Worst song on KROQ's 25 Most Requested Songs of All-Time (2006)

Once at karaoke I was having some good eye-contact with this girl, she seemed cool, we were digging each other's dancing - - - and then she lost her shit for her friend doing "Date Rape" and it was all over.

this itself sounds like a Sublime (and sublime) song scenario tbh

the late Brad Nowell explained:

I've never raped anyone at least as far as I can remember. We were at a party a long time ago and we were all talking about how much date rape sucked. This guy was like, "Date rape isn't so bad; if it wasn't for date rape I'd never get laid." Everyone at the party was bummed out about it, but I was cracking up and I wrote a funny song about it.

Although there are some real turds here, Radiohead is far and way the worst turd.

I mean I honestly can't fathom anyone halfway familiar with "Date Rape" the song who sees it on this list and goes "eh, there's worse here"

NO THERE ISN'T

imagine a Radiohead cover of "Date Rape," with a heavily processed/vocodered Thom Yorke repeating the title.

Wow wtf @ that quote

I am not familiar with the song. But still, knowing how I feel about these issues, and having read the descriptions on this thread, I can say that it is entirely in keeping with the depths of my loathing for RHCP that I still find them worse.

I've never raped anyone at least as far as I can remember.
I've never raped anyone at least as far as I can remember.

You're gonna make me stop reading the thread; you're not gonna make me stop hating RHCP more.

"date rape" is obviously the worst but i'm throwing a perverse lol vote to "how soon is now?"

Feels like it'd be more in keeping with this poll if it had been t.A.T.u.'s cover

... waht

oh you mean "How Soon Is Now?" lolololol

2. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
3. Nine Inch Nails - Closer
4. Beastie Boys - Fight for Your Right to Party
8. No Doubt - Just a Girl
11. Radiohead - Creep
13. Weezer - Buddy Holly
15. Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
18. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
19. Green Day - Basket Case
22. Beck - Loser

this is a solid bunch of good tunes, i still remember what a great one-hit wonder band radiohead was w/'creep'

This list made me oddly homesick for southern California.

have never heard 'date rape' and don't really want to. that quote is one of the most wtf things i've read in a while.

ENJOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeMeDihwyrg

Oh I missed DJP's non-embed post.

I mean, I hate to be the one who stands up for Sublime here because it's gotten me nowhere in the past, but the song is like, definitively anti-rape.

So is "Sex Type Thing"

lol, I haven't even thought about Sex Type Thing in about 20 years. I've got to go check that out.

I mean, I hate to be the one who stands up for Sublime here because it's gotten me nowhere in the past, but the song is like, definitively anti-rape.

It's also definitively terrible.

I admit it's pretty bad but c'mon, Radiohead.

That is like saying "I admit that stomping on the skulls of live kittens is a bad thing but at least it's not strolling through an empty park."

Once at karaoke I was having some good eye-contact with this girl, she seemed cool, we were digging each other's dancing - - - and then she lost her shit for her friend doing "Date Rape" and it was all over.

so many of these are karaoke staples ime

creep is so solid

solid like a bowel-movement.

the song is like, definitively anti-rape.

maybe the lyrics, but the tone of the song is pretty fucking unserious.

I mean, it's serious for ska-punk. Dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, DUN. You can tell they mean business right there.

who doesn't a good gay panic punchline

doesn't +enjoy, that is

Let me tell you about a girl I know,
had a drink about a hour ago.
Sitting in a corner by herself, in a bar in downtown Hell.

She heard a noise and she looked through the door.
And saw a man she'd never seen before.
Light skin, light blue eyes, a double-chin and a plastic smile.
Well, her heart raced as he walked in the door
And took an empty seat next to her at the bar.
"My brand new car is parked right outside. How'd ya like to go for a ride?"
And she said."Wait a minute I have to think."
He said, "That's fine. May I please buy you a drink"
One drink turned into 3 or 4 and they left and got into his car
and they drove away someplace real far.

Now babe the time has come.
How'd ya like to have a little fun?
And she said."If we could only please be on our way, I will not run."

That's when things got out of control.
She didn't want to, he had his way.
She said, "Let's Go"
He said, "No Way!"
Come on babe it's your lucky day.
Shut your mouth, were gonna do it my way.
Come on baby don't be afraid,
if it wasn't for date rape I'd never get laid.

He finished up and he started the car
He turned around and drove back to the bar.
He said."Now baby don't be sad, in my opinion you weren't half-bad."
She picked up a rock.,threw it at the car, hit him in the head, now he's got a big scar.
Come on party people won't you listen to me.
Date Rape Story.

The next day she went to her drawer, look up her local attorney at law,
went to the phone and filed the police report and then she took the guy's ass to court.
Well, the day he stood in front of the judge he screamed, "She lies that little slut!"
The judge knew that he was full of shit and he gave him 25 years
And now his heart is filled with tears.

One night in jail it was getting late.
He was butt-raped by a large inmate, and he screamed.
But the guards paid no attention to his cries.

That's when things got out of control.
The moral of the date rape story, it does not pay to be drunk and horny.
But that's the way it had to be.
They locked him up and threw away the key.
Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind,
even though he now takes it in the behind.

But that's the way it had to be.
They locked him up and threw away the key.
Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind,
even though he now takes it in the behind.
DATE RAPE!

She didn't want to [x4]
TAKE IT!

1. Sublime - Date Rape
well this is the easiest poll ever
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, July 2, 2014 12:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thought this, exactly, as soon as i opened the thread

so many of these are karaoke staples ime

― dude (Lamp), Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed, and almost always it's people who are expecting to blow everybody away by choosing this SUPER ROCK song that they'd NEVER EXPECT! I'd be pretty down with "Dead Man's Party," how'd that sneak in here?

Even though the Sublime song sounds horrid, there's no way I'm going to miss an opportunity to vote for Under the Bridge, which may be my most hated song ever.

Having no intention of ever hearing this "Date Rape" tune, I'm going with "Blister in the Sun." I really really really hate the Violent Femmes.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Team Under The Bridge here, although Date Rape is fucking abominable, if not as abominable as Tony Kiedis' vocal affectations!

dramarama? i didn't realize that song was such a perennial favorite.
this poll is gross

when I last saw Fishbone they did "Date Rape" and played it like it was big laffs, it was a huge bummer

Come on party people won't you listen to me.
Date Rape Story.

this song has no competition in this poll.

i'll cop to liking both sublime songs (total bizarreness doesn't make me like catchy posi-vibes and anti-rape songs less) but "date rape" definitely makes for an uncomfortable cherry at the top of this deeply disturbed sundae.

voting oingo boingo for being the most LA thing I have yet to understand in the slightest. can't get like 30 seconds into anything by them.

i probably like 90% of these songs at least a little, but as a whole it makes me feel like advocating curfews

i was unaware of 40% of them, including #1

being old ftw i guess

This is easily Papa Roach. on a particularly cranky day of mine, I'd vote "What I Got" simply cuz every hipster huckster sings that shit at karaoke and it's always been overrated.

But "Last Resort" was next level nonsense. Armed with only a weak facsimile of an Iron Maiden riff, a vocalist only capable of aggravating nasal staccato, and a hyperbolic pathos that was chic in nu-metal in the early 00s, this song exploded and for the life of me I could never figure out why.

Folks an hate Disturbed all they want, but David Draiman has an extremely charismatic voice that sets them apart. Papa Roach had *nothing*.

However, do not let that let us lose sight of the fact that Brad Nowell's Sublime didn't merely cross the 'mega-douche' line, they drove a Bradley tank over it and pitched a tent on the other side.

Papa Roach had *nothing*.

naw man. for one thing the song is kind of the iconic song of its type from that era, the value of "everybody" would need some solving/qualification here but, like, everybody who was hearing this kinda thing back then remembers "Last Resort" and gets hearty lols from the memory now. Beyond that, I think I've said this before, but I was working in treatment centers for kids with heavy problems then, and "Last Resort" was genuinely meaningful and valuable music to pissed-off kicked-around foster home kids back then. It was a song that spoke to them, that showed them how music could powerfully articulate what they were feeling. Sure: you and I might lol at "Suffocation! No breathing!" but I knew young dudes who heard that and went "fuck yes, that is how I feel," who sang it at the top of their lungs alone in their rooms when they were too angry to speak for themselves.

The world is full of young dudes like that, so Papa Roach, though they suck, get love from me.

When I saw the name of the poll, I thought "oh, my choice is whatever Sublime song is the highest."

"Date Rape" is an abhorrent song, but "Wrong Way" - the story of a man horndogging an underage prostitute - is considerably worse.

Always weird to me to find out "Date Rape" is actually popular in parts of the country, or liked by anybody at all. Really didn't hear it all that much then or now. It's fucking awful. Once at karaoke I was having some good eye-contact with this girl, she seemed cool, we were digging each other's dancing - - - and then she lost her shit for her friend doing "Date Rape" and it was all over.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 1:43 PM (1 week ago)

In Rhode Island, Sublime are on the radio constantly, especially "Doin' Time" and especially during the summer. It's agonizing. The local modern rock station even has the tendency to trot out album cuts ("Caress Me Down" being particularly popular), and the Top 40 station can't get enough of "Santeria." One of the most popular live concert bands in the state is a Sublime cover band.

Supposedly, much of Sublime's Rhode Island popularity has to do with a concert they played in April 1995 at The Ocean Mist, a popular hangout for URI kids. That show, which is apparently a well known bootleg, is something of a Sex Pistols at Manchester Trade Hall moment for the numerous and execrable ska bands that litter Southern Rhode Island.

1. Sublime - Date Rape
well this is the easiest poll ever
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, July 2, 2014 12:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thought this, exactly, as soon as i opened the thread

― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, July 2, 2014

thought this, exactly, before i opened the thread

no seriously i was living in LA when KROQ went all-in on sublime and there was just no doubt in my mind as soon as i saw the thread title

just fyi the other most KROQ-y tracks on there would be dramarama and oingo boingo

I wasn't exposed to date rape as much as Under The Bridge, a song that is still weirdly ubiquitous. So I'll go for this one.

I miss Dammit.

yeah, exactly, the only thing i could think of is that the pool hall didn't have off street parking, and they just bulldozed the lot and then built the 7-11 from the ground up rather than using the existing pool hall building. Or maybe the pool hall did have a parking lot and it was one of those 7-11's that also has a gas station

i think in that case the lyric might be 'the pool hall i loved as a kid/was bulldozed for a 7-11' instead of is NOW a 7-11, which suggests a gut rehab. though the former lyric is a bit clunky.

I think the lyric works fine in terms of how people speak about places and things. Presumably he had been gone for a while and didn't see the actual construction process.

maybe the pool hall had been built in an old 7-11 to begin w/

"I Was Wrong"...not a bad SD track, though well past their prime.

SD always seemed too cool for me, like I just wasn't greased up enough.. nonsmoker, no tats. Surprised at the mention of how "bad" the fans are, not only is that argument lame but every punkabilly SD fan I've meet has been very sweet and kind

I just said the fans I was around at the time colored my impression of the music, just being honest there. I can happily discourse on why their music is shitty, full of clunky hamfisted sentiments, songs constructed out of mind-numbingly simple chunks of barre chords (but not quite mind-numbing ENOUGH if you know what I mean), the affected gritty whine of the vocals, the total lack of anything surprising or unusual.

their sound is like some horrible punk version of George Thorogood

fuckin Orange County blech

heh, yeah, i feel you in the sense that i never ever 'got' that style of music AT ALL except for maybe murder city devils

is there an ejection button for this thread cos these SD posts are srsly hulking me out

I guess I still have lingering good will towards Social Distawshun because of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_State_of_Mind_(film)

(I do recognise that they ended up turning into something very different.)

there are a lot of ejection buttons for this thread. almost all of them will do the trick, really.

Well I'm lonely and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain

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When I saw TSOL open for Flag I was all "damn Ron Emery looks like he should be in Social Distortion" then I looked it up later and I guess he was/is

Shakes, I don't think anyone is arguing that Social D isn't corny, but they have some jams.

LA Prison Bound is a good album if you like the s/t, transitional album into that style

cheating at solitaire is supposed to be pretty good, idk how much it departs from the SD template

I worked on a movie crew with a guy - I think he was a grip - who had a misspelled Social Distortion tattoo (I think it was 'Social Disortion') and he was already probably the toughest and scariest looking guy I've ever seen in my life but the tattoo just made him extra badass. And he was really nice probably because he knew everyone knew he was a total badass.

i think 7-11s are a lot smaller than pool halls though and the dimensions are all off, most pool halls seem more narrow and deep and 7-11s are more square shaped. idk, seems like a lot of work.

in other news, the farms of ohio weren't literally replaced one-for-one with shopping malls, it's more that landscapes that used to be dominated by farms now contain shopping malls, as well as other car-oriented retail and standalone offices

This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies

Lol this 7-11 thing it's song lyrics weirdos

I fell into a
Burning ring of fire
Then they called an ambulance
To take me to the emergency room
Because I had third degrees burns

The thing is, at the point that they'd paved Paradise, it already WAS a parking lot, no further action required, except I guess to paint some lines.

unless she in fact meant "parking ramp" or "parkade"

in which case why would they need to pave it first, wouldn't they need to dig a foundation or something?

honestly the paving-&-putting-up-a-parking-lot thing has bothered me for YEARS

I feel like that song has been bait over the years for Xtian bands who want to cover or play secular music but can't find a song wholesome enough that it won't piss off their fanbase.

At a Hawaiian restaurant and Date Rape just came on lol.

Never get lei'd

Interesting account of Bean’s final morning show: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/kevin-bean-poorman-kroq-1203397135/

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/kroq-kevin-ryder-tearful-farewell-speech-radio-audio-1203538522/

Looking up some of the songs I don't recognize, I'm amazed at how many of them are completely lacking a melodic hook (Dramarama, Social Distortion) or even a chorus ("Brain Stew"). I guess they resonated with people solely on the basis of production & lyrical 'attitude'? (Cf. that recent paper on timbre as distinguishing mark for indie/alternative music)

― bernard snowy, Thursday, July 10, 2014 10:38 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

the fuck is this geir shit

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