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Turn It Down Please: Here Are The Most Annoying Pop Songs Ever Made
Lifestyle A2Z ^ | Aug 11, 2022 | Lisa Wells

Posted on 10/10/2022 8:01:30 AM PDT by TBP

Long list with a lot of negative comments.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: barrymanilow; breakmystride; felony; jimmybuffet; margaritaville; matthewwilder; movingpictures; music; popmusic; songs; thefanatic; whataboutme
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To: dfwgator

Sammy Davis Jr. disliked “The Candy Man” so much, he rushed through recording his vocals in two takes, convinced “the song is going straight to the toilet, pulling his career down with it”. It ended up being his only Number One Hit, spending three weeks at the top of the Billboard Top 100.


381 posted on 10/10/2022 12:13:00 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: FamiliarFace

Haha, that’s pretty cool. Having grown up in the boring midwest, I don’t have any interesting stories like that. I don’t even think anybody halfway famous grew up in or near our podunk town.

Okay, just remembered a correction - I think a second cousin my Dad’s side was in Grand Funk Railroad, but I never met the dude.

Whatevs.

At least you got a cool story out of it.

Hmm ... Actually, second correction ... Lance Parrish’s (of Detroit Tigers 1984) daughter went to our church, and was in our youth group. And yes, she was hot.

Never asked her anything. I was a shy kid. Go figure.


382 posted on 10/10/2022 12:14:25 PM PDT by Kommodor (Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
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To: 1Old Pro

Go figure.

Still the funniest moment in TV history, Archie Bunker asking Sammy, “Do you take cream and sugar in your eye?”


383 posted on 10/10/2022 12:16:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: A Navy Vet

Does anyone else (besides me) know where the Afternoon Delight song came from, developed, or anything about those who created the music ? It’s one thing to not like songs or genres and another to be ignorant. Take “The Sultans of Swing” as another example. Watch the 1978-79 live performances and then 1986.


384 posted on 10/10/2022 12:16:32 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: SamAdams76

Really? I wonder what that played as here. I dont think “Im looking over old man Schneiders cow pasture...” would have helped it catch on. Now I wish I had an old recording so I could try to figure out in which city I was supposed to be.


385 posted on 10/10/2022 12:16:41 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Salman
I'm so old I remember Honey by Bobby Goldsboro.

Rudy Vallee's version of Honey is far superior to Bobby Goldsboro's. It's positive and uplifing.

386 posted on 10/10/2022 12:20:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: EEGator
"Prince was talented."

Yes, and a very underrated guitarist. I always thought he was more talented that Michael Jackson. He mostly wrote his own songs, played many instruments (including virtuoso guitar) and even had his own unique moves according to the song. Other than Thriller, Jackson did the same moonwalk, grabbing crotch, up on his toes stuff. Jackson was talented, but Prince was a phenomenon. He had a lot more music him...what waste.

387 posted on 10/10/2022 12:27:46 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: caver
My vote is for Tom Jones, What’s New, Pussycat.

I'm a cat lover, so I like songs about cats.

388 posted on 10/10/2022 12:30:16 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: A Navy Vet

Definite waste, and supreme talent. I remember loving When Doves Cry and Let’s Go Crazy when I was a kid.


389 posted on 10/10/2022 12:31:44 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: A Navy Vet

He was Hendrix, Sly Stone, and George Clinton all rolled into one.


390 posted on 10/10/2022 12:33:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Lonnie Doneghan’s skiffle version of the Chewing Gum song was better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6bFTVi0hHs


391 posted on 10/10/2022 12:33:55 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: dznutz

He also wrote ‘a different drum’


392 posted on 10/10/2022 12:33:59 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: SunkenCiv
The Champs "Tequila"

Flip it over!

Train to Nowhere--The Champs (1958)

393 posted on 10/10/2022 12:37:44 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Kommodor

It’s funny how when you’re a kid, you aren’t fazed by celebrity at all. She didn’t tell us who her famous Grandpa was; he was just her grandpa. Mom found out from our neighbor. She was just a little girl who visited there sometimes. She was pure country innocence, and I was semi rural innocence. Life was so different back then. So different.


394 posted on 10/10/2022 12:41:38 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: TBP

A few of my most annoying songs...

MacArthur Park-Richard Harris (This makes my flesh crawl)
Ode to Billie Joe-Bobbie Gentry (ugh!)
Honey-Bobby Goldsboro (already mentioned, but what a creepy song)
Any song by Yoko Ono (earplugs necessary)
Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde-Georgie Fame (lame fake 1920’s styled music)
Hey Jude-Beatles (boring boring boring)


395 posted on 10/10/2022 1:01:39 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite.)
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To: TalBlack

So good to hear.

One of my best friends thinks it’s hilarious how much I hate them, because of my reaction. At first, I think she purposely put those songs on her playlist, because I hear them most often with her. She swears she didn’t do it, but if not her, then it was her husband. The funny thing is, we can be somewhere where she isn’t in charge of the music, like an outdoor show or a ball game. The J songs very often come on, way too often. At this point, if I can’t change the dial, I have to just laugh. Better than fuming or bitching about it. That doesn’t seem to work. I just wish they weren’t so popular.


396 posted on 10/10/2022 1:17:20 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: TBP
Muskrat Love and Do That To Me One More Time.

Growing up they made me cringe.

397 posted on 10/10/2022 1:18:40 PM PDT by x
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To: Fresh Wind

Ear plugs are definitely necessary for any Yoko song. That’s noise, not music.


398 posted on 10/10/2022 1:24:29 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: Fresh Wind
I liked "MacArthur Park" when it came out in 1968 because it was about Los Angeles and also because Gen. Douglas MacArthur was one of my biggest heroes. At the time the song was riding the charts, the Communist threat was heating up--the North Vietnamese had launched Phase II of their Winter-Spring Offensive that began in January and North Korea still held the crew of the USS Pueblo hostage, and the Johnson administration's reaction was timorous. I became convinced more than ever that MacArthur was right about there being no substitute for victory over Communism.
399 posted on 10/10/2022 1:28:43 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Allegra

She swerved far left before the 2020 election. I’m pretty sure she was encouraging her little teeny boppers to get out and vote. She was pimping the far left causes pretty hard.


400 posted on 10/10/2022 1:45:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Go Brandon! FJB.)
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