'If I hear Wagon Wheel one more time I'm going to break that stereo'

maudgonner · 17-05-2016 12:20PM

I worked a night shift in a factory the summer Hansen released Mmm Bop. Every time I see BoomBap's username I get flashbacks. It was never off the radio.

Eternal - I Wanna Be the Only One was out the same year. Brings me right back to working on that assembly line with an oversized white coat and hairnet on, having the craic 'cause there were no supervisors on the night shift and only about 8 of us in the building. Good times.

The Backwards Man · 17-05-2016 12:25PM

Malari wrote: »

I've never heard it either I don't listen to radio either or live under a rock.

Feeling quite smug, judging by the reactions here :pac:

It's a class song, but Nathan Carter singing about hitchhiking the eastern seaboard of the US is like Twink singing about footing turf.

Letree · 17-05-2016 12:31PM

gramar wrote: »

What crap have you had to put up with from neighbours and have you ever confronted them about it?

No music but barking dogs, its amazing how inconsiderate neighbours can be.

Malari · 17-05-2016 12:39PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's a class song, but Nathan Carter singing about hitchhiking the eastern seaboard of the US is like Twink singing about footing turf.

I'll take your word for it

I assumed Nathan Carter was some boy-band chap who broke free of his co-crooners, but...Irish country music? Ah, no thanks. :P

Ken. · 17-05-2016 12:45PM

syklops wrote: »

I worked in Dunnes Stores around the time Maniac 2000 was in the charts. In the shop they had a tape with some songs on it for the clientèle to listen to, but over the years they had recorded the weekly promotions over the songs. They kept using the same tape and kept recording over the old promotions, so to make it sound "OK", every new promotion had to be slightly longer than the last. The result was that by the time I worked there, there was approximately 20 seconds of Culture Club' "Do you really want to hurt me", then a gap of silence for a few seconds, then about 40 seconds of Albatross by Fleetwood Mac, the a gap then a promotion then another gap then about 40 seconds of "Red Red wine by UB40". And the it would loop back to the start.

In their entirety, those are three decent songs but in an 8 hour shift I would hear that same segment of "Do you really want to hurt me?" approximately 50 times(5 to 6 times an hour).

It really was a form of torture.

In our Dunnes there was no clock visible in our section. We kept time by the instore music. When you heard red wine you knew it would be exactly one hour till you heard it again.

cml387 · 17-05-2016 12:52PM

Worked in a place which had 8 track player( yes, it was that long ago) and only one 8 track cassette. Perry Como's greatest hits. Over. and . Over.

"What did Delaware boys?
What did Delaware"

and other classics.

The Backwards Man · 17-05-2016 12:57PM

I spent a couple of weeks walling spuds once with no company but a CD of Glen Campbell whose only playable track was Wichita Lineman.

I love that song so it didn't bother me too much, but I never listened to it for a long time afterwards.

Sam Kade · 17-05-2016 01:03PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I spent a couple of weeks walling spuds once with no company but a CD of Glen Campbell whose only playable track was Wichita Lineman.

I love that song so it didn't bother me too much, but I never listened to it for a long time afterwards.

Walling spuds? Were you throwing them into a shed or something?

razorblunt · 17-05-2016 01:07PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Doubt it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Cry_for_Me_Argentina

:cool:

Movie version.

Dr Crayfish · 17-05-2016 01:07PM

cml387 wrote: »

Worked in a place which had 8 track player( yes, it was that long ago) and only one 8 track cassette. Perry Como's greatest hits. Over. and . Over.

"What did Delaware boys?
What did Delaware"

and other classics.

She wore a brand New Jersey innit

The Backwards Man · 17-05-2016 01:12PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Walling spuds? Were you throwing them into a shed or something?

More or less, you have to store them somewhere cool, dry and dark to stop them budding.

martingriff · 17-05-2016 01:39PM

About 20 years ago I was in beaumont hospital for an operation and was bed bound for 10 days after an operation the day after the operation Boyzone came and was seeing all the patients. If that was not bad enough they left a video of there then current song (love me for a reason) and I dont think from waking up to going to sleep was the song ever off.

I like wagon wheel but ya Narhan Carter is not good. Some people thing it is his song an original. I think even he is getting sick of it

Fratton Fred · 17-05-2016 01:42PM

When I was a kid, that sing was massive, it's nowhere near as big as it used to be.

gerrybbadd · 17-05-2016 01:44PM

I really fúckin hate that Wagon Wheel song.

This year though, it seems that the newest song to play 400 times per day is Shut Up and Dance.

Drives me insane. Was at a wedding there a few weeks back, and the band played it twice. Then one of the band members was pulling DJ duty after the live music finished. Sure, of course he had to play it a further 3 times.

mickrock · 17-05-2016 01:47PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kYTJs6YwL4

Agricola · 17-05-2016 03:12PM

syklops wrote: »

I worked in Dunnes Stores around the time Maniac 2000 was in the charts. In the shop they had a tape with some songs on it for the clientèle to listen to, but over the years they had recorded the weekly promotions over the songs. They kept using the same tape and kept recording over the old promotions, so to make it sound "OK", every new promotion had to be slightly longer than the last. The result was that by the time I worked there, there was approximately 20 seconds of Culture Club' "Do you really want to hurt me", then a gap of silence for a few seconds, then about 40 seconds of Albatross by Fleetwood Mac, the a gap then a promotion then another gap then about 40 seconds of "Red Red wine by UB40". And the it would loop back to the start.

In their entirety, those are three decent songs but in an 8 hour shift I would hear that same segment of "Do you really want to hurt me?" approximately 50 times(5 to 6 times an hour).

It really was a form of torture.

Yep, anyone whos done a stint in retail, however short, knows this pain. I worked in a Supervalu around the same time and didn't know who Carly Simon was. After hearing You're so Vain eleventy thousand times, I wanted to strangle the bitch.

How great it must be for Aldi and Lidl staff not to have to endure this.

Broken Hearted Road · 17-05-2016 03:33PM

Must admit, I would love a good rattling from Nathan Carter.

Broken Hearted Road · 17-05-2016 10:27PM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

I really fúckin hate that Wagon Wheel song.

This year though, it seems that the newest song to play 400 times per day is Shut Up and Dance.

Drives me insane. Was at a wedding there a few weeks back, and the band played it twice. Then one of the band members was pulling DJ duty after the live music finished. Sure, of course he had to play it a further 3 times.

Shut up and dance is a brilliant song. Love it. Never fails to get me up and moving. Nathan has added Shut Up and Dance to his gig setlist.

gramar · 18-05-2016 07:33AM

Broken Hearted Road wrote: »

Shut up and dance is a brilliant song. Love it. Never fails to get me up and moving. Nathan has added Shut Up and Dance to his gig setlist.

You need to set up your own Nathan Carter appreciation/wankfest thread. Somewhere far...far away.

Banjoxed · 18-05-2016 07:43AM

Years ago I worked in an office where the hair-trigger tempered PA would play Céline Dion's Falling Into You album on repeat through her phone on speaker. Sweet heart of Jesus.

whisky_galore · 18-05-2016 08:05AM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I've never heard this Wagon Wheel song. I also never heard an Ed Sheeran song although I know exactly what he looks like. Where do people hear these songs? I don't listen to the radio much, only Newstalk. I'm also old.

You hear it as background music in sh*tkicking pubs and co-operative stores where farmers buy their cow feed and on local radio.

Badly Drunk Boy · 18-05-2016 08:26AM

Agricola wrote: »

How great it must be for Aldi and Lidl staff not to have to endure this.

These are some of the perks that go unnoticed from such jobs.

Broken Hearted Road wrote: »

Shut up and dance is a brilliant song. Love it. Never fails to get me up and moving. Nathan has added Shut Up and Dance to his gig setlist.

Because I'm getting older but don't have terrible taste in music, both Nathan Carter with his Wagon Wheel, and also Shut Up And Dance have completely bypassed me. I just checked YouTube for Shut Up And Dance because I was sure I must have heard it if it's that omnipresent, but no, never heard it until now.

kunst nugget · 18-05-2016 09:18AM

Broken Hearted Road wrote: »

Shut up and dance is a brilliant song.

It's like everything that was wrong with music in the eighties all rolled into one song. Absolutely terrible.

18-05-2016 09:54AM

kunst nugget wrote: »

It's like everything that was wrong with music in the eighties all rolled into one song. Absolutely terrible.

Ah now its a good tune in fairness.

kunst nugget · 18-05-2016 09:59AM

Dakota Scary Video wrote: »

Ah now its a good tune in fairness.

Ah now, it really isn't.

Trent Houseboat · 18-05-2016 11:01AM

I don't listen to the radio, so I don't know a lot of popular music. I don't know any Adele from Rihanna or Drake from Bieber but I know that horrible Wagon Wheel song inside out.

It's everywhere.

I was getting the Luas one night from IFSC and it was wedged with lunatics singing the chorus on loop, banging on the windows. They'd all spilled out the Country to Country show in the Point.

I think the cheesy country and western music loving people of this island needed a surrogate for Garth Brooks after he broke their hearts and Nathan Carter happened to be strolling past singing that song poorly in the time of their greatest need.

I pointed out the ubiquitousness of the song to a friend who said she had never heard it before, even after I played it for her. Two days later she told me that he's heard it twice in the one day.

Fluffy Cat 88 · 18-05-2016 11:11AM

Broken Hearted Road wrote: »

Must admit, I would love a good rattling from Nathan Carter.

Me too. But I'd stuff a few socks in his mouth first cos i can't listen to him

o1s1n · 18-05-2016 11:37AM

This thread really reminds me of the utterly deplorable taste in music a large part of the population have :pac:

osarusan · 18-05-2016 11:48AM

Until yesterday, Nathan Carter was just a vague name to me. A musician I had never knowingly listened to. If I was hearing his music, I didn't know it was his.

Until yesterday. Yesterday, I listened to the song on this thread, linked to youtube. I recognised it as something I've heard fleetingly in shops plenty of times.

Since then it's been in my head all the bloody time. I've even listened to 3 other versions of it. It won't go away.

F**k all you people.

Banjoxed · 18-05-2016 11:57AM

osarusan wrote: »

Until yesterday, Nathan Carter was just a vague name to me. A musician I had never knowingly listened to. If I was hearing his music, I didn't know it was his.

Until yesterday. Yesterday, I listened to the song on this thread, linked to youtube. I recognised it as something I've heard fleetingly in shops plenty of times.

Since then it's been in my head all the bloody time. I've even listened to 3 other versions of it. It won't go away.

F**k all you people.

You need to be line dancing. To be a proper Irishman. Vote Fianna Fáil, eat hang sangwidges, drink a pint of milk with your dinner in the middle of the day, go to Mass every Sunday and dab your eyes saying "isn't it grand" everytime someone sings "Grace" and have Dana's "Golden Rose, Queen of Ireland" at both your wedding and your funeral. Other than that, you will be called a West Brit Shoneen behind your back, and on occasions to your face. Get conforming now!

'If I hear Wagon Wheel one more time I'm going to break that stereo'

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