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!

[motor_racer]

Ok, I'll play. Here are my nominees:

1) IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA (what the h*** was THAT anyway?)

2) Anything written by Neil Diamond

Fire away.

[reagan_fanatic]

All these posts and no one's mentioned Leo Sayer yet, especially that god-awful You Make Me Feel Like Dancin'. YEEECCHHH.

If anyone out there has a 45 of Terry Jack's retched 'Seasons In The Sun', turn it over and play the flip side, a song titled 'Put The Bone In'. Its lyrics goes like this:

Put the bone in
She asked him at the store
Cause my doggie got run over by a car

Guaranteed to make any rational, sane person fling himself off a tall building onto the pavement below.

[cyncooper]

IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA (what the h*** was THAT anyway?)

I believe I've heard it was supposed to be "In the Garden of Eden" but the drug mangled pronunciation came out as you note.

LOL

[OB1kNOb]

That's the stanza where I get eeerrrppppyy!

[PJBlogger]

I like those songs... "I Honestly Love You", "You Light Up My Life", "Torn Between Two Lovers", "Hey Paula"

I think "Honey" qualifies, but really bad love songs are like porn, you know it when you see (hear) it.

[PJBlogger]

This definitely qualifies. "Honey" is not sweet...it stinks!

[F16Fighter]

TINY TEARS by Tindersticks

"You've been lying in bed for a week now Wondering how long it'll take..."

TOO long already.

Now who's 'Tindersticks' again?

[sully777]

Back

In A Gadda Da Vida was actually In The Garden of Eden but the singer was so stoned that he couldn't sing the words correctly. Once you understand the actual title then you understand his point which was having sex like Eve did to Adam.

BTW, I always thought Cracklin Rose was about a prostitute but Neil says it's Canadian slang for alcohol. Doesn't make sense with the alcohol explanation.

[TheGunny]

SWEEEEEEET!

[F16Fighter]

"That's the stanza where I get eeerrrppppyy!"

One BIG question: What's "eeerrrppppyy" mean??

[JesseJane]

Now, you stumped me rube..

Laudermilk sounds familiar... early early 60's... I have mental images of dad at the old reel-to-reel, getting ready to tape Montavanni and Allan Sherman (Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda!) from the radio.

Now I'll have to pull out 'We'll Sing in the Sunshine' by Gail Garnett.

[Delbert]

MUSKRAT LOVE IS BY FAR THE WORSE.

[feedback doctor]

Shannon, by Henry Gross. A love song. . . to a dog.

[sully777]

Billy Joel

Zanzibar
Honesty

[F16Fighter]

"All these posts and no one's mentioned Leo Sayer yet, especially that god-awful You Make Me Feel Like Dancin'. YEEECCHHH."

Yep.

This song's got my nomination as a Top Three WORST song. Horrendous.

It's just not a 'Love Song.' OR is it??

[CitizenM]

Oh, Right "Goodbye EARL" you can see how much I liked it! But, the song waw/is terrible, no matter whose name it has. Right?

[msjhall]

"I liked "Honey", also liked Bobby Goldsboro. There, I've said it!"

Houston, we've got a problem.

I used to listen to a Bobby Goldsboro album my grandmother had when I was a kid. I never really cared for "Honey" (my grandma loved it) but there were some other pretty good songs:

Run to Me
God Didn't Make the Little Green Apples
By the Time I Get to Phoenix
With Pen in Hand

That's all I can remember.

[F16Fighter]

'Honesty'. (IS it "such a lonely word"??)

So Joel gave the chicks a song to hang their bras upon...

[cassie22]

I heard (or read) the same thing!

[OB1kNOb]

Getting erpy is two stages before blowing chunks. It's in the throat and on it's way up!