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Cringe Songs!

GridLeakBias said:
Silkie said:
however, cringe is probably not the right word, because it implies cowering somehow.
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I would describe “to cringe” (in the sense in which this thread is designed) as the act of recoiling from something one finds abhorrent rather than as a cowardly act.

Thus I cringe and immediately hit the “mute” button when the intro for "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass moves my speaker cones. ;)
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I feel the Same way about "Higher And Higher" by Rita Coolidge. Give me the Jackie Wilson version everytime.
 
radioman148 said:
GridLeakBias said:
Silkie said:
however, cringe is probably not the right word, because it implies cowering somehow.
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I would describe “to cringe” (in the sense in which this thread is designed) as the act of recoiling from something one finds abhorrent rather than as a cowardly act.

Thus I cringe and immediately hit the “mute” button when the intro for "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass moves my speaker cones. ;)
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I feel the Same way about "Higher And Higher" by Rita Coolidge. Give me the Jackie Wilson version everytime.
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Agreed on the Mr. Excitement front.
 
UNMISTAKEABLY THE FOLLOWING:
Bobby's Girl-Marcie Blaine
Billy Don't Be A Hero-Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods
Run Joey Run-David Geddes
Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer-Elmo and Patsy
Come On Eileen-Dexy's Midnight Runners
I Hate Everything About You-Three Days Grace.
Stairway To Heaven-Led Zeppelin(played to death on Indianapolis Top 40 radio throughout the 1970s)
 
Tip Toe Through The Tulips - Tiny Tim
 
Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely
Sue Thomson - Norman
Dodie Stevens - Pink Shoe Laces
James Darren - Goodbye Cruel World
Oliver - Good Morning Starshine
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Proclaimers - 500 Miles
 
cyberdad said:
GridLeakBias said:
Watching Scotty Grow – Bobbie Goldsboro
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I'll see you on that one and raise you "Honey"
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LOL. I pass, I want to see the flop. ;)
 
GridLeakBias said:
Thus I cringe and immediately hit the “mute” button when the intro for "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass moves my speaker cones. ;)
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You've got to wonder how some songs that weren't even particularly memorable at the time become "classics".

I was at my first radio gig at some little graveyard channel AM in East Broomstick in the summer of '72 when that was a hit. Record service wasn't all that great, so many of the records we played were trade-outs from the local record store, I'm pretty sure this was one of them. This was one of those labels (Epic I think) that was pressed on styrene & cue burned easily. By the time this one dropped off the charts, our copy was nothing but cueburn for the first :10 or so to the point where the song was all but inaudible. To this day when I hear that song, my brain inserts that cueburn at the beginning.
 
"Rubber Ball" by Bobby Vee makes me want to gouge out my ears.

No too fond of "Red Rubber Ball " by the Cyrkle, either.


Celebration by Kool and the Gang.
 
Anything by Tony Orlando and Dawn, or Brandy, You're a Fine Girl....Might be a fine girl, but it ain't a good song!
 
Mandy - Barry Manilow
 
Take note, radio program directors!  All of the following on my list here are the result of extreme radio overkill ("radioverkill"), even though a couple of these (thankfully!) aren't played much anymore, but the rest should go into the trash bin right along with them!

Del Amitri, "Roll to Me"
Black Crowes, "Hard to Handle"
Maroon 5, "This Love"
Bryan Adams, "Heaven"
Simple Minds, "Don't You Forget About Me"
Collective Soul, "Shine" (grunge, ugh!)
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" (how about "off the air, forever!")
Atlantic Starr, "Always" (my local top 40 continued to play this one for MONTHS after it was a hit!  ::))
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force (and a partridge in a pear tree, etc.), "Head to Toe"
any of Gloria Estefan's lame remakes
LeAnn Rimes, "How Do I Live?" (how did this lame piece of Diane Warren crap manage to stay on the charts for over a year?!?!)
any of LeAnn Rimes' lame remakes, while we're at it!  ::)
Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow, "Picture"
Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (the video was great the first 1000 times I saw it, but then I realized that I was watching Johnny and June both slowly dying, right before my very eyes!)

I WILL hit the dial when any of these come on! :mad:
 
firepoint525 said:
Take note, radio program directors! All of the following on my list here are the result of extreme radio overkill ("radioverkill"), even though a couple of these (thankfully!) aren't played much anymore, but the rest should go into the trash bin right along with them!

Del Amitri, "Roll to Me"
Black Crowes, "Hard to Handle"
Maroon 5, "This Love"
Bryan Adams, "Heaven"
Simple Minds, "Don't You Forget About Me"
Collective Soul, "Shine" (grunge, ugh!)
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" (how about "off the air, forever!")
Atlantic Starr, "Always" (my local top 40 continued to play this one for MONTHS after it was a hit! ::))
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force (and a partridge in a pear tree, etc.), "Head to Toe"
any of Gloria Estefan's lame remakes
LeAnn Rimes, "How Do I Live?" (how did this lame piece of Diane Warren crap manage to stay on the charts for over a year?!?!)
any of LeAnn Rimes' lame remakes, while we're at it! ::)
Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow, "Picture"
Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (the video was great the first 1000 times I saw it, but then I realized that I was watching Johnny and June both slowly dying, right before my very eyes!)

I WILL hit the dial when any of these come on! :mad:
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Which of these on the list was the earliest recorded?
 
trusty said:
firepoint525 said:
Take note, radio program directors! All of the following on my list here are the result of extreme radio overkill ("radioverkill"), even though a couple of these (thankfully!) aren't played much anymore, but the rest should go into the trash bin right along with them!

Del Amitri, "Roll to Me"
Black Crowes, "Hard to Handle"
Maroon 5, "This Love"
Bryan Adams, "Heaven"
Simple Minds, "Don't You Forget About Me"
Collective Soul, "Shine" (grunge, ugh!)
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" (how about "off the air, forever!")
Atlantic Starr, "Always" (my local top 40 continued to play this one for MONTHS after it was a hit! ::))
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force (and a partridge in a pear tree, etc.), "Head to Toe"
any of Gloria Estefan's lame remakes
LeAnn Rimes, "How Do I Live?" (how did this lame piece of Diane Warren crap manage to stay on the charts for over a year?!?!)
any of LeAnn Rimes' lame remakes, while we're at it! ::)
Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow, "Picture"
Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (the video was great the first 1000 times I saw it, but then I realized that I was watching Johnny and June both slowly dying, right before my very eyes!)

I WILL hit the dial when any of these come on! :mad:
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Which of these on the list was the earliest recorded?
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mid '80s ("Heaven" and "Don't You Forget About Me")
 
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