[Physicist]

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler

"Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers

"The Streak" by...uh...mercifully, I've forgotten. Now if only I could forget the song.

I'll give a dishonorable mention to "Don't Bring Me Down" by the Electric Light Orchestra. It's not that it's among the very worst songs ever; it's just that this grating travesty came from a group that produced so much genuinely brilliant material. (If you don't like ELO's hit songs, which were never their best material, listen to their first five or six albums and get back to me.)

[RightWingAtheist]

"The Streak" is by Ray Stevens. Every time I flipped by The Nashville Network (back when it was called the Nashville Network), it seemed that they'd be playing a commercial for a "Best of Ray Stevens" collection.

Oh, and I like "Don't Bring Me Down" :-)

[Condor51]

I'll give a dishonorable mention to "Don't Bring Me Down" by the Electric Light Orchestra

Surely you can't be serious ?!? In fact I think I'll though my ELO's greatest Hits CD in now so I can hear it :-)

[L.N. Smithee]

"Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers

YES! What a stinker, as was anything by that band was. What a travesty that at the time, the Rollers were being compared to the Beatles. The thing that kills me about that song is that it's so muddled that unlike with most pre-1982 music, I can't imagine in my own mind musicians actually playing their instruments and having that come out of them.

However -- to moi, a worse song is the Rollers' string-laden pubescent lovey-dovey mush, "The Way I Feel Tonight." Get a load of these under-the-radar lyrics that teen girls swooned to:

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Close the door and turn the key
Open up your heart to me
I can see your love light glowing
Let your body melt to mine
Let us taste each other's wine
Till the cup is overflowing

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Not with my daughter, you plaid-wearing puke!

I'll give a dishonorable mention to "Don't Bring Me Down" by the Electric Light Orchestra. It's not that it's among the very worst songs ever; it's just that this grating travesty came from a group that produced so much genuinely brilliant material.

I liked that song musically, but I couldn't get past "You're looking good, just like a snake in the grass/One of these days you're gonna break your glass." From beginning to end, this verse makes no sense. It's as if Jeff Lynne just improvised lyrics, figured he'd have a chance to write something literate later, and discovered that the tape had to be delivered to the label that evening.

[Arkinsaw]

I'll give a dishonorable mention to "Don't Bring Me Down" by the Electric Light Orchestra. It's not that it's among the very worst songs ever; it's just that this grating travesty came from a group that produced so much genuinely brilliant material. (If you don't like ELO's hit songs, which were never their best material, listen to their first five or six albums and get back to me.)

"Time" was a brilliant concept album in my opinion, until you get to "Hold on Tight" which was just thrown in there to have another cruddy bubble-gum pop ELO radio song. Its like going to an opera and halfway through somebody comes out with banging on a trash can lid. Jarring.

ELO did that on every album, lots of good stuff and then WHAM! crap, right between the eyes. They always released the drivel as the "hit" single.