Worst songs ever made

[Gabble Ratchet]

I love Genesis but can't stand the song "Mama"

I also think that Eric Carmen's "Can't Live if Living is Without You" sucks.

I also hate "Go for a Soda" by Kim Mitchell **

***Sees Bucky coming and leaves the thread ....

I love Mama! Especially when Phil does his evil laugh it adds a lot of character to the song

 

[snakes&ladders]

You do not have to be a hippie to appreciate the anti-Vietnam war sentiment of the song. Actually it is not a song, just a bluesy monologue. The song, a true story, is a brilliant satire indicting the American police, who were made to look like fools, and the judicial system with its blind judge who could not see the photographs presented as "evidence". Alice's Restaurant pointed out a way to avoid the American draft...get arrested for a crime. He was rejected for littering and sent to sit on the Group W bench where those draftees wait who cannot be inducted except under a "moral waiver".

The ironic punchline is that, in the words of Guthrie, "I'm sittin' here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug."

And that pretty much sums up the anti-Vietnam war sentiment at the time. I think it is hilarious but maybe I have a strange sense of humor.

HOORAY ....I'M WITH ANNIE 100%....VIVA ANTI WAR, VIVA ARLO AND VIVA HIS DAD...."this machine kills fascists"

 

[Foxhound]

Annie:

Actually it is not a song....

Agreed. To even call it a song would be heaping more praise on the thing than it deserves.

...just a bluesy...

Twasn't bluesy. Twas folksy in a flower child hippie sort of way as opposed to a beatnik kind of way.

....monologue.

Yes! I knew there was something even more nefarious to the recording just under the surface! It was a precursor to rap!

 

[Foxhound]

HOORAY ....I'M WITH ANNIE 100%....VIVA ANTI WAR, VIVA ARLO AND VIVA HIS DAD...."this machine kills fascists"

Perhaps Arlo could also have been so bold as to go to Hanoi and protest North Vietnam's efforts to conquer South Vietnam. There actually seemed to be a curious lack of protest of the war within North Vietnam. I wonder if that was because North Vietnamese troops were never really there as they complained - or for other reasons? Perhaps we could ask the boat people who felt compelled to flee from their homeland using whatever possible means after the Communists took over? Or maybe we could ask the Montagnard tribesmen of the central highlands of South Vietnam? It may perhaps be difficult to find any that escaped execution after the Communists took over though....

Should we get into Cambodia and the Communist regime of Pot Pot?

Ever see these urinal stickers that Vietnam War veterans favour?



You talk on about fascism - but here in the western world you're at least free to criticise (albeit not from taxes but that's an issue I'll leave to others). And you're also free to leave. There are no watchtowers, machine guns and dogs to keep you in. What the hell do you think the Communist states of the Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea and North Vietnam were/are if not fascist? What did you find in any of them - limited government or huge totalitarian governments? What kind of definition of fascism are you using if it excludes totalitarian states such as these?

 

[snakes&ladders]

perhaps arlo could also have been so bold as to go to hanoi and protest north vietnam's efforts to conquer south vietnam. There actually seemed to be a curious lack of protest of the war within north vietnam. I wonder if that was because north vietnamese troops were never really there as they complained - or for other reasons? Perhaps we could ask the boat people who felt compelled to flee from their homeland using whatever possible means after the communists took over? Or maybe we could ask the montagnard tribesmen of the central highlands of south vietnam? It may perhaps be difficult to find any that escaped execution after the communists took over though....

Should we get into cambodia and the communist regime of pot pot?

Ever see these urinal stickers that vietnam war veterans favour?



you talk on about fascism - but here in the western world you're at least free to criticise (albeit not from taxes but that's an issue i'll leave to others). And you're also free to leave. There are no watchtowers, machine guns and dogs to keep you in. What the hell do you think the communist states of the soviet union, red china, north korea and north vietnam were/are if not fascist? What did you find in any of them - limited government or huge totalitarian governments? What kind of definition of fascism are you using if it excludes totalitarian states such as these?

i'm talking about right-wing fascvism......why did history change recently? Who are you trying to fool? Not me with all this fascist-communist double talk!!!

 

[Foxhound]

i'm talking about right-wing fascism.

What's the point of differentiating between the two? Did Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot kill their tens of millions any less dead? Were their bullets any less deadly? Were their chains any less hard? Why are you splitting hairs?

Not me with all this fascist-communist double talk!!!

Double talk? Communism is merely the most refined form of fascism. Communists take the one final step from not just exercising absolute control over everything but assuming total ownership of everything. In so doing they complete/perfect the enslavement of a nation's people.

 

[Craig in Indy]

If discussions of Vietnam have to intrude on our musical dialogue, let's at least talk about it in historically complete and accurate terms and not as it was defined by 1960's-era US political speeches.

 

[Stout]

I don`t think any of you have quite scraped the bottom of the barrel.
You want terrible, it gets no worse than these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWMJLUbk10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXs93KbBCgY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7N_IN7jQRk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBbZb1-oHtc

 

[Stout]

Oh, here`s another that is terribly unlistenable, although others would disagree That shrill voice and that annoying chorus. At one time, the better half tried to play this to annoy me on a diner jukebox. I warned her not to, otherwise she would be paying for dinner. I`m glad I won that battle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3EmA-eJPxs

Even I couldn`t listen to that all the way through. That`s enough trauma. G`nite everyone.

 

[Foxhound]

I like the dancing senoritas at the start of "Copacabana" though....