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03 August 2005
Naff Songs What's the worst song you love?→[More:]I listened to Foreigner's "Feels Like the First Time" today, and although it's crap, I stop to listen every time it comes on. What crap songs do it for you?
That's a great song, goatdog. So's "Feels Like the First Time."
"Hold the Line" by Toto. Or "Hit Me Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears. Or maybe "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen. But I honestly don't think any of these are bad, just unfashionable. I don't like songs I think are bad.
Toxic- by whatsername. That song is sickeningly catchy and baaaad . I would also say cry me a river and rock your body by Justin Timberlake, but those songs are just guilty pleasures, as they good not bad.
That song is great, and by a DC band, which is always a plus in my book. When I first heard it I had no idea what they were talking about, but as I grew older, well then, I knew, and I approved.
Anything by Tatu. They're Russian teenage lesbians that wear school girl uniforms and make out on stage. Take away any one of those things and I could resist...
I once thought a heart-wrenching (at the time) Debbie Gibson song was so good that I thought "OMG! She's going to be the new Madonna!"
However, given that I can now not even remember the name of the song, I'm not going to honor it with any further public mention.
There's a lot of 70s songs I could mention, but won't.
No, I think the "worst" song I truly love is (ready goatdog?) "As Long As You Love Me," by The Backstreet Boys. With "I Want It That Way" parody, flash, maybe popups and maybe NSFW coming in 2nd. When Boy Bands Roamed The Earth was a bad, bad period in my life.
I was too old for the most recent boy band infestation, thank goodness. But any cheesey dance song from the early 1990s will make me shake my thang. Marky Mark. C&C Music Factory. Etc.
Feel it, feel it. Feel the vibration!!!
Goatdog and mygothlaundry: There was also a very funny episode of Arrested Development involving inappropriate duets of Afternoon Delight. (Which, incidentally, I thought was a song about having a nice picnic until my early 20s).
I'm not sure if there is enough room in this comment box to adequately contain the sheer badness of my taste in music. Let's just say if it's cheesy and wrong I probably like it.
Oh dear gawd, eth. At the tender age of ten I used to weep big dopey tears every time I heard "MacArthur Park". It was the pinnacle of tragedy in my mind.
I'm not the hoochie coochie man
I'm not the seventh son
I'm just another middle-class white boy
out tryin' have some fun
There's some meat and potatoes mixed up with the cheese too, but I love 'em both, and I love the cheese not for the cheese factor, but because they're good usually.
That's one hell of a playlist, jonmc.
It's a little out of date. It's over 11400 now.
Oh, and "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger. Anything by Night Ranger, really.
Hey "Don't Tell Me You Love," is legitamitely a really good song, no cheesiness neccessary.
Low Rider by War. Come on, the song is so bad, yet so... good!
Who Let the Dogs Out by the Baha Men. My 6 year old loves this song, and never tires of it. So every car trip it is "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!!!!! WOOOF! WOOF! WOOF!" at least once.
Candy Shop by 50 Cent. I know, morally I am not supposed to like this song. I know it is about getting head. But that BEAT! Damn!
Seasons in the Sun, Billy Don't be a Hero, Playground in my Mind, and all the others like those.
"my name is michael, i got a nickel, i got a nickel shiny and new..."
Chirpa Chirpa Cheep Cheep, Iko Iko, Ain't What you Do (FunBoy3/Bananarama), everything by the Belle Starrs, Tarzan Boy, Shiny Shiny...
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