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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)
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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