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- From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Worst Song and Lyrics Contest
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.182528.21119@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Nov13.223214.29373@osf.org> <7600@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <1992Nov17.042917.7820@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 18:25:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.042917.7820@netcom.com> madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann) writes:
- >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."
-
- Is this the cruelest DB article ever, or what? How long have
- we been trying to FORGET all those "songs", and then Dave goes
- and ENCOURAGES us to not only remember them, but to even try to
- remember ALL the words! How many days are we going to sit and
- agonize as the words "Oogah shacka oogah shacka" go through our
- pitiful minds?
- --
- Dave Johnson
-
- "You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
- --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat
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