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marv2
06-15-2019, 07:39 AM
We talk a lot about songs we love, but what about the ones that just got on your @$%^^&& nerves and you hated them? Here are a few of mine:

Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright III


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssSIKOrSNk

marv2
06-15-2019, 07:40 AM
This one seemed to always be on MTV whenever I came in from partying all night in college LOL!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDtUzRIG6I

marv2
06-15-2019, 07:42 AM
Proof that even garbage can make it to number one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asQxeXYFYgg

marv2
06-15-2019, 07:46 AM
I loved most of The Time's records,but I hated this one.......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB0VT2OnFvM

marv2
06-15-2019, 07:48 AM
This song use to make me want to run out of the house, into the street and get hit by a bus! LOL!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-sN2Hgytg

marv2
06-15-2019, 07:50 AM
Oh, by the way, if some of these records were some of your favorites don't get mad. It's all in fun.......maybe. LOL!

Jerry Oz
06-15-2019, 01:12 PM
Marv, I hated that album by the Time. It has a few hits but without Jam & Lewis, it wasn't a Time album to me. I was alone in that opinion. I used to buy albums from unknown bands on speculation but never purchased that one from my former favorite band.

Jerry Oz
06-15-2019, 02:41 PM
The '80s had bunches of those crappy songs. This one was horrible both in English and German.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4Dcd1aUcE

Jerry Oz
06-15-2019, 02:42 PM
Also, Falco stuck ice picks in my ears with Rock Me Amadeus and Der Kommissar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA

Jerry Oz
06-15-2019, 02:44 PM
This one from the '70s was trashy for its subject matter and its composition. Hated it as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTDzFUlrDYM

Jerry Oz
06-15-2019, 02:46 PM
This is an example of "country" music. I put it in quotation marks because it's really just an audible turd that should make any fan of true country ashamed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA

Jerry Oz
06-15-2019, 02:50 PM
Here's one that I never liked. I had friends who loved it. I think because it was easy to rap, but it was to rap music what Convoy was to country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x17wHP2m6X8

marv2
06-15-2019, 02:54 PM
Marv, I hated that album by the Time. It has a few hits but without Jam & Lewis, it wasn't a Time album to me. I was alone in that opinion. I used to buy albums from unknown bands on speculation but never purchased that one from my former favorite band.

I know what you mean. It was like they were spreading their "sound" to thin and needed to do something different by that point. They put this crap out and they just sounded silly to me.

marv2
06-15-2019, 02:55 PM
The '80s had bunches of those crappy songs. This one was horrible both in English and German.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4Dcd1aUcE


Oooooow Good one! I use to hate this shitty record so bad in 1984! They played it all the time in Denver and I could not understand why.LOL!

marv2
06-15-2019, 02:56 PM
This one from the '70s was trashy for its subject matter and its composition. Hated it as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTDzFUlrDYM

You know why I hated this one [[other than the music and her voice) was this was released right after MARY WILSON had left the Supremes and I actually thought this was her record just by hearing the radio DJ announce it. Thank God I was wrong!

marv2
06-15-2019, 02:58 PM
This is an example of "country" music. I put it in quotation marks because it's really just an audible turd that should make any fan of true country ashamed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA

All I can say about this one is HAHAHAHA! I use to hear this in mornings on the radio as I was getting ready for school. I was in the 10th grade and CB radios had just gotten popular. Goes to show that anything could get on the radio under the right/wrong circumstances.

marv2
06-15-2019, 03:00 PM
Here's one that I never liked. I had friends who loved it. I think because it was easy to rap, but it was to rap music what Convoy was to country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x17wHP2m6X8

I don't remember this one at all,but it sound like any misc. R&B record from the early 80s. I can't make out everything they are saying here.

marv2
06-15-2019, 03:05 PM
I hated this song so much! I remember being on a long distance trip by car with my brother and his girlfriend and this was on the radio all time it seemed throughout the trip. I wanted jump out of the car while it was moving on the Interstate Hwy! LOL!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfVzdG2_448

marv2
06-15-2019, 06:47 PM
It's popular, but I HATE this song! LOL! "What yo' name is?"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcAq72j0AUM

TomatoTom123
06-15-2019, 09:09 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDfgMOUjCI

This one is just weird and it annoyed me that it actually became a hit.

marv2
06-15-2019, 09:49 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDfgMOUjCI

This one is just weird and it annoyed me that it actually became a hit.

I listened to this without watching the video. It is on the weird side. I cannot make out what she is saying very well.

marv2
06-15-2019, 09:53 PM
I have no words........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo

Jerry Oz
06-15-2019, 10:55 PM
Here is one that I never liked from one of the best albums I own. Just never found its way to a mix tape. Sounded much too much like pop and never should have been on the soul stations. I feel the same way about Say, Say, Say and The Girl Is Mine, but I like both of those records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6LUPlmua6I

daviddesper
06-15-2019, 11:45 PM
There are four songs that were massive hits in their day, but each one of them would make me leap bodily across the room and turn the radio off the minute they came on........American Pie, Hey Jude, MacArthur Park, and the ghastliest one of all, Minnie Riperton's Lovin' You.

Jerry Oz
06-16-2019, 01:18 AM
There are four songs that were massive hits in their day, but each one of them would make me leap bodily across the room and turn the radio off the minute they came on........American Pie, Hey Jude, MacArthur Park, and the ghastliest one of all, Minnie Riperton's Lovin' You.LOL. All of those are throwaway songs for me but I'd be lying to say I detested any of them. Loving You used to make my skin crawl, not from the production or performance but because it was the most girly song ever written.

Bluebrock
06-16-2019, 02:44 AM
You know why I hated this one [[other than the music and her voice) was this was released right after MARY WILSON had left the Supremes and I actually thought this was her record just by hearing the radio DJ announce it. Thank God I was wrong!
Had it been your beloved Mary Wilson it would have achieved something she was unable to achieve i.e. A solo hit record! However ghastly it may have been it would have earned her some money,and it would not have affected her artistic credibility in the slightest because she had none of that in the first place!

PeaceNHarmony
06-16-2019, 06:58 AM
'Red Hot'.

Circa 1824
06-16-2019, 11:21 AM
"Shake your body [[down to the ground)" Jacksons

marv2
06-16-2019, 11:50 AM
Here is one that I never liked from one of the best albums I own. Just never found its way to a mix tape. Sounded much too much like pop and never should have been on the soul stations. I feel the same way about Say, Say, Say and The Girl Is Mine, but I like both of those records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6LUPlmua6I

I know exactly what you mean. I have one to share by another big pop star at that time that just disgusted me to no end. LOL!

marv2
06-16-2019, 11:52 AM
There are four songs that were massive hits in their day, but each one of them would make me leap bodily across the room and turn the radio off the minute they came on........American Pie, Hey Jude, MacArthur Park, and the ghastliest one of all, Minnie Riperton's Lovin' You.

Oh Stuff! I was going to say "American Pie", but I did not want to get stoned to death. LOL! The longest, most aggravating song in the history of music!

marv2
06-16-2019, 11:54 AM
Had it been your beloved Mary Wilson it would have achieved something she was unable to achieve i.e. A solo hit record! However ghastly it may have been it would have earned her some money,and it would not have affected her artistic credibility in the slightest because she had none of that in the first place!

Had it been MY Mary Wilson, I would have went to a pay phone and called her and shouted...."What are you doing!" LOL!!!! "Hey lody-dody, chic a boom, chic a boom? Ugh!

marv2
06-16-2019, 11:57 AM
After I first heard this one, I said to myself. "Ok Lionel Richie, no more of my money for you!" I hated this song very much!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovo6zwv6DX4

TomatoTom123
06-16-2019, 02:22 PM
I listened to this without watching the video. It is on the weird side. I cannot make out what she is saying very well.

I hadn't actually watched the video before, and having just done so, hmmmmmm, wouldn't recommend it. You could say the wiping-a-nosebleed-around-her-face and pouring-milk-over-her-dead-boyfriend scenes served only to reinforce the weirdness. The only thing I like about the song is the bassline. That, and it's catchy. Other than that, its weird and awful. :)

marv2
06-16-2019, 03:59 PM
Also, Falco stuck ice picks in my ears with Rock Me Amadeus and Der Kommissar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA

You didn't like his stuff? How dare you?! I am so ashamed of young man, go to your room! LOL!!!!

marv2
06-16-2019, 04:00 PM
I hadn't actually watched the video before, and having just done so, hmmmmmm, wouldn't recommend it. You could say the wiping-a-nosebleed-around-her-face and pouring-milk-over-her-dead-boyfriend scenes served only to reinforce the weirdness. The only thing I like about the song is the bassline. That, and it's catchy. Other than that, its weird and awful. :)

It does have a good, strong bassline.

daviddesper
06-16-2019, 11:54 PM
To add to my four above, I thought of one more.......that hideous version of Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Suede with that ooga chakka nonsense.

Jerry Oz
06-17-2019, 01:36 AM
You didn't like his stuff? How dare you?! I am so ashamed of young man, go to your room! LOL!!!!Awww man...

LOL. And this song irritates me too. Might need to stay in my room for a couple more days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg

marv2
06-17-2019, 11:47 AM
To add to my four above, I thought of one more.......that hideous version of Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Suede with that ooga chakka nonsense.

That's the only part of song I liked! I was in Jr. High then, so........LOL!!!

marv2
06-17-2019, 11:49 AM
Awww man...

LOL. And this song irritates me too. Might need to stay in my room for a couple more days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg

Jerry believe it or not, I was thinking of including this when I started this thread and then thought, there may be too many people that like it. It was that awful, but too over top for me. Miss Crier or whatever and those goofy dancers. I couldn't believe Bootsey Collins took part in this.

nativeNY63
06-17-2019, 12:36 PM
I know what you mean. It was like they were spreading their "sound" to thin and needed to do something different by that point. They put this crap out and they just sounded silly to me.
"777-9311" and "Gigolos Need Lovin'",equal parts drivel and dog poo😝

nativeNY63
06-17-2019, 12:41 PM
You didn't like his stuff? How dare you?! I am so ashamed of young man, go to your room! LOL!!!!
Yes, and no dessert either!!

nativeNY63
06-17-2019, 12:44 PM
LOL. All of those are throwaway songs for me but I'd be lying to say I detested any of them. Loving You used to make my skin crawl, not from the production or performance but because it was the most girly song ever written.
Come on guys! Minnie Ripperton? The Mariah Carey of the 70's? Not even the backing track of the birds chirping did it for you?!! Snark. Snark.

nativeNY63
06-17-2019, 12:48 PM
Awww man...

LOL. And this song irritates me too. Might need to stay in my room for a couple more days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg

You're grounded! And forget about going to the dance Saturday!!
I always confused them with De La Soul. [[Same difference)

Jerry Oz
06-17-2019, 12:56 PM
You're grounded! And forget about going to the dance Saturday!!
I always confused them with De La Soul. [[Same difference)Now, that was sacrilegious. I place De La Soul behind only Public Enemy in hip hop. Deee Lite is to De La Soul what Britney Spears is to Patti LaBelle.

Jerry Oz
06-17-2019, 12:57 PM
TLC covering the Time's Get It Up was a lead balloon for me from the giddyup. Not just tasteless but a bad cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0mDMJs1Dqc

Jerry Oz
06-17-2019, 12:58 PM
Speaking of horrible covers, somebody should be in jail for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIOH8Trfas4

marv2
06-17-2019, 01:48 PM
TLC covering the Time's Get It Up was a lead balloon for me from the giddyup. Not just tasteless but a bad cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0mDMJs1Dqc

I never knew how to classify TLC. I mean, were they singers? Rappers? What? They sold a huge amount of records.

marv2
06-17-2019, 01:50 PM
Speaking of horrible covers, somebody should be in jail for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIOH8Trfas4

She really only had a few decent records.

Jerry Oz
06-17-2019, 05:58 PM
I never knew how to classify TLC. I mean, were they singers? Rappers? What? They sold a huge amount of records.Good question. I kind of wonder if the Atlanta sound of LaFace Records had any true musical distinction. The musicians didn't stand out. If you heard Babyface's first couple of albums, you pretty much heard most LaFace output that followed them. This is odd because the Deele stood out to me, as did Babyface's writing and production for Midnight Star.

You could hear a difference in New Jack [[and really, a lot of New York records in the '80s), Minneapolis, and LA [[Solar, most prominently). But in that decade and the next, LaFace made wonderful songs that were kind of indistinct from a composition standpoint IMO. Maybe Toni Braxton is the exception, but most of the voices could be swapped with something different without the songs suffering greatly. Maybe I should just avoid going there though...

nativeNY63
06-17-2019, 06:42 PM
Now, that was sacrilegious. I place De La Soul behind only Public Enemy in hip hop. Deee Lite is to De La Soul what Britney Spears is to Patti LaBelle.
Point taken, JerryOz! What I meant to say was the NAMES are similar. I stand corrected. No harm, no foul, Jerry.

Jerry Oz
06-17-2019, 06:48 PM
Point taken, JerryOz! What I meant to say was the NAMES are similar. I stand corrected. No harm, no foul, Jerry.No offense taken. I kid, I kid...
https://media2.giphy.com/media/PR7xRygprQnSgF5GKk/giphy.gif?cid=790b76115d08189b37594d5a51c84f40&rid=giphy.gif

nativeNY63
06-17-2019, 06:54 PM
Good question. I kind of wonder if the Atlanta sound of LaFace Records had any true musical distinction. The musicians didn't stand out. If you heard Babyface's first couple of albums, you pretty much heard most LaFace output that followed them. This is odd because the Deele stood out to me, as did Babyface's writing and production for Midnight Star.

You could hear a difference in New Jack [[and really, a lot of New York records in the '80s), Minneapolis, and LA [[Solar, most prominently). But in that decade and the next, LaFace made wonderful songs that were kind of indistinct from a composition standpoint IMO. Maybe Toni Braxton is the exception, but most of the voices could be swapped with something different without the songs suffering greatly. Maybe I should just avoid going there though...
You can make the same argument about the Force MDs.

sansradio
06-17-2019, 07:52 PM
No offense taken. I kid, I kid...
https://media2.giphy.com/media/PR7xRygprQnSgF5GKk/giphy.gif?cid=790b76115d08189b37594d5a51c84f40&rid=giphy.gif

LOL! I was gettin' ready to fight, too, Jerry! Don't mess with De La! ;)

Jerry Oz
06-17-2019, 08:02 PM
You can make the same argument about the Force MDs.One of the saddest stories in a business full of them. I think Tommy Boy was out of its league with a genuine R&B act. With that said, Antoine Lundy genuinely had one of the best voices ever [[no hyperbole) in R&B music and that voice carried the group. But even though Jam & Lewis blew the top off of them with Tender Love, I always thought the Force MDs bore that '80s NYC sound. Lost opportunity to have done so much more in the short time they recorded.

sansradio
06-17-2019, 08:13 PM
All right, this one takes the cake for me. My dearly departed dog could write a better song than this...but it's such a damned earworm!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjsDNRsewuA

marv2
06-17-2019, 10:08 PM
Good question. I kind of wonder if the Atlanta sound of LaFace Records had any true musical distinction. The musicians didn't stand out. If you heard Babyface's first couple of albums, you pretty much heard most LaFace output that followed them. This is odd because the Deele stood out to me, as did Babyface's writing and production for Midnight Star.

You could hear a difference in New Jack [[and really, a lot of New York records in the '80s), Minneapolis, and LA [[Solar, most prominently). But in that decade and the next, LaFace made wonderful songs that were kind of indistinct from a composition standpoint IMO. Maybe Toni Braxton is the exception, but most of the voices could be swapped with something different without the songs suffering greatly. Maybe I should just avoid going there though...

I know what you mean. I didn't buy a lot of BabyFace's productions he did on others, but I loved his Babyface Unplugged CD with "When Can I See You Again, etc.

marv2
06-17-2019, 10:10 PM
All right, this one takes the cake for me. My dearly departed dog could write a better song than this...but it's such a damned earworm!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjsDNRsewuA

Ok, yeah I remember this record. It sound like it should have been the music for soda commercial or some kind of gum. LOL!

marv2
06-17-2019, 10:12 PM
I'm posting this one on behalf of dear, late grandmother. She could not stand this record here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBw1MEOMWI

marv2
06-17-2019, 10:16 PM
I liked some of their stuff, but not this one!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTizYn3-QN0

marv2
06-17-2019, 10:20 PM
Mr. Roboto - Styx. Sounded like something from a Broadway play or something.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIro5YYtteQ

jboy88
06-17-2019, 11:41 PM
This...
https://youtu.be/BqDjMZKf-wg


the na na na na na coda gets on my last nerve.

jboy88
06-17-2019, 11:43 PM
And this
https://youtu.be/68ugkg9RePc

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 12:07 AM
Mr. Roboto - Styx. Sounded like something from a Broadway play or something.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIro5YYtteQDennis DeYoung was such a butthole. Styx was a really good band but his ego led to this song and other crappy efforts. I saw a concert on TV and they did an elaborate production of Mr. Roboto and literally nobody in the crowd was either dancing, smiling or looking as if they were having a good time. Great choice for this thread.

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 12:08 AM
This...
https://youtu.be/BqDjMZKf-wg


the na na na na na coda gets on my last nerve.LOL. That was a good band too. This song was okay for me until the thousandth time I heard it. Now I can't stand it.

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 12:11 AM
I liked some of their stuff, but not this one!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTizYn3-QN0Duran Duran were such good musicians, I pretty much loved almost everything. Their biggest problem was how their handlers insisted on positioning them as pretty boys for MTV, which was thriving by then.

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 12:13 AM
There was no excuse for this hideous train wreck. "Who that is" and "That's just my babby daddy" are easily the most unfortunate lyrics in history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhsXlNf4XI

marv2
06-18-2019, 12:18 AM
This...
https://youtu.be/BqDjMZKf-wg


the na na na na na coda gets on my last nerve.

They played this to death my Junior year in college. I prefer "Flame thrower" by Peter Wolf much, much more.

marv2
06-18-2019, 12:20 AM
Duran Duran were such good musicians, I pretty much loved almost everything. Their biggest problem was how their handlers insisted on positioning them as pretty boys for MTV, which was thriving by then.

Now they're all in their early 60s and even though they are still performing, you hear nothing about them in the U.S.

marv2
06-18-2019, 12:23 AM
There was no excuse for this hideous train wreck. "Who that is" and "That's just my babby daddy" are easily the most unfortunate lyrics in history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhsXlNf4XI

This is a complete rip off of " I Got A Man" by Positive-K. Remember that record?

marv2
06-18-2019, 12:27 AM
I loved Cameo. Loved about 80% of their music, but like so many, in 1982 they pushed the envelope too far in trying to be trendy and came out with this awful record "Alligator Woman"!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Sh9WSbO6s

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 01:10 AM
Now they're all in their early 60s and even though they are still performing, you hear nothing about them in the U.S.Simon LeBon did an interview on the radio a few years ago and he sounded happier performing out of the limelight. Didn't suggest he regretted anything but I got the impression that the band learned the right lessons from their hey day and aren't stressing about reliving that era. Actually shocked me because I used to think he was like Peter Wolf and David Lee Roth since he was an '80s front man of a popular outfit, but that's because I'm quick to judge. Don't forget that John Taylor and Andy Taylor teamed up with Tony Thompson of Chic to form Power Station with Robert Palmer. Hope they're all doing well.

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 01:13 AM
I loved Cameo. Loved about 80% of their music, but like so many, in 1982 they pushed the envelope too far in trying to be trendy and came out with this awful record "Alligator Woman"!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Sh9WSbO6sI was upset when Cameo chopped down from an 11-member outfit [[as ridiculous as that sounds today) to just Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins and Nathan Leftenant. But the records still sounded good to me and that era is almost as good as the previous one. I was not a fan of punk funk [[hated the Bar-Kays' Hit and Run change in sound) but I used to rock Alligator Woman, which I think is Cameo's only punk funk record.

marv2
06-18-2019, 07:26 AM
Simon LeBon did an interview on the radio a few years ago and he sounded happier performing out of the limelight. Didn't suggest he regretted anything but I got the impression that the band learned the right lessons from their hey day and aren't stressing about reliving that era. Actually shocked me because I used to think he was like Peter Wolf and David Lee Roth since he was an '80s front man of a popular outfit, but that's because I'm quick to judge. Don't forget that John Taylor and Andy Taylor teamed up with Tony Thompson of Chic to form Power Station with Robert Palmer. Hope they're all doing well.

I bought Power Stations' album. Robert Palmer was a bad boy!

marv2
06-18-2019, 07:28 AM
I was upset when Cameo chopped down from an 11-member outfit [[as ridiculous as that sounds today) to just Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins and Nathan Leftenant. But the records still sounded good to me and that era is almost as good as the previous one. I was not a fan of punk funk [[hated the Bar-Kays' Hit and Run change in sound) but I used to rock Alligator Woman, which I think is Cameo's only punk funk record.

There was another step in there when Cameo went from having almost football team, down to 3 or 4 guys. They melted down to around 7 guys with a few new guys were added and then deleted to get to the final 3.

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 01:04 PM
Aaron Mills is one of the most underrated funk/soul bassists. He was a huge part of their sound, as was their horn section, and they missed him when he left. I thought that Word Up was going to send them full pop after I heard it played in some top 40 nightclubs. It would have been a smart money-making move for Blackmon & Co. and many would have taken the bait. But then they released Skin I'm In and it cemented them as one of my favorite outfits forever. That song resonates to this day, even though it probably ran contrary to what the label was hoping they'd produce.

marv2
06-18-2019, 02:08 PM
Aaron Mills is one of the most underrated funk/soul bassists. He was a huge part of their sound, as was their horn section, and they missed him when he left. I thought that Word Up was going to send them full pop after I heard it played in some top 40 nightclubs. It would have been a smart money-making move for Blackmon & Co. and many would have taken the bait. But then they released Skin I'm In and it cemented them as one of my favorite outfits forever. That song resonates to this day, even though it probably ran contrary to what the label was hoping they'd produce.

"Word Up" was their big crossover Pop hit, although I liked "Candy" even better.

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 02:53 PM
LOL! I was gettin' ready to fight, too, Jerry! Don't mess with De La! ;)
That's why I gots to think before I post! Thanks guys.

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 02:58 PM
One of the saddest stories in a business full of them. I think Tommy Boy was out of its league with a genuine R&B act. With that said, Antoine Lundy genuinely had one of the best voices ever [[no hyperbole) in R&B music and that voice carried the group. But even though Jam & Lewis blew the top off of them with Tender Love, I always thought the Force MDs bore that '80s NYC sound. Lost opportunity to have done so much more in the short time they recorded.
Jerry, I Lurved Tender Love. That piano intro/ outro always brought tears to my eyes! Stellar ballad. They started as dancers. Excelled at everything they touched!! Worked at Sears [[Bronx) when it dropped. On my playlist to-date!!

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 03:00 PM
Mr. Roboto - Styx. Sounded like something from a Broadway play or something.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIro5YYtteQ
For years, I thought it was Queen!!

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 03:02 PM
Duran Duran were such good musicians, I pretty much loved almost everything. Their biggest problem was how their handlers insisted on positioning them as pretty boys for MTV, which was thriving by then.
Marv, you took the words right out of my mouth!!!

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 03:04 PM
Now they're all in their early 60s and even though they are still performing, you hear nothing about them in the U.S.
To quote Evelyn"Champagne" King: "a lowdown dirty shame"!!!

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 03:06 PM
I was upset when Cameo chopped down from an 11-member outfit [[as ridiculous as that sounds today) to just Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins and Nathan Leftenant. But the records still sounded good to me and that era is almost as good as the previous one. I was not a fan of punk funk [[hated the Bar-Kays' Hit and Run change in sound) but I used to rock Alligator Woman, which I think is Cameo's only punk funk record.
Marv, once again, you're right on point!!

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 03:08 PM
There was another step in there when Cameo went from having almost football team, down to 3 or 4 guys. They melted down to around 7 guys with a few new guys were added and then deleted to get to the final 3.
I still remember when the "team" was billed as Cameosis. Back then they did mostly forgettable ballads.

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 03:11 PM
Aaron Mills is one of the most underrated funk/soul bassists. He was a huge part of their sound, as was their horn section, and they missed him when he left. I thought that Word Up was going to send them full pop after I heard it played in some top 40 nightclubs. It would have been a smart money-making move for Blackmon & Co. and many would have taken the bait. But then they released Skin I'm In and it cemented them as one of my favorite outfits forever. That song resonates to this day, even though it probably ran contrary to what the label was hoping they'd produce.
I agree 100%, Jerry!! You and Marv got it going on! True music historians, in my book. Robb_ k's in there too!!

nativeNY63
06-18-2019, 03:12 PM
"Word Up" was their big crossover Pop hit, although I liked "Candy" even better.
" I can see it when you walk, it takes over me!"

marv2
06-18-2019, 04:33 PM
One of the saddest stories in a business full of them. I think Tommy Boy was out of its league with a genuine R&B act. With that said, Antoine Lundy genuinely had one of the best voices ever [[no hyperbole) in R&B music and that voice carried the group. But even though Jam & Lewis blew the top off of them with Tender Love, I always thought the Force MDs bore that '80s NYC sound. Lost opportunity to have done so much more in the short time they recorded.

The saddest part to me is that several of them have passed away now. They were a good group of guys that gave it a shot and won!

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 07:07 PM
Jerry, I Lurved Tender Love. That piano intro/ outro always brought tears to my eyes! Stellar ballad. They started as dancers. Excelled at everything they touched!! Worked at Sears [[Bronx) when it dropped. On my playlist to-date!!My favorite song by them is Tears. It blew my mind when I saw on Unsung the story of how TCD nailed that song in his very first take. Wow!

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 07:10 PM
I agree 100%, Jerry!! You and Marv got it going on! True music historians, in my book. Robb_ k's in there too!!All props to my man robb_k, who has forgotten more music history than any five board members ever knew. He's a living encyclopedia and one of the best things about SDF.

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 07:12 PM
To quote Evelyn"Champagne" King: "a lowdown dirty shame"!!!Shame is an underrated classic, IMO. Of all the breakout hits by 16 year old girls [[and there have been a lot) that one might be the strongest performance. As soon as you mentioned it, the bass line started riffing in my head.

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 07:15 PM
"Word Up" was their big crossover Pop hit, although I liked "Candy" even better.Word Up was my jam until it was everywhere. Black clubs. White clubs. Block parties. Top 40 radio. Urban radio. MTV. BET. VH-1. I couldn't get away from it. I often load songs on mp3 CDs and listen to them in my car. There are two dozen Cameo songs that I'll format before Word Up. I don't hate it, but I just can't stand to hear it anymore.

Boogiedown
06-18-2019, 08:06 PM
Dennis DeYoung was such a butthole. Styx was a really good band but his ego led to this song and other crappy efforts. I saw a concert on TV and they did an elaborate production of Mr. Roboto and literally nobody in the crowd was either dancing, smiling or looking as if they were having a good time. Great choice for this thread.

I've stayed clear of this thread because I wasn't able to readily put my finger on any certain record I 'hated', ... disliked many , but not to that degree. Until !! , this one got mentioned . I agree, it should be the headliner of this thread, such drudge.

I don't even know the words ....maybe, "no more avocados, Mr. Roboto!!!" ? ??


Oh it just reminded me of another throw away song by an often enjoyable group....WHO ARE YOU by the Who

"whooooooo are you ......who-who,who-who!!" yech...
And does that growly vocal by Daltrey qualify as singing?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_3ks7-OjGc

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 10:45 PM
I've stayed clear of this thread because I wasn't able to readily put my finger on any certain record I 'hated', ... disliked many , but not to that degree. Until !! , this one got mentioned . I agree, it should be the headliner of this thread, such drudge.

I don't even know the words ....maybe, "no more avocados, Mr. Roboto!!!" ? ??


Oh it just reminded me of another throw away song by an often enjoyable group....WHO ARE YOU by the Who

"whooooooo are you ......who-who,who-who!!" yech...
And does that growly vocal by Daltrey qualify as singing?

I really like the Who and that song is one of my faves. When Pete Townshend went solo, he made a new wave song that I never liked. Like he was trying to stretch his horizons and made a song that anybody else could have done better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUaRnGKfkBE

marv2
06-18-2019, 11:19 PM
Shame is an underrated classic, IMO. Of all the breakout hits by 16 year old girls [[and there have been a lot) that one might be the strongest performance. As soon as you mentioned it, the bass line started riffing in my head.

Uh, not underrated, well at least not with me and all the people I partied with back then. "Shame" was the biggest record in the Summer of 1978 and that's really saying something!

Jerry Oz
06-18-2019, 11:53 PM
Uh, not underrated, well at least not with me and all the people I partied with back then. "Shame" was the biggest record in the Summer of 1978 and that's really saying something!Yeah, my bad. When I called it overrated, I guess I was thinking that it's a song that young people would not be familiar with if it came on the radio. You know they'd know a bunch of Funkadelic, Jackson 5, Chic, Rick James and Heatwave from that era because [[to me) those groups and those records have become iconic. Shame was Evelyn King's first and probably her only truly great record, so she's not in their rarefied air. She did have other nice songs, but that one was fire.

Now, I definitely remember my brother coming home and turning up the console when it came on the radio after he had heard it the night before at some teen club. It was the jam for a long time. I'm remembering Sun's first album and Pocket's album from around the same time. Probably Rick James first record, too. Great music that stayed funky even as disco began to become a dominant sound for soul artists.

So, it's not overrated for us old heads at all.

marv2
06-19-2019, 10:13 AM
Yeah, my bad. When I called it overrated, I guess I was thinking that it's a song that young people would not be familiar with if it came on the radio. You know they'd know a bunch of Funkadelic, Jackson 5, Chic, Rick James and Heatwave from that era because [[to me) those groups and those records have become iconic. Shame was Evelyn King's first and probably her only truly great record, so she's not in their rarefied air. She did have other nice songs, but that one was fire.

Now, I definitely remember my brother coming home and turning up the console when it came on the radio after he had heard it the night before at some teen club. It was the jam for a long time. I'm remembering Sun's first album and Pocket's album from around the same time. Probably Rick James first record, too. Great music that stayed funky even as disco began to become a dominant sound for soul artists.

So, it's not overrated for us old heads at all.

Do you remember the car commercial where the family is sitting in their car in the garage and "Shame " is blasting over the car radio. The car and the family were bouncing up and down? LOL! I can't remember the auto company right now.

144man
06-19-2019, 02:16 PM
Oh Stuff! I was going to say "American Pie", but I did not want to get stoned to death. LOL! The longest, most aggravating song in the history of music!

I have seen Don McLean live in concert and it was an absolutely brilliant performance.

"American Pie" contains some of the best lyrics ever written, unlike Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which is just pretentious drivel.

144man
06-19-2019, 02:31 PM
Duran Duran were such good musicians, I pretty much loved almost everything. Their biggest problem was how their handlers insisted on positioning them as pretty boys for MTV, which was thriving by then.

I didn't think Simon Le Bon's voice was as good as their competitors'. The only records of theirs I liked were "Girls On Film" and "Planet Earth".

marv2
06-19-2019, 02:56 PM
I have seen Don McLean live in concert and it was an absolutely brilliant performance.

"American Pie" contains some of the best lyrics ever written, unlike Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which is just pretentious drivel.

I remember one time in college we sang the whole song at a talent night in the dorms. It was so long, we took a break to have beer! LOL!

marv2
06-19-2019, 03:00 PM
I loved Denise Lasalle, but hated this song! It was covered several times by folks like Jean Knight, Rockin' Sidney, etc.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3Wwo6RGyw

mr_june
06-20-2019, 09:43 AM
Very lightweight and bland songs:

Baby Come Back
Pina Colada song

marv2
06-20-2019, 07:32 PM
Very lightweight and bland songs:

Baby Come Back
Pina Colada song

I actually liked "Baby Come Back" from 1978 by Player. "The Pina Colada Song" by Rupert what's his name from 1980 not so much.

arr&bee
06-20-2019, 10:38 PM
Hey marv,you ain't gonna believe this,but i can't think of a darned song that i hate right now,but there are many!!

marv2
06-20-2019, 10:48 PM
Hey marv,you ain't gonna believe this,but i can't think of a darned song that i hate right now,but there are many!!

Come on JAI, I know there has got to be a few. Thinks about one from over the years where you just turned the dial as soon as you heard it come on.

Bluebrock
06-21-2019, 02:36 AM
Jerry, I Lurved Tender Love. That piano intro/ outro always brought tears to my eyes! Stellar ballad. They started as dancers. Excelled at everything they touched!! Worked at Sears [[Bronx) when it dropped. On my playlist to-date!!
Me too. One of THE all time great ballads in my humble opinion, but it has to be the full length album version. That piano intro/outro is so moving and tear inducing.

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 04:11 PM
Me too. One of THE all time great ballads in my humble opinion, but it has to be the full length album version. That piano intro/outro is so moving and tear inducing.
Correct me, if I'm wrong, Bluebrock. But I do believe TL was produced by Jam & Lewis.

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 04:16 PM
No offense taken. I kid, I kid...
https://media2.giphy.com/media/PR7xRygprQnSgF5GKk/giphy.gif?cid=790b76115d08189b37594d5a51c84f40&rid=giphy.gif
Like the Third Rock From the Sun "laff". Lurved that show!! Especially - " My God! I'm gorgeous!!" Whenever John Lithgow's character saw his reflection.

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 04:18 PM
One of the saddest stories in a business full of them. I think Tommy Boy was out of its league with a genuine R&B act. With that said, Antoine Lundy genuinely had one of the best voices ever [[no hyperbole) in R&B music and that voice carried the group. But even though Jam & Lewis blew the top off of them with Tender Love, I always thought the Force MDs bore that '80s NYC sound. Lost opportunity to have done so much more in the short time they recorded.

Thanks, Jerry for letting me know TL was a Jam & Lewis production.

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 04:21 PM
I liked some of their stuff, but not this one!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTizYn3-QN0
I respectfully beg to differ on Rio! That cut was one of my favs from LeBon & co.

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 04:28 PM
Here is one that I never liked from one of the best albums I own. Just never found its way to a mix tape. Sounded much too much like pop and never should have been on the soul stations. I feel the same way about Say, Say, Say and The Girl Is Mine, but I like both of those records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6LUPlmua6I
The only good came out
Say, Say, Say was the video and the quote I still spout in 2019 - "... I'm a lover, not a fighter!" [[MJ to Sir Paul)

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 04:31 PM
This song use to make me want to run out of the house, into the street and get hit by a bus! LOL!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-sN2Hgytg
Well, at least she has striking resemblance to Carly Simon!!!

Jerry Oz
06-21-2019, 05:46 PM
The only good came out
Say, Say, Say was the video and the quote I still spout in 2019 - "... I'm a lover, not a fighter!" [[MJ to Sir Paul) That line, along with Mr. McCartney's assertion that she calls him her 'super lover', is a hoot. I did get the impression that Michael's line was spoken more earnestly, though. Sir Paul was clearly camping it up.

marv2
06-21-2019, 06:02 PM
I respectfully beg to differ on Rio! That cut was one of my favs from LeBon & co.

This is what I was talking about early in the thread. Don't get mad, this is just for fun. Besides, how can you tell another people to like something just because you do? LOL!

marv2
06-21-2019, 06:04 PM
Well, at least she has striking resemblance to Carly Simon!!!

she looks more like Vicki Lawrence to me. Mick Jagger and Carly Simon resemble one another more in my opinion.

marv2
06-21-2019, 06:08 PM
No Cyndi, noooooo........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq4E9XTueY

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 07:33 PM
This is what I was talking about early in the thread. Don't get mad, this is just for fun. Besides, how can you tell another people to like something just because you do? LOL!
You are right, Marv! We should call this thread - "or Those songs you love to hate!" :)

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 07:37 PM
No Cyndi, noooooo........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq4E9XTueY
What about the one where the era's wrestling champ plays her "O Daddy- dear, you still the fortunate one. But girls just wanna have fuh-un!" [[rinse, repeat)

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 07:38 PM
..." or Hate to Love!!" Whatever greases your axle!

marv2
06-21-2019, 07:42 PM
What about the one where the era's wrestling champ plays her "O Daddy- dear, you still the fortunate one. But girls just wanna have fuh-un!" [[rinse, repeat)

That was with Captain Lou Albano. He was a wrestling manager. That was a good song.

nativeNY63
06-21-2019, 07:52 PM
So right! Thanks, Marv. Senior moment!!

Jerry Oz
06-21-2019, 08:11 PM
What about the one where the era's wrestling champ plays her "O Daddy- dear, you still the fortunate one. But girls just wanna have fuh-un!" [[rinse, repeat)Watch it now! Girls Just Want To Have Fun is an all-time '80s happy jam. That song was emblematic of New York pop at the time that punk and new wave were starting to dominate. With that said, Cyndi lost me completely with this huge turd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdXklYUJCxI

Boogiedown
06-21-2019, 09:59 PM
RE: Penny McLean LADY BUMP


Well, at least she has striking resemblance to Carly Simon!!!

or maybe a little like Helen Reddy??

Perhaps her German accent which makes her annunciations a little unclear is what is bothering you? it can't be the blood curdling "ahhhhhhh"s! Lol! It's quirky , I've always liked it .

We all know Penny's from Silver Convention right?
"that's right !!

Get up and boo-gie!!!"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPdG4DA42g


she's on the left .

Jerry Oz
06-21-2019, 11:32 PM
RE: Penny McLean LADY BUMP



or maybe a little like Helen Reddy??

Perhaps her German accent which makes her annunciations a little unclear is what is bothering you? it can't be the blood curdling "ahhhhhhh"s! Lol! It's quirky , I've always liked it .

We all know Penny's from Silver Convention right?
"that's right !!

Get up and boo-gie!!!"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPdG4DA42g


she's on the left .Groan. Get Up and Boogie and Fly Robin, Fly both belong very prominently in this thread. I cosign to both.

Bluebrock
06-22-2019, 02:38 AM
Correct me, if I'm wrong, Bluebrock. But I do believe TL was produced by Jam & Lewis.
I think you may well be right there. That is perhaps why i love it so much!

marv2
06-22-2019, 04:44 AM
RE: Penny McLean LADY BUMP



or maybe a little like Helen Reddy??

Perhaps her German accent which makes her annunciations a little unclear is what is bothering you? it can't be the blood curdling "ahhhhhhh"s! Lol! It's quirky , I've always liked it .

We all know Penny's from Silver Convention right?
"that's right !!

Get up and boo-gie!!!"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPdG4DA42g


she's on the left .

My father liked this song. I remember coming home from school one day and heard this blasting from the basement. It was a new record and a new sound at the time.

Boogiedown
06-22-2019, 12:39 PM
My father liked this song. I remember coming home from school one day and heard this blasting from the basement. It was a new record and a new sound at the time.
You're right. First time a record placed the strings front and center and LOUD.Who'd ever heard of such a thing? In fact the strings dominate and in essence "sing" the record far more than the scant vocals.
I can see how this would either grab someone or totally turn them off though. I love violins so .....

arr&bee
06-22-2019, 08:18 PM
Most of the music of the-90's??

marv2
06-22-2019, 08:46 PM
Most of the music of the-90's??

Oh ok, but just give us at least one that comes to mind......

arr&bee
06-22-2019, 08:54 PM
I'll do ya one better,i'll name a whole lp i hate...mercy,mercy-don covay...yep that don covay-it's a stinker!!!

marv2
06-22-2019, 09:52 PM
I'll do ya one better,i'll name a whole lp i hate...mercy,mercy-don covay...yep that don covay-it's a stinker!!!

Ok. I can't remember, but who made the hit version of "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", the song? It sounded like it was done live at a Jazz club.

marv2
06-22-2019, 09:54 PM
Ok, just answered my own question, Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1966 they did "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy". I heard that so much because Dad use to play it a lot on weekends.

Ngroove
06-23-2019, 03:16 AM
Oh ok, but just give us at least one that comes to mind......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXWRTEbj1I

Ngroove
06-23-2019, 03:19 AM
That and this, ever since first listen on school bus radio, to almost everyday at the workplace radio for years, will absolutely grind the gears with its mindless pop-radio-crossover-friendly-dance-repetition, to even more mindless lyrics that I still do not understand its meanings:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y

Ngroove
06-23-2019, 03:20 AM
But this one, I have ALWAYS found to be the stinker of stupidity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

marv2
06-23-2019, 08:33 AM
That and this, ever since first listen on school bus radio, to almost everyday at the workplace radio for years, will absolutely grind the gears with its mindless pop-radio-crossover-friendly-dance-repetition, to even more mindless lyrics that I still do not understand its meanings:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y

I totally agree on this one!

marv2
06-23-2019, 08:34 AM
But this one, I have ALWAYS found to be the stinker of stupidity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

I actually thought about this one too when starting this thread. This was played so much during the Summer of 1988, along with idiots in my office repeating it drove me up the wall! LOL!

Ngroove
06-23-2019, 10:23 AM
Integrating a Holy traditional spiritual hymn sacrilegiously with rock Three Dog Night, with none of them having to do with each other, other than the coincidence of its title.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tcbarFCk3w

nativeNY63
06-23-2019, 10:28 AM
But this one, I have ALWAYS found to be the stinker of stupidity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
I suppose, then, that you bookend Happy, Pharrell?

Jerry Oz
06-23-2019, 10:02 PM
But this one, I have ALWAYS found to be the stinker of stupidity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQUDidn't McPherrin throw this in to fill out the album? If I recall correctly, he totally unprepared for it to be the only pop hit of his career.

marv2
06-23-2019, 10:26 PM
Didn't McPherrin throw this in to fill out the album? If I recall correctly, he totally unprepared for it to be the only pop hit of his career.

I don't know, but I wanted to beat him up for making this record! LOL!