Worst song from the 1970s?

[Deja Q]

"Convoy" gets my vote.

:puke:

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "Billy, Don't Be a Hero . . . "

Kinda timely, doncha think?

[JimmyJazz]

2. Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

:hi:

[kitchen girl]

3. "Seasons In the Sun"...

"Chevy Van"
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
"The Night Chicago Died"

I could go on...:puke:

[Mike Nelson]

4. FEELINGS (if that was from the '70s) nt

nt

[CBGLuthier]

28. I gave it a real good listen a while back

While my wife was screaming at me to turn it off.

There are some excellent production tricks in that song. The way an extra vocal track is flown in on the second line of the chorus is really cool.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. Wow, so many to choose from. Anka's "You're Having MY Baby" is soooo bad

that I actually get faux morning sickness nausea when I hear it. MKJ

[kitchen girl]

6. Paul Anka could have his own room...

in the "Bad 70s Song Hall of Fame". Remember "I Don't Like to Sleep Alone"?

[The Great Escape]

7. It Has To Be "Troglodyte"...It Was 1972...I Was 9...

and even I knew this was really, really bad. I often like really, really bad...but not in this case.


TROGLODYTE (CAVE MAN)
Jimmy Castor

Note: While there is a pounding beat in the background, the
song is spoken rather than sung

What we're gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.
When the only people that existed were troglodytes...cave men...
cave women...Neanderthal...troglodytes. Let's take the average
cave man at home, listening to his stereo. Sometimes he'd get up,
try to do his thing. He'd begin to move, something like this:
"Dance...dance". When he got tired of dancing alone, he'd look
in the mirror: "Gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a
woman gotta find a woman". He'd go down to the lake where all the
woman would be swimming or washing clothes or something. He'd look
around and just reach in and grab one. "Come here...come here".
He'd grab her by the hair. You can't do that today, fellas, cause
it might come off. You'd have a piece of hair in your hand and she'd
be swimming away from you (ha-ha). This one woman just lay there,
wet and frightened. He said: "Move...move". She got up. She was a
big woman. BIG woman. Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one
of the Butt sisters. He didn't care. He looked up at her and said:
"Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me
sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me!". She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him, but she began to like him. She said
(falsetto):
"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy". He said: "Wha?". She said (falsetto):
"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy". You know what he said? He started it way
back then. I wouldn't lie to you. When she said (falsetto)
"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy" he said "Right on! Right on! Hotpants!
Hotpants! Ugh...ugh...ugh".

[CBGLuthier]

26. no, no man

That's a genuine classic. :-)

Heh, if I admitted just how many of these bad songs I liked no one would ever listen to my musical opinion on anything.

But yeah, I like Seasons in the Sun and Troglodyte. What can I say, I am sappy at times. :-)

[justgamma]

8. Blue, Blue, My World is Blue

Blue is my world,
now I'm without you.

Worst song of the century.

[gollygee]

9. Was Feliz Navidad from the 70s?

As Christmas approaches I am bracing myself for that one again. And again. And again.

[The Great Escape]

12. Don't Worry..."Last Christmas" By Wham Will Get Equal Time...

that should make you feel better.:eyes:

[blondeatlast]

20. Worst. Earworm. Ever.

I effing DESPISE this song, but once I hear it, it's stuck.

Thanks LOADS.

[tx_dem41]

10. "Afternoon Delight"

Picking bad songs from the 70s is like shooting fish in a barrel.

[asthmaticeog]

22. Seconded.

"Afternoon Delight" is horrible, worse than anything else, ever. Maybe "Havin' My Baby" comes close, but "A.D." still wins.

[Feathered Fish]

11. Any disco song. Any one. n/t

[Bjornsdotter]

13. Muskrat Love

...and Lovin' You.

I still violently hate both.

[tx_dem41]

14. You win....no point in going any further

"Muskrat Love" is the worst.

[Bjornsdotter]

15. Lol...

Glad to know someone else feels the same way!

:toast:

[Bjornsdotter]

16. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[tx_dem41]

17. Thanks!

I feel welcome. I have been a lurker for too long.

[blondeatlast]

18. "Widfire." Case closed.

Need a reminder?

"She ran callin' Wiiiiiiiildfiire...
She ran callin' Wiiii--iiildfi--ire,
She ran callin' Wiiildfire..."

:evilgrin: You hate me now, don't you?

If that drivel never clogs my ears again I will die a happy woman.

:puke:

[MichiganVote]

19. Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tommy and I feel like lovin' you

[Anarcho-Socialist]

21. "Long-haired lover from Liverpool"

:puke:

[captain disgruntled]

23. Ugghhhhhh---the 70's

"Midnight at the Oasis" :hurts:

[Nicole]

24. Disco Duck

Yuck!! :puke:

[CBGLuthier]

25. Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John

Bad song and an englishman singing it just always bugged the hell out of me. Not mention it was an obvious attempt to cash in on the bicentennial.

[jeff30997]

27. I think the songs from the 80s were even worst.

Cindy Lauper always sounded like a dentist drill to me.

[Jasper 91]

29. Chuck Berry's 'My Dingaling'

I want you to play with my dingaling. What??? :shrug: