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Drachen
10-08-2010, 08:55 AM
Whenever looking for a station I usually scan all my presets to see what is on. I hate it when I find a station playing a good song, rock out to it, then I change it after that song finishes to another station only to hear an even better song just finishing. There is one song, though, that I don't think I have ever changed the station for. Its a good song, not my favorite, from a good band, not my favorite, but I just cant seem to not listen to it. It just always seems to come on at the perfect time.

Dire Straights - Sultans of Swing

Do yall have anything like this?
101A
10-08-2010, 09:21 AM
Radar Love
Latarian Milton
10-08-2010, 09:21 AM
tbh it's just the tune and rhythm of the song that inveigle you, while the lyrics never make any sense to you retarded exotic dummy. don't say song next time tbh, it's just music for you.
Drachen
10-08-2010, 09:33 AM
Radar Love

This one would be close for me but I may have turned past it once or twice in my life. Another great song, nonetheless. Too bad that was all they did.
Sausage
10-08-2010, 09:45 AM
Radiohead- Creep
mrsmaalox
10-08-2010, 09:45 AM
Whenever looking for a station I usually scan all my presets to see what is on. I hate it when I find a station playing a good song, rock out to it, then I change it after that song finishes to another station only to hear an even better song just finishing. There is one song, though, that I don't think I have ever changed the station for. Its a good song, not my favorite, from a good band, not my favorite, but I just cant seem to not listen to it. It just always seems to come on at the perfect time.

Dire Straights - Sultans of Swing

Do yall have anything like this?

Well yea. It's because Mark Knopfler is a truly talented musician and that is a great song that single-handedly saved the ears of the radio listening American public from the malady known as "disco-fever"! :toast
Fpoonsie
10-08-2010, 10:01 AM
All-time, it would be Counting Crows' "Mr. Jones."

Though, currently, I just subscribed to Sirius radio and there's an Alt Rock station that plays this song by Sleigh Bells called "Tell 'Em." Apparently, it's started to make its rounds on MTV, but I'd never heard of it before...and no, I can't turn it off.
IronMexican
10-08-2010, 10:02 AM
Radio should only be used to listen to sports talk.
mrsmaalox
10-08-2010, 10:08 AM
And personally I don't listen to much local radio, except NPR, but if my kids are with me and they have the radio on, I won't let them switch it during "Crying Like a Bitch".
Drachen
10-08-2010, 10:09 AM
Radio should only be used to listen to sports talk.

What are you implying? People should all have satellite radio? Or people should use MP3 players?
IronMexican
10-08-2010, 10:11 AM
What are you implying? People should all have satellite radio? Or people should use MP3 players?

Whenever I'm in the car, I almost always go to AM radio for sports talk. Dunno why. I guess it was just out of habit. And I don't have Satellite radio.
Drachen
10-08-2010, 10:16 AM
Whenever I'm in the car, I almost always go to AM radio for sports talk. Dunno why. I guess it was just out of habit. And I don't have Satellite radio.


I rarely listen to talk radio at all. I have to have music.
Frenzy
10-08-2010, 10:33 AM
"Mainstreet"
Drachen
10-08-2010, 10:54 AM
by who?
CavsSuperFan
10-08-2010, 11:01 AM
Hollaback Girl…

Gwen owns Gaga…:tu
101A
10-08-2010, 11:06 AM
And, no, I won't turn off "Sultans" either.

There's several others that come to mind:

"Lights Out" by UFO, "Fight the Good Fight" by Triumph - and several "Hair Metal" anthems that I would rather not admit publicly.

Guilty pleasures, I guess

My more sophisticated side won't turn off any Beethoven Symphony, Dvorak's Symphony #9, or any Tchaikovsky on the classical station I listen to, or any recording of the North Texas 1 O'Clock (or just about any other modern big band) on the local NPR when it's doing Jazz.
balli
10-08-2010, 12:08 PM
Desperado.
leemajors
10-08-2010, 12:34 PM
Radio should only be used to listen to sports talk.

:tu
phxspurfan
10-08-2010, 01:29 PM
Party in the USA

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Darrin
10-08-2010, 02:11 PM
8xg3vE8Ie_E

It was always on.
silverblk mystix
10-08-2010, 07:14 PM
mistake...ooops
silverblk mystix
10-08-2010, 07:18 PM
this one...

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The Reckoning
10-08-2010, 09:16 PM
i have the exact opposite problem. i turn the station to a shitty song then have to change it to another shitty song. eventually i settle for the less shitty song or turn off the radio all together.
Chachachango
10-08-2010, 09:24 PM
The Macarena
AnthonyM
10-08-2010, 09:55 PM
I have way more than one.

But, currently it's Take it to the Limit.

However, that might also have something to do with the Eagles headlining ACL
Drachen
10-08-2010, 10:19 PM
I have had "current" ones, but they come and go. Sultans of Swing is one that I can't ever remember turning off.
Fat boy
10-08-2010, 10:29 PM
Those damn Whataburger commericials...."just like you like it" gets me everytime.
Greg Oden
10-08-2010, 11:08 PM
Pink Floyd - Teenage Wasteland
IronMexican
10-09-2010, 12:10 AM
Pink Floyd - Teenage Wasteland

:tu best song. Gilmour beasted on it.
Greg Oden
10-09-2010, 12:11 AM
He's got nothing on Robert Plant's vocals in it.
The Reckoning
10-09-2010, 12:37 AM
rofl nvm
silverblk mystix
10-09-2010, 07:50 AM
...oh yeah...

those ``Real men of Genius'' Bud commercials...they kill me.
phxspurfan
10-12-2010, 05:54 PM
Pink Floyd - Teenage Wasteland

For some reason that song reminds me of the greatest round of golf I've ever played
HeatTheBestEver
10-12-2010, 06:02 PM
Pink Floyd - Teenage Wasteland

Nigga you serious? I can tell u don't get no hoes.

-Pretty Boy Swag- by soulja da hottest shit out right now, I get on that shit and start jackin on da females. kinda like da Heat i got dat pretty boy swag,none of dat other gay shit matters
LnGrrrR
10-12-2010, 07:03 PM
Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" though I rarely hear it
DAF86
10-12-2010, 07:13 PM
There are shitty songs like 90% of the time on the radio, so whenever I find one that is decent, I leave it. I usually listen to CD's when I'm driving though.
AnthonyM
10-12-2010, 07:24 PM
I can't tell who's seriously responding to Greg Oden's teenage wasteland comment...
IronMexican
10-12-2010, 09:26 PM
I can't tell who's seriously responding to Greg Oden's teenage wasteland comment...

Are you telling me that the great Pink Floyd disnt write it?
Greg Oden
10-12-2010, 09:35 PM
questioning that song isn't on Floyd's Axis Bold As Love?
AnthonyM
10-13-2010, 12:22 AM
Are you telling me that the great Pink Floyd disnt write it?

No. I was under the impression it's Baba O' Riley by the great Pink Floyd tbh
Drachen
10-15-2010, 09:16 AM
Well yea. It's because Mark Knopfler is a truly talented musician and that is a great song that single-handedly saved the ears of the radio listening American public from the malady known as "disco-fever"! :toast

I just heard it again today and remembered I wanted to respond to this. I wasn't alive when this song was released, so I can't comment on this particular effect, but the fact that it was a culturally relevant song makes it all the better. It's just a damn good piece of music with great lyrics and the perfect vocals to match the mood of the song.

It puts me in the same place almost every time: back of a smoky bar watching this great unknown band on stage playing some of the best music I have heard and NO one is talking to each other, they just can't take their eyes off the stage.