| November 10th, 2004 01:28 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da voted worst song
The Beatles' 1968 song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da has been voted the worst song ever in an online poll.
The track was on the band's White Album - which is often regarded as one of the best albums ever made reports BBC online.
It was rated as being worse than former footballer Paul Gascoigne's Fog On The Tyne in a Mars survey of 1,000 people.
In third place was Meat Loaf's 1993 hit I'll Do Anything For Love, while 5ive, Cliff Richard, Vanilla Ice and Steps were also in the top 10.
Three of the songs on the list are sung by footballers, including the 1987 song Diamond Lights by Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle.
Liverpool's Anfield Rap, featuring John Barnes, also makes the top 10.
Ian Edwards, lecturer at the Academy of Contemporary Music, said: "Admit it or not, most of these are songs that we liked when they first came out.
"That is the nature of pop music as a part of fashion. Songs are popular at the time, but times change and often this results in embarrassing additions to your record collections. It is interesting to note that they were nearly all hits."
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| November 10th, 2004 01:29 PM |
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| gypsy |
That song makes me think of that show with CORKY! |
| November 10th, 2004 01:31 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
gypsy wrote:
That song makes me think of that show with CORKY!
Circus Boy? Maybe that show's a bit before your time. Mickey Dolenz was in it. |
| November 10th, 2004 01:31 PM |
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| LadyJane |
"Life Goes On", wasn't it?
LJ. |
| November 10th, 2004 01:33 PM |
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| gypsy |
Yes, LJ, that is the show. Poor Corky. MaxLugar makes fun of him. |
| November 10th, 2004 01:33 PM |
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| jb |
http://www.jumptheshark.com/l/lifegoeson.htm |
| November 10th, 2004 01:37 PM |
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| gypsy |
I remember one episode where Corky had a girlfriend (she had Down's too, of course), and they were playing footsies underneath the dinner table. My sister and I couldn't quit laughing...and my Dad got all serious and gave us a talk about how we shouldn't make fun of retarded people. But that just made it harder to try and stifle the laughter during the rest of the show. |
| November 10th, 2004 01:41 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
In third place was Meat Loaf's 1993 hit I'll Do Anything For Love,
Well, they got that more or less right. That song sux. |
| November 10th, 2004 01:43 PM |
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| gypsy |
My Dad also told us that if we kept laughing, we'd have retarded children. Maybe that's why I don't want kids...in the back of my mind, that seed has been planted...and I am afraid that I'll give birth to a total joey, err, I mean Corky. |
| November 10th, 2004 01:50 PM |
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| jb |
quote:
gypsy wrote:
My Dad also told us that if we kept laughing, we'd have retarded children. Maybe that's why I don't want kids...in the back of my mind, that seed has been planted...and I am afraid that I'll give birth to a total joey, err, I mean Corky.
When I was 11, there was a popular cereal called "Freakies" and the commercial had a very catctchy song called "We are the freakies, yeh, yeh ,yeh..etc...I use to sing this in school and act retarded...One of the teachers, a Ms. Nelson, got so angry at me that she pulled me by the hair out of my seat....I pretended to have a seizure and fell to the grpound and made spastic like motions....I told her I was going to sue her... |
| November 10th, 2004 04:37 PM |
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| kath |
born to be a lawyer AND a hypocondriac.... |
| November 10th, 2004 05:05 PM |
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| gypsy |
jb, that is a touching story. I, for one, am glad that you haven't changed one bit over the years. |
| November 10th, 2004 05:07 PM |
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| nankerphelge |
The Freakies -- I remember them -- Boss Moss, Snorkledorf.
God the '70s are just a horrid nightmare! |
| November 10th, 2004 05:10 PM |
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| gypsy |
I don't remember "The Freakies." Was it really early in the '70's? |
| November 10th, 2004 07:57 PM |
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| glencar |
Yes. I remember it vaguely. Just before Pop Rocks. |
| November 10th, 2004 07:58 PM |
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| glencar |
Oh & Obladiobladaa is the worst song ever. The only one that comes close is that "Let Him In" song also by Macca. |
| November 10th, 2004 08:59 PM |
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| Soldatti |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da voted worst song
This poll is true at least... |
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