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- From: madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Subject: Re: Worst Song and Lyrics Contest
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.042917.7820@netcom.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 04:29:17 GMT
- References: <83550@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Nov13.223214.29373@osf.org> <7600@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Organization: Society for Putting Things on Top of Dave Barry
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- In article <7600@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM writes:
- >>Blasphemer! You're actually gonna nominate Minnie Riperton's "Loving You"
- >>as one of the worst songs ever? I bet she's turning in her grave.
- >
- >I have to agree with the original poster. Had I remembered this one on my own,
- >it would have scragged whatever else I was considering. In fact, it now has.
- >This song was all time bad.
-
- It was *bad*. It had a soundtrack of little birdies tweeting in
- the background.
-
- >Another baddie was the old "I've got a brand new roller skate and you've got
- >a brand new key." It included such lyrics as "I don't go very fast but I go
- >pretty far." Again, it was done in a sickly sweet cutesy style, though I forget
- >by who. Similar style to the one originally mentioned. Same era. Bad. Dumb.
-
- That was bad, too, and the singer was "Melanie." Yeah, all the pop from
- around 1972 was just AWFUL! Then there was "Seasons in the Sun," another
- disgusto-cutesy that would make Our Hero hurl his emergency back-up dog
- out the window.
-
- The name of the Melanie soung was, of course, "Brand New Key."
-
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