40 Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs

vh-1/viacom ^ | 3-02-05

[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!

[msjhall]

'I had the LP, and there was also "Carolina in the Pines"'

Ugh, and I also had the 45 of "I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again"

[Ignatz]

You
You take my breath away
I go purple in the face
As I asphyxiate....

[small_l_libertarian]

See, you're a hopeless case, too. (What a truly awful song.)

[Dashing Dasher]

That has my vote for #1 worst song every!

[somerville]

How on EARTH did you remember the lyrics to "Brandy ?" Amazing... it must have made quite an impact on you.

[Petronski]

Hey, I *gasp* actually like this tune. So there.


Looking Glass---Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
Words and Music by Elliot Lurie

(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"

[ladylib]

Someone sang something about having "love in his tummy." I can't remember the whole song. "Yummy, yummy, yummy I have love in my tummy" -- Yech.

[Political Junkie Too]

Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes

Basically, about a cheating guy who wants his "girl" to wait for him to finish sowing his wild oats.

-PJ

[TheBigB]

Always will be. :^)

[fortunecookie]

'Brandy' remains one of my favorites from the 70's. I do love it.

[cyclotic]

Awright guys.

You've had your fun. I have the absolute, beyond all shadow of a doubt winner. Unfortunately, 99% of you have never heard this song.

Creature without a head by Lenny and the Squigtones (yup, Lenny and Squiggy)

Highlights from memory...

Moonlight does funny things, I've heard the wise man say, But when you're in love, your moonshines every day.

Once I was so happy, my girl and I were one, everything seemed OK.
But then that ssummer night, when a radioactive cloud, came down and absorbed her head away.

We meet in the darkness in our secret place, she's got a great body, so who needs a face. True love is romantic, but I'm frantic instead, for the creature without a head.

[DCPatriot]

Laughing so hard...have tears.

Reading this thread in the office environment is not exactly smart.

Good thing I'm the owner/boss...

[TheBigB]

That is still one of my favorite 70s tunes. :)

[wyattearp]

Your tagline:

It's like my momma always said, "Two wrongs don't make a right but two Wrights make an airplane.")

The one I grew up with was 'two wrongs don't make a right, but the second one gets even'.

[msjhall]

'How on EARTH did you remember the lyrics to "Brandy ?" Amazing... it must have made quite an impact on you.'

I listen to a 70's station and they play that song alot.

[wyattearp]

I like "Brandy". %-)

[fortunecookie]

I'm late to this thread. Is 'Muskrat Love' on this list anywhere, because it should be right near the top! (((Shudder)))

[wrathof59]

"Island Girl" from Elton John ranks up (down) there with Muskrat Love and Afternoon Delight.

[Billthedrill]

yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy
and I feel like a loving you
lovin such a sweet thing good enough to be eating
and it's just a what I'm gonna do

The group that perpetrated this hideosity called itself the Ohio Express. One may only imagine at this late date the double entendres that it generated in an audience of horny teenagers.

Thanks to you I had to soil my hard drive with that. I'm going to wipe it slick now and start over and hope the computer gods forgive me. I hope you're happy...

[cyclotic]

2 wrongs don't make a wright, but 3 lefts do.