Songs you're banned from playing (or forced to play but hate)

I'm not allowed to play "Jump".

Yes, yes, I know, very cliche, but there's a reason: My wife worked for a few years in a pet store in the local mall, which was directly accross the way from a Yamaha keyboard store. The salesman evidently only knew one song, and that was "Jump". He played it constantly. Every day. For years.

If I even so much as bash out that first chord, my wife comes running to pull the plug.

What song are you not allowed to play? DISCUSS!

That reminds me of the "No Stairway to Heaven" sign in "Wayne's World"

I don't have a song I am not allowed to play.

Wife says I can sing all I want at home but not to do it in public.

Kid number 1 is not allowed to play Jump or Midnight Train because he has driven us nuts playing them over and over again.

I read the title and wanted to say Jump....

Actually, a lot of other musicians around here always want to hear keyboardists play Jump...

I used to play the salsa bit from Spock's Beard's "The Light". A LOT. I'm not allowed to play that anymore..

Light My Fire

Sometimes, my drummer will hit the snare drum, just once, to hear how tight it is or something. And as soon as I hear that single "bam" I want to launch into the opening melody from the Light My Fire. It's like a Pavlovian musical cue or something.

there is a reason i have headphones and not monitors at home.

my music has been said to "not go anywhere" by the Mrs. of course I forbid her to play radio head or any other band like that on her guitar. she loves to emphasize the swears words in some sort of passive aggressive thing i'm just not ready to confront

this applies to everyone ... (though it's entirely unenforceable ... )

Fur Elise ... esp. if you can't play the whole thing ...

For string players of any sort, or anyone who has ever played or even attended a wedding:

Pachelbel Canon. It's pure evil.

Ah, that's a different classification, "Required songs you dread playing."

That is required for weddings? On what planet? Cleveland?

My wife hates that song too because, of all odd things, her dad listened to a CD of relaxing music while on his death bed (cancer) and that was one of the songs on the CD.

Good one. That is another one that seems to be required for all the little kids.

I've lived in 10 states. It was required in all 10.

Back when i had a lodger and a yamaha sound module, i was banned from playing You Shall Go Out With Joy on a DX7 sample patch while she was in the bath.

There was just something about the combination of the two that drove her crackers.

Now i do not have a lodger or a yamaha sound module, but i still have a bath

"When the result of an action is contrary to the desired or expected effect", also known as Irony.

The saddest song played in the happiest day of one's life:lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fb5_p4B_Dc

I thought it works like this:

Guitar Store - NO Stairway To Heaven

Piano Store - NO "Home Sweet Home" by Motley Crue or "Clocks" by Coldplay

Bass Store - NO "Higher Ground", Chili Peppers version

Drum Store - NO double kick anything

At my Thursday jam date there's a "no Gordon Lightfoot" rule. I threatened to play "Snowbird" once, just to test, but it got instantly banned, too.

Probably a Canadian thing.

no neil diamond for me..

i'm not allowed to play songs i don't know how to play.

Oh, come on, not even "Solitary Man"?

not even missionary man

Man, that's tough. How 'bout Andy Kim... does she let you play that?

Tracy Brian(?) Hurst: A Bridge to Cross. It was before the headphones...

Incidentally, does someone know the author and title of the song I attached in the ZIP file?

This.

...so how'm I supposed to learn?

Aw, I was just visiting Lake Gitchigami a couple of weeks ago.

I grew up a 2 mile bike ride from Lake Ontario, went to school a short car ride from Lake Erie, and just didn't know how much I would miss living near a big lake until I moved far away.

In NY State you were allowed to like Canadian folk musicians, even the popular ones, and in Rottenchester, NY in my high school years you were required to like Rush, Triumph, and Max Webster, among others. "Xanadu" was another song sorta like "Stairway to Heaven"