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The Juke Box from Hell
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 12:24 PM
Back in the 80's music was at it's highest peak with MTV, supergroups, metal hair bands and new bands from around the world hitting the airwaves and cleaning out the record stores. But among all those hits we know and love, there are some hit songs that we personally hope never goes on the air again. Here in New York, radio station WHTZ (Z-100) brought forth this idea called the Juke Box from Hell. The idea was for listeners suggest what they feel are the worst hit songs ever put together. And there were a lot of bad ones. This list is composed of songs that I admit had me wonder how did this be a hit and who listens to it now? See if agree or disagree with these most common choices. I'll list fifteen that many have suggested and I agree with most of them.
1. Rick Dees - Disco Duck
2. Morris Albert - Feelings
3. Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting (Kung Fu Panda brought this one back.)
4. The Captain and Tenielle - Muskrat Love (Why did America give permission to have this covered?)
5. Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life
6. DeFranco Family - Heartbeat (It's a Lovebeat)
7. David Geddes - Run, Joey, Run
8. Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl
9. Wayne Newton - Daddy Don't You Walk so Fast
10. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun (My brother played this one a lot.)
11. Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods - Billy Don't Be A Hero
12. Baja Men - Who Let The Dogs Out? (Who let this song out?)
13. Henry Gross - Shannon
14. John Travolta - Let Her In
15. Barry Manilow - I Write the Songs
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)particularly I am Woman. (and I am one.)
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... so bad, I forgive you if you forgot it.
-- Mal
Skittles
(153,180 posts)Henry Gross wrote it for Beach Boy Carl Wilson when his beloved Shannon died
cloudbase
(5,524 posts)Telephone Man.
ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)I agree with ALL of them!!!!
GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...for the masochistic:
afternoon delight - starland vocal band
we built this city on rock n roll - starship
ballad of the green berets - ssgt barry sadler
fast food song - fast food rockers
tutti frutti - pat boone
gangnam style - psy
friday - rebecca black
anything by ted "the ped" nugent (no youtube link necessary)
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Zorro
(15,749 posts)I find it to be a chipper, cheerfully subversive little tune. They aren't singing about having a great cup of coffee.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...the sickly sweet, sappy and annoying vocals and production values - the words are pretty much drowned out by the fact that the song is virtually impossible to listen to all the way through - for me, at least.
Never been there, but I suspect that if I went to some family-oriented music venues in Branson, MO, I'd hear this tune more than once, and I suspect nobody in the audience would consider the tune "subversive."
If I want subversion in musical compositions, Starlight Vocal Band isn't on any of my lists of artists to turn to.
Not to mention that SVB was awarded the "Best New Artist" by the Grammys in whatever year that was, and as a voting member of NARAS, I am embarrassed when these type of artists are selected for recognition by industry professionals and musical peers - anybody ever hear anything outta that group since they walked off the stage with their Grammys?
I didn't think so.
Zorro
(15,749 posts)would consider this perky little ditty -- with drowned-out words about getting laid in the afternoon -- to be subversive.
That's what makes it so subversive.
GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...but I can't get to "subversive" on this one.
Perky - OK - but subversive...I don't know about that. And perky songs generally annoy me.
If only the disputes here at DU were all so trivial as disagreeing about an early 70s crappy - or, perhaps, perky yet subversive - pop tune, this place might be "the happiest place on earth" - or at least, the internet tubes.
Oh shit! Now I've got "It's A Small World After All" playing in my head!!
Zorro
(15,749 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...SUBVERSIVE!!!
progressoid
(49,996 posts)Just seeing the titles brings it all roaring back in its glorious awfulness.
Some more
Afternoon Delight.
The Night Chicago Died
You're Having My Baby
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Send in the Clowns
You Light Up My Life
Him
Must. Stop. Before. Head. Explodes.
catbyte
(34,428 posts)Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)The horror...the horror
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,209 posts)There's an equally ghastly version sung by Melba Montgomery.
LeftishBrit
(41,209 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)progressoid
(49,996 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Charlene's, "I've Never Been to Me". Would rather stick needles into my eyes than listen to this song. You'll know it when you hear it.
Archae
(46,343 posts)But what the hell was the songwriter and singer when they wrote and sang this?
Fish Heads
Henry the Eighth
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... sic transit gloria mundi, and Tuesday's not much better.
-- Mal
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I'm 54 and I remember cringing every time one of those songs were played either on the radio, or by my sister and her friends.
My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)he requested a mix CD with Jerry Reed-Eastbound and Down, Finger Eleven- Paralyzer, and Bob Marley-Three Little Birds.
It was the weirdest mix and he wanted to play it over and over and over again. I don't think I like any of those songs anymore.