There will be no burning of the Atlanta Rhythm Section in this thread, please. The city has suffered enough.
~Doraville… touch of country in the city… Doraville… it’s not much but it’s home. ~
Like, literally. Lived there when the song was big (at least in Atlanta), also lived in Snellville and Loganville as well. Lawrenceville, too.
When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone
Stay with me, lay with me
Holding me, loving me, baby
And if you’re wondering what this song is leading to
I want to make it with you
I’d just like to share that YouTube has recently kind of given up on me and started showing me Spanish language Taco Bell commercials. I don’t speak/understand Spanish very well, and I haven’t eaten Taco Bell in many years. I’d like to believe it’s doing that due to my viewing in this thread in conjunction with my regular viewing habits. Sadly, it’s closer to my condition than the advertisements for custom business jet interiors and concealed carry holsters I was getting before. They’re homing in on me.
Even without gratuitous T&A closeups of Swedish Chef?
you know first-time I’d ever heard that name Elvis Costello name-dropped them on his anti desert storm song "invasion hit parade " in 91/92 …i thought he just made them up …until someone else heard the song and laughed saying wow someone remembered them …he just said they were some “disco novelty trash” back in the 70s
Captain Jack (Billy Joel) is also a contender.
And “Turning Japanese” is interpreted that way by some: I’ve heard it was so-called because of the faces made at climax.
As a “worst” song I’ll add “Hot Child in the City,” which I always thought was lame but also turns out to be about child prostitution.
Despite the song’s innocent and catchy pop stylings, the tune is based on Gilder’s experiences witnessing child prostitution. “I’ve seen a lot of young girls, 15 and 16, walking down Hollywood Boulevard with their pimps. Their home environment drove them to distraction so they ran away, only to be trapped by something even worse. It hurts to see that so I tried writing from the perspective of a lecher – in the guise of an innocent pop song.”[5]
“Undercover Angel,” by Alan O’Day
Trust me, you don’t want to go there.
What about this tripe…
Every single brass band played this ad nauseum.
Such an awesome song. Groundbreaking?
Groundbreaking:
Also:
Can’t remember if I’ve contributed to this thread yet, so don’t know if these had been presented For Your Consideration:
A super shitty Canadian band called Prism put out a couple ‘radio hits’ that are toss-ups for The Ultra-Shittiest:
featuring one of my favourite alltime sets of lyrics:
or
Armageddon, carry me home
huh?
Captain Jack is about heroin, isn’t it? I don’t think whacking off kept anyone from going back to school. 
I think the father being found dead meant he would have to stay home and be the man of the house…he couldn’t go back to college and do that. I mean, “New English clothes” says to me he’s older than high school.
Googling around, it seems you’re right, though. Billy said it’s about drugs in general, though he witnessed heroin deals. I’d always heard the other (masturbation) and artists often put multiple meanings in…but apparently the man himself said it was about drugs during an interview.
The article is dated 2011, but my erroneous impression predates that by decades…
I’ve always loved “Spaceship Superstar.” They had another great-to-me-anyway semi-hit called “Take Me To The Kaptin.”
However, they also had a song that got some airplay called “Open Soul Surgery” that you probably don’t want to hear, because it truly is awful.
Foghat’s “Stone Blue” hasn’t, for me anyway, stood up to the test of time.
While searching for that, I also found this, which also suffered from massive overplaying.
This song was also played to death, especially at my old job, where one of the technicians had it in heavy rotation on her iPod. The same woman had to get a talking-to about her body cream, that smelled like chocolate chip cookies. That gets a bit nauseating after 8 hours.
Same here. Prism is a great band–I’ve seem them about a half-dozen times, and the show has been fun every time. Even had a beer with their lead singer after the show once; we had a great conversation about their music.
One of my favourites of theirs–“See Forever Eyes”:
“Flyin’” is another great Prism song. I used to hear it late at night when the AOR station played what we would now call Deep Tracks, and I never knew who did it or what it was called until I found a Prism Greatest Hits CD and realized about 10 seconds in what it was.
Yeah, I know it’s about a groupie. Oh, well.