The cheesiest song ever and yet it was a hit twice. What does it mean?

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MacRassic Park?

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I always thought that was the creepiest thing ever. This gnarled little one-eyed man with a permanent smirk singing the most sugary-smarm lyrics to a bunch of little tykes. Every time I hear it I imagine it coming from the loudspeaker on the top of a black van.

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I think he’s referring to…

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Where do “Afternoon Delight” and “Muskrat Love” fall in this pecking order?

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“Afternoon Delight” was a punchline on Arrested Development, so it gets a pass.

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God, it’s like a confluence of musical horror, isn’t it. Maybe together, all these cheesy songs form a musical black hole. I can sort of feel the pull from it as I hear echoing chants of “Ooga chaka, ooga ooga” swirling around the event horizon.

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I seriously think the years 1967-1979 were some kind of musical Bermuda Triangle where all the really cheesily horrible songs from all through time washed up on our radio shores…just go back through this thread and count up how many of the mentioned songs were in that era.

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I HATE this song sooooooo much!

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IIIIII dddooonnn’ttt think that I can take it . . . .

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“I’ve been undressed by kings, and I’ve seen some things that a woman ain’t supposed to see…”

What, like, a men’s room? A urinal? :dubious:

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Ya killin’ me! I’m reading down, wondering who’s going to cite “Torn between Two Lovers,” and it just ain’t in there. But many moldy cheese nuggets along the way.

No sooner do I go to hit reply and “Blind Man in the Bleachers” grabs a knife and stabs me directly in the brain.
It’s medication time…

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Not to mention the entire discography of the group Bread.

“McArthur Park” gets too much heat for its lyrics, when there are so many rotten lyrics out there that do not receive the attention they deserve. For instance, the Dutch band Golden Earring authored these classics:

"Lonely is the night without you
Just like a shepherd without sheep

  • “She Flies On Strange Wings”

and

From the moment you opened my fly
It’s been alright…

  • “Leather”
    Blarrgh.
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So, I read this thread just before leaving work tonite. Laughed, thought “wow, glad they don’t air those cheesy, lame songs anymore” and went on my merry way.

Then, while sitting stopped in traffic waiting for the announced traffic report about the traffic I was stuck in, they played…

Cheesburger in Paradise. :mad:

I blame you all.

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Billy, Don’t Be a Hero

Disco Duck

Convoy

:smack: :smack: :smack:

OK, stopping now.

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Oh, noooooo!

I sometimes jokingly cite that song as the origin of written recipes. I’m sure, for a while after the song came out, people facing the harsh reality of ruined cakes found themselves saying, “I don’t think that I can take it, 'cause it took so long…oh, nevermind. I got it written down. I’ll just make another.”

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Hey, I LIKE Disco Duck. It’s not cheesy, it’s silly. I’ll give another vote for I’ve Never Been to Me as the cheesiest.

And Convoy was a trend rider. I’m not sure that counts as cheese, but I won’t argue.

I’ll give you Billy, Don’t Be a Hero, flat out. I can see all of these songs being made into a compilation CD to give to people you want to drive mad. Could it be used to threaten roudy children in the back seat? “Don’t make me put on the Cheese CD!”

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*I heard my mama cry…
I heard her pray the night Chicago died

That’s the night the lights went out in Georgia
That’s the night they hung an innocent man

And yooooooooou light up my liiiiiiife
You give me hooooooope
To carry onnnnnnnnnnnn*

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I can’t believe that with all these bright people here, it took 34 posts to get it right.

Billy, don’t be a hero. Please don’t! If you do, then someone’s gonna write an unbelievably cheesy song about it and make the whole human race suffer for decades to come.

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OK. I refrained, but the bad lyrics haven’t met their king.

Here are some actual lyrics from Rosecrans Boulevard (by Jim Webb):

“Then there was the time you drove the little car down Sunset Boulevard at 90 miles an hour in a thirty mile zone and blamed me when you got that ticket.”

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The scary thing is, *all three * of those songs are in heavy rotation in the muzak at work. What the hell is Muskrat Love about? I never really notice it (even though I’m unconsciously singing along) until the words “Muskrat Love” come out of my mouth, and then I’m generally confused and frightened.

Also, “MacArthur Park” is one of the few songs which is weirder than its Weird Al counterpart.