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!
(Excerpt) Read more at vh1.com ...
Contributors to this entire thread should be locked in a room and forced to listen to Afternoon Delight and Muskrat Love for several hours as punishment.
How can you have over 300 posts and not mention "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor.
"If a man ever need dyin', he did,
No one had the right to say what he did about you,
And it's so cold and lonely here without you.
Outside the law is comin'
I stand so tired of runnin'
Indiana wants me,
Lord I can't go back there . . .
I wish I had you . . . to talk to"
(Police sirens and "come out with your hands up, we have the place surrounded" in the background).
Shudder. Just shudder when you turn on your local 70s station. It could be playing right now.
Springsteen was writing/singing about a girl who got freaked out and left in a hurry. Who knows what Manfred Mann was thinking.
Sad eyes is actually Robert John.
RE: Making new lyrics, a few years ago, my wife, brother and I pulled an all nighter drive down south. About 2am, we turned on a country station. He knew Country music, but I wasn't a fan at the time. We spent about 6 hours driving and making up the words to new songs. It was amazing how close he and I were as we were improvising the words.
'And I am ashamed, yes ashamed to admit that I am fairly certain the guy who sang it was named Michael Murphy and we did have the 45.'
I had the LP, and there was also "Carolina in the Pines"
Okay, I've gone 250 posts now, and not seen one mention of 'Dreamweaver' by Gary Wright.
And who could forget (well, actually, who could remember) Eddie Murphy's shot at the music bidness with 'My Girl Wants to Party All the Time'.
Had to get those two mentioned.
Well, beyond the observation that it is 'dreck,' those lyrics basically left me speechless. No snub intended. ;O)
ping
DOKKEN WHINES? Oh yeah.
Breaking The Chains (metal's version of boyz-II-men)
Sit there thinkin’
In your room
You feel the pressure
You’re goin’ crazy too
The walls around you
Closin’ in
You need a change
Claustophobic
Feelin’ scared
You need somebody
But no one seems to care
A one way ticket
A change of pace
You’ve had enough
Can’t take no more
(chorus 1)
Breaking the chains around you
Nobody else can bind you
Take a good look around you
Now you’re breaking the chains
Got this letter
Came today
From my baby
Who left me yesterday
Said she loves
She’ll come back
She wants to try
I won’t let her
She’ll be upset
I know it’s better
Than somethin’ I’ll regret
She’s been dishonest
And insincere
I lost my mind
Twenty times a year
(chorus 2)
Breaking the chains around me
Nobody else can bind me
Take a good look around me
Now I’m breaking the chains
(solo)
Woke up today
I’m alone
I look around
But baby you were gone
But I don’t mind
And I don’t worry
I will survive
I’m alone
Now that you’re gone
Don’t need nobody
To hold or tie me down
I broke the chains
So let me be
I’ve gotta be free
(repeat chorus 2)
(repeat chorus 2)
How about just the first verse of "Brandy ?" I am in dire need of a good laugh today...
AAACCCKKK!!!
Sad eyes is actually Robert John.
So many of the songs mentioned are annoying that I had to stop reading the thread.
Yeah, Don Dokken was the king of Whiny Heavy Metal.
Heaven Sent, but baby, you're not the one!
Sounds like Wierd Al material.
Okay, you asked for it. I copied this because it was faster than my memory. Here goes:
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda)
There's a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes
And there's a girl in this harbor town
And she works layin' whiskey down
They say "Brandy, fetch another round"
She serves them whiskey and wine
The sailors say "Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"Yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea"
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Brandy wears a braided chain
Made of finest silver from the North of Spain
A locket that bears the name
Of the man that Brandy loves
He came on a summer's day
Bringin' gifts from far away
But he made it clear he couldn't stay
No harbor was his home
The sailor said " Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Yeah, Brandy used to watch his eyes
When he told his sailor stories
She could feel the ocean foam rise
She saw its ragin' glory
But he had always told the truth, lord, he was an honest man
And Brandy does her best to understand
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
At night when the bars close down
Brandy walks through a silent town
And loves a man who's not around
She still can hear him say
She hears him say " Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
"Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
FADE
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"
You ask me if I love you
And I choke you till you die.
I'd rather leave you dead right now
Then mislead you with a lie....
I'm late to this thread, but Afternoon Delight is by far one of the worst 'love' songs ever. Ugh. And now it's stuck in my head...
LOL! GMTA. That was my very first thought!
And it serves...
A hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors...
pass the time away
Talkin' 'bout their homes.
And there's a girl...
in this harbor town
And she works...
layin' whiskey down
They say Brandy...
fetch another round
She serves them whiskey and wine.
That's from memory, folks. :^)
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