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Although I do like that song, you're right, it was way overplayed.

My nominees for most awful and overplayed songs of the late 70s:

Muscrat Love
Afternoon Delight

Where I lived at the time I could only get 2 radio stations. One played these all the time, the other played country.

No wonder I wore out all my 8-tracks.

I still have both on 45s...

Ahh, someone else with fond memories of 8-tracks. I was very unhappy when mine got left behind. I had "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude" on 8-track and I never have replaced them.

Sometime around 78-79, a local album rock station (Zeta-7) was bought out and converted to prepackaged easy listening. As a final tribute, they played Stairway to Heaven for 24 hours straight. I, like all the other little wannaberockers in my redneck, country music dominated area, listened the whole day.

I don't hate the song, but I'll switch the channel 8 of 10 times if it comes on...

 

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I had a pretty good collection of 8-tracks at one time too, though I really don't know what happen to them.

This morning I was thinking about some of the vinyl LPs I still have packed away. I'd really like to listen to Nilsson Schmilsson; there's a couple of songs on that ablum that put me in a really good mood. But my turntable, wherever it is in this house, doesn't have a needle.

I've got some 200+ LPs on a shelf, and a turntable with a needle -- and no way to hook it up. Feh on the changes in technology. I haven't replaced but perhaps one or two albums. And I miss Album Art you could actually see -- and posters. CD liner cards aren't the same at all. Remember the "Out of the Blue" (ELO) album art? Or Queen's "News of the World"?

 

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I'm with you there. How about The Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed", some of the classic Pink Floyd albums like "Dark Side of the Moon". (I had on LP and 8-track).

Speaking of ELO. I heard one of their songs on the radio a couple days ago, maybe last week, that I hadn't heard in many years: Do Ya from the A New World Record LP.

Man, I think i need to dig some of that stuff out. Might freak out my kids too. Put on Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti and crank it up. Hahahahaha

Days of Future Past is ONE LP I bought in CD -- twice, because the first got "permanently borrowed"

Go on, play with their heads. that's what kids are for!

 

[SeaCat]

I'm with you there. How about The Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed", some of the classic Pink Floyd albums like "Dark Side of the Moon". (I had on LP and 8-track).

Speaking of ELO. I heard one of their songs on the radio a couple days ago, maybe last week, that I hadn't heard in many years: Do Ya from the A New World Record LP.

Man, I think i need to dig some of that stuff out. Might freak out my kids too. Put on Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti and crank it up. Hahahahaha

LOLOLOL

Every now and then I truly drive my neighbors and their kids nuts.
I stack up a bunch of CD's and hit random.
Drifting through my windows will come some often strange mixtures but always enjoyable to me. Groups like FogHat. Sabbath, Led Zep., Credence, Molly Hatchet, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull etc.

I'll also toss in some of those whom I call softer musicians. ie. Santana, Krausse, Chris DeBurgh, Lightfoot etc. Just for variety mind you.

It truly messes with peoples minds.

Cat

 

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LOLOLOL

Every now and then I truly drive my neighbors and their kids nuts.
I stack up a bunch of CD's and hit random.
Drifting through my windows will come some often strange mixtures but always enjoyable to me. Groups like FogHat. Sabbath, Led Zep., Credence, Molly Hatchet, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull etc.

I'll also toss in some of those whom I call softer musicians. ie. Santana, Krausse, Chris DeBurgh, Lightfoot etc. Just for variety mind you.

It truly messes with peoples minds.

Cat

Currently in my CD stack is a trance/chill out CD (Mostly John Digweed), Tori Amos, and Gershwin

 

[FallingToFly]

Hmmm...

I love both Bonnie Tyler songs.

You really want to annoy the piss out of your neighbors? Put on every Meat Loaf song ever made, turn it ALL THE WAY UP, open ALL THE WINDOWS AND DOORS, and clean house in a bikini while singing along with every damn note.

The old people across the street moved out, due to that, among other things.

 

[SeaCat]

Hmmm...

I love both Bonnie Tyler songs.

You really want to annoy the piss out of your neighbors? Put on every Meat Loaf song ever made, turn it ALL THE WAY UP, open ALL THE WINDOWS AND DOORS, and clean house in a bikini while singing along with every damn note.

The old people across the street moved out, due to that, among other things.

I knew I liked you for a reason, style!

Cat

 

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[FallingToFly]

Hey, I like Meat Loaf... or more precisely, I love Jim Steinman. The one song he wrote that Celine Dion did is the only one I can stand by her... whilst watching VH1 one day that video came on, and I told my husband from the kitchen: "That's Steinman, it has to be." We argued through all sevenish minutes of the song, and when the end credits came on, sure enough it was Steinman. Since then I get teased about my Steinman radar - give me thirty seconds of any rock opera song, and I can tell you if A) he's written it and B) who sings it... well before the actual vocals start.

Ohhh... earworm that got me today: Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie"

 

[zeb1094]

Let see, music stack. As I rip every cd to my harddrive what's in there is:

Beach Boys
CCR
Moody Blues
Queen
Pat Benatar
Steve Miller Band
Chicago
Gary Wright
Bob Seeger
Seal
Manfred Mann
Cheap Trick
Deep Purple
Blue Swede
Lynyrd Skynyrd
James Gang
The Hollies
Joe Cocker
Eric Clapton
Steppenwolf
Jethro Tull
The Grass Roots
Mitch Ryder
The Beau Brummels
Shadows of Knight
Lou Christie
The Who
Dire Straits
Styx
Genesis
Alan Parsons Project
The Edgar Winter Group
The Doobie Brothers
Jimmy Buffett
and finally Cat

And these are just the 4 & 5 star selections.

 

[john-the-author]

I was reading something a few days ago that the all-time worst song was Honey by Bobby Goldsboro

I may be dating myself a bit here but I can remember when my sister had that song on a 45.

Now who's old enough to remember this one: Chick-A-Boom ?

I remember both when they came out and it's really hard to identify which could make me stick a fork in my eye faster just to distract me from the sound of either.

 

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about 5 years ago my oldest son (about 16 at the time) and I were going somewhere in our car, and he pulled out a CD and said....."dad, you've got to listen to this CD I got, I think you'll like it"

well, it was Led Zeppelin IV. I said, "hey, I've got that on vinyl"

when he put it in the player, i cranked up the volume....he was yelling at me to turn it down.

The one thing i cannot tolerate are what I call "Boom cars" -- the cars with the huge subwoofers and bass speakers that play ridiculously loud. We've got one in our neighborhood, which I might never notice except for three things.

1) I live on the entrance road, so they always go past me
2) They go by usually after 11 pm, despite a 10pm "quite time" noise ordinance
3) My office is at the back of our cinder block built house, a good 60 feet from the road, and this sound shakes the window glass

I keep saying I'm going to get the license and report this idiot, or at least put a note on his windshield (as opposed to putting a brick through it)

I don't mind at all that these people want to be deaf before they reach 40. I just think it is unfair they want to take me with them when I don't even ride in the car.

 

[Aurora Black]

The one thing i cannot tolerate are what I call "Boom cars" -- the cars with the huge subwoofers and bass speakers that play ridiculously loud.

Ugh! Especially in the spring and summer, and no country is immune to these idiots. And why do they always have to play heavy metal or fucking RAP???

 

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Ugh! Especially in the spring and summer, and no country is immune to these idiots. And why do they always have to play heavy metal or fucking RAP???

Those styles have the most bass...although I have this little fantasy about driving one of those cars playing Beethoven (by THEIR houses at 11 pm)

 

[Aurora Black]

Those styles have the most bass...although I have this little fantasy about driving one of those cars playing Beethoven (by THEIR houses at 11 pm)

Symphony #5, baby!

 

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