Shut down the mother truckers blockade with some of the worst songs in the history of music...

[Enter stage left]

Let's all play along.

New Zealand is playing Barry Manilow on a constant loop to annoy the truckers and keep them from blocking streets.

I think this is a wonderful idea (sorry for those who live in the area) and I have a few suggestions as to songs that we & our neighbors to the north could play.

I'll start, but I'm hopeful all of you can add to our playlist. Here we go:

1 "Tip toe thru the tulips" by Tiny Tim

2 "They're coming to take me away, ha ha" by Napoleon XIV

3 "Dead Skunk in the middle of the road" by Louden Wainwright III

4 "Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?" by Lonnie Donegan

5 "Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille

and finally for me...

6 "Camp Grenada (hello Muddah, hello Faddow)

Please add more, we could drive these fools nuts.

[NightWatcher]

1. Paul McCartney's Simply having a wonderful christmas time

I know the mere mention of that song can get stuck in your head and for that I apologize.

[Tree-Hugger]

26. There is no other song....

.....that induces such rage in me. It's the worst.

[dflprincess]

34. I always thought that song proved once and for all

that Lennon was the lyricist.

A lot of McCartney's songs just repeat the phrase over and over. Some are just a lot less annoying than that Christmas tune.

[Ilsa]

86. I can't change the channel fast enough. Who would buy that song?

Now I'll have to get my brain working a problem to keep it busy enough to rid my phonological loop of those measures of shite.

[Wingus Dingus]

102. Duh duh-duh DUH! Duh duh-duh DUH!

DOO-doo, DOO-doo, DOO-doo doo doo doooo....

[Tom Kitten]

2. My Ding A Ling

I hate that song, everybody else should too.

[gay texan]

3. What if i happen to like #5?

Can we substitute it with anything by Trans Siberian Orchestra?

[Enter stage left]

6. I''m open to suggestions...so feel free

[gay texan]

23. ask/recieve, LOL! n/t

[Trueblue1968]

37. Sugar sugar by THE ARCHIES

And the obnoxious ... i HATE this piece of junk.

The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)

[Enter stage left]

40. Oh yuck...Both added to the play list...congratulations1

[Baked Potato]

4. Macarena. Nt

[MiniMe]

5. Mama's got a squeezebox

she wears on her chest, and when daddy comes home he don't get no rest

[Kingofalldems]

7. Dox them too!

[Enter stage left]

9. Congrats on over 35,000 posts.

[Kingofalldems]

82. Thanks!

[Wicked Blue]

8. MacArthur Park

&quot You're) Having My Baby", Paul Anka (1974)

It's a Small World

Baby Shark

And a lot of bagpipe music

[I_UndergroundPanther]

51. Nyan cat

If that doesn't make them crazy nothing will.

[csziggy]

124. Or "You're Having My Baby" by the Hallelujah Tabernacle Choir!

If you don't recognize the reference, it's from the pilot episode of WRKP in Cincinnati:

As Johnny cues up The Hallelujah Tabernacle Choir singing "You're Having My Baby", the record jacket he's holding is actually a Capitol Records LP titles "Concerto Under the Stars" featuring pianist Leonard Pennario and conductor Carmen Dragon. Carmen Dragon was the father of keyboardist Daryl Dragon...the "Captain" of Captain and Tenille.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0789732/trivia/?ref_=tt_ql_trv

[Glorfindel]

10. This...played on gigantic, earthquake-inducing speakers on a loop

(I happen to love it, but I'll bet those truckers and their hangers-on wouldn't)

[niyad]

31. Exactly.

[meadowlander]

48. A lot of them are Neo-nazis though.

Maybe some Night on Bald Mountain instead.

[Tumbulu]

57. Perfect!

[FelineOverlord]

11. Feelings

https://m.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

50. Oh I dispise that song.

Volare from the 70's car commercial.

[lpbk2713]

12. You Light Up My Life

Or the music from the It's a Small World After All ride.

[Trueblue1968]

38. i love YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE !!!!! That song was featured at our wedding in 1987 !!!

please you .... TAKE THAT BACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThunderRoad]

13. 1 800 kars4kids nt

[cbabe]

60. I refuse to listen to radio station that plays it. Worst song ever.

[RFCalifornia]

130. THIS

[rsdsharp]

14. Afternoon Delight -- Starland Vocal Band

Billy Don’t Be A Hero — Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods
The Night Chicago Died — Paper Lace
Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast — Wayne Newton
Kung Fu Fighting — Carl Douglas
Honey — Bobby Goldsboro

[gay texan]

24. good! n/t

[highplainsdem]

104. Several of the reasons I swore off AM stations back then and listened

only to AOR, album-oriented rock, on FM.

[rsdsharp]

108. I was a jock on an FM top 40 station when most of those were hits.

Try playing Starland Vocal Band every 90 minutes. I couldn’t change the station; it was the only one coming out of the monitors. I was music director, too. That meant I had to move it from hot rotation to recurrents and keep it on the air, when even the sales people were sick of it.

They’d bitch, and I’d say “How do you think I feel? By the time most of this stuff becomes a big hit, I’m ALREADY sick of it.”

[highplainsdem]

118. Sympathies. That would've driven me crazy.

[GoCubsGo]

15. "You're Having My Baby" by Paul Anka.

Possibly the worst song ever written.

Too bad Vogon poetry isn't a real thing. All they'd have to do would be to get someone out there to read it using a bull horn on the first day, and that would be the end of it.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

53. A point of veiw gun held by

A canadian resident about to lose it could solve the problem.

[Walleye]

16. "American Woman"-Guess Who

[Wingus Dingus]

94. Really?

[Walleye]

98. I thought there might be some people here who like that song. I always reach to turn it off

Sorry, but it’s just an irritating song to me. It got a lot of air play in it’s day

[highplainsdem]

105. Loved that song, though not as much as "No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature."

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[BigmanPigman]

17. I remember Noriega

"How The U.S. Military Used Guns N' Roses To Make A Dictator Give Up"

"Here's a small sampling of the playlist designed to send Noriega a musical message:

"Give It Up," by K.C. And The Sunshine Band, "No More Mister Nice Guy," by Alice Cooper, and "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath. You get the drift. When the troops started coming in from the field, the requests became quite imaginative," it said in dry, military-speak. The favorites included "Welcome to the Jungle," by Guns N' Roses, "Wanted Dead Or Alive," by Bon Jovi, and "The End" by The Doors."

"After several days on the run, Noriega was allowed to enter the Vatican Embassy on Christmas Eve. And on Christmas Day, the radio station broadcast only Christmas music. But with requests streaming in, the U.S. effort ramped up after the holiday."

"On Dec. 27, "someone who identified himself as a member of the PSYOPS [Psychological Operations] team from Fort Bragg [N.C.] called to tell us what they were doing with their loud speakers," the military report said. U.S. Gen. Maxwell "Mad Max" Thurman had ordered speakers placed as a "musical barrier" around the perimeter of the Vatican Embassy and turned to full volume."

"Noriega was reportedly partial to opera. What he got was "Panama," from Van Halen, "Danger Zone," from Kenny Loggins, and "Refugee," courtesy of Tom Petty. And remember, this was the '80s. So the strongman also got an earful of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," though that may have been intended more for Noriega's hosts at the embassy. As the standoff dragged on for days, the playlist became part of the story."

"Not everyone was happy with the military's approach, including the White House, and the music was stopped after several days. President George H.W. Bush's national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, said afterward that he thought the use of high-volume music was "undignified."

"On Jan. 3, 1990, Noriega surrendered to the U.S. forces, though not until after he'd been treated to a version of "I Fought The Law."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/30/530723028/how-the-u-s-military-used-guns-n-roses-to-make-a-dictator-give-up#:~:text=AP-,U.S.%20troops%20man%20a%20roadblock%20on%20Dec.,He%20surrendered%20on%20Jan.

[Tom Kitten]

18. Baby Mokey Riding Backwards On a Pig

Stephanie Miller used to play this on her show. Cute at first but...

[Enter stage left]

52. OMG...pathetic...but perfect for this thread...

Thank you!

[jmowreader]

19. There is this...

Throw on The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles’ Greatest Hits.

The GMCLA is awesome, and they don’t sing songs redneck truckers like.

[gay texan]

20. most annoying songs:

1. anything by Meatloaf
2. "Greatest love of all" by Whitney Houston (nothing against madame Whitney,she was uber fab, but this song is just horrible)
3. " Shake you down" by Gregory Abbott
4. "I can only Imagine" by MercyMe
5. "Ninja Rap" Vanilla Ice
6. Micheal Bolton "Sitting on the dock of the bay"
7. "you give love a bad name" Bon Jovi (Jon Bon Jovi is a stand up chap, and he helps the homeless. I just hate this fucking song, yet i will support his cause to the bitter end.)
8. "peekaboo" Siouxsie and the Banshees
9. "Puppy love" Donny Osmond
10. "Satan, bite the dust" Carman

[Enter stage left]

25. LOL...forgot all about Puppy Love.

[ThoughtCriminal]

21. "Dead Skunk..." is a great road song

Just try not tapping your foot while listening.

[Pobeka]

28. +1! nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

54. I like dead skunk

Its very sentimental to me, riding around with my sisters when I was little singing it at the tops of our lungs..good times.

[Taylor Picker]

119. Glad to see some love for Loudo.

Album III is one of my all-time favorites.
And there's nothing wrong with Dead Skunk.

[LiberalFighter]

22. When I watch movies on Crackle.

Sometimes they have the same commercial repeated over and over within about a minute. Very irritating. And they are only about 15 seconds.

[Johonny]

27. Disco Duck

[njhoneybadger]

29. Slim Whitman "Indian Love Call"

The Slim Whitman-as-a-joke idea made its way into the movie Mars Attacks! when it is discovered that the only way to stop the aliens is to make their heads explode by playing the singer's "Indian Love Call."
https://m.

[blue neen]

41. Good lord, that is hideous!

Suits the purpose, though.

[njhoneybadger]

44. It sure does

https://m.

[Enter stage left]

47. LOL...horrible...welcome to the thread.

[Enter stage left]

42. Slim did some great music (and I'm not a country fan}...

But this ain't one of them1

Good choice.

[niyad]

30. "Flying Purple People Eater", "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer", the full 18- minute

version of "ina gadda davida".

[Enter stage left]

32. I was in jr high when 'Purple people eater" came out...loved it...

And please 'In a gadda da vida' was & still is one of my favorite songs.

YMMV

[DET]

33. Rats

Loved Michael Jackson, but…Ben.

[dflprincess]

35. Don't forget

"It's a Small World"

and the cars for kids tune.

[Enter stage left]

36. The first time I went to Disneyland (16 years old) I loved that song...

The next 3 times with our kids (late 20's & early 30's).......

.....


.....


I learned to HATE it!.

Thanks for reminding me.

[SKKY]

39. "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas

[Raine]

43. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer 🤢🤮

I hate that song so bad!

[Midnight Writer]

45. Just drop off Mike Lindell with a bullhorn.

[BlueIdaho]

46. How Much is that Doggy in the Window

Guaranteed to alter your DNA - and not in a good way.

[Walleye]

101. that one and "Yes We Have No Bananas"

[meadowlander]

49. Milkshake it up

[Texasgal]

55. Wing!

[Dirty Socialist]

109. That's real bad

I bet you had to dig deep for that one!

[Brainfodder]

56. "Loving You" and "Hey There Lonely Girl"?

Minnie Ripperton
Eddie Holman

I know someone who can't stand those to the point of screaming turn it off/stop singing that!

[Enter stage left]

58. Did you girls & guys forget 'Ahab the Arab' & "The lion sleeps tonight"?

[Archae]

59. Any recording of Florence Jenkins!

&ab_channel=HappyApostate

[Enter stage left]

61. C'mon people...no one has called out the "Chipmunk song?...

get your sh*t together.

[scipan]

115. I second this. Alvin? Alvin? ALVIN!!!

[bedazzled]

128. I think Dave is a chipmunk abuser

Call the aspca!

[GReedDiamond]

62. Whistling Jack Smith - "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" (1967)

I advise you NOT to click on the link and actually play the video.

You have been warned.

Plus, anything by the Shaggs, such as "My Pal Foot Foot":

ON EDIT:

I'd like to add "Screw My Head" by one of my bands, Marshall Oboy & The Well Hungarians.

Lead singer Marshall was a gay porn star.

He was also known as "David Bowie's Singing Soundman" when he toured with Bowie and stood in at soundchecks as Bowie in place of The David.

Anyway, I was the drummer on this ditty, and I could hear this on a loop for only so long before I would crack, or smoke crack, or something:

[Enter stage left]

68. Oooooo Kaaaay... you're in the running for the WORST song ever...

CONGRATULATIONS...LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!

[GReedDiamond]

70. Thank me, you're welcome...

...already in the low-end of the live-long range, still waiting to prosper.

Plus, I warned you NOT to listen to IT.

[Enter stage left]

71. Yes you did...I should have paid attention...my bad.

Uuuhhh, prosper?

[GReedDiamond]

72. No bad intended...

...actually, truth be told, I'm prolly prospering more now than ever, thank goddess.

[Initech]

63. This would clear out the room literally anywhere:

[Enter stage left]

67. Holy yucking *uck...that would clear them out in a few seconds...

GREAT CHOICE!!!

[Tom Rinaldo]

84. Elusive Butterfly by Bob Lind.

We once used it as a fundraiser. Wouldn't stop singing it until we collected enough money

[cbabe]

64. Itsy tiny weeny yellow polka dot bikini and

Lola l o l a Lola

[Enter stage left]

66. Be careful here, you're starting to arouse me....it's been a long time....thanks.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

65. I was thinking some real bad gospel music played at 120 decibels.

The kind we use down in the country to drive snakes off the farm.

KY......

[Enter stage left]

69. Or gospel music played at 50 decibels, would drive me off the farm....or earth.

[Coventina]

96. Drop Kick Me Jesus, through the Goalposts of Life!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

116. That's a good one, Coventina. I would throw in "Jesus, Take the Wheel"....

made popular by Carrie Underwood and maybe "Why Me" by Kristofferson.

In the case of these truckers in Canada, one could say Justin has taken the wheel.....

I'm still a fan of Bobby Bare who like Kristofferson and Tom T. Hall, is quite a teller of real life stories......

[GaYellowDawg]

73. Alvin and the Chipmunks

Every album. Over and over.

[Enter stage left]

74. 13 thumbs up

[Buns_of_Fire]

75. This thread is better than ipecac!

[BluesRunTheGame]

76. Walk Right In

[Raine]

77. Do the Hokey Pokey 😵 nt

[Wicked Blue]

78. Call it the DU Official Offensive Playlist

Who knows, maybe the DOD will buy it

[sl8]

79. Yes, I'm sure that Ottawa residents would welcome even more noise. n/t

[Norbert]

80. Proof that the Beatles are human

My favorite band of all time but they had teo obvious goofs.

John should have told Yoko to stick to poetry:

Submitted without comment:

Both would drive anybody crazy.

[Dirty Socialist]

97. Number Nine

Number Nine
Number Nine
Number Nine
Number Nine
Number Nine

[thucythucy]

117. "You Know My Name" is hilarious.

And that's Brian Jones on saxophone!

[krispos42]

81. Force multiplier:

Randomly change the speed at which the songs play while being played. Randomly skip ahead or behind by one second.

Not only do the songs suck but mess up their rhythm so they can't recede into the background!

[Kid Berwyn]

83. Yummy Yummy Yummy, I Got Love in My Tummy

I think the band is, The 1910 Fruitgum Co.

I’d post a YouTube link, but it keeps crashing my iPad.

Trust me, it is spectacularly nauseating.

[CTyankee]

87. My kids used to sing it "Yummy, yummy, yummy I got love in my stomach"

They were little. They had an excuse, but I loved it! We also sang "Here Comes the Sun" in the car when that song came on.

[Kid Berwyn]

107. Thank you for sharing the happy memories!

Thanks also for your generosity and kindness. Please know you have made the greatest light shine into my heart.

[CTyankee]

114. Thanks you so much!

[lefthandedskyhook]

85. i like those songs

.

[AngryOldDem]

88. Hey, I like some of these songs....

Why do they hate Barry Manilow?

Others, though, most definitely; anything disco especially.


EDIT — How about Convoy by C.W. McCall? Hearing that on an endless loop would send the most diehard protester around the bend.

[MineralMan]

89. You can't beat Slim Whitman songs for such purposes.

If it can explode Martian heads, it should work to run off some random truckers.

[Dirty Socialist]

90. Lollipop (1957)

And anything by Yoko Ono

[Dirty Socialist]

92. Winchester Cathedral

That will break them down

[Dirty Socialist]

93. Metal machine music

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By Lou Reed. All. Four. Sides.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrC5pYiQwli0nkA2QK3mWRH;_ylu=c2VjA3NyBHNsawN2aWQEdnRpZAMEZ3BvcwMx?p=metal+machine+music+lou+reed&vid=4874946b6efdaac188d19eb64b335344&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOVP.nJcWKQACv4oMLJjBwZ2yPQHgFo%26pid%3DApi%26h%3D150%26w%3D250%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPB1cEyy0fKs&tit=Metal+Machine+Music+-+Lou+Reed+%281975%29+%28Full+Album%29&c=0&h=150&w=250&l=3697&sigr=okemYEdZDvgw&sigt=MxVhjLRpCpmT&sigi=ADhqmxI6cqoo&age=1535961933&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yfp-hrmob-s&tt=b

[Dirty Socialist]

95. Anything by Phillip Glass

“I confess!”

[Mr. Ected]

99. Another vote for Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast by Wayne Newton

The Way We Were - Streisand

You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone

Precious and Few by Climax

I might choose capital punishment over hearing those songs on a loop.

[tishaLA]

129. Th Way We Were?!

BITE YOUR TONGUE!

[Wingus Dingus]

100. I've got a brand new pair of roller skates...(Brand New Key)

[shrike3]

103. Sorry, I like Barry Manilow.

Though I wouldn't want to hear him on a continuous loop.

[Dial H For Hero]

106. I sense a great deal of hostility towards novelty songs in this thread..

[highplainsdem]

110. That's because the novelty usually wore off by the second listen.

And it usually wasn't enough of a novelty to make the first listen less painful, given how bad most of those songs were.

"Werewolves of London" was a novelty song, but you won't see it recommended as music to drive people away. It was much much better than any other novelty song I can think of...though Warren Zevon never expected it to be a hit and got really tired of it:

https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-secret-inspiration-behind-warren-zevons-werewolves-of-london-4a5fa337a7f1

[Dial H For Hero]

111. I used to listen to Doctor Demento while sorting mail every Sunday night.

My tolerance for novelty songs is rather high.

[cbabe]

112. One eyed one horned flying purple people eater

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You say any disco, I counter with any and all rap. Or as a friend calls it: war drums music.

And the Alphabet song. Sing songy version maybe by the cars for kids singers on repeat over and over.

I could play this game forever. Thanks!

Edit: ps, most worse disco ever is Cher’s Believe But ABBA gets a break cause I like them.

Edit 2: country In the Pines and Mule Skinner Blues. Even Dolly Parton couldn’t rescue them.

[Leith]

113. I like most of the songs listed

but then, I grew up listening to Doctor Demento and K-Tel records.

Here are a few more songs to add to the list:

[Deep State Witch]

120. Nah

Just play rap music. THAT will annoy them!

[PlanetBev]

121. I have never laughed so hard at DU thread

You guys kill me. These were all the songs in my youth that made me want to put a plastic bag with duct tape around my head.

“Afternoon Delight” by the Starland Vocal Band might be the worst.

[Enter stage left]

123. So glad you enjoyed it, seems like a lot of others did too...

We all need to laugh & unwind occasionally.

[PlanetBev]

122. Just thought of another one

“Snoopy and the Red Baron.” Circa 1966.

[Tommy Carcetti]

125. "Down with the Sickness" by Disturbed.

It's both apt in title, and also excruciating to listen to just in general.

[tishaLA]

126. Seasons of Love from Rent

It's a fine song, but hearing it on a loop, hour after hour, would drive even the show's biggest fans insane.

525, 600 minutes,
525, 000 moments so dear.
525, 600 minutes -
How do you measure, measure a year?

That number would bore into their skulls until they scattered.

[bedazzled]

127. Christmas shoes

Inhumane warfare