Do you like cheesy music. Like REALLY cheesy music

1. "Do you remember when we used to sing "shalalalalalalalalalalala lalala lala oh yeh?" is the laziest lyric ever.

2. How many girls in this world have got brown-eyes huh? Probably squillions! He may as well have called the song "Girl With Feet" or something equally roundabout.

3. Brown-eye?! My days!

4. The song sucks and the riff is annoying.

every now and then when i'm alone at home i'd put all of those on and sing along.

WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF

that was the most OFF the money comment ever!

this song needs locking in a vault along with sodding American pie and all the other songs DL mentions which are just shitty chances for wacky zany types to show just how wonderfully bubbly they can be, the utter utter tw@ts

Thus I win!

it's just not what songs are like nowadays

of course there'll be people dancing for joy when carwash/jump around/etc. comes on, they're famililar with it, they're having a good time, they want to dance.

it's like when some indie kids hears The Smiths or pixies something at an indie disco they go nuts. wouldn't you think wtf?

YMCA is good coz it has actions.

Brown Eyed Girl is horrible.

American Pie is overlong and ppl *will* sing along with it, won't they? But the lyrics are interesting and well thought out. No Porkpie I had no idea it had actions!

What do ppl think of Hi Ho Silver Lining?

I never liked Abba, though.

Oh dear Chris. That doesn't sound like the best fun ever. Surely a surreptitious kick in the nuts 'oops sorry' would have been the way to go.

None of these records approach the sheer awfulness of Kung Fu Fighting though. One of the good things about the recent revival in genuinely good chart pop is that its helping to sweep away stuff like this from the nation's provincial clubs and student discos.

1. It's a great harmony that's as sweet as kissing a pretty literature student after a couple of glasses of wine.
2. Saying "You're my brown-eye girl" is like saying "Girl With Feet, You're Mine". but it doesn't sound quite as good though? i mean we're talking poetry here.
3. so being able to make an innuendo out of two words in the song makes it shit?!?!?!??!?!!?! wtf?!??!?!?!?!?!?1
4. The song rocks and the way the bass riff is ripped off of Dock of the Bay is like how Zombie Nation's riff was ripped off from Beethovan's 5th Symphony i.e. they're totally different.

There is, however, no excuse for ever wanting to hear American Pie in any incarnation again.

Is it overplay? I think it may well be. On my MP3CD is Ballroom Blitz = just as campy, fun-loving and nonsence-filled as the above, just hasn't been played to death. Oui?

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Hi Ho Silver Lining I like just for the solo - I love it when guitarists play so far within themslves that you think they've forgotten hoe to play for a bit.

i have no idea whether everyone hated these hits when it came out. but the point is that they have been made, some of them are good and it's a crime to dance to songs before your time??????

jesus! i apologise now for ever having danced at any indie clubs and that how does it feel to be loved place. gosh. i'm lucky i guess i was alive at least when the smiths were around, which makes it ok to dance to them still.. i never listened to them when i was seven years old though.

do people really dance to crappy cheesy songs to pretend that they're INTERESTING?!?!?!?!?!

1. More like a drunken snog with a literature student after she collapsed on the floor and was "a little bit sick".
2. We're not talking poetry if the chorus goes "shananananananananannana oh yeh".
3. All I think about when I hear this song is bojmir backwards.
4. What is better: Zombie Nation or Beethoven's Fifth (which has been ripped to death anyway)

so i understand his hatred for the song.

but hating people merely dancing to it? talk about spoiling a party!

I'm saying: hating the people who like the song spills over, into hating the song.

Maybe the good people of ILX can clear this up... when exactly did these actions appear? I don't remember them from the time, and having watched the video for YMCA only a couple of weeks ago while flicking through satellite music channels, they don't appear in the promotional material either...

So who invented them? Did the Village People do them on TotP (or US equivalent)? The first time I saw anybody doing them, that I can remember, was in Wayne's World.

At any rate, considering what the ppl dog latin talks about dance to ironically, I'd think having them put on music they actually think is good could only lead to disaster.

2. When she's wiped the bits of carrot from her mouth, ask your literature student about poetry. Ask her if "SHAALALLAALALYAlaylalyAlaylaylaylyaAuylayualyAHALAAHAHAAUUAHAGAGAHHAGAH" is poetry? Then reply, "because love, whatever it is you vomited up all over the carpet just now - is infinitely more poetic than Van Morrison's pub-brawl bleating.

3. Shiny Erect Penises? Whatever dude! Strange-o.

4. Yes we are losing out on this one. I win ;-)

So who invented them? Did the Village People do them on TotP (or US equivalent)? The first time I saw anybody doing them, that I can remember, was in Wayne's World.

I scrolled down and scanned the rest of the thread to determine if this question had been properly answered before actually answering it. From what I've heard (and this story was also related by one of the members of the Village People), the audience on "American Bandstand" (which WAS a bit of an American ToTP) made up the Y-M-C-A arm routine, which because of AB's popularity caused the routine to take off throughout the country.

And no, before you ask, I don't particularly care for the song OR the routine, though if I'm bored thoroughly enough at some reception dance or another and just want to do SOMETHING, I can be compelled to look as though I'm actually enjoying it.

1.  "American Pie" always sounded to me like the worst kind of Godfearing Moral Majority nonsense - all that stuff in the second half about "fire is the devil's only friend" etc. etc. Is Don McLean a Republican? Wouldn't surprise me.

Ha ha ha ha ha. I guess this illustrates very clearly how much of a divide there must be between the US and the UK. The way *I* see "American Pie" is that it's clearly a very strum-a-strum-strum hippie anthem a group of individuals might sing around a campfire set up in the middle of some commune somewhere. As for Don McLean -- if he were a dedicated Republican, he wouldn't have made the anti-war comments he made toward the beginning of 2003.

2.  I think I'll go to my grave liking the song "Brown-Eyed Girl". I guess that's because that was a song I quite liked when I was younger and I never really stop liking a song.

3.  When I think of The Committments, I think of their version of "Try a Little Tenderness", which I thought was actually really good. I didn't think much of their "Mustang Sally", though that was partly because I've NEVER really thought much about "Mustang Sally" -- have always thought of it as a bit cringeworthy. But "Try a Little Tenderness" -- wow.

4.  I have to say I never want to hear Billie Jean again.

Amen, Ronan. I personally could DEFINITELY live with never having to hear another Michael Jackson song ever again in my life. Dear Lord. (My mom LOVES MJ's stuff, though. Grrrr.)

5.  Livin On A Prayer is good cheese, too powerful to be bad, too overblown to take seriously, i love it all the same

Argh, stevem, I hate to say this, but I think you've made a good point. Though I would LIKE to think the only cheesy '80s hard rock I'd like enough to actually own ALBUMS of or from is the kind performed by Def Leppard, whom I actually like.

6.  This is where I say that "Do the Tighten Up (Pts. 1 & 2)" is godlike. Archie Bell for President and the Drells for shadow cabinet. But it's cheesy!

Amen and aww, that was one of the songs my dad loved!

i don't go to discos or any fun places so now i really want to hear billie jean. twist and shout isn't bad.

Anytime you want to worship at the altar of Lita Ford, call me, yo.

-- Alba

This happened to me. I said I would DJ at my friends birthday party and him and all his producer/ muso mates had been playing breakbeat and dark garage all night. I played a Madonna single and Gary Numan, and people danced. I was happy, but I did apologise for "weddinging" his birthday party.

But Maryann is also wise, though if we were to have music to structure our lives I'd prefer Van Morrison not to be involved.

The trick is to actually like the stuff you play, and also to like seeing people dancing. The more difficult trick is to play the thing that people know, but didn't know they needed to hear.

I have been (provisionally) asked to DJ at a wedding and a 40th birthday party recently - which made me very proud.

well if popularity = cheese than yeah I guess I like some.

holy shit, that's weird. i had a dream last night that i was in a log cabin bar with a bunch of college kids going nuts because missippi state had won the whatever bowl, and sloop john b came over the pa.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_065.html

Revelations as to the Pompitous!

Also, I feel so much pity/sympathy for those of you for whom Mustang Sally means The Commitments -- that has to be a horrible way to live. Hopefully you can be open to the possibility that the original version and the Wilson Pickett version are amazing...but if not, then I capitulate.