The song stuck in my head this morning is Oh What A Night.
I have never liked this song. Never. I loathed it the first time I heard it. Loathed. “Hate” is too weak a word to describe my feelings toward this song. Only loathed comes close.
It’s not that there’s nothing redeeming about the song. The tune is really very catchy, and I rather like the vocals. It’s the words I can’t stand. If Elton John had sung it instead of The Four Seasons so I couldn’t understand any of the words no matter how much I wanted to, my feelings toward it would be a lot different. I’d probably like it, maybe even try to sing along. That will never happen, though, because I can hear all of the words. Every. Single. One.
Tim liked the song until I told him what the words were. That night I not only ruined a song for him, I planted in him the same revulsion that I feel for it. He probably even wants to blow his brains out with a bazooka, just like I do, when it gets stuck on a loop in his head.
Oh, what a night! Late December, back in sixty-three
Got a girl to give it up for me
Boinked her brains out, what a nightYou know I didn’t even know her name
Who knew the best sex is anonymous?
Pegged her legless, what a nightI felt a rush and a rolling ball of thunder
This part about his orgasm makes me want to chunder
What a night!
When I read that the musical Jersey Boys was coming to Madison this fall, I was going to talk My Darling B into taking me until I heard an advertisement for it on the radio that featured Oh What A Night. Thinking about it now, I don’t know how I expected they wouldn’t include that craptaculous song. I guess I was just hopeful. Too bad. There’s a show I’ll never see.
What the hell?! Sweet Baby Cthulhu, I never knew those were the lyrics. Cripes.
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I, ah, translated the lyrics somewhat liberally for comic effect. If that song can be comically exaggerated. But the gist is there.
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