Songs that Piss me off!

[abba]

[f0xxee]

Its interesting to note that what we hate most seems to be what is on high rotation in most of the bars I have been to lately (at least in Hua Hin).
IN particular the bands mentioned by Robbo:

Foreigner
The Eagles
Chicago
Journey
Eddy Money
REO Speed Wagon
Pink Floyd
Abba
Boston
All of the 80 hard rock hair bands

And I might ad UB40 "red red wine" and anything by Bon jovi to that list. (although Robbo has captured them in "80's hard Rock Big Hair Bands")

Could it be they secretly hate us? or are they  just stuck in a time warp from the day the bar opened and no new music has been injected since?

[Grinder]

Red Red Wine - good call. Down Under by Men at Work, anything by Meat Loaf... glad to see kindred spirits here!

[allstar88]

any thai pop song

[Lefty]

(f0xxee @ Dec. 27 2009,10:06) Hi Lefty, and Happy NE... ok... so what songs do you HATE?

I don't HATE any song. I save my hatred for things that deserve it, like Dubya, Cheney and the rest of that neocon pond scum.

As for songs I have a strong dislike for, currently one called So This is Christmas, by Celine Dion, comes quickly to mind.

When I think of some more I'll post them.

[Lefty]

I'm crushed by the hatred for Abba.  I used to love them and still don't mind when one of their songs come on. I had a HUGE crush at one time on Agnetha Faltskog, and I consider her to have one of the best female singing voices I've ever heard. When she sings Thank You For The Music, my heart sores like an eagle, still to this day.

[Lefty]

Ok Foxee, I thought of some more. I have a strong disdain for most heavy metal music. I consider it to be nothing but a bunch of infernal noise and would not use the word "song" to describe most of the trash the heavy metal bands put out. I cannot name anything specific in that genre though. Let us just say 98% of what I've heard has been pure garbage to my ears.

[Ivor Biggun]

Any rubbish the crap Thai band which has started playing 200 yards from my place with the bass turned up to a volume that rattles my windows. Anyone got a spare hand grenade  

PS - you're big enough to enjoy Abba without anyone picking on you Lefty

[Lefty]

Yeah, I guess so. Just hope nobody calls me a queer for liking them. I may suck cocks and take them up the poop chute, but I'm totally hetero.

BTW, I did think of another song I totally do not like. It is that modern techno version of the classic hit San Francisco by Scott McKenzie. Far as I'm concerned there ought to be a law against taking an all time great song and bastardizing it into some more of that damned techno crap.

[Dieter]

yeah.and me on this



and this...





after 1 day Pattaya....


But.....

Dieter

[f0xxee]

Hi lefty,

I think my aversion to ABBA came from being an Aussie. Australia unfortunately was flooded with ABBA "tribute" (Oh fuck off. Want to pay tribute? Use Western Union) bands in the 90's. This lead to a lot of red faced, floppy armed, saggy titted 40 sumthing Mommas getting sweaty and pissy and horny at these venues and generally acting like in-season chimps with a drink and drug habit and annoying the shite out of any punter seriously intent on drinking and minding his own business. Me.

Heavy metal. Tend to agree. Its easy to mask a lack of talent with a lot of screaming, big hair and feedback and reverb.

Having said that have just finished reading Ozzie Osbournes Auto-biog (hahahaha) and it was brilliant... Couldn't help but love the poor fucked up but very honest son of a bitch.

[pacman]

(f0xxee @ Dec. 29 2009,05:16) Heavy metal. Tend to agree. Its easy to mask a lack of talent with a lot of screaming, big hair and feedback and reverb.

Now you've gone too far...        

(just as well you dropped in the intransitive verb tend to limit the damage   )

Growing up, so much music was so lame, there was a safe conservatism about so much of what was played on the radio back in the 60's & being a student living in a suburban household, I was always behind the times with what was cool.

Then the world changed. Led Zeppelin's arrival was every bit as groundbreaking as the Beatles. Soon I was swept into a scene that included Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull....  and so many others. Oh yes... Yes!! how could I forget them?

But the album I remember as being the pinnacle of defiance, heavy metal's defining masterpiece was Paranoid by Black Sabbath.

It was such a travesty to see the spectacle of their once great lead singer Ozzy Osbourne reduced to playing a parody of himself on that execrable MTV show The Osbournes.

He might be fucked now, but to an impressionable lad listening to him belt out those wonderful lyrics, he was not of this world.

Back on topic, I don't know if I really want to hear Paranoid blasted out of a bar room speakers. A little Abba would be fine (has there ever been a song better able to fill a dance floor than Dancing Queen?) or another chorus of Hotel California never misses. (The Eagles... I liked 'em, I hated 'em, right now I love 'em...     )

And Pink Floyd? What the hell are they doing on a list of songs that piss us off? I think the problem they have is that a few of their songs get played over & over while other worthy songs are ignored. No doubt the 21 yo DJ has never heard any of their other stuff.  

My main dislike in any bar is this manufactured techno-pop bullshit that puts a catchy riff on an eternal loop with lots of synthetic drumbeats & maybe a few lame rap lines. Horrible but it does have one advantage - it is easy for the girls to dance to. Every cloud has a silver lining...

[f0xxee]

Hello Paccie! Great to see you return!

Ok. When I (and I think Seven) refer to Heavy metal we aren not talking old school... I love and always will love Zep, Sabbath, Deep Purple and the likes.

I wont talk for Seven, but I was referring to the likes of Def Lepard, Guns and Roses, Metalica, Slayer, Warrant, etc etc etc. Travesties of what came before. As for grunge acts such as Korn... Oh please.. if you got that much angst, go get into your trench coat, grab your shotgun and blow your own fucking brains out... leave the other kiddies at school out of it.

Although Ozzie may come across as a parody of his former self, please read his book: he states that what you saw on the Osbourne was as he is... and he makes no excuses as to why. Like Keef... it's surprising that you can damage the human body with such excess and live (well exist) to tell the tale....

Hotel California... sorry only got to hear the opening Riff and I am taken back to hearing it on high rotation on Bris-vegas FM when growing up. Done to death. And every wanker I knew at school was into them whereas I was into the Saints, Stranglers, Ramones, and then the Clash and The Jam.... shows you where my sympathies lie dont it?

Dancing queen? Yeah it fills the dance floors... so does that fuckin' 'orrid "I'm so lucky lucky..." in Thailand.. But each to their own... I guess it depends on what you want the dance floor filled by....Disney Hippos? Or Jessica Rabbits....

Good to see you back mate... the forum is a more gentle place with you around.

[pacman]

Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate the sarcasm in your final remark...    

I was thinking that you were referring to those pretend heavy metal bands that cashed in on the demand for more of what the first wave delivered.

And they wrote some good songs too but by god, there was some awful stuff put out under the banner of Heavy Metal.

They lost me I'm afraid. They spent more time & money on creating a great live show than writing the music to warrant it.

My conversion back to appreciating the Eagles after years of dismissing them as a tired country rock outfit came exactly the same way as millions of others did.

They released the DVD "Hell Freezes Over" of their comeback tour in '94 after Don Henley & Glenn Frey patched their differences.

If you have never seen this played on a surround system on a giant screen TV, it is something to watch. Good enough that friends & I paid a small fortune to see them from the second row on their last tour.

When those opening chords of Hotel California played, the whole place erupted. It surprises me to this day that I could have such a 180 degree turnaround of my feelings for them.

And I won't be drawn into defending Abba or Dancing Queen. That is a song that transcends understanding. I am no fan of mindless pop but I have been known to get up & shake a leg at various functions when that gets aired.

And if you ever get the chance to see me "cut the rug" I am sure you will be impressed...      

[Lefty]

(f0xxee @ Dec. 29 2009,08:06) Hello Paccie! Great to see you return!



Good to see you back mate... the forum is a more gentle place with you around.

Foxee, you are ever the comedian!!!

That one really got me to literally LOL