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Sun Oct-19-03 09:38 PM
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Poll question: Time to vote for the worst #1 single of the early 1980s! |
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This poll covers only those records that hit #1 from 1980-84. The Decade of Greed produced so many crappy chart-toppers that I decided to divide it into two separate polls.
As always, if you think of any particularly rancid #1 hit of the early '80s that I didn't include, you're certainly welcome to include it.
Prepare for DEEEEEEEP HURTING!!!
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:42 PM
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1. The 80's guy must speak up here |
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I like almost all of these songs. I remember when my junior high school girlfriend moved away I played "The One That You Love" and balled and balled....
Hated "Ebony & Ivory", though. You also missed "Mickey", Tiffany's version of "I Think We're Alone Now" and Charlene's "I've Never Been to Me".
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:45 PM
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3. I'm with you, Finnfan. |
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I'd be hard-pressed to call any of these the "worst" song, in fact like you I'm OK with all of them.
"Ebony and Ivory" was one of the first 45s I bought!
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:53 PM
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"Same Old Lang Syne" - Dan Fogelberg "Burnin' For You" - Blue Oyster Cult "Breaking Away" - Balance
I have issues....
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:46 PM
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:49 PM
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5. Bawled. I meant bawled. |
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Believe it or not, I wasn't thinking of much more than kissing then. I LOVED kissing, though.
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Mon Oct-20-03 12:31 AM
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13. As an oldies D.J. once said to me... |
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"When you're doing a nostalgia format, the important question is, 'Do people remember these songs," not "Are they any good?"
Judging from the above post, it looks like my D.J. friend was right.
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Mon Oct-20-03 09:03 AM
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25. "Never Been to Me." GAWDAWFUL! |
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Mon Oct-20-03 09:11 AM
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27. Am I the only person in the entire country that |
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actually liked and enjoyed Charlene's "I've never been to me?" I was a senior in high school when that came out, and everyone thought I was crazy because I liked it and was always listening to it! There had to be SOME people who liked it, or it wouldn't have been such a hit!
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Mon Oct-20-03 05:09 PM
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39. No, you're not the only one. |
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I'm embarrassed to report that I liked it when it first came out. Its charm wears off after about 20 years. :-)
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:42 PM
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2. Didn't realize there were any "good" songs in the 80's. |
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Mon Oct-20-03 09:12 AM
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28. There were in the early 80's, |
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it's from 1985 on that the music sucked. Or maybe that's just my own bias.
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:50 PM
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6. Amazing, just thinking about any of those songs gave me the same |
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reaction as dragging your nails down a blackboard. I had a hard time deciding, there was so much to work with.
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:50 PM
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Edited on Sun Oct-19-03 09:51 PM by Kennethken
with the Arthur song - how did a fupped uck drunk-ass rich-bitch character ever become thought of as someone to admire, in any way shape or form?
ps - I kinda liked the phil Collins tune, because that film introduced me to Rachel Ward; I developed a major crush on Aussie voices because of her.
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Sun Oct-19-03 09:57 PM
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9. Other: Matthew Wilder: Break My Stride |
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There's something so damned grating about that song. It leaves me feeling jangled, like some sort of burned-out speed freak.
Is it too late for me to sue for mental anguish?
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Sun Oct-19-03 10:22 PM
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10. Another song I loved! |
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I even bought the album, AND I own Matthew Wilder's 2nd album, "Bouncing Off the Walls" (I think I'm one of five people).
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Mon Oct-20-03 07:40 AM
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17. Hell Yeah ............... |
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I hated that song then and now !!!!!!!!!
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Sun Oct-19-03 10:40 PM
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11. Say were you watching 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders on VH1 last night? |
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A disproporationate number of them were 80s tunes and GOD were they awful. 'Mickey' was by Toni Basil. Remember her? The bad imitation of Nina Hagen?
I picked 'Ebony and Ivory' in honor of those college classmates who went tsk-gahd when I mocked it.
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Sun Oct-19-03 11:00 PM
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12. I have to admitt that I really like 2 of those songs |
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Endless Love and Against All Odds:dunce:
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Mon Oct-20-03 06:55 AM
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14. I think a new list is in order.......... |
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Most of the songs on the poll are not the WORST #1 songs from the 80's, at least I don't think so........
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Mon Oct-20-03 09:15 AM
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31. Endless Love??????????? |
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ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was sixteen when that came out, and that fucking song was ALL I heard my friends and stepsister play the ENTIRE SUMMER! Over and over and over and over and on and on and on and on, GAH, just thinking about it makes me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mon Oct-20-03 07:33 AM
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15. AARRRGH! "Endless Love!!!!" |
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How many 13-year-old girls had their futures derailed by that piece of dreck (both song and movie)?
:puke: dbt
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Mon Oct-20-03 08:42 AM
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21. Anything Whitney Houston |
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What was the name of that song that seemed to go on and on and on, especially when sung by somebody's 11 year old daughter? :puke:
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Mon Oct-20-03 07:39 AM
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that awful song "Saftey Dance"...or anything by Flock of Seagulls...
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Mon Oct-20-03 08:19 AM
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18. 'Safety Dance'-I STILL HATE THAT SONG |
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it was played over and over. Also 'Who can it Be Now' came out at around the same time. Talk about hell.
There was great alternative music in the '80s, but most of the pop sucked.
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Mon Oct-20-03 08:50 AM
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I used to love that song- mostly because it irritated the hell out of my brother, mrjinx ;-)
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Mon Oct-20-03 08:40 AM
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20. Ahhh yes ... Flock of Seagulls |
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"I Ran" is in my opinion, the worst song of all time, of any genre.
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Mon Oct-20-03 08:47 AM
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22. I would have to respectfully disagree... |
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Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band.
One of the most hideous pieces of dreck ever recorded. And the video is equally as hideous.
(Abra-abracadabra. I wanna reach out and grab ya...) That lyric is just bad. On many different levels.
Just thinking of that song tests my gag reflex...
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Mon Oct-20-03 09:13 AM
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29. wasn't that Schwarzenegger's campaign motto? |
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Mon Oct-20-03 08:31 AM
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19. Morning Train is just awful. |
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The music sucks and the lyrics seem to be an ode to grinding monotony and toil. If I were her baby, I'd last about a week before jumping in front of the train.
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Mon Oct-20-03 08:54 AM
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24. Hey, I liked "Morning Train"! :-) |
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One of my favorite songs from the 80's,
A worse Captain and Tennille song..."Muskrat Love". Gives new meaning to the word "icky"
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Mon Oct-20-03 09:09 AM
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the most sexist song ever written next to the Supreme All-time Sexist Song: When a Man Loves a Woman!
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Mon Oct-20-03 09:14 AM
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30. You forgot to mention the ultimate sexist song; |
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you know, the one by the Rolling Stones--I dare not mention its name.
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Mon Oct-20-03 09:17 AM
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32. Ah, you must be talking about |
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(very soft whisper here) Under my Thumb. Yes, indeed, you are correct in that that is probably the most sexist song of all. I try to forget it, which was probably why I didn't list it.
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Mon Oct-20-03 10:01 AM
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34. Ebony and Ivory, with Morning Train a close second |
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When was The Girl is Mine--another lousy, wrteched song? Should it have been included here? I would have voted for that simply because of MJ's "I'm a lover, not a fighter" line!
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Mon Oct-20-03 10:39 AM
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35. I voted for "Endless Love" simply because all the others |
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have fond memories associated with them. I've never not loved The Captain and Tenielle. Toni Tenielle and my mother attended dance class together as kids. And "Morning Train" bad a song as it is, played on my schoolbus seemingly every day on the way to seventh grade. Great memories of seventh grade.
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Mon Oct-20-03 04:31 PM
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36. Must vote for the horrible Hall and Oates brainworm! |
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that awful thing gets stuck ineradicably in my head. I hate it, hate it!
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Mon Oct-20-03 04:34 PM
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37. I don't know any of these. Was into 'college radio' back then. |
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When we had such wonderful stations. Now, it's all clear channel shit, and our NPR has gone 'hillbilly'.
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Mon Oct-20-03 05:06 PM
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I've been known to flee the CVS when that song comes on the piped-in music.
Dishonorable mention: "Hard to Say I'm Sorry." Played to death by roommate with boyfriend issues. I don't care to hear it again.
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