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Post by greendemon on Mar 31, 2024 21:29:36 GMT 1
Jive Bunny I don't know most of the songs in this thread but unfortunately am familiar with a few of their contributions...
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 9:11:35 GMT 1
10 Status Quo - Medley: The Anniversary Waltz Part 1
Whats arguably worse than Jive Bunny, a once respected rock band that basically makes a Jive Bunny record. Status Quo were already a bit of a joke band at this point, eventhough they reclaimed some credibility with 'In The Army Now' this is just an awful cash-in. Don't care it's an Anniversary thing, they knew exactly what they were doing. This reached #2 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 9:14:44 GMT 1
9 Big Fun - Handful of Promises
Were Big Fun the worst SAW act, I would certainly make a case for them as Pat & Mick for example we were not expecting anything from them but I assume these guys were chosen for the talent and they make Jason Donovan look George Michael. They also got given the most generic terrible songs. This reached #21 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 9:18:22 GMT 1
8 Biz Markie - Just a Friend
This is probably a marmite record, I can see why people would like this but it just grates on me so much and unlike most of this list, it still gets played a lot especially on US TV shows. So yeh it is probably an Ok rap record but I really hate the chorus, so so much it is like needles going into my eyes. Fun video though. This reached #9 in the US but just #65 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 9:22:05 GMT 1
Now a couple of easy targets
7 Hi Tek 3 - Spin That Wheel (Turtles Get Real)
This is basically a Technotronic clone that is very clumsily turned into a TMNT song. And yeh it has all the same tropes and cliches, just lazy. It isn't horrible I guess unlike the next song. It reached #15 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 9:25:25 GMT 1
6 Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power
Not sure Hi Tek 3 deserved to be that high but this reqlly does. Loved the movie btw and great to see April looking like April. But it is total cheese and of course so is this song, again I think been a bit unfair this has aged better than a lot of music lower down. I can only spend so much time playing these and sometimes my first impressions are wrong, Anyway this was a Uk number one!! Which really is teh biggest travesty, in its self it is a decent end credits track from a kids movie.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 9:28:56 GMT 1
5 Stevie B - Because I Love You (The Postman Song)
The worst ballad on the list by some distance. it has no redeeming features, it is like a bad Lionel Richie song, no an extremely bad one, one he would have binned within 5 mins and why The Postman Song that has annoyed me for years. Oh this is just awful. This was a US number one, can you imagine how often I heard this on Atlantic 252, pure agony!!
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 9:32:43 GMT 1
4 Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne fest Paul Gascoigne
I am almost glad to hear this after that last song but no not really. Nothing about this is good not even the parts the original band did, it was a pretty poor song in the first place but Gazza makes this 1000x worse, it makes John Barnes sound like Ice T in comparison. Some of the worst rapping ever and one of the worst records ever. This reached #2 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 9:38:00 GMT 1
Well you might have guessed two of the songs to come, maybe not this one as thankfully it didn't get as much airplay but it is just as horrible don't you believe it.
3 Bombalurina, Timmy Mallett - Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat
Timmy Mallet was already super cringe before he decided he would be a pop star, then anyone left who didn't hate him, did now. Who on earth bought this stuff??? OH Yeh!! of course The only decent thing about this is the girls in the video of course and they were the only reason most sane people listened to more than 5 seconds of any of his hits. This only reached #18 in the charts and was rapidly forgotten and that was the end of it....phew. Although for any masochists out there, there is an album!!!
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 10:49:09 GMT 1
Had an angry bear not surprised, with this list, so couldn't post the top 2 will be back later
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 1, 2024 11:11:16 GMT 1
The girls were right, the driver did need to keep his eyes on the road. I do wonder what kind of car it was though - was it a stretch limousine? In which case you could fit Fred and 7 girls in the back.
The song was previously a hit for Paul "Hello This Is Joannie" Evans as well as the Avons in the UK. The other one was a cover of Brian Hyland, whose other big hit "Sealed With A Kiss" had been covered to get to #1 a year before.
And no, Lionel Richie would never have done anything as bad as "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)".
The Turtle one I didn't like at the time but hearing it back in the retro chart it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd recalled and actually got into my top 20 in the replay chart, although that may have been before the "reshuffle" or close to that week.
Regarding Rita MacNeil, whatever you think of the music, it's clearly a lyrical song, about the demise of the coal-mining industry and she was from Canada, so it was clearly a global issue as the world switched to new fuel sources, rather than simply Margaret Thatcher, although in her case I thought it was more because of importing it cheap from abroad rather than changing the main source of fuel.
When you think about it, coal-mining wasn't exactly pleasant and there were "mining disasters" with workers getting trapped and dying, as well as other illnesses they may have got from inhaling the stuff, and if they could find better sources of fuel, all good, albeit it is unfortunate for those who may need to find new jobs, but that's what happens and you can't be a luddite about it.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 11:23:16 GMT 1
Ok we are back on for the top 2, well I am sure you have gussed the number one but this is at #2
2 2 In A Room - Wiggle It
First the plus point, great to hear 'acid grooves' in the US chart but that is where it ends. Absolutely dire rap but he isn't a bad rapper just super cringe lyrics. Then we get to the super cheese chorus, we won't sink to these depths until another US rap act has a few hits in a couple of years. Just awful. But ok another plus point, if you were drunk at a party, it can maybe work!! It reached #15 in the US and #3 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 1, 2024 11:27:42 GMT 1
So the worst song of 1990 well it coudl only be one, it was nailed in from the start *****************Number One****************** Bombalurina, Timmy Mallett - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot BikiniEverything I said about the previous Bombularina song applies to this but what makes this worse, is that it was a number one and you heard it everywhere for months. I can't really add any more comments I have said it already. It is dire, Timmy Mallett is untalented, the production is super lazy, stereotypical late 80s house pop like most of the bad stuff here and it was a pretty cringe song in the first place. I am sure MK loved it 1991 coming soon and in many ways it is worse!!
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Post by Good Old Days on Apr 1, 2024 13:23:43 GMT 1
Possibly Adamski - Killer is my least favourite hit from 1990 year.
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Post by greendemon on Apr 3, 2024 11:06:08 GMT 1
Fittingly, the only one of your top 10 I can recall is your number one and it is, indeed, dire.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 3, 2024 11:36:04 GMT 1
Timmy Mallett was very talented as an entertainer. He wasn't a great vocalist but this was intended as a comic record, very much in the "I bet I can get a number one" challenge by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
So take a TV comedian, a silly novelty song from 1960, a few backing vocalists to make it sound a bit more modern, and release it in the summer season.
And then of course you need at least someone to play it, but hey, we have a TV comedian with a show, so it can start there.
If it contributes anything to the world of pop, it's showing how the industry can easily manipulate getting a number one single.
Yes it kept Deacon Blue off #1 but theirs was just a covers EP itself. I never quite got how that was their biggest hit. They had number one albums, but also released so many great singles that under-performed. And it knocked that Turtles one off the top - nobody really cared about that.
True that the DNA remake of the Suzanne Vega song was probably more deserving of being a chart topper.
Wiggle It: Yeah I recall now that was out first in 1990 in the USA, but I think of it as 1991. A bit silly but nothing terrible about it.
Jive Bunny: I'd almost forgotten how long they continued. That Sounds Good To Me entered at #4 then stayed there another week ending their run of chart-toppers. After which, we never expected them to get to #1 again, and when they released anything we knew it was a medley but often forgot what songs they'd put on it.
Status Quo: They played a similar medley when I saw them live, maybe that was just a thing they had been doing at live shows for a while. So they decided to release such a medley. I don't recall much activity by them between "In The Army Now" and this apart from "Burning Bridges (On And Off And On Again)" so their career had been relatively quiet compared to previously.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 6, 2024 8:00:55 GMT 1
so yes a long list of 117, but let's only cover from 75
51 Surface - The First Time 52 Surface - Never Gonna Let You Down 53 SOPHIE LAWRENCE - LOVE'S UNKIND 54 MC Hammer - Yo!! Sweetness 55 Various Artists - VOICES THAT CARE 56 Tony Terry - With You 57 Vic Reeves - Abide With Me 58 MC Skat Kat And The Stray Mob - Skat Strut 59 Shabba Ranks, Maxi Priest - Housecall (Your Body Can't Lie to Me) (feat. Maxi Priest) 60 C & C Music Factory, Freedom Williams - Things That Make You Go Hmmmm.... (feat. Freedom Williams) 61 Bros - Try 62 Oceanic - Wicked Love 63 3rd Bass - Pop Goes The Weasel 64 Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) 65 MC Hammer - Here Comes The Hammer 66 C & C Music Factory - Here We Go 67 MC Breeze, Joey B. Ellis, Tynetta Hare - Go for It (feat. Tynetta Hare) 68 Cliff Richard - We Should Be Together 69 Marc Almond - Jacky 70 Oleta Adams - Get Here 71 Megadeth - Hangar 18 72 The Simpsons - Deep, Deep Trouble 73 Latour - People Are Still Having Sex 74 Chicago - Chasin' the Wind 75 2 IN A ROOM - SHE'S GOT ME GOING CRAZY
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 6, 2024 8:09:01 GMT 1
So lets go and we start with an easy target
50 UK Mixmasters - The Bare Necessities Megamix
This is dreadful and yes it is 1991 but still has every megamix cliche, 'Wooh Yehs' and 'Oh Yeh!!' and terrible production and who is that who is supposedly singing on these, is it Gary Wilmott? I can't seem to confirm this but 1991 it does look a bit like him. If it is him not surprising, there is no evidence confirming that. I only made this #50 as it is for kids and Xmas parties but it is awful. This reached #14 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 6, 2024 8:12:33 GMT 1
49 Dannii Minogue - Success
Let's start with the positives, she is of course as hot or arguably hotter than her sister. Also her production is super modern, so kudos for that but she is just a bit naff, I dunno worse singer than Kylie and much weaker songs. It reached #11 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 6, 2024 8:21:05 GMT 1
48 Vic Reeves, Roman Numerals - Born Free
I was a bit of a Vic Reeves fan but this was not good, it was always difficult to know if he believed he was a great singer or it was all a joke, either way I didn't like to hear this. 'Dizzy' worked, this doesn't. It reached #6 in the UK.
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