Kevin's Watch

ur-bane wrote:Oh, Cail......thanks a lot for smacking me with the DJ lyrics.

Embrace the horror that is Don Johnson singing.

I love how lists like these seem to eagerly jump on 80s music. Yeah it was pretty shallow, but it was fun. I'll listen to Poison, Dokken, and Def Leppard all day long before I listen to the garbage that was grunge (except for Alice in Chains), or the bitchy whiny emo stuff, or God forbid rap/metal (I want to throw Linkin Park into a chipper/shredder).

Tam says: You Light Up My Life-Debbie Boone and I say Build Me Up Buttercup--by The Foundation-some Archies-like 60s band...

Off the top of my head, I would have included:

I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
Venus - The Bananarama cover
Ebony and Ivory - McCartney and Stevie Wonder

I'd also include a whole lot of Hall and Oates.

If you dig deep there's some pretty cool Hall & Oates--but with songs like Rich Girl and Sarah Smile i.e. I'm with you.

Sure, they've got a few decent ones, but then there's Out Of Touch <shudder>

And then there was Private Eye

i like the clapping in Private Eyes. annoys my wife when i clap along to it.

any song by Boston could make the list. a souless band. the music played in hell's waiting room.

I also nominate Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry Be Happy as one of the lamest (and most annoying) songs ever.

Matrixman wrote:I also nominate Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry Be Happy as one of the lamest (and most annoying) songs ever.

It's way up there.

I would be inclined to agree with you on that one if not for this.....

My father passed when this song was on the charts. My brother and I had spent the day cleaning out his apartment. We were in a local pizza place, eating pizza and sharing a pitcher of beer. We were both pretty down, trying to figure out what we were going to do about Mom and neither one of us had much to say. There was a video jukebox in the place and someone started that going. By the time it was over, we were both laughing so hard we couldn't do anything else! Once we got over the giggles, we were able to start talking. So yes, it's a really lame song, but one I kind of have a soft spot for. We both think Dad was trying to tell us something.

I can't believe that Europe's The Final Countdown, Cherokee, or Carrie didn't make the list. I can't think of any band that was more consistant with their lameness.

I was going to mention Europe in relation to Boston: manufactured pap!

I see The Final Countdown on the list (#73). I don't know any of Europe's songs other than that one big hit.

anything by singers who have to oversing. such as Mariah Carey. what good is hitting notes only dolphins can hear?

Mariah's voice is wasted on the pap she so often sings. She can shatter glass and even do that scary, harmonic two-notes-at-the-same-time.

Paul McCartney deserves a few more entries I think. I heartily agree with OWD on Ebony and Ivory plus that damn frog song and anything by Wings.

I completely agree with #7. Probably the worst cover since Tori Amos' version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." #3... eh. St. Anger wasn't a bad song by any means. I don't think any of the tracks on the album are deserving of being on the list. Yes, the album overall sucked, and yes it did finally disenfranchise me from Metallica.

A few of the songs really sucked (Mmmbop, Barbie Girl), some of them had annoying moments, a lot of it is just pop fluff, and the vast majority is just stuff that got overplayed.

Nav wrote:Mariah's voice is wasted on the pap she so often sings. She can shatter glass and even do that scary, harmonic two-notes-at-the-same-time.

I concur--it's like Eddie Van Halen's guitar...so much potential, alas!

It appears that I am one of the few who like[/] Boston.

But....one that is right up there with the worst of them is
Biz Markie's "Just A Friend"

"You, you got what I need, but you say he's just a friend, you say he's just a friend oh baby You, you got what I need......"

I'm surprised the list isn't dominated by Celine Dion, Canada's "gift" to the rest of the earth. Discussion of oversingers is not complete until her name is brought up.