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Some of the dooshiest dooshbag songs of the 70s-90s

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"Wildfire" Michael Martin Murphey:

https://youtu.be/Pc3OnSQc48s

(This song was played over and over in high rotation by "soft-rock" FM radio stations ad nauseum in the mid-70s)

"Time Passages" Al Stewart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRRXg1yhsEk

"Mandy" Barry Manilow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SSyMN75wY

(He wrote the "songs"...that I would much rather forget...yeppers)

"True" Spandau Ballet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U

(The ultimate elevator and dentist's waiting room song)

"Gloria" Laura Brannigan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=355Fk8drgZE

(I remember watching her on TV standing on a float during the '82 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, singing this song over and over...and over).

"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" Lobo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmZv5ND2YuI

"Watching Scotty Grow" Bobby Goldsboro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1HaotYGyg

"Afternoon Delight" Starland Vocal Band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUkhMq_iRo

(Daytime fucking? What a novel idea!!)


"Muskrat Love" The Captain and Tennille:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnRChfwAI0k

(Likewise with the duet performing this song on a float during a Macy's Thanksgiving day Parade)

"Torn Between Two Lovers" Mary MacGregor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpnUQPeBmk

(a local FM radio station once held a contest for the best rewording of this song. "Porn Between Two Covers" won).

"You Light Up My Life" Debbie Boone:

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

"Don't Give Up On Us" David Soul:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPFMyFuar4E

(Just.Fucking.Awful)

"All By Myself" Eric Carmen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzoazPPC7b8

((sniffle))

"Let's Hear It For The Boy" Deniese Williams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7FGbhpr2pg

(I must be one of the few alive since the movie "Footloose" debuted in '84, who has never watched it, but the entire soundtrack was in heavy rotation on the radio back then).

"What A Feeling" (title track to "Flashdance") Irene Cara:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GelOkOzQ9cw

(My gf @ the time and I went to see Flashdance in the theater when it was released in '83. We were both dedicated to working out & aerobics exercise every other day in gyms back then, and I actually still like this song for that reason. Sure wish that I was still in that very same tip-top physical shape now though).

"Physical" Olivia Newton John:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GelOkOzQ9cw

(This song and especially the video is very cheesy and dated, but IMO, the first half of the 80s was when the nation overall was in its best physically fit shape than ever before or since then. I think that the US badly needs this once viral fad to return, given the epidemic of obesity that is going on).

"Stairway to Cleveland" Starship

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

(LMFAO @ Cleveland for having this trainwreck of a dirge as likely the ONLY rock song ever made with its name in the title. Unlike Detroit with MANY. What did they think, that Queen was gonna rededicate their song "We Are The Champions" to it?!? The Motor City MUCH more deserved to have the R&R HoF built here instead, btw).

"Simply Irresistible" Robert Palmer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGw_cOgwa8

(Leer@ groups of uptight-looking & expressionless droid supermodels pretending to play instruments, while gyrating to the music in tight-fitting and short dresses. This music video got LOTS of airplay on MTV, back when it actually still WAS MTV, and not Reality RTV).

"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" Leonard Nimoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU&list=RDAGF5ROpjRAU

(Ya lived long and prospered, Mr. Spock, but your off-camera Terran alter-ego was piss-poor @ singing. This video is downright mortifying to watch)

Which of course, brings us to...

"Rocket Man" William Shatner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I

(Freaking Yikes!!)

"Heartbeat" Don Johnson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9JoEm5E--E

(Didn't bother to browse YT for the "best" version of this song, b/c I wouldn't click on it to watch, either. Didn't Mr.Miami Vice make a softcore porn flick as well?)

"Girl You Know Its True" Milli Vanilli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdSmokR0Enk

(No song shitlist would be complete w/o these two lipsynching frauds, who were forced to return their Grammy Awards after being exposed. They tried to make a comeback using their own voices, but Pilatus of the duo committed suicide by drug overdose)

"What Is Love" Haddaway:

https://vimeo.com/44448890

(This ghey bar song was made virally popular by SNL alums Will Ferrel and Chris Kattan, who used it in their skits as two dooshbag losers who clumsily and rudely hit on, and were rebuffed by angry female singles @ nightclubs. As had many previously popular SNL skits were, it was made into the movie "Night At The Roxbury" but it miserably flopped @ the box-office)

"She Drives Me Crazy" Fine Young Cannibals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=majFrn3j1Co

(This song was one of the last one-hit wonders before the Grunge era that swept the nation during the first half of the 90s. When Kurt Cobain died of a gunshot suicide in April of '94, he pretty much took down grunge with him. Indie, electronic and industrial music lasted for a few more years, but the handwriting was on the wall. The latter half of the 90s was dominated by boy-bands, divas, rap, rap-metal, hip-hop and pop trash)
 
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"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" Leonard Nimoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU&list=RDAGF5ROpjRAU

(Ya lived long and prospered, Mr. Spock, but your off-camera Terran alter-ego was piss-poor @ singing. This video is downright mortifying to watch)



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"Chevy Van" Sammy Johns: https://youtu.be/imN48YKDHsQ (don't come knocking)
"Brandi" Looking Glass: https://youtu.be/N-tRXewCAmU (should have been made to walk the plank)
"So Nice to be With You" Gallery https://youtu.be/0cFm2a5vykc (no, not really)
"Precious and Few" Climax https://youtu.be/0cFm2a5vykc (we obviously know why)

These High School songs made me want to run into rush-hour traffic.

I actually saw this song performed live: https://youtu.be/1qlK9TJvuSk
I have an explanation but there are no excuses, and I hold myself fully accountable.
 
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I liked that car commercial with both Spocks where Nimoy was 'singing' the Bilbo song as he drove.
 
Unfortunately, some of those 'dooshiest songs' are in the musician's birthdays thread.
 
I wouldn't number any of them as being among my favorites.

Although I don't dislike any of them enough to start a thread about how much I dislike them.
 
Unfortunately, some of those 'dooshiest songs' are in the musician's birthdays thread.

My post wasn't really intended to directly disparage the artists who created these dooshy songs, (except for Manilow, and for obvious reasons, Milli Vanilli) Many people prefer soft rock music over any other genres, so perhaps I should have prefaced my OP that it was being done mostly tongue in cheek, but in many cases, stuck waay the hell out...heh!!

Each one has made their mark in musical history, for better or worse, and although most may only be remembered for just that ONE song, I can muster some respect for them by managing to accomplish something that tens of thousands of solo artists, bands, and singing groups who never did or could, as well as those who have made popularly successful, if not even moreso, their covers of songs that they didn't originate or create.
 
I wouldn't number any of them as being among my favorites.

Although I don't dislike any of them enough to start a thread about how much I dislike them.

Your distaste of most of my posts has been noted by me, and I am well aware of what started it, since I read the post that michchamp made about me several years ago, and your reply to it. Not that I ever had the slightest desire to usurp your title as the reigning English Major of DSF.
 
Your distaste of most of my posts has been noted by me, and I am well aware of what started it, since I read the post that michchamp made about me several years ago, and your reply to it. Not that I ever had the slightest desire to usurp your title as the reigning English Major of DSF.

What post are you referring to, and you're razzing me, right?

I'm pretty sure that I'm no more sarcastic/facetious/tongue in cheek toward your posts now and then than I am with anybody's.

EDIT: Also, although it's a little simpler, "dislike" would probably be a better word for what you're trying to convey than "distaste."
 
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There are times that this forum's posters act dysfuntional. That means All of us.

Most of us came from espn. We have posted together for a long long time. Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt for the slightest perceived provocation. It's too bad, but, I have first hand reading of a few Detroit theme forums on the internet that it does happen.

Spockmaster told me way back that he had had it with all the bickering/arguing/trolling of the usual posters by the usual posters on different subforums and decided to spend more time on twitter.

It's like walking on cracked eggshells so as not to upset someone else for real or imagined slight.
If it's not laid out in ink, don't see something that isn't there is all I can suggest.
This might be happening now by those who read or have posted in this thread.
Please be certain, I am not calling out any one person, just posting what I have seen overall....it's going to continue to happen. That's just the way it is on forums, and when it does with the same posters they usually go out of there way to question/confront that other poster.
Good luck and stay cool guys.
 
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