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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:42 PM
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Poll question: Vote for the worst Number 1 hit of 1985-1989!

Maybe it's because 1984 was such an unusually good year for mass-appeal music, but to my ears, the Top 40 of the middle to late '80s really sucked! See below and you'll know what I mean.

And when I think of all the stuff I couldn't make room for....
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:44 PM
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1. It's nearly a tie for awfulness,
but I had to vote for Don't Worry because it is a god-awful lyric and a god-awful tune.
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:44 PM
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2. Don't Worry, Be Happy?
I like that one!

At least it isn't a total fake like Milli Vanilli.
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:48 PM
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3. I hated REO Speedwagon then
and I hate them now.
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GOPFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:50 PM
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5. Careful!
:mad:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:49 PM
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4. Worst Song--Don't Worry Be Happy; Worst Artist--Witless Houston
She was awful even before she lost her voice to crack!
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 09:05 PM
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6. Gotta be Whitney.
George Benson's original recording has far more soul.

Besides, the Crack Queen's R&B "yodeling" absolutely grinds on my nerves...
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Friar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 09:07 PM
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7. oh crap
the only tune I recognized was "We Are The World" and I hated it so I didn't vote.
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U2Fanatic Donating Member (187 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:08 PM
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8. I like Rock Me Amedeus......I vote for Milli Vanilli
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Seneca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:45 PM
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9. anything from the Top Gun soundtrack?
:puke:
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carpetbagger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 11:19 PM
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10. I dunno, the Milli Vanilli thing was kind of cool.
Most of the people who scored hits from 1986-1990 really, really sucked. Then along comes Milli Vanilli, who sucks just as much.

But here's the catch. They've managed to fake their way through concert after concert and appearence after appearence, and they are no more real as musicians than were Alvin and the Chipmunks! All that, and they don't really sound any worse than the other "singers" out there until the record skips. Then they sound better.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 11:08 AM
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11. I voted for "The Greatest Love of All!!"
Edited on Tue Oct-21-03 11:11 AM by newyawker99
:puke:

George Benson's version of this song is much better.


Edit to remove an error.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 11:31 AM
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12. Oh Man, What A List Of Uglies This Is!
These are some pretty bad tunes. Eeeeep!

Some of the others mentioned some really bad stuff as well, but this is a pretty dreadful starting point. I mean, come on, REO???

I saw them for $0.50 at my high school in my frosh year. They weren't that good then and they never got any better.
The Professor
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 12:30 PM
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13. Everything REO did after album 1 SUCKED.
They lost that gravelly voiced lead and got the "balls in a vise" tenor. His "vocal stylings" were putridly pretentious.
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