“Shannon” is also worse than any Bee Gees song, worse than “Seasons in the Sun”, worse than any 80s hair band song, worse than any Brady Bunch song, worse than any of William Shatner’s covers…
But it is unclear whether “Shannon” by Henry Gross is a worse song than “One Tin Soldier” by Coven.
One tin soldier is the theme song to one of the best hippie movies ever–Billy Jack. All the elements were there–the redneck civic leader, the ethnic vietnam vet, the pacifist girl friend who gets raped by the bad guy and then begs her boyfriend to leave it alone–and martial arts.
I’m going to kick the left side of your head with my right foot and there’s not a damned thing you can do about it
Billy Jack
Now look, you–I like Shannon. And One Tin Soldier. And, yes, the Bee Gees. So 
Shannon was written about a dog. Henry Gross found out that one of the Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, I think) had a dog named Shannon and Gross also had a dog named Shannon. This was the inspiration for the song. Finally, all those years of reading Circus Magazine pay off.
At least One Tin Soldier had a moral. :rolleyes:
And in Chevy Van, as least the dude got laid.
Lest we forget, Disco Duck.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh…and I thought I’d escaped that one. Is it true that Shannon was a dog (the canine variety)?
And I can’t believe that no one has yet tangled with the oeuvre of Phil Collins. I hesitate to mention an example before I get stuck with singing it all night in my head. As it is, I am currently battling with a mental re-run of T’Pau
“Don’t push too hard
Your dreams are china in your hands…”
you completely forgot about “Brandy” (Looking Glass) and “I got the music in me” by some shit band that doesnt deserve to have thier name on the web.
Both distressingly bad.
I’ve always maintained that, while the driver has complete control of the car radio, any passenger can exercise veto power over a Phil Collins song.
It always disturbs me when I hear Phil Collins… He’s a “Power Whiner” extraordinare…
One thing that I can’t understand about “oldies” stations, is given the several decades of music to choose from, they have a much larger base of tunes with which to draw from compared, say, to a contemporary station.
For some inexplicable reason, they insist on playing songs that were absolutely awful when they came out, and have not improved at all. Why play the dogs of yesteryear when they can be culled? Strange. This would include anything by B. Manilow, the “Shannon” song, “Me and You and a Dog named Boo” and stuff like that. The 70’s had some especially bad music for the time.
<shudder> bad memories coming back. I thikn I was in junior high and found that a girl I had a crush on picked Seasons in the Sun as her favorite song. It was my first ethical dilemma.
“All of you who will not sing,
you must be playin’ with your own ding-a-ling.”
Yes, but is “Shannon” worse than “Havin’ My Baby”?
I think not. I mean, there’s bad and then there’s bad.
I vote for Judy’s Turn to Cry. What the hell? The guy left you for your best friend…and you take him back?
Ah, but GUIN, you must remember this is the same petulant brat who announced that since it was her party, she could cry if she wanted to. So I don’t think we can expect good judgment.
But that Johnny better be one hot guy . . .
You all make valid points, but every time I hear “Kung Foo Fighting” by Carl Williams? I just want to park my Chevy Van, idling, in the garage with the door shut, and join Shannon, drifting out to sea…but I’ll take that any day over some of the crap filling the airwaves today…
Ya know, I knew if I read these boards long enough tonight, I’d be sure to find a subject just made for me. I will freely admit to being a bad-song junkie…even better if the bad songs were huge hits and only the recording artist caught on (and thereafter vanished with his/her tail between his/her legs) otherwise known as one-hit wonders.
So who wants to talk trash with me on the subject?
Juli (brand new here, be gentle with me)
“Muskrat Love” The Captain and Tennielle
If there’s worse, I don’t wanna know.
Ah…bad music. I have some nominations, if I may?
‘Alone Again (Naturally)’
‘Funny Face’
‘Delta Dawn’
‘The Night Chicago Died’ (one of my favorites as a child)
‘Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma’
‘MacArthur Park’ (I defy anyone to make sense of that song)
And I don’t remember (or rather, have blocked it out) the name, but the chorus goes something like this…
‘Daddy, please don’t,
It wasn’t his fault, he means so much to me.
Daddy, please don’t,
We’re gonna get married…just you wait and see…’
shudder
Other than those, my vote goes to One Tin Soldier. Hands down.
“Run Joey Run” by David Geddes.
Mr. Blue Sky…thanks. I think. Now that stupid thing is running around my head like a frozen burrito on a microwave carousel. It doesn’t look good, it doesn’t sound good, it doesn’t taste good.
By the by, I just turned my son and his best friend on to ELO last weekend. They’ve been listening to it solid. 'Course, you know my favorite song…right?