09-08-2016, 01:12 PM
I don't know why Love Shack gives me hives, most people love it, but it is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Especially the guy. My son still laughs about a time years ago when we had walked to Tim Hortons, bought coffee and donuts and had literally just sat down when it came on and he swears I said something like "oh we gotta get the fuck outta here" and bolted from my seat. I think the kid was exaggerating but it's like his dad-comedy highlight reel.
Only one other song does me that way and fits the motif of "endless repeat anecdote": one time I was a guest of the state for about two weeks as a minor, in a town with no juvenile facilities so they isolated us in an empty side of grown-up jail (me and little brother) and I requested a radio to pass the time. They brought one, cranked it up to high volume on top forty, set it out of reach on the other side of the bars, and left us for 16 hours. Every twenty minutes we got to hear "you spin me right round like a record baby" at full volume. No breaks. All day. For several days. Stupid fucking small-town hick cops. I think they were pissed I had laughed about them catching a check forger named Elvis Presley Whitehorse, who then paid his bail...with a bad check. Fucking hilarious. So they punished us for laughing at them. Even now, hearing that song will send me into a murderous rage.
Only one other song does me that way and fits the motif of "endless repeat anecdote": one time I was a guest of the state for about two weeks as a minor, in a town with no juvenile facilities so they isolated us in an empty side of grown-up jail (me and little brother) and I requested a radio to pass the time. They brought one, cranked it up to high volume on top forty, set it out of reach on the other side of the bars, and left us for 16 hours. Every twenty minutes we got to hear "you spin me right round like a record baby" at full volume. No breaks. All day. For several days. Stupid fucking small-town hick cops. I think they were pissed I had laughed about them catching a check forger named Elvis Presley Whitehorse, who then paid his bail...with a bad check. Fucking hilarious. So they punished us for laughing at them. Even now, hearing that song will send me into a murderous rage.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.