Songs with Big, Dumb Choruses (BDC's)

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Dead Or Alive - "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
Metallica - "Enter Sandman"

Actually, it's a lot harder to think of these kinds of songs than I expected it to be. (Outside of hair metal, I mean)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 15 August 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

also, Andrew WK to thread

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 15 August 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

All other songs may begin bowing to Journey's "Open Arms" at the count of three. 1... 2...

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Friday, 15 August 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man....

"Love Removal Machine" by the Cult
"Prime Mover" by Zodiac Mindwarp
"PartyTime" by 45 Grave

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"She's Tight" by Cheap Trick

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Looks that Kill" by Motley Crue

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Slade

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Love It Loud" -- Kiss.

Actually, fuck it, everything by Kiss.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

if you can have that Pumpkins track you can have any heavy Nirvana track

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur 'Park Life', 'Girls & Boys', 'Song 2'

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Yellow Submarine"

― Burr (Burr), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Stand" by The Alarm.

― Moss Feaster, Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That Fucking Chumbawamba Song.

― Dan I., Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Jump - Van Halen

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Nookie" by Limp Bizkit

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Moby - "Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

U2 "gloria"... but you have to admit... that shit is great to get a bunch of friends packed onto a karaoke stage drunk as hell shouting "gloria!" and the rest of the accompanying lager latin....
m.

― msp, Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think "Gloria" is dumb. Certainly not as dumb as, say, "I Will Follow".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Instead of U2's "Gloria," I'd be more apt to pick Them's song of the same name.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Lit Up" by Buckcherry (one of the last great one-hit-wonders?)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 August 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

John Parr "St. Elmo's Fire"

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 16 August 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Don't Hate Me" by the Get Up Kids

― wl (wl), Saturday, 16 August 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i wouldn't have thought "you spin me right round ..." was really all that big or dumb

but anyway, i nominate the chills for their dumb self-proclaimed "neat-o pop hit", "oooohhh aahhh, oh oh oh ah , oooohhh-aahhh , .. dum dee do dha, doe dah dee doh .. heavenly pop song" -- or was it "heavenly pop hit" ?

whichever, it wasn't a hit, as opposed to other good chills songs that did chart in new zealand, it wasn't heavenly or really even big, but it was meant to be very big, intended as some kind of road to damascus experience for anybody who hadn't heard the chills yet -- so very whiney and so weary sounding as to seem to be the worst example of faking it, most laboured slice of naive cringe, all the more embarrassing for me coming from some of the local lads that the supposedly smart money was on (well back then, new zealanders were repeatedly told how the then mostly under-recorded chills were possibly the greatest dunedin band and so were possibly potentially the greatest nz band)

i hadn't heard anybody singing a chorus as knowingly banal as this since "oh, you beautiful doll, you great big neautiful doll" -- the chills, a cocky band ? it did not make sense -- anyway, once i'd heard that song i didn't need any more convincing about the chills

― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 16 August 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"California Uber Alles"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 August 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Monkey vs. Robot - James Kochalka Superstar

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Big Balls"! "Strokin"! "1999"! "Beat It"! "Party at Ground Zero"! "I Wanna Be Sedated"! "Rock the Casbah"! "Evenflow"! ALL NO LIMIT EVAH!!! ALL CASH MONEY EVAH!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Def Leppard - "Pour Some Sugar On Me"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Marc Arcadipane "I Like It...Loud! Duh deh duh du du duh duh duh (etc)"

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 16 August 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"SEX BOMB BABY, YEAH!!!"

Flipper

It may be dumb, but it is also genius.

― earlnash, Saturday, 16 August 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"California Uber Alles"?????

You're completely fucked in the head. Given the tenor of the times in which it was recorded, it was fucking brilliant.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 August 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"wig wam bam"/"little willy" - the sweet
"england belongs to me" - cocksparrer
"oi!oi!oi!" - cockney rejects
"if the kids are united" - sham 69

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 16 August 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

geez, fast food rockers already

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Saturday, 16 August 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronettes to Thread!

(esp. Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 16 August 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again (etc)"

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 16 August 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(ah already mentioned)

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 16 August 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Classearchic: ANYWAY YOU WANT IT THAT'S THE WAY YOU NEED IT!!

Dudestroy: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!?!?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 17 August 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Toronto, "Your Daddy Don't Know"

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 18 August 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Don't Hate Me" by the Get Up Kids
-- wl (lovemusichatepeopl...), August 16th, 2003.

Something tells me you and I are the only ones who would find this true on this board, dude.

― ModJ, Monday, 18 August 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ARE Weapons "Don't Be Scared"
Pixies "Tony's Theme"
Ministry "So What"

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Suzi Quatro - "Can the Can"

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why Can't I Be You???"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"More" by the Sisters of Mercy

And I need all the Love I Can Get/And I need All that Love that I Can't Get Too!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 August 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Guns n' Roses, "Paradise City"
Beastie Boys, "Fight For Your Right to Party", "No Sleep Till Brooklyn", etc.
Human League, "Don't You Want Me"
Edwin Starr, "War" (huh! good god, y'all.)

― Greg, Monday, 18 August 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"Three Lions" - Baddiel & Skinner and the Lightning Seeds
"Vindaloo" - Fat Les

Also, Stock Aitken & Waterman to thread...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

The Sisters of Mercy - "This Corrosion"

How could I forget???

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 2 November 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The Mission - "Deliverance"

Some harmless versey wibble about King Arthur acts as filler for the big "GIVE ME! GIVE ME! GIVE MEEEE! DELIVERANCE!" action.

Lovely.

― Muppet Boy, Sunday, 2 November 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Stone Temple Pilots "Plush," "Big Empty"

Alice In Chains "Rooster"

Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun"

Pearl Jam "Alive," "Even Flow"

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 2 November 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Takin' Care of Business
Eye of the Tiger

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 2 November 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

No Doubt's "Spiderwebs"

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 2 November 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Tommy James & the Shondells "Mony Mony"
Abba "King Kong Song"
FGTH "Relax"

― jazz odysseus, Sunday, 2 November 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me"

Motley Crue?? "Girls Girls Girls"

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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