Whats a song that you skip every time

[Ostria]

As the title said. We all have songs that if we hear on our spotify/pandora/etc or radio, that we hit the next button, not even giving the singer another second to offend our ears. What is that song for you? Mine is "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White Ts. When the song came out the radio played it like crazy, and often when i had to wake up for school, so it was my unwilling alarm clock.

[Pabo]

The Horses by Daryl Braithwaite. It was a huge hit here in Australia and got a tonne of airplay (nearly once on hour).

 

There was a radio station back in the early 90's that you could request a song on the "jumpy CD player" at a certain time of day, where if the song you requested skipped in the song being played, you recieved $10 for each time it skipped or jumped. At times, the CD may skip a couple of times, at other times it didn't at all.

 

There was one person who requested this song on this "jumpy CD player" and the song went for 23 minutes non-stop before the DJ actually stopped the track himself, because he got sick of the song too. The song requester recieved something like $500 plus at the time (equivilant to say a month's take home pay), and that song was banned from the "jumpy CD player".

 

Even now, whenever I hear this song, my thoughts atuomatically go straight back to this "jumpy CD player".

 

Funny thing was everyone here thought it was an Aussie song at the time, but it was an American cover.

[Ostria]

3 hours ago, Pabo said:

The Horses by Daryl Braithwaite. It was a huge hit here in Australia and got a tonne of airplay (nearly once on hour).

 

There was a radio station back in the early 90's that you could request a song on the "jumpy CD player" at a certain time of day, where if the song you requested skipped in the song being played, you recieved $10 for each time it skipped or jumped. At times, the CD may skip a couple of times, at other times it didn't at all.

 

There was one person who requested this song on this "jumpy CD player" and the song went for 23 minutes non-stop before the DJ actually stopped the track himself, because he got sick of the song too. The song requester recieved something like $500 plus at the time (equivilant to say a month's take home pay), and that song was banned from the "jumpy CD player".

 

Even now, whenever I hear this song, my thoughts atuomatically go straight back to this "jumpy CD player".

 

Funny thing was everyone here thought it was an Aussie song at the time, but it was an American cover.

 

 

I listened to the song on youtube just now and im not even understanding why it would even be popular 🤣. Thanks for commenting i was startimg to think only i had an absolute dislike for a song 🤣.

 

To clarify, theres a song thats 23 minutes? Or did they play that same song repeatedly for 23 minutes.

[Pabo]

19 hours ago, Ostria said:

 To clarify, theres a song thats 23 minutes? Or did they play that same song repeatedly for 23 minutes.

 

The song kept on jumping back to an earlier part on the track which lengthened the time of the song being played.

 

Eg. That track length of the song "The Horses" is 4:16.

 

The song started at 0:00 on the track time, it played up to 1:34, then the track skipped back and resumed at 0:32 on the track time, played all the way to 1:56 and the skipped back to 0:54, played to 1:20, jumped ahead to 2:56, played to 3:20 and jumped to almost the start 0:21 and so forth until the song hits the end of the track.

 

So in this above example, but the song  played all the way through from the 0:21 mark to the end, the same song played for

(0:00 to 1:34) = 1:34 +

(0:32 to 1:56) = 1:24 +

(0:54 to 1:20) = 0:26 +

(2:56 to 3:20) = 0:24 +

(0:21 to 4:16) = 3:55

Total length = 7:43

 

So the song that normally would be played for 4:16 ended up playing for 7:43, nearly twice as long then it should have.

 

Normally, when a CD player skips (jumps), at times it is to a later part of the song thus shortening the songs time being played. But it can go backwards to to an earlier part of the track, depending on the CD player's manufacturer.

Edited July 13 by Pabo

[Ostria]

3 hours ago, Pabo said:

 

The song kept on jumping back to an earlier part on the track which lengthened the time of the song being played.

 

Eg. That track length of the song "The Horses" is 4:16.

 

The song started at 0:00 on the track time, it played up to 1:34, then the track skipped back and resumed at 0:32 on the track time, played all the way to 1:56 and the skipped back to 0:54, played to 1:20, jumped ahead to 2:56, played to 3:20 and jumped to almost the start 0:21 and so forth until the song hits the end of the track.

 

So in this above example, but the song  played all the way through from the 0:21 mark to the end, the same song played for

(0:00 to 1:34) = 1:34 +

(0:32 to 1:56) = 1:24 +

(0:54 to 1:20) = 0:26 +

(2:56 to 3:20) = 0:24 +

(0:21 to 4:16) = 3:55

Total length = 7:43

 

So the song that normally would be played for 4:16 ended up playing for 7:43, nearly twice as long then it should have.

 

Normally, when a CD player skips (jumps), at times it is to a later part of the song thus shortening the songs time being played. But it can go backwards to to an earlier part of the track, depending on the CD player's manufacturer.

That... Is... AMAZING. I knew cd players can skip forwars but i wasnt aware it could go backwards. It also reminds me of one of my favorite memes

 

Edit: editing for better quality picture

 

Edited July 14 by Ostria
Bettee picture

[hatcheckgirl]

Gangem Style. I found myself singing it the other day, and thankfully stopped myself at the “hey, chips and gravy line” (I’m not quoting the real line 🤣)

 

 

Yeah, the Horses song was really overplayed back in the day

Edited July 14 by hatcheckgirl

[Ostria]

12 hours ago, hatcheckgirl said:

Gangem Style. I found myself singing it the other day, and thankfully stopped myself at the “hey, chips and gravy line” (I’m not quoting the real line 🤣)

 

 

Yeah, the Horses song was really overplayed back in the day

 

 

Lol. I prefer Psy's "Year of 77" myself. Oddly enough i was jamming to that before gangnam style came out but never knew he sung it 🤣. I had a 'I liked Psy before he was cool' moment. Though i think Psy being popular in the states paved the way for the Kpop fiends😩, which i have dubbed the weeaboos of the 2010s and 2020s. I heard GS on the radio the other day and it freaked me out, forgot it was popular enough to earn occasional radio time despite not being an English song like the macarena

 

https://youtu.be/uPGwH0Li2dc?si=yC04dSg6kACBztA6