In case of emergencies....

Songs that make you want to vomit. 

Me
Journey - Don't stop believing
I personally blame them for the destruction of AOR in the 70s. 

space_cowboy


Songs that make you want to vomit. 

Wow, there's a challenge.  How does one edit down such an unweildy list?  But as I don't listen to much pop on the radio (KFOG in San Francisco only, and that on a limited basis), I'm probably sheilded from the worst of it.  Nevertheless, for me top honors goes to Little Drummer Boy (just about any arrangement/performance ever done).  Also right up there (for me ... and I know this will offend some) is pretty much anything sung by Frank Sinatra.  Well, OK maybe not vomit, but it is guaranteed to make my flesh crawl.
 
Of course we should all rejoice in one thing.  Those of us of a certain age will remember a time when we'd get into an elevator or go into a supermarket and be forced to listen to arrangements performed by the 1001 Strings.  Nowadays (at least in Northern California), I go into Safeway and hear Neil Young and even Pink Floyd!

Cartman?  He does an excellent rendition of a song I despise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcmOe2geZ4Q&feature=related

Elton John's tribute to Diana... barf-o-rama.

Starship's "We Built this City",

Just about anything by Kiss,

the vast majority (if not all) of contemporary christian (that actually elicits projectile vomiting).

Anything by Brian Adams (that elicits thought of sepuku just to get away from it)

Anything by Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger - makes me want to close the borders.

I could go on for a very long time.

  And the award for the all time disgusting song goes
to? O.K. Everyone GIVE IT UP FOR

   TINY TIM
         tip toe through the tulips

Bobby Goldsboro
BLRFQ spells mom and dad
and he's a college grad
But thats my boy.  

Elton John's tribute to Diana... barf-o-rama.

Starship's "We Built this City",

+1 to these!

and I'll add...
John Fogerty "Old Man is Down the Road"...can't stand that song...I love most of CCR, but that song drives me nuts!

marcos69


Achy Breaky Heart

Geee...THANKS MARK!  I had successfully forgot about that song til now! 

Theory that we could all be liars here:
 
I went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man;
I guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran.
  - Barenaked Ladies
 
 

space_cowboy


Songs that make you want to vomit. 

Me
Journey - Don't stop believing
I personally blame them for the destruction of AOR in the 70s. 

This would be a perfect occassion to put in a plug for the book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs.  It's a short set of essays (just over 100 pages, I think) that discusses just what the title says.  I'm not that big a Dave Barry fan (although the column he wrote about his colonoscopy was maybe the single funniest thing I've ever read any time, anywhere).  But this book is totally delightful.  One prerequisite may be that you need to be at least 50 so you'd remember when some of the gems he discusses first hit the airwaves.  Highly recommended.  Very cheap used copied available from amazon.com as well.

Ha! Talk about cheap!  I just got a Used-Very Good copy for 1 cent!  :-)  $3.99 shipping of course, but still a good deal for a few good laughs.  :-)

I've never heard them called z-stores, but I know what you mean.  I buy all my Bastien piano books (for students) there too...usually for 1 cent.  I realize they're making money in the shipping. :-)  Then I turn around and sell books I no longer want--usually just making a buck or two on the shipping, but that's better than giving them away.  And yeah...one-click check out.  Can't beat that, either!

And thank you.  It's not at all what I had in mind for the inside cover of my CD, but that's the only one that turned out half decent.  lol

Well, if anyone's behind, it would be me.  But I knew what you were talking about anyway.  :-)

Errr... OK, thanks for stopping by sport.

Jessie Sammler


Good stuff, guys.  I especially agree on:

"Sometimes When We Touch"
Sir Elton's Diana tribute
"Stand"
"We Build This City"

I'll see you and raise you:

• "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton
• "Beautiful" by Chrissie Aguilera
• "The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston
• Anything from Mariah Carey's first album.  Her subsequent offerings are mercifully easy to tune out by comparison.
• "Lookin' Out for Love" by Fleetwood Mac

Yeah Jessie I was watching a Fleetwood Mac documentary on BBC TV last week, including recent interviews with many of the various FM band members. That particular number always disturbs me due to what I consider to be a strangely manic vocal from Lindsay Buckingham, the documentary sort of covered the possible reasons that might have been at the time. He seems a lot more grounded nowadays with his young family thankfully
 
Garry Kiosk