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[geekchick]

Listening to the replay of American Top 40 from 6/30/1984 on XM today, in particular one of the long-distance dedications, inspired this question:

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[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

MacArthur Park.

(I kinda like Horse With No Name and We Built This City, but I'm an admitted weirdo.)

[scherzoid.livejournal.com]

Looks like someone's already mentioned my vote: MacArthur Park. The original's bad enough, but the Donna Summer disco version? *shudder*

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

"My Pal Foot-Foot" by the Shaggs

[geekchick]

Oh man, I'd completely forgotten about that one!

I don't think "We Built This City" is a particularly great song, but it doesn't appear in even the top ten of my "worst songs ever". For some reason though, "Horse With No Name" has annoyed me for decades now.

[geekchick]

I was about to mention Spam's recent purchase of said tune, but I see you're already aware of it. =)

[geekchick]

I have no idea why "MacArthur Park" completely slipped my mind when I was putting this poll together, because GAH!

(It was inspired, for the record, by hearing "Having My Baby" as a long-distance dedication on AT40. Yikes.)

[fayroberts.livejournal.com]

The Railroad Runs Through the Middle of the House.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

I actually like "We Built This City". I'd say my least favorite songs of all time are the N'Sync tracks that Radio Shack forced on me with their hour-long video OVER AND OVER AND OVER FOR TWO MONTHS, until the next video got there... sometimes containing half the same songs.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

My personal nominee is "The One That You Love" by Air Supply, but that's a bias. Also? IDTR is not a bad song. "Charge It!" is a bad song.

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

I forget the artist, but "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" has to be right up, or down, there.

[kmusser]

I don't think any of those would be in my top 10, it's hard to decide on all the horrid songs - but for today I think I'll go with the Enterprise theme song, "Where My Heart Will Take Me" by Diane Warren - dear God is it awful.

[dckermit.livejournal.com]

I like Donna Summer's version better, but neither one makes any sense if you listen to the lyrics. I'm sure someone will claim it's an obvious metaphor for something, but I think the author took too much acid and no one wants to admit they don't understand it.

[dckermit.livejournal.com]

That would be "Who are The Motels?", Alex.

One of my favorite bands.

[dckermit.livejournal.com]

The best version of "Having My Baby" is the one heard in the "WKRP in Cincinnati" pilot episode by the "Hallelujah Tabernacle Choir."

What's fun about listening to old AT40 is the backflips they tried to do to satisfy the bible belt folk. "Having My Baby" was blamed for teenaged pregnancies, much as Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" was blamed for teenaged suicides. Rather than explaining Huey Lewis's "I Want a New Drug" as a metaphor for the feeling of being in love, they proclaimed that it was actually "an anti-drug song."

I guess not much has changed, eh?

[qe2.livejournal.com]

"I Just Called To Say I Love You". Oh, Stevie, how could you.

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Achy, breaky heart by Billy Ray Cyrus. It makes me want to carve out people's eyes.

[nixieq.livejournal.com]

i must admit to a TERRIBLE fondness for "we built this city". i know, i know, i hang my head in shame.

[sarahshevett.livejournal.com]

Africa from Toto
The way they sing "Ser enget eeeee"
is the WORST!