Again, similar to my other thread, what is the SINGLE MOST cruddy song of the 80's for you; the one song guaranteed to make you want to stab your eardrums out with a pencil?
Ones for consideration:
Joe Dulche - Shaddapa a ya face (die die die!) Visage - Fade to Grey (pretentious twaddle) Chris De Burgh - Lady in Red (I don't care! Go away!)
Yours?
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
I tend to like Fade to Grey, but I can understand if you live in the UK, they play it more there.
I happen to hate Mickey. I hate Take On Me, unless I have been drinking. There are a few more, I'll get back to this.
We are DEVO
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
I'd have to say Red, Red Wine. Oh how I despised that song.
Posted by P.S It's Paul... (Member # 1022) on :
There are many, many bad songs from the 80s. Most of them are fine if you only ever hear them the once. The problem was, these songs tended to get played over and over again, and became like a fork scraping the bottom of a metal saucepan....
Mickey is one, definately. Happy Birthday by Altered Images is another. Great to hear once, not great at all to hear five times in an hour. And I'm a fan.
songs that I can't even bear to hear once now? I can think of three - and no doubt it will gather disagreements:
3. fight For The Right - Beastie Boys. Now wtf was that all about. All it did was to make a bunch of shouty yobs rich and encourage 50% of Britain's youth to steal the VW badges off any beetle, Golf or Polo they could find.....
2. Kissing With Confidence - Will Powers.
1. The only song I ever physically lifted from the turntable and snapped in half. Down Under, by Men At Work. Yeeech!
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
State Of Shock by MICK JAGGER and MICHAEL JACKSON
Posted by GoldTransAM (Member # 2973) on :
Don't Worry Be Happy -Bobby McFerrin
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
quote:Originally posted by GoldTransAM: Don't Worry Be Happy -Bobby McFerrin
That would be the 2nd worse song for me.
Posted by The Exorcism of Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Sussudio is the worst song
Posted by Louden Swain (Member # 3671) on :
Jump - Pointer Sisters....help me
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Land of Confusion (new version is much better IMO)
I Got My Mind Set On You
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
I'd like to commend everyone for some really solid choices.
Sussudio is terrible. Very terrible.
We are DEVO
Posted by Alex In Wonderland (Member # 4912) on :
The Power Of Love by Jennifer Rush - truly detestable and THEN, to cap it all, CELINE DION (or Sealion Dion - attrocious honking) cover it! ARRRRRRRRRRGH
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
I dont know that last one. How does it go?
Posted by Alex In Wonderland (Member # 4912) on :
Honk honk honk, honk honk, honk honk honk honk, The Power Of Love, honk honk
Posted by Chris the CandyFanMan (Member # 3197) on :
Starship's Sarah gets my vote. While usually they get slammed more for We Built This City, I consider this far worse by several miles. Honestly, what kind of lyrics are, "No time is a good time for revise?" Grace Slick's singing from 1 to 10 on Sesame Street's Jazzy Spies segements was more lyrically mature than this.
Posted by BabyLove19781999 (Member # 2336) on :
Secret Lovers by Atlantic Starr
Posted by LONNIE (Member # 3934) on :
Too sexy by Right Said Fred some great words to live by.
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
I always thought the lyrics in Sara were "No time is a good time for Goodbyes."
I'll check it out.
WE are DEVO
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
I knew I wasn't losing my mind.
Here it is... I was right. Starship - Sara Lyrics
Go now don't look back we've drawn the line move on it's no good to go back in time I'll never find another girl like you, for happy endings it takes two we're fire and ice, the dream won't come true Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyes danger, in the game when the stakes are high branded, my heart was branded while my senses stood by I'll never find another girl like you, for happy endings it takes two we're fire and ice, the dream won't come true Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time oh Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyes('cause Sara) loved me, like no one ever loved me before(and Sara) hurt me, no one could ever hurt me more(and Sara) Sara(and Sara) nobody loved me anymoreI'll never find another girl like youwe're fire and ice, the dream won't come trueSara, Sara, no time is a good time ohSara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyesSara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyesSara, Sara, storms are brewing in your eyesSara, Sara, no time is a good time, nooh Sara, why did it, why did it, why did it all fall apart
We are DEVO
Posted by NowhereGirl (Member # 465) on :
quote:Originally posted by MotleyRulz: Land of Confusion (new version is much better IMO)
haha motz. you really like the disturbed version?? i'm not too crazy about it.
Posted by Alex In Wonderland (Member # 4912) on :
Got another - Reunited by Peaches & Cream - please god, it's swful - make it go away
Posted by imawalkingcorpse (Member # 1675) on :
I ain't missing you- John Waite. What a giant pile of garbage.
Posted by AdventuresInGooniesitting (Member # 1882) on :
I absolutely despise the song "Harden my Heart" by Quarterflash. The station gets changed real quick what that comes on...
"I'm gonna swallow my teeeEEEEEEeeEEEEEEeears"
Like nails on a damn chalkboard...
Posted by Duckie Dale Winton (Member # 3419) on :
quote:Originally posted by Alex In Wonderland: Again, similar to my other thread, what is the SINGLE MOST cruddy song of the 80's for you; the one song guaranteed to make you want to stab your eardrums out with a pencil?
Ones for consideration:
Joe Dulche - Shaddapa a ya face (die die die!) Visage - Fade to Grey (pretentious twaddle) Chris De Burgh - Lady in Red (I don't care! Go away!)
Yours?
Visage????
No way - that's a CLASSIC song!!!!
....mind you, I do agree that Joe and Chris are total horsesh*t! Posted by firefox (Member # 5000) on :
As for my list, the Top 3 Worst Song are:
Knife - don't know who the H*!# sang that song, but he sure sounds like a big looser to me. "knife,cuts like a knife How will I ever live I'm so deeply wounded" - I think I'm in nursery/Kindy when I heard this song and still up to now I hate it.
Tarzan Boys - don't know the artist. The only word you can hear in the chorus is "Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh" I can visualized Chita not Tarzan.
Shake Buddy Buddy Dancer - Don't know the artist but I've seen the video and it's far worst than the song.
I hope these make sense to some Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
quote:Originally posted by imawalkingcorpse: I ain't missing you- John Waite. What a giant pile of garbage.
I like Tyler Hilton's version of this song...
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
Tarzan Boy was BALTIMORA. I admit it: I LIKE that song!
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
Was Achy Breaky by BILLY RAY CYRUS 80s or 90s? Cuz that was really bad. So was Ice ice Baby by VANILLA ICE...but...again...I think that was the 90s. And MACARENA.....that one was 90s too. Actually music was pretty good up until 1990! Then it dove fast and hard!
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
quote:Originally posted by mamamiasweetpeaches: Was Achy Breaky by BILLY RAY CYRUS 80s or 90s? Cuz that was really bad. So was Ice ice Baby by VANILLA ICE...but...again...I think that was the 90s. And MACARENA.....that one was 90s too. Actually music was pretty good up until 1990! Then it dove fast and hard!
In general, I love 90s music, especially grunge. But I have to agree, the three songs you mentioned were absolutely awful 90s song. Add Barbie Girl and Livin La Vida Loca and you've got the top 5 worse songs of the 90s.
Posted by LONNIE (Member # 3934) on :
Cuts like a knife is done by Bryan Adams ia a good song
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
PETTYFAN, lets throw Wannabe by SPICE GIRLS on there and make it Top Six!
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Oh good Lord, how could I forget the Spice Girls??!! EEK!!! They did England a diservice...
Posted by Alex In Wonderland (Member # 4912) on :
At least you Americans were spared their truely awful solo efforts. Never has so little talent graced the world for so long and so painfully.
Posted by TresFoxy (Member # 542) on :
Ok offically I must have the worst taste in music ever cause I really like all the songs everyone hates!!! lol =)
But one song that I can't stand is "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles serious I know there the Beatles and whatever but it sucks!!!
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
Y'know what song I hate by THE BEATLES? Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. There: I said it. Always have, always will.
Posted by kat27 (Member # 3979) on :
I agree with all those 'hated' songs - except for "The Land Down Under" - for obvious reasons. Pretty much anything by UB40 would be my pick but what about that song "Walk the Dinosaur"? That was late 80s but no less tragic for it. I think it went "Hey there get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur"....or something like that. It sucked....and I apologise in advance if it was an Australian effort. The other song that I just hate is "Come on Eileen" - not because it's a bad song but it is just FLOGGED - STILL! Sooo sick of that song. "My Angel is a Centrefold" is the same.
Posted by Alex In Wonderland (Member # 4912) on :
quote:Originally posted by kat27: I agree with all those 'hated' songs - except for "The Land Down Under" - for obvious reasons. Pretty much anything by UB40 would be my pick but what about that song "Walk the Dinosaur"? That was late 80s but no less tragic for it. I think it went "Hey there get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur"....or something like that. It sucked....and I apologise in advance if it was an Australian effort. The other song that I just hate is "Come on Eileen" - not because it's a bad song but it is just FLOGGED - STILL! Sooo sick of that song. "My Angel is a Centrefold" is the same.
That would be Was Not Was with the dinosaur thing I think... and I know what you mean about "Come on Eileen" - I've yet to go to a wedding party where it wasn't played!
Posted by raggedyman (Member # 4065) on :
"Walkin' on Sunshine" by Katrina & the Waves; I dunno why but I can't stand that song! by the way TARZAN BOY rules!
Posted by Breezie1962 (Member # 5090) on :
The worst song from the 80's I can think of is Stand(I think that is the name) by REM. I would never listen to REM because of that song.
"Stand in the place that you live."
Posted by Breezie1962 (Member # 5090) on :
Isn't "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" from the 70's? Or am I off by a decade...I have 5 decades of music in my head I have to sort through. Posted by Straightjacket Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Beatles version was from the 60s. Elton John's remake was from the 70s.
Welcome to the board Breezie
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
Let us not forget William Shatner's version!
Posted by In The Heart Of The Young (Member # 5113) on :
i watched something on vh1. it was like the 40 top worst songs of all time .. macerena was number 1 ..
Posted by Docteure Musique (Member # 5125) on :
Me too, "Sussudio" from Phil Collins! Can't support this song!
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