Really Shitty Songs that you Love

Hey Mickey! I know it's so lame, but I was a little kid in the 80s and loved that song. Now when I hear it, it's a little upper to my day.

Not to mention what a horrible dykey hair style Aretha is sporting in that video.

R1, I almost forgot about that one. Toni will always have my respect for choreographing Once in A Lifetime.

R2, right? But she looks far better here than she did anytime after the 90s.

This song by The Real McCoy. I think this whole album was actually supposed to have alien themes or something?! Strange.

I used to like "Freeway of Love" until someone told me that the pink Cadillac Aretha was singing about was code for her vagina.

The really shitty song that I like listening to is "Down Under" by "Men At Work".

This. I often call a coworker who thinks this song is the nuts at odd hours and, using my best robot voice, say nothing but "I Am Your Automatic Lover" and hang up the phone.

[quote] I used to like "Freeway of Love" until someone told me that the pink Cadillac Aretha was singing about was code for her vagina.

That's one long freeway then.

So catchy

This Numa Numa jam by Ozone.

[quote]I used to like "Freeway of Love" until someone told me that the pink Cadillac Aretha was singing about was code for her vagina.

So roomy.

Freeway of Love is a great song with a super sax bit from Clarence Clemons. Aretha used to love when DJs made comments about her boobs, i.e. look at those headlights, or nice hubcaps Aretha or honk, honk.

Walking on Sunshine.

Remember this song? I hated it but the rest of the nation loved it. It was played on the radio for YEARS and dominated the mid 90s. I can't imagine any song from today being as ubiquitous.

R12 MOTHER OF GOD - I ABSOLUTELY HATE THAT FUCKING SONG!

I loved Freeway of Love and that whole album.

Aretha had been lost and off the charts for years and that brought her back - and did so GLORIOUSLY.

Freeway of Love, Another Night, Who's Zooming Who, Sisters are doing it for themselves. It was Aretha's top selling album ever. Commercial? Hell, yeah and we loved it.

Terry Jacks, “Seasons in the Sun”

Freaks Come out at Night. I'm a sucker for anything with robot voice and laser "pyew pyew" sounds.

Honorable mention to Klymaxx's Meeting in the Ladies Room.

Shame Shame Shame

I can’t believe I’m admitting this...Party in the USA.

Jesus it would take too long to list them all. I’ll just add this: I unironically love Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega

OP, Freeway of Love is a great song! Martha Wash and Sylvester are singing backup and Clarence Clemons came off tour with Bruce Springsteen to play sax on the recording. This song is the reason 100 pink Cadillacs were in Aretha's funeral procession.

MMMBop

Back during my cocktail waitressing days there was a middle aged gal in tight spandex pants and high heels who would come in during happy hour several days a week and request Caribbean Queen and she would shimmy and boogie all around the buffet tables ala Patsy Stone - her head thrown back with her face in the light and suggestively running her hands up and down her thighs - meanwhile customers would avoid her as they were piling their plates with pasta salad and mini quiches avoiding making contact with her- it was awful, mezmorizing, funny and fabulous - to this day the first few notes of that song make me think of this lady.... My guilty pleasure crummy song was Billy Ocean's other song - "Get outta my dreams, Get into my car!" - I don't know how to link it - just thinking about those songs makes me feel 2 0 years young and 10 pounds thinner!

Freeway of Love and Freaks Come Out at Night are great songs. WTF? Freeway of Love is one of Aretha's best '80s songs and Freaks Come Out at Night by Whodini is a hip hop classic.

And MMMBop is a fantastic pop song.

Some of these choices are bizarre.

R24, let's hear it for the father of hypnosis: Dr. Franz Mezmor!

All songs by Poison.

Darude -Sandstorm

r25 Indeed, Aretha's "Tunnel of Love" is a great song, and Who's Zoomin' Who? is my favorite of her albums. But MMMBop sucked CHHHchunks.

This one

Freeway of Love is a masterpiece you heathens

Also, this one. Actually, I don’t think this is a bad song but I know a lot of people hate it

[quote]Dr. Franz Mezmor!

That's Mesmer, Lieber Dummkopf. Franz Anton Mesmer.

Cher: Half Breed

This song is cheesy but I love it!

I agree MMMBop is a great pop song R25 but I only mentioned it because it wasn't a song you admitted you liked if you were over 15.

Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro

. . .

Came runnin in, All excited, Slipped and almost hurt herself

And I laughed til I cried

She was always young at heart, Kinda dumb and kinda smart

One day while I was not at home, While she was there and all alone

The angels came

Now all I have is memories of Honey, and I wake up nights and call her name

Now my life's an empty stage, Where Honey lived and Honey played and love grew up

And a small cloud passes overhead and cries down on the flower bed

That Honey loved

Shake It Off by Taylor Swift

Surely the song that sums up 2020 to date? x

Freeway of Love isn't even that bad. Not that its that great either, but hardly "really shitty."

r33 Try reading R24 more closely before you comment on R26.

The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace.

[quote]This song is the reason 100 pink Cadillacs were in Aretha's funeral procession.

And here I though it was a bunch of Mary Kay ladies who got lost on the way to their convention.

R41 Obviously, you are correct, but someone needs to tell r24 about paragraphs.

Even the Nights are Better by Air Supply.

The thrill remains several decades later

Paula Cole was fucking terrible. In the late 90s, there were so many bad Lilith fair-type burnouts. She was probably the worst of them. And this is her worst song.

r47 Still would much rather listen to that than anything by Fiona Apple, who is fucking unlistenable in the most boring, tedious way.

Thank you [R6]! I didn't know that song existed! Rarely do you find song that is so thoroughly terrible in every possible way. Absolutely hilarious. I had to Google it to make sure it wasn't a comedy bit

I love the Monster Mash. Even when it's not Halloween.

Three come to mind:

1)" Troglodyte" by the Jimmy Castor Bunch. Words can't even describe this song.

2) "Julie, Do Ya Love Me" by Bobby Sherman. Cheesy as hell, but I defy you not to sing along with it.

3) "Get Dancin'" by Disco-Tex and the Sex-o-lettes. THE gayest song ever recorded.

The Year of the Cat

"I Love It" by Icona Pop

“Pop Muzik” by M . I was shocked to learn it went to number one in the us in the fall of 1979.

Adam Lambert's Whataya Want From Me

God help me

[quote] 2) "Julie, Do Ya Love Me" by Bobby Sherman. Cheesy as hell, but I defy you not to sing along with it.

And children I write you every day!

R48, I disagree, I think Fiona actually knows what melodies and harmonies are. Unlike Paula.

Love a bit of Phil. x

Buffalo Gals

Jesus, r59, give it a rest.

r57 Her new stupid pots and pans, dog barking, piano album is fucking terrible.

DON'T! EVEN!

I can’t explain it, and my friends (rightfully) give me a hard time about it.

Also, it has to be the “country” version.

I turn this up real loud whenever I hear it and then feel really guilty about it afterwards

Katy Perry is disallowed in my ears EXCEPT for Dark Horse. There's something about this song when you have a crush.

^^Even the video is terrible. No shame.

R65, my friend who hates Katy Perry loves Dark Horse too. It's her biggest song for a reason, I guess.

Lovefool - The Cardigans.

I feel like a teenager again when this comes on the radio

Santa Maria!

Kokomo

Just couldn't stand it.

R70 God, I hated the song and the video. John Stamos at his stupidest.

That "Automatic Lover" song though--puts the shit in shitty.

Love on the Rocks.

I love "Surfin' Bird" deeply and unironically. It's barely even music.

Does Def Leppard's "Photograph" count as shitty? I love it either way.

I even love the tacky video.

R73, I love the original AND the Ramones cover.

I find this cheesy, but completely irresistible.

"I Eat Cannibal" will always be my fave.

Just give me Money!

DANCING ON A CEILING

^^^^OOOPS wrong link^^^^^

I intend to win this thread with “You Light Up My Life” by Debby Boone. I dunno, I think it’s pretty.

No, no nu-uh.

Please don't hate me, but this one always makes me burst out laughing.

The music is good but the lyrics are atrocious, just horrible.

[quote] The music is good but the lyrics are atrocious, just horrible.

LOL nice try. No, they are not. Like a Prayer is by no definition a shitty song.

“When I’m With You” by Sheriff. An 8-year-old could have written the lyrics, but I have always thought it’s a pretty song.

TIptoe

“In My House” by the Mary Jane Girls, Rick James’ backup singers.

Rick James reminds me of all the shitty frat party songs of the early 80s. I was such a London/NY dance club snob but I loved all that shitty frat music when I was actually at frat parties.

All I want is a little reaction!

Aretha rocked!!! I loved her cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash.

That's producer Narada Michael Waldon on drums in the video.

R90 great production on that song.

Da da da!!!!!

R20 made me laugh. I had Party in the USA on my running playlist for a while, along with similarly catchy songs. A friend who is a middle-school teacher was looking at the list on my phone and said I had the musical taste of an eleven-year-old girl. I am male and 63.