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Post by doofus67 on Sept 4, 2018 9:45:16 GMT -5
I'll say basically the same stuff about REO Speedwagon that I said about Styx. If I never hear "Can't Fight This Feeling" again, it'll be too soon. Ugh.
Doofus
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Post by cursereversed on Sept 4, 2018 13:25:33 GMT -5
I'll say basically the same stuff about REO Speedwagon that I said about Styx. If I never hear "Can't Fight This Feeling" again, it'll be too soon. Ugh. YES!!!!! Possibly the worst #1 Hit of the 80's. I have three, one from the AT40 era, one pre-AT40 and one sort of in between. 1. Journey-love them in general, love most of "Escape", HATE "Open Arms". 2. Herman's Hermits-like most of their music but never really got into "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" or "I'm Henry VIII I Am". 3. Paul Revere and The Raiders/The Raiders-I like "Indian Reservation" and am very happy they didn't join CCR, ELO and Journey on the list of great bands that never hit #1 but it's my least favorite song of theirs.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Sept 4, 2018 14:04:15 GMT -5
I have a few from the 80s:
* John Lennon had a number of great solo singles but "(Just Like) Starting Over" is one I could never get into. 6 weeks at #1? * I love most Huey Lewis & The News songs but "Stuck With You" was one that I never could get stuck in my head... kind of a bland tune for me. * Chicago had three songs spend two weeks at #1 but because "Look Away" ended up as the #1 song of '89 while "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" and "If You Leave Me Now" did not, I consider "Look Away" as their biggest hit... and for me, it's their biggest disappointment. It's a color by numbers, boring tune for me.
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Post by matt on Sept 4, 2018 15:26:59 GMT -5
Good topic! As time goes by, Duran Duran's music keeps growing on me. But the one song of theirs I still can't stand is the #1, "The Reflex." I would tend to agree with that, but it may be a toss-up between that and "The Wild Boys" (which was an R&R #1, so those would count there". I've mentioned that I don't like "Is There Something I Should Know", but I do ever so slightly prefer it over the two above songs. It would be an OK song, if not for the annoying "Please please tell me now" part at the beginning - if the song started with the instrumental part right afterward, the song wouldn't be so bad. OK, so my tastes on this one are the opposite of both of you--I can listen to both "Is Their Something I Should Know" and "The Reflex" any day of the week--two of my favorites from those times. Although I'll admit the lyrics to "The Reflex" still make no sense to me, but I love the tune. I'll say basically the same stuff about REO Speedwagon that I said about Styx. If I never hear "Can't Fight This Feeling" again, it'll be too soon. Ugh. I'm with you on REO, except I would say that about "Keep On Loving You" as well. Clearly REO's ballads don't do it for me. There was something about the lyrics to "KOLY"..."instead you lay still in the grass all coiled up and hissin'", "though I know all about those men, but I don't remember"...so you're dating some b!tchy woman who sleeps around with lots of other dudes, but you're just going to keep on loving her? Never got that one. "Babe" by Styx is a good call here as well--Styx had some good songs, but that one is one I can definitely do without. I also agree with Journey's "Open Arms" - they had a solid catalog of top 40 hits, but "Open Arms" is so sappy and slow, and so not Journey to me. Same with Foreigner's "Waiting For a Girl Like You" - probably my least favorite of all their hits. I have a few from the 80s: * John Lennon had a number of great solo singles but "(Just Like) Starting Over" is one I could never get into. 6 weeks at #1? * I love most Huey Lewis & The News songs but "Stuck With You" was one that I never could get stuck in my head... kind of a bland tune for me. * Chicago had three songs spend two weeks at #1 but because "Look Away" ended up as the #1 song of '89 while "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" and "If You Leave Me Now" did not, I consider "Look Away" as their biggest hit... and for me, it's their biggest disappointment. It's a color by numbers, boring tune for me. And lastly--yes to each of those: all three of Lennon's hits from Double Fantasy are mediocre to awful. "Starting Over" was of course his biggest hit, and was the most tolerable. "Woman" ranks among maybe my top 5 worst songs of all time... Chicago's "Look Away" might be the epitome of this thread - a song so not worthy of being #1 (and it was the #1 for all of 1989! how on earth did that happen?!?). I've posted before, but post Peter Cetera Chicago is second rate dreck. I love several of Chicago's hits from 1969 through 1985, but after that, they should've called it quits.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 4, 2018 17:33:25 GMT -5
Some comments on the posts above:
I wasn't that into "The Reflex" when I first got into Duran Duran (which wasn't until the early to mid 90s), but now it's one of my favorites from them. When it comes to their 90s hits, though, "Ordinary World" is one of my least favorites.
Thanks for mentioning Foreigner. They're an act I would definitely add to my list, since I don't think I was ever into "I Want to Know What Love Is", but I liked most of their other hits to an extent (including "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and their two late 80s hits "Say You Will" and "I Don't Want to Live Without You").
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Post by retrodaddy on Sept 4, 2018 21:18:11 GMT -5
It's easy to pick a song from a group with only two top 40 hits, but I intensely dislike Take My Breath Away by Berlin. It's a sappy, boring soundtrack ballad which flies in the face of their new wave sound heard on their other top 40 hit, No More Words, and three great songs from Pleasure Victim which made the Hot 100.
Def Leppard's Love Bites is just painful to listen to. They released some other slow stuff in the 90s which I don't particularly like, but Love Bites is the one which truly bites, imo.
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Post by listenerwants2know on Sept 5, 2018 11:56:33 GMT -5
Limahl: My favorits are: Only for love, Love in your eyes and Inside to outside
Nu Shooz: My favorit is: Point of no return
Wham! My favorits are: Wham Rap!, Bad boys and (only from Mid December to 1/6) Last Christmas
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 6, 2018 8:57:56 GMT -5
I love Dolly Parton; I read a biography of her once; "Jolene" is awesome; "9 to 5" is even awesomer. But then...
The two million fans who bought the 45 would disagree, but I just don't get "Islands in the Stream." The lyrics make very little sense and barely rhyme. The best thing about it is that it's named for an Ernest Hemingway novel. The Brothers Gibb didn't bring their A game.
Doofus
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 6, 2018 9:20:16 GMT -5
Two words: Chuck Berry.
Doofus
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Post by woolebull on Sept 6, 2018 12:56:57 GMT -5
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 7, 2018 9:42:42 GMT -5
Jefferson Starship / Starship. It's a tossup between "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now."
Doofus
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 9, 2018 12:14:26 GMT -5
Three Dog Night. Just cannot tolerate "Joy to the World." Talk about your head scratchers. How was this song a hit at all, let alone a huge #1? The lyric writer had to have been smoking something. And don't get me started on that alternate title. This is the second most commonly misquoted title in music history, IMHO.
Doofus
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 13, 2018 0:00:22 GMT -5
I probably speak for lots of people on this board in saying that Stevie Wonder is an absolute, all-time favorite artist. To see him pass on to a better place would make me depressed for sure. Another who fits that description is Sir Paul, his duet partner on "Ebony and Ivory." What a piece of schmaltz. I get the sentiment, of course, but there are better songs that get more to the heart of the issue. "Everyday People" comes to mind.
Mike
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 13, 2018 0:19:49 GMT -5
Granted, Kool & the Gang's music never was meant to be Mozart, their lyrics never exactly Shakespeare. And that's cool, until you start talking about "CelebraTION." It's simplistic to the point of being insulting. Which is precisely why it's still so insanely popular!
In terms of modern, Rock Era music, it's saddled with, IMO, the most misquoted title of all time. A song has got to be played a lot, in a lot of different settings, to have a chance at such a distinction. In other words, it's got to get out to the masses and end up in the hands of folks who don't know squat about music.
By the way, the most mistitled tune ever? Well, it ties in very nicely with "CelebraTION." We sing it every time someone turns another year older. Though it was originally composed in 1893, to this day it's still, technically, called "Happy Birthday TO YOU."
Mike
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Post by 80sat40fan on Sept 13, 2018 20:10:29 GMT -5
I thought of another group whose biggest hit I dislike a lot... "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison. For whatever reason, I hate the inhaling and exhaling that kicks off the song... it's a contrived way of telling us, "Ooh, this one has meaning." It's just too simple or sparse of a song for me to get into. I like Poison's other Top 10 songs (and I love "Something To Believe In") but I find "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" to be almost unlistenable.
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