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TEN SONGS IT’S JUST IMPOSSIBLE TO LISTEN TO AGAIN

1. Deep Purple Smoke on the water [that riff makes me wanna smash a guitar. Not my guitar, though, Ritchie Blackmore’s]
2. The Doors Light my fire [When Ray Manzarek starts playing that circus-ish melody on keyboards, I think the world would be a better place without electric power]
3. The Beach Boys Surfin’ Safari [I mean, how shiny & happy can one be? Have mercy!]
4. Rainbow The temple of the king [“One day in the year of the fox/Came a time remembered well/When the strong young man of the rising sun/Heard the tolling of the great black bell” – ok, nonsense lyrics may be charming sometimes but… Pllllllllllllllllease!!!]
5. No Doubt Don’t speak [Problem is… it’s not that I have listened to it one too many times. Problem is I couldn’t stand it in the first place!!! Urghhhhhhh]
6. The Dandy Warhols Bohemian like you [ok, almost any Dandies song would do, but because of the Vodafone ad, this pretentious indie-trying-to-become-stadium-rock song just gets on my nerves!!!]
7. Tiesto Adagio for strings [The Americans use Samuel Barber’s “original” version everytime a President of the US dies and the Nation’s in mourning. Every single time I listen to it, I feel like a President of the US. Dead…]
8. U2 I still haven’t found what I'm looking for [Let’s say you’re a man, and 18 years after your declaration, you STILL cannot seem to find what the fuck you have been looking for all this time. Wouldn’t you say it’s high time you stopped moaning??? Bono Vox my ass!!!]
9. The Rolling Stones Angie [“…With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats…” There is nothing worse than a cocaine addicted millionaire impersonating a blues singer in no-way-I-am-having-a-mid-life-crisis-as-I-am-on-top-of-the-world crisis. But I could live with that. It’s the song itself that makes even other Stones’ dreadful song sound almost good by comparison]
10. The Kelly Family Fell in love with an alien [for once, words actually fail me]