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Awful Songs From the Past-80s,90s etc....

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    #32
    Padre101
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    The Chicken Song (c. 1986?)

    Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deck chair up your nose,
    Fly a jumbo jet and then bury all your clothes...


    ...and though you hate this song, you'll be humming it for weeks.


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    #33
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,159 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Padre101 wrote: »
    The Chicken Song (c. 1986?)

    Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deck chair up your nose,
    Fly a jumbo jet and then bury all your clothes...


    ...and though you hate this song, you'll be humming it for weeks.

    that song is hilarious and in no way awful. Of its time perhaps, but not awful.


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    #34
    Bassboxxx
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbooM_MnsSU


    This piece of sheitee here!!!

    If you could catch syphilis in your ears this would be the durty thing that gave it to ya....


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    #35
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,159 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Bassboxxx wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbooM_MnsSU


    This piece of sheitee here!!!

    If you could catch syphilis in your ears this would be the durty thing that gave it to ya....


    i'll be humming that for the rest of the day.


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    #36
    Olishi4
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    Padre101 wrote: »
    The Chicken Song (c. 1986?)

    Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deck chair up your nose,
    Fly a jumbo jet and then bury all your clothes...


    ...and though you hate this song, you'll be humming it for weeks.

    Oh that reminds me when I was about 6 and went to this children's disco. It was 6-12 year olds.

    This boy that was about 7 came up to me and asked me to dance with him to a slow song. I nearly died because I was just there to play chasing with my cousin. I was thinking "I'm not dancing at a disco". I said "eh sorry no" and ran off.

    At one stage they played The Chicken Song. I'd never heard it but all the kids knew the dance.


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    #37
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Padre101 wrote: »
    The Chicken Song (c. 1986?)

    Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deck chair up your nose,
    Fly a jumbo jet and then bury all your clothes...


    ...and though you hate this song, you'll be humming it for weeks.

    B side was better
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDk6ZeGNnU


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    #38
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    Heard that tripe "It's Oh So Quiet" by Börjk on the radio the other day and I immediately remembered how annoying it was when it first came out.Still every bit as bad.


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    #39
    Charles Babbage
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    Disco Duck /end of thread



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    #40
    guitarmagic
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    Is it easier to find bad songs from the 80s than the 70s?


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    #41
    guitarmagic
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    I would believe so


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    #42
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    For sheer creepiness alone: CLAIR, by Gilbert O'Sullivan
    He want's to marry a girl despite their age differences, sounds creepy.

    creepy.png


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    #43
    The Princess Bride
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    I apologise in advance.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAyc7WzMD5o


    The Legendary Stardust Cowboy with My underwear froze to the clothes line.

    So sorry.:o


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    #44
    Fogmatic
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    You should try the 50s/60s! This 1960 Eddie Cochran number, for instance, was a prime candidate for my Sack the Songwriter compilation (never did a singer brave such c**p lyrics so valiantly).
    https://youtu.be/1a9FyPZDQMA


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    #45
    vektarman
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    What makes this even worse is that it kept 'Vienna' by Ultravox off the Number 1 spot in the charts.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs


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    #46
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    vektarman wrote: »
    What makes this even worse is that it kept 'Vienna' by Ultravox off the Number 1 spot in the charts.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs

    Ah Shaddap Your Face is a classic :)

    I don't trust anyone who doesn't like that song :pac:


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    #47
    ohnonotgmail
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    vektarman wrote: »
    What makes this even worse is that it kept 'Vienna' by Ultravox off the Number 1 spot in the charts.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs

    30 years later and i can still remember the lyrics.


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    #48
    rubadub
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    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
    Bowie was a fan, talked about it on Jools Holland. The Ziggy Stardust name came from him.


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    #49
    bodhrandude
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    Bluuuuuuuurggghhh!



    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #50
    An Riabhach
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    Already posted on the "never want to hear again" thread, but these two deserve their place here too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvjLgjtJKsc


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzpcN3vy_Q


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    #51
    darkdubh
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    An Riabhach wrote: »
    Already posted on the "never want to hear again" thread, but these two deserve their place here too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvjLgjtJKsc


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzpcN3vy_Q

    At the time that Cest La Vie song came out I was talking to a guy I knew who said he was in the gym when the video for it came on the TV screen, he says he had to stop as it was making him feel physically sick with the constant morphing effects.


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    #52
    Lucifer31
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    Babybird - You're Gorgeous ('96)
    Ronan Keating - Life is a Rollercoaster ('00)

    Cringe factor high on these for me.


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    #53
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Lucifer31 wrote: »
    Babybird - You're Gorgeous ('96)

    I think it's alright. My mother bought that on single when it first came out. It had 4 songs and the second one was a slightly different version of it called, Youre Gorgeous Too and it's a lovely take on the song. It's almost like a completely different song. Can't post it because I've never been able to find the version online. Glad I still have the CD and it's on my iPod :)


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    #54
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    darkdubh wrote: »
    At the time that Cest La Vie song came out I was talking to a guy I knew who said he was in the gym when the video for it came on the TV screen, he says he had to stop as it was making him feel physically sick with the constant morphing effects.

    The song is awful enough.
    But that thing she does with her voice at the start of every line she sings,I dunno what to call it even or how to describe it,apart from a "hiccup" sound, makes me wanna fcukin smash something.


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    #55
    Ralf and Florian
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    Cathal feckin Dunne and Happy Man from the 1979 Eurovision. I vaguely remember another one he did shortly after called Bad Boy then he disappeared after though I think he made a comeback doing fitness videos.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ER57lMCnc


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    #56
    rubadub
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    Lorelli! wrote: »
    I think it's alright. My mother bought that on single when it first came out. It had 4 songs and the second one was a slightly different version of it called, Youre Gorgeous Too and it's a lovely take on the song. It's almost like a completely different song. Can't post it because I've never been able to find the version online. Glad I still have the CD and it's on my iPod :)
    Though not a big fan I am shocked to see it mentioned alongside ronan keating & bewitched! absolutely not in the same league (with the devil)

    This seems to be the one you are after
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxcxqWPOYc


    Or at 3.44 here, think its the same
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QUC0EzXlqk


    Forced myself to look at that bewitched video, they do a dance move similar to beyonce in single ladies.

    giphy.gif

    Which I found out a few years ago that beyonce admitted was (ahem) inspired by a Bob Fosse routine.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOAwBUfyfDg


    Michael Jackson was also (ahem, cough, cough, splutter, spit up a nasty) "inspired" by Fosse. The Fosse clips are from a 1974 film
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUlEBhGgEe0


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edxWesOw5pM


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    #57
    Ralf and Florian
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    Not the first time Beyonce's been "inspired".

    https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/beyonce-accused-of-plagiarism-over-video/


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    #58
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    rubadub wrote: »
    Though not a big fan I am shocked to see it mentioned alongside ronan keating & bewitched! absolutely not in the same league (with the devil)

    This seems to be the one you are after
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxcxqWPOYc


    Or at 3.44 here, think its the same
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QUC0EzXlqk

    Thanks rubadub but no I've found those versions before and they are the same by name but not the same one that's on the single I have. The one I have on the single doesn't sound live so it's not like it's some unique live recording either. Just a one off that was in the single I suppose.

    I agree I wouldn't put the original on the same scale as bewitched or anything like that. Plus the lyrics are good and fun in Youre Gorgeous. :)


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    #59
    An Riabhach
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    Remember this absolute tripe??
    Even The Cheeky Girls had more hits than these two fools.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jC5WAJzp34


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    #60
    ohnonotgmail
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    I'm sure we all remember this. The lady in question has entered the competition to represent denmark at this years eurovision

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNQRtmIMxk


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    #61
    Lorelli!
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    This monstrosity must have been mentioned before! I remember seeing this on tv when I was about 12/13 and looked over at my brother and we both couldnt stop laughing :/ :pac:



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