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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"I still can't listen to that song."
Oh man, you have my sympathy. That insipid hit went on for waaaay too long. It was popular during a bad time in my life too, but it seems like it was much worse for you.
Another evil, undermining song.
Thank goodness we've got FR now, that's all I can, in all sincerity, say.
Never heard of that one; but, how about "Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone"?
"Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll."
total weirdness, this thread it really hooked into the universal subconscious. I thought of that song, for no good reason, about 5 posts before I read yours.
very strange.
The worst love song of all time that I can think of is "Cooking Breakfast For the One I Love" by Fanny Brice (1930). For sheer lugubriousness, "A Cottage For Sale" by Ruth Etting, also from 1930, should be the runner up, but the tune's sheer awfulness, combined with the the singer's excellent singing voice and a great arrangement, make the song actually fun to hear.
The worst record of all time is "Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor On the Bedpost Overnight?" by The Happiness Boys, (1924), although "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream" by Waring's Pennsylvanians (1928) and "Singing In the Bathtub" by King Benny Nawahi (1929)--an answer to the popular hit "Singing In the Rain"--give "Spearmint" some stiff competition.
"Leader of the Pack" and it's sister song
"Leader of the Laundromat"
"Oh where oh where can my baby be?"
Do you remember "Running Bear Loved Little White Dove"?
Running Bear loved Little White Dove
with a love that couldn't die
Blah, blah, blah, blah
Running Bear jumped in the water
Little White Dove did the same
They swam out to each other
I don't remember the exact words just that they drown together. I spent many "happy" hours crying over that song when I was a dopey pre-teen.
"Patches" was another great tear jerker.
What! You're not a Turtles fan? /sarcasm
"The song "Joe's Garage" is one of my all time favorites though."
That is one GREAT song. And it makes a great pair with Robert Earl Keen's "This Old Porch".
Man, I love both those songs. I think I gotta put on the headphones and hear at least one of them RIGHT NOW!
"The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace is about a shootout between gangsters and police. Since it takes place on the "East Side" of Chicago, it must be a naval battle.
Sorry I missed that!
But, the thing is the Turtles were pretty good -- except for that "etcetera."
"Happy Together" is a great production number.
Yep.
Actually, "Starland" by SVB was much better.
Well, thanks alot! You made me cry!
"I liked "Honey",...There, I've said it!"
ME TOO! Almost got in a fight with hubby about this song just now. He votes it #1 most awful love song, but I loved it when I was 8 and it can still make me cry today!
There was a song in the 1960s that was supposed to be spoof song of all those sappy teenage love songs. It was about a girl who is in a car wreck with her bf, then runs back into the burning wreck to get her promise ring.
But, lots of teeny boppers cried and it ended up being a hit.
The song "Sometimes When We Touch" makes run out into the backyard and wretch over my neighbor's fence.
"Its' your love" by Hill and McGraw....has got to be the most finger-nail-on-chalkboard song I have ever heard.....more sap than a maple tree.....
"(You're) Having My Baby" by Paul Anka
I had forgotten about "Patches!" Yeah, tragedy songs were big then. I couldn't believe it when I heard Pearl Jam sing "Last Kiss" now though. What was that song in Japanese that was a hit about 1962? I think it was a love song. Oh there's, "To know, know, kno-o-ow him; is to love, love, lo-o-ove him." And "If I Were A Carpenter." And I hated Paul Anka's "Diana."
"wildfire" by Micheal Murphy and "Amarillo by morning" are just about my two favorite songs in the world......
Don't forget "You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me Lucille" by Kenny Rogers.
Except possibly, maybe "On the Cover of The Rolling Stone".
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