Really bad, geeky, uncool songs you absolutely love

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I don’t think I understand what we mean by geeky, but I do have a good deal of music I consider my “guilty pleasures”

Neil Diamond – I just love listening to him sing his own songs, even with lyrics like “Songs she sang me, love she brang me” or something like that.

The Monkees and most notably the two, count them two Mike Nesmith albums I own. “just runnin’ from the grand ennui, Mike”

I generally make fun of Barry Manilow, but “Weekend in New England” seems to get me every time.

Tom Jones – yes, TOM JONES!!! Whooo – I love his version of Kiss with “Art of Noise” and really, really like listening to most of “Reload”

Run, Joey, Run by the 1910 Fruit Gum Company: Quick Joey Small went over the wall with a ball and a chain behind him, Quick Joey Small went over the wall, sent the dogs right out to find him" Preach it brother: “Sheriff got a shotgun, he do, He’ll fill you full of lead son, it’s true”

And while I’m visiting the 60’s I like the Turtles, Herman’s Hermits and the song “Incense and Peppermints”

Janis Ian and not just for the geek anthem “At Seventeen”

Musicals – I love musicals.

Also, many of the songs listed here – and I LOVED 80’s synth pop: Thompson Twins, Flock of Seagullls, The Fixx, and other uncool things like Adam Ant and Madness

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Has Sting ever actually been cool – I always thought so, but seeing him perform on the Victoria’s Secret special may have caused me to lose faith in it.

Plus, I’m a big fan of one of the coolest guys ever, that almost no one talks about: Leonard Cohen. Dressed in black, smoking a cigarette, and crooning in that rough bass voice of his, he is so cool, but in a nerdy sort of way.

Okay–now that I’ve confessed, who’s paying for my rehab?

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On a quick scan through this thread, I see Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo has already made it.

I figure I have to add Peek-A-Boo by Siouxsie and the Banshees, Camel Walk by Southern Culture on the Skids and Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver by Primus.

But my favorite geeky song of all time has to be This Is Ponderous by 2Nu.
“Can you see what I’m saying?”

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Oh how I love uncool songs!!

Now let me see… I’ll second Mmm Bop and everything from Hanson’s Middle of Nowhere album :smiley:

Also, I still love every Spice Girls song ever made! I just love all that bad late '90s music, like B*witched and Aqua.

Who can honestly say they don’t like singing along to Barbie Girl?

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The Highwayman, by, um, The Highwaymen. (That’s Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson).

Also, at the moment, I’m totally hooked on Cosmic Dare (Pretty With a Pistol) by the Seatbelts, from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. And I don’t even like Cowboy Bebop, but that song is damn catchy. Curse you, Fistful of Soundtracks!

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Two songs from my youth that I love and do not know from whence they sprang:
1)Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen, that was a cat who really was gone! I remember dancing to that song on a ferrry from Dover to Rotterdam.

2)Yes sir, I can boogie, all night loooong! done in this breathy foreign accent.

Can anyone help me out?

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Two songs from my youth that I love and do not know from whence they sprang:
1)Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen, that was a cat who really was gone! I remember dancing to that song on a ferrry from Dover to Rotterdam.

2)Yes sir, I can boogie, all night loooong! done in this breathy foreign accent.

Can anyone help me out?

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I don’t know the second one, but the first one was by a European disco band called Boney M. My mother, of all people, got this album because she liked another tune of theirs, Rivers of Babylon. I still remember seeing this group do a guest appearance on the Merv Griffin show way back when! :eek:

I just recently got a whole bunch of my old 80’s alternative records out of storage. I can’t believe I actually paid money for some of those things (and they were soooooooooooooo cool in those days :stuck_out_tongue: ). Anyone for Nellie the Elephant by the Toy Dolls? And then there was an entire album (on green vinyl, no less) by Stewart Copeland’s alter ego, Klark Kent…

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Life Is A Rock But The Radio Rolled Me.

Love that tune.

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As do I. Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire always has me singing along, too. And Whoomp! There it is.

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Hot Rod Lincoln

Fat Bottomed Girls

Inna Gadda da Vida

Lola

Shimmy Shimmy Cocoa Puffs

Spill The Wine

Beth by KISS

will think of more later

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I’ll end this thread right now…

“UNDERCOVER ANGEL” - Alan O’day

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Not so much geeky, but very much a guilty pleasure for me is I Can Help by Billy ‘One Hit Wonder’ Swan, circa 1972. Way retro even then.

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Oh my god, I remember that song. I haven’t thought of that for prolly 20 years now.

Does anyone remember Paul McCartney singing some kid’s song that got in the charts in the UK, which had a video featuring Rupert the Bear?

BTW, One Night in Bangkok is a great song…I never knew it was geeky, that’s how geeky I am:)

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(takes breath as he prepares to rant)

Just this sort of thing is why I’m having Napster nostalgia right now. I know it was bad to deprive artists of their livelihood, but dang if those record companies didn’t help things along by not releasing CDs when we wanted them unless they could prepackage the thing to death and charge (with sales tax in California) about $20 for a single CD. All we wanted was the music! And not have to deal with some punked-out black-clad snotty clerk in a Tower store who sneered at what you bought while your eardrums burst from their playing House, or Korn, or some crappy ironic selection they could trade knowing quips about.

That said:

Quit Playing Games with my Heart–or any other BSB, unfortunately)
When I fall in Love–Celine Dion’s version)
If I could turn back Time–Cher (Preferably either while speeding down the freeway with the windows up, or at home with the torchere lamp shade off so you could use it like a microphone stand)
Hero–Enrique Inglesias (the whispered part at the beginning especially)
The Hardest Thing I’ll Ever have to do–N’Sync (try trading vocal parts every time you lipsync to the mirror)

Gawd. I hang my head with shame.