awful songs you happen to like

Mad_maxx

eiffel 65 - blue ( Da ba dee )

stupid song but always makes me smile , love the stupid video too


also , anything from the rocky 4 soundtrack


not great at adding video links so forgive me for the lack of additional footage

bop1977

Wagon wheel.

Arghus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBi_MfT3LE

This is a stupid song, but I enjoy it.

Clareman

Baby ****ing Shark, kids love it in the car and now I do too

Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo

Brock Turnpike

Hurt

The original version by Johnny Cash.

Ubbquittious

An oldie but a goldie

Oscar Bravo

This guy, I remember it kept Ultravox off the top of the charts at the time

Sorry about that

Respectable, Mel and Kim.

Atlantic Dawn

So bad it's good...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyiQ4I-mcQ

dzsfah2xoynme9

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

Hurt

The original version by Johnny Cash.

The original is by Nine Inch Nails..

o1s1n

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

Hurt

The original version by Johnny Cash.

That's not the original....!

Alpha Romeo

Ah, come on lads, too obvious

mobby

The Pina Colada Song

CrankyHaus

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmfudW7rbG0

Diemos

BorneTobyWilde

LOL BELONGS ON THE RADIO
yET Catchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBZUz4C6kqk

Mad_maxx

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

Hurt

The original version by Johnny Cash.

I always assumed that was a good song

arcticmonkeys

I was going for Duran Duran A View to a kill but couldn't decide whether it was spectacular or spectacularly terrible.

I was 18 and away in college when I realised that Garth Brooks was a divisive figure. But listening again to this track, I think the whole thing is mired in politics. Garth is still a cool guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpwdwbO1uvM

Fake Plastic Trees.

ILoveYourVibes

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Fake Plastic Trees.

Thank you for not posting this song.

ButtersSuki

arcticmonkeys wrote: »

I was going for Duran Duran A View to a kill but couldn't decide whether it was spectacular or spectacularly terrible.

Do you like Phil Collins?
I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favourite.

fleet_admiral

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Do you like Phil Collins?
I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favourite.

Do you like Hughie Lewis and the news?

ButtersSuki

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Do you like Hughie Lewis and the news?

Yes. Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

In '87, Huey released this; Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.

PsychoPete

Arghus wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBi_MfT3LE

This is a stupid song, but I enjoy it.

I was finding my own music taste around 2000, I was drawn to the likes of Limp Bizkit,Korn,Linkin Park etc. I still like Limp Bizkits chocolate starfish and hot dog flavored water album

Ger Roe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Y4HufJ1oE

Really bad and really great, at the same time.

Wild Field 1831

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I was 18 and away in college when I realised that Garth Brooks was a divisive figure. But listening again to this track, I think the whole thing is mired in politics. Garth is still a cool guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpwdwbO1uvM

That actually isn't Garth singing. A lot of his songs are hard to find on YouTube, like 'Somewhere other than the night' etc. Now very like him alright.

Aglomerado

I've a soft spot for Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles. It's cheesy, but I like it.

Truthvader

mobby wrote: »

The Pina Colada Song

Sorry unforgiveable poo. Punishable by death

Listrydude

Always loved Chris Isack's Wicked game and Richard Marx's Hazard! Never, typed that before I can tell you!!

D3V!L

The Time Warp

My wife has banned it in the house, the car and the bedroom. I'm not sure what her problem is , It's just a jump to the left and then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips, you bring your knees in tight.

cml387

Truthvader wrote: »

Sorry unforgiveable poo. Punishable by death

The opposite, in every conceivable way possible, to Babooshka by Kate Bush

quickbeam

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

This guy, I remember it kept Ultravox off the top of the charts at the time

Whatcha talking about, you? That's a downright classic. Even Midge admitted it.

Purgative

This is total shoite - but its been stuck in my head

ohnonotgmail

D3V!L wrote: »

The Time Warp

My wife has banned it in the house, the car and the bedroom. I'm not sure what her problem is , It's just a jump to the left and then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips, you bring your knees in tight.

Kinky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wDFCM7iSI

Fun Fact: the guy who wrote the lyrics for that also wrote the lyrics for The Smurf Song.

cml387

Which 70's pop group had songs about:

The Babylonian captivity of the Israelites
The politics of early 20th Russia
The troubles in Northern Ireland?

Yep. Here's the one about Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg

Arghus

PsychoPete wrote: »

I was finding my own music taste around 2000, I was drawn to the likes of Limp Bizkit,Korn,Linkin Park etc. I still like Limp Bizkits chocolate starfish and hot dog flavored water album

I listened to a few tunes off that album recently enough. I can not believe that there was ever a time that I thought that music was good.

Fred Durst is just the worst front man of all time. His lyrics are unbelievably dumb, even 14 year old me knew it at some level. I think the rest of the band were actually pretty okay as musicians, but everything gets ruined by Fred's presence. I can put up with Break Stuff because it's so dumb that it's borderline genius - and there is still a weirdly ferocious power to the "GIMME ME SOMETHING TO BREAK" part.

But LB were just the gateway drug for me, once I started listening to other bands they were done. Everyone had more to offer than LB. When I started listening to stuff like this instead there was no coming back -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjainiB8mk4

Very few bands of that era have aged well. SOAD maybe? Though it's coming up on 20 years since it's heyday so a revival is probably imminent.

ShatterAlan

Mmmm-bop by Hanson
Born To Make You Happy by Britney


The Ketchup Song.



All absolute crap but I always sing along to them.