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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this is an oxymoron.
We owned a jukebox. Full-sized, though. So, we did have that song. The song that really reminded my dad of his first wife was "Blue Velvet".
James Darren sang Goodbye Cruel World
Another gaud-awful "hit" was "We've Only Just Begun". I absolutely love Karen Carpenter's voice. I think it was an acquired taste (like learning to love Elvis late in life). Now that she's gone, when you listen to her golden voice you realize what a national treasure it was. However, there was alot of schlock that came out of those lips and "We've Only Just Begun" was a wedding standard of the 70's. Because of high divorce rates, half of those weddings meant that song was the beginning of the end!
The Four Seasons had a hit with Silence is Golden.
One of my picks for worst love songs was bobby shermans "Julie, Julie do you really love me..." Now that really sucked.
My point exactly, and a pretty catchy one. Those fat boys laughed all the way to the bank.
The Coasters sang Love Potion No. 9
I loved the tear-jerkers songs, Patches was a good one. Hello, Country Bumpkin, Roses For Mama, and He Stopped Loving Her Today were also good.
That was a real loss. I wasn't aware that he died.
They had a lot of funny novelty type songs.
For all those who join me in violent opposition to those trashing Dr. Hook, here's a concert video of Sylvia's Mother Said.
http://www.drhook.inuk.com/lyrics5.htm
Song cracks me up every time I hear it.
Seeing 10 drunken Smith College undergrads sing Total Eclipse of the Heart on Lesbian Karaoke Night at the WWII Club in Northampton gave that song whole new meaning.
But they couldn't beat the bulldyke in overalls who followed them and sang the torch song, The Man Who Left Me!
I believe Goodman also wrote City of New Orleans, great lyrics.
Was it "Flowers on the Wall ?"
"Playin' Solitaire til dawn/with a deck of 51."
Statler Brothers ?
Haven't heard their reunion release yet, but I'll check it out on iTunes.
Hahahah. There isn't enough money in the world you could pay me to like that song. Sorry!
Soon after we married in 1976 My husband and I moved to Way-Out-in-the-Sticks, Lower Alabama. My husband was working long hours at his new job so it fell to me to do much of the renovating of our little home. Let me set the stage. Mid August, no air conditioning(yet), no breeze, 100% humidity, no t.v., only one radio station that faded in and out a bit that played a mix of country and pop(gag), and me with a paint brush crawling under the counter to paint the inside of the bottom cabinets. And that wretchedly horrid song came on at least twice an hour ALL DAY. Then my dear new husband would come in the door at night singing the last song he heard on the radio on his way home. Yeah, THAT one. By then I could have happily divorced him. =^o
We're still together. I think it's gonna last. :o)
Maybe I like the song because I had my first real boyfriend in the summer of '76. Maybe I would have liked any song that was number one that July !
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