I can’t hear the refrain without laughing my head off, so there’s that. (Hell, I’m sitting here laughing, just thinking about the refrain.)
Unfortunately, the rest of the song goes on forever - it’s one of the longest songs ever to get airplay on pop music stations - and it isn’t funny, it’s just awful.
Hard to believe he’s the guy who originally played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies, roughly an eon later.
Lots of bad songs here i never hear, which is good.
Same here - most of the songs that have been mentioned, I either have never heard, or maybe heard a few times a long time ago, or were ‘classic rock’ tunes that don’t bother me anymore because I stopped listening to classic rock stations about a decade ago.
If I hear them at all, it’s because they’re playing over the sound system of a store I’m in.
Here’s a really creepy song I heard recently on a web site that plays hits of the 1960s. I remember the song when it was a hit, but today it takes on a whole new meaning.
“Turn Around, Look at Me” by the Vogues.
The opening lyrics:
There is someone walking behind you Turn around, look at me There is someone watching your footsteps Turn around, look at me.
It goes on like that. It’s supposedly a love song, but…anyone for stalking?
Aarrgghh, didn’t notice we have TWO threads on this same topic going concurrently. From the other one I mentioned Kyrie Eleison by Mister Mister, which combines the worst mondegreen, ever, and one of the most irritating melodic lines (as such).
Oh, I see it in the other thread. I never mondegreened that as I saw the title before hearing the song, and I grew up Catholic, where the phrase “Kyrie Eleison” shows up not infrequently in masses (though less so these days.)
As a working musician, the one I hate most as a request is “The Birdie Song”. Though fortunately that doesn’t come up so often nowadays except with drunken wedding guests of a certain age.
As a songwriter, by far the most cringeworthy is the ‘Pina Colada’ song. I would love to hear a realistic version where in the last verse they scream ‘you cheating bitch/bastard’ at each other and have a violent breakup.
I think ‘Birdie song’ may be what it’s known by in the UK?
But you know, there we are playing some decent Beatle songs etc, and THAT comes up.
Doesn’t really work well for a guitar band anyway… but we hold our noses and go rumpty-tump for 3 minutes. Keep the customer satisfied…
Our missalettes in Chicago would print both “Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy…” and the alternate Greek “Kyrie Eleison/Christe Eleison…” for that part of mass. Most of the time the priest would choose the English version, but sometimes they’d mix it up. Same with “Lamb of God” and “Agnus Dei.” Plus there were some hymns with the phrase “Kyrie Eleison.”
I first ran across the Mister Mister song in the early 90s in a synthesizer transcription book. I had somehow no memory of having heard the song before and was wondering why Mister Mister had a song with a religious title like that.
My father grew up when they still did Latin masses. In East Cleveland in the late 60’s/early 70’s at least they had stopped doing it, cannot recall singing any Latin at all while in church.
Our current Catholic Church still does Latin Agnus Dei from time to time (and this is a left-leaning Paulist Church that even had “Black Lives Matter” on their marquee), and I never learned the actual words beyond “Agnus Dei qui something something mundi, then something something something ends with pacem, and there’s a miserere or two in there.”
Fun fact: The German pop band Pur called themselves Opus at some point but changed their name when this Austrian band Opus had their breakthrough with Live is Life.
I’m afraid we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one. I don’t see the song as just one big joke. There may be some humor in it, but it is clearly more than that. It states a message and attempts to make a point. And I don’t agree that people will just treat it as humor and not analyze the message. I once had a disagreement with an acquaintance when, during a debate, I expressed the opinion (in my capacity as a children’s and youth rights activist) that the law should regulate what you can name your child and he categorically disagreed, claiming that parents should even be allowed to give their children blatantly embarassing names, in the interest of [the parents’] liberty. He cited this song as a justification for his stance.
And I find the former band Opus, now Pur, even worse than the Austrian Opus…