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I really hate "Imagine" by the Beatles. I especially hate it when people have you "enjoy" it while you wait for them to pick up their bloody phone. In fact, I generally think that's an obnoxious trend. Nobody wants to hear a ten-second snippet of "Don't Stop Believing" repeated umpteen times in a loop every damned time they call a person. I was never a huge fan of that song, but I thought it was all right before I discovered that one in five women in America has it on her cell phone. But this thread isn't about that. It's about "Imagine," and other songs YOU hate.
I hate "Imagine" because, basically, it's a musically mediocre song whose lyrics consist of a British musical group lecturing the whole bloody world on a grotesquely implausible set of solutions to all its problems. Hmm, no possessions, no countries, no God? Did that occur to you while you were freebasing heroin, or when you were posing for pics with some half-naked Indian dude? Maybe doing both at once? You're musicians, nobody cares about your whinging political opinions, and the quality of your music decreased markedly as your willingness to express those opinions grew.
Well, no, some people care, but my experience is that people who like that song are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. For instance, I once read an article about a hunter-gathering tribe still living in Africa the same way their ancestors lived about eight thousand years ago. They owned little, had no knowledge of external politics and only rudimentary spiritual beliefs. Somebody wrote a letter published in the next issue quoting the song and suggesting those people's carefree existence was so much better than ours. Because, you know, we all want a life expectancy of thirty-six or so, and to spend most of our days scrabbling barefoot through mud and thorns to spear a scrawny pig for dinner.
So, what songs do you hate, and why?
I hate "Imagine" because, basically, it's a musically mediocre song whose lyrics consist of a British musical group lecturing the whole bloody world on a grotesquely implausible set of solutions to all its problems. Hmm, no possessions, no countries, no God? Did that occur to you while you were freebasing heroin, or when you were posing for pics with some half-naked Indian dude? Maybe doing both at once? You're musicians, nobody cares about your whinging political opinions, and the quality of your music decreased markedly as your willingness to express those opinions grew.
Well, no, some people care, but my experience is that people who like that song are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. For instance, I once read an article about a hunter-gathering tribe still living in Africa the same way their ancestors lived about eight thousand years ago. They owned little, had no knowledge of external politics and only rudimentary spiritual beliefs. Somebody wrote a letter published in the next issue quoting the song and suggesting those people's carefree existence was so much better than ours. Because, you know, we all want a life expectancy of thirty-six or so, and to spend most of our days scrabbling barefoot through mud and thorns to spear a scrawny pig for dinner.
So, what songs do you hate, and why?
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Hanson... the girls that are brothers. I haven't heard that song in years!
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