[Poser]

96 Tears is most excellent! Even better than Ooga Chaka! (Hooked on a Feeling) But not quite as good as Surfin' Bird.

Muskrat Love is wicked bad.
Butt... Can you ever forget the memorable:

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

[weegee]

What do you make of this entry in the Hot 100 charts?

Paralyzed

I ran to my refrigerator,
hungry as an alligator,
open the door, what'd I see,
I saw my baby staring right back at me...Paralyzed

The audio sample was from a remake of the song recorded over a decade after the original chart hit).

[exDem from Miami]

THAT'S IT!!!

MacArthur Park is the best song ever!!! Better than 96 Tears!!

....what, isn't this the best rock song ever thread?....

[RightWingAtheist]

Sorry, but that organ gets on my nerves. A Detroit radio station was put out a pretty funny parody called "96 Beers" about eleven years ago.

[highlander_UW]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that I can take it 'Cause it took so long to bake it And I'll never have that recipe again Oh, no!

While certainly not a classic, I don't have the problem with MacArthur park others appear to have. Perhaps I can relate to story that might help.

There was a class (I don't recall if it was philosophy or psychology) that decided to analyze the lyrics and came up with a big long explanation of all of the deep meanings of the song. They wrote the songwriter and asked how close they were and he mocked them because there WAS no meaning to the lyrics. He wrote that the words just fit together. Anytime self important professors get put in their place in front of their classes it's a good day.