Seasons of the Ukulele

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Season 676 - Songs you hate to love. Songs you love to hate.

DesertPavement

I’m a bit surprised this one hasn’t turned up yet. Having long ago swapped a couple Beatles songs with this Season’s host, I couldn’t let the opportunity pass up. Here is, quite possibly, one of the simultaneously abhorrent and catchy songs in their entire catalog. Thanks for the week John.

OneManAndHisPGUke

Thanks Ylle, BKV and Andy for rounding out the day for me in such great style. We now have 40 songs on the playlist which isn’t too shabby if you ask me. Still time to bring a few more. Sunday is my working day so I’ll be back in the evening to check out this thread. Naturally all eyes ( mine included) turn to Ylle’s season now, which is only right and proper, but if anyone feels like doing a song or two more, well, I’m not going anywhere yet. Night night all.

UkeCan1

While searching the caverns of my twisted mind for songs containing letters (677), the phrase "threw the letter away" peered out from the dust bunnies.

I looked it up ... and was reminded it's the climax of this objectively terrible 1974 song (#8 on Rolling Stone's readers' poll of "10 Worst Songs of the '70s") that I think many of us love to hate (676), making it the perfect Monday twofer.

Now if only I can dislodge it from the jukebox in my tiny brain, where it has taken up residence once again after nearly 5 decades of blessed silence....

"Billy, Don't Be a Hero", by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods

(Those of you insisting it's Paper Lace, you are also correct. They had a #1 UK/Aus/NZ/Ireland hit with it, weeks before Bo's #1 US/Canada version that ruined my childhood. Fellow North Americans: we know Paper Lace from that other terrible song, "The Night Chicago Died".)

PS: the events in the song are tragic, and my apologies to anyone who has personally experienced anything like this - my heart goes out you. AND there are many, many much better songs about that.)

OnlyUkeThatMatters

I've vacillated between loving and hating Oasis' "Wonderwall" ever since it came out.

And a day or two before this Season began, I happened to watch this 12tone video that asks the question "Why Is Wonderwall?"

While I may never understand my hatred or my love for the Gallagher bros. or their music, I sure had fun exploring those feelings this week.

uke4ia

In looking for a song to play, it was amazing to see how many of my Guilty Pleasures I've already played over the past 13 years of the Seasons. This is "Clip Clop (Ode to Equus)" by Barnes & Barnes. It's from the same album as "roly-poly fish heads, eat them up, yum!"

elmann

C'mon 'n hate with me:

MsBean

A guilty pleasure for me.

I had a hard time deciding what I was going to do, and I went with indulging in a traditional song with only a handful chords, whistling and letting in a bit of distortion. Here's Molly Malone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Malone

OneManAndHisPGUke

Sabine getting in just under the wire there brings Season 676 to a close. 45 (I think) songs on the playlist. I thank you all for your contributions. I will be back later in the week with a wrap. Right then, let’s get letter writing with Ylle!!

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