The song you always skip
The song you always skip
#0The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:53pm
A friend and I were recently having a discussion about how there is always one song that we skip whenever we listen to a cast recording. I was just wondering if any of you find you do this too?
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#1re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:57pm
"Cooties"
"A Sentimental Man"
"The Gun Song"
"The Art of the Possible"
"The Morphine Tango"
"Contact"
"The Sad Tale Of The Beauxhommes"
Any of the show within show crap in Little Women
"Rare Songbirds On Display"
"Hungarian Folk Song"
Updated On: 8/23/06 at 04:57 PM
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#2re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:57pm
On the Light in the Piazza recording, I skip American Dancing and The Joy You Feel, even though the latter is growing on me.
With RENT, I can usually just listen straight through.
With A CHORUS LINE, I usually skip Music and the Mirror after she stops singing.
coolphantom919
Broadway Star Joined: 6/6/06
#4re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:59pmon rent, i skip without you... it just doesn't suit me.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#5re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:03pm
I usually skip overtures. They are just boring. But yes definitely "A Sentimental Man" in WICKED and I usually skip "Wonderful".
Sometimes I guess I skip the Voicemails and stuff in RENT, just because I have heard them sometimes.
Also, I think Clara's Interlude is weird in LITP. So, that is usually skipped.
#7re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:16pm
Ooooh, American Dancing is one of my favorite numbers!
Anyway-
I always skip The Day Off in SITPWG, it's just too long
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
mijofly19
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/05
#9re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:23pm
I'm with Caroline-Q-or-Tboo on this one. "American Dancing" is one of my favorites in LitP! Well, to each his/her own 
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Edit: Might as well add the songs I skip.
I love THE LAST FIVE YEARS, it's my favorite show. BUT, whenever there is a song I skip, it's "Climbing Uphill." A lot of people seem to love it but I can't stand it.
AVENUE Q- I always skip "I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today." It's just so...random.
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS- I never litsen to the "Finale."
PARADE- The one that I skip the most is "My Child Will Forgive Me." I think it's a good song, it just...gets on my nerves. Also skip "Letter to the Governor."
SWEENEY TODD- I really can't listen to "No Place Like London." Don't know why, but I just...can't.
WICKED- "Something Bad" and "Dear Old Shiz." Just. Ugh.
Updated On: 8/23/06 at 05:23 PM
#10re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:27pm
I always skip "climbing uphill" on the last 5 years.
I skip "something bad" and "Dear Old Shiz" on wicked
"Aint nothing like a dame" on south pacific
Once upon a time I used to play with toys,
but now I'd rather play around with teenage boys
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#13re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:43pm
I always skip:
"Contact" RENT
"I'm not wearing underwear today" Avenue Q
"Broadway" Gyspy
"Love Sneaks in" DRS
Sometimes:
"Beautiful" SITPWG
"Wait" Sweeney Todd
"Little Lamb" Gypsy
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
#14re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:48pm
"Santa Fe" - RENT
"Something Bad" - WICKED
"A Sentimental Man" - WICKED
"All About the Green" - WEDDING SINGER
"Big Dog" whatever the song with the ensemble guys from COLOR PURPLE
#15re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:51pm"Something Bad" (B-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-d) - What were they thinking?
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#16re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:51pm
little lamb-gypsy
you won't be an orphan for long-annie
sing-a chorus line
my defenses are down-annie get
someone to watch over me-crazy for you- cause it's boring- not jodi
#17re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:55pm
On Rent I skip the whole damn show. Too bad the show sucks.
On another note, every once in a while I find a song to skip.
#18re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 5:57pmI never skip a single note of Light in the Piazza, but I almost always skip "I Landed On Him" from Floyd Collins.
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#19re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 6:10pmI sort of agree about Music and the Mirror, after she stops singing, but I still love it! A Chorus Line is one of the only musicals that I can listen through the whole CD without skipping any songs.
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
#20re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 6:13pm
"I Should Tell You" and "Your Eyes"- RENT
"One Short Day" - Wicked
"Another Pyramid" and "Like Father, Like Son"- AIDA
"Purpose"- Avenue Q
"Angel of Music" and "Music of the Night" (sometimes)- PotO
"One Hand, One Heart" and "A Boy Like That/I Have a Love"- West Side Story
I always listen to Sweeney Todd all the way through, though :)
#21re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 6:15pm
Don't release me-Bombay Dreams
Something bad-Wicked
Dividing Day-Piaza
Somebody kill me-The Wedding Singer
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#22re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 6:16pm
"Something Bad" and "Wonderful" from Wicked. Sometimes, I skip "Dancing Through Life," too. Nothing against Norbert; I just don't like the song much on CD. In person, I think it's fun.
"Wunderbar" from Kiss Me, Kate. I hate that song.
"American Dancing" from The Light in the Piazza. Other than that interlude, I listen to every second of that cast recording.
Anti-Romanticist
Understudy Joined: 8/23/06
#23re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 6:18pm
-"That Face" (The Producers)
-Overtures and orchestrals on the majority of soundtracks. I'm weird like that.
-"A Little Priest" (Sweeney Todd--this song is usually too long for a casual listen xD)
Bow before the cuteness of my cousin!!! ;]
#24re: The song you always skip
Posted: 8/23/06 at 6:39pmI always skip Ces Soirres-la on the Jersey Boys, Something Bad on Wicked and Contact on Rent I was listening to it through once when my mom was with me and she heard it and not I always rememeber that whenever I hear it *cringe*
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