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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Which Songs Should Be Retired?


The "All Songs Considered" crew over at NPR came up with a fascinating question this week: "what songs should be retired?" By this, they mean songs that are incontrovertibly great and even beloved but, because of relentless overplaying or negative association (or both) have long ago worn out their welcomes. Here are their choices: 
1. Harry Chapin - "Cats in the Cradle"
2. Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
3. Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - "Over the Rainbow"
4. John Lennon - "Imagine"
5. The Beatles - "Yesterday"
6. Pharrell - "Happy"
7. Don McLean - "American Pie"
8. Meatloaf - "Paradise By the Dashboard Lights"
9. Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Freedom"
10. Wagner - "Ride of the Valkyries"
11. The Eagles - "Hotel California"
12. Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
13. Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
So, here's your question for a Sunday afternoon, FB music fans: what songs would you add to this list? Here's my offering - Aretha Franklin's "Respect." I can still listen to Otis Redding's' original version but, sorry Aretha, after too many movie scenes of people in cars belting out your version, yours has got to go. What about the rest of you? What songs are you retiring?

You can see the original piece here: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/10/10/556692186/hallelujah-the-songs-we-should-retire

2 Comments:

Blogger gooner71 said...

Free-bird, no? But yet! United Airlines on hold music
ruined Rhapsody in Blue for me so that goes in the bin.

I just don't like Cats in the Cradle, but mercifully don't hear if often.

Memories, from Cats! could also fit in the bin. I would have said Send in the Clowns, but I finally saw a production of A Little Night's Music and heard it in context so those nonsensical lyrics finally were put in context.

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