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jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:00 pm

McLilith wrote: silly!

cl516 · Post by **cl516** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:03 pm

worst song of all time, and someone posts Janis Ian's at seventeen?
I think that's a great song. Same with the Cure's friday i'm in love.
these are pretty strong songs i think...
there's tons of crap worse than these.

Voidoid Surrealist · Post by **Voidoid Surrealist** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:08 pm

Meffy wrote: Oh, and I like "Spill the Wine".

Not Eric Burdon's best, and parts CAN be annoying, but despite all that, I still can't bring myself to hate it.

peejunk · Post by **peejunk** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:11 pm

Putting aside all crap music that is too local to be relevant to you people, I nominate Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name", with entire opuses of Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, together with the general concept of AOR close behind.

All of you people that got offended, bare in mind that I actually LIKE "Friday I'm In Love" and "Loving You" and find that Meatloaf's megalomania has sorta trashy quality to it even if I cannot stomach the tracks themselves.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:12 pm

HanafiH wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 998301.stm

The Beatles' 1968 song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da has been voted the worst song ever in an online poll.

1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles
2. Fog on the Tyne - Gazza and Lindisfarne
3. I'll Do Anything For Love - Meat Loaf
4. Diamond Lights - Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle
5. We Will Rock You - 5ive featuring Queen

I think if you excluded novelty throwaway songs like those footballer ones, Agadoo etc and everything by Timmy Mallet and Jonathon King (for example) then the Meat Loaf and Beatles tracks certainly would rank highly among my most disliked songs too - at least insofar as they were intended to be "real" songs.

opiadream · Post by **opiadream** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:18 pm

McLilith wrote:
opiadream wrote:meatloaf didn't make the top spot?
c'mon now

by the third time he repeats 'I would do anything for love' I'm ready to throw the gaddam stereo out the friggin window

and what the hell is 'that' anyway?
If you actually listened to the entire song, you would know. "That" basically refers to betraying the woman's trust. If you want two specific examples, he sings that he wouldn't "screw around" and that he wouldn't leave her (two examples of romantic betrayal.)

To be fair, there were at least two versions of this song on the radio, at least in the USA. The shorter version might have left out the particular lines I'm referring to, but you can hear them on the album version, and you can also read them online.

I think what is confusing some people is the structure of the lyrics. It helps to skip to the duet part, and then consider that the start of the song. Then, listen to the lyrics leading up to the duet. The bulk of the lyrics can be considered an "answer" to the questions asked later in the the duet. Placing the answer before the question gives the song more lyrical tension, and keeps the listener wondering and interested. (At least, that's my theory as to why the answer comes before the question.)

It's certainly kept you wondering all these years.

later,
McLilith

the song is so insufferably bad I would never,ever in a million years bother with listening to a longer version to find out what he's yammering on about like a sweaty rhino in heat.

and thanx for reminding me of the fact that he resorted to the old 'dashboard light' duet routine for his apalling comeback (thank god it was so short-lived)

that horrid, horrid song commonly used to torture people at wedding receptions.

the most entertaining thing that man ever did was have his huge carcass lowered onto the stage in a white robe.
absolutely the most hysterical image I've ever seen.

hillbilly · Post by **hillbilly** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:42 pm

Well, someone mentioned "Eye Of the Tiger", but for the true connoisseur of bad Jim Peterik songs, there is none finer than "Home". Look for it on the Ides Of March "Vehicle" LP (1970).

Sample lyric:

"Your sink needs a plumber, and you need a man".

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:49 pm

hillbilly wrote:"Your sink needs a plumber, and you need a man".

:-D Dwayne Schneider, where are you?

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:03 pm

opiadream wrote:and thanx for reminding me of the fact that he resorted to the old 'dashboard light' duet routine for his apalling comeback (thank god it was so short-lived)

Oh come on, it wasn't so bad. I actually like MeatLoaf. I think he offers hope for the "rest of us" to make a career in the music business.

Actually, the title track of Bat Out of Hell was more of an endurance test than either Paradise by the Dashboard Light, or I'd Do Anything For Love. Most people don't remember that one as well.

Also, didn't he also use the closing duet concept in a third song? I think he did, but I can't remember what it was.

Finally, if you want to hear a female version of MeatLoaf, just listen to I Need a Hero, or Total Eclipse of The Heart, by Bonnie Tyler. Jim Steinman also wrote songs for her.

take care,
McLilith

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:09 pm

cl516 wrote:worst song of all time, and someone posts Janis Ian's at seventeen?
I think that's a great song. Same with the Cure's friday i'm in love.
these are pretty strong songs i think...
there's tons of crap worse than these.

Maybe, but few are more depressing than At Seventeen--not even My Little Town by Paul Simon. Everytime I heard At Seventeen, it was like someone had opened a vein and all my life force was slowly trickling away.

take care,
McLilith

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:28 pm

I quite love "Daniel", and I've never found the lyrics cryptic, because I have enough ego to assume that my interpretation was the correct one.

Seemed to ME to be about a young dude whose brother was taking off to sort out the rest of his life... find peace... whatever... even if it meant leaving his family behind.

Guess I was wrong.

Very few of the songs mentioned so far in this thread could possibly complete with the odious:

"She's Like the Wind" by-- get this-- Patrick Swayze.

Found on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, which also spawned other god-awful tracks like "Time of our Lives".

Greg

zuki · Post by **zuki** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:28 pm

For the Europeans only:

Well - perhaps not THE worst, but... does anyone remember an entry for the European Song Contest where the chorus goes something like "Hoo Haa Djenghis Khan", and the performing band were all dressed up like some maniac mongol marauders? I think the guilty nation was Germany, and it must've been around 1978-80'ish, I think. Although just being a kid at that time, this has left a life lasting impression on me! *shiver*

Any other old farts here remembering this abomination?

regards

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:34 pm

zuki wrote:For the Europeans only:

Well - perhaps not THE worst, but... does anyone remember an entry for the European Song Contest where the chorus goes something like "Hoo Haa Djenghis Khan", and the performing band were all dressed up like some maniac mongol marauders? I think the guilty nation was Germany, and it must've been around 1978-80'ish, I think. Although just being a kid at that time, this has left a life lasting impression on me! *shiver*

Any other old farts here remembering this abomination?

regards

Wasn't it called "Rasputin" or something?
I remember it.
Well, I do now.
Heh.

Groet, Erik

zuki · Post by **zuki** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:38 pm

Wasn't it called "Rasputin" or something?
I remember it.
Well, I do now.
Heh.

Groet, Erik

I believe you're thinking of Boney M's "Rasputin". (Which I actually kinda like in a cheeasy way).
That's not the one, though it's easy to get them confused - Boney M was also always heavy on the dress-up side.

regards

peejunk · Post by **peejunk** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:40 pm

[quote="zuki"]Well - perhaps not THE worst, but... does anyone remember an entry for the European Song Contest where/quote]

Ok, stop it right there!

Eurosong is a whole other level of crappy. Regular pop music doesen't stand a chance if we let Eurosong contestants in.

Besides, I thought Rasputin was ABBA

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