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Bill Hatcher
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Post by Bill Hatcher »

"Boom Boom Out Goes The Lights" was done by Blues harmonica god Little Walter in 1957. He was the Coltrane of the blues hamonica. SURELY you cannot be talking about his version?!?!?
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Roger Rettig
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Post by Roger Rettig »

I like 'Mandy'! BM's not my favourite, but that's a good tune...
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Robert Leaman
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Post by Robert Leaman »

I quit listening to what passes for "Country". I made a DVD (Double-layer) of my music collection which includes classics, big band, and good country from 1940 to late 1970's. There are 2400 songs which, at the rate of 2 minutes per song, provides me with 80 continuous hours of very good music. I gave my radio to the local animal shelter. Animals don't listen to trash either so they sell the radio to people without taste.
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Chris LeDrew
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Post by Chris LeDrew »

No, Bill, the version I keep tuning out is from the 70's or 80's. I'm actually relieved to hear it might have an earlier, better version. It's not the song that bugs me as much as the band's delivery.
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Post by Michael Haselman »

Our "classic rock" station thinks there's still people out there who like Supertramp. I'd like to meet those people...maybe not. The Logical Song for cripes sake. Puhlease!!

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Jon Moen
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Post by Jon Moen »

Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights = Pat Travers.

You know when radio stations played cd's, it was like thay had about 20 greatest hits cd's and put them on random play. They have mp3's or whatever now and they still only play a few of an artist's hits. There are a lot of songs they could play but don't either because they don't know about them, or they are not allowed to play them.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Jon Moen on 07 May 2006 at 08:11 PM.]</p></FONT>
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Keith Cordell
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Post by Keith Cordell »

I'm with Henry, anything by Foreigner gets an immediate switch off. Add to that Smoke on the Water, Stairway, or any other song I heard butchered thousands of times in guitar shops.
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Larry Strawn
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Post by Larry Strawn »

CrowBear my Friend,,
Thank you, Thank You!!!

Wooley Bully has got to be at the absolute "top" of my don't play, don't listen to list!

While aboard ship in the Navy I played bass with a small combo, Seems like all the folks in the Mediteraian [spelling] who couldn't speak English could say "YOU PLAY WOOLEY BULLY"????

Yeah France to CrowBear, Tulon, Cannes.

Larry

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Post by Ben Elder »

"Lovin' You" by Minnie Riperton could whip everything listed above this post with one falsetto moan tied behind its back.
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Post by Darryl Hattenhauer »

Amazing thread. I have never felt so confirmed. And yet nobody mentioned "My Sharona." Or Black Oak Arkansas crock rock. Or Heart crap rock. Or David Bowie creep rock. Or Bob Seger sheet rock.

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Per Berner
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Post by Per Berner »

How about "Macarena"? Yeuch!

...or that old Rolling Stones "country" tune with the worst pedal steel playing ever heard (worse than JG).

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John Billings
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Post by John Billings »

"Honey"
"Feelings'"
"Alone Again"
Anything by Alabama, Allman Bros., Lynyrd Skynyrd, and on and on. I've become very intolerant. "Watermelon Crawl" made me stop listening to country radio!
But I can stand "Smoke on the Water" about once a year, just because of the event it honors.
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Richard Sevigny
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Post by Richard Sevigny »

...SHEEEEEESH!

Seems like everybody's dissin' my set list Image

Seriously though,

"Adult Contemporary" sickeningly sweet stuff that gives you diabetes listening to it.

Any singer that does the operatic "warble" (I'm talkin' to you, Céline)

Anything that's already been played in the previous 12 hours, no matter how much I like it...
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Steve Hitsman
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Post by Steve Hitsman »

I really dig Conway but "Don't Cry Joni" will make you puke.
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Post by Ray Minich »

If I hear Harry Chapin's "Taxi" again it'll be too soon, even if I did once see him in concert. At the concert it was his cellist that did the falsetto part. I could probably sing that too if somebody kicked me just right.

Nobody's said "Proud Mary"... As ubiquitous as it is, it must be it's on the "approved" list... Image<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 12 May 2006 at 01:39 PM.]</p></FONT>
Perry Keeter
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Post by Perry Keeter »

"Donka Donk" and anything by Big & Rich.
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Dave White
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Post by Dave White »

Anything by the Dixie Chicks.
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Post by Bob Smith »

Th YMCA song by the village People, I run for cover when that song comes on.
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Post by Rick Collins »

Hold on a minute here:

All of you know elevator music __ well, this is music to flush, by. Rap crap (for one) was made for this occassion.

The latest news today is that all 50 states failed to meet the "no child left behind" standard set by the federal government.

Imagine the number of nitwit drummers coming onto the scene. What else can they do?

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Post by Perry Keeter »

Bon Jovi on country radio....
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Post by Michael Barone »

Stupid pop themes about an artist’s lifestyle or experience, severely overplayed, like . . . “Jet Airliner”, “Piano Man”, “Takin’ Care of Business”.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>The latest news today is that all 50 states failed to meet the "no child left behind" standard set by the federal government.

Imagine the number of nitwit drummers coming onto the scene. What else can they do?</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

“No Child Left Behind” is an absolute failure for the simple reason that it is an Un-Funded Mandate. Let’s give our young people more credit & instill more self-confidence. It isn’t their fault that schools lack resources to pull this off. A lot of schools have to discontinue music & other art forms, thanks to NCLB, which doesn’t help the many with learning disabilities either.


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Post by Rick Collins »

<SMALL>“No Child Left Behind” is an absolute failure for the simple reason that it is an Un-Funded Mandate. Let’s give our young people more credit & instill more self-confidence. It isn’t their fault that schools lack resources to pull this off. A lot of schools have to discontinue music & other art forms, thanks to NCLB, which doesn’t help the many with learning disabilities either.</SMALL>
You are correct. It's the parents fault. If parents had to pay, up front, for at least one-half of the child's tuition, the schools would have as much money they need. And, they would soon stop dumping their bedroom mistakes on the public school system. Can you say r-e-s-p-o-n-s-i-b-i-l-i-t-y?
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Post by David L. Donald »

I KNOW this will give howls here but...

Anything Ray Price did between 1965 and 1975...
I can't even finish a greatest hits CD I bought.

Now I love TIME
and most anything prior to 1965 is pretty cool.

But at a certain point it is sooooo countrypolitin,
I can't even finish one tune...
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Paul King
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Post by Paul King »

I cannot bear to listen to the Garth Brooks song "Friend In Low Places". When and if it comes on the radio I start pushing buttons. Just about anything new today gets me turning to another station. Our local station plays older country with singers like Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and others along that time line. They even play some back from the 50's. That being said, that means I get to hear a lot of steel guitar which is why I listen in anyway. I can let John Hughey, Hal Rugg or Buddy Emmons put me to sleep every night.
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HowardR
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Post by HowardR »

"Funky Town"

"My Sharona"

Any classic disco
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