Things That Are Just Plain Wrong

Yesterday I was listening to the Current and sent out a couple of tweets about how they were playing a number of covers that I didn’t like–for accuracy’s sake, I called them remakes because I couldn’t think of the right word.  Cover is the absolute correct word here.  It did get me thinking though about one cover in particular, about how abominably bad it was and about other things in the world that are just wrong.  Wrong in the sense of “good God, what were they thinking” wrong.  Wrong in the sense that makes angelic babies cry.  The kind of wrong that comic super-villains consider beyond their own evil.

So here’s the non-exhaustive list:

• Rock/pop bands who do a cover of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings.  Particularly those who feel techno is the appropriate way to cover it.  There is a special level of hell reserved for those people and it’s filled with polka and church organ music.  And lot’s of pointed sticks jabbed in soft fleshy areas.
• Inappropriate music put into movies because the powers that be felt it “sounded cool”.  Example:  the movie Watchmen towards the end plays the opening of Mozart’s Requiem.  Thematically wrong in every sense, it turned a moment of the movie which should have been powerful to laughable.  Plus, it made me cringe.
• Truck Nuts.  If you don’t know, you can Google them yourself.
• Food that spoils just when I get home.
• Fat assholes in rusted out mini-vans yelling at obese kids trying to pedal their bike uphill.  I know this one is oddly specific, but can you disagree with me?

I know that there is likely many more entries.  Feel free to leave a few in the comments.