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I don't care how many times this was played as the slow dance at dances, I never got to like it- WesĬhicago "Does Anybody Know What Time It Is" I am proud to say that I got through my newlywed years without once thinking of this song after our reception- Wes I know Sonic Youth likes Karen but what about Richard? They thought they could improve on Smokey?Ĭaptain and Tennille "The Way I Want To Touch You" If the Carpenters can be hip, why can't Toni? It makes about as much sense as "Toys 'R' Us."- WesĬaptain and Tennille "Do That To Me One More Time"Ĭaptain and Tennille "Love Will Keep Us Together" Beefheart once so he has SOME hip credentials The Kinks did a little better with this title- 'It's all part of my rock'n'roll dre-eams'Īt least this was better than the same title by Roberta FlackĪ shame that he had to finally go Number 1 with a kiddie song about his dickĪ lot less funny than his ANIMAL HOUSE cameo where he sang 'I gave my love a chicken that had no bone'ĭid these guys sound constipated or what? 'Ooga-choka!'ĭavid Gates did produced Capt.

Sorry guys but Muscle Shoals is a real rhythm section not you 'Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man/That he didn't, didn't already have'Ī George Harrison imitation- they flatter him Nostalgia for them was cute for a few seconds but get real- 'see that girl/watch that scene/diggin' the dancing queen' Also, if we've misquoted a lyric from one of these masterpieces, please let us know. Clothes-pin anyone? I've bolded some of the major offenders, which doesn't mean I 'like' the others better but only that some of the songs are a higher grade of crap than the other manure here. If anybody's stupid enough to think that ALL disco sucks, remember that it's just a bastard son of rhythm & blues just like rock'n'roll is- so they're related, see? Also, the 1970's definitely didn't have a monopoly on shitty music- there was tons of crap unleashed on us in the decade before and after and now also (there's a future article there somewhere). I'm not saying that there weren't ANY good songs during the 70s but there was just a truck-load of waste back then.

suspended my believe in a divine force that governs the universe.

would make me boo a band who started playing it.

would make me leave a bar or club if they started playing it.

reminded me how lame the radio and record companies are.

brought out violent thoughts of hatred, revenge, etc.

made me sick without even listening to it again.

Of course, this stuff is all pretty subjective but I did have a few criteria for what should be here.

(thanks to Eric Kauz, Geoff Sisson, Paul Richards, Mark D. (originally from December 1995, updated 1998) Prepared by Billy Bob Hargus along with comments by Wes Clark