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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It was right for it's time.
"Last Kiss" - J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers.
CA....
My mother used to think Roy Orbison sang "Tony Balony"!
CA....
Or as George Carlin said, "I've never had a 10, although I have had five 2's. Does that count?"
Correctemundo... And I believe it hit #1 in 1974
Largest CD anthology in history: Worst Hits of the 1970s.
And the worst of the worst. . . Play That Funky Music, White Boy or anything by K. C. and the Sunshine Band.
Suicide by water torture would be preferable.
In case you didn't know, that's Esperanto.
"Lovin' You"
Ooooooohhh. Just looking at the title grates on my ears.
Who could forget that screech!
Performed by the late Minnie Riperton. That one got into my head yesterday like a brain worm, so here are the lyrics for old times sake.
"Lovin' You"
Loving you
Is easy because you're beautiful....
Making love with you
Is all I want to do....
Loving you
Is more than just a dream come true....
And everything that I do
Is out of loving you....
No one else can make me feel
The colors that you bring....
Stay with me while we grow old....
And we will live each day in spring time....
La-la-la... (INSERT FINGERNAILS SCRATCHING BLACKBOARD SOUND HERE)
Because loving you....
Has made my life so beautiful....
And every day of my life
Is filled with loving you....
Loving you....
I see your soul come shining through....
And everytime that we....
Oh I'm more in love with you....
He killed himself. Never saw that coming.
"Without You" was Harry's biggest hit; it was written by Ham-Evans-Ham (I think these guys were Badfinger, no?).
Oddly, Harry's most popular recordings were by songs written by others; on the other hand, some of his own songs were hit recordings by others.
Two corrections (disregard if somebody's beat me to it):
Harry was never a member of Badfinger.
He died in 1993 (IIRC) of a heart attack after a few years of precarious health due to diabetes and the heart condition. It was while they were putting together the tribute album "Everybody Loves Harry."
"Drop kick me Jesus through the goalpost of life."
"If the phone is ringin', it ain't me,"
You are a Lewis Grizzard fan.
My Vote??
Puppy Love.
Yes, yes, I DID think that!
Let me guess. You won't ride on top of a double-decker bus because there's no driver up there.
"You won't ride on top of a double-decker bus because there's no driver up there."
LOL! That's a good song too. I've never actually been on a double-decker bus, but I can understand that mind set.
That's Long John Baldry. I haven't heard that song in decades. My brother had it on tape, (reel to reel), recorded from the radio, (KSAN, The Jive 95), from the early 70's.
Kool & the Gang
Jet was Samoan.
"I really think you're groovy...let's go out to a movie"
Very funny send-up of sappy love songs.
How about
"Feelings" -- MA
"Sometimes when we touch"-- DH
"I write the song" --BM
and
"You light up my life"
YUCK!!!!!
Now for some of my all-time choices for really bad, unlistenable, revolting, cloying, enervating, and just plain nauseating so-called 'Love Songs':
And topping the charts:
1) Endless Love ('Friendless Love')
2) Knock Three Times (on the ceiling if you want me)
3) Rubber Ball (by Bobby Vee, circa 1962)
4) My Woman From T0-KEE-YO (she make me feel so good...)
5) Feel Like Making Love ('Feel Like Throwing Up')
6) You're Once, Twice, Three Time a Lady (Lionel Richie)
7) Your Song (Elton John's clever melody can't save this lyrical catastrophe from dishonorable mention)
8) Me And Mrs. Jones
9) Got To Satisfy Susie (artist??)
10) Crimson and Clover (Joan Jett)
I've tried to mention only songs I haven't seen mention on this thread. Sometimes I can't recall the artist culprit, but don't bother reminding me, lol.
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