<p>Under my thumb is creepy & even though I admit the Rolling Stones are the Rolling Stones, Ive never even bought an album.
(Oops, i forgot I do have Some Girls)</p>
<p>I love Goodbye Earl exactly what he deserved. Muskrat Love and Afternoon Delight make me cringe.</p>
<p>“Good girls don’t” is even better than My Sharonna. :)</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of Gilbert O’ Sullivan. I love the music I listened to in the 70’s, but it was closer to Barron’s list. I was in Virginia though. I think “Afternoon Delight” and “Seasons in the Sun” are near the top of every worst songs’ list.</p>
<h1>36–Kinda the same theme as this one by Chris Ledoux–except this guy is bringin’ his friends with him! (I actually like this song–it is meant to be funny. . .)</h1>
<p>Well I can see you got your eye on this ole cowboy
and I can tell you never had one for your own.
No you never been around one, now you’re thinkin’ that you found one
and it might be kinda fun to take him home.</p>
<p>You giggle every time that I say “Yes, ma’m”
and I get this feeling if I held you tight,
we’d be seeing his and hers buckles boots and spurs
but that’s a feeling you’ll get over over night.</p>
<p>Chorus
Cause what you gonna do with a cowboy when that ole rooster crows at dawn
and he’s lying there instead of getting out of bed
and putting on his boots and getting gone.
What you gonna do when he says " Honey, well I gotta half a mind to stay"
What you gonna do with a cowboy when he don’t saddle up and ride away?</p>
<p>Well you can see it takes a special kind of woman
to put up with the life a cowboy leads.
His boots are always muddy and his beer drinkin buddies
they’ll camp out on the couch and never leave</p>
<p>Don’t even start to think your gonna change him
you’d be better off to try to rope the wind.
What you see is what you got, and he can’t be what he’s not,
and honey you can’t hide him from your friends.</p>
<p>Repeat Chorus</p>
<p>Funny story about Gilbert O’Sullivan – I was in first grade in Catholic school when “Alone Again Naturally” came out. I had a very old nun as a teacher whom I loved who always talked about how her favorite music was Gilbert and Sullivan. Naturally, I put two and two together and made my family stop talking and listen reverently whenever “Alone Again Naturally” came on the AM radio. Which made sense because the song was all about God.</p>
<p>Finally, after having saved up my money, I bought the record. I played it over and over and remember being really confused by the lines “If God really exists, why does he desert me?”. Actually, I think I thought that this just proved the sophistication of my beloved Sister Mary Francine because I thought it was some secret code that we were supposed to question the existence of God. She’d probably be rolling over in her grave if she knew this.</p>
<p>Funny thread, made me think of songs that hadn’t entered my consciousness in a long time. Didn’t it seem like many more of the songs of the 70’s were stories, albeit bizarre stories? I was very young, so maybe that is my excuse, but I loved all of these songs, and probably lots I can’t remember off the top of my head: “Billy Don’t Be A Hero”, “One Tin Soldier”, “The Night Chicago Died”, and my special favorites, “Delta Dawn”, and “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”. My cousins and I had special ‘drama dances’ that we performed for our families to many of these songs. Glad there is no video footage of that. I also loved “I Think I Love You”, by my favorite band at age 8, those great musicians The Partridge Family, and unfortunately can still sing every word of that song.</p>
<p>I know they are terrible, but on the rare occasion I hear a bad 70’s song, it usually brings me back to good memories of that time, so I still enjoy them.</p>
<p>Let’s not forget about “Having My Baby”.</p>
<p>This thread reminds me of my personal musical nadir. In 1976 I actually paid good money for a Ktel record* which had quite a collection of songs, some of which I now wish I could remove from my memory banks… for instance: Love Will Keep Us Together/ Get Down Tonight/ Mandy/ Chevy Van/ Rocky/ Cat’s in the Cradle/ Run Joey Run and Muhammad Ali, Black Superman. And TWO Frankie Valli songs. I do love annoying people with this album.</p>
<p>*- “As Advertised on T.V.” Also “Stereo- can also be played on mono” Man, I’m old.</p>
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<p>Haha, I was singing that song the other day with a 50-something co-worker (as we swooned about how fine David Cassidy was when we were 14). We remembered every word too.</p>
<p>I was going to say that the 80s weren’t all bad; I sometimes hear “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” in my supermarket, one of my favorite songs of the decade. And yet apparently the lyrics went in one ear and out the other, because I just looked them up and they’re not exactly sweetness and light. Still love it though.</p>
<p>Anybody remember that song D.O.A. by Bloodrock? That thing scared the crap out of me every time I heard it. Horrible song</p>
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<p>I was surprised this thread wasn’t about current pop music, which is by and large awful. EVERY song seems to have crude lyrics about sex, and the songwriting is terrible–with a few notable exceptions, of course.</p>
<p>My supermarket plays good music. I heard my favorite Blur song the other day. I think they have some kind of 90s mix.</p>
<p>^you could start that thread! 
But honestly, I find most of today’s pretty forgettable and innocuous. But that’s just me. I’ll take silly crudity over that treacly unctuousness any day.</p>
<p>But I’d love a 90s mix, or an 80s one, for sure! Blur over anything my Shop Rite plays would be a massive improvement.</p>
<p>I do love the 70s songs that tell a story or feature a character–“Billy Don’t Be a Hero,” “Delta Dawn,” etc.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, what they play at my dentist is far cheesier: “You Light Up My Life,” “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight”…and who can forget “Feelings”!</p>
<p>There was a huge division in the 60s and 70s between album rock stations, that played all of the good stuff, and Top40, that played all of the garbage. Everyone I knew listened almost exclusively to album rock stations. Alas, they no longer seem to exist.</p>
<p>Consolation–that’s true. You need to go to small market non-profit stations to hear anything good. The NYC area is particularly bereft of decent stations (I’m a fan of alternative, and there is no commercial station here playing that.)</p>
<p>Now wait just a dadgum minute! You can’t just go around criticizing ‘Get Down Tonight.’ That is the greatest high school ‘team bus’ song ever!!!</p>
<p>And who doesn’t like Chapin’s ‘Cat’s in the Cradle?’ The next thing you’ll probably say is that ‘Taxi’ is bubble gum music. Egads!!!</p>
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That’s the one. The pits, the absolute worst. Paul Anka, 1974.</p>
<p>Sorry, Hunt, you’re wrong. The absolute worst is Helen Reddy’s “Leave Me Alone.”
The most obnoxious-sounding chorus I’ve ever heard.</p>
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I don’t remember it. And I’m not going to go check, either–what if you’re right?</p>