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[DudeAsInCool]

This guy speaks from the heart. Let's hear about your sound ammunition..

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Top 10 Songs To Keep the Riffraff Away

Have you ever gotten out of your car at a Los Angeles gas station and heard smarmy Muzak being piped through a sound system, or walked by a building being refurbished and heard the horrifying strains of George Gershwin? Maybe "A Horse With No Name" by America or "I’m Not in Love" by 10cc? Well, those catchy toe-tappers aren’t there so you can do a little two-step while you fuel up. Those songs are there to stave off punks, hippies, beggars, pimps, hookers and bums. Your average street person is as tough as nails, but they can’t stand up to a single strain of James Taylor crooning "You’ve Got a Friend" — it works like audio pepper spray. The following are some ditties sure to keep the creeps off your driveway and squatters off your construction site:

10. "Love Will Keep Us Together" — The Captain and Tennille. The good Captain and his toothy wife crafted this song of hope without realizing the repugnant aftertaste it would leave after 30 years.

9. Any post-Beatles Paul McCartney will chase off unwanted intruders for up to five miles away.

8. "So Far Away" — Carol King. Its subliminal message compels derelicts to take a powder. That one about the earth moving under her feet is another good sonic bouncer.

7. "My Cherie Amour," "Sir Duke," "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" — oh shit, just make it the whole Stevie Wonder song list.

6. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" — Gordon Lightfoot. Gordon himself can’t stand this one.

5. "I Can See Clearly Now" — Jimmy Cliff. One-hit wonders are sure-fire deterrents and may be used liberally. Redbone doesn’t count because they sort of had two hits.

4. "Ride Captain Ride" — Blues Image. See above.

3. "Sunny" — Bobby Hebb. Lyrics like Thank you for the smile upon my face are extremely repulsive when trying to sleep in a Dumpster.

2. Kenny G, George Benson or Chuck Mangione are especially effective against runaway teens.

1. A tie, between Johnny Mathis (during the holidays) and those wimp crooners Chicago (for the rest of the year). "Baby, what a big surprise." Bonus: These guys are also lethal to many insects and small furry rodents!

—Peter Fletcher

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/05/the-moremusic.php#fletcher

[rainbowdemon]

4. "Ride Captain Ride" — Blues Image.

I like that one!!

[Redneck4sure]

I like that one!!

Me too rainbow. That is the best one on the list. I also liked "Sunny" and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday".

[Tackdaddy]

you light up my life by debbi boone,everYime i hear that song i wanna go nuts..................AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

[jipper]

tackdaddy i love your avatar..k

[rainbowdemon]

you light up my life by debbi boone,everYime i hear that song i wanna go nuts..................AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

That's probably one of the most irritating songs of all time!!

:sick:

[KiwiCoromandel]

blues image..." ride captain, ride "...choice one......

Probably the most well-known of the musicians from this band is Mike Pinera, who later went on to play with Iron Butterfly on their too little heard last album "Metamorphosis". Mike played lead guitar, was the lead singer on "Ride Captain Ride", and wrote that hit......

ARTIST: Blues Image

TITLE: Ride Captain Ride (Open (1970)

Lyrics and Chords

Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay

Rolled off of their ship, and here's what they had to say

"We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore

We can laugh our lives away and be free once more"

/ D - E E7 / G7 - D - / :

But no one heard them callin', no one came at all

'Cause they were too busy watchin' those old raindrops fall

As a storm was blowin' out on the peaceful sea

Seventy-three men sailed off into history

Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship

Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip

Ride captain ride upon your mystery ship

On your way to a world that others might have missed

/ D - A - / C - D - / :

{Repeat first two verses}

{Refrain}

Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship

Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip

[Cerebral_Assassin]

And I too like "Ride Captain Ride", was and still is a great song. Also like Chicago, more of their early stuff than later......Peter Cetera's whiny nasal bellowing vocals irritate me.

[Tackdaddy]

how about I'm Henry The 8th, I Am by the hermits.....yuck