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Gotta say I disagree with "Drive" and "Radar Love".
Posted by: wiredog | October 28, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Congrats on the mention, Dave, for the song 'Beep Beep'. I looked the lyrics up for this song and they really don't make any sense do they? However, the site did offer to send the song to my cellphone as a ring tone. I declined.
Posted by: nursecindy | October 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM
yeah i like "drive" and "dead skunk".
Posted by: mudstuffin | October 28, 2010 at 12:19 PM
That annoying rap song vibrating the cars all around in traffic up to distances of seventeen blocks down the street. And anything by Spandau Ballet.
Posted by: manual tomato | October 28, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Guys? It is also a very bad idea to play the song "You're Having My Baby" when driving your pregnant wife to the hospital. In fact it's a bad idea to ever play this song.
Posted by: nursecindy | October 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Umm, they DO understand that the song "Drive My Car" was not actually about driving cars, right?
Posted by: padraig | October 28, 2010 at 12:29 PM
Radar Love? Really? Hmmpf...
Posted by: Hammond Rye | October 28, 2010 at 12:32 PM
*replaces Radar Love on the list with Autobahn by Kraftwerk*
Posted by: fivver | October 28, 2010 at 12:38 PM
I voted for Dead Skunk .. ha!
Kudos to Dave for getting mentioned on this Survey Report!!
Posted by: MOTW | October 28, 2010 at 12:47 PM
". “Drive My Car” by the Beatles. “An awful, annoying song from the best rock group ever,” said a Dave Barry Blog commenter. “Bad lyrics, bad harmony, plodding beat. Did they phone this one in?”
Them's fightin' words!
*looks around for Siouxie's machete, but this is Minnesota, so makes do with filet knife.*
Posted by: Tash | October 28, 2010 at 01:03 PM
After reading 10 and 9 I had to suspect Radar Love was going to make the list. I think the problem is that many voters made the mistake of evaluating the lyrics, when of course in reality the lyrics are the last thing you notice about the song. In fact, if you take out the verses and replace them with an extension of The Greatest Drum Solo Ever you'd have a strong candidate for Best Song Ever.
Posted by: KJP | October 28, 2010 at 01:08 PM
Yeah, fivv, I put in an anti-plug for Autobahn, too.
But, on the other hand, if you were to stick Foggy Mountain Breakdown on the stereo, you must by law stop everything and put the key in the ignition and go somewhere.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | October 28, 2010 at 01:19 PM
Meanie, if you listen to Foggy Mountain Breakdown you must be waiting for AAA.
Posted by: Loudmouth | October 28, 2010 at 01:28 PM
that was "when the bullet hits the bone" wasn't it? and "dead skunk" is just good annoy-your-sister fun. and i thought i heard some one dissin' kraftwerk, who was it that wanted that cyber fart?
3<
there you go. pick it up at your leisure.
Posted by: mudstuffin | October 28, 2010 at 01:36 PM
Meanie....abso-freakin'-lutely! Somewhere; ANYwhere; and if the sound of my own wheels drives me crazy, just more fun!
Posted by: Betsy | October 28, 2010 at 01:46 PM
Neil Diamond is the dude who thinks chairs talk? Not really surprised he won.
Posted by: Elon | October 28, 2010 at 01:57 PM
Git yer car keys......
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | October 28, 2010 at 01:58 PM
I believe Dave once said that if you get pulled over while listening to 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' by law the Highway Patrolman should be required to dance with you. I agree.
Posted by: nursecindy | October 28, 2010 at 02:00 PM
Now mud, I wasn't dissing Kraftwerk. It's just that Autobahn is a terrible driving song. If the list had been 'Best Songs to Induce a Coma', Autobahn would have been right at the top!
Posted by: fivver | October 28, 2010 at 02:06 PM
Jesus take the wheel happens south of Cincinnati on a snowy Christmas Eve Friday Night. Not exactly as universal an experience as they could have had.
Posted by: oneblankspace | October 28, 2010 at 02:28 PM
fivver: if by "induce a coma" you mean "listen to at high volume at 1:00 AM after consuming powerful doses of various hallucinogens" then i agree.
Posted by: mudstuffin | October 28, 2010 at 02:43 PM
Gentle-mud .. Gentle-fivver .. Please, guys. Just calm down, take a couple of these, and sit in the middle of the geezer bus until you cool off.
Posted by: MOTW | October 28, 2010 at 03:55 PM
Hey Loudmouth, no fair sticking me on the geezer bus! I'm only 35!
(It's really my dad who listens to FMB, but sometimes I listen along . . . )
Posted by: Renee (the First) | October 28, 2010 at 04:03 PM
@Tash @ 1:03 - a bunch of us agreed that the Beatles blew spotted dick on that song. I was proud of the brave bloggers who did so, knowing full well that soooo many people blindly worship the beatles.
WTFBBQ messing with Brooks & Dunn? And just a quote from the song is enough to bash it? Nuff said, 'cuz it's country? Some people got no brungin' up.....grrr...
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 28, 2010 at 07:08 PM
"Dead Skunk" is a GREAT drivin' song ...
Tho, p'haps, not as great as "Put another log on the fire" ...
(No, we did NOT have either of those @ our wedding ... that wuz before either of 'em wuz wrote ... )
and ... LOLLERLOLLERLOLLER @ n'cindy, r.e. "baby" song ...
Posted by: O the U(manity) | October 28, 2010 at 09:17 PM
I kinda liked "Radar Love", and I like "Drive". I kinda gotta agree with their take on "Jesus, take the wheel" though. I'm sure I'm being too literal, but I always think that God expects us to at least try to take care of ourselves. Also, that song always makes me teary.
Hadn't seen the video for this Weird Al song before, but loved it!
Posted by: Kristina L | October 28, 2010 at 10:41 PM
My favorite driving song is 'Bad Moon Rising' by CCR. However I've never understood the lyrics.
Don't go out tonight
Your bound to get a fright.
But there's a bathroom on the right.
At least that's the way I understand and sing them.
Posted by: nursecindy | October 28, 2010 at 11:29 PM
I meant to mention above that my favorite driving song this time of year is Zevon Warren's "Werewolves Of London" AAAHOOOO!! "Monster Mash" is a close second. I don't know the words to either one of those either.
Posted by: nursecindy | October 28, 2010 at 11:33 PM
While there are some songs on the list that are bad, I think the general consensus is this is possibly the worst "10 worst" list many of us have ever seen.
Posted by: Wingnut | October 29, 2010 at 07:13 AM
Agreed. Again, "Radar Love" one of the ten worst? Not even close.
On the other hand, Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone" is one of my favorite driving songs. So is Rush's "Red Barchetta."
Posted by: Wes S. | October 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM
"Take it Easy" ... obvious choice for Best Drivin' song, ever ...
Accordin' to the personal playlist of Moi Ownself, of course ...
Posted by: O the U(manity) | October 29, 2010 at 01:30 PM
The worst road song is the one playing on the way to visit the in-laws.
Posted by: Steve | October 29, 2010 at 10:16 PM
No mention of Warm Leatherette?
Posted by: scatillogical | November 01, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Take II: No mention of Warm Leatherette?
Posted by: scatillogical | November 01, 2010 at 12:09 AM
I know it's rude to dredge this thread back up from the dead (hey, that rymes. New song lyric maybe?) but I simply had to---- because everybody else responding forgot about "Convoy" by C.W. McCall and "Last kiss" by... I forget who, but they're of the same wimpy category as Little Jimmy Osmond, Donnie Osmond, Justin Beiber, etc.
Posted by: Grouch | November 29, 2011 at 05:37 AM