That's actually a really pretty song. Agree to disagree

I am, I actually liked this song.

The suspense...the mystery...

His stomach is full but Timothy is missing...

where on earth did he go?

hahaaaahahahah

The band (possibly because of the general wtf? freakout) claimed Timothy was a mule. Suuuuuuure.

shines a whole new light on the term, "Bite my ass"...

TOTALLY SUKKED in the 70's and hasn't gotten any better!

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(or whatever the fake choir was called in the first episode of WKRP in Cicinnati). Unfortunately, that clip is not on YouTube.

I am not going to play that video.

Funny thing is I remember hearing a dirty drinking song version of that but I can't recall it, nor do I want to.

Whenever I think of the BAD pop music from the 70s, this always tops my list.

I grew up with a preteen sister that worshipped vapid bubblegum music during the mid-70's. It was hell on earth when she played records.

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Sorry, thank you for playing!

what fresh hell is this? The bell bottoms and in-sync "dance moves" should have been enough to banish them from the airwaves but Wikipedia shows they had a number of hits.... it must have been the preponderance of acid available in the 70's, it's the only logical explanation.

I remember watching reruns of The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch and their on stage personas were better than this.

Fail #1 was... dudes don't wear chokers

...the next thing I knew, I was on top of a tall building and some nice policeman was trying to "Talk me down",,,,,

The reason I started this thread was some songs YouTube "recommended" to me when someone in DU pointed out that Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" was a song about suicide. Suicide how? By jumping off a tall building!

...and then I remember something about a train coming toward me...and the next thing I knew I was living in Florida.

I'd completely forgotten that hideous song but now you've brought it to the forefront of my memories and with visuals to accompany it! Where's the brain bleach! I think you win -- or at least tie with Havin' My Baby!

I think it played every half hour on our little AM transistor radio when I was a kid.

The horror. The horror.

I can now, at this great remove in time, find some good humor in the fact that lyrics referencing 'the sound of running feet' on the East Side make no mention of splashes and gurglings....

And no, I will not push PLAY . . .

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to each other ?

40 years later, she's still got it and I got it for her.

I can only assume they hate their fans

the Carpenters had it too, must be a Mormon thing.

He engineered the Beatles' recordings in the beginning and then went on to produce Pink Floyd. John Lennon called him "Normal Smith." I'll give him a pass.

Anything to get that out of my head.

I will delete.

Sorry!!

I win.


ABBA.

EVERYTHING that guy did was crap--the definition of crap! How did anybody THAT bad ever get to record anything??!?

therefore I offer up this little gem of melodramatic tear jerkiness:

Besides, a guy can't have an identical twin sister - that's not genetically possible (small X/Y problem there).

I was browsing in a record store one day when I heard someone say they'd found the disco version of "Stairway To Heaven." I was so infuriated that I went over and, when no one was looking, broke that record over my knee!

SACRILEGE, I tell ya!

It has a skull with a knife through the top of it. That's pretty much how I felt about it, and her as well. She knows "classic rock" better than I do and I grew UP with it. I heard a hip hop version of "Stairway To Heaven" in a bar a while back and promptly finished my beverage and left. Some things are just wrong on every level possible.

My best friend from high school had a wide-carriage dot-matrix printer hooked up to his Apple II. We wrote a very simple program that printed "DISCO SUCKS" over and over and over and over and then took the paper (green bar) to school and slipped them into lockers through the vent slots. Nobody figured out who had done it, despite the fact that we were known geeks.

Progressive rock from the early 70's is still some of the best music ever made (Genesis, King Crimson, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, and such), and late 70's rock like Heart, Styx, Bad Company, Dire Straits, Talking Heads, and such was really good stuff, but disco sort of threw a shadow over the entire era. Most people, when asked about 70's music, think "Bee Gees" and John Travolta in his white idiot suit. He's done some good work, but the "Stayin' Alive" thing isn't among it.

With all the good and bad that it entails. Lotsa' that stuff, even the bad, was nevertheless common background noise during a more carefree time in my life.

I really hated that one, plust almost every other one mentioned here. This is probably in my top ten of worst songs.

1970. I used to fall asleep with the radio on and this sonofabitch cured me of that habit in one night. In fact, I still can't listen to it without the hair standing up on the back of my neck!

That song was just too creepy.

...and to be sure, some good work has already been done upthread.

Disco Duck - Rick Dees et. al.

Only threw up once! Just once...

I have a 'Having My Baby'. ear-worm. Now I have to listen to the entire sound track of 'Tankgirl' to get rid of it.

IMHO, a heroically concise term for it.

If you need further auditory/mental reformatting, I suggest Electric Ladyland.

If his sister looked like him, I'd be long gone.

But I take your point. This song is just dreadful.

Never! You all have to suffer with me.

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I didn't see you'd posted this so I mentioned it below. Totally agree it's got to be in the top ten of worst '70s songs. A song so bad I couldn't even find a version of it on youTube as almost every version by any singer has been removed.

That is my choice for stinker of the 70's.

1946, but brought back sometime in the mid 1970s

I assume it never got on the radio. I guess putting 15 million young men in uniform together for four years and I guess that'll have some kind of impact on the popular culture.

"Girl, you're a hot-blooded woman-child, and it's warm where you're touching me..."
AND "Cause I'll just use you, then I'll set you free"...

"Alone Again (Naturally)" was mentioned upthread.

So he's tied with Paper Lace for the awesome title The Absolute Worst Artist Of The Entire Seventies.

so much bad in one thread has to be good, right.

We often laughed at the music on the radio, ergo, my sons did NOT become musically inclined...Best thread evah!!!!

Three songs for a dime.

Gak! That is quite possibly the worst thing I have ever seen!

How about that "Native American" dancing?

Oh, I have to go have a strong drink....

a song so bad I can't even find it on YouTube. All the artists who sang it decided they hated it so much they had their versions removed from youtube!

This was one song we didn't want sung at our wedding so we specifically asked the band not to play it. Towards the end of the reception, my sister got up and sang it!

Complete with real Pac-Man sound effects!!

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I'm not sure if this song wants to be rock, country or disco.