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To ask which songs give you the rage?

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Chocolattay · 20/02/2022 14:40

Heart Of Glass makes me want to be violent, I cannot stand it. I’m not sure what it is. But something about the lyrics, voice and tune trigger something inside me. It came on the radio in the delivery room whilst I was in active labour and it made me distressed until it was turned off.

Also, Ed Sheeran’s songs. Mainly due to the weird lyrics. “My bedsheets smell like you.” Wtf? And in a recent one “I want to drink your smile.” How does one ‘drink a smile’? On the rocks? Also the song where he goes on about all of the depressing hardships his (I’m guessing made-up for the song) friends have fallen upon. One doesn’t see his kids, one is divorced, bla bla bla. It annoys me because it’s not his place to go on about their (made-up, in all fairness) problems for a good song. If the friends are real I hope he asked for permission. This is the same song where he goes on about driving 90mph down country lanes. And the less said about Galway Girl the better.

OP posts:
woodhill · 26/02/2022 14:18

SorrySmile

JudgeJ · 26/02/2022 14:19

@BoredZelda

Ah, I've assumed it's Cecilia ... I can imagine a bunch of dudes deciding to sing Simon and Garfunkel when they've had a drink.

My guess is Ruby.

Maybe Lucille, 'you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, four hundred children and a crop in the field' as a woman I knew thought it said!
toconclude · 26/02/2022 14:21

@hellithurt

Sweet Caroline?
Completely unreasonable, every by Quo is an undying classic Wink
toconclude · 26/02/2022 14:21

song

woodhill · 26/02/2022 14:22

Love the Quo.

toconclude · 26/02/2022 14:27

@woodhill

Yeah, they don't take themselves too seriously

mizzo · 26/02/2022 14:32

This is me from the Greatest Showman and anything that gets played in JD sports.

JudgeJ · 26/02/2022 14:33

@cobblers123

I remember in work once saying what a dirge John Lennon's Imagine was and how much I loathed it.

Only one other person agreed with me (there was about 12 of us at the time) while everyone else looked at me as if I'd just said I stabbed puppies as a hobby!

I think the 'Imagine' was probably one of the first of what's called now 'virtual signalling' songs, Look what a good person I am, while at the same time living a very extravagant lifestyle.
woodhill · 26/02/2022 14:36

I quite like Imagine and remember the news of John Lennon dying vividly

JudgeJ · 26/02/2022 14:45

@the80sweregreat

The ' drove all night ' song, I'm sure it's ' I crept on your room , ' not crapped !! 😂 It is a creepy song though.
Peter Kay did a whole act based on misinderstood lyrics!

Reading these threads it seems that an awful lot of people spend time listening to lyrics, not sure I ever did back in the days before Radio 4!

EssexLioness · 26/02/2022 17:23

@JudgeJ I love that sketch! The last one is so funny

cobblers123 · 26/02/2022 17:52

Michael Buble

CowboyJo · 26/02/2022 17:57

That dance monkey one.
DD6 went through a phase of wanting to play it ALL the time on my phone. Angry

bippityboppity87 · 26/02/2022 18:02

Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5. That song just grates on me for some reason. Never understood why it was so popular

hellithurt · 26/02/2022 18:09

@JudgeJ do you know me? GrinGrin

DublinDoris2000 · 26/02/2022 18:46

Fireflies by Owl City. The twinkly bits and the really nasal singing.
Any song by Savage Garden.
Cotton Eye Joe.

lolacherricoke · 26/02/2022 22:39

Anything by ABBA
'I will survive' Gloria Gaynor
'Love shack'
To name a few

sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 27/02/2022 00:32

@Winniewonka

Here's one that has a great melody but with lyrics from the Sixties that are just unbelievable today ....

Wives and Lovers - Burt Bacharach/Hal David

Hey,! Little Girl, comb your hair, fix your make up
Soon he will open the door
Don't think because you've a ring on your finger
You needn't try anymore

For Wives should always be Lovers too
Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you
I'm warning you....

Day after day
There are girls at the office
And men will always be men
Don't send him off with your hair still in curlers
You might not see him again...

Chorus

Hey! Little Girl
Better wear something pretty
Something you'd wear to the city and
Dim all the lights, pour the wine, start the music
Fix the music
Time to get ready for love...

I don't know, but I think this might have been B&D being ironic? They did write 'Don't make me over' for Dionne Warwick when she stormed into their office because they'd given one of 'her' songs to another singer and she bellowed at them 'Don't fuck me over!' I imagine the three of them thought it was funny to have her sing about being an obedient little woman at home...
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/02/2022 10:54

I think the 'Imagine' was probably one of the first of what's called now 'virtual signalling' songs, Look what a good person I am, while at the same time living a very extravagant lifestyle.

It was the Communist Manifesto set to music and entirely in keeping with the aims of communism, meaning that everybody has to suffer together - except the ones who are more equal, of course....

Migrainesbythedozen · 27/02/2022 10:58

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

I think the 'Imagine' was probably one of the first of what's called now 'virtual signalling' songs, Look what a good person I am, while at the same time living a very extravagant lifestyle.

It was the Communist Manifesto set to music and entirely in keeping with the aims of communism, meaning that everybody has to suffer together - except the ones who are more equal, of course....

The song was about living together in harmony and peace. Nothing remotely about suffering. I don't think imaging a life free of religion and suffering, where people live in peace is 'Communist'.
passionfruitpizza · 27/02/2022 11:05

Take a drunk girl home by Chris Janson. It's so sexist and it feels like he wants a medal for not taking advantage of drunk women. I get that there are probably good intentions behind it but eugh.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/02/2022 11:27

The song was about living together in harmony and peace. Nothing remotely about suffering. I don't think imaging a life free of religion and suffering, where people live in peace is 'Communist'.

It was actually described as “virtually the Communist Manifesto" by a certain Mr J Lennon.

The big problem with a lot of the Communist ideals was that they gave you the stated 'aims' that sounded amazing, but the reality was far different and there was much doublethink.

For example, does 'no possessions' mean that everybody will have what they need freely available, with no need for anybody to privately own them; or does it mean that your things will be taken from you and you'll be forced to do without them?

The religion aspect is also a double-edged sword: surely the ideal middle ground is everybody being able to choose what they do or don't believe in and being allowed to live peacefully that way, in mutual respect and tolerance of those who don't share their beliefs/lack of beliefs. Is JL imagining that nobody will want to have any faith any more, or that it will be banned? Surely forced non-religion is just as bad as forced religion? And in any case, the way that the likes of Lenin (not Lennon!) are still venerated to this day, that looks suspiciously like a kind of religion to me.

Migrainesbythedozen · 27/02/2022 11:38

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

The song was about living together in harmony and peace. Nothing remotely about suffering. I don't think imaging a life free of religion and suffering, where people live in peace is 'Communist'.

It was actually described as “virtually the Communist Manifesto" by a certain Mr J Lennon.

The big problem with a lot of the Communist ideals was that they gave you the stated 'aims' that sounded amazing, but the reality was far different and there was much doublethink.

For example, does 'no possessions' mean that everybody will have what they need freely available, with no need for anybody to privately own them; or does it mean that your things will be taken from you and you'll be forced to do without them?

The religion aspect is also a double-edged sword: surely the ideal middle ground is everybody being able to choose what they do or don't believe in and being allowed to live peacefully that way, in mutual respect and tolerance of those who don't share their beliefs/lack of beliefs. Is JL imagining that nobody will want to have any faith any more, or that it will be banned? Surely forced non-religion is just as bad as forced religion? And in any case, the way that the likes of Lenin (not Lennon!) are still venerated to this day, that looks suspiciously like a kind of religion to me.

Now that you put it that way, I see your point. I forgot about the possessions part.

I clearly need to think about it some more.

Americano75 · 27/02/2022 13:18

@CarrieMoonbeams

"Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay" by Bill Withers.

Fuck off Bill, just fuck off.

Oh my God yes, goes right through me!

Blurred Lines
Don't Cha

WalkingOnTheCracks · 27/02/2022 17:19

Where Do You Go To, My Lovely?

Also, Tom Jones' version of Delilah. I can never understand why so many women cheerfully sing along to it at parties. The guy stabs his girlfriend to death on her doorstep in a jealous rage. I mean, it's not exactly knees-up material, is it?

I say 'Tom Jones' version' because Alex Harvey does a version of it that's exactly as creepy and psychopathic as the subject matter deserves.