Overexposure: Songs beaten to death
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Overexposure: Songs beaten to death
I didn't want to derail the Danny Boy thread. We all have that one particular song that we get soooo sick of playing or singing that if someone requests it we'll lie and claim we don't know it.
We all have that... one... song. Right?
For me, it's "Green Fields of France."
What's yours?
We all have that... one... song. Right?
For me, it's "Green Fields of France."
What's yours?
"Yes... yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land."
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Not the same thing, but for some reason, out running the other day, I got that old REO Speedwagon song, the one with "Heard it from a friend who. . ." over and over again stuck in my head. Talk about unpleasant. In Sociology class in college, when the prof asked "Can anyone think of a justification for the death penalty?" my roommate and I turned to each other and simultaneously said, "REO Speedwagon." That's how I felt about their music then and how I feel about it now. And to have that damn song stuck in my head for an hour and a half. 'Scuse me while I go get another beer to try to forget.
Charlie
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In Order of nausiation
1 Bohemian Rhapsody
2 Fields of Athenrye
3 No Man's Land (aka Green Fields of France)
4 Yellow's on the Broom
5 If Wishes Were Fishes
6 Ride On
All nice songs that I have heard murdered so many times that I can't stand to hear them any more.
David
1 Bohemian Rhapsody
2 Fields of Athenrye
3 No Man's Land (aka Green Fields of France)
4 Yellow's on the Broom
5 If Wishes Were Fishes
6 Ride On
All nice songs that I have heard murdered so many times that I can't stand to hear them any more.
David
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Yep. I got so sick of playing that- it is on my list of hymns to never even ask me to play it at church because of playing it with the pipe band.Cofaidh wrote:In pipe band we used to call it "Amazing Disgrace."
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For size, honesty, and intent."
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Personally, from years of playing bluegrass, Rocky Top.
For general purposes, I think songs like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and American Pie beg for a mandate on limiting the number of verses and/or schmaltz. There should be a quota for verses and schmaltz, with strict limits on both!
(btw, I 'm a singer, I enjoy singing, but I also want the listeners to enjoy.)
For general purposes, I think songs like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and American Pie beg for a mandate on limiting the number of verses and/or schmaltz. There should be a quota for verses and schmaltz, with strict limits on both!
(btw, I 'm a singer, I enjoy singing, but I also want the listeners to enjoy.)
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Hotel California. For a while in the latter eighties and early nineties, I used to play a game with myself. I didn't own the record, or even listen by choice to any radio stations that might play it (this being the era in which 2/3 of the commercial radio spectrum was devoted to classic' rock & 'oldies), but I still couldn't go more than about three weeks without hearing that damn song.
As I recall, in that era there a movement afoot--the National Organization for the Advancement of Time, whose slogans were "We want to end the sixties in your lifetime!" and "Just say NOW!" They were sorely needed.
As I recall, in that era there a movement afoot--the National Organization for the Advancement of Time, whose slogans were "We want to end the sixties in your lifetime!" and "Just say NOW!" They were sorely needed.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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