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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFriday thread the first: Great songs you shouldn't listen to more than once a year
There are those classic songs that for one reason or another, you shouldn't listen to more than once a year.
"I will always love you" by Whitney Houston. Kind of obvious. Whitney owns this song, but the genre it spawned with singing "stylists" interminably drawing out words and notes causes eye-rolling rage.
"Bridge over troubled water" by Simon and Garfunkel. Beautiful song with great lyrics, building slowly to a crescendo. Dominated by a deceptively simple piano score and the clear voice of Art Garfunkel. Once you've listened to it, though, you're good until next year.
Others?
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's coming on time to listen again, since the song mentions Thanksgiving.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)But only because it is 363 days long
Sanders 2016
Capt.Rocky300
(1,005 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)or maybe not
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)14 minutes of a single 3-chord progression, which would make for a hypnotic groove, except they've got the gain cranked up to 11 on every single instrument. Every once in a while, Lou Reed checks in to tell some incomprehensible story about some amphetamine-fueled orgy. All in all, it's pretty awesome, but also goddamn abrasive and draining.
Capt.Rocky300
(1,005 posts)Rare Earth of course.