Tunes that make me homicidally depressed* ):

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:36 pm

C'mon Slude, some of it is just white noise. But some tunes pull you down to a VERY dark place, like aforementiond. Play along, now.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:45 pm

The Weekenders wrote:C'mon Slude, some of it is just white noise. But some tunes pull you down to a VERY dark place, like aforementiond. Play along, now.

Okay...

Conway Twitty's remake of Slow Hand.

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:46 pm

He Stopped Loving Her Today!

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:48 pm

The whole smarmy light rock/smooth jazz/pop ballad thing really makes me feel violent and angry.

Scott McCallister · Post by **Scott McCallister** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:32 pm

s1m0n wrote:Hotel California.

Oof. I hear that song and I feel unbalanced for several days afterward. Somethin's not right with it.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:38 pm

missy wrote:Oh - and for a while - "Freebird" because some drunk idiot would yell that at every single concert no matter who was performing.

I saw Blue Man Group in Vegas last week. They were playing their wacky PVC instruments,
which are like xylophones made of 3" PVC pipes of various lengths, played with paddles.
They must have assumed some schmuck would yell out "Freebird", 'cause someone did, and
they could play it. I was impressed, as it seems like a challenging instrument...

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:43 pm

DCrom wrote:let me nominate "It's a Small World After All". Being stuck in the middle of the Disney ride for a few hours with that tune repeating endlessly would send me far, far, around the bend.

That happened to you, too? I was 6 at the time. They had to
evacuate the ride after an hour of failed attempts to get it going again.
That thing should have been banned by the Geneva Convention.
(Or at least by Fairport Convention.)

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:49 pm

Nah then, nah then you miserable b*ggers! Just listen to Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, then tell me you're still miserable!

Steve

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:55 pm

It's not a particular song, but there are a very large number of singer-songwriters (okay, it's actually all of them) that just make me crazy. I can hardly bear to hear the word "singer-songwriter". In fact, it is best for me to leave the room if it turns out one of them is going to perform. They have started throwing them in at folk festivals for some reason. They are so whiney. It's me, me, me. Boohoo, boohoo, boohoo. If you have nothing to say, why write a song about it? If you can't write a tune, why put words to meaningless notes? I have had to run from concerts with my hand over my mouth to stifle my screams. I have threatened to throttle one using the same trite method one of the characters in his stupid song used. I have had to choke down hysterical laughter as one of these people sings something "meaningful", which has been sung a million times already, in the most musically monotonous way.

Okay, if your favorite performer is a singer-songwriter, obviously I'm not talking about that one.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:04 pm

but i like dougie maclean....

Scott McCallister · Post by **Scott McCallister** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:09 pm

Cynth wrote:It's not a particular song, but there are a very large number of singer-songwriters (okay, it's actually all of them) that just make me crazy. I can hardly bear to hear the word "singer-songwriter". In fact, it is best for me to leave the room if it turns out one of them is going to perform. They have started throwing them in at folk festivals for some reason. They are so whiney. It's me, me, me. Boohoo, boohoo, boohoo. If you have nothing to say, why write a song about it? If you can't write a tune, why put words to meaningless notes? I have had to run from concerts with my hand over my mouth to stifle my screams. I have threatened to throttle one using the same trite method one of the characters in his stupid song used. I have had to choke down hysterical laughter as one of these people sings something "meaningful", which has been sung a million times already, in the most musically monotonous way.

Okay, if your favorite performer is a singer-songwriter, obviously I'm not talking about that one.

Can you give us some specific examples, mon petit bulldog?

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:10 pm

And Barry Manilow did write the Band-aid song ....

djm

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:11 pm

Cynth wrote:It's not a particular song, but there are a very large number of singer-songwriters (okay, it's actually all of them) that just make me crazy.

You mean wannabe folk singers?

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:24 pm

Scott wrote:Can you give us some specific examples, mon petit bulldog?

Well, no, I really can't.

They are all so unmemorable (sp) that I can't remember a thing except how annoying they were.

Unseen122, if they are wannabe folk singers that write their own songs, they would surely qualify.

Write a song. If it's any good some other singer will want to sing it. If it's really good, some other really good singer will want to sing it. In the old days you had your singers and you had your songwriters. Each excelled at his calling. Now, everyone does everything because it's how you feel that counts. If you are sincere, then it's good.

ShadowBG625 · Post by **ShadowBG625** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:26 pm

DaleWisely wrote:Anything by Michael Bolton
Almost everything by Mariah Carey

No arguments here...

Mariah was better back when she was younger.