What??!!
Man that was the backdrop to my first acid trip in Junior year. That and Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime.”
Also the Coen brothers put it in that documentary about a kidnapping.
Great song.
I know a guy who writes with and(sometimes) plays with Julian Lennon and he is kinda impressed with the start of that tune.
Personally, I love it, and it has been in a 100 films.
That is kinda bad, yes.
When “Love Shack” was a hit, a local radio station played a parody called “Butt Crack”. It must have been done by them, because I’ve never been able to find it online, nor did I ever hear it anywhere else.
If millions of people like a record and pay good money for it, then no matter how much I hate it, it deserves to be a hit.
The same is true in any business. Even if I think Starbucks coffee tastes like burnt toast, millions of people love it and buy it, so they deserve their success.
Jim Steinman was mentioned upthread–only once, oddly enough–and he has a lot to answer for. Meat Loaf alone! The stink bomb that was Streets of Fire! But his greatest hate crime against the culture was probably “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” If you found a musically capable psychopath who knew nothing about human emotions or love and hired him to write a love song, this would be the result. “Making Love (Out of Nothing at All)” would be corroborating evidence. Maybe he could be paired with a lyricist to mitigate future damage?
It’s fair. I’d say Oingo Boingo had more going on than the average 80’s band as well. Danny Elfman is who David Byrne would have been had the Byrnes forced David to spend his childhood in a closet.
Too much doth protesting there. Probably has it playing on an endless loop.
All mmm proved was we’ve been here too damned long. 
ok I really hate to do this to you people - I’m not doing this out of spite, because I think you’re all ok and everything, but, really - the following I’m about to dump on you could have long-lasting neurological consequences.
venture forth bravely, foolish soul
I said - what? (gross echo)
She said - ooo, ooo, ooo-weeee
I said - all right! (really truly fucking annoying echo that time)
She said - love me, love me, love me!
I’m a Mellencamp fan, but I’ll agree that most of this song is pretty pedestrian. IMHO, the only thing that saves it is the bridge (let the Bible Belt come and save my soul, etc.), which (as bridges often do) has a whole different sound.
OK, but how was it all that different from a shitload of other keyboard-heavy pop songs of the mid to late 1960s?
Yeah, I was thinking about that when “Safety Dance” and especially “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” came up. Even though I heard the latter a bunch of times when it was on the airwaves in early 1994, I can’t remember the original lyrics at all, they’ve been totally overlaid by Weird Al’s.
Once there was this guy who
went to Singapore and he took along his spray paint…
Voice of the Beehive did a very good cover of this song.
Now that this has been going on for 6 pages, and so many horrible songs have been brought up that I had erased from my brain drive, I find myself
sorta
wanting
to
listen
to
them
again. 
I know, I can’t even believe it myself. But this has evoked a strong desire to listen to some really bad music.
There’s a few (but only a few) songs mentioned in this thread that I actually like. I’m only going to mention one of them here. I confess that I’m the only person in America who:
never got tired of the Macarena.
Feel free to throw things. 
Gosh, you think maybe we have had several threads like this before?
I dont see the point of this stalker-like post.
All good nominees, let me add anything by Led Zepplin after LZ 3.
Brutal, uninteresting, noisy crapola.
Ok Zeppheads, bring it on.
That song’s okay.
Shouldn’t you blame those they stole from? 
This the story about Jack and Diane,
Two young lovers with nothing better to do…
It differs because its tedious selection of notes eclipses, by light years, (and yes I realise that metaphor doesn’t really quite flow) any other 60’s keyboard-heavy hit.* The song almost fascinates me how it’s so difficult to decide which is more mind-numbingly putz-like - this part (ending at :10) or this part (beginning at :10). I think I’ll give the nod to number one, with its rock steady Kids From Widney Highness.
And somewhat related - it’s possible I might have a slight bias against proto-garage like Them (holy fuck if I ever hear “Gloria” or The Standell’s “Dirty Water” again), despite the fact I have an unaccountable soft spot for later stuff like The Lyres and The Gruesomes. Go figure.
I’ll give Tears credit, though, for their truly nifty bandname:
:eek: Question Mark and the Mysterians :eek:
aw duuuuuuude - no 4?
Well…here goes:
Jimmy T’s “You’ve Got a Friend”
*And hey - there were some perfectly ok 60s keyboard hits - “House of the Rising Sun”, “Green Onion”