It makes much more sense when you know it's Trojans not jojos.

[mrissa]

So here is my silly question for the day:

What is the worst song you are prepared to admit to liking here, on my lj?

I was going to default to Salt N Pepa's "Shoop," but the more I talk about "Shoop" the more I end up defending it as doing a very good job indeed at what it's doing, even though it's way outside my usual tastes. So I'm now thinking that it has to be something from Billy Joel's Innocent Man album, which my cousins and I wore through in cassette form when I was 6 and which I will always love for that reason.

This came up because we encountered references to the band America recently, at which timprov and I feel the urge to exhort them to name the damn horse. Sometimes we suggest names for the horse. Spot. Sparky. Frank. Lefty. Esteban. Rita. On the Way To Mississippi By Way of Kalamazoo, because it's a horse, so the name doesn't even have to look like a name. We don't care. Just name the horse. You're in the desert. You've got time. (This does not qualify, as I don't actually like the song.)

No mocking the other people who answer! Although defending their choices as actually good is just fine.

Comments

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

Well, the obvious answer is that I'm in love with "We Built This City." But I don't think that's a bad song!

Even though everyone disagrees with me on that.

I don't like Shoop, but I do like a bunch of their other ones, namely Let's Talk about Sex and (especially) Push it!

Master and Servant. Informer, by Snow. Green Grass and High Tides Forever!

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I still get the chorus to "Informer" in my head at the slightest provocation.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I will defend the honor of "The Final Countdown" to the death.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

"She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's a bad song either! But part of that is San Francisco nostalgia.

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

Something by Bon Jovi from a couple decades ago. I don't know if I can pick just one sadly.:)

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Are we going for objective bad or bad relative to one's usual taste? I don't even think I know how to assess songs for objective goodness, but there is a bunch of stuff that I like only because I heard it a lot at a formative age, not because it fits the music I currently like. Everything off Elton John's 1974 greatest hits compilation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John%27s_Greatest_Hits), for instance.

The Peloponessian War is like that, yes.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

As I said before, the worst song on my current playlist is probably the Eagles' "Learn to Be Still," which I keep around for one line that I really like. (We are like sheep without a shepherd/Don't know how to be alone/So we wander round this desert/Wind up following the wrong gods home) I may have to think more to come up with the worst song I like overall.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I utterly failed to have San Francisco nostalgia for that song. Of course, I also think that 'Starship' should never have lost the 'Jefferson' or possibly the 'Airplane'.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Honestly, "Do You Believe In Life After Love," otherwise known as "Cher Now Faintly Audible Everywhere In America," which suuucks but wanders into my head and then I enjoy it for awhile, mildly.

[rosefox]

I listen to bad music as a hobby--brooksmoses and I once spent an afternoon driving around with the windows down and the speakers cranked to blast Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays the Popular Classics at top volume--so I'm hard-pressed to pick the worst bad music I love, even discarding obvious contenders like Richard Cheese or Me First & the Gimme Gimmes.

The Sinfonia's "Classical Muddly" is probably up there, though. Or, uh, down there.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

THAT IS NOT A BAD SONG!

It is a revolutionary, healthy, sex-positive, AWESOME song!

My bad song I love is ABC's "Poison Arrow." Or maybe Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride."

Yes, I was born in 1971. Call a hotline.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

...Actually, I just remembered that I love Kenny Loggins' "This is It."

Which may trump... no, nothing trumps "Break My Stride." That song is awful.

I also like Carly Simon and Melissa Manchester.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll take it as a good song.

I'll switch my bad song to "Get Out of My Dreams, Get into My Car."

[athenais.livejournal.com]

"Not Gonna Get Us," t.A.T.u.

[caoilfhionn.livejournal.com]

"Butterfly" by Smile.dk. The song would have been completely invisible in the U.S., but then it was included in Dance Dance Revolution. It only seems vapid until you hear the other songs on their eponymous album. And yet...so inescapably boppy...

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I saw Matthew Wilder on American Bandstand back in 1983. "Break My Stride" is insanely catchy.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Now that's a bad song. *g*

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Well, *I* don't think this is bad, but I had "No Scrubs" by TLC stuck in my head for literally six months, and ended up getting it stuck in everyone else's heads too. But I *love* TLC, and had just downloaded it all from eMusic. There the TLC collection sits, in the very same playlists as all of my indier-than-thou favorites, without shame.

As for things I actually think might be sort of bad? There are the three Carrie Underwood songs, along with a whole host of Glee soundtrack downloads. The three I have and shameless sing out loud are "Last Name," for its love of tequila and car-theft, "Cowboy Casanova" because it makes me laugh, and "Before He Cheats" because I just roll like that.

I totally stand by the Lady Gaga, however.

(Just in case you're all thinking of disowning me, don't forget, I have all of the music! More than enough to support my IMS, indie and gothic cred. Don't Judge Me!)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Oh THANKS for the horrible earworm.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

It's great for washing dishes to. Plus cyber-hologram-Cher with plastic straws on her head! I will forgive much for a splendidly cheesy video. (Yes, I *was* in high school when MTV was invented....)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

A bad, bad song that I've hated all my life: The Pina Colada Song. Also Magnet and Steel.

[madmanatw.livejournal.com]

You can dance if you want to, you can leave your friends behind...

(Ok, I'm sure that's not the worst, but I'm not thinking of any good examples offhand.)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

For once in your LIFE, here's your MIRacCLE! STAND up and FIGHT!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It takes talent to lose entire airplanes, I think.