Most "embarrassing" song.....

[Morse_77]

It gets worst, I also played the French Canadian version.

 

[Lexy Bivens]

Many years back I had to learn 7 Nation Army. I hated that song and still do, but people loved it when I had to play it. IDK why?

Hey I STILL love that song, so do my kids...
But you can blame 2Cellos for them getting into it.

AND THERE IS NO BASS IN THAT SONG! JW downtuned a guitar

Idk it's got a groovy beat you can dance to?

 

[Bunk McNulty]

The one that popped in to my head was this.
1985. A joint 21st birthday/engagement party. My band were asked to learn it and play it as a fun way of announcing the happy couple's 'extra' surprise news.
The girl's father, once he worked out what it was, turned around and flattened the guy with one punch.
Happily, he got over the shock...the couple are still together!

Just looking at it makes my skin crawl.

 

[dindinbre]

This...

 

[Lexy Bivens]

Me and my daughter (she is 9) we just talking about how awesome it would be to have a bride walk down to the Imperial March. We were cracking up about the idea (especially if the bride did not expect it). My wife was just rolling her eyes.

I wanted to do March of the Marionettes (Alford Hitchcock theme...)

But my (now EX btw) make a joke to the reporter I was doing it. It was a thing with him. Well Mike (who is now a NYT best seller of like 2 horror books!) put it in, this was front page, as... We used to rebuild life-sized animayronic dinosaurs, getting married in a bar, in Halloween. Bar use was free for publicity I knew Mike from bar. The pics of us with some of our critters made it human interest... Got picked up by the damned AP
THEN INTERNATIONAL!!!
And EVERY Star Wars fan site! This was 2003

The dunks were mostly cut, the big deal was bar, Halloween, costumed (I made my gown, and it was a 15th century dbl layer, his attire, my daughters as well. We did it all, in 2 mo under 2k incl rings)

But so I was cornered.

I HAD to do it..


And had I not done it b4, if my husband had done that to me, I just would have laughed my are off. But I was the LEAST stressed out (TOTALLY SOBER) bride for some reason.

 

[Lexy Bivens]

Everything is Awesome, from the Lego movie. Please keep it to yourself.

Now I wanna learn it!!!!!

 

[redwingxix]

My Favorite Things. Once that pops into my head I'm compelled to play it. I pretend it's just another Coltrane song, though so it's cool.

 

[redwingxix]

Safety Dance is definitely another one.

 

[MD Stingray]

Mustang Sally. A potent reminder of what my once promising music career has become every time my GD frontman takes the request. (Even he can't stand it, at least, so it's an extreme rarity.)

I’d rather nail my genitalia to a shed on fire than to ever play that song again.

 

[Lexy Bivens]

You're technically correct, but any song that starts- Once upon a time there was a tavern has some Russian Jewish/fiddler on the roof vibe to it. Dumpster fire-definately!

Could that be because the music is from a Russian folk song? Then some people didn't translate the lyrics, they just wrote their own. It's about looking back at your life that you basically missed and how much better it was back when. But it's still "we" drinking at the tavern in the end.

 

[redwingxix]

Is the shed on fire before you begin the nailing or do you ignite it once you put down the hammer?

Just trying to get the visuals correct.

 

[MD Stingray]

The flamethrower will take care of the “on fire” business prior to the hammering.

 

[leonard]

I’d rather nail my genitalia to a shed on fire than to ever play that song again.

Photo or it didn't happen.

 

[Lexy Bivens]

This...

Do y'all live down the street from me? In any direction? "
I swear there's 6 Hispanic oompaloopma bands, (as opossed to German oompaloopma bands, but none in our neighborhood. I can polka AND skip/hop polka quite well) and they all play THAT and just THAT.

 

[Lexy Bivens]

Safety Dance is definitely another one.

I just played that through night before last.
And Land down under
For some reason the go m together in my head

Like Africa, In The Air Tonight, and Take On Me

(I love brass covered of Africa and A-ha a LOT)

Safety Dance is definitely another one.

The flamethrower will take care of the “on fire” business prior to the hammering.

 

[BurtMacklinFBI]

Not much embarrasses me song-wise, but there was this one original a band I was in played back when I was like 19ish. The song was called "Sped", and was supposed to be about a race car driver or something, and the rest of the band seemed not to notice that the name was also a derogatory term for people with learning disabilities. This was back when people felt a lot more comfortable throwing that kind of talk around, too. It wasn't even that good of a song, though it did at least give me an opportunity to use a wah pedal a bit.

 

[Obese Chess]

I've been studying video game music theory for a few weeks now and I can play a percentage of the Mega Man X soundtrack that would embarrass a lesser man.

 

[Jimmy4string]

Oh man I hate "Every Breath you take" by the Police SOOO much.
Who the hell would play this at a gig and get any response anyway?! My first band apparently.
The drummer and I (both rockers) would bust into a speed metal version at practice to shake off the gathering angst.

 

[oldNewbie]

BL just told me the bride wants us to play 'Those were the days'. Horrible pseudo klezmer that I think is about a suicide pact. I'm hoping we can sub that one out to an accordian player.

N.B. the wikipedia page for that song
Those Were the Days (song) - Wikipedia
Demonstrates yet again that truth is weirder than anything one could make up. Good reading for any TBers who have been following the licensing live music discussion over on the db side. Back then, everybody made money, including Sir Paul!
Still, for this-great-world-we-live-in the last entry wins :
On Christmas 1975, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema, had 150 alleged coup plotters executed in the national stadium while a band played "Those Were the Days".[13]

 

[dindinbre]

Do y'all live down the street from me? In any direction? "
I swear there's 6 Hispanic oompaloopma bands, (as opossed to German oompaloopma bands, but none in our neighborhood. I can polka AND skip/hop polka quite well) and they all play THAT and just THAT.

I live like 13000 miles away from you That is Serbian Turbo Folk with... erotic lyrics. Actually I play stuff like this way more: