Is there any song lamer than Dream Weaver?

[LostInAnomie]

That song just oozes suck.

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. the entire catalog by Bread

oozes suck more

[Redstone]

6. I can't top that. I was going to say "anything by Steve Miller," but you

beat me by a mile.

Redstone

[hfojvt]

19. whew, then I guess

The Carpenters and Captain and Tenielle are okay?

How about Rex Smith?

[derby378]

2. Puberty Love

Watch Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and you'll understand.

[LeftyMom]

3. Lady in Red

Air Supply holds the patent on lame.

[BigMcLargehuge]

7. Lady in Red is Chris Deburgh

the song that stops weddings colder than drunk vomit on the dancefloor during The Electric Slide.

[LeftyMom]

8. Oh, okay.

All that awful 80's dreck blends together. I was really small but that song was always on the daycare lady's car radio and I grew to hate it as a youngin.

[brentspeak]

9. But he also recorded "Don't Pay The Ferryman"

a great song

[Monk06]

11. Deburgh once got down on his knee to sing that song to a babe

in the audience. He tried to hold her hand and
she pulled it away gutting herself laughing.

It was on live TV. What a dork.

[jmowreader]

27. The only thing lamer than "Lady in Red" is...

Chris De Burgh's official website!

http://www.cdeb.com

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

36. Have you heard Bill Bailey's 'tribute' Beautiful Ladies?

http://muse.cream.org/bill/bewild19.mp3 (1.5 megs)

Beautiful ladies in danger, danger all round the world,
I will protect them, because I am Chris de Burgh

Beautiful ladies in emergency situations

Beautiful ladies are lovely, but sometimes they don't take care,
They're too busy with their makeup, or combing their lovely hair

To take basic safety precautions

But I will protect them, I will save the pretty ones,
With their smiles and their sparkling eyes

But let the ugly ones die
I have no place for them, in my new world order

I won't waste my seed on hideous trolls.
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the trolls,
Hunt them down there shall be no clemency

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the trolls,
Look under the bridges - that's where they hide
(that's where they hide)

And beauty shall be my bride.

----

Taken from http://muse.cream.org/bill/bewilder.html

[driver8]

4. "Afternoon Delight"??? n/t

[ismnotwasm]

5. Peter Frampton

That entire live horrid solo album that was overplayed so much I shudder to this day if I hear a song. Particularly "Do You Feel Like We do" And that was 30 years ago.

I guess he's a became an American citizen and a Democrat though.

[B3Nut]

32. Hey...I love that tune!

Great guitar work, and Bob Mayo's (RIP) jazz-tinged Rhodes workout is genius.

I love Dream Weaver too (the album has some great cuts on it, and most of my favorite vintage keyboards).

Todd in Beerbratistan

[swag]

10. "Kokomo"

and several other songs.

Actually, "Ride Like the Wind" by Christopher Cross with Michael McDonald beats every song ever written for lameness. No contest.

[Monk06]

12. Christopher Cross reminds me of an old girlfriend........in a bad way.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. A worthy choice! (Kokomo). I was gonna go with Christopher Cross until I

read the rest or your post.

I'm sure you must have appreciated the scene in "40 yr. old virgin" where the electronic store worker tells his boss if they play the Michael MacDonald DVD one more time, "Ya Mo Be There", "Ya Mo set this place on fire, and then put a bullet in my head".

[njdemocrat106]

14. Why do I like almost every song and artist in this thread?

Yes, I'd rather listen to Bread, Air Supply, Chris DeBurgh, and Peter Frampton over what's played on the radio today. (And I've always liked "Love is Alive" by Gary Wright better than "Dreamweaver". :) )

[blue neen]

15. Agreed.

Although the Bread songs do all kind of sound the same...but they are soothing to me when I'm feverishly cleaning the house!

"Love is Alive" was definitely a better song. It reminds me of the summer I worked in Ocean City. It was a great time. :)

[Tom_Foolery]

22. I'd rather listen to any music before 2000...

All the music today is crap. AND that includes country, rap...well, everything. I'm not a music snob either. I listen to everything. I just can't take today's crap, and I'm a broadcast radio DJ.

[blue neen]

16. I vote for Muskrat Love

by those great rockstars Captain and Tennille.

[FVZA_Colonel]

17. Feelings

I know I wasn't alive when that song came out, but I listened to it via Windows Media Player, and I can understand why someone on one of those VH1 nostalgia shows said that every time it came on, no matter where you were, two or three people would drop dead.

[RebelOne]

20. I hate that song. Yes, I was alive when it came out.

[elperromagico]

18. I can't stand Barry Manilow's music.

Just my opinion, naturally.

[riona]

21. There's an oldie

"Tell Laura I Love Her" - big on the :puke: factor.

[Burma Jones]

23. The Girl is Mine

Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson......

[Glorfindel]

24. "Take the Money and Run" Steve Miller Band and

"Cut the Cake" Average White Band - both of those bring a huge shudder of revulsion. "Dream Weaver" is just pretty pabulum.

[Orsino]

25. Gary Wright was a remarkably poor singer.

I still love the song, which used to be my all-time fave. I will admit, at least, to the epic suckage of the vocal performance.

[B3Nut]

34. I don't think his singing sucked...

...it's unique. My Love Is Alive was a better vocal performance, as was Power Of Love from the same album (the really rockin' cuts from the Dream Weaver album didn't get airplay).

I love Dream Weaver though....Fender Rhodes and Arp Solina strings...yummy!

Todd in Beerbratistan

[NewWaveChick1981]

26. Everything Air Supply ever did...

Dream Weaver is indeed one of the suckiest sucks that ever sucked a suck. :puke: Air Supply (and all of the other lame crap the other DUers have cited!) sucks just as bad. :yoiks: :puke:

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. When Patrick Swayze tried to sing..."She's like the wind...through my

trees..." or the one by Don Johnson "heartbeat" ... What was with 80's film and tv stars trying to sing?

[kmla]

29. "Playground in My Mind", by Clint Holmes. Worst. Song. Ever.

"When this old world gets me down
And there's no love to be found
I close my eyes and soon I find
I'm in a playground in my mind
Where the children laugh and the children play
And we sing a song all day.

"My name is Michael, I got a nickel
I got a nickel, shiny and new
I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy
That's what I'm gonna do"

See the little children
Living in a world that I left behind
Happy little children
In the playround in my mind.

Oh the wonders that I find
In the playground in my mind
In a world that used to be
Close your eyes and follow me
Where the children laugh and the children play
And we sing a song all day.

"My girl is Cindy
When we get married, we're gonna have a baby or two
We're gonna let them visit their grandma
That's what we're gonna do."

"My name is Cindy
When we get married, were gonna have a baby or two
We're gonna let them vist their grandma
That's what we're gonna do."

See the little children
See how they're playing so happy
In the playround in my mind.

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
La la la la la la la."

(c) Copyright 1971, 1973 by Vanlee Music Corp. and Emily Music Corp

[arwalden]

30. What About...

Seasons In The Sun
Shannon
Billy Don't Be A Hero
Feelings

[kmla]

31. Cheesy? Yes. Badly written and performed? Yes. Creepy? No.

None of those songs are about imaginary children in some creepy guy's mind.

One of the creepy children in 'Playground in My Mind' sings about buying a nickel's worth of candy. See? Even the creepy child in the creepy singer's mind is delusional unrealistic. .05 will buy you a piece of gum.

And the little girl who sings a song in the creepy guy's mind? She imagines makin' babies, so that she can decide "THEY WILL VISIT THEIR GRANDMA. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO." :scared:

Just too creepy for me.

[arwalden]

33. I Never Thought Of It That Way.

I see your point.

[B3Nut]

35. You can get exponentially lamer

and add hideously annoying to the mix too: "Hollaback Girl" by that plastic thing Gwen Stefani. Nothing will give me the urge to smash a radio faster.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[Pool Hall Ace]

37. "Dust in the Wind"

or anything else by Kansas. :yoiks:

[noonwitch]

38. Seasons In The Sun

It doesn't get much worse than that.

[Initech]

39. The Right Brothers - "Bush Was Right"

And I wish I could make this up. I was going to say Limp Bizkit, but nothing is lamer than neo-conservative rock music. This is the kind of thing that Bill Hicks could do a 30 minute bit on:

http://www.therightbrothers.com

[bmbmd]

40. So-what is your favorite song?

I bet it sucks.