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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The Romantics follow-up hit to "What I Like About You"
was "Talking In Your Sleep"
The guy that sang it had a noticable lisp, so if you listen carefully you hear him sing
I hear the theecreth that you keep
when you're talking in your thleep
You can see the lisp as he sings on the video.
I went to the list that was actually compiled for this. I didn't recognize a lot of the songs there. Guess if I can remember "Muskrat Love" I am way too old to be taking their poll. LOL!
My second least favorite: Which was not a love song, but about the 2 women who murdered the husband of one of them, and put him in the car trunk.
"Ralph" was the song, the singers: Who else? The Dixie Chicks. UGH!
urrrrrrrp..cough cough....
Even worse than Herman's Hermits was another Brit group that called themselves Freddy and the Dreamers (their most memorable tune: "Do the Freddy"). This was back during the "British Invasion."
But there were some fairly good ones, like Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sunspot Baby - Bob Seger
Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille...
Four hungry children and a crop in the fields.
I've had some bad times,
lived through some sad times,
but this time your hurtin' won't heal.
"Bad Love" by Social Distortion.
"Seasons in the Sun" had me so depressed as a child. As if my parent's divorce wasn't enough, the am stations in our car always played that song. I think it went on for years...or so it seemed when I was 7. I still can't listen to that song.
THE TOP FIVE
Week of March 2, 1974
1. Seasons in the Sun
Terry Jacks
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Oh Lord, this is going to be running around in my head tonight, lisp and all, when I'm trying to sleep.
I think the title of the song was "Falling in Love Again"...
by Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds.....
Some of the songs mentioned on this thread are bad....
but some (at least to me) are tolerable...
How about Last Kiss by J. Frank Wilson, not the redo by
the modern group (I can't remember who...need help on that one.)
I especially like the old version, cause one of the background
female vocalists seems to have run out of breath, when the
note she is holding kinda fades just a bit before its "supposed"
to...kinda like she was about the pass out, unless she took
a breath...
Don't forget "Signs, Signs, every a sign"...by the
immortal "All Electrical Band" My favorite part is
when they are playing their refrain, and they want to
accentuate the end by grunting something like...
"OOOUNH", in a very gutteral fashion...when I first heard
it , it sounded like some bored studio engineer, got tired
of hearing the drivel from the band, and just whacked one
of the vocalists hard in the belly to shut him up..
...As they pulled his body from the twisted wreck,
With his dying breath they could hear him say,
"Tell Laura I love her,
Tell Laura I need her,
Tell Laura not to cry,
My love for her....will never die...."
Regards,
Yes, anything by Nancy Sinatra and Debbie Boone was totally awful.
THE REAL LOUIE LOUIE LYRICS:
The best, if not the only way to sing this song correctly is to simply take the Kingsmen's version (preferably your terribly damaged vinyl single version of 1963), forget you ever learned any language at all, and simply imitate Jack Ely's vocals phonetically. You might end up sounding like this
Looweeloowhy ono sadday we gowgow
yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh sadday looweeloowhy oh bebay sadday we gowgow
Ayfain liyelkurwl away onee
eektatsh ahip oconstalee
ale wine shit wine all alowe
eenever acow aamay gitome
Aloowee loowhy nanananana heywegowgow
Oh no addeeloowee loowhy oh bebay heddeweegoddegow
Wenite andayo afaildefee
kaykogorld ocontoflee
a on ay shit awayteedair
agul ayrow mowinherrair
Aloowee loowhy oh no heddewegowgow
ya ya ya ya ya sadday loowee loowhy oh bebay
heddeweegowgow
OWKAYLITSGITITOOWERITENEOW
teey.... teteeynow ingamymoowabow
theymuppeelow they peepeealow
theypayinarhear my artegen
aymebber ay mebbelayergen
Looweeloowhy ono sadday we gowgow
yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh sadday looweeloowhy oh bebay sadday we gowgow
Ayseddewegoddegownow
Beybeeconnoweekot
Etco!
==================== If you want the real words, lemme know!! LOL
Ohio Express
Internet Critique:"Although many people seem to hate this song, we can't pinpoint exactly why. Sure, Bobby talks about him crying and she crying, but it's not your typically heart-tugging sad song. And he mentions a car wreck, a puppy, a teary chick flick, and his girl dying, alone. Oh. NOW I get it.... "
Sugar Sugar
Dizzy
And who can forget his follow up hit, "Claire", a touching ballad to transgenerational love.
When you combine the two songs you get an image of a creep lurking around playgrounds.
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