Top-40 Songs That Should Have Never Fallen From The Charts

[arwalden]

.. and that you'd be happy to hear being played on the radio at least once a day... even now.


I vote for "Car Wash" by Rose Royce.

[Insider]

1. LOL you like that song, huh?

like my west side story...fits EVERY thread. and sometimes deserves a thread of it's own!

:bounce:

[Insider]

4. michael mcdonald: i'm alright

for one. that should play ev-ery day, the longest version.

[fudge stripe cookays]

13. That's Kenny Loggins, sweetie.

We old timers know these things.

[Burma Jones]

2. Hocus Pocus by Focus - eom

[argyl]

20. Is that the bodeeodeeodeeodeeodeeodeeodeeodeeodeeodee song?

xx

[Burma Jones]

23. Followed by Boom Boom Bah

[mouse7]

3. Pride - U2

That song can never be overplayed.

[terrya]

5. "Mama Mia" by ABBA. Also "Xanadu" by Olivia Newton-John and ELO.

I love both. I could listen to both until the end of time. :-)

[arwalden]

7. Those Are Excellent Choices!!!

I love them both too. (I like the remixed version of Xanadu as well... have you heard it?)

-- Allen

[terrya]

10. I swear, every time I've been in a gay bar....

I seem to have heard "Xanadu". AND seen the clip from the movie. :-)

No, I haven't heard the Xanadu remix. Would like to, though.

Terry

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. There's something indescribably great about Xanadu.

Can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it's because it's so massively over the top, and doesn't care.

[freetobegay]

6. Like a rock

Bob Seager.

[boxster]

8. That *does* play every day.

Or, at least it used to - Chevy commercials.

More like 5,000 times a day....

:-)

[Markus.CNNFan.com]

9. Eurotithmics

Thorn in my side
Pauly Young - Come back and stay

[CatWoman]

21. Did you write the book of love?

I love Stay. :D

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Ugh! Ugh! Move to Texas!

Do you not have to hear the insipid Chevy (or is it Ford?) commercials that are every Freeper's wet dream?

Here in Texas we are inundated with "Like a Rock" and other stupid commercials for big trucks.

[freetobegay]

17. I can assure you Bob Seager

is NOT a freepers wet dream! & do you think only freepers drive pick-ups?

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. No, I used to drive one myself.

But for those of us living in Freeper Central in an 85% Republican enclave outside Dallas, they are the majority of the pickup drivers. And I mean the REALLY big pickups.

And surprise surprise-- they see a Honda with Democrat bumper stickers, and like to tailgate us just to be assholes.

I didn't say the song was a freeper's wet dream, I said the commercials were.

By the way... it's SEGER.

[freetobegay]

26. self delete

[kmla]

11. Don Henley - The Boys of Summer

Song is 20 years old. And still relevant.

Likewise with John Mellencamp's "Little Pink Houses". But, then again, I'm a Hoosier. That may hold a little sway in that decision...:D

[boxster]

19. Boys of Summer

Yes, forever a classic.

[MrBenchley]

12. Ooga-chaka-ooga-ooga

Hooked on a Feeling (The Blue Sweded version)

Also

Wooly Bully


Let it All Hang Out
("It's rainin' inside a big brown moon
How does that mess you baby up,
Leg eatin' a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut
Don't stop now, baby, let it all hang out)

Whispering Bells

Blue Moon by the Marcels

[timdoodle]

15. I lived in Cleveland in the 1990's

And a new station, 107.9 the end played "Its the end of the world as we know it" for a week straight with no commercials. I have had that song in my head for 10 years, and still love it.

[qb]

22. Imagine

[Tom_Foolery]

24. Jeffrey Osborne's STAY WITH ME TONIGHT...

I used to be an overnight jock on a top 40 station, and I wore that song out. I still love it, though.

[zbdent]

25. Maybe not top 40s, but I can't hear enough:

Rocky Mountain Way

Hair of the Dog

Never Been Any Reason (Head East)

Rebel Rouser (Duane Eddy)

In the Mood (Glenn Miller Orchestra)

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