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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:56 pm
by A Gunslinger
danlo wrote:I think we all voted We Built this City the most obnoxious and crappiest song of all time about 3 years ago.
That song very nearly cost me my belief in rock and roll as an art form.
I very seriously considered the costs, both personal and financial, for assisinating all inloved for that peerless dreck.
Verily, I loathe it so, that the memory of it aill keep me awake at night.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:25 am
by thefirst
The smell does linger doesn't it?
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:33 am
by dANdeLION
As bad as that wretched song was, there is one that is worse, as I argued three years ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KD1EQMevRA
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:11 pm
by Caer Bombadil
Lady Revel wrote:Hooked on a Feeling and Seasons in the Sun.
WORST. SONGS. EVER.
Ol' TJ does seem to top just about everybody's list in that regard. IIRC several yrs ago when someone pub'd a book listing outstandingly cheesy, crappy, or universally despised pop music, they named it after the chorus of SitS.
I trust you specifically meant the 1970's cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede? (HOOGACHUKKA HOOGAHOOGAHOOGACHUKKA HOOGAHOOGAHOOGACHUKKA...) Not that the original was great shakes either. At least that chant adds a sort of doubleyouteeeff dimension.
Jefferson Starship really went "pop" in the mid 80's, didn't it? IMO "No One's Gonna Stop Us Now," the theme from the movie
Mannequin (Remember it? Me neither) was even worse than "We Built This City."
Let me nominate additionally everything Paul McCartney did after he ran out of stuff he originally wrote as a Beatle or shortly after, i.e. late-70's onward.
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:38 pm
by danlo
Thanks to Coz and Wayfriend we finally tracked down the culprit!! The Prince of Darkness and Godfather of elevator music:
and here's exhibit A:
A Walk Through the Black Forest
(not to mention freakin' The Teaberry Shuffle...
)
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:05 pm
by wayfriend
Oh, I think this is even more damning ...
The Girl From You-Hate-Where
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:19 pm
by sgt.null
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:17 pm
by danlo
I thinks "Black Forest" may have been the first song I ever heard in a dentist's office too...
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:43 am
by sgt.null
train - hey soul sister
how did these guys ever become popular?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:33 pm
by stonemaybe
cos the kids like it!
hellish - only one choice for me.....
barbie-f-ing-doll
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:47 am
by sgt.null
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:58 am
by deer of the dawn
The thing about We Built This City that makes it so grating to me is the staggering betrayal/downfall of Grace Slick/ Jefferson Air/ship. It was like, say it isn't so!!
For me, it's Billy Joel's Big Shot, but any pop duet of the 80's or 90's could probably qualify. There's something about those duets. >:(
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:54 pm
by sgt.null
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:09 pm
by Ananda
Negativeland's Christianity is stupid would be perfect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDfrrgqy_Eo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:32 pm
by danlo
really!
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:33 am
by Lord Zombiac
I wouldn't go to the waiting room to hell, I'd go to the black lodge and hear cool jazz. Talk to aliens and evil spirits, etc.,
Usually you avoid the usual hell when you fool with weird magic.
the owls are no what they appear
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:34 am
by Lord Zombiac
Are you kidding? I love this jam! Negativeland was top shelf underground in Austin when I was in that scene.
Played it a lot at subgenius devivals
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:00 am
by sgt.null
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:10 pm
by amanibhavam
Blinded by the Light - heard it on the radio this morning and reminded me how I dislike that piece. And it's an earworm.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:45 am
by sgt.null