Name a popular song that is either the best or the worst you've ever heard

jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 11:37 AM
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Name a popular song that is either the best or the worst you've ever heard

And see if we can guess whether you like it or not. :)

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Wetzelbill

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Mon Jun-18-07 11:42 AM
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1. My Humps!!!!!

Lovely lady lumps and all such things in pure art form!!!!!

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:03 PM
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2. Knowing you....

LOVE IT!

:shrug: :)

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Wetzelbill

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:10 PM
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5. Ha!

No way! I cannot stand that song. It flies in the face of anything remotely resembling decent writing. In fact, I think I seriously offended a younger cousin of mine who was playing it last year. I said to my uncle as she turned it up: "This is the worst written song ever made." And she heard it and said: "Are you just teasing me?" So I said: "Nope, just listen to how stupid the lyrics are." I swear you would have thought I strangled her first born. She looked mortally wounded. But still, it's horrible. I mean the state of songwriting is just godawful.

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:22 PM
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9. Well...

First, I was teasing! Second, if you judge the lyrics in a dance song, you will always be disappointed. I think the song is moderately clever. Much better than anything REO Speedwagon or Steely Dan ever did! But it's a pop dance song, it's not Shakespeare. It's kind of fun.

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Wetzelbill

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:12 PM
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21. well, then again...

I am an elitist librul snob. And Fergie isn't bad to look at. :)Plus, she's alliterative.

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:49 PM
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25. And she's a big literacy fan.

She's taught kids how to spell delicious and glamorous.

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dropkickpa

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:44 PM
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20. My 6 year old daughter LOVES that song

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

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unpossibles

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:08 PM
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3. Butterfly Kisses

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:25 PM
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12. Never heard it. nt

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flvegan

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:09 PM
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4. "Rockstar" by Nickelback

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Wetzelbill

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:12 PM
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6. oh you know that is a hate

I have yet to see a music thread about hating songs or music where a DUer does not express and intense hatred for Nickelback. :)

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:23 PM
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10. Well, since it's chic to pound Nickelback on DU

I'm guessing you hate it. Although, I think it's cute, and my fourteen year old daughter likes it.

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flvegan

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:35 PM
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17. I don't hate it because it's chic on a message board to do so.

I hate it because in my opinion, it's crap. When I read the question, it was the FIRST thing that popped into my head.

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Wetzelbill

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:15 PM
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23. yeah flvegan, you're just a sheep

Hatin' on poor Nickelback because all the cool kids are doing it! For shame!!!! For shame!!!! :rofl:

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:49 PM
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26. Didn't say that's WHY you hated it.

Only that it is chic on DU to do so. :)

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LeftyMom

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Tue Jun-19-07 09:17 AM
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37. We all know you love that song.

Don't make me tell everybody about the signed poster of the greasy "singer" over your bed. :evilgrin: It's cute when you blow him kisses. :D

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Zavulon

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:17 PM
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7. Rock the Casbah, The Clash

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:25 PM
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11. Ah, that's a challenge!

:rofl:

It easily fits either side!

I'd say you like it. Just cause you have a Z in your handle, which is a quirky letter!

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Zavulon

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:16 PM
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24. Survey says...

X!

Sorry, I hate the song. It's not THE worst song I've ever heard, it's actually the third-worst - but I listed the top two in another thread (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6622880&mesg_id=6625886) and didn't want to make it easy on you.

BTW, my username is that of the worst of the bad guys in a Russian movie called Night Watch.

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ChoralScholar

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:20 PM
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8. La Bamba, Ritchie Valens

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:26 PM
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13. Hmmm....

Judging by the razorback in your profile, I'd say hate. If it were a longhorn, you'd probably love it. Valens is a Texan-y kind of thing.

:shrug:

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ChoralScholar

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:28 PM
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15. Has nothing to do with it - I'm actually from Texas

I hate it because it's hackneyed into every commercial under the sun:

to the tune of La Bamba:
"You could be driving a Honda, o yes you could, driving a Russell Honda..."

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:50 PM
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27. Ah.

That's understandable, then! :rofl:

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EnviroBat

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:27 PM
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14. Since You've Been Gone... Kelly Clarkson

Makes me want to commit a mass murder in a house I've never lived in...

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ChoralScholar

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:29 PM
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16. I use it as a prime example of what my beginning girls

should NOT do.

(we're always working on getting them to use their head voices rather than their chest voice)

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EnviroBat

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:36 PM
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18. It's just grating to the senses...

I've heard little kids hollering on a playground with more musical quality. Amazing what passes for talent these days...

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:56 PM
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30. Not my favorite.

Not even on my very, very long list of songs I can listen to...

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racaulk

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Mon Jun-18-07 12:40 PM
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19. "Achy Breaky Heart" by some no-talent hack whose name escapes me...

The rednecks in my high school couldn't get enough of that song when it first came out. I couldn't escape it!!!

:eyes:

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Wetzelbill

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:13 PM
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22. Billy Ray Cyrus

I used to like it. But then again, I was also insane enough to ride bulls at the time too. My judgement may have been in question during that era.

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:55 PM
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29. It was a cute song. Typical example of

a song that got way more popular than it's quality level deserved, and got a backlash of hatred because of it. Darned song made and ruined Billy Ray Cyrus's career in one fell swoop.

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Wetzelbill

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Mon Jun-18-07 02:20 PM
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32. I like some of his other stuff actually

He does have some solid songs on his first two albums. Just pretty much overshadowed by Achy Breaky Heart, but he does have some decent work. :)

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 01:53 PM
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28. Well, you tipped your hand, but just to inform you

that "no-talent hack" is currently an actor on a Disney Channel show called "Hannah Montana," in which his daughter (on the show, and in real life) is a pop star.

Billy Ray Cyrus. Daughter's name is Miley. Also co-stars Emily Osment, sister to Haley Joel Osment.

Just to catch you up to speed. :)

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racaulk

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Tue Jun-19-07 08:16 AM
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35. Alright, fair enough.

I will agree that my use of the term "no-talent hack" was excessive and harsh. Glad to hear that he has gone on to do better things with his career, and it sounds like Miley has a promising career ahead of her as well.

But that one song totally grated on my nerves. It really, really did!!! :puke:

:hi:

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hippiechick

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Mon Jun-18-07 02:20 PM
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31. ... anything by 50 Cent, Gwen Stefani, Pussycat Dolls or C. Aguilera

:shrug:

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jobycom

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Mon Jun-18-07 11:43 PM
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33. Hmm, I was going to say "worst," but I've never heard anyone say

Aguilera was worst. Then again, even though I like Gwen, and liked 50 Cent's early work, I couldn't see anyone calling them the best... Help me out here. Does Christina Aguilera have a cousin in the business with the same first initial? :shrug: That's like running into Rick Astley, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, and Elvis Presley on the same list. One of them just isn't close to the others.

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hippiechick

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Tue Jun-19-07 08:08 AM
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34. Worst. Can't stand any of them.

:puke:

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freesqueeze

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Tue Jun-19-07 09:08 AM
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36. "Hocus Pocus" by Focus

I show this to my 9th graders after telling them that I thought this band was the greatest thing on earth, when I was a 9th grader.

See.....we all change.

Take a look...heavy metal yodeling. I think the singers eyes are going to pop out at any moment.

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=hocus+pocus+focus

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