02-05-2008, 04:22 PM
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Lets do a one hit wonder thread, the worse they are the better
My Pick:
"I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts!" by Right said Fred Last edited by SugarBaby; 02-05-2008 at 04:35 PM. |
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02-05-2008, 05:36 PM
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Some other ones comes to mind, though: 1. "My Sharona," - The Knack 2. "Don't Worry Be Happy" - Bob McFerrin 3. "Play that funky music white boy" - Wild Cherry 4. "Who let the Dogs Out?" -Baha Men 5. "Tainted Love" - Soft Cell 6. "The Final Countdown" - Europe |
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02-05-2008, 08:37 PM
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Zen... stealing my "The Final Countdown" junker.... dammit
Eddie Murphy "Party All the Time" Los Del Rio "The Macarena" Gerardo "Rico Suave" Nena "99 Luftballoons" Don Johnson "Heartbeat" It don't get much worse than that list Last edited by DiamondDave; 02-05-2008 at 08:41 PM. |
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02-05-2008, 09:50 PM
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Harper Valley PTA, Jeannie C. Riley
Ode To Billy Joe, Bobby Gentry Happiest Girl in the Whole USA, Donna Fargo I got a brand new pair of roller skates, You got a brand new key, Melody I gotta go wash off my keboard now...it feels like melted sugar. ICK |
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02-06-2008, 06:31 AM
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida..Iron Butterfly
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We'll carve our names On a tree Then we'll burn it down So no one in the world will see And we'll make love While we watch the flame Then we'll walk away As if we never had no shame John Prine |
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02-06-2008, 09:56 AM
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awww jeez....no disco crappola yet? Put anything down that's disco...
Disco Duck by (Dees) How about that Kajagoogoo crap, Too Shy...... Funkytown....Lipps The Hustle.... Then there's that bung, Dolby....She Blinded Me With Science... Here's a beauty.....Boogie Ooogie Oogie....by, (who cares!!!) Nasty stuff there......  |
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02-06-2008, 10:34 AM
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Anyone recall the extaordinary atrocity which was Victor Lundberg's "Open Letter To My Teenage Son?" Astonishingly, this release got tons of airplay on the pop stations in the late sixties. It was a spoken piece, the premise being a concerned father responding to questions raised by his counter culture son and was supposed to represent the establishment response to all those damn hippies, yippies and social dropouts.
It was delivered in this Lorne Greenish, stern, ponderous tone, you'd have to roll up a magazine and orate through that to appoximate the sound. The moment the man opens his mouth, you can tell he hates the kid. There's a bunch of bogus patronizing as he pretends like he respects the coming generation, but that is mere warm up for the real messsage which is all John Wayne-America the Beautiful-Beaver Cleaver in style and content. It was reflective of prevailing values, for example, he tells his son that "Your mother will love you no matter what, because she's a woman." All of it builds to the climax where Dad gets tough and tells the kid that if he burns his draft card, "Then burn your birth certificate too, for from that day on, I have no son." You could create a special category of sixties music (although "Open Letter" wasn't really a song) where artists had hits that were anti-counter culture. It would include "Dawn of Correction" which was a reactive attempt to put down Barry McGwire's "Eve of Destruction", and more famously, "Okie From Muskogee", Merle Haggard's assault on all things hip. |
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