lol, you asked for it. And the fact you find it disturbing is a good thing, you know. The low ranking is more disturbing than the song, grrrr
Yes, that’s mine.
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Same. Saved by other people doing worse I suppose
Edit: would’ve guessed skydiver on TTWS lol. They are my coworkers favorite band.
I’m a little disappointed it wasnt you following Nickelback with The Hoff to demonstrate your Walrus stones
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In 11th place with 4 points
Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot
" The song itself may not be super disturbing, but knowing that Filter wrote this following Bud Dweyer shooting himself on national television has always been super disturbing to me. As opposed as I am to guns, I think this fits the category perfectly."
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It’s been a long time since I’ve heard this, but I still know most of the lyrics and remember the general story. I think everybody who grew up in the 90’s did. Where I grew up, kids said it was about Kurt Cobain, but that was proven wrong eventually. I liked this song alot in like junior high school. But man did it get overplayed. I don’t feel nostalgic about it at all. This gets downgraded for being way too familiar and heinously overplayed.
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Hey, there it is
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Budd Dwyer Gun Club in the house
In 10th place with 5 points
Harry Chapin - Cat’s in the Cradle
" It’s very rare that songs cause me to experience intense sadness. “Cat’s in the Cradle” is a song that brings me to tears to the point where I am simply unable to listen to it. Personally, I never got to live the second half of the song due to a freak accident that led to my father’s untimely death. I really do wonder sometimes if it would have been like that for me. I know for sure that the first part certainly wasn’t true for my relationship with my dad."
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I’m sorry about your dad. This is a lovely song. I can understand how it could have such a huge effect on you. Please don’t take this ranking as anything to do with what you wrote.
When I read the book Cat’s Cradle, the title sounded familiar. I don’t really know who Harry Chapin is. Somehow, I know most of the lyrics to this. I’ve heard this song ALOT. My parents must have played it. Or maybe it’s one of those songs you hear in everything. I can’t even give it nostalgia points because I can’t place a time when I heard this. This is only ranked here because of familiarity.
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I’m more familiar with the Cat Stevens version but I don’t know which one is more popular. I feel like you’ve had to have heard this song at some point or another, it’s quite famous. That’s a sad story, I almost chose something with a sad personal connection for this category but it wasn’t inherent to the song.
Well that explains why I had the same experience as Pauwl, my parents played Cat Stevens a fair amount.
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In 9th place with 6 points
Childish Gambino - This Is America
" This was really close to being my entry for Category #3 but I think it makes more sense here. I’m also aware that Walrus is for the song only, but the addition of the music video (which I think is one of the greatest over) really makes this. The transition from what I guess you would call the verse to the chorus is really jarring and unsettling. The bass sound in the chorus is just weird, but it completely works. The song forces you to confront gun violence and racism when from the top you might have initially thought it was just a throw-away party track. Additionally, when you add in Gambino’s mannerisms and facial expressions in the video, it takes the song to a whole different level. It’s very eye-opening ."
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I listen to these in a playlist while I’m working so I don’t have video going. This song suffers a bit from not having the video playing, but I can pretty much picture it in my head still. This song was just in a previous walrus and was super popular not very long ago. Everybody knows this. I agree with everything you wrote. This was just way too obvious a choice.
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Cat Stevens never recorded the song. Harry Chapin wrote and performed it.
The title and the fact that both singers have a similar singing style makes it easy for people to confuse them.
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Yeah that was in my walrus and swanky submitted it and i ranked him too low, causing him to lose by 1 point. I like that song quite a bit but it’s hard to rate because it’s difficult to separate from the GOAT video. Also pleasantly surprised to still be alive, risking the jinx!
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For some reason I’m still alive.
lol i was wondering why i don’t know any cat stevens version of it.
Still butthurt
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Omg that’s amazing. I wouldn’t call it a Mandela effect situation though, it’s just commonly misattributed because it sort of sounds like him.
It still amazes me that that last song was by Troy Barnes.
In 8th place with 7 points
The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
This makes me uncomfortable for two reasons. First off these lines
I thought oh God, my chance has come at last
(but then a strange fear gripped me and I
Just couldn’t ask)
summed my anguished personality so perfectly that while I identified with it totally it also made me hate myself that bit more. As I grew older and gained a bit of common sense and self confidence I still appreciated the beauty of the Smiths lyrics and music, but then it turns out Morrisey is a Nazi arsehole so now I’m uncomfortable listening to the Smiths for a whole different reason
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I’m in the same boat with respect to him getting into the right wing fascist stuff. I was a little slow to get up to speed. I don’t normally follow Morrissey in the news because it’s usually him going off on some “ban the seal cull” topic or “The 3 biggest problems in England are… Jamie Oliver, Jamie Oliver, Jamie Oliver”. STFU. When I saw him live, I warned my friend not to wear anything leather to the concert. I had read that there was going to be a PETA booth there. Then he opened with Suedehead and I just about died.
This is a song I can sing every word to. It was a big deal in my life at one point. I could talk forever about it, but this is an overly familiar song by a huge disappointment.
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embarrassing life fact - the first album i ever bought in English was Ugly Kid Joe’s. I was 9 years old and I loved that song playing constantly on the brand new (for us in Israel) Music Television channel.
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This counts as vaguely disturbing? Man, I way overshot the mark then.
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