From: snuh	Date: August 9th, 2004 06:13 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Would adding Terry Jacks version of Seasons In The Sun give away my age?

	From: jmhm	Date: August 9th, 2004 06:30 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

offhand, I'd say

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.

	From: snuh	Date: August 9th, 2004 07:25 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

The net needs a streaming radio station hosted by a Leonard Pinth-Garnell of Bad Music.


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

	From: jmhm	Date: August 9th, 2004 07:31 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
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

	From: bugsybanana	Date: August 9th, 2004 08:24 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

I loved that song -- when I was five.

	From: hephaestos	Date: August 9th, 2004 07:33 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Mildly disappointed that BTO's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is not in the #1 spot, and simply astounded that it's not even on the list.

	From: jmhm	Date: August 9th, 2004 07:43 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Maybe it's really the top hundred bad songs not containing the word "bubububaby"

	From: marykaykare	Date: August 9th, 2004 09:16 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Sigh. I'm only mildly embarassed to say I like a couple of the songs on that list. Mostly I have no idea what the songs on that list sound like, having never heard or heard of them. Yes, I am a musical reactionary, why do you ask?

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

	From: jmhm	Date: August 9th, 2004 10:02 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

baby I'm a want you
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

From: (Anonymous)	Date: August 10th, 2004 04:12 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)
WHA?

No "MacArthur Park"? No "Safety Dance"?

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)

	From: jmhm	Date: August 10th, 2004 07:04 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)
	Re: WHA?

aieeeeee! I was saving MacArthur Park for DefCon3!

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.

	From: supergee	Date: August 10th, 2004 04:43 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

I'm with Mary Kay; this stuff is too new. But how about:

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?

	From: jmhm	Date: August 10th, 2004 07:06 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

oh, and the stone pony she rode in on.

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

From: (Anonymous)	Date: August 10th, 2004 05:58 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)
WHAT????

No Captain and Tenille on the list? I DEMAND a recount! Emma

	From: jmhm	Date: August 10th, 2004 07:08 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)
	Re: WHAT????

no, lamb, but one of the torturers on my friends list made good the omission. Fear not.

	From: antigone_ks	Date: August 10th, 2004 06:41 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

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.

	From: jmhm	Date: August 10th, 2004 07:08 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Don't take your love away from me
don't you leave my heart in misery
'cause if you go then I'll be blue
and breaking up is hard to do

	From: antigone_ks	Date: August 10th, 2004 07:25 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

He went away and you hung around
And bothered me every night
And when I wouldn't go out with you
You said things that weren't very nice

	From: antigone_ks	Date: August 10th, 2004 10:32 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

*facepalm* I love that song.

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.

	From: jmhm	Date: August 10th, 2004 10:38 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Go away, little girl, go away, little girl;
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.

	From: antigone_ks	Date: August 10th, 2004 10:42 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

What is it with men and songs about little girls? Eurgh.

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!

	From: snuh	Date: August 10th, 2004 08:18 pm (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Actually, it's not.

Dylan was in the South when he wrote it - *stoned* was local slang for getting arrested.

	From: antigone_ks	Date: August 11th, 2004 06:17 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Oh. Hey, that's pretty cool, then. Ok, I take it off my stupid song list.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: August 11th, 2004 04:25 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

You wrote: --Clearly 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)" --


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.

	From: jmhm	Date: August 11th, 2004 07:13 am (UTC)		(linkie thing)

Gee whiz, are you sure?

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.