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May 10, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
With sara
the weather might be good...but the music is AWFUL
today we're playing music from across the decades considered the worst of all time. for your listening enjoyment <3
| 10:00 AM |
| Rihanna Umbrella (feat. JAY Z) Rihanna Don't Stop the Music - EP Def Jam Recordings 2007
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| 10:07 AM |
| Buika A Mi Manera Buika Mi Niña Lola
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| 10:12 AM |
| Bruce Hornsby Song F Bruce Hornsby The Essential Bruce Hornsby
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| 10:16 AM |
| Otis G Johnson Come Back Otis G Johnson Everything - God Is Love 78 Holy Spirit 1978
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| 10:19 AM |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Boring Angel Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven
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| 10:24 AM |
| Rian Treanor Obstacle 3 Rian Treanor Obstacle Scattering - EP
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| 10:30 AM |
Set Break:
set break!
We will now be exploring some of the "worst songs of all time", starting with a couple of classical numbers! | |
| 10:35 AM |
| Hector Berlioz, London Symphony Orchestra Benvenuto Cellini, Op. 23, H76, Act 1: Overture Hector Berlioz Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
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| 10:45 AM |
| Edgard Varèse Déserts Edgard Varèse Varèse: Arcana/Integrales/Deserts
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| 11:00 AM |
Set Break:
yay
Let us now explore some songs that were awfully received, but they are not classical music pieces. Fun! | |
| 11:05 AM |
| The Shaggs Philosophy of the World The Shaggs Philosophy of the World The Shaggs are notable for their perceived ineptitude at playing conventional rock music; they were described in one Rolling Stone article as "sounding like lobotomized Trapp Family singers".
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| 11:09 AM |
| Paul Anka (You're) Having My Baby (feat. Odia Coates) Paul Anka Anka Capitol Records 2011 1978, Anka opened Jubilation, a restaurant and club considered one of the first modern-era nightclubs in Las Vegas; County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani was its first female bartender. His parents were both of Lebanese Christian descent. His father came to America from Bab Tuma in Damascus, Syria, and his mother was an immigrant from Lebanon.
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| 11:13 AM |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music, Pt. 4 Lou Reed The RCA & Arista Album Collection RCA/Legacy 1972 The language of the Star Trek aliens known as the Breen was inspired by Metal Machine Music, which the post-production sound staff were instructed to listen to when creating the electronic cackle that served as the Breen's voices.
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| 11:32 AM |
| Richard Harris MacArthur Park Richard Harris A Tramp Shining "MacArthur Park" was written and composed by Jimmy Webb in the summer and fall of 1967 as part of an intended cantata. Webb brought the entire cantata to the Association, but the group rejected it. The inspiration for the song was his relationship and breakup with Susie Horton. MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles, was where the couple would occasionally meet for lunch and spent their most enjoyable times together.At that time (the middle of 1965), Horton worked for Aetna insurance, whose offices were across the street from the park.
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| 11:39 AM |
| The Beatles Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da The Beatles The Beatles (The White Album) In 2012, the NME's website editor, Luke Lewis, argued that the Beatles had recorded "a surprising amount of ropy old toss", and singled out "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" as "the least convincing cod-reggae skanking this side of the QI theme tune".
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| 11:43 AM |
| Kevin Federline Popozão Kevin Federline Popozão - EP Federline appeared on WWE programming to promote his album, Playing with Fire (on which Popozão is not included due to its poor reception), and participate in an angle. He first appeared on the October 16, 2006, and October 23, 2006, editions of WWE Raw, in which he got into physical altercations with WWE Champion John Cena. The following week, he came to the ring to aid Johnny Nitro in his match against John Cena. After Cena got in Federline's face, Federline slapped him hard. He appeared again during the November 5, 2006, pay-per-view event Cyber Sunday, hitting Cena with King Booker's World Heavyweight Championship belt and helping Booker win the Champion of Champions match that was organized between Cena, Booker, and Big Show. The next night, November 6, 2006, he challenged Cena to a match at the New Year's Day edition of Raw, which Cena accepted. |
| 11:47 AM |
| The Enemy 1-2-3-4 The Enemy Streets in the Sky Cooking Vinyl 2012
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| 11:51 AM |
| The Legendary Stardust Cowboy Paralyzed The Legendary Stardust Cowboy For Sarah, Raquel and David: An Anthology In 1973, NASA used the song to wake up members of its space crew. The crew was allegedly so distracted from the shock over the course of the day that NASA forbade the use of the song for that purpose ever again, effectively banning the song from space.
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| 11:53 AM |
| Black Lace Agadoo Black Lace Greatest Hits In a poll for Q magazine in 2003, a panel of music writers voted "Agadoo" as the worst song of all time, saying: "It sounded like the school disco you were forced to attend, your middle-aged relatives forming a conga at a wedding party, a travelling DJ act based in Wolverhampton, every party cliche you ever heard."
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| 11:55 AM |
Set Break:
Billy Ray Cyrus Interview.
I don't know it's simply for your listening pleasure. | |
| 11:57 AM |
| Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus Some Gave All Somehow Billy Ray Cyrus has 16 studio albums?
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