Sunday, July 29, 2007

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Worst song in the world, by a considerable margin... that'd be 'Dance The Night Away' by The Mavericks. I can't explain what I hate about it... yes I can, I hate everything about it. Argh. Just thinking about it makes me grind my teeth. Ack.

More badness:

From Fuzz:
"Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin

The song destroys my mood so quickly that I once ran out of a supermarket that was playing an instrumental version of it as Muzak.

The song makes me feel really, really, really bad. It makes me think that I am a bad son, and that I am ignoring my wonderful father. I am not perfect, but that song has a way of dragging your emotions down into the gutter and stomping on them with soccer cleats. It makes you question your own personal honesty and whether or not you love your parents. Some view it as a cautionary tale of remembering to pay attention to what is important. I think the dark overture of the song clouds that message and replaces it with a message of absolute despair.

Spider Robinson once wrote a Callahan's story where a time traveler went back to change one event in history. An extremely popular, but very dark and depressed, singer had a life establishing moment when she was scarred in a Police raid. In the original future, her music brought on brooding, suicide and self-destruction. The time traveler wanted to go back and just remove her hurt from that one single event.

If I was a time traveler I would seriously consider going back in time and asking Harry Chapin to not publish that song.

From Novac:
"This is the song that never ends. It will go on and on my friend."
And so on. But this is my version, so it stopped early. :)

from DiAnna:
achy breaky heart by Billy Ray Cyrus... If I hear it one more time, I think my head will explode!

And dang, I have to post this for the coincidence value.
Sarah also hates Cat's In The Cradle (but darn, no URL!):
My absolute least favourite song is "Cat's in the Cradle" --

You know

"My son was born just the other day, he came into the world in the usual
way ... etc. etc. ... When you comin' home dad I don't know when, but
we'll get together then" etc.

It's not even a bad song - it's incredibly well written, or it couldn't
touch the rotten emotional chord in me it does. But my dad has always
travelled a lot, and my brother has a few part time jobs, a major band
he's a part of, and college ... it's almost like witnessing this song a
little in my own family, so it makes me misty.

I hate that. *mist mist*

from Stacia:
My least favorite song has to be George Michael's song "Father Figure". Holy cow, that is one terrible song. It's like he figured if he did something Freudian everyone would think he was deep. He was close: "deep" rhymes with "creep". Ew.

by...frykitty... 7/29/2007 02:29:00 AM ... ~link~

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