particularly I am Woman. (and I am one.)

... so bad, I forgive you if you forgot it.

-- Mal

Henry Gross wrote it for Beach Boy Carl Wilson when his beloved Shannon died

Telephone Man.

I agree with ALL of them!!!!

...for the masochistic:

afternoon delight - starland vocal band

I find it to be a chipper, cheerfully subversive little tune. They aren't singing about having a great cup of coffee.

...the sickly sweet, sappy and annoying vocals and production values - the words are pretty much drowned out by the fact that the song is virtually impossible to listen to all the way through - for me, at least.

Never been there, but I suspect that if I went to some family-oriented music venues in Branson, MO, I'd hear this tune more than once, and I suspect nobody in the audience would consider the tune "subversive."

If I want subversion in musical compositions, Starlight Vocal Band isn't on any of my lists of artists to turn to.

Not to mention that SVB was awarded the "Best New Artist" by the Grammys in whatever year that was, and as a voting member of NARAS, I am embarrassed when these type of artists are selected for recognition by industry professionals and musical peers - anybody ever hear anything outta that group since they walked off the stage with their Grammys?

I didn't think so.

would consider this perky little ditty -- with drowned-out words about getting laid in the afternoon -- to be subversive.

That's what makes it so subversive.

...but I can't get to "subversive" on this one.

Perky - OK - but subversive...I don't know about that. And perky songs generally annoy me.

If only the disputes here at DU were all so trivial as disagreeing about an early 70s crappy - or, perhaps, perky yet subversive - pop tune, this place might be "the happiest place on earth" - or at least, the internet tubes.

Oh shit! Now I've got "It's A Small World After All" playing in my head!!

...SUBVERSIVE!!!

Just seeing the titles brings it all roaring back in its glorious awfulness.

Some more

Afternoon Delight.
The Night Chicago Died
You're Having My Baby
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Send in the Clowns
You Light Up My Life
Him

The horror...the horror

Charlene's, "I've Never Been to Me". Would rather stick needles into my eyes than listen to this song. You'll know it when you hear it.

But what the hell was the songwriter and singer when they wrote and sang this?

Fish Heads

... sic transit gloria mundi, and Tuesday's not much better.

-- Mal

I'm 54 and I remember cringing every time one of those songs were played either on the radio, or by my sister and her friends.

he requested a mix CD with Jerry Reed-Eastbound and Down, Finger Eleven- Paralyzer, and Bob Marley-Three Little Birds.
It was the weirdest mix and he wanted to play it over and over and over again. I don't think I like any of those songs anymore.