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

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  • #52
    Lucifer31
    Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭Lucifer31


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

    Cringe factor high on these for me.


  • #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 :)


  • #54
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭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.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #55
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    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


  • #56
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    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.

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    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


  • #57
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    Not the first time Beyonce's been "inspired".

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


  • #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. :)


  • #59
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


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

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

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #60
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


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


    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:



  • #62
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    BBC 4 regularly show reruns of episodes of Top Of The Pops from the 80s and recently they showed these two "classics".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPLk5mJ1D4


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QPBzAJ_io

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #63
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Always hated this from the 90's and it was constantly played. The lyrics sound like something a 12 year old would write about a crush :/



  • #64
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    An Riabhach wrote: »
    Remember this absolute tripe??
    Even The Cheeky Girls had more hits than these two fools.

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

    aw man, tune! :pac::)


  • #65
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    Can anyone else remember this barrel of laughs??

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXh3sueSxps

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #66
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Used to hear this on a Sunday morning on County Sound. Used to and still does drive me demented.

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


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  • #67
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    I already mentioned this on the "Songs we never want to hear again" thread, but it also deserves its place here.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7n53nIBb3g

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #68
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    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:


    I'd rather listen to THAT than L!ttle M!x.


  • #69
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Motopepe wrote: »
    Dude111,
    Don't worry be Happy is by Bobby McFerrin. I recommend that you find it, listen to it again and crank up the volume. It is perhaps a frivolous number but cringe worthy and stupid it is not. The vocal talent of Bobby McFerrin is well worth exploring.
    Of course, no more than yourself, this is just my opinion. Have a listen to Bobby McFerrinn and Robin Williams doing the Beatles Come Together.

    There was an urban myth floating around pre internet days that Bobby McFerrin had blown his brains out. Of course he's still with us, he was on BBC4 doc with Stuart Cope land last night.


  • #70
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    An Riabhach wrote: »
    BBC 4 regularly show reruns of episodes of Top Of The Pops from the 80s and recently they showed these two "classics".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QPBzAJ_io

    A song about nuclear war from the people who started a Japanese fashion trend, what's not to like ?



    BTW speaking of Japanese fashion there's this :eek:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0X3CLJVMJU


  • #71
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Save Your Love - a song that the late Larry Gogan hated


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  • #72
    Fogmatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Fogmatic


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJSZ1TwjcsQ


    Going Japanese was a nice bit of armchair travel for me (though I did happen to have the sound off at the time!).

    I remember 80s pop videos ranging from great to dire, but when I first saw The Karate Rap a few years ago it reached a new low for me as yet unsurpassed. At first I thought it was a spoof of pop video styles, but found it was actually made in ernest (and presumably at some expense), which somehow made it even more hilarious. No wonder I can't remember It; it appears to have sunk without trace in the US, never mind making it across the pond. (Fortunately for karate's public image).

    The tune's innocuous enough, to be fair, and I think the uniformed group doing exercises must be from a real karate club. But everything else - the purpose, attitudes, culture - is just so - gloriously - wrong. (The reason he never has to fight is that nobody wants to fight a Samurai? When karate was developed as an anti-Samurai defence? And how could anyone tell anyway - Samurai gear as practical streetwear, even if it was legal? Just one wee detail, and it just goes on).

    Can't remember if I've posted it here before, but couldn't resist the excuse (need a bit of a laugh in this gloomy weather)!


  • #73
    [Deleted User]
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    Betty Boo.


  • #74
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    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.
    Thanks. Really, thank you so much. Great ear worm I have now.

    In fairness, the song was deliberately trying to be bad. It was a parody ofor 'Agadoo' which was the greatest act of aural terrorism of the 80s


  • #75
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    BTW how is it that Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers haven't gotten a mention up to now? Hard to imagine that they had three UK no 1 s in a row with that lazy rubbish.


  • #76
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Most novelty songs, anything by Zig and Zag, Dustin or Pajo the rat.
    I don't think that Zig and Zag Tijuana Gypsies Stole My Personal Stereo would pass the censors now.

    There was an awful parody version of the Wild Rover that started "I've been a drunk driver for many a year...." popular on County Sound back in the 90s.


  • #77
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    BTW how is it that Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers haven't gotten a mention up to now? Hard to imagine that they had three UK no 1 s in a row with that lazy rubbish.

    Or the equally awful Irish copycat version, mashed together Irish showband and early rock and roll clips. I forget who was responsible for that musical abortion.


  • #78
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Itsy-bitsy, Teeny-weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.


  • #79
    the purple tin
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Itsy-bitsy, Teeny-weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.


    Timmy Mallet wasn't it. Thanks for dredging up a long repressed painful memory :P


  • #80
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Cotton-Eye Joe by the Rednex.
    Achy-Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.
    Very popular with line dancers :rolleyes:

    Jesus, everywhere you turned back then you were assaulted by this sh*tkicker trash.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOYZaiDZ7BM



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


  • #81
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Timmy Mallet wasn't it. Thanks for dredging up a long repressed painful memory :P

    Originally a million seller for Brian Hyland in 1960 and quite controversial for it's "risqué" lyrics


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  • #82
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Any of the Gawd awful cover versions done by Boyzone or similar.


  • #83
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Cotton-Eye Joe by the Rednex.
    Achy-Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.
    Very popular with line dancers :rolleyes:

    Jesus, everywhere you turned back then you were assaulted by this sh*tkicker trash.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOYZaiDZ7BM



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

    Rednex werent even authentic ****kickers. A bunch of Italians who decided the world needed country n western techno.


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