What are the top five dodgiest songs from the eighties?

[Citizen66]

Anyone remember Kissing With Confidence by Will Power featuring Carly Simon?

Day Trip to Bangor by Fiddler's Dram? (arguably more late seventies)

The eighties was loaded with dodge tunes. I want to compile the worst. Which, paradoxically, are also the best for remembering the eighties with.

Your suggestions?

(yeah yeah agadoo but that's a bit obvious, yeah?)

 

[Lock&Light]

1980's or 1880's?

 

[Citizen66]

My era not yours.

 

[Lock&Light]

Personally I feel more at home in the 1780's. You know, Mozart and some others.

 

[toblerone3]

I feel more at home in 1078. By this year, the iron industry in Song Dynasty China is producing a total weight of 127,000,000 kg (125,000 t) of iron product per year.

 

[ska invita]

Personally I feel more at home in the 1780's. You know, Mozart and some others.

i jsut cant believe what i was wearing in the 1780s - i wish someone had told me i looked stupid in that massive ruff

 

[Lock&Light]

i jsut cant believe what i was wearing in the 1780s - i wish someone had told me i looked stupid in that massive ruff

I quite liked you then. Not now, of course.

 

[toblerone3]

The Power of Love. by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. So badly wrong on so many different levels.

[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zARg_K4jRhA&feature=related[/video]

 

[Voley]

Nik Kershaw:



It Bites:



Huey Lewis And The News:



Patrick Bateman in American Psycho was a big Huey Lewis fan. He wrote a whole chapter about how ace they were. Genesis were similarly honoured.

 

[Voley]

Excellent performance art in this one:

 

[Bakunin]

Surely this thread wouldn't be complete without everybody's favourite one hit wonders, those jolly funsters known as 'The Goombay Dance Band':

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Well I have never heard of the Goombay Dance Band before, thankfully. But it just goes to show that some Germans have a sense of humour after all.

 

[starfish]

 

[Ms Ordinary]

The Power of Love. by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. So badly wrong on so many different levels.

[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zARg_K4jRhA&feature=related[/video]

Oi! That's nearly my favourite Christmas song ever

 

[Geri]

Day Trip to Bangor by Fiddler's Dram? (arguably more late seventies)

Since it came out in 1979 I'd say there was no argument about it!

My nomination is JOe Dolce - Shaddap Your Face. God, I hated that song. I also have an insane hatred for Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love.

 

[Citizen66]

Surely this thread wouldn't be complete without everybody's favourite one hit wonders, those jolly funsters known as 'The Goombay Dance Band':

omg, I'd forgotten about that.

What about Russ Abbott's Happy Atmosphere:



Baltimora's Tarzan Boy:



And of course, Kissing With Confidence:

 

[Citizen66]

Since it came out in 1979 I'd say there was no argument about it!

Aw come on, it was ahead of its time.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Anyone remember Kissing With Confidence by Will Power featuring Carly Simon?

Fuck off that's one of the greatest songs of all time.

 

[Cloo]

The rock'n'roll named Reynold's Girls: SAW had their moments, but not with these guys

Or these, for that matter:
I loved this one when I was about 8: But I did have the excuse of being 8

 

[Steel Icarus]

Can't embed, but "Let's work" by Jagger:


80s, and a completely cuntish sentiment.

 

[Citizen66]

Fuck off that's one of the greatest songs of all time.

Really? I never understood the point of it.

 

[AverageJoe]

Camoflage - Stan Ridgeway
19 - Paul Hardcastle
Shaddapa Your Face - Joe Dolce
Final Countdown - Europe
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Really? I never understood the point of it.

Do songs need a point? It just sounds great. I recently bought the 12 inch version so I could listen to it for longer.

 

[Voley]

Or these, for that matter:

Wow!

 

[al]

Will powers was incredible, how dare you criticise....

 

[ericjarvis]

The great thing about being over fifty is that I was able to completely miss out all the 80s pop crap by being out at gigs and thus not watching crap on TV and listening to braindead DJs on the radio. I'm barely aware of most of the songs mentioned in this thread.

 

[Citizen66]

Do songs need a point? It just sounds great. I recently bought the 12 inch version so I could listen to it for longer.

It's like this. I like my advice from a mate or a shrink. But from a record?

 

[Citizen66]

The great thing about being over fifty is that I was able to completely miss out all the 80s pop crap by being out at gigs and thus not watching crap on TV and listening to braindead DJs on the radio. I'm barely aware of most of the songs mentioned in this thread.

You've missed out.

 

[Citizen66]

19 - Paul Hardcastle

How is this song dodgy? You need yer ears testing!



It's like a poor man's Kraftwerk with a nice anti American/war message too. What more do you want?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's like this. I like my advice from a mate or a shrink. But from a record?

Its just a joke. It was a concept album that was taking the piss out of the self help tapes that were popular at the time.