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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That does ring a bell for me.....
I thought their version sounded like a garage band trying
to update some old song,,,,but it sounded more like...
"hey man, let's do some song from the 60's...some campy song
and do it the RIGHT way..."""
Nah,,,Leave the song alone...
you can't save it....
Trivia question: Do you know who the "someone" of the song is? His only hit in the U.S. was one of the best rock songs ever -- "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll." Fantastic song. From about 1970.
Interesting that you post Ted Nugent. Vh-1 rated Damn Yankees' song Take Me Higher as one the worst love songs, as one person put it:
"You cheated and you're writing a 'lovesong' telling the girl to get over it."
But another panelist made this comment on The Nugent
"Ted Nugent? Doing a love ballad???"
BWWWWWWWWWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHA!! That is SOOOOOO badd!!! ROFLMAO!!! LOL!!
Oh, this I must share... ! :)
Haven't read thru the entire thread, but I'd be surprised not to see Blue Suede's 'Hooked on a Feelin'. Another boner from the 70s.
Somerville,another very strong EB's song is Bowling Green from 1967.
Correctemundo... And I believe it hit #1 in 1974
I bought it on vinyl along time ago...don't know if it's
even available anymore...check Rhino records website...they
do alot of cool compilation stuff...
Think, I'll go fire it up.....We gotta go now...yeah, yeah,
yeah...
LOL! I really think Littli Red Riding Hood is cute. It's not grossly stupid, kind of up there with the Monster Mash.
Bwhahahah!
Yep! David Allen Coe did GOOD! :^D
Aww, I like Woolly Bully! Eddie and the Hot Rods, an English punk band, did a good remake of it about 1977.
Actually that song was "Goodbye Earl", and it sounded like he 'needed killin'! LOL. Of course, I'm from the South, and that's a perfectly legitimate defense. ;o)
Chevy Van by Sammy Kershaw
offered just enough fetid inspiration to make one either yawn or puke, one of the two.
YOu know, I may have missed it but we haven't heard any Carpenters songs mentioned yet either:)
Will do Getready!! Thanks for the tip !!
At one point a thousand years ago, I just HAD TO HAVE, 'At This Moment', by Bill and and Beaters.. Had to get it from Rhino...
I shall jump in the wayback machine, and make my way over.
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