Hey! I just noticed that the vocal sample saying "Tina Turner" in the background of that Fatboy Slim song named after Michael Jackson (starts around 3:40) is totally from the same batshit anti-pop religious rant Mylo sampled for "Destroy Rock'n'Roll":

Listening to Smoke and Fire's "California's Burning" (over and over and over again) got me thinking—there sure are a lot of punk and rock songs about wanting to destroy the Golden State. Sink it, burn it down, whatever. Punk rock hates California.

"Wake up, grab your bags. California's burning to the ground.... Burn it down! Burn it down!" - Smoke or Fire, "California's Burning"

"I wish California, without any warning, would go and start a burning tonight/I wish California would fall in the ocean and everyone would die." - Blatz, "California"

"California sucks, just look who you've produced/Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown and countless other fools/West Coast sun-tanned morons, you don't know how to think/I can't wait 'til your state erodes and you fall into the drink." - Screeching Weasel, "California Sucks"

"So with no evacuation, let California fall into the fucking ocean!" - Rancid, "Antennas"

"I'm getting higher, I think I'll start a forest fire/There's a forest fire climbin the hill/Burning wealthy California homes/Better run run run run run run from the fire." - Dead Kennedys, "Forest Fire"

Perhaps the backlash is because everyone's sick and tired of hearing about how great California is?

"We’re all so sick of California songs/Yeah we know you love L.A./But there’s nothing left to say/Please no more California songs/And fuck New York too." - Local H, "California Songs"

What are some others? If we could get a half dozen or so more, this could make for a pretty great West Coast road trip mix...

I'm working on a piece about Marc Bamuthi Joseph's hiphop theater piece The Break/s—opening next week at ACT Theatre—and last night while I was making dinner, I put on some Kurtis Blow, to reconnect with the play's kinda-namesake, which also happens to be one of the greatest songs ever made. (I hate it when Ma Bell sends me a whopping bill with 18 phone calls to Brazil, and I'm glad someone addressed this in song. Also, the first 16 seconds alone guarantee the track's stature as an eternal classic.)

But this post isn't about "The Breaks," but the Kurtis Blow track that came up right after: "Basketball," which I was enjoying until my guy Jake came in the kitchen with this squicked-out look on his face. Upon questioning, Jake revealed that the song had been the theme for a local station's sports broadcast during his childhood, and that the female-vocal hook line—"We're playin' BAS...KET...Bawlllll..."—has always made him sick. "I don't mean I hate the song so much I want to puke," Jake explained. "I mean the sound of the song literally makes me queasy." (Interested parties can hear the squick-making sounds of "Basketball" here.)

What's more, this isn't the first song that's been semi-banned from audible-by-Jake broadcast—the squishy wet synth beats of the Magnetic Fields' "Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long" also have the weird power to turn his stomach, and are forbidden.

I understand and empathize, as there are certainly tracks that squick me out—most recently, a couple of intros or outros or whatever on Lil Wayne's Da Drought 3, where he delivers information with what sounds like a jawbreaker in his mouth, which he sucks and slurps and clacks around his mouth while he speaks. SQUIIIIIIIIICK! (Also, the Beatles' "Don't Pass Me By," whose puke-inducing qualities are underscored by its status as the worst song the Beatles ever put their collective name on.)

And now we turn to you, dear readers: What songs make you literally want to puke?

Can you name the song in the Away We Go trailer? Not the Alexi Murdoch one, but the other one.

If you know it, Kate in Questionland would love to hear from you!