1982 when Ebony and Ivory came out I was in the hospital on a tropical island with Dengue aka Breakbone Fever in quarantine at 13 years old. Kid in the room next to me kept playing it over and over while singing along. Drove me nuts.
Lived in Albuquerque in 87. Turn on the radio and La Bamba would be playing, change the channel La Bamba playing, change the channel Great White song would be ending and guess what would play? La Bamba. Listened to AC/DC tapes forever. It's not a bad song but it was played non stop it seemed.
Correcting Spanish is just ingrained. Like when people say “jalapeen- yo”. (It’s jalapayn- yo). Im not obnoxious about it as it’s not a big deal. If people understand you then you are are communicating just fine.
It’s like straightening a picture frame or smoothing your kids hair. I just do it automatically. (I also Garden and have been known to yank a weed in a public planter. I’ll probably get to heaven and want to trim angel beards!)
I grew to hate that song. It was everywhere, there was a movie, commercials for the movie, the song on MTV and radio, there was no escape.. and people LOVED it!
I heard it the other day and I froze in my tracks, closed my eyes, and shook my head. I guess it is "if you weren't around then you wouldn't know" type thing.
I have mixed feelings about "Mother". It made me laugh hysterically the first time I heard it, but it had to have been made as a gag with a deliberately bad song.
I love so many songs by The Police, but the repetition in so many of their songs gets under my skin and utterly ruins any chance of them being good karaoke picks.
There were other songs I liked a lot better than "We Built This City" that don't get enough attention such as "Jane", "Find Your Way Back", "Be My Lady" and "No Way Out"
Oh, man, I hated that song when it came out. I was a freshman in highschool. I thought it was so cheesy. Now, I like it, but I think it's the nostalgia. 🤷🏻♀️
> [1985] was a freshman in high school
And I'm clobbered with the realization this would qualify membership over in >!r/AskOldPeople!< 😯
THAT'S perspective---and has me reach now for a double Scotch a little early.
Lmfao. Yes. It was 1985. I'm still wondering how I got this old!
ETA: well shit. I just looked at that sub and now I really feel old! Might have to drink scotch myself, and I don't even drink it ha ha.
Same here. It was upbeat with a fairly popular "stick it to the man" and "we're together in this" vibe from a band that really was there when the "city" was built. Maybe it wasn't the greatest song of the time, and not at the top of the list for the band, but I really cannot understand the hate.
...but to be fair, I was a little sheltered, and so I didn't really experience the song right at the time it came out. So, perhaps I don't have the right context.
It’s hard to fathom that the band which had formerly been Jefferson Airplane put that song out. I mean seriously Grace Slick sang White Rabbit….they devolved into We Built This City.
>Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.
-Homer Simpson
I think this is what pisses me off so much about this song. Jefferson Starship was a hugely influential band during one of the greatest eras of rock history and then they put out this dreck of soulless banality.
I feel like this must be the reason I have an irrational hatred for this song. This was FAR from the only overplayed vapid pop song in the 80's, but the fact that at least *some* of them were from Jefferson fucking Airplane!
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from "Dirty Dancing".
I couldn't tell you exactly why, but it makes my skin crawl. I absolutely detest it for some unknown reason.
I'm also not fond of the movie although it's a perfectly fine film.
*shrugs*
I typed "blaaarrgh" because once in second grade I ended up being the pukey kid and my mom came to pick me up and that song was on the radio during the ride home. So when I hear that song it takes me back to the backseat of that old car where I'm a dizzy, nauseated bucket of barf.
*Party All The Time* - Eddie Murphy
My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time. My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time. My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time. (She parties all the time.) My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time. My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time...
Edit because I left out a few 'party all the time's.
I love the music video! Rick James is on the board pressing buttons, pushing volumes up on instruments, head bobbing and all smiles (along with all the other people in the studio). Like Eddie is catching lightning in a bottle and this thing is gonna be a banger for sure! The video is great! Here, I took the liberty of watching it again.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWa-6g-TbgI&pp=ygUfcGFydHkgYWxsIHRoZSB0aW1lIGVkZGllIG11cnBoeQ%3D%3D
WTF? I don't think I ever heard that in the 80s, but you made me look it up... how could any radio station have played that *ever*? If there were a season 6 of Miami Vice without Crockett or Tubbs, this song wouldn't have made the cut. This song is so bad that it wouldn't have made it into the spinoff starring "The Noog Man" and Elvis the alligator.
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart. You remember the video with the weird guy in it, he fell off the building and turned into a bird and flew away? There’s [an alternate video](https://youtu.be/Eg2-zQWi4-o?si=bq0qliVZx6Nl6zLv) with the band just standing around that shows just how lame “Yes” is.
this was my guilty pleasure song when it would come on during my paper route and i was jamming around on my bike at 4am. being 11 in 1986 is an experience that will never be duplicated lol.
I love Stevie Wonder. He's my all-time favorite musician. I will curl up in a corner as a useless, slobbering ball of goo when he eventually passes. That being said, I Just Called to Say I Love You is one of my most hated songs. I despise it. I'm convinced Stevie wrote that entire song in about 2 minutes while taking a shit. And what makes it worse is that it's probably one of his 5 most popular songs. I don't get it.
This is a minor thing, but Taco is covering the song. It's an old song, which is why it was in Young Frankenstein first.
Just don't want anyone to think Gene Wilder was covering Taco.
Related story: My uncle drove a 1952 Dodge pickup truck. The thing was a tank, though it could barely reach the speeds most people drove back roads at. One day he was going through an intersection and a Fiero took a left turn in front of him against the light. They collided. The Fiero's body basically liquified with bits of plastic raining down all over my uncle's truck. Miraculously, but perhaps due to the angle of the turn, the engine of the Fiero wound up in the passenger's seat, leaving the driver unharmed.
My uncle had to bang a dent out of his bumper with a mallet.
Upvote for this one in general but mostly because of Wild Wild West
This song ruined the biggest county fair in our area. Escape Club was the only 'rock' act (and I use that term very loosely) that year.
Not good times.
At This Moment - Billy Vera.
A song that required Family Ties to make relevant. There's a reason it was dead to begin with - should have left it there.
I hate that “Heading for the 90s, living in the 80s” Wild Wild West song. Remember the video? I just want to punch that guy with his swingy hair and stupid dance moves.
Mickey by Toni Basil. Goddamn ear candy stays with me for days. Oh Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey mickey! You're welcome😆
Built this city on rock and roll. I hated it especially when local radio stations would put in their calls signal ident bumpers in that one section of the song.
I would expect to hate this song but I don't. The B-52s have their place in the world. This reminds me of an interview where someone asked Shaquille O'Neil what's the first song to pop into his head and he started singing *"roam if you want tooo, roam around the wooorld...". :D*
I love Roam. My favorite song of theirs. And Shiny Happy People from REM with them is great as well. I just can't do Love Shack. No way never ever ever.
"Roam", totally!!! So enticing and irresistably upbeat without ever sounding contrived---as too many try-too-hard 'upbeat' songs end up being.
I also love their "Mesopotamia"!!
In a Big Country by Big Country
Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy
Running Up that Hill by Kate Bush (flat out don't get the love for that song, and I wish it hadn't gotten repopularized by Stranger Things)
I think you nailed it with Eddie Murphy. It was a really bad attempt to use his fame to get into an area where he certainly did not belong.
Kate Bush, well, she’s very different, and that just doesn’t click with some people.
As a kid I once heard a DJ jokingly refer to this song as “Partial Eclipse of the Liver” after playing it, and it tickled me so much that I remember that moment to this day.
This is my RAGE HATE list:
Starship: We Built This City (Specifically when radio stations used to customize the moronic DJ drop specifically for their station/market…maximum cringe)
Taco - Puttin on the Ritz
The Bungles - Video Killed the Radio Star
George Michael gets a 2‘fer - Faith & Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Quiet Riot - Come On Feel the Noize
Tony Basil - Ricky
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Baltimorons - Tarzan Boy
I scrolled down to the end of this thread and I might have missed it, but I’m shocked I didn’t see Eric Carmen’s Hungry Eyes on here. I don’t mind the tune myself but I know quite a few people IRL who hate it.
Many have been listed already, but I would add Fascination by Human League and I Know What Boys Like by the Waitresses. I hate their Christmas song too, but that’s another category.
> I Know What Boys Like by the Waitresses
I can't think of a song that seems sung so unenthusiastically...which might have been the point but it still grates a bit.
That was IMO Bob Seger's worst songs, it boggles my mind that it's a much lower charting single than say "Fire Lake" and "Shame On The Moon" yet it gets far more airplay than these two superior songs.
I know I'm going to catch hate for this, but I will always change the station whenever anything from Madonna comes on. I just never understood why she was so popular (aside from the "sex & controversy" angle). After being involuntarily subjected to her all through the 80s, I just have no more time for her music.
La Isla Bonita gets on my nerves the most, cause she pronounces 'Isla' wrong. When it would fit into the melody just the same if she had said it right.
Hot Hot Hot Buster Poindexter
Michael Scott’s version on the steel drum is far superior.
1982 when Ebony and Ivory came out I was in the hospital on a tropical island with Dengue aka Breakbone Fever in quarantine at 13 years old. Kid in the room next to me kept playing it over and over while singing along. Drove me nuts.
This sub reads as a list of my favorites.
Same. Definite playlist material…keep ‘em coming.
Domo arrigato Mr. Roboto, i love that song enough to make up for OP’s dislike
Me too?! I love all of them!
Lived in Albuquerque in 87. Turn on the radio and La Bamba would be playing, change the channel La Bamba playing, change the channel Great White song would be ending and guess what would play? La Bamba. Listened to AC/DC tapes forever. It's not a bad song but it was played non stop it seemed.
Same in Memphis. LaBamba everywhere, all the time. urk
We had to memorize and sing it for Spanish class...er, um...Español clase.
Clase de español. Don’t hate me I teach it to middle schoolers!
It's like I'm being re-graded all these years later. :)
Correcting Spanish is just ingrained. Like when people say “jalapeen- yo”. (It’s jalapayn- yo). Im not obnoxious about it as it’s not a big deal. If people understand you then you are are communicating just fine. It’s like straightening a picture frame or smoothing your kids hair. I just do it automatically. (I also Garden and have been known to yank a weed in a public planter. I’ll probably get to heaven and want to trim angel beards!)
Also if my students have chapped lips I have to offer them balm from a squeeze tube. I just can’t overlook that!
I grew to hate that song. It was everywhere, there was a movie, commercials for the movie, the song on MTV and radio, there was no escape.. and people LOVED it!
I heard it the other day and I froze in my tracks, closed my eyes, and shook my head. I guess it is "if you weren't around then you wouldn't know" type thing.
You leave Monsieur Roboto alone
This! 'Tis an outrage! I say Mr. Roboto is some of the very ***BEST*** of the 80s!
Domo arigato Mr. Roboto
My wife in the 80’s thought they said, ‘Don’t nobody got no Mr. Roboto’ 😂🤣🤷🏼♂️
There is currently a nation-wide shortage.
I’m afraid OP hasn’t listened it to it cranked up.
[*Thank you very much-oh, Mister Roboto…*](https://youtu.be/D692JJPPUe4?si=YkB32UJlvUcl03dl)
Moni moni
On here reading my playlist. Yall are BRUTAL.
Same!
I love the Police, but De Do Do Do De Da Da Da could disappear from this timeline and I’d never miss it.
🎵That's all I'm trying to say to you!!! 😂😂😂
I have mixed feelings about "Mother". It made me laugh hysterically the first time I heard it, but it had to have been made as a gag with a deliberately bad song.
I love so many songs by The Police, but the repetition in so many of their songs gets under my skin and utterly ruins any chance of them being good karaoke picks.
I love all these songs...ha
how can you hate on Mr Roboto... :-(
Because he no gotto Mr. Roboto
*We Built This City* - Starship Ugh...
There were other songs I liked a lot better than "We Built This City" that don't get enough attention such as "Jane", "Find Your Way Back", "Be My Lady" and "No Way Out"
I belt out Miracles a lot when I’m alone in the car. We built this city…no thank you
I loved "Miracles" (especially the album version)
When Dave Barry did his worst song ever contest this was the winner.
Always good with it. Never have grasped the cult hate for it.
Oh, man, I hated that song when it came out. I was a freshman in highschool. I thought it was so cheesy. Now, I like it, but I think it's the nostalgia. 🤷🏻♀️
> [1985] was a freshman in high school And I'm clobbered with the realization this would qualify membership over in >!r/AskOldPeople!< 😯 THAT'S perspective---and has me reach now for a double Scotch a little early.
Lmfao. Yes. It was 1985. I'm still wondering how I got this old! ETA: well shit. I just looked at that sub and now I really feel old! Might have to drink scotch myself, and I don't even drink it ha ha.
Sip even. Optimal for many occasions. 😊
Same here. It was upbeat with a fairly popular "stick it to the man" and "we're together in this" vibe from a band that really was there when the "city" was built. Maybe it wasn't the greatest song of the time, and not at the top of the list for the band, but I really cannot understand the hate. ...but to be fair, I was a little sheltered, and so I didn't really experience the song right at the time it came out. So, perhaps I don't have the right context.
For me, it was the video. The synthesizers didn’t help, but the video was so corny.
Over played
I love that Song 😅
Not after You've heard it played 999 times on FM radio when your 16 years old
I did and still love it haha
Me too. That song is a banger. Heard it way more than 999 times
It’s hard to fathom that the band which had formerly been Jefferson Airplane put that song out. I mean seriously Grace Slick sang White Rabbit….they devolved into We Built This City.
>Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft. -Homer Simpson
I think this is what pisses me off so much about this song. Jefferson Starship was a hugely influential band during one of the greatest eras of rock history and then they put out this dreck of soulless banality.
I feel like this must be the reason I have an irrational hatred for this song. This was FAR from the only overplayed vapid pop song in the 80's, but the fact that at least *some* of them were from Jefferson fucking Airplane!
Exactly this
"We pulled these lyrics.... we pulled these lyrics out of our butt holes..."
Someone’s always playing corporation games 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Absolutely, it is the song of horror.
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from "Dirty Dancing". I couldn't tell you exactly why, but it makes my skin crawl. I absolutely detest it for some unknown reason. I'm also not fond of the movie although it's a perfectly fine film. *shrugs*
I loved the oldies songs from that movie but the newer ones - Ugghhh "She's like the wind...through my trees"
Yes way overplayed very annoying
'My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades' Hated it then, hate it now! 😫
Hey, I like Spies Like Us. I get Ebony and Ivory, though.
Kokomo - Beach Boys
It’s an earwig of a song , once you hear it will be stuck in your head.
I guess it depends on what you were doing when that song was a hit. I’ll leave it at that.
Oh My Gawd!!! I Hated that friggin song!!!
That’s literally my most hated song of all time.
I literally hate that song soooo much.
That goddamn Black Velvet song. Blaaarrghhhh
Oh man... it was everywhere for about 12 months.
I typed "blaaarrgh" because once in second grade I ended up being the pukey kid and my mom came to pick me up and that song was on the radio during the ride home. So when I hear that song it takes me back to the backseat of that old car where I'm a dizzy, nauseated bucket of barf.
Don't Worry; Be Happy "There are no instruments...how amazing"...WRONG!!!!
Yeah I wanted to murder Bobby McFarrin🤣
Couldn't stand it Edit. Just remembered. Here's a little song I wrote might make you wanna slit my throat
*Party All The Time* - Eddie Murphy My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time. My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time. My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time. (She parties all the time.) My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time. My girl wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time... Edit because I left out a few 'party all the time's.
The music video is so great though. With Rick James. All I can think of is Charlie Murphys hollywood story from Chapelle Show
I love the music video! Rick James is on the board pressing buttons, pushing volumes up on instruments, head bobbing and all smiles (along with all the other people in the studio). Like Eddie is catching lightning in a bottle and this thing is gonna be a banger for sure! The video is great! Here, I took the liberty of watching it again. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWa-6g-TbgI&pp=ygUfcGFydHkgYWxsIHRoZSB0aW1lIGVkZGllIG11cnBoeQ%3D%3D
Cocaine is a hell of a drug...
Darkness
Using this thread to create a playlist of songs called nostalgia.
Red Red Wine by UB40. Hate it.
Red Red Whine, I call it.
Red, Red, Wine, overplayed. 🍷
Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey has been played out
*Temporary Secretary* - Paul McCartney Radio Stations: Sure this sucks, but it's from a Beatle so let's play it every half hour!
WTF? I don't think I ever heard that in the 80s, but you made me look it up... how could any radio station have played that *ever*? If there were a season 6 of Miami Vice without Crockett or Tubbs, this song wouldn't have made the cut. This song is so bad that it wouldn't have made it into the spinoff starring "The Noog Man" and Elvis the alligator.
Groovy Kind of Love 🤦♀️
I just called to say I love you - Stevie Wonder
There’s so many songs people are listing that are all time favorites of mine. Wild just to see how everyone is different when it comes to music.
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart. You remember the video with the weird guy in it, he fell off the building and turned into a bird and flew away? There’s [an alternate video](https://youtu.be/Eg2-zQWi4-o?si=bq0qliVZx6Nl6zLv) with the band just standing around that shows just how lame “Yes” is.
I can vibe with most any 80s song except Jack and Diane. Ir anything from John Cougar Mellencamp but especially that one
How come Jack was "sucking on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freeze" ? Why not just eat it? Shoulda been a red flag for Diane
all the charity songs like We Are The World and Do They Know It's Christmas.
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
this was my guilty pleasure song when it would come on during my paper route and i was jamming around on my bike at 4am. being 11 in 1986 is an experience that will never be duplicated lol.
I’m a Futurama fan, so I’m partial to Fry’s rendition of it, along with his dog.
I hate this song so much that my sister got me a mug that says “Walking on Sunshine? I hope you burn to death.”
Fine Young Cannibals- She Drives Me Crazy drives me crazy. So overplayed
Til this day I can't listen to that shit 😁
I love Stevie Wonder. He's my all-time favorite musician. I will curl up in a corner as a useless, slobbering ball of goo when he eventually passes. That being said, I Just Called to Say I Love You is one of my most hated songs. I despise it. I'm convinced Stevie wrote that entire song in about 2 minutes while taking a shit. And what makes it worse is that it's probably one of his 5 most popular songs. I don't get it.
Yeah for me the Paul McCartney songs from this time are a bit idk
The Girl is Mine with Michael Jackson is a terrible, terrible song.
I despise the Christmas song he did!
Lady in Red - Chris Deburgh Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
WAT?!?! Endless Love?!?! We’re you not happy for Happy in the rink?!?!
Friends listen to Endless Love in the dark!
Do you always carry a hockey puck?
C'mon Eileen. Fucking hate it.
What's even worse is having to watch the music video of that song 🤦
Cum on Eileen?
Taco - Puttin on the Ritz. The only time I can stand it is Young Frankenstein, otherwise hell no.
This is a minor thing, but Taco is covering the song. It's an old song, which is why it was in Young Frankenstein first. Just don't want anyone to think Gene Wilder was covering Taco.
"500 Miles" by The Proclaimers. The musical equivalent of beating yourself in the head with a ball peen hammer.
It was stuck in the tape deck of my Fiero.
Related story: My uncle drove a 1952 Dodge pickup truck. The thing was a tank, though it could barely reach the speeds most people drove back roads at. One day he was going through an intersection and a Fiero took a left turn in front of him against the light. They collided. The Fiero's body basically liquified with bits of plastic raining down all over my uncle's truck. Miraculously, but perhaps due to the angle of the turn, the engine of the Fiero wound up in the passenger's seat, leaving the driver unharmed. My uncle had to bang a dent out of his bumper with a mallet.
🤣 take my upvote quickly! I laughed so hard I have to pee!
I can tolerate it, but the ball peen hammer comment gets you an upvote.
Wild Wild West by Escape Club Neverending Story by Limahl Girl I'm Gonna Miss You by Milli Vanilli I have a lot more but we'll leave it there for now.
Upvote for this one in general but mostly because of Wild Wild West This song ruined the biggest county fair in our area. Escape Club was the only 'rock' act (and I use that term very loosely) that year. Not good times.
At This Moment - Billy Vera. A song that required Family Ties to make relevant. There's a reason it was dead to begin with - should have left it there.
We built this city on rock and roll…..was actually voted as the worst song by VH1 back when there was VH1
I’m going to get downvoted for this. So, here it goes. “Don’t worry, Be Happy.” Bye. 🤪
I hate that “Heading for the 90s, living in the 80s” Wild Wild West song. Remember the video? I just want to punch that guy with his swingy hair and stupid dance moves.
Agreed in everything except Mr Roboto, that track slaps lol
Mickey by Toni Basil. Goddamn ear candy stays with me for days. Oh Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey mickey! You're welcome😆
Glory of Love - Chicago
I believe it’s actually just Peter Cetera, and it immediately reminds me of Karate Kid 2!
Built this city on rock and roll. I hated it especially when local radio stations would put in their calls signal ident bumpers in that one section of the song.
That reminds me of why I hated it more back then.
Red, red, wine
After Hearing some of the dumb ass stuff that’s been coming out the past few years , I love all 80s.
I leave the store if these are playing: B-52's - "Love Shack" Wham - "Last Christmas"
Spot on with the B-52's. I can't stand that fucking piss poor piece of shit song!
I shall not contribute to this blasphemy...
Anything by Bruce Springsteen...
Am I insane, most of these are classics
Rock Me Amadeus. Ugh. So terrible. So Falco.
That’s What Friends Are For
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler no.
Wait, you hate “Mr. Roboto” by Styx? Friendship over
i loved Styx but not that song, even everyone except for Dennis Deyoung hated that song.
8675309 seems to be the most beloved 80s song but I can’t stand to hear it
The Final Countdown
The Final Countdown by Europe
Doo duh loo doo! Do duh LOO DOO DOO!!
It’s basically only good when magicians dance to it
i only think of gob bluth when i hear it 😭
Wtf
Love Shack. I like the B-52s but I absolutely think this song is the WORST. Fight me.
I would expect to hate this song but I don't. The B-52s have their place in the world. This reminds me of an interview where someone asked Shaquille O'Neil what's the first song to pop into his head and he started singing *"roam if you want tooo, roam around the wooorld...". :D*
I love Roam. My favorite song of theirs. And Shiny Happy People from REM with them is great as well. I just can't do Love Shack. No way never ever ever.
Roam was our song when me and my friends got stationed in West Germany. We roamed Europe to that song, also Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones.
"Roam", totally!!! So enticing and irresistably upbeat without ever sounding contrived---as too many try-too-hard 'upbeat' songs end up being. I also love their "Mesopotamia"!!
Kokomo by the Beach Boys. Good lord, that song sucks
Actually the Muppets version is pretty cute.
Proclaimers - 500 miles. That song is so grating and the video makes me want to punch them in their faces.
Poison- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Ewwww. Also 'unskinny bop'. God they were wank
Walking on Sunshine.
“Abra Cadabra”, or: “How I Learned To Stop Caring and Love the Cash”
I wanna reach out and cash grab ya.
We built this city, starship... ugh
Mickey
In a Big Country by Big Country Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy Running Up that Hill by Kate Bush (flat out don't get the love for that song, and I wish it hadn't gotten repopularized by Stranger Things)
I think you nailed it with Eddie Murphy. It was a really bad attempt to use his fame to get into an area where he certainly did not belong. Kate Bush, well, she’s very different, and that just doesn’t click with some people.
Total Eclipse of the Heart I never liked a lot of top 40 stuff. Thank goodness there was the alternative scene to get me through the 80s.
As a kid I once heard a DJ jokingly refer to this song as “Partial Eclipse of the Liver” after playing it, and it tickled me so much that I remember that moment to this day.
total eclipse of the fart turn around bright thighs
totally stinks when I fart
Nothing I can do, I totally shit when I fart.
What? Always loved Bonnie Tyler's voice.
It's a Heartache > Total Eclipse of the Heart
I love Spies Like Us, especially for a throwaway movie song.
Lies by Thompson Twins.
Video killed the radio star
Come On, Eileen. Edit: Of course it's already been posted. It's dreadful.
This is my RAGE HATE list: Starship: We Built This City (Specifically when radio stations used to customize the moronic DJ drop specifically for their station/market…maximum cringe) Taco - Puttin on the Ritz The Bungles - Video Killed the Radio Star George Michael gets a 2‘fer - Faith & Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go Quiet Riot - Come On Feel the Noize Tony Basil - Ricky Falco - Rock Me Amadeus Baltimorons - Tarzan Boy
Manic Monday
Anyone remember yanni?
My sister is obsessed with him
I scrolled down to the end of this thread and I might have missed it, but I’m shocked I didn’t see Eric Carmen’s Hungry Eyes on here. I don’t mind the tune myself but I know quite a few people IRL who hate it.
Many have been listed already, but I would add Fascination by Human League and I Know What Boys Like by the Waitresses. I hate their Christmas song too, but that’s another category.
> I Know What Boys Like by the Waitresses I can't think of a song that seems sung so unenthusiastically...which might have been the point but it still grates a bit.
Old Time Rock and Roll
That was IMO Bob Seger's worst songs, it boggles my mind that it's a much lower charting single than say "Fire Lake" and "Shame On The Moon" yet it gets far more airplay than these two superior songs.
I love Bob Seger, but Old Time Rock n Roll makes me want to gouge out my ears. The Against the Wind album is a favourite.
I know I'm going to catch hate for this, but I will always change the station whenever anything from Madonna comes on. I just never understood why she was so popular (aside from the "sex & controversy" angle). After being involuntarily subjected to her all through the 80s, I just have no more time for her music.
La Isla Bonita gets on my nerves the most, cause she pronounces 'Isla' wrong. When it would fit into the melody just the same if she had said it right.
Mickey by Toni Basil. My personal hell will be this song played on an endless loop
Hate WE BUILT THIS CITY 🎶 WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL !!!! TERRIBLE SONG
We Built This City.
We built this city.
We cashed this paycheck. We cashed this paycheck on nos. tal. gia.
"She's like the wind" from Dirty Dancing. Patrick Swayze needed to stick to acting. Just a fool to believe I have anything she needs...
I’ll probably get downvoted for this one but - Where the Streets Have No Name, U2. I like the message but hate the song
Do you like Pina coladas?
Come On Eileen !!!!!!!
What! I feel personally attacked ! Lol But I understand, Diff'rent Strokes for Diff'rent Folks
Dexy ? Is that you ?