If you had a sort of time traveling music bomb and could eradicate any one song from human history, so that not only would you never have to hear it again but could never have heard it in the first place, what song would it be?
@JMaxB ah, you took mine. Second for me is “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which is what made me think to pose the question. My feeling is that if we must have easy sentimentality I’ll take mine straight and just play the hit songs of the 1850s.
@dwalbert @JMaxB For our first anniversary, my wife and I went camping in Colorado. On the anniversary proper, we cooked steaks and turned in as it rained, forecasted to turn to snow. In the night, our tent began leaking, so we broke camp and headed home (then near Oklahoma City) in the dead of night.
It seemed then, and seems now, as if the playlist of the 50,000-watt clear-channel AM stations consisted of two songs:
- Havin' My Baby
- Only Women Bleed
49 years later, my wife's instant response to your question was "Only Women Bleed."
@dwalbert @readerjohn clearly I would not have survived that Kafka story where hearing the magic word turns people into purple cones of goo.
@JMaxB It was, if it existed, by Alice Cooper. If it existed, I think I found the lyrics for it on one of those "millions of song lyrics" sites. But I could, inshallah, be wrong.
@ReaderJohn It comes up right away (in studio and live versions) on youtube. But I didn't listen to it and I'm not going to give you a link.