What was the WORST NUMBER 1 HIT of the early 1980s?

[NightTrain]

Originally, I had planned for this poll to cover 1980-84, but things didn't quite work out that way. Believe it or not, the 10 choices on this poll are *only* for 1980 and '81! God, what a couple of lame-ass years for Top 40 music! :puke:

[bobthedrummer]

1. I voted for Medley/Stars on 45

now I've got to wash my hands:puke:

[Rowdyboy]

2. Capt and Tenielle

hands down

[Mobius]

32. young and beautiful, but someday your looks will be gone

When the others turn you off
who'll be turnin you on?
I WILL!I WILL! IIIIIIIII WIIIILLLLL......
Love
Love will keep us together

[Fenris]

3. El Capitan y Teneille

Muy sucko.

[dolo amber]

4. Christ on a pointy unlubed stick, man!!

Where's the ALL OF THE ABOVE option?? :puke: :puke: :puke:

[madrchsod]

5. reo speedwagon

it`s a toss up between "chicago"-"styx"-reo speedwagon" as the worst bands ever to release a record. i am ashamed they all started in illinois..

[bubblesby2002]

6. Goose bumps all over my body you freaked me out totally

I vote for all of them. Blecch:puke:

[MrSlayer]

7. Just thinking of these songs makes me want to kill.....

How about all of them?

[Don_G]

8. You Can Remember?

I tend to forget that "crap" with one exception: Sonny Bono became a Congressman and enabled the RIAA to remember and profit from "his music" forever.

[dae]

9. This is one poll where you should have multiple votes or all of the above.

The '80's were not the best of times for music.

[masshole]

20. au contraire

it was a great era for music, especially 1980 - 1984, if you didn't listen to ONLY what the commercial radio stations shoved down your throat.
Thank God I discovered College Radio. Nowhere else could you hear Progressive, Punk, and even "New Wave" (I hate that term) music played.

[dae]

36. Sorry, didn't like any of those genres and I listen to a wide spectrum.

:)and Welcome to DU.

[neebob]

10. What - no Mickey?!

Or was that not a number one?

[Cush]

12. lol

I'll be nice, and won't post the lyrics here......well I did, but I removed them.

[NightTrain]

18. Truth be told, I kind of like "Mickey."

There's no accounting for taste, I guess! :7

[HEyHEY]

11. I was already feeling sick from dinner

Thanks for pushing me over the edge!

[Gildor Inglorion]

13. Good Lord....Christopher Cross!

I'd forgotten about him. Is he dead? Remember his "Arthur" theme song? *shudder* :(

[dolo amber]

15. An obnoxious dolo amber trivia fact...

DID YOU KNOW...

The character of Arthur Bach (played by Dudley Moore) was loosely based on Moore's comedy partner of many years, Peter Cook?

I love me some Pete and Dud...RIP. :( O8)

[NightNurse]

24. Won the OSCAR, My Musicologist Amigo!

:toast: "5 On A Song" that night in Tinsel town

[fudge stripe cookays]

31. HE used to do ads for Dyer Electronics in Austin before he got "famous."

Am I an OLD native Austinite or what?

[flamingyouth]

14. That is a tough list - they're all so equally horrid

:puke:

[Kat45]

16. All of the above.

Thanks for the memories. Not. :puke:

[fortyfeetunder]

17. That Sailing song makes me puke

My nephews (then 8 and 6) liked the song so much they ended up convincing their parents to name their new little brother Christopher....

[VOX]

19. Not pop music's finest years...

Ugh.

[Mobius]

21. no "American Hero theme"?

believe ot not, Im walking on air
i never thought i could feel so fre - ee - ee
flying way and im way out of breath
believe it or not
it's just me

[Mobius]

22. GASP I like the other songs listed

:wtf:

[NightNurse]

25. We do too,Moby

:shrug: :loveya: :shrug:

[NightTrain]

39. Not a #1 hit. It peaked at #2.

Kind of appropriate, if you know what I mean! :hurts:

[NightNurse]

23. Our Friend Was Toni & Capt's Keyboard Player on a 70's Tour

He said she was NICE He was:puke: AWFUL!
Jeez there's a surprise!

[bmbmd]

26. Maybe it's just me

but I like them all. Reminds me of my youth, falling in love, being newlywed. Wasn't Daryl Dragon once roommate to Charles Manson?

[Richardo]

28. Wait a second - I thought the "Captain" was the keyboard player...

Scandal! Calling Newsman Matt Drudge! It's Milli Vanilli all over again...who will think of the children?

[SCDem]

27. Flashback!

These totally remind of going to Round Table Pizza and playing Pac Man and looking at all the songs ond the jukebox. Ah the 80's.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

29. ENDLESS LOVE is one of the greatest pop songs ever

Seriously, Lionel Ritchie is great - forget the dancing on the ceiling crap, remember the Commodores?

[Whitacre D_WI]

30. "Sailing."

Christopher Cross represents perhaps the nadir of American popular music.

Seriously. Debby Boone was WAY better than Cross.

[bmbmd]

35. "You light up my life"

Sorry-that was our song. 'Twas sung at our wedding.

[arwalden]

41. I Recall This Comedy Drag Queen Who Used To Sing That Song...

... but it was being sung to a dildo... actually a sack of dildoes... each time she reached the chorus of "you light up my life" she reached in the bag and got an even LARGER dildo.

It was hysterical!!!

You bring me hope... to carry on.
It can't be wrong... when it FEELS SO RIGHT!!!

-- Allen

[arwalden]

42. I Also Loved... "Physical" (Olivia Newton-John)

[grannylib]

33. All of 'em! Yikes, what a lineup of lameness indeed, holy crap...eom

[arwalden]

34. Oh I Disagree... All Of Them Brought Back Many Good Memories

I enjoyed "hearing" them again just now.

-- Allen

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. Morning Train

Sounds like something from a Discovery Kids toddler's cartoon.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Ooh! There Is Some Dreck On That List, Train!

A couple i admit i like. (I'm a big H&O fan, so there stuff is all ok by me.) But, boy there is some really bad music there.
The Professor

[Burma Jones]

40. Thank GOD I was in College those years and was insulated

I went to one of those little Liberal Arts Schools where it was very easy to have no clue as to what was going on outside the school. I barely heard any of these, but I picked Morning Train.