Really Bad Pop Songs

I always thought it should have been dedicated to Shirley Jackson
 
This one drove me banana's--because they'd play it over and over and over! The lyrics are total drivel, too--so here it is.

Brand New Key by Melanie

I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller-skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you see
I been looking around awhile
You got something for me
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

I ride my bike, I roller skate don't drive no care
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive
I been all around the world
Some people say, I done all right for a girl

Oh, yea yea, oh, yea yea yea, oh yea yea yea yea yea yea

I asked your mother if you were at home
She said yes but you weren't alone
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out to see
La la la la la la la la, la la la la la la
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
 
alwaysawake said:
This one drove me banana's--because they'd play it over and over and over! The lyrics are total drivel, too--so here it is.

Brand New Key by Melanie

I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller-skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you see
I been looking around awhile
You got something for me
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

I ride my bike, I roller skate don't drive no care
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive
I been all around the world
Some people say, I done all right for a girl

Oh, yea yea, oh, yea yea yea, oh yea yea yea yea yea yea

I asked your mother if you were at home
She said yes but you weren't alone
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out to see
La la la la la la la la, la la la la la la
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

Brand New Key, someone had already mentioned this one! I liked it when it first came out. I know, I was young and dumb! But I thought it had a catchy melody, never really cared for the lyrics, but you are right they definitely played it over and over!

One that Daniel can't stand and I didn't, but is one of those that they play all the time. And even though you don't like it, it kind of catches on and you can't get it out of your mind.........Jewel's new song where she is trying to be sexy and more "rockish" Intuition!
 
I asked my parents about bad songs...my Mom said look up this...I have never heard it but the lyrics....:rollseyes:


Think - Once You Understand

(Things get a little easier, once you understand)
[repeated in background over and over and over until the end of the song]

[spoken dialog]
[Dad]
I'll be expecting you to get a haircut by Friday
[Boy]
Forget it dad, that won't change anything
[Dad]
Forget, nothing, you'll do as I say as long as you are living in my house.

[Mom]
He knows I'm not feeling well
And yet he doesn't take out one second out to help his mother
His only concern is for himself
[Boy]
Come on ma, what do you want from me
[Dad]
Don't argue with your mother, just shut up and listen

[Girl]
But mom, all my friends will be there
[Mom]
I said no, you can't go
[Girl]
But why
[Mom]
I don't want you in that neighborhood
[Girl]
Why, what's wrong with that neighborhood
[Mom]
I don't like the kind of people living there
[Girl]
What's wrong with them
[Mom]
Never mind, some day you will thank me

[Mom]
Are you sure nobody kept you company tonight while you were baby sitting
[Girl]
What's that supposed to mean
[Mom]
Just curious
[Girl]
Admit it mom, you don't trust me

[Mom]
Where are you going now
[Son]
To my friend's house
[Mom]
Don't you have things to do in the house
Don't you have homework
Why don't you sit down and read a book
[Son]
Oh ma
[Mom]
Don't oh ma me
You're wasting your life away with foolish things
[Son]
What are you talking about
How about your bridge club and your ladies groups
and your parties and your daytime programs
How about all that
[Mom]
That's different

[Girl]
Ma, I'll be home at 11
[Mom]
You better be home at 10 or don't bother to come home at all

[Dad]
When I was your age, I was working 12 hours a day
6 days a week helping to pay for the food and the rent
[Son]
I don't understand, what's that got to do with me
[Dad]
If you can't figure that out for yourself, you're stupid

[Boy]
Hey dad, did you see my new guitar, I joined a group
[Dad]
Son, there's a little more to life than joining a group and playing a guitar
[Boy]
Yeah dad, what is there to life (life, life)

[Music and background singing stop]
[Police officer]
Mr Cook,
[Dad]
Yes
[Police officer]
Do you have a son named Robin, Robin Cook age 17
[Dad]
Yes
[Police officer]
I'm sorry Mr Cook, you better come down to the station house
Your son is dead
[Dad]
Dead? How
[Police officer]
He died of a overdose
[Dad]
Oh my god
[crying]

[music starts again and the 'things get a little easier singing too]
 
sorry it is too evil to sing


but "I Think I Love You" (The Partridge Family)
 
dr.bong said:
"I was sleeping and right in the middle of a good dream"



"Like all at once I wake up from something that keeps knocking at my brain"
 
Aw, Cookie! That "Think" sounds like a real winner! It had to be country/western, right?

How about "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"?
sample lyrics: "I know it's hard to love a man whose legs are paralyzed..."

Anyone remember "Hillbilly Heaven" by Tex Ritter?

And I have a confession: The lead singer in Styx? Dennis DeYoung? I can't stand his voice. It goes right through me, like a dentist's drill. gah.


---dr.M.
 
Now, now. Let's not argue.

Can we agree that Lennon & McCartney toghether were unbelievably good, and apart were at best mediocre?

Does anyone else besides me think that "Imagine" is a boring piece of half-hearted piano noodling?

And what about Paul's solo attempts? The execrable "Admiral Halsey", the saccharine and vapid "Silly Little Love Song". Tragic comedowns, weren't they?


---dr.M.
 
dr_mabeuse said:
Now, now. Let's not argue.

Can we agree that Lennon & McCartney toghether were unbelievably good, and apart were at best mediocre?

Does anyone else besides me think that "Imagine" is a boring piece of half-hearted piano noodling?

And what about Paul's solo attempts? The execrable "Admiral Halsey", the saccharine and vapid "Silly Little Love Song". Tragic comedowns, weren't they?


---dr.M.
Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen" makes me want to taste diiner a second time...YUCK!

You come on like a dream, peaches and cream
Lips like strawberry wine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine

You're all ribbons and curls, ooh, what a girl
Eyes that sparkle and shine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine

You're my baby, you're my pet
We fell in love on the night we met
You touched my hand, my heart went pop
Ooh, when we kissed I could not stop

You walked out of my dreams and into my arms
Now you're my angel divine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine

[break]

You're my baby, you're my pet
We fell in love on the night we met
You touched my hand, my heart went pop
Ooh, when we kissed I could not stop

You walked out of my dreams, and into my car
Now you're my angel divine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine
You're sixteen, so beautiful, and you're mine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine
All mine, all mine, all mine
All mine, all mine, all mine
 
Wings...

Anything by Paul McCartney and Wings...

"someone's knockin at my door
somebody's ringing the bell
Do me a favor,
open the door
and let em innnn...oooh yea yea yea."


AAARGH!

Like a Virgin by Madonna. HA

Shout by Tears for Fears, then the remake by Disturbed. That song was bad enough in the 80s, why resurrect it?

You Don't Love Me Anymore - Eddie Rabbitt (I had to listen to that one over and over and over when my mom was going through her divorce).

And the thought of Michael Jackson singing anything even remotely heterosexual like Billie Jean, or tough like Beat It or Bad was enough to make me want to drive my car off a cliff (Good thing I live in a relatively flat area). When he sang Leave Me Alone, people should have listened and stopped buying his records.

I can't believe nobody mentioned 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

"slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
Don't need to be coy, Roy
just listen to me.
Hop on the bus, Gus
Don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
and get yourself free"
 
dr_mabeuse said:
Now, now. Let's not argue.

Can we agree that Lennon & McCartney toghether were unbelievably good, and apart were at best mediocre?

Does anyone else besides me think that "Imagine" is a boring piece of half-hearted piano noodling?

And what about Paul's solo attempts? The execrable "Admiral Halsey", the saccharine and vapid "Silly Little Love Song". Tragic comedowns, weren't they?


---dr.M.



I can think of better things to do with men then fight with them.

I liked Ringo's "When I'm Sixty-Four"...mainly because I think of the opening shots of "The World According To Garp."
 
Lyrics

Honey you re a sweet thing
and you look so fine
all I ever wanted
is to make you mine

Give me... a clue.. tell me what I need to do
to get Lucky with you.

boy I really love you
with my heart and soul
honey won't you take me
where I want to go

Give me... a clue.. tell me what I need to do
to get Lucky with you.

Getting lucky
mmmm ...getting lucky
is really what it's all about
Getting lucky
mmmmm getting lucky
is something that I can't do without

Honey I've been waiting
waiting patiently
let me unlock your heart boy
I think I got the key

Give me... a clue.. tell me what I need to do
to get Lucky with you.
ooo oooh ooo
Give me... a clue.. tell me what I need to do
to get Lucky with you.
ooo ooo cooo
Give me... a clue.. tell me what I need to do
to get Lucky with you.
Give me... a clue.. tell me what I need to do
to get Lucky with you.
ooo honey honey
Give me... a clue.. tell me what I need to do
to get Lucky with you.
( fades out)
 
I agree with the Lennon/McCartney comment


but I would also put Wetton/Downes and Wetton/Fripp in the same category


although most would not
 
Toya you should talk
you listen to tha really ancient song from the 40's

keeping the grinding axe moving
thur the trees on the line
let the men have there flappers
let the day be for thine

I am building the dream
of the love you do give
my woman from heaven
to thee life I give

He kills her because she hates leaving home.... and John Wayne is a lousy singer.
 
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