Time to vote for the worst #1 single of the early 1980s!

[NightTrain]

Poll question: Time to vote for the worst #1 single of the early 1980s!

This poll covers only those records that hit #1 from 1980-84. The Decade of Greed produced so many crappy chart-toppers that I decided to divide it into two separate polls.

As always, if you think of any particularly rancid #1 hit of the early '80s that I didn't include, you're certainly welcome to include it.

Prepare for DEEEEEEEP HURTING!!!

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. The 80's guy must speak up here

I like almost all of these songs. I remember when my junior high school girlfriend moved away I played "The One That You Love" and balled and balled....

Hated "Ebony & Ivory", though. You also missed "Mickey", Tiffany's version of "I Think We're Alone Now" and Charlene's "I've Never Been to Me".

[trotsky]

3. I'm with you, Finnfan.

I'd be hard-pressed to call any of these the "worst" song, in fact like you I'm OK with all of them.

"Ebony and Ivory" was one of the first 45s I bought!

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. My first 45s:

"Same Old Lang Syne" - Dan Fogelberg
"Burnin' For You" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Breaking Away" - Balance

I have issues....

[Kenneth ken]

4. who'd you ball?

or did you mean bawled?

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. Bawled. I meant bawled.

Believe it or not, I wasn't thinking of much more than kissing then. I LOVED kissing, though.

[NightTrain]

13. As an oldies D.J. once said to me...

"When you're doing a nostalgia format, the important question is, 'Do people remember these songs," not "Are they any good?"

Judging from the above post, it looks like my D.J. friend was right.

[blondeatlast]

25. "Never Been to Me." GAWDAWFUL!

:puke:

[liberalhistorian]

27. Am I the only person in the entire country that

actually liked and enjoyed Charlene's "I've never been to me?" I was a senior in high school when that came out, and everyone thought I was crazy because I liked it and was always listening to it! There had to be SOME people who liked it, or it wouldn't have been such a hit!

[CBHagman]

39. No, you're not the only one.

I'm embarrassed to report that I liked it when it first came out. Its charm wears off after about 20 years. :-)

[dae]

2. Didn't realize there were any "good" songs in the 80's.

:)

[liberalhistorian]

28. There were in the early 80's,

it's from 1985 on that the music sucked. Or maybe that's just my own bias.

[acmavm]

6. Amazing, just thinking about any of those songs gave me the same

reaction as dragging your nails down a blackboard. I had a hard time deciding, there was so much to work with.

[Kenneth ken]

7. I hadda go

with the Arthur song - how did a fupped uck drunk-ass rich-bitch character ever become thought of as someone to admire, in any way shape or form?



ps - I kinda liked the phil Collins tune, because that film introduced me to Rachel Ward; I developed a major crush on Aussie voices because of her.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

9. Other: Matthew Wilder: Break My Stride

There's something so damned grating about that song. It leaves me feeling jangled, like some sort of burned-out speed freak.

Is it too late for me to sue for mental anguish?

[Pale Blue Dot]

10. Another song I loved!

I even bought the album, AND I own Matthew Wilder's 2nd album, "Bouncing Off the Walls" (I think I'm one of five people).

[Red_Storm]

17. Hell Yeah ...............

I hated that song then and now !!!!!!!!!

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. Say were you watching 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders on VH1 last night?

A disproporationate number of them were 80s tunes and GOD were they awful. 'Mickey' was by Toni Basil. Remember her? The bad imitation of Nina Hagen?

I picked 'Ebony and Ivory' in honor of those college classmates who went tsk-gahd when I mocked it.

[U2Fanatic]

12. I have to admitt that I really like 2 of those songs

Endless Love and Against All Odds:dunce:

[Red_Storm]

14. I think a new list is in order..........

Most of the songs on the poll are not the WORST #1 songs from the 80's, at least I don't think so........

[liberalhistorian]

31. Endless Love???????????

ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was sixteen when that came out, and that fucking song was ALL I heard my friends and stepsister play the ENTIRE SUMMER! Over and over and over and over and on and on and on and on, GAH, just thinking about it makes me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dbt]

15. AARRRGH! "Endless Love!!!!"

How many 13-year-old girls had their futures derailed by that piece of dreck (both song and movie)?

:puke:
dbt

[trogdor]

21. Anything Whitney Houston

What was the name of that song that seemed to go on and on and on, especially when sung by somebody's 11 year old daughter? :puke:

[imax2268]

16. I'd have to say...

that awful song "Saftey Dance"...or anything by Flock of Seagulls...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

18. 'Safety Dance'-I STILL HATE THAT SONG

it was played over and over. Also 'Who can it Be Now' came out at around the same time. Talk about hell.

There was great alternative music in the '80s, but most of the pop sucked.

[NYYFan]

23. ROFL !! RationalRose

I used to love that song- mostly because it irritated the hell out of my brother, mrjinx ;-)

[GregW]

20. Ahhh yes ... Flock of Seagulls

"I Ran" is in my opinion, the worst song of all time, of any genre.

[kmla]

22. I would have to respectfully disagree...

Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band.

One of the most hideous pieces of dreck ever recorded. And the video is equally as hideous.

(Abra-abracadabra. I wanna reach out and grab ya...)
That lyric is just bad. On many different levels.

Just thinking of that song tests my gag reflex...

[Seneca]

29. wasn't that Schwarzenegger's campaign motto?

Yes, truly wretched.

[kmla]

33. Hee hee!

Good one!

[JVS]

19. Morning Train is just awful.

The music sucks and the lyrics seem to be an ode to grinding monotony and toil. If I were her baby, I'd last about a week before jumping in front of the train.

[terrya]

24. Hey, I liked "Morning Train"! :-)

One of my favorite songs from the 80's,

A worse Captain and Tennille song..."Muskrat Love". Gives new meaning to the word "icky"

[liberalhistorian]

26. Morning Train-

the most sexist song ever written next to the Supreme All-time Sexist Song: When a Man Loves a Woman!

[blondeatlast]

30. You forgot to mention the ultimate sexist song;

you know, the one by the Rolling Stones--I dare not mention its name.

[liberalhistorian]

32. Ah, you must be talking about

(very soft whisper here) Under my Thumb. Yes, indeed, you are correct in that that is probably the most sexist song of all. I try to forget it, which was probably why I didn't list it.

[joeybee12]

34. Ebony and Ivory, with Morning Train a close second

When was The Girl is Mine--another lousy, wrteched song? Should it have been included here? I would have voted for that simply because of MJ's "I'm a lover, not a fighter" line!

[Aristus]

35. I voted for "Endless Love" simply because all the others

have fond memories associated with them. I've never not loved The Captain and Tenielle. Toni Tenielle and my mother attended dance class together as kids. And "Morning Train" bad a song as it is, played on my schoolbus seemingly every day on the way to seventh grade. Great memories of seventh grade.

[geniph]

36. Must vote for the horrible Hall and Oates brainworm!

that awful thing gets stuck ineradicably in my head. I hate it, hate it!

[mlawson]

37. I don't know any of these. Was into 'college radio' back then.

When we had such wonderful stations. Now, it's all clear channel shit, and our NPR has gone 'hillbilly'.

[CBHagman]

38. I hate "Lady"!!!!!!!

I've been known to flee the CVS when that song comes on the piped-in music.

Dishonorable mention: "Hard to Say I'm Sorry." Played to death by roommate with boyfriend issues. I don't care to hear it again.