Hate Pit Jukebox!

[TL]

Nothing drives me nuts more than Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime."

Hell Yeah!  Nothing turns a White Christmas into a Brown Christmas like that one! 

I'm into it.
I think it's a pretty interesting song - it makes a little more sense if you try and picture the heaps of cocaine they must have had around the recording studio while you're listening to it.
(Should you chose to bother, that is - I wouldn't blame you if you didn't.)

[Sarah]

"Sweet Home Alabama" is bad in the larger sense, as an example of hateful good-old-boy regionalism.  "Free Bird" is a sentimental paean to a man's right to be an irresponsible asshole, and I'm more angry at it because I found the tune inoffensively pretty for years and then noticed what sexist drivel it accompanied.  I do not expect others to share my rage at this one, any more than I think you should despise "Dominique" as much as I do.  They just both happen to be in my musical hate pit.

[Turf Out]

"Sweet Home Alabama" is bad in the larger sense, as an example of hateful good-old-boy regionalism.  "Free Bird" is a sentimental paean to a man's right to be an irresponsible asshole, and I'm more angry at it because I found the tune inoffensively pretty for years and then noticed what sexist drivel it accompanied.  I do not expect others to share my rage at this one, any more than I think you should despise "Dominique" as much as I do.  They just both happen to be in my musical hate pit.

I'll share in any Lynyrd Skynyrd rage!! 

[Forrest]

I'm going to go ahead and throw the entire calendar year 1997 into my Hate Pit. From my research, no other year has provided as full a list of utterly unlistenable hits. Take a look:

Aqua, Barbie Girl
Chumbawumba, Tubthumping
Sugar Ray, Fly
Jimmy Ray, Are You Jimmy Ray?
Los Del Rio, Macarena
Elton John, Candle in the Wind '97
Toni Braxton, Unbreak My Heart
Spice Girls, Wannabe
LeAnn Rimes, How Do I Live
Hanson, MMMBop
Third Eye Blind, Semi-Charmed Life
Meredith Brooks, Bitch
The Verve Pipe, The Freshman
Savage Garden, I Want You
Sister Hazel, All For You
Paula Cole, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
Shawn Colvin, Sunny Came Home
Celine Dion, It's All Coming Back To Me Now
Sheryl Crow, If It Makes You Happy
Sheryl Crow, Every Day Is A Winding Road
Sarah McLaughlin, Building A Mystery
Donna Lewis, I Love You Always Forever
Eric Clapton & Babyface, Change The World

You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.

[Sarah]

Me, I have a soft spot for "Tubthumping."

Why is Matchbox 20 absent from your list, Forrest?

[AaronC]

in my hatepit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20[/youtube]

[Forrest]

Me, I have a soft spot for "Tubthumping."

Why is Matchbox 20 absent from your list, Forrest?

Because I wasn't compiling a list of bands that kick fucking ass!

[Sarah]

It's 1997 all the way, though, so . . .

P.S.  I'm pretty sure I know where your tongue was when you typed your response, just in case you're marveling at my literalness.

[emma]

Toni Braxton, Unbreak My Heart
Paula Cole, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
Shawn Colvin, Sunny Came Home
Sheryl Crow, If It Makes You Happy
Sarah McLaughlin, Building A Mystery
Donna Lewis, I Love You Always Forever

I'm pretty sure all of these songs were on a Women And Songs tape my mom played consistently in the car when I was like six or seven.

Urgh.

[Forrest]

Actually, I thought that "Third Eye Blind" was a catchall phrase that meant Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, and  Eve 6. 

[TL]

Actually, I thought that "Third Eye Blind" was a catchall phrase that meant Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, and  Eve 6. 

Sorry to bring up my own band stuff here, but I have to share the fact that we're playing at Northwestern U. on May 31 with...  wait for it...  THIRD EYE BLIND!!  They're still a band, apparently.
Get psyched!! 
How did this summer end up with so much 90s crumminess for me?
(Oh that's right - because I said "yes.")
 

[Sarah]

Blind Matchbox 6?

[Dan B]

That LFO song is awesome.

 "You love hip hop and rock n roll
Dad took off when you were 4 years old
There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby when you're near"

"Stayed all summer then went back home,
Macauly Culkin was in Home Alone
Fell deep in love,but now we ain't speaking
Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton"

[Gregory]

in my hatepit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20[/youtube]

I went to grade school with the cousin of one of those goofballs so LFO fever was running particularly hot where I lived. It sucked.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

That LFO song is awesome.

 "You love hip hop and rock n roll
Dad took off when you were 4 years old
There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby when you're near"

"Stayed all summer then went back home,
Macauly Culkin was in Home Alone
Fell deep in love,but now we ain't speaking
Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton"

oh brother, faux rap lyrics that have nothing to do with each other.  nonsensical rhyming for the sad sake of rhyming!