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Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:28 pm
by tribeofjudah
I really hate, hate, hate (ok hate is a strong word) ..........the song "Private Dancer" by Tina Turner.

IMO, the song sucks. The message is sexual. The tune is horrible. The vocals is horrendous.

That's all folks. What say you....?

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:39 pm
by DarthMonk
tribeofjudah wrote:I really hate, hate, hate (ok hate is a strong word) ..........the song "Private Dancer" by Tina Turner.

IMO, the song sucks. The message is sexual. The tune is horrible. The vocals is horrendous.

That's all folks. What say you....?


Loving You by Minnie Riperton

... birds chirping ...

:puke:

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 7:23 pm
by Irn-Bru
My first thought was, OMG, there are people who still listen to the radio?

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 2:12 pm
by DarthMonk
Irn-Bru wrote:My first thought was, OMG, there are people who still listen to the radio?


Well, you know welch does. I'm thinking he'll go with something like Crimson and Clover.

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:31 pm
by welch
Actually, I had forgotten "Crimson and Clover". Bad. My list would include (1) William Shatner singing / reciting "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", (2) anything by the Cowsills, (3) "bubble-gum rock", such as "Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy".

There are other songs, but those revolting performances come to mind first.

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:46 pm
by Countertrey
Paul Anka... "Having my Baby"... AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

(Welch was a HUGE fan of The Archies... I suspect he's lip synching to "Sugar Sugar" as he reads this...)

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:01 pm
by welch
Countertrey wrote:Paul Anka... "Having my Baby"... AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

(Welch was a HUGE fan of The Archies... I suspect he's lip synching to "Sugar Sugar" as he reads this...)


Hey, now: one of my high school friends was the drummer in Emmylou Harris's first band. I loaned her a quarter once so she could call her parents, between sets, and wish them a happy new year.

Additional bad songs:

- "I fought the law and the law won"

- Buck Owns and the Buckeroos, "I got the hungries for your lovin' and I'm waitin' in the welfare line"

- "Running Bear and Little White Dove"

- "Tell Laura I Love Her"...and other early '60s tear-jerkers

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:57 am
by Deadskins
welch wrote:
Countertrey wrote:Paul Anka... "Having my Baby"... AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

(Welch was a HUGE fan of The Archies... I suspect he's lip synching to "Sugar Sugar" as he reads this...)


Hey, now: one of my high school friends was the drummer in Emmylou Harris's first band. I loaned her a quarter once so she could call her parents, between sets, and wish them a happy new year.

Additional bad songs:

- "I fought the law and the law won"

- Buck Owns and the Buckeroos, "I got the hungries for your lovin' and I'm waitin' in the welfare line"

- "Running Bear and Little White Dove"

- "Tell Laura I Love Her"...and other early '60s tear-jerkers

What are you talking about? "I Fought the Law" is a great song!

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:58 am
by Deadskins
"Afternoon Delight" Starland Vocal Band

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:25 am
by welch
There were some songs we just laughed about way back in high school. Have forgotten most, but "I fought the law" was certainly on the list.

- Nancy Sinatra: "These Boots Were Made for Walkin'": hit song about November, 1967, when I had a job from midnight-to-dawn in an research lab that was empty except for me, some big computers with results from experiments with sub-atomic particles, a "tracking" device to mark the path of the particles, and an AM radio. The heavy equiment interfered with almost all radio stations...only rock&roll stations (Top 40s format) were WHN and WCFL. The ultra conservative WHN belonged to the Chicago Tribune...refused to play anything by the Beatles. I listened to WCFL, "the voice of the Chicago Federation of Labor". No kidding. The big songs were the Stoned Poneys (with Linda Ronstadt): "You and I / we march to the beat of a different drum". Plus "Harper (?) Valley PTA", a vomit-inducing song by the Cowsills about having long hair, and himself, the great Otis Redding's last song, "Dock of the Bay". Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug

I figure that song softens the pain of a Super Bowl without the Redskins. Oh, and I might watch "The Blues Brothers" instead of the Super Bowl just to see the great band -- the MG's of Booker T and the MG's -- who get recruited to back Belushi and Ackroyd...plus Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, and James Brown. Unbeatable.

Hard to think of bad songs when I remember Otis Redding and the other Stax musicians.

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:20 am
by Countertrey
Deadskins wrote:"Afternoon Delight" Starland Vocal Band

This is off limits:
*DC Band
*Title was taken from the Menu at Clydes Restaurant in Georgetown.

Ozzies... :roll: whatchagonnado?

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 6:24 pm
by Irn-Bru
welch wrote:Hey, now: one of my high school friends was the drummer in Emmylou Harris's first band. I loaned her a quarter once so she could call her parents, between sets, and wish them a happy new year.


Awesome!

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:39 am
by Deadskins
Irn-Bru wrote:
welch wrote:Hey, now: one of my high school friends was the drummer in Emmylou Harris's first band. I loaned her a quarter once so she could call her parents, between sets, and wish them a happy new year.


Awesome!

Two questions:
1. Did she pay back the "loan?"
2. Did you steal that quarter from CT, 60 years ago?

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 11:08 pm
by Countertrey
JSPB is on to you, Welch

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:21 am
by welch
(1) Just being two feet from Emmylou was gift enough!

(2) Never took quarters from CT. Back when we were in elementary school, a nickel was big money. That was the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola -- the small sized bottles they don't make anymore...but they hadn't yet gone to the twelve-ounce bottles. Cans were for beer-drinkers, and you opened one with a can-opener, called a "church key".

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:11 pm
by DarthMonk
welch wrote:Actually, I had forgotten "Crimson and Clover". Bad. My list would include (1) William Shatner singing / reciting "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", (2) anything by the Cowsills, (3) "bubble-gum rock", such as "Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy".

There are other songs, but those revolting performances come to mind first.


Love the Shatner.

BTW - guess what love in the tummy is.

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:38 am
by Deadskins
DarthMonk wrote:
welch wrote:Actually, I had forgotten "Crimson and Clover". Bad. My list would include (1) William Shatner singing / reciting "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", (2) anything by the Cowsills, (3) "bubble-gum rock", such as "Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy".

There are other songs, but those revolting performances come to mind first.


Love the Shatner.

BTW - guess what love in the tummy is.

Was the Shatner ever on the radio, though?

She swallows?

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:39 pm
by DarthMonk
Deadskins wrote:
DarthMonk wrote:
welch wrote:Actually, I had forgotten "Crimson and Clover". Bad. My list would include (1) William Shatner singing / reciting "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", (2) anything by the Cowsills, (3) "bubble-gum rock", such as "Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy".

There are other songs, but those revolting performances come to mind first.


Love the Shatner.

BTW - guess what love in the tummy is.

Was the Shatner ever on the radio, though?

She swallows?


Not sure. Probably at least once.

Yes, I think so.

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 5:58 pm
by brad7686
There's some song from like ten years ago, Something about riding a bike with no handlebars, easily the worst song ever.

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 2:06 pm
by Hooligan
Gary Allen's cover of Runaway. I'd rather listen to an entire day's recording from a White Castle restroom stall.

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:39 pm
by redskinz4ever
what does the fox say ..... that song is bad !!!!

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:55 am
by Burgundy&GoldForever
Off the top of my head:

Chinese Food - Alison Gold - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWLhrHVySgA

We Built This City - Jefferson Starship - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ

Pop Muzic - M - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avvh5H-EPWU

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:21 pm
by flamethrower
The Final Countdown by Europe.
Burgundy you beat me to my 1st choice. But, my 2nd one I listed. I never hear this again. I'll be happy. I don't even like the commercial that it is played in.

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:35 pm
by welch
For those who don't believe it: here is the real Captain Kirk doing "Lucy in the Sky":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM

I heard it as part of "worst songs ever done by a Canadian". Must have been on the radio sometime and somewhere.

And William Shatner doing "Mr Tambourine Man". Seems to have been from the same album (!). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hTtsqiFCc

Re: Worst song ever on radio....

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:45 pm
by Countertrey
welch wrote:For those who don't believe it: here is the real Captain Kirk doing "Lucy in the Sky":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM

I heard it as part of "worst songs ever done by a Canadian". Must have been on the radio sometime and somewhere.

And William Shatner doing "Mr Tambourine Man". Seems to have been from the same album (!). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hTtsqiFCc


Pretty sure this violates multiple posting rules... :puke: