<p>I feel like hitting my head against the wall in time to the beat every time Maggie Mae comes on the oldies station.</p>
<p>Dave Barry (a Haverford College grad, btw) did a very funny book on this topic a while back. I remember the essay on “Horse With No Name” as being particularly funny.</p>
<p>Can’t agree with that one. I did just see that America is playing at a nearby community center, so I’ll toss out “Horse With No Name”.</p>
<p>Driver, we must be channeling each other.</p>
<p>Great minds…</p>
<p>Horse with no name. I remember that! Yes, that was a real headbanger.
Lately, what is that commercial about cars, with the tune ‘Dust in the Wind’ and all the cars falling apart. Gosh, I feel like digging my fingernails into my thighs everytime I hear that.</p>
<p>And that tune ‘Popcorn’ - I remember that! I think it is REALLY saying someting about someone if they can’t get THAT tune out of their head!You need a shrink or must be an engineer. lol</p>
<p>“I’m blue, da ba dee da ba die…” Eiffel 65</p>
<p>“Sugar Shack” (that annoying yet catchy electronic trill!) and “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” have to be on the list. In fact, any song that includes the lyrics “Whoa uh oh” should be on the list.</p>
<p>I think they use U.S. rock and roll tunes as a means of torture in Iraq.</p>
<p>They use the “Meow Mix” jingle on captured jihadists. True.</p>
<p>Yummy, yummy, yummy, I’ve got love in my tummy</p>
<p>Little Honda: First gear… its alright, Second gear… lean right, Third gear… hang on tight, Faster- its alright
(I actually don’t mind hearing this one on the radio once a year or so)</p>
<p>And then there’s that morbid trio of:
Leader of the Pack
Last Kiss
Teen Angel</p>
<p>Havin’ My Baby. Don’t know where that came from, but I had to turn on something else to get rid of it.</p>
<p>over30,
I had the lyrics of Leader of the Pack typed out- from memory. If that doesn’t mean it belongs on this list, I don’t know what does.</p>
<p>While rummaging through my music, I found two more: “Bread and Butter” by the Newbeats, and “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James and the Shondells.</p>
<p>I was inspired to look in the humor wing of our home library (aka son’s bedroom) and turned up a copy of the afore-mentioned “Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs.” Put it on your list. Anyway, he notes that no single column he’s ever written has generated such a response as the one he received to his “Bad Song Survey” in 1992. “I think more people voted in the poll than voted in the last presidential election…People were stopping me in the street, grabbing me by the shirt, and, with cold fury in their eyes, saying things like: ‘You know that song about the pina coladas?? I HATE THAT SONG!!! I HATE IT.’”</p>
<p>Anyway, here’s his list:
- MacArthur Park
- Yummy, yummy yummy
- You’re having my baby
- Timothy (by The Bouys–never heard of it. He says it’s about cannibalism in a collapsed coal mine, and notes that the author…one Rupert Holmes…wrote the equally horrible Pina Colada song.)</p>
<p>In the second tier of bad songs, he felt they were pretty much equally-hated, so he lumps them together on the “Bad Song Hostile-o-meter Scale”</p>
<p>Afternoon Delight, You Light Up My Life, Achy Breaky Heart, Muskrat Love, Honey (Bobby Goldsboro), Baby Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me, In the year 2525, I’ve Never Been To Me (by Charlene), Seasons in the Sun, Horse With No Name, and Wildfire.
Many many other honorable mentions that he goes on to discuss in detail.</p>
<p>I think we did pretty well.</p>
<p>Hmm. Four of the above songs are on my list of favorites. Am I going to be lynched now?</p>
<p>Notice how many of these songs were from the 70’s?</p>
<p>Kismet. I just got back from the Safeway where the overhead music playing was … “Horse With No Name”. 15-year-old son, helping shop, actually came to the cart and said, “Are you listening to this? Do you hear these lyrics? Did people actually think this was a good song?”</p>
<p>Dave Barry, quoting one of his respondents:
“You’re in a desert. You got nothing else to do. NAME THE FREAKIN’ HORSE.”</p>
<p>My daughter says “The Banana Song” is the worst… what IS the “banana song”?</p>
<p>anyone watch Full metal Alchemist? I can’t get the theme song out of my head! >_<</p>
<p>Is the banana song that “ring ring ring ring ring ring ring BANANA PHONE!” or could it be “Let me hear you say the **** is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s”?</p>