RANT: The Pina Colada Song

[lukethedrifter]

On and on
On and on
On and on

On and on
On and on
On and on

[sighyoung]

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Hey! It's the Bay City Rollers Show on the Krofft Superstar Hour! How incredibly cool is that?!

[lukethedrifter]

....On and on
On and on
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On and on
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On and on...

[jim]

I take it you're familiar with Shiny Happy People and therefor know who REM ate?

I'll be honest with you that I didn't know a lot of the music you mentioned, but I think I know REM. As far as no Pina Colonoscopy songs in the 80's, are you kidding?

She blinded me with SCIENCE! - yes this was popular

My ba-by takes the morn-in' train he works from 9 to 5 and then he comes home and I get on my knees and suck him off.

The girl is mine ... the god damned girl is mine. (those are the improved lyrics - doggone? Seriously)

Ebony and ivory .. gettin' together like perfect harmony.

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Do I need to continue?

How about that "Puttin' on the Ritz. Trying hard ot look Gary Cooper. Super Duper!" .. wow, poetry.

Hey your so fine you blow my mine hey Mickey!

ANd finally, if you aren't convinced.

Wake me up, before you go-go I don't plan on whackin' off solo!


There was some absolute [expletive] in the 80's man.

[heyzeus]

I used WHAM! in a presentation to state water planners recently. It was very well received.

Not a joke.

You have a point on Puttin On The Ritz. No amount of primo 80's coke can explain that [expletive].

[sighyoung]

I grew up having to listen to KSD-AM in St. Louis during school commutes in the early 70's. Nothing was worse than that crap as a radio format. I'm surprised that I could still have children after that. O.k., easy-listening stations were worse, since they were all Percy Faith and Ray Conniff and Mantovani, all the time.

I think the statements about music from the 70's are statements about the rigid, formulaic formats of 70's radio, rather than specific groups.

That said, of course there were plenty of terrible 80's bands and songs. When I was a college d.j. in the 1980's, I saw it as my duty to find these cowpies and put them on the air, just so frat boys would call up and threaten to burn down the station.

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Wonders like Toni Basil's "Shoppin' from A to Z"

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Or Soft Cell's Jimi Hendrix Medley. Even if it is self-aware parody, it's awful.

Anything by Haysi Fantaysi is like dipping your gonads into a jar of radium.

Still, I think a lot of music in the late 70's and early 80's was a good reaction against the worst of AOR and disco, and the mid-80's saw a mild push against the rigid segregation in radio formats and an opening up to a variety of styles.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

The pinnacle of 80's musical schlock:

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[lukethedrifter]

On and o-o-o-n-n-n-n ...

[Freed Roger]

Was the 70s the worst decade for music in pop culture history?

Yes.

Zeus zeus Zeus. Kids kids kids. Everyone knows that 70s era of pop music getting pop airplay was gobs better than 80s 90s 00. Even the [expletive] Pina Colada song and all the other [expletive] we've been mocking, myself included, was better than the [expletive] that caters to 11 year old suburban girls that passes as pop music today.

However, I surmise* -the stuff that wasn't getting airplay in the 90s 00s and 10s, was probably much better than what wasn't get airplay in the 70s. Which is, really, where it is at.

*listened to Bob's Scratchy Records enough to know. In the 70s, if it wasn't popular, there was generally good reason for it.

[heyzeus]

Big Star did happen in the 70s. I therefore upgrade my opinion of the decade. Slightly.