You are dead to me.
You too.
I’d totally forgotten it. 35+ years since my mother brought that single home.
30+ years since it was ever mentioned in my presence.
And now I must re-live the hell, merely because I happen to have an unfortunate given name. :smack:
Ebony Eyes by the Everley Brothers.
O deer ghod.
We were on a cross-country trip the summer that song was big, and all we could get on the car radio were the powerful AM stations, which were usually country. So every forty miles or so we’d tune up another station, and there it was again. And again. And again.
A Long December
Till the Heart Caves in
Seconded. Winner and champeen, bar none. The bitch of it is that my wife is exactly like the woman depicted in the song.
And her only other song that anyone can name, “Funny Face”, was just as bad.
I can still hear her slur those S’s…
“I’m the hap-ee-esht gurl, in the whollllle You Esh Ay.”
That was the summer of 1972 wasn’t it? I know because the same thing happened to me that year (cross-country road trip, nothing but AM country stations on the radio, encountering the same song nearly every hour as you came into another station’s broadcast zone).
Anyway, most the songs I was going to suggest have already been mentioned. However, I must add Diana Ross’ and Lionel Ritchies’ “Endless Love”. I feel like I’m drowning in molasses whenever I hear that.
No votes for Mike Douglas and"The Men in my Little Girl’s Life?"
I always thought it needed a verse, “There’s a boy outside … his name is Chuck …”
I feel the same way. I think it’s partly because I remember it from my childhood when I was all innocent. But also music can be very sentimental and yet still well done, and I think this is an example of that. Sort of in the same ballpark as “Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof.
oh christ covered in crackers yes, that and wildfire and alot of 70’s stuff
I came here to post that. That song makes me cry and shake in rage. I hate it. Literally hate it. No hyperbole intended.
Meatloaf–Anything for Love
Teen Angel? Ha! I give you Tell Laura I love her.
Yeah, I remember that horror. It was a favorite of my BRLFQ…
Last name Sneed.
Olivia Neutron Bomb - I Honestly Love You
Holy shit. I had never heard this song until just now, and… wow. Was this song made as part of a DARPA program to create a weapon that would induce uncontrollable retching in an enemy?
I came in here to mention this one. When I was in high school, I was playing this song in my bedroom and when it was over, I heard my mother weeping in the kitchen downstairs. Whenever it comes up on my playlist, it reminds me to give her a call (if the subject matter wouldn’t, anyways.)
Seems like there’s room in here for Tom Waits. Although “The Piano Has Been Drinking” is a little too ridiculous to feel maudlin, the character singing it certainly is maudlin. How about “Tom Traubert’s Blues,” “Kentucky Avenue,” or “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis?”