Posted on 10/10/2022 8:01:30 AM PDT by TBP
From the list at the link:
-"Blue" by "Eiffel 65" is a club-only tune, a mellow warmup early in the night.
-"Who Let The Dogs Out" by 'Baha' Men is best in a short clip at the beginning of a Cleveland Browns football game. (Cleveland Browns having fans in the "Dog Pound") Outside of that, the song belongs on a kids TV show.
-"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" by 'The Police' was never meant to be heard more than once a year or so.
-"Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus needed to be limited to country line dancing bars and never heard on radio.
-"Macarena" by 'Los Del Rio' needed to be relegated to weddings with drunk bridesmaids and never heard on radio.
-A short snippet of "Tequila" by 'The Champs' is a great for movies and television.
-"Yakety Yak" by 'The Coasters' is a great tune but maybe better kept where only high-schoolers would hear it.
-Anything from 'Alvin & The Chipmunks' should not be heard anywhere at anytime.
-"Zombie" by 'The Cranberries' works well in a club, once in a while. It doesn't work on radio.
-"Tubthumping" by 'Chumbawamba' is a great drinking song. You have to be half in the bag with friends. Some songs are just not meant to be listened to when sober.
-"Take My Breath Away" by 'Berlin' needed to be limited to proms, weddings, and Navy pilot movies filled with homosexual overtones.
-"We Are the World" by USA For Africa needed to be done live and never recorded except for the background music of the phone donation bank. The moment that concert was over, it should never have been heard again.
I went home and practiced bass about 8 or 9 hours a day for the next couple of weeks.
Yes, True, Spandau Ballet...awful...IMHO
It was quite...faggy.
We talked about this one the other day.
I’m Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
I'm a big Police fan but I never understood how they could put out such a dopey song title like "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da". Still, the melody and baseline itself is not bad and would have greatly benefited by some additional lyrics.
"Zombie" by The Cranberries is to me an iconic and powerful song. I think it sounds great on the radio.
Ask any record collector who searches through dusty boxes of LPs at yard sales, flea markets, and junk stores. He will tell you that EVERY box you see will contain at least one Herb Alpert album, most likely Whipped Cream & Other Delights. That’s why Alpert is so rich.
My get-high skool band played an arrangement of Tijuana Taxi. It was always great fun to play!
I think I listened to Rise a couple thousand times in my childhood.
Mine is by a band I actually respect, if not like.
Aerosmith - Walk this Way.
Hey Diddle Diddle put your tittty in the middle? Or whatever he says?
And then shout “Walk This Way” a couple dozen times? I hate it.
Then Run DMC did the rap version and MTV was in love with that. It was that (among other things) that broke me of watching MTV from then on.
Didn’t know that it was written by Murphey of “Wildfire” fame. Certainly not a run of the mill Monkeys tune, has a country twang to it.
“De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” by the Police makes me think that had almost a song but couldn’t finish it and decided to go with what they had to avoid holding up the rest of the album. The Police only released five studio albums between 1978 and 1983. Between practices, touring, television appearances, studio time, and fighting amongst the members, that doesn’t leave a lot of time left over.
The whole fun point of that song was to *sound* like the lyrics were dirty, but they were actually not.
Now ‘Big Ten Inch” was clever!
Quite the story behind that song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Do_Do_Do,_De_Da_Da_Da
There is one exception, this one is great!
Does the Spearmint Lose its Flavor On the Bedpost Overnight?--Billy Jones & Ernest Hare
Here are some runners-up:
Mr. Radio Man--Lewis James
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for--Ice Cream--Waring's Pennsylvanians
Homemade Sunshine--Ted Lewis & His Band
Candy Man - Sammy Davis Jr.
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