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Old 12-22-2013, 07:24 PM
 
Location: Sherman Oaks, CA
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Sadly, I like some of these songs! My contributions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07-yKnKRMQ
(This song was #1 for what SEEMED like forever back in 1977/1978!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3U_m9BmJo0
(My best friend and I rewrote the lyrics to "Just When I Hated You Most", and it went downhill from there!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVgkXVDkBA
Yuck. Just... yuck. (In fact, anything by Freddy Fender!)
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Old 01-07-2014, 07:51 PM
 
Location: South Texas
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Originally Posted by SandyCo View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVgkXVDkBA
Yuck. Just... yuck. (In fact, anything by Freddy Fender!)
Do you not like the Texas Tornadoes, or just Fender's solo material?


I'm not a huge Fender fan, but he was a fellow Texan, so I had to ask.

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Old 01-07-2014, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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These:


Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack - 1964 - YouTube


Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her - 1960 - YouTube

And most of all, this hideous thing:


(You're) Having My Baby - Paul Anka and Odia Coates - YouTube
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Old 01-07-2014, 10:26 PM
 
Location: South Bay Native
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NAILED IT.

I'd like to add Crocodile Rock and Benny and the Jets.
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Old 01-08-2014, 11:36 AM
 
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Default Worst Ever

Only thing this song made me want to do was get the gun and got muskrat hunting...after shooting the radio.

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Old 01-08-2014, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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OMG, where would I start??

90 percent of the pop music from the 1980s.
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Old 01-08-2014, 02:33 PM
 
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Anything and everything by Mariah Carey. She sounds like a cat in estrus.
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Old 03-16-2014, 12:41 AM
 
Location: South of Oz & North of Shangri-La
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Everything I Do (I Do It for You) (from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) by Bryan Adams
Storybook Love (from The Princess Bride) by Mark Knofler ~ Even another singer can't save this!
I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos ~ It's the backup syllables being sung. We used to call it "Glub Glub (The Drowning Song"! I love other versions, but this one is poor; I thought so back when it was on the radio.
Me and Mrs. Jones ~ I don't even know who sings it, but I have always loathed it! / I looked him up: Billy Paul?! ~ "We got a thang goin' on..." Yuck!
Sylvia's Mother by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show ~ It's chalk on the blackboard! It's squeaky sneakers on wood floors!

I know people adore him. When I was growing up, it seemed that everyone loved Elvis Presley. So, I went along, thinking that I should like him, too. I never bought even a 45 of his music, never an album. I can think of about two early songs I don't mind. The rest... I turned rebellious about his movies when I was in high school. My sister, her friends and I were headed for the latest Elvis flick. When we reached the newsstand next door, I said, "I'm going in here instead. I'll meet you after its over." They were aghast! EVERYONE went to see Elvis. I simply couldn't take him anymore. I've never watched his movies again, and I turn down the radio when one of his songs comes on.

There are a couple of the old Elton John songs I don't mind, but the rest were run into the ground even before decades had passed. His sound doesn't hold up to me.

My mother loves him, but I can't stand a single one of Bruce Springsteen's songs. He seems to like to shove as many syllables as he can in a line, ending up slush-mouthed and nearly impossible to understand. I think most of his lyrics are painful to listen to and do not understand the adulation. "Born to Run" sounds like a parody.

There are a number of singers I simply can't listen to: Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston (when she started the vocal gymnastics, a style that spread to other singers~those who I would place on this list), and a host of others who became popular around the Nineties. I don't even recall their names, just that, when they start singing, I search for something else or lower the volume.

I have a very high tolerance for a lifetime of music and beyond, as I love music from long before I was born in the Fifties.
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Old 03-16-2014, 03:49 AM
 
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Achy Breaky Heart by Billey Ray Cyrus and Carol of the Bells. I know most people love Carol of the Bells but I can't stand its borderline obnoxious repetition.
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Old 03-16-2014, 07:43 AM
 
Location: In the realm of possiblities
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" My Sharona" by the Knack gives me an upset stomach, and headache. It was my ex-wife's favorite song.
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