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Post by giannirubino on Dec 1, 2018 20:00:45 GMT -5
chrislc, thanks for the laugh.
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Post by johnnywest on Nov 27, 2019 14:59:45 GMT -5
I Live By The Groove - Paul Carrack
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 17, 2020 21:55:38 GMT -5
“Dial My Heart” is really cheesy and “Shake For the Sheik” is just lame.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Feb 18, 2020 9:52:06 GMT -5
From the Shadow Stevens era, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies may get some votes. I love that song but I was always a little embarrassed to say the title. A similar example of a "How is that actually pronounced?" song title is from early 1964: Major Lance's "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" Nobody who has ever heard this song would pronounce the title phonetically; he would pronounce it like the Crash Test Dummies song (but with six Mmm's instead of four). When I did the Cash Box Countdowns from 1964 with that Major Lance song, I usually called it 'The Um Song'. I wonder what DJ's did back in the '60's?
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Post by at40nut on Feb 18, 2020 10:40:13 GMT -5
The worst song title ever came to us in the world of Country music back in 1999 with Kenny Chesney's #11 Hot Country hit "She Thinks My Tractors' Sexy". That is possibility the dumbest song title in any genre of music IMO
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 18, 2020 11:19:30 GMT -5
Brevity is the soul of wit, yes? Words to live by!
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 18, 2020 11:24:26 GMT -5
"Make Love Like A Man" by Def Leppard sounds pretty pretentious to me. "Make Love Like a Man" never made Shadoe AT40 in the Billboard Radio Monitor chart source era. The title still sucks.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 18, 2020 12:08:40 GMT -5
"Make Love Like a Man" never made Shadoe AT40 in the Billboard Radio Monitor chart source era. The title still sucks. Brings to mind the song title that would hit the 40 the week after this week's 1976 show, BTIO's last top 40 single, "Take It Like a Man". No snickering over that one, I'm sure...
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Post by at40nut on Feb 19, 2020 4:30:23 GMT -5
"Make Love Like a Man" never made Shadoe AT40 in the Billboard Radio Monitor chart source era. The title still sucks. So does the album from which it came from-Adrenilize. Man, I remember the disappointment that I felt listening to that after waiting 4 and a half years since Hysteria. It sounded more like a Bryan Adams album than a moderately hard rock album. (Mutt Lange produced both) They recorded that album as a quartet due to the untimely death of guitarist Steve Clark who I felt was the one that was the glue that kept their heavier sound together. Vivian Campbell joined the band shortly after the release of Adrenalinze. I guess I had a "religious experience " when listening to Nirvana's "Nevermind" at that time, so I guess that's part of my criticism of that album . 1992 was the year where my listening taste changed drastically than any other year that I can remember.
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Post by albe on Feb 22, 2020 7:01:13 GMT -5
Maybe it was a continuation from the sentiments expressed in "Waiting for a girl like you" but "I want to know what love is" by Foreigner was just a sloppy and needy title. Despite all the success of the song...."IWTKWLI"..."Waiting" should have hit #1 instead.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 22, 2020 11:31:10 GMT -5
Maybe it was a continuation from the sentiments expressed in "Waiting for a girl like you" but "I want to know what love is" by Foreigner was just a sloppy and needy title. Despite all the success of the song...."IWTKWLI"..."Waiting" should have hit #1 instead. I like both songs, and "Waiting" was definitely worth #1. (Although it did hit #1 on R&R.) It's unfortunate that the timing of "Waiting"'s peak ran up against a couple of really strong songs.
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Post by caseyfan100 on Feb 22, 2020 12:05:23 GMT -5
A similar example of a "How is that actually pronounced?" song title is from early 1964: Major Lance's "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" Nobody who has ever heard this song would pronounce the title phonetically; he would pronounce it like the Crash Test Dummies song (but with six Mmm's instead of four). When I did the Cash Box Countdowns from 1964 with that Major Lance song, I usually called it 'The Um Song'. I wonder what DJ's did back in the '60's? When Johnny Rivers covered the song the title was Curious Mind with the Um's in ()'s as in (Um,Um,UM,etc). Rivers peaked at #41 with his version.
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Post by bobbyglovescasey on Feb 25, 2020 23:04:50 GMT -5
The worst song title ever came to us in the world of Country music back in 1999 with Kenny Chesney's #11 Hot Country hit "She Thinks My Tractors' Sexy". That is possibility the dumbest song title in any genre of music IMO I think Tracy Byrd's "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" is so much worse. As for the main topic, I nominate "Sussudio."
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Post by laura on Feb 25, 2020 23:34:52 GMT -5
The worst song title ever came to us in the world of Country music back in 1999 with Kenny Chesney's #11 Hot Country hit "She Thinks My Tractors' Sexy". That is possibility the dumbest song title in any genre of music IMO I think Tracy Byrd's "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" is so much worse. As for the main topic, I nominate "Sussudio." Actually it was Trace Adkins who did that song. I really can't think of any titles myself at the moment, but some of the ones on here already are just cringe-worthy.
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Post by johnnywest on Mar 3, 2020 9:34:47 GMT -5
Though it's goofy, "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" by the Rolling Stones could be in the running for this honor. Since you're nominating that tune, I'll nominate "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" by The Police... There was another Top 40 title from 1958 with a similarly bad title (and artist name): "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts.
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