Posted on 03/02/2005 12:30:39 PM PST by sully777
What is the most awesomely bad love song ever? The one that makes you cringe when you hear it, but you just can't turn it off. What love song makes you shake your head, roll your eyes, laugh, gag, shed a tear, or just punch something because it's so horrendously great that you love to hate it. Or is it vice versa? VH1 is counting down the 40 Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs....The kind of songs that might end a relationship rather than enhance it. You get the drift.
Join us as we count down and celebrate fantastically cheesy lyrics, the best and worst metaphors, awkward and confusing themes, and of course, those strange, misguided flukes from our favorite artists, while our team of experts help explain why we've deemed these songs so (un)worthy. We've been covering our ears, shutting off the radio, and running from the room screaming for too long. It's time to ban these songs to our awesomely bad Hall of F(Sh)ame!
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so schmaltzy it gives me chills!
So far the winner for worst song of all time is Muscrat Love. But with so many contenders who can be sure?
haha I second that, Can you believe people actually go to Vegas to see her and that they built a whole coliseum for her. Must be the international crowd...I wouldn't pay to see her.
"There was a movie several years ago where the students at a University locked all the staff in a room and left "Afternoon Delight" cranked up on infinite repeat. After an hour, people were crashing through windows trying to escape the screeching song.
The movie was terrible but that one scene made up for it. Still cracks me up just thinking about it."
It was PCU (Politically Correct University). The concept of the movie was excellent, but the writer/director got everything back-asswards in the end.
During college, the "streaking" days, we used to sing "we had joy, we had fun, we went streaking in the sun, but the cops had a gun, and they shot us in the buns..."
Heresy! :^)
Well you should remember the gasp & grunt song:
"Je t'aime, moi non plus"
Jane Birkin & (the late) Serge Gainsbourg
"Alone Again, Naturally" by Andy Gibb.
One of the whiniest songs ever written!
I love that song too! Badd, but it's good..
Wanna try, England Swings like a Pendulum do,
Bobbies on the bycicle two by two
Westminster Abbey
the home of Big Ben
The rosy red cheeks of the little children....
(only my neice use to substitute chickens for children... LOL)
'I vote for "I'm All Out of Love" by Air Supply. Hell, ANY song by Air Supply. Eewwwwww! '
Has anybody mentioned "Making Love Out of Nothing at All"
That is my worst nightmare.
Nothing quite beats Evis' "Night and you in blue Hawaii" sung late at night in a car full of rowdies coming back to the dorm after a night of partying. And nobody wants to be anywhere near the car.
The only reason that song gets a pass is because it immediately makes me think of Heather Graham as "Rollergirl" in "Boogie Nights." :^)
I don't know if this counts as a love song, but it really points outr everything that is wrong with '60's liberalism:
Anyone remember:
"Things get a Little Bit Easier, Once you understand" by Think
(Parents aren't cool and permissiveso son ODs)
Think - Once You Understand
(Things get a little easier, once you understand)
[repeated in background over and over and over until the end of the song]
[spoken dialog]
[Dad]
I'll be expecting you to get a haircut by Friday
[Boy]
Forget it dad, that won't change anything
[Dad]
Forget, nothing, you'll do as I say as long as you are living in my house.
[Mom]
He knows I'm not feeling well
And yet he doesn't take out one second out to help his mother
His only concern is for himself
[Boy]
Come on ma, what do you want from me
[Dad]
Don't argue with your mother, just shut up and listen
[Girl]
But mom, all my friends will be there
[Mom]
I said no, you can't go
[Girl]
But why
[Mom]
I don't want you in that neighborhood
[Girl]
Why, what's wrong with that neighborhood
[Mom]
I don't like the kind of people living there
[Girl]
What's wrong with them
[Mom]
Never mind, some day you will thank me
[Mom]
Are you sure nobody kept you company tonight while you were baby sitting
[Girl]
What's that supposed to mean
[Mom]
Just curious
[Girl]
Admit it mom, you don't trust me
[Mom]
Where are you going now
[Son]
To my friend's house
[Mom]
Don't you have things to do in the house
Don't you have homework
Why don't you sit down and read a book
[Son]
Oh ma
[Mom]
Don't oh ma me
You're wasting your life away with foolish things
[Son]
What are you talking about
How about your bridge club and your ladies groups
and your parties and your daytime programs
How about all that
[Mom]
That's different
[Girl]
Ma, I'll be home at 11
[Mom]
You better be home at 10 or don't bother to come home at all
[Dad]
When I was your age, I was working 12 hours a day
6 days a week helping to pay for the food and the rent
[Son]
I don't understand, what's that got to do with me
[Dad]
If you can't figure that out for yourself, you're stupid
[Boy]
Hey dad, did you see my new guitar, I joined a group
[Dad]
Son, there's a little more to life than joining a group and playing a guitar
[Boy]
Yeah dad, what is there to life (life, life)
[Music and background singing stop]
[Police officer]
Mr Cook,
[Dad]
Yes
[Police officer]
Do you have a son named Robin, Robin Cook age 17
[Dad]
Yes
[Police officer]
I'm sorry Mr Cook, you better come down to the station house
Your son is dead
[Dad]
Dead? How
[Police officer]
He died of a overdose
[Dad]
Oh my god
[crying]
[music starts again and the 'things get a little easier singing too]
Don't forget Ebony Eyes (Everly Bros)
That's awesome..
Sounds like a perfect trip to me!!
UGH!
"Puberty Love" by Ronny Desmond was the worst ever. It was so bad that even the sheet music destroyed the Killer Tomatoes.
I recall the recently departed Johnny Carson singling it out in a monologue along the line of "Enough already!"
and he proceeded to hum a few notes
I think that was Gilbert O'Sullivan, MM.
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