The Five Songs You Never-Ever Wanna Hear Again

[FileNotFound]

3. That song is so tonally weird it kind of freaked me out when it was out. The "gotta dance" part was haunting to me in combination with the weird-ass synths. Taco's surreal video and his look didn't help matters. And yes, that song had aged badly by December 1983 much less now.

2. Bruce Springsteen's finest moment. Admirable restraint in his delivery.

Which was worse: Puttin on the Ritz, One Night in Bangkok or Rock Me Amadeus?

 

[UNCGrad]

Kind of like Rock Me Amadeus. *ducks*

 

[Bubbler]

Which was worse: Puttin on the Ritz, One Night in Bangkok or Rock Me Amadeus?

Puttin' On The Ritz ... by miles.

One Night In Bangkok can be enjoyed as camp and so can Rock Me Amadeus. They're both fun in a way Puttin' On The Ritz could never be.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Which was worse: Puttin on the Ritz, One Night in Bangkok or Rock Me Amadeus?

There will be no Murray Head slander here goddamnit.

 

[Twirling Time]

Night Tracks on TBS telegraphed so much of this schlock that MTV wouldn't touch. "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead or Alive fits the parameters of this category.

But they did become hits, often massive ones, so hats off to Ted Turner.

 

[Spartan Squad]

We used to have a program where I could see and take control of any of my students' computers any time throughout the day. Many times, I'd be on plan period and feel like messing with people. I'd seize control of either really good kids who'd get a kick out of it or shirtbirds who wouldn't know what happened and Rick Roll them just for the heck of it. They could be in the middle of a math test or something, and I'd do it anyway.

I must know the name is this magical software. The best I can do is control their web browsers to prevent them from visiting certain sites I tell the program to block. But to force open tabs would be the dream.

 

[Twirling Time]

Don't kid yourself. If you're surfing on the company dime, they're tracking every millipixel and every picobyte. Same for the kids and most of them these days are wise to it.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Five off the top of my head:

1. Steve Miller, "Fly Like an Eagle." Tedious, pretentious, shirtty. Hate his entire catalog.

2. The Eagles, "Hotel California." They may have worse songs, but I didn't grow up hearing those other shirtty songs on an endless loop.

3. Foreigner, "Hot Blooded." You could also swap this out with literally anything else Foreigner did.

4. R.E.M., "Stand." One of my absolutely favorite bands. This is a blight on their career. Terrible children's music.

5. Queen, "We Are the Champions." I'll echo Bubbler's thoughts on Queen -- bizarre that they are now considered all-time greats. Wayne's World just totally changed their place in rock history. (The were also boosted by the "Radio Gaga" performance at Live Aid... but that had nothing to do with the song.)

 

[Driftwood]

I must know the name is this magical software. The best I can do is control their web browsers to prevent them from visiting certain sites I tell the program to block. But to force open tabs would be the dream.

It was called Impero. It was great. I could seize cursors and everything, do popup messages on their screens, open and close tabs, you name it. Now we use NetRef, and it sucks. All you can do is get a time-stamped screen shot.

 

[Starman]

Loverboy, Oeuvre

 

[Songbird]

3. Tom Sawyer by Rush ... there's only one good (all time great) song by Rush ...

 

[I Should Coco]

2. The Eagles, "Hotel California." They may have worse songs, but I didn't grow up hearing those other shirtty songs on an endless loop.

3. Foreigner, "Hot Blooded." You could also swap this out with literally anything else Foreigner did.

4. R.E.M., "Stand." One of my absolutely favorite bands. This is a blight on their career. Terrible children's music.

2. If I had done most overplayed 1970s songs -- or the most overrated -- "Hotel California" and "Layla" would be fighting for the top of the list.

3. It's a competition between "Hot Blooded" and "Feels Like the First Time" for cheesiest Lou Gramm lyrics of all time. "I know it must be the woman in you, that brings out the man in me ..." C'mon, Lou!

4. "Shiny Happy People" is another R.E.M. song that fits your description.