by Ape Module » Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:01 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>Charlene's I've Never Been to Me is truly one of the most horrible songs ever written and recorded.
Most everything I'll mention has already been posted, but my worst '80's things
Ronald Regan
Bombastic pop-ballads from the likes of Peter Cetrea, Cher, etc.
Pretty Woman - I absoluetly HATE that movie
The incrediblely confounding rise of Phil Collins and Hall & Oats
Hair metal
Formulatic, "event" movies - stories sacrificed for focus group friendly films (see most anything starring Tom Cruise)
HIV - although I work in the field, I'd rather make a living off something else.
The rise of televangilism & infomercials
Sam Kinnison & Jerry Sienfeld - could never stomach either of them.
This was a pretty hard list to come up with though - I was in my early 20's during the 80s and I had a blast - I can think of a hundred things I loved for every one thing I hated.[8D]
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Good list. I'd put Reagan at the top too. Senile old bastard.
I don't think I've heard the Charlene song you guys mentioned. Or if I did I disregarded it completely. I barely heard radio in the 80s.
However, my pick for worst song of the 80s would be "We Built This City" by Jefferson Starship. Yee gods.
Worst video may well be Mick Jagger & David Bowie's "Dancing in the Streets" (which is equally horrible as a song, at least as performed by Mick Jagger & David Bowie.)
Other terrible music acts, many of which already mentioned: Journey, Styx, Foreigner, Huey Lewis and the News...too mahy to name really.
I disdain the rise of televangelism too..as far as it's IQ-crushing impact on society but I gotta admit I used to watch Robert Tilton and Jim and Tammy and stuff just for the love of hating it. It was fun whilst high to watch these overwrought assholes.
One thing that really bugged me in the 80s was how EVERYBODY had to insert a little rap or hip hop into their act as well as in coroprate merchandising. You couldn't see a Froot Loops or Fruity Pebbles commercial without Toucan Sam sporting a huge medallion and backwards ball cap rapping about being part of an essential, vitamin-fortified breakfast or Barney Rubble breakdancing (boyee). So many already crap artists also had to make their attempt at being funkee fresh, etc. I don't hate rap per se, though I'm not a big fan and I do actively hate gangsta/pimp rap, but I got pretty sick of all these old timers trying to jump on the cred bandwagon by adding scratches, samples and breakbeats.