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| From | "Ron Katcher" <ronkatcher@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Most Annoying Song Ever |
| Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:48:01 -0400 |
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I may be mistaken but wasn't there a radio edit of the Knack's Good Girls
Don't-- the original "wishin' you could get insider her pants" versus
something like "wishin' she was giving you a chance?"
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From: "Miles Goosens" <outdoorminer@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 3:28 PM
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: Most Annoying Song Ever
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Will Harris <NonStopPop@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> >The most annoying song in the world is Devil Went Down to Georgia.
>> >Not one redeeming quality.
>>
>> Sure there is: the lyric "I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm
>> the
>> best that's ever been," which made a young boy in Virginia giggle every
>> time
>> he heard it. Sadly, Daniels is far too much of a Christian these days to
>> use the word "bitch" and has permanently replaced it with "gun," but
>> it'll
>> always be "son of a bitch" to me.
>
>
> That was - and is - one of those "will it be the radio edit?" joys that
> you
> get only from listening to the radio.
>
> "Devil Went Down To Georgia": "son of a gun" vs "son of a bitch"
> "Jet Airliner": "funky kicks" vs "funky shit"
>
> I'm sure there's plenty more, so let's have 'em! My only caveat for this
> game is that the songs need to be actual hit singles, i.e., something that
> one could have plausibly heard on top 40 or AOR radio in the '70s and
> early
> '80s.
>
>
> Oh, and whoever selected 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up" was on the money.
>> DEFINITELY the most annoying song ever...bar none.
>
>
> I hate that song too. Which made it weirder that I was one of the few
> human
> beings who liked Courtney Love's solo album from a few years ago, which
> Ms.
> Perry of the 4NBs largely cowrote.
>
> later,
>
> Miles
>
> --
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>
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