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!

[aruanan]

"sugar shack"

Hey, Sugar Shack was a great song. As songs go, it had a lot more going for it than a lot of stuff on the radio does today.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Cathy's Clown is a classic!Loved it in Seventh Grade and love it now.

The Everly Brothers never recorded a bad song to my knowledge.

[PzLdr]

Chris Curtis-real name Chris Crummy was the Searchers' drummer,first front man, and song writer/selector/arranger. He left the group in 1966, did some record producing for the Barry brothers, formed a group called Roundabout, which evolved into Deep Purple after he left it, and went to work for the British IRS until he took medical retirement.Before his death, he began appearing around Liverpool with some local guys. Believe he was 63. Details can be found on the Searchers' website. The Searchers' were, and are, my favorite band.

[the invisib1e hand]

Of course, "suzieQ" is an excellent little rocker. And "little suzie," especially when Simon and Garfunkel do it.

Funny about "Claire," my sister said the singer was a "paedophile." I never really listened to the words though. How about "Bad Dog" or "Get Down" or whatever that upbeat number was...alone again, naturally? yes, suicide set to music.

[PzLdr]

"Needles and Pins" was co-written by Jack Nitszche-and Sonny Bono.

[reagandemo]

The song I hate is "Total Eclipse of the Heart". The part with "turn around bright eyes" makes me gag every time I hear it.

[Exeter]

Include Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love", and a song I heard him sing only once on SNL called "I Love You Like a Bull Hog Loves His Slop"...

[PzLdr]

His nadir was, I believe " Rhapsody in the Rain", although it , at least was real Rock 'n Roll: a song about -getting a girl, getting a car, getting the girl in the car - and no nuclear winter, socially relevant, Kumbiyah claptrap . Greatest song that fits those parameters? Billy Ocean's "Get out of my Dream, Get into My Car" ["Get in the backseat, baby

[the invisib1e hand]

4) My Woman From T0-KEE-YO (she make me feel so good...)

I have to protest. This song does not belong on that list. It's a testosterone-driven rock and roller, not a schmoozy, sappy, soft-core schmatltz-fest.

[Nabber]

OK, now you've gone too far.

Double Shot, the national anthem of frats in the late 60s.

How dare you....

[T'wit]

:-)

There IS a way to defeat an earworm. You have to insert a GOOD earworm. It will banish the bad one and make you smile, leap up, kick your heels, and throw away your bag of dog poops.

If you're stuck for a good one, try "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1946 Oscar winner from a forgotten musical, The Harvey Girls); the "Walter Winchell Rhumba" by the Xavier Cugat orchestra; "Tango Tragique" from She Loves Me; the Flower Duet from Lakme (anyone who can stay unhappy through that one is beyond help); ANY song, or all of them, from The Music Man; or Ode to Joy (Beethoven's 9th), by any choir of at least 500 voices.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Bobby Vinton's "Roses are Red" is so bad that it makes my flesh crawl.

What a jolt from the past! They just wouldn't stop playing it when I was a kid.

A long, long time ago, on graduation day
You handed me your book. I signed this way...

ROSES ARE RED my love, violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet my love, but not as sweet as you.

Do you remember 'Johnny Get Angry'? Or 'Rubber Ball' per my post #940?

[~Vor~]

Didn't look through all 900 and some posts to see if this was already nominated, but I nominate Ray Peterson for Tell Laura I Love Her....

Laura and Tommy were lovers
He wanted to give her everything
Flowers, presents and most of all, a wedding ring
He saw a sign for a stock car race
A thousand dollar prize it read
He couldn't get Laura on the phone
So to her mother Tommy said
Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura I may be late
I've something to do, that cannot wait

He drove his car to the racing grounds
He was the youngest driver there
The crowed roared as they started the race
'Round the track they drove at a deadly pace
No one knows what happened that day
How his car overturned in flames
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck
With his dying breath, they heard him say

Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry
My love for her will never die

And in the chapel where Laura prays
For Tommy who passed away
It was just for Laura he lived and died
Alone in the chapel she can hear him cry

Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry
My love for her will never die
Tell Laura I love her.....

[T'wit]

>> I love that song.

It's yours, all yours. Please invent a way to keep it all for yourself and at least 5,000 miles away from me :-)

[Celtic Conservative]

I nominate: "Feelings" by Morris Albert

AKA Rachmaninoffs piano concerto #2

Bad AND unoriginal

[TheForceOfOne]

Want to get into statistics????

Even though Chicago had a workable sewer system, in 1885 a massive four-day rainstorm caused sewage to flush far enough into Lake Michigan to invade the city’s water intake cribs located several miles offshore. An estimated 75,000 people perished from the resulting contamination, about a quarter of the growing city’s population.

[TheForceOfOne]

Oh, sorry! wrong thread, forgive me!!

[Celtic Conservative]

"run, billy, run"

[Celtic Conservative]

I was never a big fan of the group Air Supply . . .

"i'm all out of love, i'm so lost without you",,,,ARRRGH!

Great , thanks, now that song will be in my head until I remove it with power tools!

CC

[Paved Paradise]

Sully - I STILL love the song Honey. Maybe it's sappy but I still think it's a very pretty and poignant song and there's such horrible music out today, I sometimes long for more artists to make some of this "awesomely bad" stuff.