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| 01-01-2016
| Self-Vanity
Posted on 02/01/2016 6:49:28 PM PST by ghosthost
The only thing that is better than picking out the greatest music ever written is to pick out the most irritating, horrid music ever written. Take a break from the politics for a moment and view my picks, and please add your own!
TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music
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To: diplomatic_immunity
1974 was a particularly bad year Billy Don't Be a Hero
Seasons in the Sun
Midnight At the Oasis
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
I could go on but, oy vey!
Stuff like that is why punk rock began in the mid 70's.
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posted on
02/01/2016 9:47:04 PM PST
by
free-in-nyc
(Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
To: ncdrumr
Am I wrong to want to punch the guy playing keyboards?
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posted on
02/01/2016 9:49:04 PM PST
by
Huntress
("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
To: ghosthost
Hand down by far the worst all time song is
“Jingle Bells” the Babs Streisand edition.
When I was going to college I worked as a night stocker at a department store and they played that song every 20 minutes on a looped audio that we could not shut off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nq0CuUKTjc
To: GrandJediMasterYoda; cvq3842
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posted on
02/01/2016 9:50:34 PM PST
by
To Hell With Poverty
(All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less. - Freeper relictele)
To: ghosthost
Last Christmas I Gave You My HeartTotally inane.
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posted on
02/01/2016 9:52:11 PM PST
by
Churchillspirit
(9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
To: ghosthost
Almost 170 posts and no one’s mentioned “Alice’s Restaurant.”
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posted on
02/01/2016 9:52:16 PM PST
by
Huntress
("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
To: dfwgator
Dang, that there’s some authentic frontier gibberish!
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posted on
02/01/2016 9:52:54 PM PST
by
To Hell With Poverty
(All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less. - Freeper relictele)
To: Fledermaus
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posted on
02/01/2016 10:03:48 PM PST
by
hoagy62
(Timid Men prefer the 'Calm of Despotism' to the 'Tempestuous Sea of Liberty'. ~ T. Jefferson)
To: ghosthost; Titan Magroyne; AZamericonnie; Kathy in Alaska; All
Firstly, "Black Betty" is attributed to Delta bluesman Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter and was first recorded in 1933 by a convict named James Baker at Central State Prison Farm in Sugar Land, Texas. The 1977 version by Ram Jam is a cover of Lead Belly's 1939 a cappella version which supposedly referred to the nickname of the "Black Maria" - a penitentiary transfer wagon. Black Betty was also the name of a driver's bull whip used on prisoners ("bam-ba-lam").
My favorite origin story is that the song is derived from an 18th-century marching cadence about a flint-lock musket with a black painted stock; the "bam-ba-lam" lyric referring to the sound of the gunfire. Soldiers in the field were said to carry Black Betty. In one interpretation, the musket was superseded by its "child", a musket with an unpainted walnut stock known as a "Brown Bess". Another version of the Black Betty musket claims the child is the musket ball. "That child is wild" meaning the ball did not always go where it should. "The child is blind" meaning it did not care whether it hit friend or foe, "Black Betty don't care" meaning the musket doesn't care who is killed by its child, and "that child ain't mine" meaning that the shooter couldn't be held responsible for the work of the the projectile. At least that's what I wrote on Wikipedia, lol.
In 1736, Benjamin Franklin published "The Drinker's Dictionary" in the Pennsylvania Gazette offering some 200 phrases for being drunk. One of those phrases is "He's kiss'd black Betty", the nickname of a liquor bottle, so that might explain it.
This is the first I've heard about Ray Charles' mother! If you have a source I can cite I can add it. Ray was born in 1930 and actually had two mothers! His biological mother Aretha, as well as his absent fathers first wife, a woman named Mary Jane. Growing up, he referred to Aretha as "Mama", and Mary Jane as "mother".
But, you said Post your own (worst song) - so I will.
In 1980, I was being interviewed on WNOR FM99 in Hampton Roads Virginia by radio host the late Henry "The Bull" Del Toro (and his sidekick "Bucky" played by Jimmy Rae Dunn). I had a tape of a previous telephone interview where The Bull and Bucky had trashed my band Thunderstruck. Before the live in-studio interview I rushed into the station's production studio and hurriedly wrote lyrics and recorded "The Drumbo Rap" utilizing the tape of The Bull disparaging my band (backed by the instrumental "Funny Bone", a 1979 Nile Rodgers and Chic flip side to the Disco single "Good Times". "Funny Bone" is still in bumper music rotation on the Rush Limbaugh Show. "The Drumbo Rap" isn't).
It's easily the worst thing I ever recorded, but it was aired on the #1 rock station in the 18th largest radio market in the country, butchered lyrics and all. I have no shame.
The Drumbo Rap
~ Drumbo Thunder ~
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posted on
02/01/2016 11:16:04 PM PST
by
Drumbo
("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
To: grey_whiskers
That Samwell “song”... I can’t believe that’s for real.
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posted on
02/01/2016 11:49:12 PM PST
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: ghosthost
To: Churchillspirit
To: ex91B10
Hmm. I never saw the connection. What is it, BTW?
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posted on
02/02/2016 6:26:13 AM PST
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: cvq3842
Many people STILL think Billy Squier is a flaming homo due to that video.
It was a sea change for his career!
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posted on
02/02/2016 6:27:06 AM PST
by
T-Bone Texan
(The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
To: Skooz
Nelson - After The Rain
The defense rests.
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posted on
02/02/2016 6:33:16 AM PST
by
T-Bone Texan
(The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
To: chris37
Your post reminded me of the song Peaches, by the Presidents of the United States of America.
It’s actually a valid song.
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posted on
02/02/2016 6:35:01 AM PST
by
T-Bone Texan
(The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
To: KevinB
Van Halen did a cover of Dancing in the Streets that was pretty bad also.
Off their Diver Down album.
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posted on
02/02/2016 6:36:42 AM PST
by
T-Bone Texan
(The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
To: Migraine
“Sky pilot” is grunt jargon for a military unit’s chaplin, who’d pray with men before combat action.
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posted on
02/02/2016 8:01:42 AM PST
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
To: T-Bone Texan
Hah!
Yep, I remember that song. Not bad at all, I remember hearing it on the radio a few times a while back and enjoying it.
Certainly MUCH BETTER than that other “song” I mentioned.
I am glad that I have heard nothing else from Peaches. Her talent and imagination seem limited at best.
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:04:50 AM PST
by
chris37
(heartless)
To: John S Mosby
Oh my goodness, yes. Every song mentioned on this thread is Mozart compared to “Timothy.” From overwrought orchestration to really embarrassing lyrics, that song had EVERYTHING wrong with it.
So glad there wasn’t a video.
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