I dunno. For me, Donna Summer’s/Gorgio Morodor’s “I Feel Love” is like one of the greatest songs ever. It still sounds fresh to my ears today (I didn’t live through the disco era, really. Born in '75 so have some vague memories of it, but, man, bands like Chic and those great Bernard Edwards bass lines. All classic stuff. Unimpeachable.)
It’s truly a fantastic piece of music, one of the milestones of early EDM.
Trippy semi-coincidence. I just called that one up on YouTube yesterday as I hadn’t heard it in awhile. It’s an absolute brilliant piece of music and I’d even arguer that Donna Summer herself was the less important part of it (though still necessary to the whole).
Someone asked for bad disco? I gotcha covered right here!
Also comes with a founding nomination for the worst band name of the 70s: Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
I mean… when Cris from the Southside tells me on our first that salsa music makes her feel very sexy, and then 2 days later she calls me up and says ‘my brothers salsa band has a gig at The Lonely Cowgirl, want to come with me’… I’m supposed to say ‘no’? Even if I don’t like salsa?
I mean… look at her! She’s smart! She’s beautiful! The music makes her engine go!! Why would I care if the music which makes her horny is music I don’t care for? I mean… damn, she wants to share her ‘gets me horny’ music … with me! I’ll even go to an AC/DC concert under those conditions. 
Fuck, conversely, how many women am I going to have to date before I find the lass who swoons over Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C-minor like I do?
On the other hand, people who were into disco dance moves and loved sporting fashions* like drastically open-necked tops to display their dangling coke spoon jewelry, flared-leg pants and platform shoes apparently had a whale of a time, though present-day nostalgia seem rather muted.
*whether or not they had the bodies to get away with it, usually not.
**ELO’s Last Train To London which I heard a snatch of today, is classified by Wikipedia as disco and progressive rock. I vote disco.
I was the first in this thread to nominate *Silly Love Songs- and…CONGRATULATIONS!!! In the 22 years I’ve been posting to this board, you are the FIRST person to ever change my mind. Well done!
Hehehe, there was a girl I’d been dating for a few weeks in college, and I happened upon her Jimmy Buffett tape. I kind of chucked and said something like “You like Jimmy Buffett? How cute, I can’t stand him.” She literally responded with “Well, it’s always fucking something, now isn’t it?”
That relationship didn’t last much longer. I’d crossed the line.
You should have given her more latitude then there wouldn’t been a change of attitude.
:flees:
Thank you for reminding me that it was for the best of all involved.
Ok, I got one…
This may be from 1969, but it was a massive hit in the JohnT household during the first half of the 70s, especially when the Boston Pops did a version which also became a minor hit.
This is a bad song. It’s also a good song. It’s also a very interesting song, one of the earliest fully-electronic pop songs to hit the Billboard charts, a near decade before the Human League, and an extremely early precursor to EDM.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you:
‘Popcorn’, by Hot Butter
That first YouTube comment kills: ‘I went my whole life thinking I couldn’t dance, and then I found this. My people!’
Thank you! I even forgot to add this point:
- The lyrics themselves are written as a direct response to John. ‘You’d think the people would have had enough of silly love songs…’, etc. So… when Paul sings ‘I Love You’ in SLS… he is singing ‘I Love You’ to John Lennon.
In other words, Silly Love Songs is a love song by Paul, to John, where Paul tells Lennon ‘I love you, but fuck you, John!’
Just a Masters level education in properly directing your anger towards your art.
Someone once said ‘Steven Spielberg didn’t become Steven Spielberg just because he was a good director.’ Same goes for McCartney: the guy was a workhorse who was also a genius at navigating the industry and moving the wheels of power when needed.
Muppets improve everything.
Oh gosh. I was in middle school when this was popular, and my art teacher loved this song. She played it incessantly during art class. She was also the coach of our school’s girls’ dance ensemble, and they did a routine to it at one of our assemblies. I grew sick of the song, having heard it so often.
It’s not a bad composition, and I can listen to it now; but back then, if it came on the radio, it was time for the radio to be turned off.
Bring in another couple, and they could square dance.
Allemande left!
Heheheh, that is one of the songs that I really do treasure from my youth. Though, I wondered why every time I seemed to hear it, it sounded different. I assumed that was from the variability of the playback over the years and I was remembering things poorly. Nope, there’s at least 13 versions of it. I probably was just hearing rotating versions of the first three.
This thread is hilarious! So many awful songs. A journey through time. And also some songs that I really like.
‘Cause lovin’ you has made my life so beautiful
And every day of my life is filled with lovin’ you
Lovin’ you, I see your soul come shinin’ through
And every time that we-, oh, I’m more in love with you
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Dodn-dodn-do-do, a-a-a-a-a-oh
What about the ultimate masturbation song…
Imaginary lovers
*Never turn you down *
*When all the others turn you away *
They’re around
It’s my private pleasure
*Midnight fantasy *
*Someone to share my *
Wildest dreams with me
Imaginary lover you’re mine anytime
Imaginary lovers, oh yeah
When it’s good for you, babe
And you’re feelin’ alright
Well, you just roll over and turn out the light