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sisyphusshruggedClearly whoever compiled this list of the fifty most awesomely bad songs ever did not realize that Barry Manilow covered (and made a video for) Meat Loaf's "I Would Do Anything for Love (but I won't do that)"
They also were apparently too late for the summer of "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" and "The Night Chicago Died"
We can agree (I have to be moderate about something, right?) that these are extremely bad songs.
They also were apparently too late for the summer of "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" and "The Night Chicago Died"
We can agree (I have to be moderate about something, right?) that these are extremely bad songs.
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Date: 2004-08-09 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-09 06:30 pm (UTC)My name is Michael
I've got a nickel
I've got a nickel
shiny and new
I'm gonna buy me
all kinds of candy
that's what I'm gonna do.
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Date: 2004-08-09 07:25 pm (UTC)Oh I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece
Where I sipped champagne on a yacht
I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've got
I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things
That a woman ain't s'posed to see
I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me
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Date: 2004-08-09 07:31 pm (UTC)it felt good to be out of the rain
in the desert you can't remember your name
because there ain't no-one for to give you no pain
la la la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la la
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Date: 2004-08-09 08:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-08-09 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-09 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-09 09:16 pm (UTC)My nominee
I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think we should get together
And try them out to see
MKK
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Date: 2004-08-09 10:02 pm (UTC)baby I'm a need you
you're the only one I care enough to hurt about
maybe I'm acrazy
but I just can't live without
your loving and affection
giving me direction
like a guiding light to help me through
my darkest hours
lately I'm apraying
that you'll always be astaying
to the side of me
WHA?
Date: 2004-08-10 04:12 am (UTC)I proposed once that if schadenfreude is the enjoyment of another's pain, then schadenlieder should describe the enjoyment of really bad songs. Funny, it hasn't caught on...
Jill Smith (http://www.writingortyping.com)
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Date: 2004-08-10 07:04 am (UTC)I like it. It's a good word. My husband particularly will enjoy it, since he's an AOR punk and I'm purest top ten.
Of course, we both stopped listening to music on the radio a long, long time ago.
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Date: 2004-08-10 04:43 am (UTC)You and I travel to the beat of a different drum.
Can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me?
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Date: 2004-08-10 07:06 am (UTC)Lessee:
this little song, it ain't so bad
cutest little song you ever had
if by chance you will not sing
you must be playing with your own dingaling
WHAT????
Date: 2004-08-10 05:58 am (UTC)Re: WHAT????
Date: 2004-08-10 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-10 06:41 am (UTC)This is so obvious I can't believe it didn't make the list:
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark, all the sweet,
green icing flowing down,
Someone left the cake out in the rain,
I don't think I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it,
And I'll never have that recipe again
If I were going to be really, really honest, I'd admit to liking about half the songs on the list.
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Date: 2004-08-10 07:08 am (UTC)don't you leave my heart in misery
'cause if you go then I'll be blue
and breaking up is hard to do
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Date: 2004-08-10 07:25 am (UTC)And bothered me every night
And when I wouldn't go out with you
You said things that weren't very nice
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Date: 2004-08-10 10:32 am (UTC)And as for Dylan:
Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end.
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again.
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car.
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.
How clever! I never would have thought that song was about drugs.
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Date: 2004-08-10 10:38 am (UTC)I’m not supposed to be alone with you.
I know that your lips are sweet,
But our lips must never meet.
I belong to someone else and I must be true.
Oh, go away, little girl, go away, little girl;
It’s hurting me more each moment that you delay.
When you are near me like this,
You’re much too hard to resist.
So, go away, little girl, before I beg you to stay.
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Date: 2004-08-10 10:42 am (UTC)And in the "you should not have quit your day job" category--
Well, I met a man out in Hollywood
And I ain't namin' names
But he really worked me over good
Just like Jesse James
Yes, he really worked me over good
He was a credit to his gender
He put me through some changes
Lord, sorta like a waring blender
Poor, poor pitiful me!
Poor, poor pitiful me!
Oh, these boys won't let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe, woe is me!
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Date: 2004-08-10 08:18 pm (UTC)Dylan was in the South when he wrote it - *stoned* was local slang for getting arrested.
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Date: 2004-08-11 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-11 04:25 am (UTC)Actually, Barry Manilow didn't record Meat Loaf's "I Would Do Anything for Love (but I won't do that)." But he did record "Read 'Em & Weep," which was written and produced by Jim Steinman, and also recorded by Meat Loaf.
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Date: 2004-08-11 07:13 am (UTC)I turned the sound off immediately, so I don't have that to go by.
I know he was dressed as a pierrot and he didn't move much.