The Five Songs You Never-Ever Wanna Hear Again

Along those lines, the bit Chris Cornell used to do with singing Metallica’s “One” to the tune of U2’s “One” was super awkward and ultimately pointless.

 

Only show I have ever walked out of was a disastrous oldies thing Chuck headlined not long after the SkyDome opened in 1989. Jerry Lee and Fats Domino were supposed to be on the bill but both mysteriously came down with some illness the day of the show (I doubt they were ever confirmed in the first place).

Anyway, Little Richard killed and Frankie Valli wasn't bad. A message it posted on the jumbotron that Chuck will not go on stage if the video screens were on. This doesn't go over well with people in that cavernous place and after a while (and another pile of cash, no doubt) Chuck decides to come out with video. He's hostile from the start, bitching at the band and after after playing "Sweet Little Sixteen" twice within the first four songs, me and many others said fuck it and headed out.

 

One of the great lost classics of the 80s.

 

My freaking freshman dorm roomie played that song every DAY!!! I hated it by week one

 

1. Sometimes When We Touch….already mentioned and the Gold standard of crap songs.

2. Taxi…just don’t like it
3. Clap for the Wolfman…..I love the Guess Who but this is garbage.
4. Helpless….Neil has written some loser tunes and this is one.
5. Fortunate Son….used to like it but it’s frigging everywhere now.

Lots of Canadian content.

 

I’ll be the contrarian here and fess up, I enjoy probably most of the top vote getters here (Loverboy (great college party time signal on Friday afternoon); Precious and Few (early slow dance in 5th grade)) and have them in one playlist or another.

Mostly because they make up the soundtrack of my youth and those were fun times, I danced and didn’t care about the actual lyrics (I was/am not a critic, just a boy by the radio).

 

I'm pretty sure Mick Jones was mad that was a huge hit b/c it was such a great song that he felt Foreigner could have/should have recorded. Thus Mick responded by doing his own solo album, which was an absolute turd. There were few bigger bombs in the MTV era. He had Mick Jagger, Billy Joel & Carly Simon (among others) appearing on the record and it lasted like one or two weeks on the charts. tl;dr Lou Gramm is Foreigner.

 

Mick Jones had a solo album? Who knew.

 

References to Loverboy and Foreigner always bring me back to the "Foreigner Belt" episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

 

Personally, I can do without her.
I used to like her early stuff,
"Borderline"...
but once she got off with that
"Papa, Don't Preach" phase, I tuned out.

 

Oh, come on. You know you just wanna hold it. (And that's all. I mean, don't listen to it.)

 

This would have been 1987-88-ish? I think having Jagger and Simon on the record answers the question about relevancy, at least to anyone younger than Baby Boomer age at the time. I know I was clamoring for Foreigner solo projects when I was in high school back then. (Says the guy who had Heart's "Bad Animals" on cassette. Shhh! Shut up! Stop saying the quiet parts loud!)

When I think Mick Jones, I think the Clash long before I ever think of Foreigner's Mick Jones, who, by the way, did one of the worst solos ever on "Hot Blooded", one that gets praised for reasons I don't understand (the rhythm guitar in that song is what makes it).

They should do an album together, Keeping Up With The Joneses. (Rim shot ... 80s TV sitcom intro, etc.)