Gimme Yer Worst – the “NO-GOs”
Well, here’s my first “bin” of suggestions for the TAH Playlist From Hell. It’s actually two lists – suggestions that were Not Considered and those that were considered, but which I found Not Appropriate. Together, they form the playlist “NO GOs”.
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Not Considered
Submitted by Old 21B: Ten hours of Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky3Ordfqn88
Submitted by PFDRbrendan: 10 Hours of He-Man Hey-ah Hey-ah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh7lp9umG2I
Submitted by Aysel: 10 Hours of Nyan Cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY
Rationale: Sorry, folks, but nothing made by looping the same shorter bit for 10 freaking hours got considered (or watched end-to-end, either). That’s true no matter how damn bad it was – and a quick look at the first minute more or less shows these are all pretty damn bad. However, as others have said they all might be useful at GTMO . . . .
Submitted by Kateser: Tutti Fruitti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?fea`ture=player_embedded&v=v3sNARLNu_Y (NSFW)
Submitted by Gruntling: Lady – Yankin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvN9YwiveXc (NSFW)
Submitted by ANCCPT: Ducksauce “The Big Bad Wolf”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKMoVAObbhE (NSFW)
Rationale: Not evaluated. Viewing these requires a YouTube login to view because of purported “objectionable content” (or some such) and I don’t have an account; I excluded anything that required a login to view. I’ll take each of your words that these are NSFW and leave the warnings on the links intact.
Submitted by Janaburg: A young Stephen Remmler, check out his “Amerika”. Es ist soooo lustig!!!
Rationale: No link provided, so nothing to consider. Sorry.
Submitted by Aysel: Gatsby Hair Commercial (Japanese?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXr64IsYblQ
Rationale: Whoa. Really bad cover, and funky video – but it’s a commercial, for crying out loud. If I included bad commercials using music, this list would be nearly nothing but commercials.
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Not Appropriate
I felt that these simply weren’t good submissions for a Playlist From Hell. They were simply too damn good, weren’t really music, or were otherwise inappropriate.
Submitted by Ex-PH2: Rolling Stones – Paint It Black (Tour of Duty TV Theme)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-RbEVYXUM
Rationale: The Stones have done their share of crappy tunes, but this isn’t one of them. Way too good for consideration for any Playlist From Hell.
Submitted by Veritas Omnia Vincit: Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM
Rationale: A decent cover of an old Eddie Cochran classic (I prefer the Who’s cover or Cochran’s original personally, but this one is OK too). Too good for any Playlist From Hell.
Submitted by MCPO NYC NYC (Ret): Monkey Balls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vkVHcCO6xQ (NSFW)
Rationale: Um, MCPO, that’s not exactly a song. Funny as hell, but doesn’t qualify.
Submitted by Ex-PH2: Bill Nye the Science Guy – Quicksand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU7t5bVfY4E
Rationale: See previous. It beats the hell out of many suggested entries in the Playlist from Hell, though, in terms of being watchable.
Submitted by Ex-PH2: various bad auditions (compilations)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMPMQk9n6ow
Rationale: Yeah, they’re all bad. But not all of them are truly bad enough for a Playlist From Hell, and I can’t include just the “crème de la crème gâtée” without including the others. Had to leave these out.
Submitted by Veritas Omnia Vincit: Title (NSFW) and artist withheld.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg_Smj5J6ik (NSFW)
Rationale: Kinda had to put this in the “Non-appropriate” category. Nothing there but obscene rhyme IMO. YMMV.
Submitted by Hondo: Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
Rationale: Yeah, a fair amount of the 80s really just doesn’t make much sense 30 years later; that’s particularly true about 80s music and music videos. But though the video is bizarre, the tune’s too damn catchy for any Playlist From Hell. Believe it or not, it charted.
Submitted by Stark: G.O.A.T. and Your M.O.M. – Quack Like a Duck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzVGc75f3Qk (NSFW)
Wow. That’s indeed incredibly bad – in any way you want to define “bad”. But it’s also truly incredibly foul. Sorry, this one IMO doesn’t qualify. IMO it’s even too foul for a Playlist From Hell – some folks get a kick out of gratuitous obscenity and would actually enjoy it.
Submitted by MCPO NYC USN (Ret): Gangnam Style – Backwards!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0wpMqEvfsA
Rationale: Backwards doesn’t qualify. And I hate that ignorant asshole too, MCPO.
Submitted by Twist: Ronald McDonald Insanity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16KpquGsIc
Rationale: Not really a song, so I had to put it down as a “non-qual”. And it’s kinda funny, anyway.
Submitted by Ninja R:
Fry That Chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrqW3nx5HM NSFW
Title withheld (title is NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf-QTw615b4 NSFW
Rationale: Sorry, but both of these were too bad to consider, period. And, frankly, I thought they were more than a bit over the top regarding being offensive.
Submitted by Just Plain Jason: Jimmy Buffett – Margaritaville
Rationale: Sorry, Jason. That’s a modern beach standard and a great tune – even if bartenders feel about it exactly like piano players do towards Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”. (smile)
OK, that takes care of the “NO GOs”. Tomorrow: those suggestions that were indeed bad – but just weren’t bad enough. (smile)
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows
Re: Stones & PIB track for Tour of Duty: I was busy doing other (more important)things and just threw that in to break the nausea of looking at the godawful videos that other people were SO busy hunting down. You guys have FAR too much time on your hands.
Yay, I only had one get no-goed.
Ex-PH2, yeah, Friday was a slow work day. I had to wait for a deploying unit to get me some paperwork before I could actually start working.
Try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eO5U_uN7DQ
Go ahead, listen and then try and get the song out of your head. I dare you….
That would be 10 hours of Bacon Pancakes!! The song from hell
So, my wife (Aysel) got two mentions and I didn’t get any for my Rick Roll? Oh, the horror. Oh, the hypocrisy.
Okay, back to work.
OK, Hondo, since nothing submitted was chosen — and I do understand the ‘rationale’ … sort of — I’m sending this to you instead, not as an entry, mind you, but to tell you that you, too, can be replaced at a cheap cost.
Meet the real Terminator, current price $1.3 million.
http://msnvideo.msn.com/?videoid=042ef2ce-b72e-4218-9e55-6319c33a8b85&channelindex=2&from=en-us_msnhp
Twist, if you really have nothing to do, you can download this journal from Sir John Kincaid of the 95th Rifles, in the Peninsular War and the Belgain Campaign, from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Random-Shots-Rifleman-ebook/dp/B00472OABW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364831952&sr=1-1&keywords=sir+john+kincaid
I’ve read it. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Ex-PH2, right now I’m reaking a historical fiction about the Roanoke Mystery. I’ll have to try yours when I am done with that since it looks interesting. I don’t think they will let me sit and read my Kindle at work though.
Flagwaver: if you’re referring to the Rick Astley clip, it was discussed yesterday:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=34855
It will be on one of the future lists, just not sure which one yet.
reading a historical
Twist: You could get a print copy of Adventures of a Rifleman by Edward Costello, 1857 from Amazon. He was a cobbler, repairing the soldiers’ and officers’ boots and shoes, but also saw action in the field himself.
Amazon is running a project to preserve these things before they slip away.
You have too much time on your hands, Hondo. (And so do the rest of you dickweeds!)
@12 – I’m retired. I work for me now. I can do what I wanna, and cain’t no one tell me I cain’t. 😛
Hondo, this is a movie sountrack, so it doesn’t fit your list but it is the WORST music ever for a movie: the soundtrack from ‘Ladyhawke’. Good movie. Rutger Hauer – HOT!!!! especially with a crossbow. Michelle Pfeiffer – eye candy for you horny drones. Goliath the horse – Friesian breed, I want one like him!!!
But all and sundry universally declared the soundtrack music the WORST ON RECORD.
Nuts, I was thinking I only should have done the two minute version. I think I took the challenge once to listen as long as I could and made it about 15 minutes. Impossible internet challenges suck.
@13 – You know I was only kidding, right? 🙂
(Dickweed…)