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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2016 9:16:18 GMT 1
Can anybody post a full list ?
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Post by rubcale on Sept 23, 2016 13:42:38 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2016 14:01:49 GMT 1
Here is Vanilla - No Way, No Way video.
Look in the right lower corner. I thought that "1" means the first place of the list (equal "The Worst Song Ever").
On Everyhit site Vanilla is on 26th place. I'm confused.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 23, 2016 14:43:54 GMT 1
The last 17 years of the UK chart has redefined the meaning of bad.
It is all rather subjective though anyway.
At its time in 2004, I stated that "Call On Me" by Eric Prydz was the worst #1 of all time. I don't know if it still is.
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Post by LT on Nov 21, 2016 21:55:56 GMT 1
Great list! tho i love no.100 spaceman! cheeky girls well deserve the top spot!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 22:28:15 GMT 1
Where the hell is Doop by Doop?
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Post by SheriffFatman on Nov 22, 2016 13:32:55 GMT 1
Good God there is some genuinely awful music in that list. It's great to see Madonna's version of American Pie take its rightful place, I've nothing against her personally but that really is an abomination.
There's 5 tracks I take issue with though. For different reasons I can see how they might end up on this list, but I am very fond of all of them...
Spaceman
- Were it not for a multi million pound advertising campaign and the incredibly gimmicky sped up bit at the start and end virtually no one would ever have heard of this, but if you strip back all of the nonsense around it's promotion and success there's a fascinating track underneath. To get to number one in the charts with a song that contains the lyric "the sickening taste of homophobic jokes, images of fascist votes, beam me up 'cos I can't breathe" is one hell of an achievement in my book.
Rabbit
- Just because a song sets out to be fun doesn't immediately make it bad. Chas and Dave are hugely under-rated, highly proficient musicians, and this song is funny, it's just meant to make people smile. I've always been a bit bemused by the "more rabbit than Sainsbury's" lyric - did Sainsbury's actually sell rabbit meat? I remember a guy who used to sell it at a cattle auction in North Shropshire I often went to with my Dad as a kid, but that was amongst the least cockney and least supermarket-like environments I've ever been in.
McArthur Park
- Hugely impressive in scope, and quite deliberately mad, the idea of a consciously enormous song being based around the trauma of someone leaving a cake out in the rain has always fascinated me. What on earth the team behind it were on is anyone's guess, it seems to me that constructing this huge, serious sounding production around a nonsense lyric could have been an attempt at critiquing the pomposity of pop music by imitating it. Either way it's to fascinating and impressive a track to be called bad.
We Built This City
- Obviously this song is bad, the lyrics are terrible, but the sheer brazenness of it and the conviction with which it is performed, combined with the incredibly infectious tune and atmospheric use of American radio DJs make it very appealing. Also, it always seems strange that Starship get criticised for the lyrics on this one and yet on Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now they fret about whether the world is going to run out of lovers and no one bats an eyelid.
Ice Ice Baby
- Obviously Vanilla Ice lacks credibility when rapping about violent incidents on the hard streets of the USA but looking like a member of New Kids On The Block, but when was great pop ever about credibility? The production here was fantastic, and that Queen & David Bowie sample was so influential, it set the bar for commercial hip hop for at least the next 10 years. This was the first proper rap record ever to reach number one in the UK (as opposed to first record containing rapping, we'd already had Chaka Khan, Snap! and EnglandNewOrder doing their bit) and I love it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 22, 2016 18:11:32 GMT 1
I thought Ice Ice Baby was terrible and first and didn't like their using "Under Pressure" but now I look back at it, it wasn't that terrible.
It wasn't really the first rap #1, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick is "rap" in essence as he is speaking the words in rhythm, just it wasn't "called" rap. I once had this debate with a DJ all the way back then.
And when you think about it, "Reasons To Be Cheerful Part III" is very much a "rap" track.
Apparently, before they became a major supermarket, rabbit was of Sainsbury's main products. A lot of the big supermarkets started off as something smaller.
We were debating which hit version of McArthur Park is better. Several people think Donna Summer's disco version is.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 22, 2016 19:48:22 GMT 1
The cake in "McArthur Park" was a wedding cake. The symbolism following on from that is simple enough.
And as for the first rap number one...
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Post by raliverpool on Nov 22, 2016 22:43:38 GMT 1
The ultimate really bad song just has to be this track which makes Black Lace - Agadoo sound like The Beatles - A Day In The Life.
Not content with inspiring Morrissey & Marr to compose "Panic" (Cough).
The musical equivalent of fellow Radio 1 DJ Jimmy Savile & the TOTP Green room .....
This is so horrific in so many many ways it has to be seen & heard, as it out parodies anything Smashie & Nicey managed.
Steve Wright - The Gay Cavalieros (UK #61 Dec 1984)
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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 26, 2016 17:08:14 GMT 1
There are some absolute classics in that list.
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