Show tunes you HATE and LOVE!

[Bwaynerd]

Posted: 9/6/10 at 5:54pm

HATE
Turkey Lurkey Time

LOVE
Electricity
Saturday Night in the city

[twinbelters]

Posted: 9/6/10 at 6:03pm

HATE
"I'm Alive" - Next To Normal

LOVE
"Babylove's Miracle Show" - The Grass Harp
"My Heart is So Full Of You" - The Most Happy Fella

[DeNada]

Posted: 9/6/10 at 6:26pm

I have weird tastes. And I like making lists.

Although this does expose the shameful fact that I'm not big on classic musicals. I've got to have missed a few faves/pet hates but this is just from a quick browse of my shelves and iTunes.

HATE
- "Murder, Murder", from JEKYLL AND HYDE (oh god the LYRICS!)
- "Solidarity", from BILLY ELLIOT (most repetitive number in a boring score)
- "Fortune Favours The Brave", from AIDA (this is just all over the place; the song's supposed to establish Radames' character and it's just a screamy shoutfest with weird rambly lyrics)
- "Dog Eat Dog", from LES MISERABLES (hate the old orchestration, none of the Thenardiers I've seen or heard can make sense of the melody, just irritating)
- "Barbara", from STARTING HERE STARTING NOW (please don't even track down this song if you haven't heard it, it's awful)
- "Where Will You Stand When The Flood Comes", from PARADE (it's just too messy in a score that normally gets its ensemble numbers right, it drags the whole thing down)
- "Miss Baltimore Crabs", from HAIRSPRAY (stupid Brit moment here but WHY BALTIMORE CRABS? THIS SONG MAKES NO SENSE TO ME)
"Where Did We Go Wrong?", from THE ADDAMS FAMILY (where is the tune?)
- "Something Just Broke", from ASSASSINS (it ruins the show if included)
- "Your Eyes", from RENT (does ANYONE like this song? It's the worst in the score and so ironic because of it)
- "A Sentimental Man", from WICKED (yaaaaaawn)
- "We've Got Girls", from GLORY DAYS (it's hard to pick a nadir from this show, which is a shame as "Open Road" is a nice, if predictable, song)

LOVE
- "Song of Forgetting", from NEXT TO NORMAL (beautiful and poignant)
- "Wild Grass", from KRISTINA (this is such a weird song to love)
- "Nobody's Side", from CHESS (searing lyrics, brilliant melody)
- "Colour and Light", from SUNDAY... (I am a little bit obsessed with the pointillist synth in George's sections of this song)
- "Rainbow High", from EVITA (a belter of a number)
- "The Shadows Lengthen", from ELISABETH (the height of European popera cheese.)
- "Goodbye Until Tomorrow", from THE LAST FIVE YEARS (heartbreakingly happy, and the piano line on "finally yes, finally now" is another weird orchestration obsession of mine)
- "Four Jews In A Room Bitching", from FALSETTOS (awesome opening)
- "And Eve Was Weak", from CARRIE (MY FACE. LET ME BELT IT OFF.)
- "Mozart, Mozart", from MOZART (I can't even explain why I love this song)
- "Rebecca", from REBECCA (another massive angsty beltfest)
- "Curiosity", from SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE (so simple, so beautiful, in a score filled with LaChiusa's usual complicated melodies)
- "The Colours of Paradise", from THE SPITFIRE GRILL (I love how this song just conjures up the small town vibe)
- "I Love You For All Time", from ROOMS (awesome rock)
- "The Apple Doesn't Fall", from THE RINK (it makes me laugh)
- "Fable", from THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (so beautiful)
"Made of Stone", from THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (angsty beltfest, but for a bloke!)
- "Who I'd Be", from SHREK (maybe it's not cool to love this song but I think it's really wonderful, save the rubbish electric guitar as Fiona comes in at the end)
- "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste", from WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (I secretly think Jim Steinman wrote this song and not ALW)
- "He Lives In You", from THE LION KING (I've lost all street cred now)
- "One White Dress", from A CATERED AFFAIR (it's so perfect for Janie's character, and so light and fluffy)

WEIRD RANDOM LOVE THAT I SHOULD PROBABLY BE EMBARRASSED ABOUT

- "The Last Real Record Store On Earth", from HIGH FIDELITY. I absolutely LOVE this song.

[rjm516]

Posted: 9/6/10 at 7:31pm

I agree with so many of your 'hates', deNada. Ughh! Miss Baltimore Crabs is really one of the most irritating, awful songs ever.

[crissy21710]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 2:15pm

Hate: The Glamorous Life (I don't really hate it, it just gets stuck in my head SO EASILY. like right now.)

Love: A Stranger in this World from Taboo (LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE gorgeous song)

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 3:44pm

DeNada, I don't think Solidarity is a very good song on its own, but he staging really elevates it.

[shrekster224]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 3:52pm

Just saying, how can someone hate Turkey Lurkey Time when Megan Sikora is currently singing it on b'way???
Updated On: 9/7/10 at 03:52 PM

[hairspraydude1962]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:00pm

"Miss Baltimore Crabs", from HAIRSPRAY (stupid Brit moment here but WHY BALTIMORE CRABS? THIS SONG MAKES NO SENSE TO ME)

This is my least favorite song from the show. Wittman and Shaiman went through so many different songs for Velma, and I don't really think they're 100% satisfied with it either. The reason she's given the title "Miss Baltimore Crabs" is for two reasons: (1) Baltimore is known for its sea crabs. (2) It's a play on words; "crabs," meaning she contracted crab-lice from "screwing the judges" (or vise versa).

[minicko88]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:23pm

Hate-
Miss Baltimore Crabs as well...
I dreamed a Dance from Next To Normal
Every Song but Pulled/Crazier than you from the Addams Family
Donkey Pot Pie from Shrek

Love-
Who I'd Be from Shrek
I Can't Recall from A Tale of Two Cities
This is not over yet from Parade
All the Wasted Time from Parade
You Don't KNow/I am the one- Next to Normal

There is more, but I don't feel like adding anymore...

[tazber]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:35pm

Honestly this is just too overwhelming a question without some sort of qualification, but from what I've been listening to over the summer:

HATE:
Light Sings (The Me Nobody Knows)
Dance With The Devil (Witches Of Eastwick)

LOVE:
My Body Wasn't Why (The Glorious Ones)
You Have Made Me Love (Cyrano)
Streets Of Dublin (A Man Of No Importance)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 5:05pm

HATE:

Speed Dating - Tell Me on a Sunday
The Lusty Month of May - Camelot
What Do the Simple Folk Do? - Camelot
Something Just Broke - Assassins
The Good Time Girl - Over Here
The Devil You Know - Side Show
Tunnel of Love - Side Show
Donkey Pot Pie - Shrek
Heart to Hart - 9 to 5
Together Again - Young Frankenstein

LOVE:

I Am the One - Next to Normal
A Trip to the Library - She Loves Me
It Don't Make Sense - Parade
I Had a Ball - I Had a Ball
Turkey Lurkey - Promises, Promises
Hey There, Good Times - I Love My Wife
Waiting for Life to Begin - Once on This Island
Omigod You Guys - Legally Blonde
Lothlorien - Lord of the Rings
When I Look at You - The Scarlet Pimpernel

[IsolatingAge]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 5:33pm

Hate:
-Something Bad from Wicked (Draaaaags)
-Word of Your Body (both the original and the reprise) from Spring Awakening (Even though the reprise is funny, it totally stops the story for pointless make out sessions.)
-Don't Be the Bunny from Urinetown
-Seasons of Love from Rent (I've always thought that it was way overrated)

Love:
-Brotherhood of Man from H2$
-Little Shop of Horrors from well... yeah
-Run Freedom Run from Urinetown
-The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee (literally makes me cry every time I listen to it)
-The entire trial from Parade

[BellatrixxLestrangee]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 6:00pm

Hate:
Omigod You Guys- Legally Blonde
Love:
Corner of the Sky- Pippin
At the End of the Day- Les Mis
The Light in the Piazza- Light in the Piazza
Ever After- Into the Woods

[hairspraydude1962]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 7:47pm

HATE:
"So Anyway" - Next to Normal
"Freddy, My Love" - Grease
"The Harvard Variations" - Legally Blonde: The Musical
"Contact" - Rent
"Something Bad" - Wicked
"Always a Woman" - 9 to 5: The Musical

LOVE:
"You Can't Stop the Beat" - Hairspray
"So Much Better" - Legally Blonde: The Musical
"You Don't Know/I Am the One" - Next to Normal
"I've Been" - Next to Normal
"What You Own" - Rent
"It's the Hard Knock Life" - Annie
"Betrayed" - The Producers
"Don't Walk Away" - Xanadu
"Build a Wall" - Shrek the Musical

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/8/10 at 11:26am

HATE
"The Art of the Possible" -- EVITA
"A Puzzlement" -- THE KING AND I
"Little Lamb" -- GYPSY
"Pore Jud is Daid" and "It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage" -- OKLAHOMA!
"Dog Eat Dog" -- LES MISÉRABLES

LOVE
"Marry Me a Little" and "Being Alive" -- COMPANY
"Conga" -- WONDERFUL TOWN
"On the Steps of the Palace" -- INTO THE WOODS

[Bwaynerd]

Posted: 9/8/10 at 7:43pm

i agree about miss baltimore crabs!!!!! whats even stupider is the reprise!!!!!!!

[quizking101]

Posted: 9/8/10 at 8:53pm

HATE:
Walking In Space - HAIR
Angry Dance - Billy Elliot
You Gotta Get A Gimmick - Gypsy
Along Came Bialy - The Producers
Turkey Lurkey Time - Promises, Promises
Popular - Wicked (only because every female theatre junkie in my high school uses this as their anthem)

Love:
Maybe This Time - Cabaret
Old Devil Moon - Finian's Rainbow
Up The Ladder To The Roof - Everyday Rapture
Just Another Day - Next To Normal
I Am What I Am - La Cage aux Folles
You Walk With Me - The Full Monty
Some Enchanted Evening - South Pacific
I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love - The Boy From Oz
I Honestly Love You - The Boy From Oz