Songs We Hate In Scores We Love

[baddadnpa]

Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#0

Posted: 3/4/05 at 12:30pm

How many of us have Bway cds that we love that contain one or two songs that are just god awful and cause us to hit the fast forward/skip button?

Wicked - Something Bad & Wonderful
Hello Dolly OBC - anything with Charles Nelson Reilly
Aida - Another Pyramid
Hairspray - Hairspray

I know I have more but figured I'd get this started.

The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.

Updated On: 3/4/05 at 12:30 PM

[Gothampc]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#1

Posted: 3/4/05 at 12:36pm

Sing from A Chorus Line

It doesn't even make sense. How did she get to the final audition if she couldn't sing?

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#2

Posted: 3/4/05 at 12:50pm

Wicked: anything sung by the Wizard ("I am a sentimental man --" CLICK!).
Promises, Promises: "A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing"
Aida: "Another Pyramid"
Miss Saigon: "The American Dream"
Chess: whatever that song is that the press sing, "Oh my dear how borING, he's defectING..." Never listen to it, so I can't remember the name. And of course, like much of Chess, it's not in every version. :)

[Bwaybaby109]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#3

Posted: 3/4/05 at 12:54pm

aw I love The American Dream... I guess the song I always skip in Wicked is Something Bad as well and The Morning Report and Chow Down in The Lion King, why did they put Morning Report in the movie?!?! Grrr!

"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"

[Mother's Younger Brother]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#4

Posted: 3/4/05 at 12:59pm

^^ My biggest problem with "The American Dream" at this point is one of resentment. It's not that the song is THAT bad, but it's the song that's ALWAYS used when showing clips or numbers from Miss Saigon, and I just think it's so not representative of the show's score. I guess I'm just really tired of it.

[Adam Chris]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#5

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:04pm

In Aida, I always skip "Like Father, Like Son". Those first few cords annoy the heck of me!

[Gothampc]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#6

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:05pm

"whatever that song is that the press sing, "Oh my dear how borING, he's defectING..."

Embassy Lament

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#7

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:07pm

^^ Yes, that's it, thank you! (I knew the word "Lament" was in there somewhere.)

[broadway86]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#8

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:08pm

"Ragtime" - 'What Kind of Woman'. The show's only dispensable song.

[Bwaybaby109]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#9

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:09pm

I also despise that Cooties song from Hairspray...so annoying. I also hate Baltimore Crabs.

"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"

Updated On: 3/4/05 at 01:09 PM

[MarkCohen]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#10

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:13pm

"Sing from A Chorus Line"

What? That's like the best song in the show. Haha i think it's funny. And it was only a dance audition up to that point.

Although maybe it's only my favourite song because I played Al once.

[little_sally]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#11

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:19pm

Rent: We're Okay, I Should Tell You

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[Gothampc]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#12

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:19pm

"And it was only a dance audition up to that point."

I just always assumed that they would also understudy the main roles which would require them to sing.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Adam Chris]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#13

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:30pm

Little_Sally, I can't believe you don't like I Should Tell You! I wish Jonathan would have expanded that song a little more and added a little more substance, but I love it ..."walking through fire without a burn..." Updated On: 3/4/05 at 01:30 PM

[Bwaybaby109]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#14

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:33pm

^^I like I Should Tell You also but I think the song I usually skip in rent is Today 4 You Tommorow 4 Me, not that it's horrible or anything I just find it kind of annoying.

"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"

[Gothampc]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#15

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:38pm

"I wish Jonathan would have expanded that song a little more and added a little more substance"

The song I wish he had expanded was Came To Say Goodbye Love, Goodbye

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Em-LEE]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#16

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:49pm

I also usually skip over Today 4 U on the RENT cast recording. I love seeing the song performed on stage, but it annoys the crap out of me when I'm just sitting at home listening to it on my headphones.

[My Fair Lady]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#17

Posted: 3/4/05 at 2:46pm

I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today-Avenue Q

[LightMyCandle125]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#18

Posted: 3/4/05 at 3:07pm

wow you guys are like my soulmates. everything you have said is so true! i hate "baltimore crabs" and "cooties"! those first few chords of "like father like son" kill me. and anything sung by the wizard sucks.

this is random, but i always skip "those caanan days" from joseph.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

[Bwaybaby109]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#19

Posted: 3/4/05 at 3:09pm

me too! its not that "Caanan Days" is a bad song it's funny to watch, but it's kind of boring to hear it after listening to that soundtrack too much

"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"

[Jwei123]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#20

Posted: 3/4/05 at 3:10pm

"we're ok" ~ rent

...but merle makes it worthwhile, live!!!

awkward.

"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912

[paradox_error]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#21

Posted: 3/4/05 at 3:15pm

I LOVE Those Canaan Days...It's one of my favourite songs from that score!

I don't hate any Sondheim, and most of what I listen to is Sondheim...so I don't really skip anything.

[Bwaybaby109]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#22

Posted: 3/4/05 at 3:16pm

I can't think of a Sondheim song I don't like either.

"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"

[paradox_error]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#23

Posted: 3/4/05 at 3:23pm

There is always some brilliant aspect about them, usually the lyrics, that mean I can't help but enjoy...

I'm a sucker for intellegence, so I'm a sucker for Sondheim!

[GirlforTartaglia]

re: Songs We Hate In Scores We Love#24

Posted: 3/4/05 at 3:23pm

We're Okay-Rent
The More You Ruv Someone-Avenue Q (I don't hate it..I just really never feel like listening to it)
Ride 'Em-Zanna Don't

And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.