Worst 80s aid song

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Im voting for Hear N Aid but there has got to be some other poor ones out there.
Things like this make me scared and sad at almost the same time.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Sun City

Destroy: Hands Across America

― J Blount, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sun City is in Africa, J Blount. DId you fail your geography exam by any chance?

― cuba libre (nathalie), Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to automatically say "the Canadian one" but then, it had Geddy Lee AND Gordon Lightfoot on it, so there's a little bit of good in everything eh?

― dave q, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"We Are The World" is overlong, naive, and insufferably self- righteous and would be completely worthless if it hadn't inspired Sting's "We're Sending Our Love Down The Well" on The Simpsons.

"There's a hole in my heart as deep as a well for that poor little boy who's stuck halfway to hell/Though we can't get him out we'll do the next best thing/We'll go on TV and sing, sing, singggg!"

― Justyn Dillingham, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sun City is in Africa, J Blount. DId you fail your geography exam by any chance?

what is your point exactly?

I also say Search: Sun City. I love that song. whenever I listen to it I think about my sterling contribution to bringing freedom to South Africa by not buying Outspan oranges. which I wouldn't have bought anyway because I don't like fruit. but still. It's a great track.

Destroy: We Are The World.

also Destroy: all minor country aid songs. Like Ireland's "Show Some Concern". Or even more so, the Self Aid "Let's Make It Work" song.

― DV, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ferry Aid 'Let It Be'. Hopelessly inappropiate response to the Zeebrugge ferry disaster organised by The Sun.

― stevo, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wasn't there a aid song "Artists For Better Weather" somewhere along the lines?

― Siegbran Hetteson, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was not impressed by "That's What Friends Are For," an AIDS benefit song, written by Burt Bacharach. What's baffling to me is that in an interview, he names it along with "Alfie" and "Anyone Who Had a Heart" as his three favorite BB songs.

"Anyone Who Had a Heart": definitely. Brilliant. "Alfie": ehhh...okay, I guess. "That's What Friends Are For": HUH?

I suppose his opinion of it is colored by the fact that it raised a lot of money for AIDS organizations, and I can admire what it did. It's no "Walk on By" though.

― Ernest Paik, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i got them all beat. g.o.s.h. - the save great ormond street hospital one.

unless that *was* hear n aid...

band aid 2 (sonia, big fun, hazel dean...) that was quite bad.

ditto 'ferry aid'.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All of them.

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: "Self Destruction", and "We're All in the Same Gang" if only for Eazy-E preaching against gang violence.

Destroy: Not technically eighties but that "allstar" (the only person who I can remember being on it is Kevin Costner) 'support the troops' single that came out around the time of the Gulf War (I can't recall the name of it). Lenny Kravitz's allstar "Give Peace a Chance" remake was even worse.

― J Blount, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why is "Do They Know It's Christmas?" getting off so easy?

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't mind "Do They Know It's Christmastime," because the chorus singalong at the end has that light 'n' fluffy Christmas carol sound.

I'd cast my vote for "We are the World", though if I could remember more than just the chorus for "Hands Across America", that would probably be the one.

― Joe, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but maybe "they" don't care that it's Christmas because they're not Christian.

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ethiopia? Christianity has been established there since the 4th century or so and it's still the majority religion. Yeah, the song's sentiment is still gloopy and all, but it's not as inappropriate as might be thought.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The metal one I remember (dunno if it was Hear N Aid) was sort of impressive, as all the acts looked much the same, and all the singers were indistinguishable, all screeching on top C or something - I couldn't tell when the next voice came in. This gave it a kind of unity that going from Michael Jackson to Cyndi Lauper to Bob Dylan didn't quite pull off.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: "We're Sending Our Love Down a Well"

― dleone, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

also Destroy: all minor country aid songs. Like Ireland's "Show Some Concern". Or even more so, the Self Aid "Let's Make It Work" song.

DV, why not sing a few bars for us, who can use some kitsch in our lives;>?

― Nichole Graham, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned: My post may have been a little flip. I didn't mean to suggest that Ethiopia was entirely non-Christian but I'd thought that for one thing there was first of all a significant Muslim population. And this page says that in fact Islam predominates in all the Southern regions of the country. I don't know if the famine affected only the north of the country but it still seems to me like asking "do they know it's Christmas?" is being a little oblivious to the actual makeup of the country and regional identities. There are also animist and Jewish communities. But even in predominantly Christian areas, I'm sure that not everyone is a believer. If for some bizarre reason a famine occurred in Quebec I think it would still be inappropriate to record a charity tune asking "Do they know it's Christmas?"

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Basically "they" != a single "they"

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How about the WWF's "Land of a Thousand Dances"...was that for charity? That was pretty glorious in its badness, though at least Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart was in-key.

Dominique, please tell me you're kidding about the "Sending our Love Down a Well" song. I think we have a winner!

― Joe, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If for some bizarre reason a famine occurred in Quebec I think it would still be inappropriate to record a charity tune asking "Do they know it's Christmas?"

No, but Northern Lights could record something called "Now Will You Stop Advocating Separatism?"

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

I know I'm 4 years late to this discussion, but I must concur with the "That's What Friends are For" comment - it's atrocious!!

Surely not a song so much as a portal to hell..

― Jojo the Gloob-Eater, Friday, 21 April 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

The "Sun City" one was a protest record, not an aid one.

Notwithstanding the fact that the money raised went to etc...

Otherwise, pick your least favourite Elton single where he sent the money to Aids charities.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

http://youtu.be/xGbnua2kSa8

idk i'm really feelin this these days.

― brimstead, Sunday, 9 June 2013 01:01 (twelve years ago)

this = "that's what friends are for"

― brimstead, Sunday, 9 June 2013 01:02 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxq4QrWNXfY

― xzanfar, Sunday, 9 June 2013 01:06 (twelve years ago)

the "we are the world 25" thing from a couple years ago renders this whole thread moot.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 9 June 2013 20:02 (twelve years ago)

even if it's not from the 80s

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 9 June 2013 20:05 (twelve years ago)

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