Here in SF, KFOG FM has a little feature they call 10 at 10.
usually it’s 10 songs from a given year, or 10 songs of a given theme. anyway, each friday the 13th they do “hits from hell”, basically the 10 crappiest songs chosen by the internet public.
Tonights songs were:
Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time
Cher - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
Taco - Puttin’ On the Ritz
Gerardo - Rico Suave
Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods - Billy Don’t Be a Hero
Warrant - Heaven
Rupert Holmes - Pina Colada Song
Los Del Rio - Macarena
Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died
Captain & Tennille - Muskrat Love
Anyway, when they started bagging on “gypsies, tramps and thieves”, my thought was ‘come on, it aint that bad… i actually like that song!’
Even tho i know its ridiculous crap, i like it.
Then i got to thinking. I also liked “mmmbop”. I like Neil Diamond’s “America”. I like the monkees’ “i’m a believer”. And Bon Jovi’s “Shot thru the heart” is listenable to me.
Anyway, gimme expamples of songs that you know are crap, but like regardless.
Oh, this is so easy. Although I know if I sat here and thought about it for a while, I’m sure I love a whole list of embarrassing songs, I don’t have to sit and think. One obvious example leaps to mind.
I like Britney Spears songs. I’m 29, and I sing along to them in the car.
Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve met the one person who actually likes “Muskrat Love.”
As far as crappy songs, I suppose “I Get Lost (in your eyes)” by Debbie Gibson counts. I really like the melody even though the lyrics are pretty insufferable:
“I get lost/
in your eyes/
And I feel/
My spirits rise/
And soar like the wind/
Is this love that I am in?”
I have to keep in mind that: a) she was something like 14 when she wrote this song; and b) it’s still a helluva lot better than I could do. I can’t even play chopsticks.
Another Muskrat Love story from San Francisco.
KSJO was having this charity thing going on where you called to request a song, but you had to pledge $5 or whatever to whatever charity they were sponsoring. And they promised they’d play whatever was requested. Now KSJO is basically a metal station. So amongst the Ozzy Osbourbes and Metallicas, someone requested Muskrat Love, and damned if they didn’t play it.
About ten minutes later, they aired a caller who pledged $100 if they promised never to play that song ever again.
As for my guilty musical pleasure - I can’t get enough of Easy Like Sunday Morning by the Commodores.
Thanks to my beloved and now our children I know the words to too many Britney Spears songs as well as other catchy little dance numbers. I can’t say that I like them as they are like static in my head drowning out other better things.
Maybe that’s why so many people do enjoy them.
Now, Muskrat Love… that must be one of the greatest songs of all time.
Should I feel guilty because I like listening to Lyle Lovett?
AC/DC -“For Those About to Rock” or I think that’s what it’s called. I almost caused a car wreck because I was alternately singing as loud as I could and giggling like an idiot to that song on the radio.
“Dancing Queen” by ABBA is one of my favorite songs. I’m only admitting this because no one here knows me personally. I can remain safely, wretchedly anonymous.
And when you get the chance…
You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet,
only seventeen,
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
oh yeah…
I about fell off my chair when I saw this. I don’t know what to say.
Mu personal picks:
“Lucky”-Britney Spears. It’s getting overplayed now, so I don’t like it so much anymore.
“Only In My Dreams”- Debbie Gibson. I keep thinking I’m over this song. Then I hear it on the radio again and the beat gets me. Everytime.
