Oh dear, some stuff by Katrina and the Waves
Whatever cool is they’re not it.
Heh! Saw it live last week in Philadelphia. Not my favorite DD song, though…it’s not quite cheesy enough. That honor goes to “The Reflex”…
“And I’m dancin’ on the valentine!”
“You’re about as easy as a nuclear war…”
"There’s a port, on a Western bay,
And it serves a hundred ships a day.
Sailors pass the time away talkin’ about their homes.
Now there’s a girl in this harbor town
and she works layin’ whiskey down
‘Brandy - fetch another round’
She serves them whiskey and wine."
Ooooooh, yeah - Brandy, by Looking Glass
Windy, by the Association.
867-5309 Jenny, by Tommy Tutone (not geeky, but uncool)
- WordMan, barely scratching the surface.
The cover of Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun by Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormet.
Boiling heat
Summer stench
'Neath the black
The sky looks dead
Thank yew…
She came and she gave without taking and I love the song “Mandy.” But don’t tell anyone.
I think old geeky songs become cool just by virtue of being artifacts from a simpler, geekier time. I seek out the oldies stations just to grin over songs like Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey”.
Newer geeky songs, however…well, you see, the thing is, like, I don’t know who sings it or anything, but it’s one of those, you know, boy bands, oh heck, I like that song “I Want It That Way!” Okay? Now that’s just indefensible.
Mickey by Toni Basil
I haven’t played it in a long while, but I used to listen to “The Best of Bread” all the time in high school (mid 80s). “Baby I’m a want you. baby I’m a need you…”
<sigh>
I still love the lesbian cheerleader squad in that video…
“Do the Freddie” by Freddie and the Dreamers
“Walk the Dinosaur” by Was Not Was
“The Electric Slide” by Grandmaster Slice
“Two of Hearts” by Stacey Q
“Do You Know the Way to SanJose?”
-sorry
It’s not a weakness. You’re just one of the few people who realizes the brilliance of that song, which is quite plainly the zenith of human culture.
And I am a hardcore heavy metal fan, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with Belinda Carlisle, or Ace of Base, or even Culture Club.
Anything by Manowar, really.
“Stripes on a tiger don’t wash away!
Manowar’s made of steel not clay!”
guitar riff
You are not alone. I can’t even figure out what “I Want it That Way” is supposed to be about, but I harbor a deep, secret love for it.
Another one is “Making Love Out of Nothing At All” by Air Supply. It’s about football, for crying out loud. But it’s so good.
I don’t consider cheesy 80s dance songs uncool or geeky at all.
Even though I hated, hated, hated them when it came out, in my dotage, I’ll listen to the Bay City Roller’s ‘Saturday Night’ cranked up at full volume sometimes…I always make sure it’s off my turntable before I go on any trip, even a quick run to the store, cos I know if I leave it on the turntable, I will be in some sort of accident that leaves me in a coma, and my associates will think, ‘Hey! Maybe if we play her favourite music, she’ll pull through and come back to us,’ and they’ll rummage through my sound system and walk right past all my cool Kinks things and Green Day and Saw Doctors all that, and see this THING on my turntable, and say, ‘Uh, whoa, so this is her fave, huh, hmmm…oooookay…’ and next thing I know, I’m lying there, sentient but helpless, with S -A- T- U- R- DAY, NIGHT! screeching in my ear…I wouldn’t come out of the coma out of spite – no way could I face any of them again…
Not that I worry, or anything…
PS – Isn’t the theme from the Disney Electric Light Parade Handel’s Water Music? At least I recall the parade barges on the water was…
The ultimate geek song, One Night in Bangkok, is one of my favorite songs ever!
Alison-Elvis Costello
Cracklin’ Rose - Neil Diamond
One of the few good things about growing old is that you no longer care what the idiot kids consider to be geeky or cool and you can just like things because you like them.
If you’re still too young to understand this - just wait. The revelation will come eventually. 
“I Will Always Love You” -Whitney Houston
C’mon you know the words…