The worst song....

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by PeterG

I had a similar experience but it was excruciating... I was at a restaurant for Breakfast and a christmas song came on and it was painful. I couldn't get away and i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.

Maybe you know Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime.

Ugggg.... Damn what a bad song; what a moronic hook it is worse than Sir Paul's Ebony and Ivory.

So, we are finishing up and we were able to get out without suffering the whole song....

...the next night, i wake up in the middle of the night with that stupid 'hook' circleing around in my head. i didn't even get a break with a stupid verse... just.. .

"Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... "

Wanted to jab two, eight-inch stainless steel spikes in my head to make it stop... but, I didn't have any handy.


PeterG

Paul McCartney penned some wonderful songs; he also penned some awful crap.

My votes go to Let 'Em In and Silly Love Songs.

[Rick and Roll]

1. Vax, absolutely about Sir Paul....one extreme or the other - Let 'Em In was a great idea (like the Righteous Brothers' "Rock and Roll Heaven" or that "Night Shift" song by the Commodores?), but a putrid song. The one by Paul that kills me is "Junior's Farm". I actually used to like that song. I hear it now and it's painful.

2. Roger, the Singing Nun.....have to agree there

3. J, the Gordon Lightfoot song brings back a funny memory. Roy Firestone, a noted sportswriter and talking head, used to do imitations, and he did Gordon Lightfoot singing the national anthem to the tune of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald "while sitting in the 34th row with just an acoustic guitar"... imagine "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light".... Speaking of "Imagine", Lennon's "Instant Karma" always gets on my nerves...

What really bothers me about that song is that Gordon reads you a straight history lesson to a song. Maiden does this in "Alexander the Great" and it's silly. It's a great song, but just hearing someone sound like their reading from a textbook is funny. Sing along: "King Darius the third, defated fled Persia, the Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes, then Egypt fell to the Macedonian King as well, and he founded the city called Alexandria".