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HughBeaumont

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36. Barenaked Ladies.

Fri Aug 24, 2012, 01:05 PM

Aug 2012

They just get more and more excruciating with each forced listen (they're a Muzak favorite). I hate their songs . . . HATE them. There is no middle ground and no "dislike". I HATE THEM. Every single one. Fucking weak-ass whitebread, khaki-and-Birkenstocks, radio whore bullshit. "If I Had A Million Dollars", I'd drop them in a running helicopter blade. "One Week" should be incinerated and buried. Same with "Brian Wilson", "Pinch Me" and every other musical torture device that band jacks out. That Christmas Carol with Sarah McLachlchlchlchlan makes me want to punt Steven Page's balls in. GOD they fucking suck.

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