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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"Awesomely bad"
Starring Jeremy Piven as a 40-year-old college senior.
Only 79 minutes running time? It seemed SO MUCH longer than that.
Sorry, I haven't read through all the posts yet to see if this is repeated, but the Turtles INTENDED that the song "Eleanor" be bad. They wanted out of their record deal and wanted to move into psychedelic music; that was not what the record producer wanted. Don't forget that after the Turtles' break-up, three members joined Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Two of the same guys, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, gave us the Grateful Dead/Phish-type group The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie, later shortened to Flo and Eddie.
Their current label wanted pop, so the group turned out something they thought would be atrocious enough to make the studio bosses gag away their contract ("Eleanor, gee I think you're swell, and you really do me well, you're my pride, and joy, et cetera" -- how do you write or sing lyrics like that with a straight face?).
The joke was on the Turtles when the song was not only released, but became a hit.
Ahh. Those years as the oldies DJ on the campus radio station are finally paying dividends.
I think you are right...Gilbert O'Sullivan. WHAT a whiney song!
Oh my goodness, you have come up with two long-forgotten but incredible baddies. 'Brand new key' could make previously stable people drive over a cliff.
LOL - AHHH - I have to remember that.
The horse getting lost is a completely forgettable one hit wonder called "Wildfire"
Wow... we got to 237 without MANDY being mentioned amazing.
Well, now wait just a minute... :-)
""Alone Again, Naturally" by Andy Gibb.
One of the whiniest songs ever written!"
Not surprisingly, "Alone Again" by Dokken is also whiny.
This is probably the most "air" time these has-beens have seen in years. Reminds one of an "off the strip" lounge act.
Post #51.
"Having my baby", by Paul Anka. Makes me want to puke.
yes, it was purposefully bad (Eleanor) but it was all over the high school.
TINY TEARS by Tindersticks
You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take
You haven't spoke, or looked at her in all that time
It's the easiest line you could break
She's been going round her business as usual
Always with that melancholy smile
But you were too busy looking into yourself
To see those tiny tears in her eyes
Tiny tears make up an ocean
Tiny tears make up the sea
Let them pour out, pour out all over
Don't let them pour all over me
How can you hurt someone so much your supposed to care for
Someone you said you'd always be there for
But when that water breaks you know you're gonna cry, cry
When those tears start rolling you'll be back
Tiny tears...
You've been thinking about the time, you've been dreading it
But now it seems that moment has arrived
She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in
But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight
Tiny tears...
"I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart."
But it's funny.
I vote for that awful "You're Having My Baby" (gag a maggot) and "Third Rate Romance, Low Rent Rendesvous".
Like fingernails on a chalkboard.
You got that right!
Okay, if we're going to get into political songs, I nominate 'Boxes, Little Boxes'
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