[Bad Music] City Weekly contributor Ryan Bradford recently brought this to my attention. The list reminds me of the constant, punishing rotation of Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews and Norah Jones albums I was forced to endure while waiting tables at a local restaurant a few years back. Now I can’t drink Diet Coke without Ms. Jones' nice, but ultimately boring voice, lulling me into a coma and resulting in rather embarrassing stains of artificially sweetened soda on my clothes. At least I no longer have to wear a bolo tie to work. What songs do you consider to be instruments of torture? (Jamie Gadette)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Sing Sing
[Bad Music] City Weekly contributor Ryan Bradford recently brought this to my attention. The list reminds me of the constant, punishing rotation of Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews and Norah Jones albums I was forced to endure while waiting tables at a local restaurant a few years back. Now I can’t drink Diet Coke without Ms. Jones' nice, but ultimately boring voice, lulling me into a coma and resulting in rather embarrassing stains of artificially sweetened soda on my clothes. At least I no longer have to wear a bolo tie to work. What songs do you consider to be instruments of torture? (Jamie Gadette)
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Jimmy Buffet. I'd take water boarding over listening to his albums any day.
ReplyDeleteHey Ryan, I 2nd that notion.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time, when I was 10, my 2 parents, 1 brother, 4 sisters and myself road tripped to southern California- (this is a VERY bad idea by the way). My mother made a Jimmy Buffet mixed tape for the ride- God bless her soul. Jimmy Buffet + 5 kids + one small mini van + roughly 685 miles = needless to say, maybe the worst idea ever.
That's all.
I'd take one Buffet over a life's work of Journey, Boston, Foreigner or Kansas--the quartet that water boarded Rock and Roll
ReplyDeleteOh, I am so dating myself. Anything by America, the horrifying soft-rock band of the '70s. I was in my dentist's chair a couple of months back and piped in on FM-100 was "Horse With No Name." Egawd, I'd rather the dentist had come at with me pliers and no painkiller.
ReplyDeleteI second Nora Jones. I caught my husband listening to her the other night. I asked, politely, if we could just run a nail file over the CD and be done with it.
Great post!
Jack Johnson is still better than Interpol.
ReplyDeleteThe Flaming Lips, on that Pink Robots album.
ReplyDeleteI worked at a certain late hours coffee shop (I'm fairly certain ou know which one, JME, wink wink) whose employees played them on repeat. I can't listen to them without wanting to choke a barista now.
What?? No mention of Creed or Nickelback yet?
ReplyDeleteSo disappointed. Tsk tsk tsk.
I'd rather be force-fed broken shards and induced to vomit them back up rather than listen to any of those two groups.
.....but that's just me.
I third Buffet. Never have been able to digest the stroke of genius, "Cheeseburgers in Paradise." :-(
ReplyDeleteThank you for saying that Interpol sucks. And yes, I get tired of JJ and the likes as well.
ReplyDeleteSongs I can't stomach, ever:
"Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's
"Stacy's Mom" by whoever it is
"I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by the Darkness