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Crap songs you secretly think are absolutely awesome

Leroy Ambrose
Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,437
edited August 2008 in Not Sports Related
Everyone's got 'em - songs that people cringe about cos they're crap, but you secretly can't listen to without a guilty look on your face...

Some of the ones in the office today were desperately poor (someone mentioned Glenn Medeiros FFS) but I thought my three weren't too bad - until I went and watched the videos on Youtube...

In reverse order of crapness/embarrassment factor:

3 - Jump (Van Halen) Yeeeahhhh - cheeeeeeeeese it!
2 - Against All Odds (Phil Collins) - OK, I've got a legit excuse for this one - it was the first song I ever danced to with the first girl I ever went out with. She went back to Canada and died in a motorbike accident... well you can probably guess why I can't listen to it without weeping openly :)
1 - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Bonnie Tyler) - just listen to it - listen to it - and bathe yourself in its awesomeness :)
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  • vancouveraddick
    vancouveraddick Posts: 1,674
    Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,859
    Man, Leroy, that's a sad story.

    I'll have to think about this a bit.

    Total Eclipse and Against All Odds are good ones tho.

    Red Army ;-P
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,252
    Looky you lazy admin you.....

    Young hearts run free - Candi Staton

    Live it up - Mental as anything


    I'm sure this thread has been done before ;-)
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,104
    Alice Copper - Poison
    Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
    Kiss - God made rock and roll for you
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,236
    No, don't get this "guilty pleasures" thing.

    If I like it I like it, If I don't I don't. No secret about it.

    My wife downloaded some Qu**n songs on to our sons iPod. All my good work with him ruined.

    Still he's only 9 so has time to grow out of it.
  • Red_Pete_in_Dubai
    Red_Pete_in_Dubai Posts: 2,764
    Dancing Queen - Abba
    Easy - Commodores
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Shampoo's entire body of work. I love it and know i shouldn't
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,596
    Plenty of 80's monstrosities, Living In A Box, Howard Jones etc

    Against All Odds is actually a great song.

    Sophie Ellis Bextor - Get Over You

    Oh god....
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    River of dreams by Billy Joel... shouldnt but i loves it.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    I've got that in my head now! argh!

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  • Heath Hero
    Heath Hero Posts: 1,520
    When you say goodbye by Steps. Brings a tear to my eye every time.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,957
    Loads of obscure stuff from Ray Davies /the Kinks ..... like some time after they were famous.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    James Morrison - You give me something. Love it.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    Just to set the scene it's about 1974 and all of the girls are in love with Donny Osmond and David Cassidy. All the boys are into Slade. My favourite track around that time was 'Crazy Horses' by 'The Osmonds'. My Mum bought me the LP but I had to keep it well hidden when my mates came round to listen to records.
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    Umbrella.

    Chune...
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    "Every rose has its thorn"

    Poison!
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Happy Ending - Mika

    Don't ask!
  • Glass half empty
    Glass half empty Posts: 2,084
    piano man-Billy Joel
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    hunting high and low - aha
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,483
    Jake the Peg...Rolf Harris......................................................Only joking guys!!

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  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    the wombles-remember youre a womble and anything by the macc lads!
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Glad All Over

    (No, not really)
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    I agree with Henry Irving that this is a bit of a strange idea.

    Aha and Howard Jones were actually two of the best 80's acts - nothing to be embarrassed about. Also, despite thinking Phil Collins is crap, 'Against All Odds' isn't too bad.

    As for me I would go for 'Freed from Desire'.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    anything by jive bunny :-)
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,957
    Red, Red Robin ..... doncha just love it but try explaining it to non-Charlton mates.
    They just piss themselves.

    Still it's better than Glad All Over, BFR.
    That's the Palace song, lol
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,882
    I'm not embarrassesd by any music I like - why would I be, to conform with someone else's views? Nah.
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    diamond lights by glenn and chris at full volume on the M1!
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,842
    Slightly different tack, apparently the members of REM all hate "Shiny Happy People" which I treally like. I always found their albums had 5-6 great tracks and then some really unlistenable stuff - the ones the critics all eulogise and the rest of us skip. Nothing wrong with Jake the Peg, I suppose nowadays he would be blasted for mocking tripeds.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,038
    Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Dat

    by Pluto Shervington

    I dare you not to smile when you listen

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