I think “I Think I Love You” by the Partridge Family is a pretty well-made song if you give it a chance.
Me too!
And a whole bunch of country songs. “All My Exes Live in Texas,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” “Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares,” “Tight Fittin’ Jeans,” “Amarillo By Morning,” “Take This Job and Shove It,” “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses,” and so on.
In years past, I was a host on a classic rock radio station. As such, I’m not supposed to like these songs. But I do!
“Stranglehold” by Ted Nugent. I find his politics utterly repugnant, the lyrics to the song aren’t even all that great … but man, that guitar riff.
Ditto. And it’s pretty obvious why Duyn was called “Big Mouth”. 
Oh my. 
Though I agree with you that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with “Walking on Sunshine.” And I’ve never heard anyone diss Usher’s “Yeah!” Both are bangers.
I don’t have many songs I’m ashamed of liking, but one that you may or may not know because I believe you’re German is the Das Modul cover of “Ich Will.” (Though I don’t necessarily know it was even that well known in its country. It feels like one of those one-off summer semi-hits.) It is hyper tempo, sugar-coated generic Euro dance, but there’s something about that song that keeps drawing me back to it when I need a hit of dopamine.
I also love The Archies’ “Sugar Sugar,” but I’m not embarrassed about that one. I think that’s a tight pop song with a great melody. Hell, I learned (and long have forgotten) to dance the Bossa Nova, of all dances, to that one.
Different Drum as performed by the Stone Poneys, or The Lemonheads, or Susanna Hoffs.
While every other post in this thread, including my own, should lead to mild shock therapy for the posters, there’s nothing wrong with I’m Not in Love.
I like the band America. I have fond memories of listening to their greatest hits cassette while playing in the living room as a child.
Agreed. It is a perfect pop song with upbeat lyrics and tone. It’s like aural Prozac.
In a similar vein, Starland Vocal Band’s ‘Afternoon Delight’ gets slagged a lot, but I think that is another perfect pop song, with great vocal harmonies and a similar upbeat tone. It doesn’t hurt that the song was constantly played on the radio when I first started getting interested in girls (as yet still a pre-teen, so on an innocent ‘puppy love’ level), so it’s closely connected with my own early romantic awakenings.
When I first started my album collection at 12 or 13, doing that ‘12 albums for a penny’ thing, I bought a lot of the highly produced super slick-albums of the late 70s like Journey, Boston, Styx, etc. Later, around 15 or so I discovered Stones, Who, Beatles, and became highly scornful and contemptuous of bands like Journey-- they’re ‘corporate rock’, man. I think Boston and Styx still got a pass from me, though. I also hated most metal bands with their teased hair and silly outfits, and 80s ‘synth rock’. I was against anything I thought was ‘phony’. I guess this was my rock music ‘Catcher in the Rye’ phase 
Now I’ve come around and like a lot of the songs of bands like Journey, 80s synth-rock and some of that metal music I used to scorn. I learned to sing and play ‘Every Rose has its Thorn’, cheesy song, but easy and fun to play on guitar. I’m not even sure what percent of irony or nostalgia my sense of enjoyment for certain older music entails anymore.
My Way by Sid Vicious.
That reminds me of this series of 4 comics about loving/hating Journey:
Ha, that’s funny 'cause it’s true!
Now excuse me, a song is playing on the radio I must sing along to…
Don’t stop belieeeevin’
Hold on to that FEE-EE-EE-EE-LIN’!!
Poison came up a few posts back…
I was 15 when their first album was a thing. I, and everyone I knew, thought they sucked. Well, not everyone: my 10-year-old brother thought they were great. As did his friends. But everyone my age I knew thought Poison was only worthy of ridicule.
A couple of years later, in 1988, I was at work one night when “Nothing But a Good Time” came on the radio. Just released, it was the first time I’d heard it. The song wasn’t announced beforehand, so I had no idea who it was. But man, it was an awesome song! I asked a coworker if he knew who it was. “I think it’s Poison.”
I said “no, that can’t possibly be right. Poison sucks. This song is really cool!”
“I’m telling you, I saw them open for David Lee Roth last week. I’m pretty sure they played this.”
He turned out to be right, of course. Thinking maybe there was more to this band, I decided to give them a chance and bought the album. I soon realized I’d made a mistake there. “Nothing But a Good Time” was an anomaly that never happened again. But to this day, I maintain it’s an awesome song by a pathetic band.
Jim Stafford’s “Spiders and Snakes”. It’s not a great song, but it is the first .45 I ever purchased, so it has sentimental value.
I know everyone likes to slag on Christmas music around here, but I love it. It’s going in my house from Nov 1 though New Year’s Day.
“All about that base, that base, no treble.”
You’d have to drive by while I sing it in the car alone to witness this.
90% of the songs that fall under the category of ‘Songs I Hate’ or ‘Worst Songs Ever’, are songs I enjoy and some I love. A long trip across town singing along to ‘Copacabana’ is a whole lot more fun than a symphony of clanging trash can lids, or dirge from a sad loser on the way to OD-ville. …My own personal favorites are ‘Sugar Sugar’ by the Archies and ‘Love Shack’ by the B-52s. I find it hard to be sad listening to those two.
Da Da Da by Trio. I’ll frequently bop around the kitchen to it to dispel gloomy rainy day moods.
The Air That I Breathe, but not the version recorded by The Hollies. I prefer the version by the individual that wrote the song, Albert Hammond.
BTW, the version by the Hollies was a focal point of the recent movie, The Heretic which I also enjoyed.
‘The Final Countdown’ by Europe
Yeah. Me too.