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Post by Josh Joel's Top 40 on Mar 12, 2011 19:17:36 GMT -5
OK! Listen up, all you AT40 fans out there. I've read a hand full of complaints or should I say "negative" comments about the songs on AT40 especially in the chart critique thread. Well, I've decided to start a thread on what's called your "hate" or the word that rhymes with "hitlist" aka "The Most Awesomely Bad AT40 Songs Ever" and why. Please tell us what you strongly dislike about the song with an open mind and why you believe it is a "bad" song. Perhaps we could toll this up and count 'em down. Let's see what ya think!
Billy Vera & The Beaters - At This Moment-
This song missed the top 40 the first time around and then got a second chance. Second chance to..perhaps torture us? This guy sounds like his life just over and he'll d just about anything to get his honey back even it if means "subtracting 20 years". That's pretty bad!
Kelly Osbourne - Papa Don't Preach
I'd rather hear her father sing this than her. She butcher a good good song. The production with the drums and guirtars seem senseless for a cover song like this one and she doesn't perform this as if this was "her" baby.
Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun - Yep, this song had it's season alright and then after that it's been long forgotten..by DJs anyway. Don't you dare play this at any function, you'll bring down the house, and I do mean "down"!
That's it for now, I'll definitely have more!
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 12, 2011 20:00:54 GMT -5
When did Kelly Osbourne hit with that song? I have never heard of it....her version that is. Terry Jacks offered that song to several people to sing and they all turned him down. A lot of people cannot be surprised by that.
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 12, 2011 21:20:36 GMT -5
When did Kelly Osbourne hit with that song? I have never heard of it....her version that is.. It was released in 2002...I didn't like it either. I thought maybe this list included AT 40 songs from the 70s and 80s...is there a limit on dates? For me personally, off the top of my head: ANY Freddy Fender song - didn't think he could sing well at all "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whitaker - how the heck did this song ever make the countdown...ugh
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Post by bigal on Mar 12, 2011 22:03:39 GMT -5
DOA by Bloodrock, the song is well produced and all, but it is just the most "wrong" song to ever hit the top40! Especially on a chart that had songs by Carpenters, Andy Williams and Perry Como.
I dont mind LAST FAREWELL, Bobby Vinton's EV'RY DAY OF MY LIFE is more out of place, as is his BEER BARREL POLKA, which too is just wacked.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Mar 12, 2011 22:06:28 GMT -5
DOA by Bloodrock, the song is well produced and all, but it is just the most "wrong" song to ever hit the top40! Especially on a chart that had songs by Carpenters, Andy Williams and Perry Como. I dont mind LAST FAREWELL, Bobby Vinton's EV'RY DAY OF MY LIFE is more out of place, as is his BEER BARREL POLKA, which too is just wacked. "My Melody Of Love" anyone?
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Post by bigal on Mar 13, 2011 0:05:22 GMT -5
well at least MY MELODY OF LOVE sounds like a pop tune from that year, despite the Polish lyrics, EV'RY DAY OF MY LIFE and BEER BARREL POLKA was really out of place!
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Post by bigal on Mar 13, 2011 6:58:58 GMT -5
also two "Lounge tunes" that are so obscure, and also so out of place in the top 40 even for 1070, as they are those muzak tunes that used to play on elevators! Anyone remember 1900 YESTERDAY by Liz Damon or LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOUR SORRY by some muzak studio band?
Or awful novelty tunes that werent funny then, and it is just bad now? Like Henhouse five plus one's IN THE MOOD, or that disco version of I LOVE LUCY called DISCO LUCY?
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Post by snarfdude on Mar 13, 2011 7:04:23 GMT -5
Shannon-Henry Gross.
The beautiful music radio format took a spike in music in the late 60s early 70s which is probably why perry como and roger whittaker turned up in the top 40. Both were very strong songs, and it's before consultant blanded down radio with tighter formats that happened in the 80s.
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Mar 13, 2011 15:05:00 GMT -5
Personally, I can't stand the song "Cat's In The Cradle". The lyrics are rather sappy, unreal and fake sounding (you will hardly ever hear a father or a son talk like that). I do like Harry Chapin's song "Sequel" which shows his talents much better than "Cat's in the Cradle".
However, there must be a lot of people who did like the song when it charted (it went to #1 at the end of 1974 while the year end show for that year was being broadcast)--I was 14 at the time and everytime I hear the beginning of "Cat's in the Cradle" I will quickly change the channel.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Mar 13, 2011 15:37:55 GMT -5
See, I kind of like the weird novelty type songs like Disco Lucy and Henhouse Five's In The Mood.
I also hated Freddy Fender. I was appalled one week when I heard a countdown with that Before The Last Teardrop Falls song in at NUMBER ONE no less. I don't know who he paid off or maybe he bought every copy?
I also don't care for At This Moment.
I always hated The Girl Is Mine. For 2 legends, that was awful! Say Say Say and even The Man (From Pauls Album Pipes Of Peace) were MILES better!
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Post by bigal on Mar 13, 2011 17:04:35 GMT -5
Forgot to mention THINK IT OVER, a almost musically challenged song sung by Cheyl ladd that suprisingly hit the charts (I was stunned when I heard the song back in 1978 on a AT40 show when I was in school, none of the local stations ever played it).
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Post by caseyfan100 on Mar 13, 2011 19:08:43 GMT -5
I'll give you another heard it on AT40 and not on local stations. "Let It Whip" by the Dazz Band hit the top 10 before stations in my area played it,being in the midwest may have had something to do with that. Also remember in the 70's many middle of the road music stations were actually reporting to Billboard and so those type of songs would hit the 40 to say 20 positions on the Hot 100.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 13, 2011 19:17:43 GMT -5
I did an internship at my local top 40 station back in 1981 and found out not only that they did not play "Let's Groove" but why. They showed me the publication that determined their playlist. It was not Billboard but Radio & Records. And as I recall, that record was only at #13 on their pop chart. Whereas it was #3 for several weeks behind monster hits by Foreigner and ON-J. And they told me it had to be in the top 10 for them to play the song. I nearly fainted on the floor. It should be noted that they dropped AT40 some 6 months later. The station that picked up AT40 at that point had been playing that song. "Every Little She Does is Magic" from that same time frame had the same story, also peaked at #3. Go figure.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Mar 13, 2011 20:36:55 GMT -5
Forgot to mention THINK IT OVER, a almost musically challenged song sung by Cheyl ladd that suprisingly hit the charts (I was stunned when I heard the song back in 1978 on a AT40 show when I was in school, none of the local stations ever played it). Cheryl Ladd did not chart on Radio & Records so it was most likely her fame from "Charlie's Angels" that led to a sizable portion of sales enough for her to hit the Top 40.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 13, 2011 20:40:53 GMT -5
FYI, the 2 songs I mentioned, "Let's Groove" and "Every Little Thing.." plus the other post song "Let it Whip" are definitely NOT bad songs in my opinion.
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