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"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?!?!?

I like 'Mandy'! BM's not my favourite, but that's a good tune...

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.

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.

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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Marrs D-10, Webb 6-14E

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>

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.

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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"Fessy" S/D 12, 8/6 Hilton Pedal, Sessions 400 Ltd. Home Grown E/F Rack
"ROCKIN COUNTRY"

<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Larry Strawn on 08 May 2006 at 09:11 AM.]</p></FONT>

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

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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"Drinking up the future, and living down the past"--unknown singer in Phoenix

How about "Macarena"? Yeuch!

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

"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.

...SHEEEEEESH!

Seems like everybody's dissin' my set list

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...

I really dig Conway but "Don't Cry Joni" will make you puke.

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... <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>

"Donka Donk" and anything by Big & Rich.

Anything by the Dixie Chicks.

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

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?

Bon Jovi on country radio....

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

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“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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Mike Barone
2006 Carter S10 5&5, Sho-Bud Pro-1 5&5, BJS 15/16" Bar, Nashville 112
Assorted Guitars & Keyboards

<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?

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...
while making an effort to.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 14 May 2006 at 11:03 PM.]</p></FONT>

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.

"Funky Town"

"My Sharona"

Any classic disco