...and recently re-listened to and discovered how terrible it really was?

I just heard Roger Waters' Radio Waves for the first time in years

My dad used to play Robert Plant's Big log when I was 10 years old or something...

Still love that song, and does remind me of my father every time I hear it!

U know there was this song i was obsessed with as a kid, but noone ever recognises it!!! It would have been released about 1983 or early 1984...some rock group wif big hair and bare chests n da chorus was "we're not gonna take it..OH no..we're not gonna take it..we're not gonna take it..anymorrrre" I have no idea who dat was, but i used go around da house pretendin to play guitar and kinda doin this: to it (was 3 at da timez) ...i'll betcha no one will know who da hell they were.

lilmissmissy said:

P.S ...I know i don't!!

lilmissmissy said:

that's "we're not gonna take it anymore" by twisted sister. i liked that song when i was little too.
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but my absolute favorite was "the double dutch bus" and i forgot who that was. but i wanted that to be played over and over again and everytime me and my sister went crazy for it
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heybaby said:

frankie smith

mine was "baby, now that i found you" by the foundations. ok its a reaaaaal old song.. but i loved it as a kid, that and Crystal Blue persuasion

Well my jam in 1984 was the theme from Ghostbusters.

First concert was Platinum Blonde.

Used ta like New Kids On The Block.

But all the tunes make me cringe now!

MrSquiggle said:

Yes, but that's more the opposite for me than the norm. As an adult I hear more music that I heard as a kid, and paid little attention to as a kid, and now I LOVE some of those songs.

As an example: "Backstabbers" by the Ojays. That piano intro is sort of chilling, the lyrics couldn't have been more descriptive and true. Thematically and lyrically it has everything in common with The Undisputed Truth's "Smiling Faces." That's just one example. I'm rediscovering a lot about the Ojays that I hadn't when I was a kid. And as a kid I was deep into Stevie, so it wouldn't have been unchartered territory for me for me back then.

heybaby said:

I haven't heard dat song in like 20 yearz!!! I wanna hear it again so i can laugh man!!

"If i had words to make...." (can't remember by whom tho)
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"Vienna" by Ultravox

Oops , i still like it
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lilmissmissy said:

i liked the video especially. twisted sister looked like heavy metal clowns

Julian Lennon's 'Salt Water' and Bart Simpson's 'Do The Bartman'. Back when I was wee, no-one could tell me John was better than Julian. No-one.

SWINGIN'


John Anderson
Simply aweful.


"There's a little girl...In my neighborhood...Her name is Charlot Johnson and She's really lookin' good...."

Number23 said:

When I 1st heared Julian's Saltwater i thought it was JOHN!!! (I was only jyst discovering the Beatles) That song isn't that bad?? Actually I like it...

I'd have to go with Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract". At the time I thought it was cool seeing her and that animated companion of hers (MC Cool Cat or something....).

But now the song (as well as the video) is just sooooo corny now.

As a kid back in the late '80s, I remember going around my house singing these tracks...

Pebbles - Mercedes Boy (I used to hum this all the time in elementary school)

Janet - Escapade / Alright (I remember dancing in front of the TV to these tracks on numerous occasions)

REM - Stand (this song reminds me of my older sister, she had moved out of the house and every time she would come back home she would watch MTV and this was one of her favorite videos back then)

Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted / Straight Up (I remember I used to love her songs between 1989-1991)

NWF said:

I mean,

JANFAN4L said:

Yes, but do you think they're terrible (I highly doubt you dislike the Janet ones )?

Lennon said:

Man, c'mon...that song's the main movement in an elevator symphony. But Do The Bartman...that was funky. Bold, edgy and in-yer-face. Just like Prince at his peak.

VoicesCarry said:

Ohhhh, I just re-read Mr. Squiggle's initial question.

The songs above are those I fondly remember, not cringe at.

I guess nowadays you wouldn't catch me blasting "Somewhere Out There" from the American Tail SDTK.

AsianBomb777 said:

What? Do you think otherwise?

Paula Abdul



It's a guilty pleasure!
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I liked Disco Duck

george harrison's ridiculous song "got my mind set on you". why did i love such an awful, travesty of a song?

SassyBritches said:

Because it had 2 videos, both of which were awful? I'm pretty sure I used to love that one as well.

I was a big fan of Alan Parsons Project's Eye in the Sky for some stupid reason when I was a kid. Heard it recently and scratched my head at the thought of loving it as a 10-year-old.

lilmissmissy said:

I still think Christina Aguilera stole makeup tips from Dee Snider (singer for Twisted Sister).

subhuman09 said:

oh my...