Shamesong - Your lamest favorite song
 

Caught this in passing recently and had forgotten how pleasant it was. Turns out, a lot of my friends had all but forgotten it, yet got emotional just listening to a few bars.

By all rights, this should be the poster song for everything wrong with that era, but it survives on, I don't know what, simplicity, earnestness.

Not to say this is my 'favorite favorite' song, but it's pretty impressive, and a little perplexing, how well it holds up.

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I remember that Timmy T song well. Still can't listen to it. Here are a couple of mine.

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I get this stuck in my head and it aint ever getting out

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The heartbreak

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GREAT choice, BTW. Right in the vein of what I was looking for.

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Not lame at all...

Probably a lot of the music I like. I found I have a distinct taste for cheese when it comes to music. So lets start off with two:

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I'm not going for out and out lame. That's too easy [guilty pleasure].

I'm talking about the song that might be considered lame by some objective standard, but you like it enough to defend it if called into service to do so.

Both Fast Car and Sister Christian are probably too widely loved to have to be defended, but there's enough 'lameness' given time for me not to object to their submission.

Juliette Lewis "Hardly Wait" from the movie Strange Days.

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Ok then...

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The solo!

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Why are my embeds so big?

It depends on how big the video window was when you got the embed code. You can either make the video smaller and get a new code, or manually change the parameters. If I could remember it, I'd give it, but it has something to do with 'size=' in the code.

EDIT: no, in your case it has to do with 'frameheight' and width.

Against All Odds is legit one of my favorite ballads from that decade.

I'll fist fight anyone who has a bad word for it.

Ah. I'm rocking 16:9 on the company laptop.

Thank you sir.

Reminds me of Liz.

Here's a couple of mine. Yeah Matchbox 20 is one of my guilty pleasures.
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And another.

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And this Joan Osbourne cd was a very good one. Yeah I know, I know...

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Damn it! Matchbox 20 is shameful isn't it?.....shit.

I still dig New Found Glory now and then. :sulk:

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I don't know that MB20 is actually "shameful". imo some of the songs in here are mos def NOT shameful.....but to each his own.

I do feel that it's not the coolest thing to admit to liking this one though...and I do...

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here's another one that many would probably consider "uncool"....but I like these guys.....dang it.... (I was born a poor black child)

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Dude, great call!! That whole movie is a guilty pleasure of mine and that scene is the topper. May bust out the old DVD tonight! Wish they had made more BB movies.

I just realized that the blonde dude from Buckaroo Bonzai was in "The Heavenly Kid." It's another cheesy 80's movie that was pretty decent when I was younger.

This and the original version too for the moment:

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Mother ****er.

FUUCCCKKK!

**** **** ****!

Why?! WWWWWWWWWHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYY???!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's a piece of shit. Horrible.

Try not to sign along though...

Right in the feels, right?!?!

Leave it to Phil to really bring the drums on a power ballad.

I could listen to this for eight days straight and never get tired of it.

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Shit...who started this ****ing thread? Now I'm listening to every crap song I own that I absolutely love.

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Lmao, I was unfortunately singing Too Shy at work the other day, for no reason. This is another of mine.
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Since when were the Cars lame?

Next you will tell me that Cheap Trick is lame.

I'll fight anyone who posts a Manilow tune. Rod Stewart too!

Put 'em up!!

Mostly impressive to have that much stage presence at his age

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I have some friends that would consider these lame and if they've come on in the jeep on my random rotation I'll defend them

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One of my favorite moments in Stern history, they replay it as a show intro from time to time

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When this came I out, I SWORE it was going to change the face of pop music.

You could literally count the SECONDS between me first seeing this on MTV and me buying the CD at the little Kirksville music shop downtown.

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Another that gets stuck in my head and won't get out

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Embarrassed by this one. Can't help it.

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If my wife was picking out stuff from my music to post here, she would definitely post my Rod Stewart stuff. I have most of his albums up until he turned into a lounge act. A lot of his 80's stuff wasn't very good but there were some good songs thrown in there. A lot of his 70's stuff was really good and, surprisingly, so was a lot of his 90's stuff..

Ok, I'll toss my shame out there.

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Yeah....strong choice.

As for mine, I can't help it - I like this stupid damn song...

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There's enough 80's cheese in here (I already passed on 'Africa') that I figured I'd put in some variety. I don't know if it violates the spirit of the OP (which seems to suggest heartstrings and what not), but I'm definitely ashamed of liking this song.

If it has to be emotionally sappy, I'll nominate these:

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(the Jimmy Eat World one genuinely caught me off guard the first time I heard it. I'm mostly a hard-hearted sumbitch but I think I recall the room getting dusty for this one...)


And if I'm required to stick with the older stuff:

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When it comes to ABBA I'll take this one


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LMAO

This song is awesome. I could imagine you in your best high pitched voice singing along as you cruise to work.

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4th of July softball tournament and they played that thing over the loudspeakers.

Were my LFer and I in the outfield doing the shoulder wipe and that one-legged twist thing in between innings? Yes, yes we were. Like I said, it's a damn siren song...

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I've got hundreds of shamesongs, but I'm not really ashamed. BORN THIS WAY.

No way dude. This song is cool.

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Awesome tune IMO. I liked all that electronic drum stuff. Big Howard Jones fan.

Its always been one of my guilty pleasure songs but most people can't stand it.

I can recall that, the year this came out, I was mad that this was not the #1 song of the year on Casey Kasem's Year End Top 100. It was something like #85, what a sheltered life, me and my little clock radio tuned to Q104. Not even cool enough for KY102.

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Man, I can't do Taylor Swift. I just can't do it. Just. Can't. Do. It.

Jimmy Eat World, though. That shit is good. I don't necessarily see shame in sappy stuff. Those are all pretty decent.

Cranberries good

Lisa Loeb :Lin: God I hate that song.

I win

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Round 2

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By the way, these videos contain the most awkward, whitest dancing you will ever see,

Sweet are glam rock legends, no shame in liking Sweet.

Not as many people like their bubblegum phase. I like their rocking phase (Ballroom Blitz, Fox on the Run, Hell Raiser, etc) but have a soft spot for their bubblegum stuff too.

Cool to see Jimmy Eat World dropped in here. Love those guys.

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Awesome!

Guess I'm not the only fan of 70s pop. :)

Nope. I grew up during the '70's and still have my Babys albums from then. I've also been on a tear lately going back and picking up stuff from the 70's that I wasn't into at the time (like ELO).

Initially, I just liked this video because of the Models. I ended up really liking the song. :)

I'm 45 so it's a bit before my time, but I do remember some from the late 70s.

I think most of it comes from the fact that my parents were in their 30s during the 70s and hearing it on the radio.

I graduated high school in 1982 so it was mid to late 70's for me. The funny thing is that at the time I was more into classic or hard rock so a lot of the stuff I am getting now is actually fairly new to me, though I remember some of the songs on the radio.

Freaking love that Dirty Vegas song. Shouldn't be on the shame list imo.

I used to be so in lust with Belinda Carlisle. She was smoking hot back in the Go Go's days.

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Hear You Me hits me right in the feels and Fire and Rain reminds me of my dad...so I guess you've got company on these shame songs. :toast:

Me too.

Me three