This is the same guy who did Strange Things Happen In This World. Here’s Steve Goodman’s cover of Strange Things Happen, as well as a few other similarly lovely songs:
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Bah, I love MacArthur Park, both the Harris and Summer versions! 
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I do believe GG wanted to collaborate, but of course, he never got his shit together before he ODed… Because GG.
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That doesn’t automatically make it good…
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Try it? I don’t have to… I’m tearing up just thinking about that poignant masterpiece! I mean… they were so happy together, and then… and then… “Rocky, I’ve never had to die before…” [sob]
Laugh if you must, but anyone who, upon hearing that the first time–at least when they were kids–didn’t get a little misty eyed is a monster. A MONSTER!!
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Not only is this subjectively wrong (as shown by other people’s comments), it is empirically wrong. This can be demonstrated by its like/dislike ratio on youtube; only 4% of ~80K viewers disliked it.
Compare this with Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’; this was disliked by 80% of its ~3M viewers.
The largest volume of dislike on youtube was apparently amassed by Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’, with ~6.7M dislikes (although only disliked by 60% of its viewers).
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I would pay anything to see Steve Goodman live again, even if it meant him singing every song on every Worst list ever compiled. ESPECIALLY if it meant that!
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Yeah, but Friday is probably first heard on Youtube. We Built This City for a majority of people was first heard on the radio. And people who already don’t like it won’t be clicking on or downvoting the youtube video.
We really need a large sample double blind study to determine how awful it is. Does the video affect opinions one way or the other?
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I’m pretty sure I would have participated in this with “$100 snifters of brandy” in play.
Saved by Stephen Colbert and The Roots.
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I bought the entire LP through Columbia House.
In my defense, I like both the video and the song. It’s hell of a lot better than any of the Hair Metal of the time. Ugh.
“Reanimate your feet!”
bwah-hah-hah!
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Blondie’s The Tide is High is my least favorite, most-heard Blondie song.
OK, maybe not a strictly fair comparison. Let’s compare with another song from 1985- Bowie & Jagger’s ‘Dancing in the Street’. Again, about 80K ratings; disliked by more than 5% of those.
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The goths at the end are the best part…
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Then you’d be a decomposer.
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EVEN IF you could build a city on rock’n’roll, you still couldn’t do it without mob concrete.
- David Letterman
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“goths”, much like “punks” on TV in the 70s and 80s. And 90s. And always, I guess.
Still like the “punk music” that was on Night Court, though (S1E11 Harry and the Rock Star, I think - but can’t find it online for free).
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Well, of course… I thought that went without saying!
“Pop Goes The World” by Men Without Hats achieves a trifecta: Horrible lyrics, an unwatchable video, and either a case of laryngitis or the worst vocals mixing following a successful record.
Enjoy.
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