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SONG NAME: THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN'
ARTIST: NANCY SINATRA
SELECTED BY: BANCY BABY – SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA
COMMENT: “Wasn't it played just one million times too many? Well, I heard it at least one time too many, many artists have covered it too. Btw I’m using a alias to protect my real identity from the NSA/CIA torturing me with it for hating George Bush, signed: Bancy Baby”

SONG NAME: HONEY
ARTIST: BOBBY GOLDSBORO
SELECTED BY: SUSAN ROGERS
COMMENT: “I can't stand the song Honey by Bobby Goldsboro, this song defines the word insipid. Just rhyming "what the heck" and "hugged my neck" gives you a clue.”

plus a second comment for the same song from:
SELECTED BY: SUSAN LEWIS – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: While there are beautiful songs about tragic young death ("Tell Laura I Love Her" "Teen Angel" "Last Kiss") "Honey" is just too syrupy and schmaltzy -- especially the "ooo-ooos" of the angel chorus.

SONG NAME: Muskrat Love
ARTIST: AMERICA
SELECTED BY: ANONYMOUS
COMMENT: “I have always thought this was awful. Then a few years ago I made it doubly awful. I was visiting friends in Colorado, a couple. For some reason we were talking about things that annoyed us, and I said this was the worst-sounding and stupidest song I could imagine. Oh NO! They told me it was "their song." This did not do good things for our friendship. Muskrat Susie and Muskrat Sam thought I was mean and insensitive, and I was horrified at their bad taste. Their real names were Kathy and John. I still can't fathom it.”

SONG NAME: Get Back
ARTIST: THE BEATLES - JOHN LENNON & PAUL MCCARTNEY
SLECTED BY: LEN GORSKY – GRASS VALLEY, CA
COMMENT: “This is one of those end of career/album filler type 3 chord throwaways. my sweetie and i had the extreme pleasure of walking out on Elton John while he fought his way thru this moronic 'tune' back in 1970.
I've always been a believer that the song writer(s) should get credit/discredit. just my opinion”

SONG NAME: MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA
ARTIST: INDIGO GIRLS & ANNI DIFRANCO
SELECTED BY: TY SMITH – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: “I actually heard it here on our own Kveemar and thought it was an Saturday Night Live skit for a second...Hell yeah say my name, LOUD! Sometimes --I DARE TO BE, NOT PC...”

SONG NAME: RING MY BELL
ARTIST: ANITA WARD
SELECTED BY: MORGAN FISHER – JAPAN
COMMENT: “A mindless sub-disco piece of bilge that is so mind-numbingly catchy that once it is in my head, it *won't go away* !!”

SONG NAME: BARBIE GIRL
ARTIST: AQUA
SELECTED BY: JULIA HARPER
COMMENT: “Brings back memories of 5th grade, when my entire class was obsessed with this song. They made up a dance to go with it, and even the boys joined in. Oh, the horror...”

SONG NAME: BAD MOON RISING
ARTIST: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
SLECTED BY: J VAN DIJK - DOWNTOWN GRASS VALLEY, CA
COMMENT: “Actually anything by Creedence, but "Bad moon Rising" gives me pain. Too much of it early in my Junior High life, I guess kinda like getting sick on a food and never being able to taste it ever again.”

SONG NAME: WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN
ARTIST: MICHAEL BOLTON
SELECTED BY: ALFRED E. NEWMAN – SYRACUSE FLORIDA
COMMENT: “I first saw Jim Carey doing a lip sync of this song on the old 80’s Living Color show where his head blew up while singing one of the high notes, and I have to say my, my how apropos that was, as the syrupy pretentious production of this once great song as done by Mr. Blowhard just make me retch!”

SONG NAME: OLD MAN
ARTIST: NEIL YOUNG
SELECTED BY: CHRIS TOWNE – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: “Whenever I hear Neil Young sing "Old Man" it makes my skin crawl, like fingernails on a chalkboard. I know this smacks the face of popular convention of those in my demographic, but I would rather hear "McArther Park" by Richard Harris than damn near anything by Mr. Young.....just my opinion”

SONG NAME: STAYIN ALIVE
ARTIST: THE BEE GEES
SELECTED BY: WILLIAM MONSATIO – NASHVILLE TN
COMMENT: “The age of disco, glitter and glam made me want to run away and hide, I geez oh man mean it looked like the whole world had gone stark raving mad! Then Travolta and the Bee Gees did that Saturday Night Fever thing and I began to wonder if there was ever gonna be a reason to wanna be alive again!”

SONG NAME: SOMETHING STUPID
ARTIST: ROBBIE WILLIAMS AND NICOLE KIDMAN
SELECTED BY: JOHN RUMSEY – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: “The title says it all, insipid lyrics with a syrupy melody and two voices that don't harmonize well at all. So bad that they had to bring it back - Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman had a big European hit with it recently.”

SONG NAME: SPACE COWBOY
ARTIST: STEVE MILLER BAND
SELECTED BY: SUSAN KANE
COMMENT: “During spring semester of my sophomore year of college I woke to the sound of Steve Miler's *Space Cowboy every morning for sixteen weeks. *Yeah, my roommate (and not by choice but necessity) was stuck in a serious rut.”

SONG NAME: JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROG
ARTIST: THREE DOG NIGHT
SELECTED BY: BARBARA BAZAN
COMMENT: “I love lots of rock music, play some Stones, Beatles, Hendrix, Cream and I’m happy. Play Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog with its inane lyrics and unrelenting stridency and I’m outta there!”

SONG NAME: TIE A YELLOW RIBBON
ARTIST: TONY ORLANDO & DAWN
SELECTED BY: KATIE GOLOBIC
COMMENT: “Irritating song when it came out. And now when I see huge SUVs with yellow ribbons, I feel nauseous. Let's support our troops by bringing them home.”

SONG NAME: THE PUKATAWAGAN SONG
ARTIST: SIDNEY CASTEL
SELECTED BY: SPIKE ALLAN RUNNING DEER WHO DREAMS – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: Spike chose this one and just handed me the entire CD and said: “Pick any song, they all suck really, really badly!”

SONG NAME: PACHELBEL'S CANON
ARTIST: UNKNOWN
SELECTED BY: JUDITH HILL – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: “Any version at all! This piece of music has been tortured and twisted in so many directions and played so many times it now turns my stomach to hear it. If we didn't play it for 100 years or so, I think I might be able to enjoy it again.”

SONG NAME: KEEP ON LOVING YOU
ARTIST: REO SPEEDWAGON
SELECTED BY: SIERRA SONG – NEVADA COUNTY, CA
COMMENT: “A high school boyfriend declared it 'our song' after about two months.... turned out to be the controlling/jealous type.... lasted about five months (plus a few years of 'stalking' - calling in the middle of the night and sending letters with atrocious spelling errors). Subsequently, I can't stand anything by REO Speedwagon...”

SONG NAME: MUSKRAT LOVE
ARTIST: THE CAPTAIN AND TOENAIL (NO NO NO.. IT’S TENNILLE, OF COURSE)
SLECTED BY: LORRAINE GERVAIS – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: “Disneyesque rodent humping music. Cloyingly sappy melody, cheeseball lyrics, and mediocre use of a rhodes piano. But when the synth comes in with fake Muskrat love squeals- I lose it every time.”

SONG NAME: BILLY DON'T BE A HERO
ARTIST: PAPER LACE
SELECTED BY: KRISTIN STEINDORFF – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: “I remember the first time I heard this song. I was sitting in the school bus on my way to high school; and before the song was half finished I figured Billy was going to be a hero and die. This song should have died with him, but of course instead it became a big hit.”

SONG NAME: I KEEP FORGETTIN’
ARTIST: MICHAEL MCDONALD
SLECTED BY: MIKE – FORESTHILL, CA
COMMENT: “Basically anything by Michael McDonald, but the one that stands out is “I Keep Forgettin'”. This man should have his vocal cords removed. He sounds like a shop appliance gone wrong!”

SONG NAME: CANDYMAN
ARTIST: SAMMY DAVIS JR.
SELECTED BY: ALTOVISE MAY FALANA – LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
COMMENT: “Candyman is probably the worst. Although Sammy Davis Jr. was not whining when he sang it, I always made it seem like he was in my mind. The song was too happy, and I didn't give a rip about the candyman and his exploits. It replayed in my mind like "It's A Small world". Yuck!”

SONG NAME: WARRIORBABE
ARTIST: VICKI HANNAH LEIN
SELECTED BY: SHYLA – HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE
COMMENT: Its dorkie enough to scream along with uncivilized like Tarzan just satisfied her oral gratification, all she’s missing is Quest For Fire grunts, which btw is the worst movie ever!

SONG NAME: HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW
ARTIST: DORIS DAY
SELECTED BY: CHINA ROBERSON – NEVADA CITY, CA
COMMENT: “The first time I heard this at the tender age of 9 I thought it was a swell song sung by Doris Day, America’s favorite sweetheart. I then encountered an annoying step-sibling who played it over & over, day and night when I first met her, it was then that I realized the 60’s would never be the same, thank God for the Beatles!”

SONG NAME: I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ME
ARTIST: CHARLENE
SELECTED BY: JERRY BRADY – TOKYO JAPAN
COMMENT: “Horrible, limpid lyrics set to a melody played on a rinky-tink piano. The wispy, high pitched chorus causes me to wretch and play any Blues tune I Have at hand as an antidote.”

SONG NAME: JACK AND DIANE
ARTIST: JOHN (COUGAR) MELLENCAMP
SELECTED BY: DOT QUAID – NASCAR AFICIONADO
COMMENT: “A little ditty - as opposed to P-Ditty? - lame lyrics, lame melody, couldn't stand it the first time I heard it, makes me want to gag every time I hear it now - definitely does not "Hurt So Good".”

SONG NAME: SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH
ARTIST: DAN HILL
SELECTED BY: MR. RICHIE UNTERBERGER – ANYWHERE USA
COMMENT: “(Rod Stewart did it too - HOW COULD HE!!) Grovelling bleccchh by a so-called "sensitive" artist. Paper bag please.”

SONG NAME: A LITTLE BIT OF SOUL
ARTIST: THE MUSIC EXPLOSION
SELECTED BY: ELEANORE MACDONALD – PENN VALLEY, CA
COMMENT: “This bit of bubble gum will forever remind me of being a clumsy California teenager in hot and sticky Galion, Ohio.... in troubled times... Kent State, friends coming home from war closer to dead than alive and a stinky, drunken Jamie Lyons' (the singer of the song) stuck his very undesirable tongue down my throat. Rock and Roll star 'entitlement' during the summer of love....”

SONG NAME: MILITARY MARCHES
ARTIST: JOHN PHILLIPS SOUSA
SELECTED BY: JANE HARRISON-WILLIAMS – NEVADA CITY CA
COMMENT: “Pick any march by John Phillips Sousa and you’ll find me blowing chunks and looking for a barf bag. To me, Souza’s music has the same effect as attending a John Birch Society Sunday soiree’ – over-the-top patriotic and goody two shoes. *NOT!*”

SONG NAME: EVERLASTING LOVE
ARTIST: KENNY G
SELECTED BY: MARY TENDALL – NEVADA CITY VIA THE JUNGLES OF ECUADOR
COMMENT: “From restaurants near the erupting volcano in Costa Rico, to the airports in North, Central and South America, and Europe, to a boutique in Thailand, Kenny G's powerful viral spread rules!”

SONG NAME: LOUIE LOUIE
ARTIST: THE KINGSMEN
SELECTED BY: MR. CHARLES HOLLINGSHEAD – SACRAMENTO, CA
COMMENT: “any version will do! Louie Louie, that song I cannot stand! Why? It’s the idiots anthem of the early 60’s! Its moronic, unintelligent and it stinks, thank you. You can quote me please do! On the air and anywhere else too!”

SONG NAME: THE COLONEL BOGEY MARCH
ARTIST: THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
SELECTED BY: PAUL CASTRO
COMMENT: “My choice for that one unfortunately was never recorded for posterity, & the dislike is in fact based on presentation not content: It was my older brother playing the Colonel Bogey March on the good old armpit trumpet when I was about 8 years old, He loved it. I didn't."

SONG NAME: EVERGREEN
ARTIST: BARBRA STREISAND
SELECTED BY: ANONYMOUS LISTENER
COMMENT: “The song that should never have been written, from the movie that should never have been made, by the singer who never should have been signed.

SONG NAME: I’M A FOOL TO DO YOUR DIRTY WORK
ARTIST: STEELY DAN
SELECTED BY: MARC CUNIBERTI
COMMENT: “I really hate any Steely Dan, you can choose any one of them.
Sounds like a top 40 crap yet worse to me and I know a lot of people like
them but they make me puke.”

SONG NAME: HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
ARTIST: THE ANIMALS
SELECTED BY: KIM ROGERS
COMMENT: “I just always say, if I ever hear this again, it will be too soon, although I recently heard someone do it live and it was real good (don't remember who, however). Over-saturation.”

SONG NAME: THE "LIME IN THE COCONUT
ARTIST: HARRY NILSSON
SELECTED BY: JOHN PATTERSON
COMMENT: “The Lime in the Coconut song is an insignificant piece of ear candy written by a pretentious musical confectioner. It's just juvenile, repetitive, monotonous, drivel with absolutely no redeeming value.”

SONG NAME: YMCA
ARTIST: THE VILLAGE PEOPLE
SELECTED BY: WESLEY ROBERTSON
COMMENT: “Somehow that song came to represent everything I hated about the disco scene!! I was at a New Years event in SF this year and that song was played and once again everybody ran to dance, I ran to get a drink!!!!

plus a second comment for the same song:
SELECTED BY: KEVIN KORMYLO
COMMENT: “Whenever I visit exotic discos in Hong Kong, Cabo or Bangkok, this song comes on, bringing out the obnoxious Yankee jocks, never realizing what a gay anthem this song is.”

SONG NAME: BABY TALK
ARTIST: JAN & DEAN
SELECTED BY: DAN SCANLIN
COMMENT: “This song drove me turn off AM radio in the early sixties and as a consequence I missed the early Beatles.”

SONG NAME: TAKE A CHANCE ON ME
ARTIST: ABBA
SELECTED BY: MARTHA KUHNS
COMMENT: “This was played at my last birthday party, sparking a highly contentious weekend-long discussion among my friends about whether or not I hated it.”

SONG NAME: HAVIN MY BABY
ARTIST: PAUL ANKA
SELECTED BY: BOB GUBBER
COMMENT: “What a lovely way of sayin how much this song stinks.”

plus a second comment for the same song:
SELECTED BY: SUSAN LEWIS
COMMENT: “It's sappy, sexist and downright icky! And please attribute these comments to me by all means!”

SONG NAME: ACHY BREAKY HEART
ARTIST: BILLY JOE CYRUS
SELECTED BY: LARRY HILLBERG
COMMENT: “It was horrible the first time. For months afterwards, I couldn't escape it, no matter how far I ran from the line dancers. I can still see them, kicking and smiling.”

SONG NAME: AQUARIUS/LET THE SUNSHINE IN
ARTIST: THE 5TH DIMENSION
SELECTED BY: MARK OSTROV
COMMENT: “I always hated "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" . Too much pablum for me- the Archies would have been better.”

SONG NAME: SHE’S A MAN EATER
ARTIST: HALL & OATES
SELECTED BY: RAY BRUNELLE – UPSTATE NEW YORK
COMMENT: “Just for the fact that i don't like the way they look. It bugs me. they look like the Seigfried & Roy of rock music. Especially the little guy, he looks like a combination poodle & toilet seat cover.”

SONG NAME: I HONESTLY LOVE YOU
ARTIST: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
SELECTED BY: LENNY LA RUE – SACRAMENTO CA
COMMENT: “There will never be a song I loathe as much as I Honestly Love You. It’s association: unsuccessfully trying to lose my virginity with a woman pining for me unmercifully.”

SONG NAME: PUPPY LOVE
ARTIST: DONNY OSMOND
SELECTED BY: ANONYMOUS LISTENER
COMMENT: “Many layers of bad junior high memories. It's like "Feelings" (whoever sang that) or "Mandy" by Barry Manilow. Thanks for the cathartic opportunity. Probably better not to mention my name. I would be embarrassed.”

SONG NAME: I DIG ROCK & ROLL MUSIC
ARTIST: PETER PAUL & MARY
SELECTED BY: KLARA VOYANT
COMMENT: “The first two I thought of were *about* rock n'roll, which is fitting because that's about how close the artists will ever get to what r&r is. "I Dig Rock & Roll Music" PPM and "It's Only Rock & Roll To Me," Billy Joel. buaaa. yuck.”

SONG NAME: YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE
ARTIST: DEBBY BOONE
SELECTED BY: ANONYMOUS LISTENER
COMMENT: “(the pyromaniac song) – I dislike this song because the words have been stuck in my head from the first time I heard it-- they won't go away. For me it's worse than It's A Small World.”

plus a second comment for the same song from:
SELECTED BY: TESS CAUVAN SACRAMENTO, CA
COMMENT: “My next door neighbor in college dorm played that song over & over &
over for 3 hours until past midnight when I finally asked her to stop it.”

SONG NAME: WE BUILT THIS CITY
ARTIST: STARSHIP
SELECTED BY: T.E. WOLFE
COMMENT: “Following a trajectory from great band (Jefferson Airplane) to mediocre band (Jefferson Starship) to synthetic dungheap (Starship) and having the unmitigated gall to actually crow about it. soul-less baby-boomer revisionism at its worst.”

SONG NAME: SUSSUDIO
ARTIST: PHIL COLLINS
SELECTED BY: ELISA PARKER
COMMENT: “My husband and I are in agreement that one song we can't stand is Sussudio by Phil Collins...pretty much most of the stuff by Phil is tough on the eardrums.”

SONG NAME: WALKING IN MEMPHIS
ARTIST: MARC COHN
SELECTED BY: KERRY MCLERAN
COMMENT: “I can't stand "Walking In Memphis"... When I hear it, it makes me nauseous. The song makes no sense to me.”

SONG NAME: MY HEART WILL GO ON (the theme song from movie Titanic)
ARTIST: JAMES HORNER & CÉLINE DION
SELECTED BY: JOHN DEADERICK
COMMENT: “Cloying, saccharine, and manipulatively designed by corporate greed to hook the unwary and impose salty tears on flaccid placid cheeks.”

SONG NAME: MATERIAL GIRL
ARTIST: MADONNA
SELECTED BY: SUSAN KLEIN
COMMENT: “Anything by the Carpenters! and the Bread (the dairy)? under the tree!
Having my baby! Niel Sedaka? Madonna (everything she has done) or the Archies. Bread put out some ugly stuff! this concept could go on for ever!!”

SONG NAME: YOU SEXY THING (I Believe In Miracles)
ARTIST: HOT CHOCOLATE
SELECTED BY: RUBY SLIPPERS
COMMENT: What comes to mind first are J J J Jive Talkin' and I Believe in Miracles, don't know who did them, I punched the button on the radio too fast.”

SONG NAME: DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY
ARTIST: BOBBY MCFERRIN
SELECTED BY: 3 LISTENERS – THE MOST REQUESTED SONG SO FAR!
COMMENT: #1: CHRIS HAWTHORNE “When I first heard it on the radio it was cute. The next time I happily sung along with it. The third and forth time I had grown tired of it but was tolerant. But, the insulting onslaught that followed, with the songs ridiculous over-simplified philosophy, and annoying repetitive lyric was enough to drive me away from commercial radio for the final time. I guess I failed the song's deep message. Please do not recite this lyric in my earshot.”

COMMENT: #2: ANONYMOUS LISTENER “I first heard this while barreling down I-5 to see my mother in a hospice My mother is DYING, damn it, and you cheerfully advise me don't worry, be happy"?! (epilogue: I made it just in time to say goodbye. And I worried and was not happy)

COMMENT: #3: Barry Bonifas “In 1977 I took the job of manager of a modern dance company in Salt Lake City, and Bobby McFerrin was our music director. Over the years, I produced four concerts by Bobby at theaters I managed. The last one was in 1990 and featured the world premier of Bobby’s vocal orchestra, “Voicestra”. To open the show, Bobby came out solo singing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”. The Voicestra members came out one by one, wearing trench coats and carrying violin cases. In the middle of the song, they opened their violin cases, pulled out toy machine guns, and gunned Bobby down. That was the last time Bobby McFerrin ever sang “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” in front of an audience, and I was hoping it would also be the last time I ever heard that annoying song, but it just keeps coming back.”

SONG NAME: FEELINGS
ARTIST: JOHNNY MATHIS
SELECTED BY: MICHAEL HILL
COMMENT: “Any singer who has to sing "wo, wo, wo" in such an exposed
ballad is doomed from the start.”

SONG NAME: MACARTHUR PARK
ARTIST: RICHARD HARRIS
SELECTED BY: JOHN PATTERSON
COMMENT: “The "cake in the rain" song (Macarthur Park). Richard Harris had the hit, but way too many others took a whack at it. Probably enough for you to do a whole show of just the different interpretations of it. What was Jimmy Webb thinking?”

SONG NAME: STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
ARTIST: LED ZEPPELIN
SELECTED BY: G#
COMMENT: Because it is a lame song and for about 3 years in the 70s I could not go anywhere without hearing it.”

MUSIC I CAN'T STAND PART 3 IS NOT YET SCHEDULED TO AIR
MORE INFO WILL BE POSTED WHEN I HAVE A FIRM DATE

To get your request into the next show please send an email to: tos@kvmr.org, and be sure to include the song name & artist who performed the version you want played, 30 words or less (or more if you feel its important) as to why you chose it, and finally whether or not you want your name mentioned on the air.