Interesting conversation with a cow-orker this afternoon. Topic? Five most annoying songs of all time. We came up with a list. Of course, with a sample size of only two, it is likely inconclusive. We desperately need your input in order to finalize this list.
Here's our starting point:
1. Thomas Dolby - Blinded Me with Science
2. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go
3. Toni Basil - Mickey
4. Europe - Final Countdown
5. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Lemme know what drives you most batcrap loco, and I'll try to compile the Ultimate List. After that, dunno. Maybe license it to the CIA for use in extracting information from terrorists.
If I never hear I will always love you, again, it will be too soon.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Bad enough when Whitney sang it - unbearable when some no-talent hack tries to cover it.
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DeleteEverything by Hall and Oates.
ReplyDelete.
Weird. I liked them when I was a kid but now loathe them, too.
DeleteDisco Duck.
ReplyDeleteSugar Shack.
I'm sure there are others, but it's early in the day. I'll think on it.
Time to revise the list and include Disco Duck.
DeleteThe Mrs. adds...
ReplyDeleteLittle Willy Won't Go Home.
And, from the country music world...
John Anderson's "Swingin'"
Swinging' Gack. Memories of my mom's drunk friend singing. Now I want to swing from the end of a noose.
DeleteI like #4 for your list, because it was so artificial, they so-wanted it to be an "anthem," and "Europe" - I could just see a bunch of record executives sitting around, "What's hot? What's hip??" And when I hear it on year-end compilations of sports highlights, its all I can do to not vomit.
ReplyDeleteEXACT same reasons I put the song on this list.
DeleteI actually like two of the songs on this list. Not the WHAM! one however. But as long as I'm here .........
ReplyDeleteJitterbug
Jitterbug
Jitterbug
Jitterbug
You put the boom boom into my heart
You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts
Jitterbug into my brain
Goes a bang bang bang 'til my feet do the same
But something's bugging you, something ain't right
My best friend told me what you did last night
Left me sleepin' in my bed, I was dreaming
But I should have been with you instead
Wake me up before you go go
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo yo
Wake me up before you go go
I don't want to miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go go
'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo
Wake me up before you go go
Take me dancing tonight
I wanna hit that high, yeah, yeah
You take the gray skies out of my way
You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day
Turned a bright spark into a flame
My beats per minute never been the same
'Cause you're my lady, I'm your fool
It makes me crazy when you act so cruel
Come on baby, let's not fight
We'll go dancing, everything will be all right
Wake me up before you go go
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/w/wham-lyrics/wake-me-up-before-you-go,,Go-lyrics.html]
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo yo
Wake me up before you go go
I don't want to miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go go
'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo
Wake me up before you go go
Take me dancing tonight
I wanna hit that high, yeah, yeah yeah, baby
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/w/wham-lyrics/wake-me-up-before-you-go,,Go-lyrics.html]
Deleteha! I thought you knew those lyrics by heart!
It's a well-known fact that reciting the lyrics to Wake me up before you go go will repel evil.
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DeleteYour comment double-posted so I deleted one copy. I thought it would disappear completely, but no. It leaves a trace that makes me look like a d**khead. Dang.
DeleteIf you turn off all the lights and say "Jitterbug" three times in front of a mirror, George Michael will appear. Be forewarned though - most of the time when he appears, he is touching himself inappropriately.
I'm here, but please continue without me. My head hurts.
ReplyDeleteYep, just thinking of those songs can ruin a person's day.
DeleteYou're a Bad Mammer Jammer LOOONG time!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd a Smiling Faces Back Stabber!
ReplyDeleteOK, I had to google those. Yeah, they're pretty awful.
DeleteYou were talking with a cow? Clearly, you overdosed on Gary Larson cartoons....
ReplyDeleteBetty Davis Eyes.
My love of Gary Larson cartoons is pure as New York snow.
DeleteANY-freakin'-thing by Jim Croce. There is a substantial body of medical evidence that listening to Croce increases your risk of acquiring diabetes by a factor of five.
ReplyDeleteANY-freakin' thing by Journey. Except when the crowd at Joe Louis sings along with the line "... born and raised in SOUTH DEE-TROIT." That's just three bags full o' awesome.
OMG. That is the most blasphemous comment ever left on my blog. Anonymous trolls telling me to eff myself under water with a barbell are less insulting.
DeleteI dunno, the chinese guy singing Time In a Bottle in the elevator on Hanover 2 gave me new reason to listen to Croce.
DeleteAgreed, Inno! Buck and I have had the Jim Croce discussion before, and it's hopeless.
ReplyDeleteBut Journey? Really? I'm not much of a fan of rock bands from the 70's...sure, I listened to it, but was mostly in to pop & country back then.
But, I REALLY like Journey. It's in the ear of the hearer, I reckon.
Buck and I have had the Jim Croce discussion before, and it's hopeless.
DeleteClarification: hopeless on MY part? Au contraire... We're still full o' hope that peeples will see the light o' truth and recognize that dude as the ultimate purveyor o' the worst sorta schlock there ever was or could possibly be. But you, Andy? You're beyond hope. And/or Change.
Buck, obviously you never heard "Roller Derby Queen," or "Rapid Roy, That Stock Car Boy."
ReplyDeleteSuch a pity. (Okay, that's a hanging curve).
BTW, I am REALLY beyond "Hope and Change."
ReplyDeleteWe'll just see about this...
OK, I would have to add "Love Shack." That's like fingernails on the blackboard, while hung over, and with bamboo under the fingernails.
ReplyDelete@ Infidel, that song actually attracts evil.
Good list, Inno. Or is it bad list? Anyway, I never heard any of these since I'm an old fart who listens mostly to traditional country music, 50s rock, and blues. But you linked 'em and I listened. And I agree, they're bad (so bad I'd take a Sledgehammer to the whole list) except for that first one with Shatner. It was half way pleasant to listen to, but then, after that, it kinda stayed with me. Like a really bad Taco.
ReplyDelete'Little Arrows' by Leapy Lee. 'Angie' by the Rolling Stones. All songs by Barry Manilow, but especially 'Copa Cabana.'
ReplyDeleteAnd God help you if you ever had to listen to John Tesh sing, that should be of serious interest to the CIA for enhanced interrogation....
Fredd, I had forgotten about "Copa Cabana."
ReplyDeleteThat one should definitely be on the list, and I shall never forgive you for reminding me of it.
I will probably die, and go right straight to hell for not forgiving you. So, it's all your fault.
Andy:
ReplyDeleteYes, my job here is done...nobody should ever forget the hell on earth that 'Copa Cabana' brought us all...
Anything by Culture Club (shudder). My daughter got into them when she was still WeeSix. My ears are still bleeding.
ReplyDelete"Sugar, Sugar". You do know there are an incredible amount of ear worms on this post, don't you?
ReplyDeleteHanson's MMMBop
ReplyDeleteIn my nightmares, I always wonder what lyrical hooks they rejected from the early drafts of the song before they decided that "MMMBop" was the way to go.