You beat me Heartbroken. When I read the sub it came immediately to mind. I despise it, everything about it. I do not have the words to express how much.
Apparently, you flummoxed not only me but the site's kernel because that space in 'Congratulations' isn't visible in the text that I'm looking at as I try to make the correction!
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I have a soft spot for "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" and "Raindrops Keep Fallimg on My Head". Yes they are corny, but my mother always loved these songs, and they remind me of her... sorry folks.
I can't stand most songs that make it to number one. There are only a handful I really like. Every decade has had some abortions in the charts. The popularity of the Spice Girls or some of those dismal 80s soft rock hair bands baffles me. As does all the autotuned pap in the charts just now. They could replace it with AI generated content and no one would notice. That's how bad things are.
OMG, I HATE that song. Every time he says "Angie" it sounds like he is trying to throw up. I love the Stones in a huge way, but they have a few duds in my opinion. Wild Horses is another one I don't like.
dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > OMG, I HATE that song. Every time he says "Angie" > it sounds like he is trying to throw up. I love > the Stones in a huge way, but they have a few duds > in my opinion. Wild Horses is another one I don't > like.
My sister and her friend thought he was singing, "I ain't Jeff."
I drove kids to the Logan High School everyday for a number of years. The radio was on current pop/rock or what ever they call that. My daughter would pick the station. I grew to love certain songs from a different era---like John Mayer songs.
But the most irritating song of my daughter's middle school & high school years has to be Britney Spears singing:
...."Oops...I did it again"
I asked the teens in the car what was it that Britney did again? "Dirty her diaper? (I used a different word for dirty)
My daughter and her friends got a good hard laugh. That is how I got on the cool parent list.
At the time they were out, some of my least favorite songs were:
"Puppy Love," by Donny Osmond. The original by Paul Anka was bad but Donny with his LDS upbringing (though I didn't know it at the time) made it much worse.
"(You're) Having My Baby," by Paul Anka. This was the second song that the antiabortion movement tacked itself onto in 1974 (the first was Seals and Croft's "Unborn Child," which, thankfully, didn't do very well outside of Phoenix, Arizona). I later learned that Paul wasn't thinking about the abortion issue when he wrote the lyrics but it's still a bad song in my book.
"Get Up And Boogie," by Silver Convention. This German-speaking female quartet made a habit of recording songs with the fewest English lyrics possible--apparently they had to learn how to pronounce the words phonically. And yes, it's still a *very* stupid song with really dumb lyrics.
"(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty," by K.C. and the Sunchine Band. This Florida group made a lot of bad songs, most of which (including this one) made it all the way to #1. I think I once heard the late Steve Allen reading the song's lyrics as a parody--it was much better than the stupid song.
"A Million To One," by Donny Osmond. Since I started with an LDS church member, I'll finish my list with that same member. Like Linda Ronstadt, Donny made a name for himself by rerecording songs that were hits for other people. And, like Linda Ronstadt, his covers weren't always that good. "A Million To One," had been kind of a so-so 1960 hit for Jimmy Charles but Donny Osmond made it truly forgettable. About the only good thing you can hear on that 45 is its b-side, a much better remake of Sonny James' "Young Love," (though I daresay that Mr. James' version of that song still beats Donny's version by a mile.)
I'm a child of the '70's, so most of my choices are from that era. These are in no particular order. In my opinion these are all tied for worst place: Seasons in the Sun We Built This City on Rock n Roll Muskrat Love Disco Duck Having My Baby Afternoon Delight