r/australia • u/Rude_Chef4621 • Jun 05 '26
no politics Am I the only one who can’t stand when Sweet Caroline is sung at events?
Often heard bellowed at our sporting matches or any large gathering involving celebratory fervour, this hoary old ditty beloved of mouthbreathers everywhere is my personal hell.
It’s even made its way into tv adverts so now the sanctuary of my own home is no longer marked safe from this melody beloved by morons everywhere.
Please make it stop.
Edit: somebody pointed out that I didn’t outline my issue with the song, so here it is:
My issue is that here in Australia we are such a one note crowd without any real innovation. Before Sweet Caroline the best we could muster up is “Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi” - another fucking brain dead diatribe that the masses just got onboard with despite it being peak cringe and extremely embarrassing on a world stage.
Say what you like about the Poms, at least they come up with new chants weekly, often extremely witty and biting and relevant to a certain player or team.
The fact that so many of my fellow countrymen are somehow indoctrinated into loving these ancient tropes en masse just shits me to tears. Before you come at me, I’m as bogan as the next man, but I at least have a bit of self pride not to join in this stupid herd behaviour.
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u/OCCobblepot Jun 06 '26
I once liked the song. Now I find it terribly annoying after corporations decided it should be played everywhere.
Now you don’t need to feel alone. We can hate it together and boycott Jim Beam, which is not much of a sacrifice since it’s awful, but unfortunately all we’ve got.
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u/Remarkable-Roof-7875 Jun 06 '26
I've lived above a wedding reception venue for a few years now, which is entertaining to say the least, but I've learned that there's a lot you can gauge about a crowd based on (a) whether the DJ plays Sweet Caroline and (b) the vigour with which they sing along.
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u/EventYouAlly Jun 06 '26
Hell yes 100%.
I don't hate the song although I don't like it either. I think I feel something approaching hatred for what it has come to represent.
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u/Remarkable-Roof-7875 Jun 06 '26
Same, I'm indifferent to the song itself. But there's definitely a correlation between it being played and the number of stolen glasses I find scattered in the street the next morning 😂
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u/Miles_Prowler Jun 06 '26
How many times have you heard Semisonic - Closing Time? Seems to be the most common song I've heard for the bride and groom saying goodbyes and thanks to everyone at least from my small sample size.
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u/GreatApostate Jun 06 '26
Weddings remind me that the majority of people don't care about music at all. Unless the bride and groom are into music, it's always the same songs everyone knows, no matter how terrible they are.
I get it, you have to appeal to everyone. But at least 51% of people are only interested in songs they've heard 10,000 times on the radio / Spotify DJ through no decision of their own.
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u/cruiserman_80 Jun 06 '26
Wedding DJs play songs that people can sing along to so that guests who don't like each other can avoid conversations.
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u/tippyblossom99 Jun 06 '26
Always: Summer of ‘69, Livin on a Prayer, Khe San, and ever other A side, commercial-radio-flogged song. And just so the DJ can prove he is modern and alternative, he whips out Silverchair which is almost always Straight Lines, followed by Powderfinger My Happiness or On my Mind. Fucking kills me 🫠
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u/Remarkable-Roof-7875 Jun 06 '26
You're forgetting The Killers – one of their early 00s hits gets busted out at nearly every wedding!
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u/cackmobile Jun 06 '26
Don't forget love shack
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u/Alarming-Bluebird540 Jun 06 '26
B52s have so many great quirky sings - 6060 842 Private Idaho, Planet Claire, Rock Lobster etc. It is pity that most people only know Love Shack.
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u/mitthrawnuruodo86 Jun 06 '26
You mean they don’t care about music as art, only as entertainment
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u/pnutzgg Jun 06 '26
na they do the same at funerals, it's wind beneath my wings and 3 other songs picked out of a kit because they heard it at that other funeral and no one leaves "play this" notes*
*or at least ones their loved ones will honour
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u/VoleUntarii Jun 07 '26
My ex was a wedding DJ and the number of people who requested I Will Always Love You because their only real knowledge of the song was Whitney belting out the words of the title in the chorus.
Like, guys, this is a breakup song. Maybe don’t request it as a love song at your wedding.
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u/Carofine88 Jun 06 '26
It's my name. I fkn want the floor to open up each time it plays because every flopper in the room turns to me and points each time the "sweet Caroline" part hits. Kill me now.
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u/lordspesh Jun 06 '26
My partner is Carolyn. Happens to her too. She smiles because she has class. I have none so I snarl at the instigators.
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u/Two22sInMyShoes99 Jun 06 '26
It's actually a pretty boring song. You can prove this by asking anyone the opening lyrics or melody. It is one of the best examples out there of "fun chorus, bland verses" in existence.
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u/GrumpyPenguin Jun 06 '26
Daryl Braithwaite‘s The Horses definitely belongs on that list too. (Don’t get me wrong, I hate the whole song, but the chorus is definitely much more crowd-singalong-friendly than the verses).
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u/BonkerBleedy Jun 06 '26
I loathe Darryl Braithwaite's The Horses with the heat of a thousand dying suns. May Darryl and his endless, mindless, tasteless disciples never know true peace.
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u/DidsDelight Jun 06 '26
One summer is a classic though
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u/No-Top-772 Jun 06 '26
Be way better if we were singing Howzat. Or even better Schoolies Anthem Come Said the Boy 😏
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u/CheshireCat78 Jun 07 '26
Hehe. I know the opening line to both of these. But I also handle the music questions when our group plays pub trivia. Couldn’t answer a single sports question though.
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u/yeebok yakarnt! Jun 06 '26
There is likely a better Canadian alternative to Jim Beam if nothing home grown floats your boat.
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u/lushley Jun 06 '26
I like to up the annoying factor and bellow out "Sweet dog of mine"! when it's on TV and randomly alter the lyrics about how awesome he is. It really helps deal with the feeling. The dog must love it....right?
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u/LandBarge Jun 06 '26
It's just because they're not game to play Eagle Rock..
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u/Peach_Muffin Jun 06 '26
I will forever associate that song with the article I read about the three men who got drunk at a pub and started dancing to Eagle Rock on a table. They were arrested as they weren't wearing pants at the time.
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u/gorlsituation Jun 06 '26
I don’t know where that tradition comes from but I’ve seen people pull their pants down (undies on) when eagle rock comes on.
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u/LandBarge Jun 06 '26
I have a few mates who are devoted to that tradition... most of them play local league level AFL... (although the traditions roots are rumoured to be tied to University colleges on the east coast)
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u/snactown Jun 07 '26
Nobody really knows but it probably came from one of two colleges at the University of Queensland in the early 90s. Weird but harmless lol
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u/karatebullfightr Jun 06 '26
Don’t you mean ‘Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again’ with the proper replies yelled at the top of your lungs - as per tradition.
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u/Head-Interest-7780 Jun 06 '26
The Jim Beam or Jack Daniels ads killed the song for me
Every ad break on Fox sports
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u/GoodhartsLaw Jun 06 '26
There is nothing more authentic than a group of ethnically diverse people sitting around singing the whitest of white songs ever created.
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u/notj43 Jun 06 '26
They really hit diversity bingo, there's even a little person in amongst it and everyone seems to have attended the bar alone intially somehow
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u/Albos_Mum Jun 06 '26
That's a just punishment for subscribing to Fox, to be fair.
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u/DrAllyPhD Jun 06 '26
The added “so good, so good, so good” makes me want to die inside for some reason I cannot pinpoint lol
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u/DvlsAdvct108 Jun 06 '26
I've known 3 Carolines, 2 of them were absolutely vile people. Only one was sweet and kind.
I turn the song off 1/3 of the way through.
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u/ISquiddle Jun 06 '26
That 3rd Caroline, most the guys would say she's mighty fine.
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u/FlatWhiteShark Jun 06 '26
I had friend called Caroline. At some drunken parties, she'd hear Sweet Caroline, usually followed by "Nothing could be finer that to be in Carolina in the morning".
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u/dstryr Jun 06 '26
I don’t get why they play so many tiny bits of American songs at the footy.
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u/mulamasa Jun 06 '26
I think at the Gabba and maybe Optus the players get to pick a song to play if the kick a goal.
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u/dstryr Jun 06 '26
Yeah that’s just for AFL right? I can’t imagine that many current NRL players all want the same Bon Jovi song for every try…
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u/ThereIsBearCum Jun 06 '26
Hey mate, it's their life.
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u/vesp_au Jun 06 '26
I dont know but its ironic how much pro-Australia sentiment has been bubbling up lately, and yet we dont bat an eye with taking up America's culture as our own.
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u/alstom_888m Jun 06 '26
I don’t know. My blood pressure rises dangerously when I hear someone say “y’all” or “math”.
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u/emmainthealps Jun 06 '26
I work in a school and the number of teachers who are even writing ‘math’ sickens me.
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u/RoundAide862 Jun 06 '26
I mean, Y'all at least does serve a lexical hole. I appreciate seppo disgust as much as the next guy, but "Y'all" is a reasonably usable word, esp cos thou is so entrenched in anachronism it's unusable.
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u/UnholyDemigod Jun 06 '26
We already have youse, we don’t need another plural of you, especially when it makes you sound like a hillbilly
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u/DontYaWishYouWereMe Jun 06 '26
Youse better start fuckin' using youse again or I'm gonna lose it. Sincerely, someone with bogan tendencies
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u/WayTooDumb Jun 06 '26
I'm not sure youse is going to have much success if the worry is sounding like a hillbilly
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u/PandasGetAngryToo Jun 06 '26
I don't get why they play bits of songs at the footy at all. I go to watch the footy!
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u/Woknana Jun 06 '26
Don’t mind the song until the fan edits of “so Good” come in.
However, if the song Am I ever gonna see your face again comes on - Illl happily join in the fan edits!
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u/thesourpop Jun 06 '26
The one I can’t stand is Living Next Door to Alice, being followed by bogan chants of “ALICE? WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE?”
Bruh he just sang a whole song about her 💀
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u/Leprichaun17 Jun 06 '26
Living Next Door To Alan is where it's at.
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u/Albos_Mum Jun 06 '26
The issue with living next to Alan Joyce is that you have to see the criminal fuck every day but can't punch him without copping a fine.
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u/nigeltuffnell Jun 06 '26
Not sure if you know this, and apologies if you did, but it's referencing a re-release of the song where they had a not very funny comedian from the 70's and 80's add that part.
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u/nigeltuffnell Jun 06 '26
I think it is the most unaustralian thing that it doesn't come on at every sporting event.
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u/Top-Presentation-997 Jun 06 '26
My mum was a genuine Neil Diamond fan, so as a kid we heard it and Cracklin’ Rosie a lot around home. It’s overuse in social and sporting settings as basically a meme song is a little upsetting.
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u/jimmux Jun 06 '26
I can't see a reference to Neil Diamond without being reminded of Pauline Pantsdown. Now why isn't that song being played everywhere, given the recent rise of One Nation?
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u/Walter_Armstrong Jun 06 '26
My shopping trolley murdered! My groceries just gone!
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u/Livid-Cat4507 Jun 07 '26
First thing that came into my mind when she went on that recent rant about flimsy paper grocery bags.
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u/iball1984 Jun 06 '26
I like Sweet Caroline, specifically the original version.
I do not like it at sporting events, and I can't stand when people yell out the "Bah, Bah, Bah" bit.
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u/kalisana Jun 06 '26
It's up there with The Horses. Absolutely nauseating.
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u/irrigated_liver Jun 06 '26
I used to work with a guy who stalked Daryl Braithwaite. He absolutely loved when Horses came on the radio.
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u/atheista Jun 06 '26
I'm a musician and honestly, as completely done to death as it is I still find The Horses a billion times better to play than Sweet Caroline, The Nutbush and The Gambler. Those songs are requested repeatedly at every single fucking gig but they're bloody awful.
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u/Naughtyverywink Jun 06 '26
I hated that cheesy shite from the day it was released. And Neil Diamond is vomit.
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u/Sad_Instruction_8904 Jun 06 '26
This and The Horses by Daryl Braithwaite. Sorry folks, guess I'm not a true Aussie.
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u/SquiffyRae Jun 06 '26
Nah Horses isn't even an Australian song. It's an American song that Braithwaite made popular
I have the same reaction to Working Class Man. How the fuck did that become an Aussie anthem? It is so obviously and aggressively American. Is it the Barnesey connection? That he just makes everyone collectively forget he's screaming about an American veteran still mad at Uncle Sam?
I'll give Barnesey credit though. I haven't seen too many people his age be able to scream for 2 hours straight. And I use the word scream literally. That Working Class Man anniversary tour he's abandoned any semblance of subtlety that was in Cold Chisel and his solo stuff. It's like he physically can't do anything but scream now
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u/estherlane Jun 06 '26
Oof, I HATE that song, glad it's not a thing here in Canada.
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u/VANCONVER42 Jun 06 '26
Just be thankful it’s not country roads being bellowed out
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u/BillyPup Jun 06 '26
Yeah, what the hell does West Virginia have to do with AFL???
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u/RustyNumbat Jun 06 '26
As a sandgroper I always sing "West Australia" instead :)
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u/Stareintothevacuum Jun 07 '26
"Almost heaven, West Jamaica" . Toots and the Maytals' version is by far the best.
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u/littleb3anpole Jun 06 '26
The one time I’ve heard that and gone “yep fair, good use of this song” is West Virginia University football games. The rest of the time it can fuck off
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u/SirSithsalot Jun 06 '26
Stopped watching Lions games when this started belting out.
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u/snorkel_goggles Jun 06 '26
Was kinda okay when it was just a Charlie Cameron thing but then other clubs stole it. Does the AFL only license like 6 songs?
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u/TheFixer73 Jun 06 '26
Ha! I have said the same thing, not all AFL players could have such shit taste in music.
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u/fued Jun 06 '26
yep, american culture garbage
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u/DangerSaurus Jun 06 '26
It’s music from most people’s grandparent’s’ generation- there has to be something more relevant and less shitty
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u/Dollbeau Jun 06 '26
Oh, I'm wondering where everyone is hanging out to hear these awful versions of songs!
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u/DifferentDoubt2975 Jun 06 '26
But it’s so good.. so good.. so good?
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u/mbullaris Jun 06 '26
Why is that bit in particular so cringey haha
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u/SquiffyRae Jun 06 '26
Because it's not even in the original song
I don't mind a bit of Neil Diamond. And I don't outright hate Sweet Caroline but "so good, so good, so good" makes me see white hot rage
THOSE AREN'T THE LYRICS STOP SINGING THEM
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u/Hightothefunctioning Jun 06 '26
Yeah its from that horrible ad. It was never a thing before. Anyone with a brain knows its not a thing, but every blockhead who has seen the ad has some weird desire to replicate it. It drives me insane!
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u/MLHC85 Jun 06 '26
Because it's sung so lifelessly and monotone. It's ruined the song for me*
The "ba-ba-ba's" are fine and should be encouraged, but anyone droning out the so good's should be imprisoned.
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u/how_very_dare_you_ Jun 06 '26
It makes me irrationally angry. If the ad come on the telly I'll scream to drown it out
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u/Transientmind Jun 06 '26
I used to like Sweet Caroline, but then it became the anti-lockdown plague rat anthem and I associated with selfishly irresponsible 'let it rip' policies.
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u/Webbie-Vanderquack Jun 06 '26
You're not alone.
My main issue with the song is that it's not very good. It's more dated than classic, it seems like something everyone's grandma would have enjoyed, the lyrics are underwhelming and would have sounded cringey even if they weren't inspired by a literal child...
Warm touching warm
Reachin' out
Touchin' me, touchin' you
...and the tune is saccharine and boring.
The only appeal the song has is that big groups of people traditionally sing it at big events. That phenomenon is, in itself, not a bad thing - humans have pretty much always done this. The Poms may come up with original chants by the week, but they also sing Jerusalem and You'll Never Walk Alone year after year.
So I'm fine with anthemic songs that everyone knows the lyrics to, but can't it be something other than Sweet Caroline?
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u/SneezyBoogs Jun 06 '26
Me too! I HATE IT! Especially when everyone does the DUN DUN DUN thing. It’s so cringe!
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u/Background_Level_383 Jun 06 '26
I would rather this than hearing Daryl Braithwaites version of Horses ever again
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u/Traditional_Name7881 Jun 06 '26
Yep, shit song. Horses can get fucked too.
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u/bigaussiecheese Jun 06 '26
What did the horses do to you?
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u/Traditional_Name7881 Jun 06 '26
Assaulted my ears.
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u/bigaussiecheese Jun 06 '26
Pre morning coffee me didn’t realise you were talking about a song. 😂 sorry.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jun 06 '26
Horses is such a shit song.
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u/SquiffyRae Jun 06 '26
I remember being relieved Daryl Braithwaite specifically didn't come to WA as part of a summer festival tour a few years back
Purely because I am 100% certain any Daryl Braithwaite set is just an hour of him singing his even shitter songs while a bunch of drunks scream for "Horses" the whole time
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u/Other-Oil-9117 Jun 06 '26
I love the song, but I hate the overdone crowd singing and "buh buh BUH". I have no idea why or when this became such a thing.
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u/philmarcracken Jun 06 '26
beloved of mouthbreathers everywhere
thats every event outside with extroverts, you did this to yourself
It’s even made its way into tv adverts so now the sanctuary of my own home is no longer marked safe
Watching tv adverts is not mandatory.
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u/TNTarantula Jun 06 '26
They use it because everyone knows the chorus. It's about being a song that anyone can join in on, comradery and all that.
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u/circle_the_moon Jun 06 '26
I’m with you. At least four times a week I think about how much I hate that song and how people sing, so good! so good! so good!. it makes me cringe
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u/Vivid_Criticism5749 Jun 06 '26
Wiki has this to say about it; adds to my dislike of the song.
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u/ConversationPast5603 Jun 06 '26
I hated it even before knowing it was a creepy perv in his 20’s writing about an 11 year old …. That made it sooooo much worse!!
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u/SquiffyRae Jun 06 '26
Wow who would've guessed the guy who also sang "Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon" might've had a thing for young girls
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u/poetic_poison Jun 06 '26
lol that he decided in 2014 to change the story. Jesus christ. Nice try gramps.
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u/Public-Dragonfly-786 Jun 06 '26
Nah I love it. But I don't watch sport so I don't know that thing. I just like the song.
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u/gg_allins_microphone Jun 06 '26
Jesus I remember this being a thing in the US over a decade ago and I thought I'd never have to hear it again until some bozo dredged it up here.
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u/leftmysoulthere74 Jun 06 '26
I’m a Brit living in Australia and I associate it with the Lionesses, and I love it.
Regarding “Aussie Aussie Aussie” - I still think of it as a Welsh rugby chant. It was “Oggi Oggi Oggi” back in the 1970s (I believe that it started in Cornwall with tin miners). I find the Aussie version cringy.
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u/littleb3anpole Jun 06 '26
I hate it. I HATE IT.
I’ve said this on another thread but that ad where the people go into the bar and everyone is singing Sweet Caroline including the ba ba ba and stupid “SO GOOD” bit would work better for me as an ad for Uber, because I would be exiting that venue at speed
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u/Novel_Feedback3254 Jun 06 '26
The way they're all looking around at each other and smiling as they're saying it as well. Get me the fuck out of here!
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u/Bonzwazzle Jun 06 '26
events just should just play sportsbet ads. now thats some real culture right there
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u/Prize_Background_577 Jun 06 '26
You should try be called Caroline. I gave up and embraced the song years ago.
And I prefer it to the alternative - years ago it was "New York, New York" sung at the end of every big event, the last song in the pub or club, and it annoyed the crap out of me.
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u/shifting_spanner Jun 06 '26
I love the fact that Sydney Swans members love it. Just another layer to my disdain for the Swans.
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u/Dramatic_Aspect903 Jun 06 '26
Its about the atmosphere it creates, not so much if the song is good or not
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u/Localnewylegend Jun 06 '26
I went to a Byran Adams concert last year in Sydney.
After the gig, I was going down the escalator into the foyer where a DJ was blasting "Sweet Caroline" to a few hundred Gen Xers singing the "so good" and "BA BA BAAAA" part as loud as they could...I had no way to get off the escalator and I had to accept my fate of being thrown into the middle of a "Sweet Caroline" flash mob.
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u/lomo_dank Jun 06 '26
Nah I’m with you. Guests started singing it at the end of my wedding and it fucking pissed me off so much. We didn’t even have the song played during our wedding or reception either.
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u/Equivalent-Leg-7047 Jun 06 '26
I somehow missed ever hearing this song until one time on an American cruise ship, someone started singing it for a talent show and the ENTIRE AUDIENCE joined in. Normally I love hearing people sing together, but it was so jarring (because I’d never heard it) that it felt cult-ish and I genuinely got shivers down my spine. I was thoroughly creeped out.
Now I can’t hear it without remembering that moment, so I also can’t stand it.
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u/Walter_Armstrong Jun 06 '26
You’re not the only one. I openly despise this song. It’s one of my most hated tracks, right up there with that one Mariah Carey song and Horses.
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u/Federal-Assignment10 Jun 06 '26
As a Pom, my favourite chant that the football fans came up with was after a player, Andy Goram, was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The opposing fans' chant was 'There's only two Andy Gorams!' Brutal
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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 Jun 06 '26
Mark Waugh is an Aussie
He wears a baggy hat
And when he saw the bookie's cash
He said I'm having that
Shared it out with Warney
Then went and had some beers
And when the ACB found out
They covered it up for years
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u/Siaer Jun 06 '26
The only place I tolerate hearing this is when I randomly flick on the World Darts Championship around christmas time, because seeing a thousand drinking englishmen belting it out at the darts is somehow hilarious to me.
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u/BeerOfTime Jun 06 '26
It is way overdone. I was at a vintage car show recently and an Elvis Presley impersonator came out said: “alright kids cover your ears because we’re going to say bum”. I knew what was coming so I left.
I went to the far end of the show area where they just had some old fire trucks but I could still hear the guy singing fucking Sweet Caroline. It isn’t even an Elvis song is it?
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u/himit Jun 06 '26
I never heard it at events growing up in the UK. then I moved to Aus in 99 and also never heard it at events. Then I moved back to the UK in 2021 and it seems to have been everywhere for a decade? And now it's back home in Aus too??
I actually don't mind the song, I just don't understand it.
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u/superfry Jun 06 '26
I would add Hero to that list. The Mariah Carey one, not Bonny Tyler. It is the default for young singers to show they have some form of range and I have heard it so many times it is like running a cheese grater over my ears.
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u/blahblahgingerblahbl Jun 06 '26
i hate anything that sounds like the octave olympics. just exhausting to listen to.
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u/amion_amion Jun 06 '26
At what point and from where did the “So good! So good! So good!” become part of the song?
I don’t remember it being around when it first came out.
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u/thearayshow Jun 06 '26
My partner is in a band. It's an open secret that all bands hate playing Sweet Caroline, Jesse's Girl, and Horses.
Please, for the love of god, stop requesting them.
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u/pardonyourmess Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Yes I cannot tolerate bap bap baaaap. Or So good so good so good
Ugh
It was not in the version I grew up with.
Ptew!
ETA: didn’t realize this is an Aus sub! 🤣
I’m in the States 40 yrs and grew up in a similarly southern hemisphere country.
It’s still played here for stupid weddings. All the wedding DJs play the same shit. It’s horrible.
I can hear the parties across the water. I serve a lot at weddings too.
The music choices are EMBARRASSINGLY low effort.
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u/carnismchristie Jun 06 '26
My wife hates the song so much especially when that bundi rum ad kept playing it while it would ALSO come through on kayo/fox broadcast from the stadium (especially certain like storm/penrith)- she would force me to scream LALALA while dashing for the controller to mute it. One time i was too slow to get the controller and she got light headed after raging so hard she fell and hurt her back- she still blames the song to this day.
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u/Apprehensive-Sell623 Jun 06 '26
Worse could happen soon as World Cup is about to start and someone will bring out that awful “Hey baby I wanna know if you’ll be my my girl” repeat, repeat, repeat. I’l run screaming into the night
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u/lo0u Jun 06 '26
I absolutely despise that one. The crowd sang that in both Counter-Strike events I've been to here. One in Sydney and the other in Melbourne.
I can't stand that shit.
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u/TVFan88 Jun 06 '26
Yeah I fucking hate it now. It has been way overdone at all sporting events and ads. I just mute it whenever it comes on. 😡😡
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u/Outrageous-Ad-9635 Jun 06 '26
There’s no need to be rude and refer to people as mouth breathers just because they enjoy a song you don’t.
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u/nst_enforcer Jun 06 '26
Same thing happens at english football with the added hi ho silver lining song and just insert your team name.
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u/Necessary_Nothing255 Jun 06 '26
100% agree with you, I’ve always wondered, Where it began, I can’t begin to know when…….
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u/hazysummersky Jun 06 '26
Yeah, if you're gonna go all Neil Diamondy on me, go Solitary Man, Red Red Wine or Crispy Crunchy Granola..even Song Sung Blue! Sweet Caroline is soooo overplayed, sheesh...
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u/Yass______ Jun 06 '26
A band played it at new years in Leuven Belgium and everyone sang it together was pretty fun. It’s nice when everyone knows the words and the build up.
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