My colleague keeps playing Freebird - what do I do?

[Hi-ASL]

I don't really mind it much.

 

[Orang Utan]

I hate everything about it and everything it stands for

 

[dodgepot]

Does anyone here actually like the song?

yes.

 

[Orang Utan]

yes.

Would you like it still if you'd heard it 10 times in 3 days?

 

[Roxy641]

Me. Can't say that I know anyone that plays it over and
over again though.

Roxy641

Does anyone here actually like the song?

 

[dodgepot]

Would you like it still if you'd heard it 10 times in 3 days?

yes.

 

[Orang Utan]

yes.

....
SHQJY

 

[Hi-ASL]

What about a thousand times in a minute?

 

[Orang Utan]

I can't believe it - it's just come on the telly!
To think I'd never known this song til last year sometime

 

[El Jefe]

I can't believe it - it's just come on the telly!
To think I'd never known this song til last year sometime

I have a photo from my 15th (i think) birthday of about 10 of my mates on the living room floor, faces contorted with joy, doing air guitar to the end of Freebird.

I can't abide it now, but it has a place in my heart. It - more than Stairway to Heaven or anything like that - is the ABSOLUTE pinnacle of 70s rock guitar solo nonsense.

 

[Roxy641]

Free Bird-sailing

LT Clyde,

are you really sure that you aren't just, like, going out of
your way to hear the song?

Sounds like you are protesting just a tad too much.

I do know how you feel if you are geniune about hating a
song. I can't stand Rod Stewart's song "Sailing", I usually
turn off the radio/re-tune if I have my way.

Roxy641

I can't believe it - it's just come on the telly!
To think I'd never known this song til last year sometime

 

[Orang Utan]

Nah, it's just the most awful musical thing I can presently think of. I don't see any way I could go out of my way to hear it.

 

[Orang Utan]

I have a photo from my 15th (i think) birthday of about 10 of my mates on the living room floor, faces contorted with joy, doing air guitar to the end of Freebird.

Oh dear, really?
I never went throught the guitar solo phase, thankfully

 

[El Jefe]

Oh dear, really?
I never went throught the guitar solo phase, thankfully

I did, mostly before I was 13-14, but left it behind quickly. I'm glad I went through it, though, it makes it easier to avoid shit 70s rock if you've lived it before.. And when some tasteless shitgibbon starts banging on about some nonsense or other, I can argue the case with some authority as well as some swearing

 

[Belushi]

I can't believe it - it's just come on the telly!
To think I'd never known this song til last year sometime

Theres a special dance that Bikers used to do to it and all

I prefer Sweet Home Alabama.

 

[Roxy641]

hi Clyde,

well, given your year of birth (I just checked your profile) it isn't really
surprising is it? I am a bit older than you, and I remember hearing it
for a few years (even after it's first release), mostly by a few DJ's on
late night radio shows.

Roxy641

I can't believe it - it's just come on the telly! To think I'd never known this song til last year sometime

 

[marty21]

I did, mostly before I was 13-14, but left it behind quickly. I'm glad I went through it, though, it makes it easier to avoid shit 70s rock if you've lived it before.. And when some tasteless shitgibbon starts banging on about some nonsense or other, I can argue the case with some authority as well as some swearing

it was the same age for me too

 

[Orang Utan]

Mind you, I'm currently listening to a cheesy French disco guitar solo from 1977 by a band called Cristal - still, it's infinitely preferable to the turgid Freebird

 

[rekil]

Definitely hit him with the Bubonique version as Copliker suggests (and I've just realised where he got his name )

it's a thing of beauty... "comin' on a like a bird that's free"

Nice-T yes. Bubonique's version is here.

 

[Sadken]

I had a stage of playing this song again and again. Let him work it through.

 

[poului]

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I too have suffered in the past morons playing their very limited music collection over and over again at work.

It really does bring tunes that you'd otherwise ignore into a much more despicable light.

 

[bluestreak]

i do.

tbh i can take or leave the singy bits, but the guitary wankery is magnificent.

Me too.

And Sweet Home Alabama.

And I'm not ashamed.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Is it the full length version? I suggest bringing guitar hero in to work and seeing who can complete Freebird on Expert (no one)

 

[Pip]

Another vote for sing along

Me and and my mates got booed in a punker than thou punk rock club in NYC for singing Freebird. I'm a real life troll

 

[hash tag]

I have just heard Free Bird on the radio and now feel the first 10 minutes are just a dirge.
Free Bird was of course a defining song like Dont Fear The Reaper, which I can still listen to occasionally but the more I hear Free Bird the more I dislike it.
Is this just me?

 

[gentlegreen]

I have just heard Free Bird on the radio and now feel the first 10 minutes are just a dirge.
Free Bird was of course a defining song like Dont Fear The Reaper, which I can still listen to occasionally but the more I hear Free Bird the more I dislike it.
Is this just me?

In the light of the "manosphere" culture of recent times, the lyrics are annoying enough even without the alt-right baggage

 

[JimW]

If only there was some thread on here already where you could read a few opinions of the song

 

[hash tag]

Does that mean I am not allowed to add an opinion or canvas for more opinions

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm getting a horrible flashback to a dreadful rock disco night we used to illegally attend in our late teens - it always ended up with freebird.
I don't recall ever dancing to anything they played ... is it actually possible ?

Meanwhile across town I bet there was a healthy dance scene going on elsewhere in 1976-ish which I might have embraced ..
Thankfully punk and reggae showed up shortly afterwards ...

 

[MrSki]

I have just heard Free Bird on the radio and now feel the first 10 minutes are just a dirge.
Free Bird was of course a defining song like Dont Fear The Reaper, which I can still listen to occasionally but the more I hear Free Bird the more I dislike it.
Is this just me?

No it is not. I fucking hate it. It used to be on the jukebox in my ex local & I would switch the fucker off at the plug & refund the 50p. Was there when jukebox geezer turned up one lunchtime & bought hime a pint & got him to take the fucker off altogether.