This is the thread where we bitch about music we are forced to hear at work. I'll start with how irritating Sonny and Cher are

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If there is a thread along these lines, feel free to point me to it.

Sonny & Cher "The Beat Goes On". What is wrong with the person who wrote this song? It sounds like they had no ideas. You can just feel them trying so hard to write a song, like trying to shit when you're constipated. "Um, let's see...'drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain' - yeah! That'll keep them interested for the next 2 measures or so...and then I'll just finish it off with 'la da da da dee/la da da da da'". This is not brilliant songwriting, folks. This is TV personalities getting credit for bad music by being on TV.

"I've Got You Babe": Should anyone be forced to hear this song every single day? Is there real poetry here? Literary interest? Redeeming value?

Mamas & Papas - "Monday Monday". The lyrics bother me. His lover left him on Monday, that's clear, but then "every other day of the week is fine". So his lover is with him 24-7 for the rest of the week, but leaves him every Monday to be somewhere else? How likely is that, anyway?

What's that guy's name who did Grease? Frankie Valli? Yeah, him. We're talking about some mighty irritating falsetto here: Sheeeeeeeerrrrriiiiiiii Baaaaaaaybeeeeeeeeee. I hear this every single day at work.

What else? Oh I dunno, when I found myself with three different Creedence Clearwater Revival songs in my head when I left work for the week, I knew something was really horribly wrong because I normally can't stand CCR.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 12 June 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Where do you work? What is the nature of your job?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the thread where we predict which poncey Brit bands Strongo will be forced to listen to at work.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 12 June 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

If I'd worked somewhere where they played Sonny and Cher, Frankie Valli, Creedence and the Mamas and the Papas all day, I'd've been a happy happy boy.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 12 June 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do you ask, Alex?

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 12 June 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Just wondering. The music choices sound very specific, ruling out vocations like opthamologist, landscaper and rodeo clown. Just wondering what sort of job plays vintage S&C and the Mama's & the Pappa's. as a point of order.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it's an accounting assistant type job, and the lady I work with insists on keeping the "oldies" radio station on all day. I really don't mind the station at all, as long as they keep things varied enough, which obviously is not always the case. Playlists are weird things and I'm sure the station is owned by some huge corporation and the announcer is not really even in town, etc etc.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

if i have to hear that fecking jason mraz "curbside prophet" one more time i'm going to drop that stereo into the wax melting tank (i make candles -- yeah you heard me).

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

For the record: Sonny & Cher's teeveee show was still a long way off when "The Beat Goes On" was a hit. It is pretty crap, though, despite the groovy bassline: "E-lec-trick-lee they keep a baseball score..."

― briania (briania), Saturday, 12 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ummm i work in a dress shop on the weekends and sometimes they play "so fresh" compilations. the latest one has shannon noll's cover of "what about me" (he's the wally that came 2nd in australian idol). i'm sure you can imagine how torturous this is. at my other work the guy in the next office cubicle loves pan pipe music. if you can call it that.

― gem (trisk), Saturday, 12 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I worked in a restaurant (as a dishwasher) years ago and the owner flipped out at us one day (as we were pushing our luck with the place's soundsystem) and reduced our listening options to *exclusively* Simply Red's Picture Book, Diamond Life by Sade and ::::shudder::::: the soundtrack to fuckin' Annie. Compared to those options, I'd have heartily welcomed Sonny & Cher and/or the Mammas & the Pappas (if you can't appreciate the greatness of "California Dreaming," I don't know what's wrong with you. And I shan't hear another negative thing said about CCR, dagnabbit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i try to be open-minded, but country music radio is just not meant for me.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the guy i work with (it's just the two of us and an extra computer we use as a jukebox that we leave on random) has 120 Counting Crows Mp3s and some of them are live shows that are upwards of 15minutes long. no good at all. i've also heard my share of Bare Naked Ladies, Tracy Chapman, & Bernie Williams - The Journey Within

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck i'd be thrilled to listen to Sonny and Cher (in fact i just got done listening to to some)

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I cant imagine myself ever wanting to hear Sonny and Cher, and I love oldies radio (as long as it's pop oldies and not "classic rock" oldies).

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

But here is the key question: would you want to hear the same 2 Sonny & Cher songs every day?

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry I meant that for JaXon, obv.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I work at an arena, so I suppose I would have a lot to complain about...everything from Kenny Chesney and Cher concerts to outdated Hi-NRG sports anthems...

― Ian (Moraine) (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"I've Got You Babe": Should anyone be forced to hear this song every single day?

But here is the key question: would you want to hear the same 2 Sonny & Cher songs every day?

Obvious response: Bill Murray to thread?

(Well, someone had to say it...)

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 13 June 2004 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I enjoy oldies radio, but there's something about being forced to hear it (and it only) at work that makes it awful. So I sympathize with the guy up top.

Thankfully the job I do allows me to wear headphones all day, but I've ventured into parts of my office where they don't wear headphones and they seem to favor the local "Mix" (of the 70s, 80s, and 90s) station, which might be the very worst possible option.

― Puppies, Sunday, 13 June 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Your lack of assertivness leads to others at work getting their way with regards to music choices.

Stand up and fight.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 13 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, Firewater just recorded a great version of "And the Beat Goes On" that's well worth checking out.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 June 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the irritating things about working in a place that includes a recording studio is that you have to listen to a steady stream of untalented nerks piecing their bullshit music together over a period of days, sometimes weeks. This weekend we've had a funk / soul covers band recording a demo for the purposes of trying to get corporate function gigs. Their choices? "Word Up" - butchered. "Disco Inferno" - raped. "Sunshine Of Your Love" - words fail me. The one good thing I can think of to say about them is that they're not as painful to listen to as the Supertramp tribute act that recorded a demo here last year.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Sunday, 13 June 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Aside from Barenaked Ladies & possibly Sade, nothing any of you have mentioned yet nauseates me as much as Michael Bolton's version of "When A Man Loves A Woman", which probably gets played 3 times weekly on the softrock station here at the orifice. 3 times in a LIFETIME is too many.

Actually, I consider myself lucky that I've always been merely indifferent to Whitney/Celine/Shania, who get TONS of airplay. That's right: I've honestly never hated anything I've ever heard by either of those three. Not in the way I hate certain things by Bolton/Sting/Bryan Adams.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

It makes me sad that bimble didn't like Sonny & Cher.

(Coincidentally, I'm at work right now listening to Sonny & Cher.)

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:22 (thirteen years ago)

Had a real moment with "Baby Don't Go" earlier this year and was surprised that I'd forgotten it was Sonny and Cher.
Love that song.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:52 (thirteen years ago)

There was the summer back in the 90s when I worked in a small office where they insisted on listening to the same pop rock station all day long. I heard the hits of Alanis and Spin Doctors over and over again. Worst job I ever had.

― Moodles, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:40 (thirteen years ago)

I worked in a chain record store in the summer of 1995, so I feel your pain.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:52 (thirteen years ago)

i worked in the princeton u. bookstore for about two seconds and they would play an album of the university's men's acapella group on a loop

― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:44 (thirteen years ago)

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