# Absolutely crap songs that yet induce nostalgia

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 20, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-crap-songs-that-yet-induce-nostalgia/438341 "2008-02-20T01:30:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-crap-songs-that-yet-induce-nostalgia/438341/61 "2008-02-22T01:27:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Freudian Slit]  
Okay, this has gotta be treason. Joan Baez’s anything cannot be rightly classified as crap.  
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Eh. I haven’t liked her since Live Aid when she informed my generation that we were late putting our Woodstock together. Newsflash, Joan: not everything that happens revolves around the Baby Boomers.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-crap-songs-that-yet-induce-nostalgia/438341/62 "2008-02-22T01:27:59Z")

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Nik Kershaw’s _Wouldn’t it be good?_ - bound tightly to this song is a memory of skating on a very thickly frozen lake - I’m not sure if the song was in the charts stilll when I went skating, but I think we had it on a casette in a little portable player, while we were skating, in the dead of the night.

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**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-crap-songs-that-yet-induce-nostalgia/438341/63 "2008-02-22T02:29:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]  
Nik Kershaw’s _Wouldn’t it be good?_ - bound tightly to this song is a memory of skating on a very thickly frozen lake - I’m not sure if the song was in the charts stilll when I went skating, but I think we had it on a casette in a little portable player, while we were skating, in the dead of the night.  
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Okay good. I was worried for being the only one to mention good ol’ Nik. Surely someone else must have loved that cheesiness as well, I thought. I felt beyond cheesy. I felt like a cheese curd. All squeaky. And melted over poutine.

Mmm.

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**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-crap-songs-that-yet-induce-nostalgia/438341/64 "2008-02-28T10:01:34Z")

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This song was recorded some years before I was actually available:

_Windy_ by The Association. Sent me into _psychedelic_ land, no joke. Which may not have been accidental. “Who’s **trippin’** down the streets of the city, smilin’ at everybody she sees…”

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