# Shitty Songs from Your Teen Years that You Still Sorta Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139 "2009-05-12T05:16:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/1 "2009-05-12T05:16:25Z")
[Private Emotion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gkkdMBoYsU) by Ricky Martin. Because I still get teary eyed when I see that backward burning hotel. [Give it to You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAsBZB4pjHM) by Jordan Knight. I think he thinks he’s hip hop. I just look at his Dockers and Old Navy turtleneck and laaaaaugh. But…fuck! I’m still watching them on Youtube! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/2 "2009-05-12T06:07:14Z")
Do you like _Pina Coladas_? _Patches_ Mannfred Mann’s cover of _Blinded By The Light_ ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/3 "2009-05-12T06:22:17Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > _Patches_ My dad used to sing this - I was almost 18 before I’d realised that he hadn’t made it up. > [@](#): > > Mannfred Mann’s cover of _Blinded By The Light_ Love this song. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/4 "2009-05-12T08:31:05Z")
[Groove is in the Heart](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1sskq_groove-is-in-the-heart-deelite_music) Almost ten minutes of epic cheese: [November Rain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbkG6Za6w5s) ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/5 "2009-05-12T08:44:41Z")
[Break Stuff](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYXZAAlxzOI) by Limp Bizkit. (Holy shit that video had a lot of Cameos. Good times) Or [Nookie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q72gvldxoA)? All the…[Small Things](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAEasqYox8s). Actually, I still very much love the Nu-metal stuff I have. And don’t mind the Blink. Tis the music of my youth… Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/6 "2009-05-12T10:10:08Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > [Groove is in the Heart](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1sskq_groove-is-in-the-heart-deelite_music) > > Almost ten minutes of epic cheese: [November Rain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbkG6Za6w5s) Clearly you and I are of an age. Add to yours [Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=givZsEAW80k) by the Spin Doctors, and [Rico Suave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx64_N4AA04) by Gerardo, which I cannot watch without laughing now. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/7 "2009-05-12T10:36:00Z")
Ice Ice Baby… bum-bum-bum-dum-ba-dum-dum-dump… More from my pre-teen years. Sure the guy is an supersize douchenugget dipped in idiot sauce, but it’s a catchy tune and I still remember all the words. Lord, how that depresses me. Equally catchy is Bowie’s “Under Pressure” from which he plundered. Is there more? Oh yes… there’s more. Any and all things G n’ R. Weapons grade cheese-metal but I just can’t stop myself. Ditto Metallica. “Can’t Stop Loving You” - Van Halen. Just beating out “Right Now”. “Truly Madly Deeply” - Savage Garden. To be played at very loud volume in my off-road modified Jeep with the top down. The bewildered looks I get as stoplights are the stuff of legend. “Safety Dance” - Men Without Hats. Cemented in Awesomeness by an equally cheesy but still entertaining in a ‘watching a train derailment’ kinda way movie, “Biodome”. I used to listen to a lot of rap in my idiot teen-age “tough-guy” years. Some of it is still kinda catchy. Though there is something 31 flavors of wrong about a skinny white kid singing Tupac’s “Hit 'Em Up”. I’m sure there are plenty more (I have a whole “Song’s I’m not supposed to like” playlist at home) but I’m supposed to be working and now I’ve got Vanilla Ice in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_Clock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Shot\_Clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_Clock)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/8 "2009-05-12T11:20:56Z")
OK. I’ll bite: [Naughty Naughty](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrR7WkZHvNA) by John Parr I’m oftentimes surprised at the things I’m willing to share with you people. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/9 "2009-05-12T12:25:18Z")
Paradise by the Dashboard Lights Daddy Cool Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? Midnight at the Oasis Rhinestone Cowboy ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/10 "2009-05-12T12:32:55Z")
> [@Shot\_Clock](#): > > OK. I’ll bite: > [Naughty Naughty](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrR7WkZHvNA) by John Parr > > I’m oftentimes surprised at the things I’m willing to share with you people. We should hang out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/11 "2009-05-12T12:43:06Z")
Last Train To Clarksville. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/12 "2009-05-12T12:52:03Z")
Pop country in general. I’ve not listened since 2002 or so, but I still listen to a little bit of Garth Brooks, amongst others. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/13 "2009-05-12T13:10:34Z")
Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive.” I also love some of that shitty dance music from the early 90s, like “Gonna Make You Sweat” by C+C Music Factory, and “The Power” by Snap. However nothing will ever touch my devotion to “The Humpty Dance” by the Digital Underground. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/14 "2009-05-12T13:28:25Z")
> [@Ro0sh](#): > > [Break Stuff](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYXZAAlxzOI) by Limp Bizkit. (Holy shit that video had a lot of Cameos. Good times) > Or [Nookie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q72gvldxoA)? > > All the…[Small Things](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAEasqYox8s). > Actually, I still very much love the Nu-metal stuff I have. And don’t mind the Blink. Tis the music of my youth… Heh. Hah. Poor, misunderstood Fred Durst. Jesus, was there any songs _besides_ “Break Stuff” that weren’t him whining about being fucked over by a woman? I always loved their guitar player’s penchant for freaky costumes. Especially the black eyes schtick. I liked them in the day, though. I think I still have _Three Dollar Bill_ collecting dust somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/15 "2009-05-12T13:29:09Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Clearly you and I are of an age. > > Add to yours [Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=givZsEAW80k) by the Spin Doctors, and [Rico Suave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx64_N4AA04) by Gerardo, which I cannot watch without laughing now. Ha, that came on the radio a few days ago. It was _awesome_. Did I mention that I like big butts and I cannot lie? ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/16 "2009-05-12T13:30:24Z")
> [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](#): > > Ice Ice Baby… bum-bum-bum-dum-ba-dum-dum-dump… “Nah, nah, man, that’s Under Pressure by Queen. See, my shit goes like DIS: “bum-bum-bum-dum-ba-dum-dum-dump” See the difference?” – Vanilla Ice, circa 1995 ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/17 "2009-05-12T14:26:59Z")
I actually still think a lot of Blink 182 stuff is good. Catchy and unapologetically sophomoric. Then there’s [Adam’s Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmLa_W_afH4), which is so drippy with teen angst that I can’t listen to it now without laughing. And then there are the Blink imitators. I still like [Fat Lip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKsQe31ApMs) by Sum41 even though it’s practically a textbook example of an objectively awful song. Which reminds me of the wife of the Sum41 guy - Avril Lavigne. Awful, awful, awful, but I still love [Complicated](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXYAJoDWCk). And I used to be a huge fan of The Offspring and _loved_ [The Kids Aren’t Alright](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4-aUiddpUo), where they whine about a bunch of bad stuff happening to teenagers. Actually, what was it with songs like that in the late 90’s and early 00’s? The Offspring song reminded me of [What It’s Like](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vWhdz5svvQ) by Everlast that’s basically the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/18 "2009-05-12T15:04:29Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Last Train To Clarksville. What’s shitty about Last Train to Clarksville? ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/19 "2009-05-12T17:02:32Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Clearly you and I are of an age. > > Add to yours [Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=givZsEAW80k) by the Spin Doctors, and [Rico Suave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx64_N4AA04) by Gerardo, which I cannot watch without laughing now. YMMV and all of that but I lurve me some Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong! Some of my favorite shitty songs from my teen years that I still sorta love: Rock Me Amadeus - Falco Land of Confusion - Genesis Too Shy - Kajagoogoo Our House - Madness Boom Boom - Paul Lekakis I’m Too Sexy - Right Said Fred Informer - Snow Lay Your Hands on Me - Thompson Twins Everybody Have Fun Tonight and Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung Yeah, I was a teen in the 80’s now GET OFF MY LAWN! MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139/20 "2009-05-12T17:37:25Z")
> [@Shot\_Clock](#): > > OK. I’ll bite: > [Naughty Naughty](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrR7WkZHvNA) by John Parr > > I’m oftentimes surprised at the things I’m willing to share with you people. You just reminded me…I love that song! Mine really date me: Run Joey, Run - David Geddes Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods Playground in My Mind - Clint Holmes Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson One Tin Soldier - Coven Waterloo - Abba If - Bread Superstar - The Carpenters Annie’s Song - John Denver Dust in the Wind - Kansas Into the Night - Benny Mardones I got these from reviewing my iPod. Yes, these are actually on my iPod! And you will never convince me that some of these songs are “shitty”, dammit! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitty-songs-from-your-teen-years-that-you-still-sorta-love/496139.md?page=2)