Vote for the worst Number 1 hit of 1985-1989!

[NightTrain]

Poll question: Vote for the worst Number 1 hit of 1985-1989!

Maybe it's because 1984 was such an unusually good year for mass-appeal music, but to my ears, the Top 40 of the middle to late '80s really sucked! See below and you'll know what I mean.

And when I think of all the stuff I couldn't make room for....

[Brucey]

1. It's nearly a tie for awfulness,

but I had to vote for Don't Worry because it is a god-awful lyric and a god-awful tune.

[Archae]

2. Don't Worry, Be Happy?

I like that one!

At least it isn't a total fake like Milli Vanilli.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. I hated REO Speedwagon then

and I hate them now.

[GOPFighter]

5. Careful!

:mad:

[joeybee12]

4. Worst Song--Don't Worry Be Happy; Worst Artist--Witless Houston

She was awful even before she lost her voice to crack!

[FlemingsGhost]

6. Gotta be Whitney.

George Benson's original recording has far more soul.

Besides, the Crack Queen's R&B "yodeling" absolutely grinds on my nerves...

[Friar]

7. oh crap

the only tune I recognized was "We Are The World" and I hated it so I didn't vote.

[U2Fanatic]

8. I like Rock Me Amedeus......I vote for Milli Vanilli

[Seneca]

9. anything from the Top Gun soundtrack?

:puke:

[carpetbagger]

10. I dunno, the Milli Vanilli thing was kind of cool.

Most of the people who scored hits from 1986-1990 really, really sucked. Then along comes Milli Vanilli, who sucks just as much.

But here's the catch. They've managed to fake their way through concert after concert and appearence after appearence, and they are no more real as musicians than were Alvin and the Chipmunks! All that, and they don't really sound any worse than the other "singers" out there until the record skips. Then they sound better.

[newyawker99]

11. I voted for "The Greatest Love of All!!"

:puke:

George Benson's version of this song is much better.


Edit to remove an error.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Oh Man, What A List Of Uglies This Is!

These are some pretty bad tunes. Eeeeep!

Some of the others mentioned some really bad stuff as well, but this is a pretty dreadful starting point. I mean, come on, REO???

I saw them for $0.50 at my high school in my frosh year. They weren't that good then and they never got any better.
The Professor

[Tyler Durden]

13. Everything REO did after album 1 SUCKED.

They lost that gravelly voiced lead and got the "balls in a vise" tenor. His "vocal stylings" were putridly pretentious.