Manuscript, circa AD 1350.
"Best" and "Worst" are often creatures of Pure Subjectivity—especially when it comes to literature, art, and music. Golf and baseball, in contrast, have objective metrics. I know that I have a list of "The Songs I Love to Hate."
Here is a link to my "10 Baddest, Worstest-Ever Pop Songs" (in reverse order).
john
Did 'Come On Eileen' ever chart? Seems the bartenders were always using it to sweep us out at closing time...
Come on Eileen was a giant hit when I lived in London. You might hate it, but it’s nostalgia for me.
It did VERY well in the US:
| US Billboard Adult Contemporary | 31 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| US Billboard Top Tracks | 6 |
| US Cash Box | 1 |
Until I researched it, I had not known that parts of it derive from the Thomas Moore (the folk song collector; not the Catholic saint) song set to an old Irish air. Moore's version is called "Believe me, if all these endearing young charms." I recall the music video as being very Irish slice-of-life, but, darn, it was shot in London! (I grew up in an Irish New England neighborhood, and my mother's aunts spoke Gaelic when they did not want the kids to understand what they were talking about.) I thought it was a bit of a cash-in, an appeal to a certain ethnic demographic, but I didn't think it existentially awful. all my best, john
Kevin Rowland whose band it was is from Wolverhampton where his parents had settled after immigrating from Ireland.
Technically he is more Irish than Rod Stewart is Scottish (haven't met any Scots who think Rod is one of them to be fair).
The band was named after Dexedrine a brand name of some sort of amphetamine.
Technically he is more Irish than Rod Stewart is Scottish (haven't met any Scots who think Rod is one of them to be fair).
The band was named after Dexedrine a brand name of some sort of amphetamine.
Yes, she was rather terrible. We can all be thankful that it was not she, who was "Having [Paul Anka's] Baby"!!!
That would have brought on the End Times... .
I once paid a $50 bill to the man from the entertainment vendor to remove (and let me destroy) ‘Sweet Caroline’ from my local bar jukebox. That would have been 1980’s, dang near $200 in todays money……..the price of sanity! 😎
Backstory; there was a feller that came in every evening after work and would play that song…….to this day every time I hear the name Caroline I go straight to bom,bom,baaa…. ! 😆
Backstory; there was a feller that came in every evening after work and would play that song…….to this day every time I hear the name Caroline I go straight to bom,bom,baaa…. ! 😆
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I always thought they were the only band I knew that was named after a laxative.....
I mistakenly thought that with enough beer, the Spice Girls movie would be funny. Being thrown out of the theater is my evidence that we tried to drink enough, but the movie was never funny.
"Every loser wins" by Wicksy
"Just say no" cast of Grange hill
Sue Pollard did something dreadful.
"Blobby Blobby Blobby"
Sadly, I could dredge up many more given enough time.
"Just say no" cast of Grange hill
Sue Pollard did something dreadful.
"Blobby Blobby Blobby"
Sadly, I could dredge up many more given enough time.
Been watching some "Midnight Special" yearly compilations on YT. Some Gems in there at both ends of the stick. "cover of the rolling stone" performance is just so awful, it's great! Brownsville Stations' performance equally horrific, but I can see where a lot of people got their "we can do this too" ideas from. Heart, Journey, Ted Nigent, Fleetwood Mac were really good - gosh everyone was so young and beautiful AND performing like that.