http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2009/06/11/squick-songs Comments On: Squick Songs by David Schmader en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:15:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
(Not that I shouldn't have seen it coming.)

Mine is the opening chimes to NPR's "All Things Considered." You know, that fifteen-note chime? Dum-DUM-dum-dum, dum-DUM-dum-dum. DUM-dum-DUM-dum dum-Dum-DUM! I love "All Things Considered," but years of growing up, listening to "All Things Considered" in the back of the car, busy getting carsick, has developed a pretty visceral gag reflex when the show plays those chimes.
Posted by Christin]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:02:46 -0700 The Stranger Posted by SurrealMcCoy]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:45:16 -0700 The Stranger #2 Mickey (1982 Tony Basil)
Posted by MarkyMark]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:56:35 -0700 The Stranger
Offspring - Pretty Fly for a White Guy (the uh-huh part is also creepy and i also feel disgusting.)
Posted by mae]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:50:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Cecil]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:56:56 -0700 The Stranger
I'll do my best to keep you, keep you sleepy as the south
With my old watch on your wrist
And my thumbs inside your mouth
Suck on my fingertips until you kill all my prints
So your boyfriend has no clue
Of how much I've been touching you

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWBARF!
Posted by ingopixel]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:57:37 -0700 The Stranger
But speaking of Boston: More than 25 years after it was a hit, a song called "Please Come to Boston" by, if I recall correctly, Dave Loggins, still has the power to sicken me.
Posted by Cork]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:00:31 -0700 The Stranger Posted by margotpolo]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:56:22 -0700 The Stranger
Twice, I've been on long trips, falling asleep in the wee hours of morning, while the driver played Tom Waits. There's enough of a pause in the chorus that I could fall asleep for a second and my head would slump. Then I'd be woken up by that horrid voice, "WAAAAltsing Mah-TIIIIL-Dah" and my head would jerk up again.

As a result of that, I become physically sick at the sound of that song. It's sorta like the Ludwig Van in "Clockwork Orange".

Posted by eclexia]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:06:31 -0700 The Stranger Posted by DawginExile]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:03:18 -0700 The Stranger
Took me a second to recall, but definitely a gag reflex.

Once paid a DJ in Mexico to play something else instead:

"OK. Right after." No - showed him the cash "Now."
Posted by DawginExile]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:01:10 -0700 The Stranger
They made us sing "You Light Up My Life" at my 6th grade graduation. I improvised off-color lyrics, the only one of which I can remember is "You give me hope, to shoot dope."

Other audio Ipecac selections for me would include "Jackie Blue" and "Brand New Key."

But yeah, most anything by Billy Joel and Celine Dion would certainly make the list, too.


Posted by Mr. X]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:49:54 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:20:36 -0700 The Stranger
Y/Y/Y/N.
Posted by LaRiiiiM0RrrHAwtiiii696969]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:09:29 -0700 The Stranger Posted by stella]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:26:41 -0700 The Stranger
Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children that might have made me complete
But I took the sweet life, I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet
I've spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free
Hey lady......
I've been to paradise, (I've been to paradise)
But I've never been to me

-hurghhlhgghchhh!
Posted by Irena]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:24:04 -0700 The Stranger enough said.
Posted by montgomery sun]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:18:04 -0700 The Stranger
WTF were they thinking? I don't know if I want to vomit but it's visceral and I certainly want to hit something, usually just the "next" button.

That chorus, that crazy laugh track the falsetto. Unbridled shit, pure and simple.
Posted by Derek]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:16:31 -0700 The Stranger
Granted, I'd feel like a lucky man if I found a woman who liked getting caught in the rain, who's not into yoga, but has half brain, who likes making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape, who's not much in health food, but is into champagne. I just might throw up on her dress when they play this song at our wedding.
Posted by Billy in 4C]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:05:13 -0700 The Stranger Posted by thegeneral]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:50:33 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Lizzy]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:54 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Original Monique]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:20:33 -0700 The Stranger
I Shatter- The one song on the album I've never listened to all the way through. As soon as that too-deep-to-be-human bizarro voice starts signing, I get a weird shudder, go "gaaah!!" and skip to the next track.

Abigail, Belle of Kilronan- I love this song, but the deep, pulsing sounds that are out-of-sync on the left and right make me dizzy trying to listen to it in stereo. It's like having someone talking in your left ear, and another person repeating everything they say, one second delayed, in your right ear.
Posted by Cate B]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:04:32 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Peace Frog]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:01:08 -0700 The Stranger Isn't Anything) has always made me queasy enough to stop listening listening to the record, or at least skip directly to Loveless. The problem with "Cupid Come" (besides the angelic/NAMBLA connotations of the title) is the totally facile and klutzy collision of vocal and guitar melodies during the verses, i.e. what you hear between 00:36 and 00:50, which is repeated many times and SQUIIIICCCCCCK.
Posted by David Schmader]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:58:38 -0700 The Stranger