I can understand pretty much what people see in just about all of these songs listed here, from the throwaway bubblegum, to the “so far out there it’s creeping up behind you”.
And, depending on mood, any song could be both loved and reviled. Hotel California, I’m looking at you.
No judgement here. The playlist on my ipod feels no shame and I’ve always had a ear for the odd, the trashy and the dodgy cover-version.
Just a bit. They really know their audience but I reckon they were trying way too hard here. But then, my taste is definitely suspect.
Metal from the 80s. Walk the line between cool and cringe…
Memorized the entire film, too. She went through this really weird Kevin Costner phase.
And while I’m thinking of bizarrely long lived #1s (like the aforementioned Meat Loaf one), how about this giant turd from Four Weddings and a Funeral (itself a giant turd of a film)?
I’m not sure if it’s nostalgia or a sporadic love of kitsch, but a lot of this stuff from the '80s and '90s I wouldn’t mind hearing once or twice or ten times.
The revulsion only starts to kick in when it’s still getting heavy airplay months, years or days (depending on frequency of play) after the initial novelty and exciting associations have grown old in my mind.
Not sure if this makes me a hipster or just a relatively standard human being.
Thanks. I had somehow managed to completely expunge that song from my memory. Since it’s back now, I decided to share the pain with some younger friends who wouldn’t have memory of it and did a little Googling to dredge up the relevant info I didn’t remember. In doing so, I stumbled upon this:
If you want a Frog Song, you really need to get the older one. (This one properly belongs in the Awesome thread. The lyrics here have typos and spelling errors, mainly in the English, but get across enough of Charlebois’ humour.)
not because it is the worse song in the world (it is quite bad), but
mainly cause of the autotune-disaster it unleashed on us since.
Agreed. Autotune was bad enough as the lazy market driven “fixer” of bad vocals it was, before Cher’s producers pushed it into the obnoxious effect category. I can deal with talk box, and admit to a soft spot for vocoder, but the rapid quantization with autotune is just nasty.
