Worst 80s Song

[colchar]

Let's think about what you were hearing on the radio in the '70s
You Light Up My Life, Jive Talkin', Disco Duck, Love Will Keep Us Together, Silly Love Songs, to name a few.

All of those sucked but, in the 70s, we also had the Almman Brothers releasing everything from Idelwild South to Enlightened Rogues. We also had Skynyrd releasing their entire catalogue. And Zeppelin released everything from Led Zeppelin III to In Through the Out Door. The Stones also released everything from Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out to Some Girls. The Who released everything from Live at Leeds to Who Are You.

All of the albums released by those bands during the 70s are enough to make it the greatest decade for rock music ever.

[Bostondevil]

Witness Ray Parker, Jr.

Oh man, now you've done it! Kitschy? Yes. Silly? Definitely. But Ghostbusters is one heckuva pop song. From the moment I heard it over the closing credits I knew that song was going to be a hit.

but I have a gut feeling you'd run out first

I don't know, how many songs did Three Dog Night record?

ETA:

All of the albums released by those bands during the 70s are enough to make it the greatest decade for rock music ever.

The key word here being rock. So we can both be right (and noone is insane ;-) ) '80s Pop far exceeds '70s Pop and vice versa for classic rock. Plus I can't help pointing out that if maybe some of those guys hadn't, you know, died, they might have kept making music into the '80s.

[lmb]

I think this was early 80's...
The Pina Colada song sucks and seems to have made a resurgence on a lot of radio stations lately.

Other nominees:

Elvira
Arthur's Theme
Hungry Eyes
Let's Hear It For the Boy (complete w/note that only dogs can hear)
I Just Called to Say I Love You

[throatybeard]

My brother in law has a house plant named Robert.

What we're ignoring here is that the real nadir of American postwar music was all that 4-white-guys-and-some-guitars garbage that was popular in the mid/late 1990s. 3rd Eye Blind, Goo goo Dolls &c.

[Lavabe]

I think this was early 80's...
The Pina Colada song sucks and seems to have made a resurgence on a lot of radio stations lately.

Other nominees:

Elvira
Arthur's Theme
Hungry Eyes
Let's Hear It For the Boy (complete w/note that only dogs can hear)
I Just Called to Say I Love You

Rupert Holmes' classic PINA COLADA SONG charted in December 1979 through January 1980. Why do I know this? I remembered listening to it, and wanting to hurl on New Year's Eve ... and it wasn't due to any drinking.

My apologies for the Falco/Taco confusion. Thank you, Jason, for targeting the source of my confusion.
Elvira... GAG! Or should I say: Giddyeup, a hoom pocka, hoom pocka, mao, mao. Hi-ho silver, and away!

aimo, DA: We'll just agree to disagree on ONIB.

On the other hand, Mr. Roboto deserves a special place on the list.

I offer all of you one other bizarre 80's pop moment:
KISS unmasked, singing: Lick It Up.

Cheers,
Lavabe

[hc5duke]

My brother in law has a house plant named Robert.

What we're ignoring here is that the real nadir of American postwar music was all that 4-white-guys-and-some-guitars garbage that was popular in the mid/late 1990s. 3rd Eye Blind, Goo goo Dolls &c.

Crap-rock? no... Wuss-rock.

[EarlJam]

I offer all of you one other bizarre 80's pop moment:
KISS unmasked, singing: Lick It Up.

Cheers,
Lavabe

Good one. And if you want to see all that was horrid about the wacky 80s hair band music with all its tacky antics and bad singing, just click on the link below (Yankee Rose by David Lee Roth's band).

When it comes to playing guitar, Steve Vai is the real deal. He's incredible. But how he got mixed up in all this, I don't know. Guess it was working at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2mQpYG2POM


-EarlJam

[colchar]

Good one. And if you want to see all that was horrid about the wacky 80s hair band music with all its tacky antics and bad singing, just click on the link below (Yankee Rose by David Lee Roth's band).

When it comes to playing guitar, Steve Vai is the real deal. He's incredible. But how he got mixed up in all this, I don't know. Guess it was working at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2mQpYG2POM


-EarlJam

I saw them on that tour and they were great (and, from what I've heard, I can be seen in one of their videos that was shot at the concert...although I've never seen it myself). Roth was...well he was himself. Vai and Sheehan could play like nobody's business. The drummer sucked though (and his brother, who played bass on the next tour, was terrible).

[Lavabe]

ONIB - yes, I really do like that song. I have a version with a great symphonic opening, the whole thing is like 8 min. long. Did you know that Tim Rice wrote the lyrics?

Two other 80's bizarre symphonic albums of pop/rock:
The Berlin Philharmonic's Born to Run.
Also, my wife has a symphonic YES album.
Cheers,
Lavabe

[DevilAlumna]

For the past ten minutes since I read this, I've had "Lost in Your Eyes" playing in my head. Not that I know the lyrics. I don't. I swear. I SWEAR!

But the tune and the chorus. This sucks. Must...get....new tune....in....head.

-EeaarrllJjaamm

The hubby taught me a good trick for this -- sing "Happy Birthday" a couple of times to yourself (in your head is fine), and the old song will be gone.

Supposedly the reason it works is that it's a tune that's readily recalled but not one you actually like to hear, and it has a definite ending.

[duke74]

Or a new head, whichever comes first, eh? "what have they done to my brain, Ma, what have they done to my brain . . . ." Was that from the 80's? It should have been; then I'd know a few words from one freakin song from that entire decade.

Don't get old, my droogy, droogs, don't ever get old!

Melanie...Late 60's or early 70's. "I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates...you've got a brand new key"