Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    "Honey" by umm, Bobby Goldsboro (?)
    
    Still the absolute pits after all these years.
    
    gag, blech, ptui !

    Oh yas, Dana!  "Honey" is definitely down there at the bottom
    (and it was Bobby Goldsboro).
    
    Also on my personal rotten-to-the-core list:
    
    Chewy, Chewy, Chewy		mercifully I've forgotten the "artist"
    
    Yummy, Yummy, Yummy		1910 Fruitgum Co. (?)
    
    Stand by Your Man		Tammy Wynette
    
    You Picked a Fine Time to	Kenny Rogers
      Leave Me, Lucille
    
    The Ballad of the Green Berets   Barry Sadler
    
    Life Sucks and Then You Die	     The Fools
    
    Wild Thing			The Trogs (and everybody else)
    
    And, though I've never heard 'em, I have to give a (dis)honorable
    mention for titles to:
    
    	Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goal Posts of Life
    	I Gave Her a Ring, She Gave Me the Finger
    	Since My Phone Still Ain't Ringing' I Assume It Still Ain't You
    
    Steve

Mike and Steve,

You kids are showing our age!  :-)

D!

    The worst song I have ever heard is a "New Age" tape called New
    Atlantis. Usually I really like this music. However, this was just one
    long series of someone beating out the same note on a large "oriental?"
    type gong. They would let the note fade until you couldn't hear it and
    then hit it again. Both sides were the same thing with different
    titles. GGGGAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!! I paid $6.95 for this? I guess you
    have to be on some "really good drugs" to understand it.
    
    Phil
    

    Thanks to an entry in the 167, I'm reminded of three others
    that are on my all-time-low list.  It's not so much that I
    dislike them musically per se.  Having worked in a number
    of different cover bands and having attended uncounted jams
    these are tunes that I've done far too often and have consequently
    vowed *never* to play again.
    
    	Proud Mary		Creedence Clearwater Revival
    	Brown Sugar		The Rolling Stones
    	Free Bird		Lynard Skynard
    
    Steve                                                      

    but Steve
    
    Proud Mary is one of my all time favorites..
    
    sniff!
    
    bj

    
Oh, Jody, I guess tastes *do* differ!! 
    
   >> John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
   
    I agree whole-heartedly, and feel that anything by John Mellencamp
    stinks (with the exception of "Hurts so Good" but only because it
    reminds me of some good times with a good friend during it's
    popularity!)
    
   >> Supertramp - the Logical Song
    
   >> Eric Clapton - Lay Down Sally
    		   I shot the sherriff
    
    Oh, I love these three songs!!
    
   >> Paul Anka - you're having my baby
    
    They don't get any worse than this -- do they?????????
    
    There's one song in "The Sound of Music" that makes me want to puke
    (sorry, but it does!).  It's when Maria/Julie Andrews is singing to
    ??/Charmaine Carr after she gets back from her honeymoon, and she sings
    "you belong to him."  Gag me with a pitchfork!  If there was a
    companion line of "he belongs to you, too," I might not hate it so
    much!
    
    Almost every rap "song" I've heard!
    
    The newest song by Heart, which I find despicable!  I don't know the
    title, but I shut off the radio every time it comes on!  One of the
    lines is "all I want to do is make love to you," but the reality is
    that she picked up a hitchhiker and used him to become pregnant
    (obviously not practicing safe sex!).  She appears to make a habit of
    this behavior (in hopes of getting pregnant) and never tells the man
    (because he was just a hitchhiker, after all!) that she had a baby.  I
    really *despise* this song!!
    
    Susan

    Susan,
    
    I agree with you whole heartedly about "all I want to do is make love
    to you"...tho having listened to the song I think she only had
    one baby by a hitchhiker...tho she apparently tried a lot...
    since she took him to a hotel that 'she knew so well'..
    
    bleh!
    
    and I also like "lay down sally" mostly for the music tho..
    
    and I hate!
    
    Honey
    Teen Angel
    Patches
    and
    
    Yellow Ribbon makes me nausious
    
    Bonnie

    The Night Chicago Died
    
    My Sharona (sp)
    
    Color My World
    
    That's the way (ahuh...ahuh...) i like it.
    
    
    

    re:.2
    
    Yo! Mallet!  I *like* "Life Sucks and Then You Die" (so do most
    of the people I play and sing it for).
    
    Also, "I Gave Her the Ring, She Gave Me the Finger" isn't a real
    song. It's a title made up by folksinger Bill Staines as an example
    of the stereotypical country & western song. Other non-existent
    songs of a similar nature are "You Can Take All My Love and Stick
    It Up Your Heart" and "They Can Lock Me in Jail for Loving You, but
    They Can't Keep My Face from Breaking Out".
    
    On the other hand, "You Are the Reason Our Children Are Ugly" *is*
    real.
    
    --- jerry

    ... 'Cause the Girl In My Arms Bit My Nose"
          (Mad Magazine parody folk song title)
    
    "She Got The Gold-Mine, I Got the Shaft"  
          Jerry Reed (??)
    
    "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"
          (Oldie, can't remember the author)
    
    "You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith Too"
          The Statler Brothers
    
          (You can all thank my wife Debby for dredging these up from
           long-term memory :-)  Cheers, Dan

    
    More real songs to hate:
    
    I Just Cut Myself On A Piece Of Your Broken Heart (unknown)
    Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart  (Johnny Cash)
    
    And everybody's favorite  "HONEY"  Yuck!
    
    wes
    
    

    
    i liked this song but i know alot of people who hated it
    
     louie louie - kingsmen
    
     anything by the beatles

    Anything oldies
    
    Anything top 40
    
    Anything "hard rock" read WAAF
    
    Anything by an artist who plays stadium gigs
    
    Mostly everything on WFNX that's been released in the past three years
    
    Canadian fiddle music
    
    Country music
    
    Opera
    
    Broadway tunes
    
    Stryper (I don't even want to classify this)
    
    Oh I could go on.........
    
    Lisa

< Note 168.12 by RANGER::KALIKOW "DEC LanWORKS/Mac: VAX to the MAX!!" >
    
    "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"
          (Oldie, can't remember the author)
    
	Little Jimmy Dickens

					JimBo

    
    
    .3
      yummy yummy yummy was recorded by 1910 fruitgum company
      and i really hate to admit it but in my younger days when i was in
     my first band this was one of the songs we played.
    
    i like hearts new song and on july 13 i will be waiting for them
    to sing it at great woods. of course i lkie anything by heart.
    but i sure am getting tired of hitchiking home.
    
    another has been:  donna summer
    
     and how about tracy chapman
    
    frank
    

    How come nobody's mentioned Barry Manilow? Is he too bad to 
    mention even in a worst-songs list?
    
    I think I hated Copacabana the most, but almost anything by him
    would qualify.
    
    Eileen

    re .18
    
    I think Yummy Yummy Yummy and other such delicious hits were done by
    one of my favorite groups of the time-- the Archies (screech, scream,
    pant).  Couldn't ya just *die*!  I wonder who the Archies really
    were...
    
    Nancy
    
    Sugar,  ah honey, honey
    You are my candy, girl,
    And you got me wanting you...

    Hey!  I liked "Sugar, Honey Honey" ever since I cut it out off the back
    of the Super Sugar Crisp box!  (oops, is my age showing again ;)?
    
    I also dislike opera and country western and anything cacophonous
    (Vangelis' Beauborg may be a pretty good example, from what I've heard
    of it, of cacophony)
    
    -Jody

    
    	Don't Worry, Be Happy		Bobby McFerrin
    
    	Anything by NKOTB except their very first song and the
    	one they just released
    
    	Opera
    
    	Real-down-home-knee-slapping country music. (I like Alabama,
    	Sawyer Brown and Kenny Rogers)
    
    	One Less Bell to Answer  (come on..'one less egg to fry'..duh!)
    
    	
    	I'm sure I can think of more of these too
    
    	JJ
    
    	
    	

    Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
    
    	Don't know why, but I loathe that song.  It, along with
    	a few others already mentioned, is grounds for actually
    	turning off the radio.
    
    	Another candidate for the "weird title" group:
    
    When We Were Down to Nothin', Nothin' Sure Looked Good on You
    

>    	Another candidate for the "weird title" group:

How 'bout

"you can eat crackers in my bed anytime."

D!

    To Lisa in re:15
    	I could not have said it better myself.  If I don't have tapes
    (or college radio)to listen to I listen to the news on my radio.
    It's better than commercial radio.
    
    Remember when selecting music; IF IT SELLS IT SMELLS!!
    
    GEORGE

    
    anything by bruckner
    
    (re: opera, 'la boheme' is not so bad ;^)
    

    
    Well, I wouldn't necessarily say it smells, but I probably wouldn't
    find it very interesting.
    
    Then again, when I play the music I enjoy for others, they think I'm
    weird.  I mean why would someone normal listen to the Butthole Surfers?
    
    Lisa

	Anything on: "Music from the hearts of space"

	Stairway to heaven ... L.Z.

	Is that all there is ... by ????

	The Wedding Bell Blues ... the 5th Dimension
 	
	Torn between two lovers ... ???
	
	One ... Three Dog Night

	=Debi
		

    Since there seems to be some confusion in this topic about who recorded
    "Yummy Yummy Yummy", I got out my copy of the Rolling Stone Illustrated
    History of Rock & Roll, and looked it up.  The author of the chapter on
    Bubblegum, Lester Bangs, writes at the beginning, "In all the history
    of rock and roll, nobody got more of a bum rap than the purveyors of
    bubblegum music."  Bangs points out that the Talking Heads used to cite
    bubblegum as one of their biggest influences (something, I might add,
    that should be obvious to anyone who has listened to their debut album,
    "'77"), and they in fact used to play onstage "1, 2, 3, Red Light" by
    the 1910 Fruitgum Co.

    At the end of the article (above the photograph of the actual studio
    band who recorded the Archies' songs), is a discography of bubblegum
    songs.  In the article itself, Bangs discusses producers Jerry Kasenetz
    and Jeff Katz, who essentially created bubblegum:

        Late in 1967, Kasenetz and Katz joined forces with [Neil] Bogart
        and Buddha, and the rest is history:  the Ohio Express ("Yummy
        Yummy Yummy," "Chewy Chewy," "Sweeter Than Sugar"), 1910 Fruitgum
        Co. ("Simon Says," "May I Take a Giant Step," "1, 2, 3, Red Light,"
        "Goody Goody Gumdrops," "Indian Giver")...

    -- Mike

    No, Mike, I doubted my own.  Fortunately, we were both right.  :-)
    
    -- Mike

    	No one's mentioned the Bee Gees yet - I think they definitely
    fit in this category (at least IMO)!  When they came out with a
    new song this past year, I remembered just how much I disliked
    them and wished they had stayed out of the business!

    	amy

    
    yeah, they symbolize "wingeing poms" better than anything I can think of..

    
    
                     How 'bout N. Young's 
    
                     "a man needs a maid"
                     
    "just someone to cook my meals, clean my house and go away"
         
    

    "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath - the original drum-pounding, droning-
    voiced, interminable-guitar-solo, overblown, self-indulgent piece
    of heavy metal garbage.

    Seen etched on a mensroom wall in Cherry Hill, N.J in 1979, and as true
    a prophecy was never spoken. "The Future: its 1990 and Disco STILL
    sucks!"

    This isn't exactly a song but has anyone ever heard Rod McKunen's
    poetry put to music. EEWwwwwwww, gag me with some treacle. liesl

    
    .37
    
    Like yard sales....one person's trash, the other's treasure.
    
    
    	justme....jacqui

    I hate...."New Kids on the Block" (maybe I am getting old)
    all Rap music, but especially when done by jr. high school age kids.
    
    Lorna
    

    
    I hate
    .....anything by Barry Manilow
    .........anything by Paul Simon
    .............the song "Hotel california" by the Eagles
    		ickkkkk ckkkkk ckkkkkk
    
    
    	

    That moronic disco tune with the endless loop lyrics
    
    "That's the way uh-huh uh-huh
    I like it uh-huh uh-huh
    That's the way ....
    
    African tribal music, the 'primitive' stuff, sounds like 
    Rachmaninoff by comparison.
    

    RE .41:
    
    Oh, I'd forgotten about disco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
    
    (That's a scream, in case you didn't recognize it! ;-)
    
    I heard that disco is making a comeback - SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE!
    
    I heard another one today that I hate so much, I put it entirely out of
    my mind:  "I'm Not Your Superwoman" by Karen White

    
    re .41
    
    Actually, I love that song, and I've lived it. As have many women.
    Sometimes, things like that need to be said.

    "You Stole My Gal, You Horsethief!" - Ty Clasp & Ry Crisp

    Unless I missed it... how could we forget..... 
    
    "Feelings" 
    
    oh oh oh feelings!

    Nuke the New Kids on the Block
    
    Anything by Tiffany (esp. after what she did to the Beatles)
    
    Anything by Debbie Gibson_who_single_handedly_must_be_destrying_the_
    ozone_layer_with_all_of_that_hairspray
    
    Anything by Guns and Roses -- apart from being disgustingly sexist,
    their lead "singer" sounds like he's being eaten by a shark
    
    On the classical side: Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss...the
    first two minutes are very majestic...followed by an hour of adaggio...
    and not very good adaggio at that.
    
    on the Musicals side: This was a real Nice Clam Bake from Carousel...in
    fact, how about the entire show?  Yarg.
    
    daniel

    urgh...could be...I'm thinking of another one of those teen wonders
    who got "packaged"  She was interviewed once saying she's "written,
    like, 300 songs" As far as I can tell they all consist of one line
    repeated with variations in the inflection.
    
    Sort of a teeny bopper minimalism.
    
    I may have the name very wrong.
    
    I am also reminded of a music review I read when Michale Jackson's
    "Bad" came out: all the reviewer said was, "Yes." :-)

    "It Must Be Him" by Vicky Carr
    
    ("or I shall die, or I shall die")
    
    
    Lorna
    

    As the mother of young children....................
    
    
    
    that revolting song !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    
    Me so horny___ by, I don't know and don't want to know
    
    
    Debbie
    

Re: <<< Note 168.50 by ODIXIE::CHATHAM >>>
    
>>    Me so horny___ by, I don't know and don't want to know

2 Live Crew if memory serves; an almost unknown group until they were arrested
on pronography charges.  Made their album an instant sellout.  Isn't justice
sweet?

                         Roak

    RE:   <<< note 168.51 >>>
    
    Being a Fla. native I  should have known it was 2 Live Crew.
    
    So much for bad taste.
    
    Debbie