM
Quote from: Brandon on February 23, 2018, 07:21:10 PM
Nothing sends me into a rage, but I do have some I strongly dislike:

Bon Jovi. :-C~

I absolutely dislike 99% of bon joki's output
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 23, 2018, 07:42:12 PM
Quote from: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 23, 2018, 04:10:37 PM
I can relate to being fond of Elton John, but Bennie and The Jets... I just find annoying.
Same here. I wonder if a studio version exists as well, because all I ever hear is that live version.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 23, 2018, 07:44:17 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on February 23, 2018, 07:42:12 PM
Quote from: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 23, 2018, 04:10:37 PM
I can relate to being fond of Elton John, but Bennie and The Jets... I just find annoying.
Same here. I wonder if a studio version exists as well, because all I ever hear is that live version.

That is the studio version.  That's all sound effects.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 23, 2018, 07:46:27 PM
I wonder if it was rendered through a can.


iPhone
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on February 23, 2018, 08:32:57 PM
Basically, any song that I hear on the radio that is the single version instead of the album version drives me bat&*#@ crazy.  I cannot stand it when I hear the 3:00 version of an 8 or 9 minute song that butchers out the best parts and omits a verse or two.  Kills the whole experience of a great song.  Roundabout by Yes is about 8 1/2 minutes on the album, but comes in at under 3 1/2 minutes on the single.  Same with Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.
   
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: hotdogPi on February 23, 2018, 08:36:20 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 23, 2018, 07:41:55 PM
Quote from: Brandon on February 23, 2018, 07:21:10 PM
Nothing sends me into a rage, but I do have some I strongly dislike:

Bon Jovi. :-C~

I absolutely dislike 99% of bon joki's output

(https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2015/03/2015JonBoviTattoo_Reddit_110315.jpg)
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 23, 2018, 08:52:30 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 23, 2018, 07:44:17 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on February 23, 2018, 07:42:12 PM
Quote from: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 23, 2018, 04:10:37 PM
I can relate to being fond of Elton John, but Bennie and The Jets... I just find annoying.
Same here. I wonder if a studio version exists as well, because all I ever hear is that live version.

That is the studio version.  That's all sound effects.

No wonder it's so annoying...
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheArkansasRoadgeek on February 23, 2018, 09:09:30 PM
Quote from: 1 on February 23, 2018, 08:36:20 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 23, 2018, 07:41:55 PM
Quote from: Brandon on February 23, 2018, 07:21:10 PM
Nothing sends me into a rage, but I do have some I strongly dislike:

Bon Jovi. :-C~

I absolutely dislike 99% of bon joki's output

(https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2015/03/2015JonBoviTattoo_Reddit_110315.jpg)
You are
403: Forbidden :pan:
from using this cringe photo ever again!

404: Spell Check Not Found. :-D
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Takumi on February 23, 2018, 09:15:44 PM
Quote from: 1 on February 23, 2018, 08:36:20 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 23, 2018, 07:41:55 PM
Quote from: Brandon on February 23, 2018, 07:21:10 PM
Nothing sends me into a rage, but I do have some I strongly dislike:

Bon Jovi. :-C~

I absolutely dislike 99% of bon joki's output

(https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2015/03/2015JonBoviTattoo_Reddit_110315.jpg)
No ragrets
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on February 24, 2018, 02:19:27 AM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 23, 2018, 08:32:57 PM
Basically, any song that I hear on the radio that is the single version instead of the album version drives me bat&*#@ crazy.  I cannot stand it when I hear the 3:00 version of an 8 or 9 minute song that butchers out the best parts and omits a verse or two.  Kills the whole experience of a great song.  Roundabout by Yes is about 8 1/2 minutes on the album, but comes in at under 3 1/2 minutes on the single.  Same with Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.
   

I can't say I've ever heard the single versions of these songs on radio, but the single edit that I hate the most is CSN's Suite Judy Blue Eyes. Also the sloppy editing done on Eagles' Best of My Love.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 24, 2018, 04:11:09 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 23, 2018, 08:32:57 PM
Basically, any song that I hear on the radio that is the single version instead of the album version drives me bat&*#@ crazy.  I cannot stand it when I hear the 3:00 version of an 8 or 9 minute song that butchers out the best parts and omits a verse or two.  Kills the whole experience of a great song.  Roundabout by Yes is about 8 1/2 minutes on the album, but comes in at under 3 1/2 minutes on the single.  Same with Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.
   
How about The Load Out/ Stay by Jackson Browne?  Some stations leave out The Load Out and start with just Stay.   I love the David Lindley falsetto especially after listening to about 6 or 7 minutes of the song, it makes the waiting worth it.  When it starts out with the Stay part its less than one minute before that classic falsetto.

Light My Fire by The Doors too, sucks in single version as the middle organ solo is cut out completely.

Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp's single leaves out the keyboard bridge before the chorus.  That is bogus to not hear either.

Magic Man by Heart leaves out the instrumental center section including the Moog organ, in the single version and cuts right to the last verse.

Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: sparker on February 24, 2018, 05:43:38 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 24, 2018, 04:11:09 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 23, 2018, 08:32:57 PM
Basically, any song that I hear on the radio that is the single version instead of the album version drives me bat&*#@ crazy.  I cannot stand it when I hear the 3:00 version of an 8 or 9 minute song that butchers out the best parts and omits a verse or two.  Kills the whole experience of a great song.  Roundabout by Yes is about 8 1/2 minutes on the album, but comes in at under 3 1/2 minutes on the single.  Same with Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.
   
How about The Load Out/ Stay by Jackson Browne?  Some stations leave out The Load Out and start with just Stay.   I love the David Lindley falsetto especially after listening to about 6 or 7 minutes of the song, it makes the waiting worth it.  When it starts out with the Stay part its less than one minute before that classic falsetto.

Light My Fire by The Doors too, sucks in single version as the middle organ solo is cut out completely.

Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp's single leaves out the keyboard bridge before the chorus.  That is bogus to not hear either.

Magic Man by Heart leaves out the instrumental center section including the Moog organ, in the single version and cuts right to the last verse.



Then there are those songs that have been edited/shortened for content; the one that immediately comes to mind was Jefferson Starship's (and Marty Balin's) Miracles from the Red Octopus album (1975).  It was pretty much a given that there would be a highly censored radio version, since Balin sings about "going down on you" and "dancing inside you" about two-thirds through the song; that was neatly snipped out for the 3+ minute radio version.  Since I had purchase the album before hearing the edited radio version, it was humorous at the time to wonder what would have happened if the full 6-minute-and-change album version was aired in error.  I was still living in L.A. at the time, and remember the Cal State L.A. campus station (which could be received along both I-10 and CA 60 from downtown L.A. out to about El Monte) playing the full version late at night (campus stations could generally get away with that sort of thing unless there was public outcry).
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: adventurernumber1 on February 24, 2018, 07:22:22 PM
Quote from: sparker on February 24, 2018, 05:43:38 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 24, 2018, 04:11:09 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 23, 2018, 08:32:57 PM
Basically, any song that I hear on the radio that is the single version instead of the album version drives me bat&*#@ crazy.  I cannot stand it when I hear the 3:00 version of an 8 or 9 minute song that butchers out the best parts and omits a verse or two.  Kills the whole experience of a great song.  Roundabout by Yes is about 8 1/2 minutes on the album, but comes in at under 3 1/2 minutes on the single.  Same with Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.
   
How about The Load Out/ Stay by Jackson Browne?  Some stations leave out The Load Out and start with just Stay.   I love the David Lindley falsetto especially after listening to about 6 or 7 minutes of the song, it makes the waiting worth it.  When it starts out with the Stay part its less than one minute before that classic falsetto.

Light My Fire by The Doors too, sucks in single version as the middle organ solo is cut out completely.

Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp's single leaves out the keyboard bridge before the chorus.  That is bogus to not hear either.

Magic Man by Heart leaves out the instrumental center section including the Moog organ, in the single version and cuts right to the last verse.



Then there are those songs that have been edited/shortened for content; the one that immediately comes to mind was Jefferson Starship's (and Marty Balin's) Miracles from the Red Octopus album (1975).  It was pretty much a given that there would be a highly censored radio version, since Balin sings about "going down on you" and "dancing inside you" about two-thirds through the song; that was neatly snipped out for the 3+ minute radio version.  Since I had purchase the album before hearing the edited radio version, it was humorous at the time to wonder what would have happened if the full 6-minute-and-change album version was aired in error.  I was still living in L.A. at the time, and remember the Cal State L.A. campus station (which could be received along both I-10 and CA 60 from downtown L.A. out to about El Monte) playing the full version late at night (campus stations could generally get away with that sort of thing unless there was public outcry).

"Break On Through (To The Other Side)" by The Doors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFeUko-lQHg) was also a victim of some (minor) censorship. After hearing the true version many, many times (where "She get(s) high" is in the lyrics), it was extremely weird to hear Jim Morrison yelling "SHE GET" several times on a censored version on my newly-bought Forrest Gump Soundtrack, and I died laughing when I heard it - I would imagine there was similar strange censoring on most radio stations (though I have never heard it on the radio before).

Also, I was amazed and excited to hear "Foreplay / Long Time" by Boston (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlMUlpju3qo) on my local radio station, because it is a song that is nearly 8 minutes long in length, and I (in my head) applauded them for playing it - as I believe I heard the whole entire song being played - however, that is the only vivid memory I have of ever hearing that song on the general radio.

Maybe I'm oblivious to something, but I honestly don't see what the problem is with playing long songs on the radio.  :-P
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on February 24, 2018, 08:38:10 PM
The most famous incident regarding the Doors and censorship of course had nothing to do with a single edit; rather when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Sullivan had asked them to change the line "girl we couldn't get much higher" . The band agreed verbally but Morrison sang the line anyway during their performance, which made Sullivan furious.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Brandon on February 24, 2018, 09:21:52 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on February 24, 2018, 08:38:10 PM
The most famous incident regarding the Doors and censorship of course had nothing to do with a single edit; rather when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Sullivan had asked them to change the line "girl we couldn't get much higher" . The band agreed verbally but Morrison sang the line anyway during their performance, which made Sullivan furious.

Morrison was going to sing the changed line, but was nervous during the performance and screwed up, singing the original line.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on February 24, 2018, 09:35:50 PM
Quote from: Brandon on February 24, 2018, 09:21:52 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on February 24, 2018, 08:38:10 PM
The most famous incident regarding the Doors and censorship of course had nothing to do with a single edit; rather when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Sullivan had asked them to change the line "girl we couldn't get much higher" . The band agreed verbally but Morrison sang the line anyway during their performance, which made Sullivan furious.

Morrison was going to sing the changed line, but was nervous during the performance and screwed up, singing the original line.

OTOH, Mick Jagger did honor the Sullivan Show's request to change "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together"

The other edits you hear now are in Dire Straits's Money For Nothing in the 2nd verse where Mark Knopfler refers to "That Little <British word for cigarette>."  MTV edited the "You Don't Know How it Feels" video by Tom Petty by reversing the recording for a split second so that "joint" sounds like "tnioj"  Yet, some stations still let the "Who the F are you?" line in Who Are You? by The Who slip through, as well as the unedited version of Jet Airliner by Steve Miller without "Funky kicks" replacing "Funky S...".  Speaking of the latter, I've heard 3 different versions of that song on the radio: One that omits the Moog intro entirely, another that has the Moog intro, but goes right into the lyrics at the beginning of the song proper, and the third has the intro and a full instrumental verse before the lyrics start. 
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 26, 2018, 03:33:23 PM
Its the executives at CBS that freaked when Morrison said FU to them or screwed up.

Considering that CBS was the one that caused the Rural Purge and allowed All In The Family and later Maude to air.  Both shows being controversial and featuring stuff that their network a few years back did not want even hinted on their network, it really is so ironic that they even cared.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on February 26, 2018, 03:59:31 PM
I think I posted this before, but there's a few stations here in the Chicago area that are/were owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, which is owned by mormon investors. Anyway, they have weird censorship on their stations.  In the song "Rock Star" by Nickleback, the lyric "everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial," they censor out the word "drug."  Another long gone station censored the Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins not Tragedies.  IN the line "I chime in, haven't you people ever heard of, closing the god damn door?" they censor the word "god"

It's all weird to me.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: US 89 on February 26, 2018, 06:07:00 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 26, 2018, 03:59:31 PM
I think I posted this before, but there's a few stations here in the Chicago area that are/were owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, which is owned by mormon investors. Anyway, they have weird censorship on their stations.  In the song "Rock Star" by Nickleback, the lyric "everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial," they censor out the word "drug."  Another long gone station censored the Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins not Tragedies.  IN the line "I chime in, haven't you people ever heard of, closing the god damn door?" they censor the word "god"

That company also owns a few radio stations in Salt Lake City as well as KSL TV, the NBC affiliate. KSL airs all kinds of Mormon stuff (general conference, etc.) and has a long history of pre-empting NBC programs it doesn't like, usually involving violence, sex, or homosexuality. The pre-empted programs were either moved to a less desirable time slot, shown on local CW affiliate KUCW instead, or both.

The most notable preemption was Saturday Night Live, which for a long time was shown on KUCW instead and replaced with SportsBeat Saturday, a local sports talk show. However, viewership declined and it was getting beaten by KUTV's Talkin' Sports anyway, so they began showing SNL in 2013.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman on February 27, 2018, 10:07:36 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 24, 2018, 04:11:09 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 23, 2018, 08:32:57 PM
Basically, any song that I hear on the radio that is the single version instead of the album version drives me bat&*#@ crazy.  I cannot stand it when I hear the 3:00 version of an 8 or 9 minute song that butchers out the best parts and omits a verse or two.  Kills the whole experience of a great song.  Roundabout by Yes is about 8 1/2 minutes on the album, but comes in at under 3 1/2 minutes on the single.  Same with Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.
   
How about The Load Out/ Stay by Jackson Browne?  Some stations leave out The Load Out and start with just Stay.   I love the David Lindley falsetto especially after listening to about 6 or 7 minutes of the song, it makes the waiting worth it.  When it starts out with the Stay part its less than one minute before that classic falsetto.
Falling In and Out Of Love/Amie by Pure Prairie League is another example of this.  Most stations leave out the Falling In and Out Of Love part, which makes the end of Amie , which reverts back to Falling ... seem disconnected from the rest of the song.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Takumi on February 27, 2018, 10:26:16 AM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 24, 2018, 09:35:50 PM
The other edits you hear now are in Dire Straits's Money For Nothing in the 2nd verse where Mark Knopfler refers to "That Little <British word for cigarette>."  MTV edited the "You Don't Know How it Feels" video by Tom Petty by reversing the recording for a split second so that "joint" sounds like "tnioj"  Yet, some stations still let the "Who the F are you?" line in Who Are You? by The Who slip through, as well as the unedited version of Jet Airliner by Steve Miller without "Funky kicks" replacing "Funky S...".  Speaking of the latter, I've heard 3 different versions of that song on the radio: One that omits the Moog intro entirely, another that has the Moog intro, but goes right into the lyrics at the beginning of the song proper, and the third has the intro and a full instrumental verse before the lyrics start. 
Interestingly, a few years ago, the local classic rock station would play the uncensored version of Money For Nothing but the censored version of Jet Airliner.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on February 27, 2018, 04:31:11 PM
I like the fact that Charlie Daniels pushed his "Son of a bitch" in the Devil Went Down To Georgia who later went Christian in genre.  That is so ironic, a man singing about God is the one who made "Son of Bitch" allowed on radio
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on February 27, 2018, 04:39:34 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 27, 2018, 04:31:11 PM
I like the fact that Charlie Daniels pushed his "Son of a bitch" in the Devil Went Down To Georgia who later went Christian in genre.  That is so ironic, a man singing about God is the one who made "Son of Bitch" allowed on radio

Meh, the most religiously devoted of my friends has the foulest mouth of anyone I know and it's not even close.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: hotdogPi on February 27, 2018, 04:45:02 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on February 27, 2018, 04:39:34 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 27, 2018, 04:31:11 PM
I like the fact that Charlie Daniels pushed his "Son of a bitch" in the Devil Went Down To Georgia who later went Christian in genre.  That is so ironic, a man singing about God is the one who made "Son of Bitch" allowed on radio

Meh, the most religiously devoted of my friends has the foulest mouth of anyone I know and it's not even in the same ballpark as anyone else I know.

Religiously devoted people avoid religious swears (saying something like "damn" or "hell" is equivalent to taking God's name in vain unless you're using the word for its literal meaning), but I see no reason why they would avoid other swears.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Takumi on February 28, 2018, 03:54:36 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.
My favorite juxtaposition of recent times involves a line from that song.
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Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Rothman on February 28, 2018, 04:28:47 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.
You are just a bundle of joy. :D
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: formulanone on February 28, 2018, 05:25:21 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.

Go on, say something in Swahili. 
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 08:19:04 PM
Quote from: Rothman on February 28, 2018, 04:28:47 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.
You are just a bundle of joy. :D

The words and the music combine to make that one of the most depressing tunes I've ever heard.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on February 28, 2018, 08:33:15 PM
It's not nearly as depressing as Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun"  (which was an English reinterpretation of a Belgian French song, which was much more sardonic and mocking in its original incarnation).
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: adventurernumber1 on February 28, 2018, 08:43:58 PM
While the lyrics could be interpreted as offensive to some people (understandably), I don't perceive a problem with the composition of the music itself. That song has an incredible piano riff - if the lyrics were omitted (where in this theoretical scenario no one could take offense to it), I would find it hard to believe if too many people still highly disliked the instrumentation of the song - it is very beautiful in my opinion, but that's just me.

I used to hate and loathe the song the same way, but I have begun to interpret it as a general anti-war and peace song (with different countries fighting, different religions fighting, etc.) - and someone in the comments on YouTube said it quite well - something like "even if you disagree with the political agenda in the lyrics, it still may be one of the most beautiful songs ever written."

But if you still hate it just as much, I do understand.  :-P
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: inkyatari on March 01, 2018, 08:52:58 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.

I wouldn't say I hate it, but I'm no fan.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheArkansasRoadgeek on March 01, 2018, 12:24:05 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on March 01, 2018, 08:52:58 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.

I wouldn't say I hate it, but I'm no fan.
I'm the opposite. I can agree with certain parts of the song, but there will always be disputes over stuff -- it's just how we are.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: allniter89 on March 01, 2018, 04:21:11 PM
You Light Up My Life~Debbie Boone.
Dream Weaver~Gary Wright (?).
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheArkansasRoadgeek on March 01, 2018, 04:23:32 PM
Quote from: allniter89 on March 01, 2018, 04:21:11 PM
You Light Up My Life~Debbie Boone.
Dream Weaver~Gary Wright (?).
Dream Weaver~Gary Wright

Indifferent. I don't love it, but I don't mind listening to it.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: english si on March 01, 2018, 05:23:00 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.
Indeed. Why did you have to put it in my head!  :pan:

First verse - "isn't life without consequences or caring for the future great?" No.

Second verse - "wouldn't it be great if nothing was worth more than you?" Sure, no war would be great. But nothing worth dying for? no risking your life to save loved ones, etc?

Chorus - "you may say that I'm a dreamer". No, a dreamer has the imagination to picture things - you don't, unless you actually want this dystopia! I'm stopping now as I've had enough.


If it was trite nothings that people thought was so meaningful then I'd have less of a problem... If it was the anti-war song people think/Lennon intended, then sure, it's alright. The tune is nice though - which helps the poison go down. I don't hate it as much as hate the 'wow this is the best, we should obey' reaction to it.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on March 01, 2018, 07:23:19 PM
Quote from: allniter89 on March 01, 2018, 04:21:11 PM
You Light Up My Life~Debbie Boone.
Dream Weaver~Gary Wright (?).

Dream Weaver is ok.  You Light Up My Life is on the same level as Fergie singing the national anthem. Boone is a better singer, but the snappiness gives me sugar shock.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on March 01, 2018, 09:26:12 PM
Lennon has way better solo songs than that one such as How Do You Sleep (an attack song directed at Paul), #9 Dream, Woman, and Watching the Wheels in any case.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 02:44:14 PM
Not exactly a song that sends me into a rage, but most radio stations love to play Grateful Dead's Touch of Grey as it was their only big song to be recorded.  Yes, it was the only one of their many songs that made it into Billboard's Top 10, but how many other Dead songs they can play. 

I have not heard Alabama Getaway in decades.
There is Shakedown Street, US Blues, Truckin, Sugar Magnolia, China Cat Sunflower (sung best when sieged into I Know You Rider as a medley).

Then again the same could be said about Pink Floyd as they play the same lineup with them like Learn To Fly and On The Turning Away or Another Brick In The Wall Part 2, and Wish You Were Here.  They have many songs that could be played that were once famous.

As far as Pink Floyd's Another Brick Part 2, I hate when they leave the sigh from the next song Mother.  Instead of ending the song at the last ringtone, they wait till Roger Waters signs at the beginning of Mother.

WPLJ in NYC, when they used to be Rock over 35 years ago did a great mix of all three parts of Another Brick In The Wall and sieged them together real well.  They would do the vocal part of the first part then cut to Part 2 using the single version that has the intro (as on the album it has no intro due to The Happiest Day Of Our Lives runs into it abruptly), then where the "Fooled Again" and crying part came in they cut to Part 3.

Also I hate when stations leave out the Song We're Not Going To Take It and just play See Me Feel Me, as it sounds so much better played with the two together.  Its like leaving out the Beatles Sargent Pepper but play With A Little Help From My Friend as both are made as one song. 

Then why can't radio stations play the long fade out of A Day In The Life which ends the Sargent Pepper's Album?  They end the song just as the piano rolls, as on the album or CD that piano roll goes on for about 50 seconds.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: SectorZ on March 03, 2018, 06:23:20 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 02:44:14 PM
Not exactly a song that sends me into a rage, but most radio stations love to play Grateful Dead's Touch of Grey as it was their only big song to be recorded.  Yes, it was the only one of their many songs that made it into Billboard's Top 10, but how many other Dead songs they can play. 

I know more people who would confirm that's the only song they like by them than I could that like anything else by them. I was 9 when it came out, so probably a generational thing, but my mother is in that boat with me.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on March 03, 2018, 07:11:10 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on March 03, 2018, 06:23:20 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 02:44:14 PM
Not exactly a song that sends me into a rage, but most radio stations love to play Grateful Dead's Touch of Grey as it was their only big song to be recorded.  Yes, it was the only one of their many songs that made it into Billboard's Top 10, but how many other Dead songs they can play. 

I know more people who would confirm that's the only song they like by them than I could that like anything else by them. I was 9 when it came out, so probably a generational thing, but my mother is in that boat with me.

Fans that became Deadheads because of Touch of Grey are derogatorily referred to as "Touchheads".  My mom was at Woodstock, and my dad loved progressive rock, so I had an early foundation for older music,  The first time I heard of them when I was young when I saw Truckin' on the jukebox at a truck stop.  I started listening to them in early '88 at the age of 12 because my cousin's older stepbrother was following them on tour at that time.  Got a couple of live recordings of then recent shows, and I was hooked.  Started collecting tapes, and saw my first show about 6 months later at MSG.  I saw 16 total, plus several side projects both during their run and post-Jerry.  Hearing live recordings has turned me into sort of a snob when it comes to studio recordings. The SirusXM channel sometimes drives me ABSOLUTELY BAT*&#* CRAZY when they cut out of a recording mid-jam because the track on the recording ends (they don't ever cut China/Rider or Scarlet/Fire), bringing an abrupt end to a 4 or 5 part sequence.  Don' mind it when there's a momentary pause and they cut, but when it's mid song, UGH!!!     
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: hbelkins on March 03, 2018, 09:40:44 PM
I never got the fascination with the Dead. The music just never did anything for me.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 11:02:21 PM
One thing I liked about them is the fact you can go to two different concerts on the same tour and they never play the same line up. 

Most bands have the same list of songs for the entire tour.  For example I saw Clapton twice in 1990 for his Journeyman Tour.  Both times once in May and the second time in August featured the same list of songs.

The Dead were a jamming band, so they could just play on cue just about anything including Elmore James Blues songs.  In fact the Dead covered a lot of old Blues songs during their tours.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: formulanone on March 05, 2018, 09:04:09 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 02:44:14 PM
Then why can't radio stations play the long fade out of A Day In The Life which ends the Sargent Pepper's Album?  They end the song just as the piano rolls, as on the album or CD that piano roll goes on for about 50 seconds.

Radio stations fear "dead air", or any semblance of it; sometimes I suppose there's sometimes a need for that extra 30 seconds.

Frequently...Nights in White Satin gets trimmed, Welcome to the Machine gets a (final) cut, and you don't get to enjoy the near-silence of Enjoy the Silence.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on March 06, 2018, 12:45:08 AM
Quote from: formulanone on March 05, 2018, 09:04:09 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 02:44:14 PM
Then why can't radio stations play the long fade out of A Day In The Life which ends the Sargent Pepper's Album?  They end the song just as the piano rolls, as on the album or CD that piano roll goes on for about 50 seconds.

Radio stations fear "dead air", or any semblance of it; sometimes I suppose there's sometimes a need for that extra 30 seconds.

As far as the Beatles go, that's why the "cranberry sauce/I buried Paul" outro for Strawberry Fields Forever usually gets axed as well.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on March 11, 2018, 05:17:08 PM
Quote from: formulanone on March 05, 2018, 09:04:09 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 02:44:14 PM
Then why can't radio stations play the long fade out of A Day In The Life which ends the Sargent Pepper's Album?  They end the song just as the piano rolls, as on the album or CD that piano roll goes on for about 50 seconds.

Radio stations fear "dead air", or any semblance of it; sometimes I suppose there's sometimes a need for that extra 30 seconds.

Frequently...Nights in White Satin gets trimmed, Welcome to the Machine gets a (final) cut, and you don't get to enjoy the near-silence of Enjoy the Silence.
Welcome to the Machine is the only song on that album to have dead air.  The rest are sieged together.  Remember in the days of vinyl with the two sides side one ended after Welcome To The Machine while Have A Cigar started side two.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman on March 19, 2018, 02:16:26 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 11:02:21 PM
One thing I liked about them is the fact you can go to two different concerts on the same tour and they never play the same line up. 

Most bands have the same list of songs for the entire tour.  For example I saw Clapton twice in 1990 for his Journeyman Tour.  Both times once in May and the second time in August featured the same list of songs.

The Dead were a jamming band, so they could just play on cue just about anything including Elmore James Blues songs.  In fact the Dead covered a lot of old Blues songs during their tours.
Apart from Truckin' and Casey Jones, I never recalled many of the Grateful Dead's songs in my younger years.  As such, I never had a desire to see them live.  However, I always liked that they respected their fans enough to allow them to tape their concerts.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: index on March 19, 2018, 02:30:25 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 23, 2018, 08:32:57 PM
Basically, any song that I hear on the radio that is the single version instead of the album version drives me bat&*#@ crazy.  I cannot stand it when I hear the 3:00 version of an 8 or 9 minute song that butchers out the best parts and omits a verse or two.  Kills the whole experience of a great song.  Roundabout by Yes is about 8 1/2 minutes on the album, but comes in at under 3 1/2 minutes on the single.  Same with Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.


I can fully agree with this. Sausalito Summernight by Diesel is around 5 and a half minutes long, but there's a three minute version. If you've heard and listen to the regular, longer version, the three minute version which I think would be played on the radio is really going to annoy you, as it does for me. A lot of good parts of the song are cut out and skip right to other parts in a quick transition, and it's really awkward.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: mgk920 on March 19, 2018, 03:46:46 PM
Quote from: roadman on March 19, 2018, 02:16:26 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 03, 2018, 11:02:21 PM
One thing I liked about them is the fact you can go to two different concerts on the same tour and they never play the same line up. 

Most bands have the same list of songs for the entire tour.  For example I saw Clapton twice in 1990 for his Journeyman Tour.  Both times once in May and the second time in August featured the same list of songs.

The Dead were a jamming band, so they could just play on cue just about anything including Elmore James Blues songs.  In fact the Dead covered a lot of old Blues songs during their tours.
Apart from Truckin' and Casey Jones, I never recalled many of the Grateful Dead's songs in my younger years.  As such, I never had a desire to see them live.  However, I always liked that they respected their fans enough to allow them to tape their concerts.

I also was never a huge fan of the Grateful Dead's music (I'm not that big on the Blues and I consider them to have been Bluesmen), but their allowing their fans to tape their concerts was not really just a 'respect the fans' sort of thing, but it was also an incredible business plan - put the fans with tape recorders in a separate front/center section, they'll take those tapes home with them and share them with their friends, sparking an interest in at least a few of them, who will in turn also buy tickets to their future shows in the local area.

Jerry Garcia died rich.

Mike
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman on March 19, 2018, 06:57:19 PM
Excellent point mgk920 - I had never considered that.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on March 19, 2018, 10:27:31 PM
The Dead's main blues man was Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who essentially lived the blues life and unfortunately drank himself to death at 27.  Some blues still existed after his death, but it became less of a focus.

They Dead went through many different genres and periods.  By listening to a recording, you can pick out a certain period it was from by the quality of the music and by who was playing keyboards (the keyboard seat had a sort-of curse attached to it).  1966-69 had a psychedelic rock feel, while 1970-71 had a little bit more of a country edge at times.  1972-74 had a jazzy feel.  1975 was a break year. 1976 had a laid back sort of feel, while 77 was smooth with even a little disco edge, and 78 had more of a hard rock sound.  The sound matured around 1979; it was around that time they brought it all together and moved among the genres in their setlists, even revisiting their acoustic days during a run in 1980, years before MTV Unplugged brought acoustic versions of songs to the forefront.  However, the scene started to become somewhat corporatized around that time, and really became a mainstream band more than a niche band with the release of Touch of Grey.  Unfortunately, Garcia's on and off drug habit and health problems (he went into a diabetic coma for 3 days and had to essentially learn to play guitar all over again; the Touch release came about a year post-coma) really became his downfall.  I saw him on his last tour, and while I didn't realize at the time that the end was near, in retrospect, he looked worn out, and even played the wrong song a couple of times.   
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Rothman on March 19, 2018, 10:43:10 PM
By that reckoning, Godchaux was quite versatile, since Mydland didn't come on board until 1979.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on March 19, 2018, 11:14:26 PM
Quote from: Rothman on March 19, 2018, 10:43:10 PM
By that reckoning, Godchaux was quite versatile, since Mydland didn't come on board until 1979.

Mydland replaced both the Godchauxs with his keyboard playing and high harmony vocals.  Keith Godchaux rarely played anything beyond traditional or electric piano (he dabbled with a Fender Rhodes for a while and a Moog very briefly).  Mydland added keyboards, plus a Hammond B-3 organ; the band hadn't had a organ since Pigpen.  Unfortunately, Keith was tragically killed in a car crash about a year and a half after leaving the band.  Donna still makes the occasional cameo with some of the post-Dead incarnations.  I last saw Mydland about 10 days before he died.  Looked as good as ever, but he had many hidden demons, and they came to a head when he speedballed himself to death.  There was even one show where he was totally wasted drunk, and used his performance that night as a venting session.     
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Rothman on March 20, 2018, 08:55:52 AM
Like I said, if Godchaux went from a "laid back" sound to a "disco edge" to hard rock over his tenure -- and did all that on an electric piano -- it means he was quite versatile.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: abefroman329 on March 26, 2018, 03:25:32 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 26, 2018, 03:59:31 PM
I think I posted this before, but there's a few stations here in the Chicago area that are/were owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, which is owned by mormon investors. Anyway, they have weird censorship on their stations.  In the song "Rock Star" by Nickleback, the lyric "everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial," they censor out the word "drug."  Another long gone station censored the Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins not Tragedies.  IN the line "I chime in, haven't you people ever heard of, closing the god damn door?" they censor the word "god"

It's all weird to me.

According to my dad, when Kodachrome by Paul Simon was first released as a single, WLS would censor out "crap."

Speaking of "who the fuck are you," another one that seems to have slipped through mostly uncensored is "don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit" from Money by Pink Floyd.  I think I've only heard that line censored south of the Mason-Dixon Line, though.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: abefroman329 on March 26, 2018, 03:42:29 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 08:19:04 PM
Quote from: Rothman on February 28, 2018, 04:28:47 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 28, 2018, 03:19:49 PM
"Imagine" by John Lennon.

There are not words in the English language to describe how much I loathe that song.
You are just a bundle of joy. :D

The words and the music combine to make that one of the most depressing tunes I've ever heard.

John Lennon did not write upbeat songs.  The Ballad of John and Yoko was the closest he got, and you'd have to ignore many of the lyrics.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: formulanone on March 26, 2018, 03:44:09 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 26, 2018, 03:59:31 PM
I think I posted this before, but there's a few stations here in the Chicago area that are/were owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, which is owned by mormon investors. Anyway, they have weird censorship on their stations.  In the song "Rock Star" by Nickleback, the lyric "everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial," they censor out the word "drug."  Another long gone station censored the Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins not Tragedies.  IN the line "I chime in, haven't you people ever heard of, closing the god damn door?" they censor the word "god"

It's all weird to me.

And here I thought Nickleback songs just existed as a public service to make sure the tuning device in your radio still operated as designed.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: texaskdog on March 26, 2018, 04:13:27 PM
Anything Sheryl Crow.  Terrible voice, stupid sound, stupid lyrics.

And Taylor Swift...I don't care that you have ex boyfriends.

And Justin Bieber, you're not Mexican.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: cjk374 on March 26, 2018, 07:32:01 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on March 26, 2018, 04:13:27 PM
Anything Sheryl Crow.  Terrible voice, stupid sound, stupid lyrics.

And Taylor Swift...I don't care that you have ex boyfriends.

And Justin Bieber, you're not Mexican.

Take back what you said about Cheryl!!  :biggrin: (agreement about the other 2 knotheads though  :pan: ) She is hot & has great tunes!  :love:
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on March 26, 2018, 08:07:12 PM
I hate Club Novae's version of the Bill Wither's Classic song Lean on Me with their rapping over the song it self.

BTW, I know someone tried to correct me in previous posts and say that their version is not rap, however to me if it sounds like a duck, walks like a duck, then it must be duck.  Many Hip Hop, R & B, and Rap all have the same modus operandi, and until they prove different they are not and not that I got anything against R & B or the like, just that rap annoys me as its go no melody and does nothing for me personally.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: adventurernumber1 on March 27, 2018, 12:46:46 AM
I have a new song to add to my "hate" list:

"I Like Me Better" by Lauv (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Like_Me_Better)

I heard this for the first time in the radio in the car earlier today. Usually I stick to those two local radio stations that play mostly older stuff (one is Classic Rock, and one has a variety of older music), but I was in someone else's car today, so I did not have that luxury this time.  :-D

It was definitely a few minutes of torture for me.  X-(  :-/
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Scott5114 on March 27, 2018, 07:09:34 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 26, 2018, 03:25:32 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 26, 2018, 03:59:31 PM
I think I posted this before, but there's a few stations here in the Chicago area that are/were owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, which is owned by mormon investors. Anyway, they have weird censorship on their stations.  In the song "Rock Star" by Nickleback, the lyric "everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial," they censor out the word "drug."  Another long gone station censored the Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins not Tragedies.  IN the line "I chime in, haven't you people ever heard of, closing the god damn door?" they censor the word "god"

It's all weird to me.

According to my dad, when Kodachrome by Paul Simon was first released as a single, WLS would censor out "crap."

Speaking of "who the fuck are you," another one that seems to have slipped through mostly uncensored is "don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit" from Money by Pink Floyd.  I think I've only heard that line censored south of the Mason-Dixon Line, though.

I think the most hilarious radio censorship I've heard is from that awful Kid Rock song (but aren't they all) with the line "we were smoking funny things". A local station was blanking out "smoke", making the line "we were ______ing funny things", which has a whole other set of implications the original line doesn't have! Later on, the station seems to have caught on and left the original lyrics intact.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: abefroman329 on March 27, 2018, 09:01:28 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 27, 2018, 07:09:34 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 26, 2018, 03:25:32 PM
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I think I posted this before, but there's a few stations here in the Chicago area that are/were owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, which is owned by mormon investors. Anyway, they have weird censorship on their stations.  In the song "Rock Star" by Nickleback, the lyric "everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial," they censor out the word "drug."  Another long gone station censored the Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins not Tragedies.  IN the line "I chime in, haven't you people ever heard of, closing the god damn door?" they censor the word "god"

It's all weird to me.

According to my dad, when Kodachrome by Paul Simon was first released as a single, WLS would censor out "crap."

Speaking of "who the fuck are you," another one that seems to have slipped through mostly uncensored is "don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit" from Money by Pink Floyd.  I think I've only heard that line censored south of the Mason-Dixon Line, though.

I think the most hilarious radio censorship I've heard is from that awful Kid Rock song (but aren't they all) with the line "we were smoking funny things". A local station was blanking out "smoke", making the line "we were ______ing funny things", which has a whole other set of implications the original line doesn't have! Later on, the station seems to have caught on and left the original lyrics intact.

The worst part of that song is the fact that he rhymes "things" with "things."

Now that I think about it, another, similar example is Semi-Charmed Life, where "I took the hit that I was given and I bumped again, and I bumped again" turning into "I took the __ that I was given and I _____ again, and I ______ again."  It turned into Jimmy Kimmel's Unnecessary Censorship bit, or whatever it was called, where he would censor out innocent words to turn the surrounding phrase or sentence into something dirty-sounding.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Henry on March 27, 2018, 10:10:44 AM
The word "ass" has both been censored and left in. For example, I've heard it edited out on radio stations that play the No Scrubs song by TLC (though not all of them do that), but in Andy Grammer's Honey, I'm Good, the line "you got that ass" is left alone.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: abefroman329 on March 27, 2018, 10:22:06 AM
Quote from: Henry on March 27, 2018, 10:10:44 AM
The word "ass" has both been censored and left in. For example, I've heard it edited out on radio stations that play the No Scrubs song by TLC (though not all of them do that), but in Andy Grammer's Honey, I'm Good, the line "you got that ass" is left alone.

I thought the rule of thumb was that it was censored if it was sexualized (i.e. "you're being an ass" would be acceptable but "nice ass" would not).  This sounds like the opposite.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: Takumi on March 27, 2018, 10:58:28 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 27, 2018, 10:22:06 AM
Quote from: Henry on March 27, 2018, 10:10:44 AM
The word "ass" has both been censored and left in. For example, I've heard it edited out on radio stations that play the No Scrubs song by TLC (though not all of them do that), but in Andy Grammer's Honey, I'm Good, the line "you got that ass" is left alone.

I thought the rule of thumb was that it was censored if it was sexualized (i.e. "you're being an ass" would be acceptable but "nice ass" would not).  This sounds like the opposite.
The only time I've heard it censored is when it's referring to anal sex.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: texaskdog on March 27, 2018, 12:04:31 PM
Quote from: cjk374 on March 26, 2018, 07:32:01 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on March 26, 2018, 04:13:27 PM
Anything Sheryl Crow.  Terrible voice, stupid sound, stupid lyrics.

And Taylor Swift...I don't care that you have ex boyfriends.

And Justin Bieber, you're not Mexican.

Take back what you said about Cheryl!!  :biggrin: (agreement about the other 2 knotheads though  :pan: ) She is hot & has great tunes!  :love:

Oh yes, unattractive too
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman on March 27, 2018, 12:19:58 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 26, 2018, 03:25:32 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 26, 2018, 03:59:31 PM
I think I posted this before, but there's a few stations here in the Chicago area that are/were owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, which is owned by mormon investors. Anyway, they have weird censorship on their stations.  In the song "Rock Star" by Nickleback, the lyric "everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial," they censor out the word "drug."  Another long gone station censored the Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins not Tragedies.  IN the line "I chime in, haven't you people ever heard of, closing the god damn door?" they censor the word "god"

It's all weird to me.

According to my dad, when Kodachrome by Paul Simon was first released as a single, WLS would censor out "crap."

Speaking of "who the fuck are you," another one that seems to have slipped through mostly uncensored is "don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit" from Money by Pink Floyd.  I think I've only heard that line censored south of the Mason-Dixon Line, though.
In the early 1970s, there was a TV show called the Midnight Special (yes, it aired at 12:00 am) that featured live music.  Even though it broadcast outside of the 'kid and family friendly' hours, it was still notorious for requiring artists to censor their songs.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: abefroman329 on March 27, 2018, 12:44:11 PM
Quote from: roadman on March 27, 2018, 12:19:58 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 26, 2018, 03:25:32 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on February 26, 2018, 03:59:31 PM
I think I posted this before, but there's a few stations here in the Chicago area that are/were owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, which is owned by mormon investors. Anyway, they have weird censorship on their stations.  In the song "Rock Star" by Nickleback, the lyric "everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial," they censor out the word "drug."  Another long gone station censored the Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins not Tragedies.  IN the line "I chime in, haven't you people ever heard of, closing the god damn door?" they censor the word "god"

It's all weird to me.

According to my dad, when Kodachrome by Paul Simon was first released as a single, WLS would censor out "crap."

Speaking of "who the fuck are you," another one that seems to have slipped through mostly uncensored is "don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit" from Money by Pink Floyd.  I think I've only heard that line censored south of the Mason-Dixon Line, though.
In the early 1970s, there was a TV show called the Midnight Special (yes, it aired at 12:00 am) that featured live music.  Even though it broadcast outside of the 'kid and family friendly' hours, it was still notorious for requiring artists to censor their songs.

AFAIK broadcast television is the only area the FCC actually regulates for content.  Basic cable could show whatever the hell they wanted, they just don't want to lose sponsors.  That's why Comedy Central used to (still does?) show uncensored movies in the middle of the night.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on March 28, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
Talking about censorship, if a song like "And Then I Got High" even with the J O removed from the song was allowed to be played at all simple words like "ass" are nothing.

If anyone wants to know about the song I am talking about it was back in 02 or 03 and sung by a group called The Bahama Boys or something with Bahama in the title.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: abefroman329 on March 28, 2018, 04:41:40 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 28, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
Talking about censorship, if a song like "And Then I Got High" even with the J O removed from the song was allowed to be played at all simple words like "ass" are nothing.

If anyone wants to know about the song I am talking about it was back in 02 or 03 and sung by a group called The Bahama Boys or something with Bahama in the title.

I know the song you're talking about, and it was intended to be an anti-marijuana song, which may have helped.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: roadman65 on May 03, 2018, 10:30:25 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 28, 2018, 04:41:40 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 28, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
Talking about censorship, if a song like "And Then I Got High" even with the J O removed from the song was allowed to be played at all simple words like "ass" are nothing.

If anyone wants to know about the song I am talking about it was back in 02 or 03 and sung by a group called The Bahama Boys or something with Bahama in the title.

I know the song you're talking about, and it was intended to be an anti-marijuana song, which may have helped.
Sounds to me like a pro marijuana song.  However, JJ Cale's Cocaine (later covered by Clapton) is also an anti drug song as well despite the name Cocaine being said multiple times throughout the song.  So it could be.
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on May 03, 2018, 10:42:38 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 28, 2018, 04:41:40 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 28, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
Talking about censorship, if a song like "And Then I Got High" even with the J O removed from the song was allowed to be played at all simple words like "ass" are nothing.

If anyone wants to know about the song I am talking about it was back in 02 or 03 and sung by a group called The Bahama Boys or something with Bahama in the title.

I know the song you're talking about, and it was intended to be an anti-marijuana song, which may have helped.

I think this is what you're talking about:
https://youtu.be/KeLHtrBzSP0
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: adventurernumber1 on May 03, 2018, 10:57:25 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on May 03, 2018, 10:30:25 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 28, 2018, 04:41:40 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 28, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
Talking about censorship, if a song like "And Then I Got High" even with the J O removed from the song was allowed to be played at all simple words like "ass" are nothing.

If anyone wants to know about the song I am talking about it was back in 02 or 03 and sung by a group called The Bahama Boys or something with Bahama in the title.

I know the song you're talking about, and it was intended to be an anti-marijuana song, which may have helped.
Sounds to me like a pro marijuana song.  However, JJ Cale's Cocaine (later covered by Clapton) is also an anti drug song as well despite the name Cocaine being said multiple times throughout the song. So it could be.

Yes - the song "Cocaine" (Eric Clapton's version is the one in which I am most familiar with) is indeed an anti-cocaine song. IIRC, it is in fact about how cocaine can really mess you up (and indeed it can).
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: abefroman329 on May 04, 2018, 10:11:41 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on May 03, 2018, 10:30:25 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on March 28, 2018, 04:41:40 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 28, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
Talking about censorship, if a song like "And Then I Got High" even with the J O removed from the song was allowed to be played at all simple words like "ass" are nothing.

If anyone wants to know about the song I am talking about it was back in 02 or 03 and sung by a group called The Bahama Boys or something with Bahama in the title.

I know the song you're talking about, and it was intended to be an anti-marijuana song, which may have helped.
Sounds to me like a pro marijuana song.  However, JJ Cale's Cocaine (later covered by Clapton) is also an anti drug song as well despite the name Cocaine being said multiple times throughout the song.  So it could be.

Here's the final verse of the song:

"I messed up my entire life because I got high
I lost my kids and wife because I got high
Now I'm sleeping on the sidewalk and I know why
Because I got high
Because I got high
Because I got high"
Title: Re: Songs that annoy you/send you into a rage?
Post by: signalman on May 04, 2018, 04:07:49 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 28, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
Talking about censorship, if a song like "And Then I Got High" even with the J O removed from the song was allowed to be played at all simple words like "ass" are nothing.

If anyone wants to know about the song I am talking about it was back in 02 or 03 and sung by a group called The Bahama Boys or something with Bahama in the title.
The artist was Afroman, nothing with Bahama