Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by evenodds
Clearly, "We Didn't Start the Fire" because it was a boomer song, and therefore, automatically annoying.

(Sorry, Wonk and Bilmore.)

On bad regional songs . . .

One of my uncles married a hoosier. At family gatherings, we sing "House of the Rising Sun" and "Margaritaville." She sings "Jack & Diane." Ick.

I have a friend who has a theory that, at any time of the day in any town in Indiana, one can turn on the radio and GUARANTEE that a Cougar song is playing. I fucking hate "Jack & Diane" - stop the fucking clapping for god's sake...

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I fucking hate "Jack & Diane" - stop the fucking clapping for god's sake...

Another all time hated song:

Night Moves.

Nothing will make me change a station faster than Night Moves.

[spookyfish]

I heard a story on NPR last night that Thurgood Marshall was honored by the USPS with a stamp. About time.



Sorry about the size.

spookyfish

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
At the Jersey Shore, "Goodnight Saigon" is a required group sing along, followed up by a howling chorus of "Thunder Road."

I was at a wedding two years ago where the groom was hoisted in the air and thrown around to a room full of Miller Genuine Draft drunk gelheads screaming "Thunder Road." Viweing this specatacle helped to liberate a knot of rubber chicken, rancid rice pilaf and Maker's Mark from my stomach, so maybe there's a benefit to these sing-alongs we snobs don't get...

Stop being such a friggin snob. I happen to know that fifteen years ago you were trouncing around a frat house swilling cheap beer out of 16 ounce returnable bottles and singing along to stupid songs by Meatloaf and Neil Diamond.

not7y(good ole days)S

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by evenodds
Another all time hated song:

Night Moves.

Nothing will make me change a station faster than Night Moves.

Oh my God. I completely agree. Ponderous and too long. And how many times do you hear.

Night moves, Night moves.

I remember, I remember, I remember.

It pains me just thinking about it.

My nomination for all time hated song.

Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf.

Ugh.

spookyfish

[SlaveNoMore]

purse junkie
However, that guy from Rush who should be shot for ever singing outside the privacy of his shower is an abomination against God.

p(yeah, bring it on Rush fans)j

Figures that you - of all people - would say something like this.:eyeroll:

not7y(ho hum)S

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Stop being such a friggin snob. I happen to know that fifteen years ago you were trouncing around a frat house swilling cheap beer out of 16 ounce returnable bottles and singing along to stupid songs by Meatloaf and Neil Diamond.

not7y(good ole days)S

If I may speak for my good friend Sebastian, I believe his point was that he did that fifteen years ago, not now. These Jersey peole are in a timewarp if indeed this can be blamed on being behind the times. Kind of like how people in suburban Virginia are still sporting goatees that are so 1996.

I dont think any list of worst singers and songs would be complete without :

Michael Bolton
If we do nineties, can I throw in that "breathe in breathe out" song by Bush and "Im Just a Girl" by No Doubt which is my alltime run to the radio and turn the channel song, followed cloesly by Do you Believe in Lilfe after Love by Cher?

Though Tell Her About it has been going through my head all morning and is quickly climbing the ranks.

Due to the rage I am feeling bc of Tell Her About It taking over my brain, I think I will go up to the next goateed suburbanite and say that 1999 called and told me to tell you that 1996 called and wants its goatee back.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Its amazing 3 musicians as obviously talented as Rush can make music that fucking atrocious.

Speaking of talented musicians, I was listening to the radio on the way into work when "Beast of Burden" came on. I turned it up and couldn't help but thinking how underappreciated Charlie Watts really is.

spookyfish

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Figures that you - of all people - would say something like this.:eyeroll:

not7y(ho hum)S

Yes, tragic that I would expect lead singers to be able to sing without animals running away and mirrors shattering.

p(wait, you didn't listen to all those talentless shrieking hair-metal bands in the 80s, did you?)j

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by paigowprincess

Michael Bolton
If we do nineties, can I throw in that "breathe in breathe out" song by Bush and "Im Just a Girl" by No Doubt which is my alltime run to the radio and turn the channel song, followed cloesly by Do you Believe in Lilfe after Love by Cher?

Though Tell Her About it has been going through my head all morning and is quickly climbing the ranks.

Paigow, when you are right you are very right. The Cher song is at the top of my list. It replaced "We Built This City" by Jefferson whatever they changed their name to in the late 80s, primarily bc the latter song is not played on the radio (at least not any stations I listen to) anymore.

And as for your goatee crusade, if you get set up as a 401c3, I will contribute money to the cause, especially if you put my friend's jerk-off husband on the list (he is ugly and obnoxious and has always refused to clean the cat box, even during his wife's pregnancy, because they are "her" cats). I, along with the rest of her family and friends, really hate that guy.

They live in Vegas so you could combine it with a pleasure trip.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Yes, tragic that I would expect lead singers to be able to sing without animals running away and mirrors shattering.

p(wait, you didn't listen to all those talentless shrieking hair-metal bands in the 80s, did you?)j

Oh come on. My ex (box of wine guy, for those who care) was a roadie for Rush for a while (and Alannah Myles, but that's another sad story), and I saw/heard quite a lot of them for a while. I'm not a fan, but there is no denying they are the real thing.

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Paigow, when you are right you are very right. The Cher song is at the top of my list. It replaced "We Built This City" by Jefferson whatever they changed their name to in the late 80s, primarily bc the latter song is not played on the radio (at least not any stations I listen to) anymore.

And as for your goatee crusade, if you get set up as a 401c3, I will contribute money to the cause, especially if you put my friend's jerk-off husband on the list (he is ugly and obnoxious and has always refused to clean the cat box, even during his wife's pregnancy, because they are "her" cats). I, along with the rest of her family and friends, really hate that guy.

They live in Vegas so you could combine it with a pleasure trip.

Thats funny- my ex and I used to play the "whats the worst song ever game" and nobody was able to top We Built This City which is a song that has no redeeming qualities. I think that some strata of the population can dance to the Cher song, but We built this city is just the worst song ever. Do you know us?

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Oh come on. My ex (box of wine guy, for those who care) was a roadie for Rush for a while (and Alannah Myles, but that's another sad story), and I saw/heard quite a lot of them for a while. I'm not a fan, but there is no denying they are the real thing.

I think their lyrics are intelligent (if bombastic) and they can play, but I stand by my assertion that a thousand nails going down a blackboard simultaneously is a better sound than the lead's voice.

Do I get pro-Canada points for liking "Life Is a Highway"?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by evenodds
Clearly, "We Didn't Start the Fire" because it was a boomer song, and therefore, automatically annoying.

(Sorry, Wonk and Bilmore.)

On bad regional songs . . .

One of my uncles married a hoosier. At family gatherings, we sing "House of the Rising Sun" and "Margaritaville." She sings "Jack & Diane." Ick.

I'm supposed to worry about how my taste is assessed by someone who watches American Idol? Or any reality tv show for that matter?

Besides, I was busy listening to the Violent Femmes, Talking Heads, and I was knee deep in the blues. Musically, the last thing I have to apologize about was the Partridge Family and I was 8 at the time.

What's y'all's excuse?