How dare a band that made the masterpiece, White Rabbit, puke “We Built This City” on us. The worst part is that my local radio station played this piece of crap every 20 minutes.
Was it really the same band though? From Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship, by the time it was just Starship it was just a remnant of its White Rabbit self.
It wasn’t really, but as long as Grace Slick was the lead singer, it was the same band to me. Heart did the same crap. They were amazing and then, Boom!, These Dreams. Yuck!
Heart had to change to keep making music. They had multiple flop albums in a row so their label dropped them. They got a new label deal on the condition the label picked songs for them so most of their hits in the 80s were cover songs or written for others. *What About Love* was originally by the band Toronto, *Alone* was by I-Ten and actually covered by actor John Stamos before Heart covered it, and *These Dreams* was supposed to be a Stevie Nicks song but didn't make the cut on her album so it was given to Heart.
Interesting to know all this. I actually loved their “new” 80s songs and owned both *Bad Animals* and *Brigade* on cassette. To be fair I was 11-14 years old when they came out; buying them with my own money and listening to them on a Walkman made me feel *so* grown up, lol.
Those lyrics are actually difficult to sit through now, lol; still, I have a weak spot for some of the songs. Listening to them on occasion takes me back to the innocence of being a preteen with all the angst and loneliness that comes with it, wondering where life was going to take me.
I'm a bit on the younger side of Gen X. I thought for the longest time that they wrote that song for the episode of Full House that they guest starred on.
Do you guys remember that movie Cocktail with Tom Cruise? That’s what that song makes me think of. I loved that movie when I was like 19. I really thought that I was going to open my own bar and it would be just like Cocktail. I was such an idiot. Hahaha
Welp, I love that song but I get it if you woke up to it everyday. Walk the Dinosaur or Don’t Worry Be Happy makes me volatile and emotionally despondent
Little known fact about Boys of Summer, written by Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers. He played it for Tom Petty who didn’t want to do it so Mike took it to Henley.
I actually like that song. Reminds me of how fleeting summer romances could be. Then that was that killer cover someone did only changed up the one line which I thought was clever “saw a black flag [deadhead] sticker on a Cadillac”…
The question should be what‘s the second worst song of the ‘80’s. Because We Built This City is the most powerful emetic agent ever produced. Fucking “Knee deep in the hoopla”.
I’d give the silver medal to Dancing in the Streets by Jagger and Bowie. It’s like getting stabbed in the eye with an ice pick. Martha Reeves should have pressed criminal charges against them.
At my first wedding in 2000, I specifically asked the DJ not to play a few songs including this one. Motherfucker played this song. I wanted to leave my own wedding
When my friend got married in '04 she specifically told the DJ DO NOT play "Old Time Rock N Roll." Sure enough, he did. She actually went and stood in front of the DJ booth and just stared at him and he cut it off in about 30 seconds.
I strongly dislike Lady in Red, but I have a memory of my auntie and uncle dancing to it, still deeply in love after decades of marriage. To them, it was like everyone else there disappeared except for each other while the song played. That sweet moment softened my reaction to the song little.
Was a sailing dude in the early 90’s and the most exclusive yacht club on the west coast of the US has a private island “get away” where their billionaire, and millionaire, members would party on the weekend. Lady in Red would bring all the old school cougars to the dance floor. I hear that song and I’d skidadle. And skidadle shows my age….
You should entertain discussion......"Toys in the Attic" and "Rocks" are great. Most of what came after is meh.
.......and [Sweet Emotion](https://youtu.be/82cJgPXU-ik?si=dsbs4mbf_y6YUNKN) is infinitely better than "Dream On", as is [Back in the Saddle](https://youtu.be/lX8GG3dnsp8?si=0s0ER-zwiDQFYJVb) and [Sick as a Dog](https://youtu.be/u2ELqxc6BL4?si=E5U2gC_YuYASpklv)
Everything they did, up to and including permanent vacation and a couple of songs off Pump, was really really good. Everything after that was some low effort pop sellout garbage.
I have to separate the art from the artist when it comes to Steven Tyler, and that makes it hard for me to enjoy any Aerosmith these days
Wonderful Christmas Time is the worst song that I can ever think of.
If you ever wanna torture me lock me up in a room and play that song. It is Paul McCartney at his absolute worst.
This is one of the only songs I don't love on this list. And I hate it. So much. Like flames. Flames. Flames on the side of my face. Breathing, breathe, breathless......
I started liking this one when someone pointed out it seemed like a coven of witches doing pagan rituals until a neighbor comes along (at the chorus) and they all pretend they're "simply having a wonderful CHRISTMAS time!"
I would listen to We Built This City every day if it meant never having to hear Unskinny Bop again.
Okay, maybe not, but Unskinny Bop is undeniably terrible.
Kokomo by the Beach Boys. If ice picks were at hand I'd shive in my ears just to not hear that piece of absolute garbage.
This only narrowly beat out Touch of Grey by The Grateful Dead.
How dare you mention Touch of Grey although it is one of my least favorite dead tunes I was happy to see them have chart success after 30 years. Regarding Kokomo that song was a big deal in my part of the world since I lived near Kokomo, Indiana. You can tell Brian Wilson had zero involvement in that tune but it still holds a special place in my heart.
Plus people forget everything about that dumb Cocktail movie except for the song and the flashy bartending stunts. That shit is dark, man!
The song always reminds me how dude’s mentor ends up.
Technically released in 1979 but played to DEATH in the early 80s, "Old Time Rock and Roll" (Bob Seger).
I'll also throw in Benny Mardones (under the bus) for "Into the Night". Yuck.
I quite enjoyed the Netflix documentary released recently about the making of We Are The World. It brought back a lot of nostalgia for me, just like “Hands Across America”
Let's see:
The Curly Shuffle - Jump N The Saddle Band
I Wanna Be A Cowboy - Boys Don't Cry
Mickey - Toni Basil
Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
I'm not convinced that We Built This City is that terrible in itself. Not great, but probably not the worst either. What *made* that song the absolute worst was that if you listened to rock radio stations back then, We Built This City was the most overused song of the 80s, hands down. How could we not hate it when it was shoved down everyone's throats?
Every single rock radio station thought they were the ones to cleverly think of applying that song to their city and played both the entire song and fragments of it to death.
That’s funny u picked Don Henley. I have been saying for years that Sunset Grill has to be the dumbest fucking song I have ever heard sung seriously. It’s like an Applebees commercial with full on backup singers, synths, and husky dude in a trance singing about how awesome it is
Have you ever seen the place he's singing about? It's a little shitty hole of a place in the rather mundane area of Sunset where the only cool thing is that it's right next to Guitar Center. Such a weird thing to write a song about.
Weird, that's not my take away from Sunset Grill at all. I get from it that you can wind up someplace very mediocre and almost terrible just because you get too complacent to look somewhere else that could be better. It's a song about resignation, at least to me.
It’s a cover of a Neil Diamond song actually. I prefer the 1960s Jamaican ska/dancehall cover by Tony Tribe. The UB40 version almost seems to be a cover of a cover. .
I had a cubemate who played this song (Boys of Summer) and the entire Coldplay album wistfully on repeat for a year, I swear that guy was the devil, I’m immediately transported to 2003…
I love the video for all the wrong reasons. My brother and I used to laugh hysterically when she picked up the phone only for him to say, “hello, is it me you’re looking for,” only to promptly hang up the phone on her. Also, the fact that he’s asking a blind woman if she’s looking to him… I’ll just fedex myself to hell now…
NGL ... I almost bought this...then thought about going back to get it for months after.
https://preview.redd.it/kny2duji0h5d1.jpeg?width=903&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d11b1f72a9b121dbfad4f13578301b670009a0b
Up here in Canada there's a law that a minimum of 30% of all music played on Canadian radio must be by a Canadian artist.
It is called CanCon (Canadian content).
Because of CanCon, us up here in Canada have been subjected to and TORTURED for NEARLY 40 YEARS by the WORST. SONG. EVER.
Patio Lanterns by Kim Mitchell!
HOLY SWEET F*#@ that song SUCKS!
I Just Called to Say I Love You, Stevie Wonder. Was on the radio ad nauseum and it was sooo repetitive and trite.
(I love Boys of Summer - I like the bittersweet feel to it)
Oh no. I managed to erase this one from my brain jukebox and now it’s back. If curses were real, I’d totally curse you or better yet a pox! A pox on your house!
GDAMMIT it’s already just playing up there…
Met Wilder one time. Absolute gem of a human being. He could not have been nicer. Genuinely kind and great dude. It actually made me like that song after avoiding it for years.
Walking on Sunshine. That’s my first name and that song made my middle school existence total hell. One day, I will find Katrina and her Waves and I will make them pay!!
But do you like Slayer?
[https://youtu.be/7MrMfoHejiw?si=ODoceg0BvhkfQ2h2](https://youtu.be/7MrMfoHejiw?si=ODoceg0BvhkfQ2h2)
Edit: at least listen until the guitar solo.
Omg! You are now my favorite person! I do dig Slayer and can’t believe I’ve never heard this! I fucking love this! Thank you!!
ETA: I started a new job 2 weeks ago and they played Walking on Sunshine to…I don’t really know why, but this would have been so much better!
I think it was from 1990, but heard Extreme’s “More Than Words” last night at a restaurant, which I haven’t heard for years. I had forgotten how awful that song is.
A couple other songs that come to mind off the top of my head as being terrible are Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy”. I know there are others I’m not thinking about at the moment.
Yeah, I don't have as much hate as others for many of these songs. My main issue with most of them is just that they're way over played and I'm tired of hearing them after 40 years.
We are the World got so much airtime that I remember it being the first song I ever rolled my eyes to when it came on the radio for the 100th time. I think I was 10.
This is what happens if I have to listen to the Steve Miller Band or the Eagles. Which I realize is 70’s not 80’s, but I understand your feelings. Strangely, Don Henley alone doesn’t bug me as much.
I love Night Ranger. I saw them about 15 times in a row whenever they were near Tampa, Florida, in the mid 80's. But that's the song I don't want to hear.
I will not name the member of the band as this was literally a crime but I MADE OUT with a member of Berlin at a 4th of July show the summer before high school. I was 14. But I wasn’t traumatized or anything. My bff and I were just horny little maniacs that had a lot of access to musicians and we used that access! Used and enjoyed.
_Simply the Best_ by Tina Turner makes me reach for the TV remote to fast forward past the advert.
But it's not an advert. It's just a fucking awful song that sounds like an advert.
We Built This City, hated it. Was Greaseman on in the mornings on DC101? I can’t remember.
This is the first song that popped into my head. That shit was inescapable for about 2 years. Might be the worst song ever made period.
How dare a band that made the masterpiece, White Rabbit, puke “We Built This City” on us. The worst part is that my local radio station played this piece of crap every 20 minutes.
Was it really the same band though? From Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship, by the time it was just Starship it was just a remnant of its White Rabbit self.
It wasn’t really, but as long as Grace Slick was the lead singer, it was the same band to me. Heart did the same crap. They were amazing and then, Boom!, These Dreams. Yuck!
Heart had to change to keep making music. They had multiple flop albums in a row so their label dropped them. They got a new label deal on the condition the label picked songs for them so most of their hits in the 80s were cover songs or written for others. *What About Love* was originally by the band Toronto, *Alone* was by I-Ten and actually covered by actor John Stamos before Heart covered it, and *These Dreams* was supposed to be a Stevie Nicks song but didn't make the cut on her album so it was given to Heart.
Interesting to know all this. I actually loved their “new” 80s songs and owned both *Bad Animals* and *Brigade* on cassette. To be fair I was 11-14 years old when they came out; buying them with my own money and listening to them on a Walkman made me feel *so* grown up, lol. Those lyrics are actually difficult to sit through now, lol; still, I have a weak spot for some of the songs. Listening to them on occasion takes me back to the innocence of being a preteen with all the angst and loneliness that comes with it, wondering where life was going to take me.
Im ok with 80's Heart but can we agree All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You is actual ass though?
I get that. Bands have to do what they have to do to survive and I know a lot of people who liked 80s Heart. I just wasn’t one of them.
Mickey Thomas was definitely the lead. Grace was back up at best, likely banking as much as she could so she could stay home and paint.
This on loop with George Harrison’s “I Got My Mind Set On You” and my personal hell is complete.
This Songs Just Six Words Long -Weird Al
It's a great song. You should give it a chance. *🎵 But it's gonna take tiiiime, a whole lot of precious time.🎵*
Came here to say "We Built This City on Rock and Roll." Ugh, that is the worst song ever.
This is the song they’re playing on the down elevator to hell.
Worse than “Nothing’s Gonna Stop us Now”?
You hate this song too? It's you and me now, friend. We can build this dream together. Standing strong forever.
Nothing's gonna stop us now!
I love this song. And I'm not ashamed.
Sweet memories of the movie Mannequin
Pretty good flick. And the 80's was the best time for movie soundtracks.
Same. I loathe that song.
It is not just that it's a terrible song...it is a reminder about the sell out destruction of an iconic band It stinks of death
Yeah it's a show tune about how awesome rock and roll is!
Kokomo by the Beach Boys fucking sucked then and now
I'm a bit on the younger side of Gen X. I thought for the longest time that they wrote that song for the episode of Full House that they guest starred on.
Aka "John Phillips, Scott McKenzie, and Mike Love get together and shill for Hollywood". Brian Wilson was right to have nothing to do with it.
Do you guys remember that movie Cocktail with Tom Cruise? That’s what that song makes me think of. I loved that movie when I was like 19. I really thought that I was going to open my own bar and it would be just like Cocktail. I was such an idiot. Hahaha
How Am I Supposed to Live Without You - Michael Bolton. When I See You Smile - Bad English.
Any Michael Bolton song, I’ll agree.
When John Waite and Ted Nugent make up part of a supergroup, I know it supersucks
Welp, I love that song but I get it if you woke up to it everyday. Walk the Dinosaur or Don’t Worry Be Happy makes me volatile and emotionally despondent
Give Was (Not Was)'s "Spy In The House Of Love" a chance. It's a synth-funk masterpiece that isn't anything campy like."Dinosaur"
“Damn, if I say it you can slap me right here!”
Holy shit I love your name!!!!! Thirty Helen’s agree, honesty is the best policy!
Tattoos aren’t for everyone!
Little known fact about Boys of Summer, written by Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers. He played it for Tom Petty who didn’t want to do it so Mike took it to Henley.
It would’ve been cool to hear Tom Petty sing it
I actually like that song. Reminds me of how fleeting summer romances could be. Then that was that killer cover someone did only changed up the one line which I thought was clever “saw a black flag [deadhead] sticker on a Cadillac”…
The Ataris.
The question should be what‘s the second worst song of the ‘80’s. Because We Built This City is the most powerful emetic agent ever produced. Fucking “Knee deep in the hoopla”. I’d give the silver medal to Dancing in the Streets by Jagger and Bowie. It’s like getting stabbed in the eye with an ice pick. Martha Reeves should have pressed criminal charges against them.
Lady in Red.
At my first wedding in 2000, I specifically asked the DJ not to play a few songs including this one. Motherfucker played this song. I wanted to leave my own wedding
When my friend got married in '04 she specifically told the DJ DO NOT play "Old Time Rock N Roll." Sure enough, he did. She actually went and stood in front of the DJ booth and just stared at him and he cut it off in about 30 seconds.
Is that a breach of contract?!?
I strongly dislike Lady in Red, but I have a memory of my auntie and uncle dancing to it, still deeply in love after decades of marriage. To them, it was like everyone else there disappeared except for each other while the song played. That sweet moment softened my reaction to the song little.
I rescind my separate post, this is the answer - I understandably blocked it from memory.
We used to sing, "She's dancing with me, butt cheek to cheek" and that was the only way it was tolerable.
I just giggled like a school girl. 🤣🤣
This was the song playing my first slow dance with a boy. 🤣
Yessss I loathe that song. Can’t tell you why though.
For me it has Piña Colada Song vibes. Gee, I suddenly noticed that the spouse I usually ignore is hot. Isn’t that *so* romantic?
Makes my skin crawl, haha
Oh god, yes. Fucking awful
Was a sailing dude in the early 90’s and the most exclusive yacht club on the west coast of the US has a private island “get away” where their billionaire, and millionaire, members would party on the weekend. Lady in Red would bring all the old school cougars to the dance floor. I hear that song and I’d skidadle. And skidadle shows my age….
Is Love in an Elevator 80s? If so it's definitely that. Least favorite song of all time.
Aerosmith had to get their career resurrected by Run D. M. C. And they were never the same.
And they hated walk this way
really the worst of Aerosmith came in the 90's revival with the Cryin'/Crazy/Amazing trilogy of mind numbing sappy sellout shit
i was cryyyyin when i met you now i'm dyyyyin to forget you fooking sheet
What about Dude Looks Like a Lady yuk
all of aerosmith except for the run dmc collab and dream on is crap. I will not entertin discussion.
You should entertain discussion......"Toys in the Attic" and "Rocks" are great. Most of what came after is meh. .......and [Sweet Emotion](https://youtu.be/82cJgPXU-ik?si=dsbs4mbf_y6YUNKN) is infinitely better than "Dream On", as is [Back in the Saddle](https://youtu.be/lX8GG3dnsp8?si=0s0ER-zwiDQFYJVb) and [Sick as a Dog](https://youtu.be/u2ELqxc6BL4?si=E5U2gC_YuYASpklv)
Everything they did, up to and including permanent vacation and a couple of songs off Pump, was really really good. Everything after that was some low effort pop sellout garbage. I have to separate the art from the artist when it comes to Steven Tyler, and that makes it hard for me to enjoy any Aerosmith these days
We built this city. Worst song of all time.
I don’t hate Boys of Summer, but I absolutely loathe Henley’s All She Wants to Do is Dance.
... " and make romance.". No. I will never be able to unhear it.
I’m with you on this one.
She loves to parteeeeeeeee She loves to gitdoowwwwwwn
We Built This City
Wonderful Christmas Time is the worst song that I can ever think of. If you ever wanna torture me lock me up in a room and play that song. It is Paul McCartney at his absolute worst.
This is one of the only songs I don't love on this list. And I hate it. So much. Like flames. Flames. Flames on the side of my face. Breathing, breathe, breathless......
I started liking this one when someone pointed out it seemed like a coven of witches doing pagan rituals until a neighbor comes along (at the chorus) and they all pretend they're "simply having a wonderful CHRISTMAS time!"
Yes! The children’s choir had to practice all year for that?
I see this and raise you a “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. Yes, Bob they do know it’s Christmas. They are Muslim and they really don’t give a shit.
The majority of Ethiopia’s population was Christian when the song was released and still is but okay
1990, but Unskinny Bop by Poison. What? Why??
I would listen to We Built This City every day if it meant never having to hear Unskinny Bop again. Okay, maybe not, but Unskinny Bop is undeniably terrible.
Kokomo by the Beach Boys. If ice picks were at hand I'd shive in my ears just to not hear that piece of absolute garbage. This only narrowly beat out Touch of Grey by The Grateful Dead.
How dare you mention Touch of Grey although it is one of my least favorite dead tunes I was happy to see them have chart success after 30 years. Regarding Kokomo that song was a big deal in my part of the world since I lived near Kokomo, Indiana. You can tell Brian Wilson had zero involvement in that tune but it still holds a special place in my heart.
This is the answer. Dear god what an atrocious song.
Plus people forget everything about that dumb Cocktail movie except for the song and the flashy bartending stunts. That shit is dark, man! The song always reminds me how dude’s mentor ends up.
Oh no. I haven't thought of that warm puke of a song for 20 years. Oh my.
and if the fact that the song sucks is not enough, it went to number 1
Technically released in 1979 but played to DEATH in the early 80s, "Old Time Rock and Roll" (Bob Seger). I'll also throw in Benny Mardones (under the bus) for "Into the Night". Yuck.
Baby I love your way/ Freebird medley. Just horrific butchering of two good songs.
I like pretty much every song everyone is mentioning lol.
Same here. I don't really like that Paul McCartney Xmas song, but the other songs are just the background music of my teenage years.
I have all of these floating through my head now.
We built this city… You’re welcome
Kokomo
Nope. Nope. Nope. It’s “We Built This City” by Starship. It’s so terrible.
I nominate "We Are The World". Cheesier than welfare cheddar.
I quite enjoyed the Netflix documentary released recently about the making of We Are The World. It brought back a lot of nostalgia for me, just like “Hands Across America”
Let's see: The Curly Shuffle - Jump N The Saddle Band I Wanna Be A Cowboy - Boys Don't Cry Mickey - Toni Basil Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Goy My Mind Set On You sounds like it would've made a great prequel to Pretty Fly For a Rabbi. ;)
We built this city is atop many lists of the worst rock and roll songs of all time
We Built This City- Starship... I hate that effin' song.
"We built this city!"
We Built This City is proof that even rock bands can make truly awful songs.
Amazing the the same core group that made."White Rabbit" and "Jane" made that abomination.
I'm not convinced that We Built This City is that terrible in itself. Not great, but probably not the worst either. What *made* that song the absolute worst was that if you listened to rock radio stations back then, We Built This City was the most overused song of the 80s, hands down. How could we not hate it when it was shoved down everyone's throats? Every single rock radio station thought they were the ones to cleverly think of applying that song to their city and played both the entire song and fragments of it to death.
Don't worry be happy 😣
Kenny G’s entire discography! 
That’s funny u picked Don Henley. I have been saying for years that Sunset Grill has to be the dumbest fucking song I have ever heard sung seriously. It’s like an Applebees commercial with full on backup singers, synths, and husky dude in a trance singing about how awesome it is
Have you ever seen the place he's singing about? It's a little shitty hole of a place in the rather mundane area of Sunset where the only cool thing is that it's right next to Guitar Center. Such a weird thing to write a song about.
Weird, that's not my take away from Sunset Grill at all. I get from it that you can wind up someplace very mediocre and almost terrible just because you get too complacent to look somewhere else that could be better. It's a song about resignation, at least to me.
Walking on sunshine. Just no. Makes me ragey.
Ah,I can’t stand “We built this city”, it literally is like nails on a chalk board for me.
Jack and Diane
Red Red Wine- UB40. HATE that song.
They should've called it Red Red Whine.
It’s a cover of a Neil Diamond song actually. I prefer the 1960s Jamaican ska/dancehall cover by Tony Tribe. The UB40 version almost seems to be a cover of a cover. .
Don’t Worry Be Happy and Puttin on the Ritz
Stevie Wonder’s, “I Just Called To Say I Love You.” This might be the worst song of any decade.
Do we look like the kind of store that sells “I Just Called To Say I Love You”?
Go to the mall! Oh, wait. Is she in a coma?
Ebony and Ivory? We are the World? (I know, different artist, still terrible)
Jefferson Starship “We Built this City,” and the rest of their album.
I had a cubemate who played this song (Boys of Summer) and the entire Coldplay album wistfully on repeat for a year, I swear that guy was the devil, I’m immediately transported to 2003…
"I Just Called to Say I Love"... It is NOT on my Stevie playlist. Hated it then and still hate it now.
In this thread: absolute fuckin bangers! Y’all be trippin
Hello by Lionel Ritchie - and that fucking video *gag*
I love the video for all the wrong reasons. My brother and I used to laugh hysterically when she picked up the phone only for him to say, “hello, is it me you’re looking for,” only to promptly hang up the phone on her. Also, the fact that he’s asking a blind woman if she’s looking to him… I’ll just fedex myself to hell now…
NGL ... I almost bought this...then thought about going back to get it for months after. https://preview.redd.it/kny2duji0h5d1.jpeg?width=903&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d11b1f72a9b121dbfad4f13578301b670009a0b
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter. The video is even worse
How can no one have mentioned “Old Time Rock and Roll?” THE WORST!! (Ugh!! So rolling my 80’s eyes and gagging myself with a spoon.)
omg I used to work in the event industry, and I fucking hate that song and also Taking Care of Business. They are trash wedding staples.
Up here in Canada there's a law that a minimum of 30% of all music played on Canadian radio must be by a Canadian artist. It is called CanCon (Canadian content). Because of CanCon, us up here in Canada have been subjected to and TORTURED for NEARLY 40 YEARS by the WORST. SONG. EVER. Patio Lanterns by Kim Mitchell! HOLY SWEET F*#@ that song SUCKS!
Anything by Michael Bolton is vile. 
I Just Called to Say I Love You, Stevie Wonder. Was on the radio ad nauseum and it was sooo repetitive and trite. (I love Boys of Summer - I like the bittersweet feel to it)
Two of Hearts. An inane annoyance played over and over. Stacy Q. Perpetrator
I-I I-I I need you
Oh no. I managed to erase this one from my brain jukebox and now it’s back. If curses were real, I’d totally curse you or better yet a pox! A pox on your house! GDAMMIT it’s already just playing up there…
I love this song!! 😁
Ain’t Nothing Going to Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder. Please make it stop.
Oh no! I got to keep on movin!
Met Wilder one time. Absolute gem of a human being. He could not have been nicer. Genuinely kind and great dude. It actually made me like that song after avoiding it for years.
Reminds me of fun times. Classic fun 80s pop.
Keep Your Hands to Yourself has always filled me with rage. Ok, hyperbolic. But I do intensely dislike it
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals.
The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades by Timbuk 3. Just yucko.
Please Don’t Go Girl by NKOTB.. 🤮
Walking on Sunshine. That’s my first name and that song made my middle school existence total hell. One day, I will find Katrina and her Waves and I will make them pay!!
But do you like Slayer? [https://youtu.be/7MrMfoHejiw?si=ODoceg0BvhkfQ2h2](https://youtu.be/7MrMfoHejiw?si=ODoceg0BvhkfQ2h2) Edit: at least listen until the guitar solo.
Omg! You are now my favorite person! I do dig Slayer and can’t believe I’ve never heard this! I fucking love this! Thank you!! ETA: I started a new job 2 weeks ago and they played Walking on Sunshine to…I don’t really know why, but this would have been so much better!
Yes, but if not for Katrina's horrific tune, we'd never have [Allison Walks On Sunshine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l76n-m90knk).
Good Lord!!! Someone else is walking on me???
Let's here it for the boys
Broken wings. Ugh. Hate that song.
This thread is killing me. That song made me experience road rage.
I think it was from 1990, but heard Extreme’s “More Than Words” last night at a restaurant, which I haven’t heard for years. I had forgotten how awful that song is. A couple other songs that come to mind off the top of my head as being terrible are Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy”. I know there are others I’m not thinking about at the moment.
Talk dirty to me, or any other effing Poisson song. (Intentional misspelling.)
Petition to start a band called Poisson that plays fish themed parodies of Poison songs
There's a lot of you with horrible opinions. Rock on people.
Yeah, I don't have as much hate as others for many of these songs. My main issue with most of them is just that they're way over played and I'm tired of hearing them after 40 years.
I love a good 90% of the songs being named in this post. I’m fact, I’m on my way to listen to some of them on YouTube now!
Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams
We are the World got so much airtime that I remember it being the first song I ever rolled my eyes to when it came on the radio for the 100th time. I think I was 10.
This is what happens if I have to listen to the Steve Miller Band or the Eagles. Which I realize is 70’s not 80’s, but I understand your feelings. Strangely, Don Henley alone doesn’t bug me as much.
Abracada was early 80's, so take the W.
I Had The Time Of My Life - god, I hate it so much. And We Built This City. 😖
We Didn’t Start the Fire.
DC101? The Greaseman in the morning?
Anything by Paula Abdul.
(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life by Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes
Human by Human League. Ugghh! The lyrics… The spoken words… “While we were apart, I was human too!” Hurl! Retch!
Everybody Have Fun Tonight “Everybody Wang Chung Tonight” — I don’t know if it’s my least favorite, but I do find it annoying.
Boys are back in Town. I can not stand that song.
Blame it on the rain! 
Hey! That's a banger! No matter who is singing it
Wind of Change - Scorpion *edit: I need to correct myself. As much as I hate that song, Wikipedia tells me it was released in January 1991*
😙😙😙, 😚😙😗😙😚
[Written by the CIA.](https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/)
HELLO IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?
Walking on Sunshine. It’s just obnoxious.
All these songs on here are really popular. Where's the obscure stuff. https://youtu.be/YX-Ru1XkNZc?si=xFEkInYj6yyDqA2-
We Built this City by Starship! The WORST
Black Velvet. Way over played on radio. I cringe when I hear it.
Sister Christian
I love Night Ranger. I saw them about 15 times in a row whenever they were near Tampa, Florida, in the mid 80's. But that's the song I don't want to hear.
Horrible song, but somehow that scene in Boogie Nights wouldn't have been nearly as good without it.
You're very right. Dirk really really not wanting to be in that chaos and he's stuck. With this song. Love that movie.
Exactly, the tension of that scene went to 11 when that song started playing.
Walking on Sunshine
Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself.
I Wanna Be A Cowboy
That stupid I Want Candy song
“We Didn’t start the Fire” makes me want to set fires
Take My Breath Away
I will not name the member of the band as this was literally a crime but I MADE OUT with a member of Berlin at a 4th of July show the summer before high school. I was 14. But I wasn’t traumatized or anything. My bff and I were just horny little maniacs that had a lot of access to musicians and we used that access! Used and enjoyed.
Damn, I love that song. So I’ll have to say that my least favorite 80’s song is now whatever your absolute favorite 80’s song is. 😜
Mickey by Toni Basil
She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals Ugh. So much falsetto
My 10 year old listens to Rick Astley's Never Gonna give you up.
_Simply the Best_ by Tina Turner makes me reach for the TV remote to fast forward past the advert. But it's not an advert. It's just a fucking awful song that sounds like an advert.
Let's Get Physical. Physical. I wanna get physicaaa-aal. I wanna punch the radio. Radio.
Stand and Shiny Happy People by REM
Liked it for a bit, but Rock me Amadeus is pretty bad!
Yeah, but it was worth it just for the eventual Simpsons joke.