I read last week several teens in Colorado were given citations for breaking the city noise ordinance. While the idea of teenagers (and me for that matter) playing their music too loud is nothing new. Wait until you hear how they were punished.
Fort Lupton Municipal Judge Paul Sacco is making the teenagers listen to Barry Manilow.
I don’t care what I was doing wrong, if you forced me to listen to Barry Manilow for an extended amount of time it would force me to stop too. I think this judge is a genius.
So here’s today’s “ALL SKATE” question.
If someone were punishing you, who would they make you listen to?
Rap…with the loud…loud bass.
Bad country music, opera or def. rap…..or maybe my kids arguing. haha
Celine Dion
Hey, I love Barry Manilow. Although I prefer his face from 1984 instead of its current state. blech.
I agree…my girls arguing! As far as music, anything scream-o! My youngest LOVES it!!! My take – I didn’t like to be yelled at as a teen, what makes you think I’ll like it now???
I loved Barry Manilow back in the day, like 80′s!
@Gina, Oh, I love the loud bass!
A bad southern gospel quartet that thinks they are good. Usually includes a woman with lipstick on and not totally on her lips. We used to call these groups “Wednesday nighters” as that’s about the only time the pastor would give them the mic.
Brilliant – that’s hysterical! I think Barry Manilow would be it for me too!
anything rap.
Toss up between my daughter whining or a band my husband once recorded called Eviction. The lead singer looked like a troll and sounded even worse.
Making me listen to me sing would be Horrific! Making me listen to me singing Southern Gospel, would be even more Horrific!
Poor Barry. Such a bad rap. I would be tortured if I had to listen to Punk Rock or Heavy Metal. Bleeding eardrums, kill me now.
I totally agree …Barry would totally be punishment for me. There is a guy in one of my graduate courses whose email is BarryManilowFan@some-random-email-.com As soon as I saw that, I KNEW the dude was a bit off.
Paul Anka
Some of the Scots Gaelic country-ish music…shudder. Coldplay. Cliff Richard. Daniel O’Donnell. A ton of Christian music (I struggle to shop in Christian bookshops for more than a couple of minutes because it can drive me kinda nutty). Garage or Hard House Dance music.
Oh, the list is endless…
The Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, Hanson… you get the picture.
I was going to say my girls whining, but that seems a popular one.
Music wise? i would have to go with a screaming/metal type band. i can tolerate country, rap, opera even though i dont love it.
A Spongebob Squarepants marathon!
The song “Another Day in Paradise”. Redardless who sings it!
Hey.. I love Barry! You don’t love Copa Cabana? American Bandstand? Good stuff! Punishment would be listening to really loud off key music.
Elevator Music
@Aaron, My son Jett says “your crazy, the Jonas brothers are awesome.”
any kind of music where there is screaming involved. it makes me cringe and stresses me out
Polka music. It’s nails on a chalkboard…
R & B
DAVE MATTHEWS…..makes me crazy!
Twila Paris
Benny Hinn, Fran Drescher, James Dobson, Tammy Wynette, Towelie, Heavy Metal, Rosie O’Donnell, Barney the Dinosaur, a Jr. High band performance in September, John Lewis, a colicky baby, an audio transcription of myself and my ex- in our most heated confrontation ever, any automated “customer service” (HA!) system, harpsichord and chime music; the sounds coming from my neighbor’s houses every Friday night until 4:00 a.m., the “wisdom” of a zealous Christian who thinks he/she has it all figured out
This is easy because I lived through it. When I was a teenager, my dad use to get up at just ungodly hours in the morning and about 6 or 7 am start playing his records. To this day, I go into convulsions any time I hear Ernest Tubbs or Hank Snow. Torture, pure torture.
Britney Spears …. but you said music didn’t you? Sorry, I guess that doesn’t qualify ….
@Megan, Are you CRAZY!
I’ve only been to like 3 concerts in my life and 2 of the 3 have been Dave Matthews.
WOW. I would hate to know that my music was being used as a form of punishment! P♥♥r Barry!!!
But my ultimate punishment would be the “simply having a wonderful christmas” by Paul McCartney. Something about that song incites the worst in me and causes the occassional left eye twitch. But see, I think it would cause me to be violent, so they would need to play something that calms me down, right? Which would totally be Your Guardian Angel by RJA.
Punishment is listening to Wham’s “Last Christmas”. It’s only Dec 3rd and I can’t take it anymore…please take that song off the radio!
The Spill Canvas
i would have to say the heavy heavy alternative music where you can’t really understand what they are saying – kind of sounds like roars. it makes my skin crawl
Elvis and/or Meatloaf…
They are equally offensive!
A boring Sunday Sermon
For me, his may have been one of the hardest questions ever posed on the Wax. I love all music, from brass bands to HuDost, if you haven’t heard of these guys you gotta listen. http://www.hudost.com/ (Shameless plug for two friends of mine)
The one thing that is hard for me to do is to listen to the same genre for an extended period of time. You could pick my favorite artist of the moment and two or three hours later I would be pulling my hair out.
BTW as non-cool as it may be, Manilow is not all that bad.
I’d have to go with anything by Fergie. My head might explode.
My alarm clock
Someone biting their fork
Someone sucking their teeth
Someone eating chips or ice
Someone clipping their nails
Someone rustling a plastic/paper food bag
Someone puking (other body sounds are funny… but not that one)
Someone chewing gum
My college anthropology professor
Jimmy Swaggart\Benny Hinn\John Hagee\ any number of TV Evangelists
A yapping dog
Chickens
Silverware clanging against dishes
Knives being rubbed against each other
They should do one where the people are bombarded with odors… that would be fun to watch.
Definitely screamo music. It gives me nightmares!
CD’s of Pete Wilson sermons. Oh the torture…….
@Jim, we had all been skirting around the obvious. Now you blew it!
CNBC during election time.
Josh Groban, Celine Dion, or the Gathier Vocal Band.
to JIm and HAROLD,
I wouldn’t call Pete’s sermon’s “toturous”- that’s a bit harsh,
tho, at times…
Now his singing/writing debut may be used turn around even the most violent of criminals!
@Jim and Harold. That hurt. Deeply.
Surround them with large speakers and play the sound of my alarm clock at full volume.
Point of Grace
@Sherri, stand by @pete sometime when he is “singing”. As they say, “you’ll get a blessing.”
Lil’ Wayne
A Christmas remix of Rosie Perez movie dialogue.
(note to Barry: when your music becomes a form of discipline…think retire)
I honestly don’t know. I like a wide variety of music including the old stuff like Barry Manilow.
Of course, there are plenty of crummy musicians out there. I just do not know their names.
Amy Grant’s “Baby, Baby”.
It’s torturous enough just thinking about it. I loathe that song.
Anything considered a boy band. New Kids, Backstreet, NSync…..etc.
Oh I forgot about Josh Groban. A close 2nd.
Either a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band or Katie Couric doing the Nightly News.
barry manilow would do it for me too.
as well as that cheesy music you have to listen to on the phone when you’ve been put on hold.
country music. and whiny tweenager stuff.
@jdellis, we may have a winner!
Rob Zombie. No, wait, I got it! An endless loop of Lee Greenwood’s “Proud To Be An American”. I’d want to be a Canadian inside of 10 minutes.
Don’t get me wrong, I am extremely thankful to be an American but while I was in the military I heard Lee Greenwood’s song so many times it made me consider self-fratricide. I swear, it’s the Army’s National Anthem.
They’d make me listen to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.
Pete Wilson’s country song that he wrote. haha, kidding..kidding.
Agreed with comment above: forcing me to listen to me singing would irrevocably turn the justice system upside down. Pete, please indulge me: http://www.trelawrence.com/2008/11/theory-of-singing-youth-pastor.html
I can really put up with about any music… but when Linda, the woman who gets groceries for me, walks into my house my dog’s normal bark turns to this shrill tone of excitement and I seriously consider for half a second the idea of removing his voice box and want to plead for someone to kill.me.now.
That’s a noise I can’t stand. Good thing the little dude is cute.
That is hilarious!
Play “Convoy” over and over and over and over
milli vanilli
This is easy…Muzak version of Kiss’ “Detroit Rock City” over and over again, or anything by Barbara Streisand would do it for me
Anything by Sarah Mclahlan, Kenny G, or Michael Bolton.
That William Hung guy from AI …
John Tesh and so many like him.
I would have to say anything by Yoko Ono.
Yanni, anyone playing the pan flute, Celine Dion, babies crying
@olsanar, Michael Bolton? that is hilarious. I had totally forgotten about him.
children’s christmas music from their various christmas programs.
actually, any children singing.
sorry, but i think you reach an age older than 10 when you can actually carry a tune.
The hamster dance song…
I was going to go with Pete singing, but that joke was already taken. On the real, I’m going with “Saved by Zero” from that Toyota ad campaign. Absolutely horrible. Oh and I’ll go ahead and throw John Mellencamp under the bus as well.
Oooo this is a good one! I can definitely relate to this one because Jasen occasionally likes to torture me with music. He has to have music playing ALL the time,and I’m just the opposite. I very much enjoy peace and quiet from time to time. When he wants to get under my skin he plays that crazy loud screamo music that makes you want to pull your hair out. Yeah because he’s sweet like that.
Any country music
Ray Boltz, even now more than ever.
the growling/screaming death medal music.
Cher, Barry, ABBA, Air Supply, Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, Billy Ray Cyrus, and/or Michael Bolton would literally send me to the nearest loony bin. Not that I’m already qualified to be there as I am now, but those artists would be like the nail in my coffin when it comes to the reason why I should be there.
That judge is epic for making them do that. There are people in this world who come up with ideas that I wish I had thought of first, and using Barry Manilow as punishment is a perfect example.
Celine Dion, Shania Twain,and Alanis Morrisette.
Holly accuses me of having a thing against Canadians, but I disagree. I just have a thing against Canadians with no talent.
BTW.. I didn’t know you were a DMB fan!?! Very cool.
this is a hard one…..but i would have to say most oldies songs.
as a child my mom thought to :protect us from the world: and that is all we listened to.
there are some exceptions, but for the most part when i hear certain songs i curl into a fetal position.
Opera, I can not stand Opera, female operatic voices are like fingernails on a chock board.
country music!
OMG, I hate to admit it but I like Barry Manilow. I would not be able to listen to rap music for very long or head banger music. Why it is even classified as music is beyond me.
Anything rap and anything opera.
I 110% agree with “Last Christmas!” That song makes me crazy!
I was telling my mom the other day that Barry Manilow creeped me out because he was so fake, plastic and scary looking and Sam (Lori’s son) said, “Who ya talkin’ bout? Santa??”
@Whitney, LOL!
I just had to add this – as for Christmas music, Bruce Springsteen singing Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, and since I worked at a Christian television station – any music relating to a telethon. I still have nightmares.
Marilyn Manson (I don’t even know how to spell it)…Slipknot…those creepy bands that give you the chills when you listen to even a minute of their music! I’m sure someone likes it, but it gives me nightmares!
@olsonar, Sarah Mclachlan? Seriously? She has a beautiful voice!
I would definitely have to say Barry Manilow and Cher! Oh and scream-o…it actually scares me!!!
This is so much fun Pastor P!
First off seriously someone hates Dave Matthews? Wow!
Next, I’m not a Fanilow, so that would be punishment for me too!
And Last Christmas…my girls and I have made fun of that song so much that every once in a while one of us will just break out into that song and everyone else joins in! It’s a love-hate thing
I so love this post!!!
ps…Gitz, I have 3 pups that scream like that when someone comes over!!!
operatic hymns…yawn. You can’t even really fall asleep to that kind of music. I don’t care for screamo music either.
Vince Gill.. When I hear him I usuely kill something.. Carmen(aka the champion), Newsong they fall in the same category…
Bjork.
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Celine Dion isn’t that bad! For me, it’s 80′s music, and add to the list anything Madonna, Britney Spears, Kenny Chesney, and Shakira
Hadn’t thought of Celine Dion. But yes. Me too. Bleurgh!
@mesbecker, Ohhhhhh, I love Springsteen singing Santa Clause is Coming to Town. It’s one of my favorites!
“If someone were punishing you, who would they make you listen to?”
um.
didnt you write and preform a song not too long ago?
heavy metal. gives me a headache just thinking about it
Kids Bop. The one where little kids cover Top 40 songs. By far the worst thing ever.
I love so many styles of music (rock, country, rap, R&B jazz, classical), even Barry’s corny classics. The only style of music I hate is Techno…..electronic, repetitive.. completely devoid of human involvement. Just a drone with no words or melody… how do people even request the song they want from a DJ? It gives me the creeps. it sounds like something hedonistic is about to go down. A creepy sonic backdrop to excess.
Sometimes it doesn’t have to be something you hate, it can be something ok..like polka music..nonstop..now that would be punishment
It would be pure torture if someone forced me to listen to a dialogue between congressman Barney Frank and congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
I would have to say Duffy! She has a very nasaling, whiny voice that would make my skin crawl if I had to listen to her at length. Also someone with bad grammar…it kills me!
I would have to say rap or opera. That is just torture to me. To name some…50cent or Eminem. I can and do listen to most anything but those.
@Britt, I think you should tell us what you really think of techno music.
Um… Jimmy Buffet. I just can’t stand him. I don’t know why.
Either him or my old pastors mother in law… she literally squealed when hitting high notes and a few times I thought I was gonna pop an artery…
Pat Robertson
Womanizer. I’m glad Britney’s doing better, but the song is too repetitive for me. A two year old saying something over and over? Cute. A mother of a two year old? Not so much.
I noticed there were some people that said “bad” country music. This would imply that there is good country music and I’m pretty sure that’s not true LOL. Mine would be country music (good or bad) or I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas…
Yeah, so I like a little Barry every now and then. Come on now. He can still rock the Cocca-Cabana…Seriously. As far as a “punishment” kind of music…I would have to go with barney. Anything barney.
The Chipmunks! Arghhhhh! Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, just thinking about it!
@pwilson – I’m sorry, I’ll pray for you.
Seriously though, I had a roommate in college that “all” she listened to was Springsteen, every minute she could of every day. I lasted a semester with her and haven’t been the same since.
there are many…i’d have to say that Clay Aiken is high up on the list. His budy Rueben Studdard too! Clay’s voice hurts my ears. Rueben sings a song “I’m sorry for 2004″?-i think thats the title, but reguardless My ears hurt.
That Taylor Swift girl is really working my nerves right now! And that Miley Cirus and those Jonas Brothers. Ugh! I know I drove my mom crazy with some of the stuff I listened to. But even my kids can’t stand any of them.
Anything but this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8
I gotta agree with whomever brought up that “Saved by Zero” jingle in the Toyota TV ads. Makes me want to throw a brick through my TV every time it comes on, and the play it over and over…… What insane focus group told Toyota that it made them want to run out and buy a car?????
Not hard for me at all and the only place that my wonderful husband of 17 years and I disagree… I *hate* Linkin Park and any scream-o which he *loves*…. he *hates* Josh Groban, Barry Manilow, Tony Bennett, Michael Buble, etc.. which I love. So, we each go to our quiet corners or individual cars and blast it our style.
) That’s how we roll.
Christian Music Radio.
Rod Stewart….my own little private hell.
All of the WORST American Idol auditions.
Any kind of hard core rock- I mean like the screaming stuff….I HATE HATE HATE that!
Holy cow… So many people dissin my hardcore music! Of course, I listen to someone growling and sounding like their throats are about to rupture and once I hit the “next track button” it ends up being something like Dwight Yoakem or Merle Haggard. I’m all mixed up. – headbanging music is great work/workout music -
Punishment? Rosie O’Donnell. Cindy Shehan is a real contender there though.
My neighbor’s dogs. Oh wait. That’s all night, everynight.
Lawrence Welk Show
Heavy Metal screaming singing
Loud Rap with profanity and screaming
Rap. I can handle all music except rap.
Anything by the Carpenters, Barely Maneough (er, Barry Manilow), Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, Barbara Streisand, Cher, Luciano Pavarotti, Garrison Keillor, Swingle Singers, King’s Singers (the latter two were featured incessently on my public radio station in the mornings) Jimmy Hendricks–and there are others.