Songs Savaged by Pop Culture

Commercials, YouTube and 'iconic' movie scenes make old faves unlistenable
By Lev Weinstein,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 7, 2008 12:29 PM CDT
Songs Savaged by Pop Culture
The Cars' 'Just What I Needed' will never be the same thanks to Circuit City   (orrben)

Some songs simply can't survive the ravages of pop culture. Scott Bennett on College Humor, runs down some tunes he can no longer listen to:

  • "O, Fortuna:" Jackass turned this "orchestral masterpiece" from Carl Orff into something that went from evoking "the struggle of mankind" to "Chris Pontius in a banana Hammock."
  • "Just What I Needed:" "Nothing will kill a song you love"—the Cars' classic, in this case—"faster than a repetitive beating in the form of awful commercials." Thanks, Circuit City.

  • "Dust in the Wind:" The Kansas tear-jerker is out thanks to Old School: "Even if you were at your mother's open casket, you'd start snickering imagining a fat, pasty and sweaty Will Ferrell wailing 'You're my boy, Blue!'"
  • "Anyway You Want It:" "Playing great songs in awful movies should be a crime viewed on the same level as pit bull fighting," Bennett writes of the Journey masterpiece put through the wringer of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
(More music stories.)

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