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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Haven't read through all the posts....but if this one hasn't already been mentioned, I nominate "Goodbye Cruel World, I'm Off To Join The Circus" (I think it was sung by Paul Peterson of "The Donna Reed Show" fame). I remember my older sisters listening to it when I was in grade school.
I'm really aging myself on that one!
Argggh. That reminded me of another terrible song: Run Joey Run.
BTW, Muskrat Love was written by one of the guys in the group America.
I like that one too! Wooly Bully was a dance song, you couldn't keep from moving when that song came on. Gotta admit the lyrics weren't much, though.
'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.'
Me too, thanks for the clarification.
("We'll laugh ev'ry day-eee-eee-eee....Then I'll be on my way.")
Sound like stoners to me.
Well, I think people are showing pity by not posting Helen Thomas gif's
Oh, how I hated that song! Can't wait to read th replies.
"Love Will Keep Us Together", by The Captain and Tenille.........And to my shame, I actually liked it when I was twelve."
HA! I still love it--brings back lots of memories, but unfortunately I was much older then 12 when it was popular.
Put me down also for "Feelings". I have a negative visceral reaction whenever I hear it.
Rofl...
From the same song:
"You're a hot-blooded woman-child..."
Has anyone ever asked Mac Davis if he was teacher at the time? ;-)
"I love her, I love her, oh boy how I love her cause she lets me watch her mom and pop fight".
LOL - my first thought! I wondered when it would be mentioned.
Don't remember THAT one, Lisa, but didn't Shelley Fabares (also from the Donna Reed Show) do a song as well?
Ain't it good
ain't it right
that you are with me
here tonight....
Rock me gently,
rock me slowly,
take it easy
don't you know
that I have never been loved like this before
Funny you should say that.. The lifeguard at the pool would take his lunchbreak, go to the flip-flop and towel shack, and put on We'll Sing in the Sunshine record. It would repeat 5 times (LOL!) while he was out smokin' (?) behind the showers. Naturally, since he was on 'break', EVERYONE had to get out of the pool, AND WAIT. So, we would count how many times the song had repeated, then, after #4, form a line around the the side of the pool waiting for ol' Schmoe, to get back to work!! LOL.. Yep, we were safe! We had our American Red Cross Swimmer patches sewn to our suits, so we felt fine with such supervision... hehehehe !
Bet you loved "Honeycomb" too!! :)
Honeycomb, won'tcha be my babeee
Honeycomb, be my gal.
rock me slowly,
take it easy
don't you know
that I have never been loved like this before
Yeah. From '77-'78. Andrew Gold?
One of my big disappoinments was on another thread here, I was defending the song "Mandy" by Barry Manilow, and spouting how I named my daughter Amanda after the song. I went on and on about how sweet the lyrics were.
My rude awakening came when someone informed me that the song was written, in fact, about a guy named "Randy". They said he was Barry's significant other at the time, but didn't think the song would sell with him crooning that name, so he came up with a rhyming girl's name....:(
One of my all-time favorite songs is, again, not a love song. It has words we can all relate to, deep within our souls:
VERTIGOGO by Combustible Edison
Do yah dot'n duy
ba da dot'n duy yah
oo-ee dot'n duy.Oo-ee zabba duy
do yah zabba dot'n
doo-ee dot'n duy.Zoo-ee bah,dabba do yah
da da dwee-a-dabba
da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada!buh-dee,buh-die,buh-doy,buh-dot'n duy
buh-dee,buh-dot'n duy.Buh-dee,buh-die,buh-doy,buh-dot'n duy
buh-dee,buh-dot'n duy.Zoo-ee bah,dabba do yah
da da dwee-a-dabba
da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada!Aaaaaaaaah.
(there's more, but it's too long)
aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ah.
aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ah.
Ooh,ooh...
Oooooooooooh.
I think the only 'love' song I really like is LOVE SHACK by the B-52s. :o) I'm with Petronski as far as liking the song BRANDY and in agreement with just about everyone that the worst 'love' song is MUSKRAT LOVE.
Anything by Celine Dion. She was a favorite of my psycho ex-girlfriend (the same one who put 4 gallons of water in my truck's gas tank, then accused me of being in Aryan Nation). I wound up having to clean my ears out with punk and metal.
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