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2010-02-07 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Karaoke and Sinatra -- a deadly combination

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Posted by Mike 2010-02-07 07:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 My Way - Hear it.

I can understand why Filipinos kill after hearing this song ..... they a tone deaf....

Posted by Crens Jones3943 2010-02-07 08:04|| 2010-02-07 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 "My Way" has something unique about it. It was noted that many years ago in the US, there was a very popular national radio talent show, which ran for years, but every single contestant on the show who sang "My Way", won.

There have been a few other song phenomena, such as "Gloomy Sunday", which in the 1930s was alleged to have resulted in many suicides (though little evidence exists today, as suicide was seen as shameful, so was not reported as such, as a rule, in the newspapers.)

And I'm sure many people have very deep feelings about songs like, "Don't Worry - Be Happy", that either makes them want to hurt and kill, or at least think they are developing a brain tumor.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-02-07 09:05|| 2010-02-07 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I can definitely see wanting to kill if someone sings John Denver. As a veteran of Asian karaoke, if anyone puts on Hotel California it's going to be a "Kill Bill"-style massacre with the singer, his friends, the karaoke girls, the songs computer, and any other bystanders getting slaughtered with great malice...and I'd get off at a jury trial with justifiable homicide...

Posted by gromky 2010-02-07 09:14|| 2010-02-07 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Listen - Take Me Home, Country Roads

Posted by Elmomble Ghibelline2606 2010-02-07 09:25|| 2010-02-07 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Hotel California

Posted by Whusotle White6027 2010-02-07 09:32|| 2010-02-07 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Early on in the WoT, an unnamed CIA agent remarked that there was a foreign enemy combatant holding site nicknamed The Hotel California. He said there were some particularly nasty elements to the place that put a whole different, and grotesque, complexion on the lyrics.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-02-07 11:20|| 2010-02-07 11:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Relevant Belushi video.

Posted by DMFD 2010-02-07 13:11|| 2010-02-07 13:11|| Front Page Top

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