I'm searching for the absolute WORST song that remains a staple of classic rock radio. Do your worst Yea Forums

>Worst song is any foreigner
Feels Like The First Time is cheesy enough that you have to at least smile at it. After that they got steadily blander and blander.

cringe

TODAYS MUSIC AINT GOT THE SAME SOUL
I LIKE THAT OLD TIME ROCK N ROLL

This.

youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c

Hurts So Good. The worst of 80s radio rock in one song.

It's literally the poor man's riff to Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin, which is already pretty shit too.

>SMOOOOKE
>ON
>THE
>WAAAAAATER
FUCK THAT SONG
youtu.be/zUwEIt9ez7M

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Yeah that sucks

Also Warrant - Cherry Pie

American Woman is one of the actually good staples of classic rock radio

Heartache Tonight

It was more fun when you were a kid and thought it was "Party tonight".

>American Woman
>is a leaf butthurt song about Americans
>that somehow got taken to be a feminist anthem

All Egales songs are the worst ever.

EVERYBODY WORKING FOR THE WEEK-END

This
Jesus
youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZKfdwlng

One Way Or Another

Pretty much all the hits from Twisted Sister
>I Wanna Rock
>We're Not gonna take it

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>Jani Lane spends the rest of his life cursing that song
>marries a groupie who of course dumps him as soon as their relevance is over
>drinks himself to death at 48

Part of me wants to feel bad for him, but then I don't for being dumb enough to put out a glam metal album in 1990 and think it was the way of the future.

delete this

All of the songs listed in this thread are great and you're all gayer than the day is long

No sorry that's Blondie's worst song.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQUu5Dti4g

>needlessly drawn out
>band members have professed their hate for it
>plagiarized from their peers so they're still being sued about it almost 50 years later
Honestly most Zeppelin songs over 5 minutes long deserve some vitriol but the popularity of this one still baffles me

It's tied with Heart of Glass

Literally all post-1985 Aerosmith songs.

Agreed.
I love it just for those synth arpeggios in the chorus alone.
"I Wanna Rock" is crap, but I like "We're Not Gonna Take It." If those songs are all the band has to offer, though, they're crap.

kek hadn't heard this song in a long time, almost sounds like a parody of a hair metal song you would hear in a cartoon or something

Sorry man, I really like Blondie too but that song can fuck off.
This one too.
youtu.be/iC8oP4Z_xPw

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Enter Sandman

Who could hate ISRRTM?

>song encouraging thriftniness during the early 80s recession
>also shits on critics

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hm84JYiaKBU

Get on my level

Grand Funk Railroad - We’re An American Band

youtube.com/watch?v=SoaAb5MnKtY

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The original Arrows version of ILRnR is wayyyy better man

The Loco-Motion was worse.

>lumping that turd in with a pop classic like "Heart of Glass"

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Bob Seger is bad, I don't really know any Foghat, and Beth is a worse KISS tune than RRAN.

All pretty good. This one might be controversial but fuck this song, video is alright though.
youtu.be/4B_UYYPb-Gk

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Miss You because how many times can you hear WOO OHHH OOOOHHH OOOHHH OOHHH OHHH without your head exploding?

youtu.be/prge5lp5hQc

youtu.be/w3fRBzRngdc

youtu.be/oaS3vbfOLJI

youtu.be/fr6KVNt-1Ek

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This thread hurts me as a die hard fan of some dad rock but this shit is just egregious. I used to work in a store with the same radio station always playing these songs and a ton of other garbage.

>he doesnt like slow ride

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>The Loco-Motion
>classic rock radio

Jukebox Hero is not only literally just Johnny B. Goode, it's also astonishingly boring.

I get why this is considered a big moment for hip hop, but I do not understand who would ever want to listen to this

Anything by REO Speedwagon

The organ sounds good, but the rest is gross.

Really. The original Walk This Way from TITA is way better than this.

HEARD IT FROM A FRIEND WHOO
HEARD IT FROM A FRIEND WHOOO

I can't hate something as cheesy as Keep On Loving You.

I heard warrant actually hated this song. I can see why they might view it as a stupid sellout song. But they wanted fame, so meh. Reap what you sew.

I don't mind Rainbow or Juke Box Hero (especially since the background of the song is kind of funny) the rest are good choices. I still don't get how Jimmy Buffet survived 30 years of unironically being enjoyed.
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That plagiarism suit is bullshit. Line cliches were not invented by Spirit and the melody of the one alleged part isn't even similar. It's just Spirit's estate trying to squeeze some cash from a band that has a history with actual plagiarism, see most of Led Zeppelin I.

Fuck. I can. I bet you like Loverboy too.

youtu.be/ahvSgFHzJIc

>Reap what you sew.
Especially when you thought hair metal was still a viable career in 1990.

This. I'm only 36 but unironically love all the songs posted so far. Except the user who posted KISS. KISS is awful.

I think it's the outro and solo that sell it more than anything.

It's just boomers with parrot hats and cheap mixed drinks who've been paying his bills for all these years.

blinded by the light
fuck that song so much

REVVED UP LIKE A DEUCE

I think Piano Man is probably my mom's most hated Billy Joel song. To me, it's just...eh.

Mannfred Mann? Nah fuck you that songs awesome.

Promises and Wonderful Tonight have two of the worst guitar hooks ever put to vinyl. Fuck you, Clapton.

Start Me Up is worse.

I like Judas Priest but this song is kind of lame especially when you compare it to the rest of the tracks on the album. It's so... tame.
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Tainted Love. Fucking shit, I hate that song.

It's more 80s radio than dadrock radio, but I cant stand Genius of Love. Extremely overplayed, and that goofy spoken part can fuck off.

>Call me a joker, call me a fool
>Right at this moment I'm totally cool

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>Tainted Love
>Classic Rock Radio

Also fuck you for being a tasteless prick.

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Ok so it was geared for the radio. But that's nothing compared to Parental Guidance.

Joy To The World

It's literally about something they saw while they were high.

Anything by these fucks. This also applies to all ballads that were a thing in the late 80s.

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LOVEINANELEVATAHHH

Thanks for reminding me.

My Ding-A-Ling

Van Halen--Jump

YOUR MY AAAAAAANGEL

Maybe I'm Amazed

Fuck you, that's a stoner metal classic.

Cat Scratch Fever

Any Beatles song. End of thread.
Every other post ITT is incorrect.

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anything by the police
what a shit overrated band
especially songs like every thing she does is magic or every breath you take, jesus christ

You deserve rape

I found more because I got TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS :DDDD

youtu.be/5XcKBmdfpWs

youtu.be/quBCjo2rUZg

youtu.be/i3MXiTeH_Pg

youtu.be/r3g1kPGDcbc

youtu.be/pj0GGjlyHfg

Note how GnR turn a two minute song from a cowboy movie in to a lame ass power ballad with Axle wailing every which way all over it.

>stoner metal
Lol who gives a fuck?

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Death’s too good for you

This. They're not "bad" per se, but all their songs feel lifeless and calculated and they all blend together after awhile. It's like what mellow yacht rockers must think hard rock sounds like.
Their legacy is only how much they were able to game the radio market to become ubiquitous.

keep listing more songs
i'm singing along as they're posted

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I agree with you about those two songs but wtf The Police have so many great songs.

These are all bad and special fuck you to Axl for mutilating Bob Dylan's masterpiece.

I dunno man they got a lot of good shit that's not played as much as their main hits.
youtu.be/Bz1mEMiNPHQ

Literally kill yourself

Corporate rock product of the worst kind. There are still a few aging rednecks who defend them and Journey because they lost their virginity to one of their songs.

Already Gone is an absolute banger but otherwise I agree.

As much as I dislike their later buttrock period I do enjoy that song.

Air Supply, another example of early 80s rock product.

How dare you

These bands were usually made of veteran session musicians who could never figure out how to translate their sterile studio sound into a live performance, so they always sounded incredibly stiff live and played everything note for note like the records.

>go to any bar with a jukebox/karaoke
>some lady/woman will play this no matter what
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Even Journey had big glossy production values to distract people. Foreigner's stuff always sounded flat and thin for some reason, and that added to the lifelessness.

REO Speedwagon sometimes get lumped in with corporate rock, althought they weren't. They were a veteran country rock act who gigged in the Midwest for a decade before getting nationally famous. Hi Infidelity was a huge sellout to the corporate rock sound, but they were definitely a legitimate group and not a manufactured one like Journey.

>the guess who have like 30 hits that were better
>this is the only one programmers chose to play anymore

youtu.be/htgr3pvBr-I

And at least they could claim Steve Perry was a standout (I don't mean that in a good way though) vocalist.

It's a shame that Santana's classic lineup had to die for Journey to be born.

Eh I find Africa much more annoying especially with its resurgence.

Christgau is a huge booster of These Eyes. Though that's a soul ballad and not rock, so I could see why CRR wouldn't play it.

Don't talk shit about toto sonny

American Woman gets played most likely because Lenny Kravitz reintroduced it to a new generation.

Foreigner had a string of bad producers up until Mutt Lange.

youtu.be/yMG-Mi9I0-k

Back in the day, Burton Cummings was considered one of the best vocalists in rock. Robert Plant worshiped him.

It's too bad that Randy Bachman then went on to make some of the most cliched 70s buttrock ever.

And his son is responsible for this: youtu.be/_ElORM9O-0U

Feels Like The First Time is produced really well, dunno what happened to the rest.

I Can't Drive 55

That song is badass.

So peak 80s you might think it was some kind of parody.

Oh yeah and November Rain. FUCK that song.

>peak 80s
Came out in 1990 though.

Seeing that some of the band members also took a producer credit for a while, my best guess would be they tried to call their own shots in the studio.

Barracuda

CAN YOU TAKE ME HIIIIGGHHHERRR

All of Styx can burn in Hell. Well, ok, Renegade isn't terrible.

>Dennis DeYoung doesn't sing on it--thank God
>the guitar work is p. ok

Anything by Heart is beyond me

Their biggest hit, written out of butthurt because Nancy Wilson couldn't take a harmless joke someone made about being a lesbian.

A lot of the Styx songs where Dennis doesn't sing lead are fun. Whenever he took the reigns it was just melodramatic bullshit, like prog rock watered down for AM radio.

Under The Bri...oh wait, their entire discography is the worst ever.

Pretty much how I feel about them as well. Fuck Sublime as well.

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Forget his songwriting, the guy's voice is like listening to puppies being thrown into a grain thresher.

The only good Eagles song is Life In The Fast Lane and that's entirely thanks to Joe Walsh.

>Mr. Blue sky
>telephone line
>fire on high
>living thing
>evil woman
Trash.

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Hotel California

You need to die, like right now

My dad listens to the yacht rock station on Sirius XM a lot and I swear to god they play Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty like every hour.

>not sexualized enough to interest men
>not especially gifted instrumentalists or songwriters
>any status they might have gained as a feminist/women in rock symbol among critics was negated by their playing hard rock/metal
They never really stood a chance.

b8

Yeah I don't understand the appeal of the yacht rock station since it's all shit you'd hear on classic rock radio.
1st Wave is neat.

God, I'd love to take a time machine back to the 70s and break that guy's saxophone.

I could do without The Logical Song.

BWA BWA BWA BWABWABWABWA BWAAAA

Baby Come Back

That's a shame. Still enjoy everything from Breakfast in America, especially Child of Vision.

Give a Little Bit I could do without.

Women have a difficult time with the stuff because their voices can't cut through loud guitar sounds.

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Richard Blade is comfy as fuck
The Beatles channel is also cool

This is the worst
youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ
I guess you have the hipster shirt with the lyrics printed on, ehh?
Well, kid, surely sucks to be a nigger like you, not your fault for being subhuman garbage.

That's easily one of the better yacht rock staples.

I Melt With You. Though I was surprised to hear how different the rest of the songs on the album were.

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ITT: Stop liking what I don't like.

Also, who even listens to radio anymore?

TAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS
EVERY DAY

Came here to post Knockin' on Heaven's Daw-oo-awr (Hey hey yeah).

Is there any other song that more closely approaches sheer self-parody?

FUCK I hate this song

i agree with almost every single post in this thread, christ I hate having old ass boomers for bosses that blast classic rock radio all day

More like
>I hate it because daddy played it too many times in the car

Back in school my science teacher once played pat benetar's greatest hits cd in class. It was the longest period of my educational life.

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i despise this song for reasons i can't explain.

That's a shame. Try the French version. It's a bit faster and kind of sounds cooler.
youtu.be/P_abUNyp00Q

thank you for making me aware that there is a french cover of this song but i still don't like it. i think the chord progression is lethargic. the whole song makes me feel like i'm falling asleep in my beer at some roadhouse in the middle of nowhere

They didn't have Joan Jett's charisma either, they came across as stuck-up cunts.

that depends on what version you mean
>Bruce Springsteen version
no, that song is a classic
>Manfred Mann version
yeah, fuck that version. totally neutered the interesting aspects of the original

They were massively successful, especially in the mid to late 80's when their 70's hard rock contemporaries had long fizzled out.

Thanks Desmond Child and the other professional MTV song doctors.

nigga fuck you

Talking Heads - Take Me to the River

I only know The Guess Who from the Joker teaser.

No.

This thread makes me moist.

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for me its any queen or hot chocolate song

Africa sucks but Hold the Line is beyond based.
I kinda understand this, Money for Nothing is literally the opposite of what OP is looking for. One of the best rock singles of all time.
>Dio
Fuck off.
Hating Stairway is a meme at this point, it's a good song. Led Zeppelin IV is rock solid.
Yeah that song sucks, but whenever I hear it I just think about this.
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How could you hate this?

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>This. I'm only 36 but unironically love all the songs posted so far.
I think we all love these songs to some degree. They're all pretty shit but its hard to outright hate them if you grew up hearing them, and I'm only 20.

>reelin in the years
>hey nineteen
>I. G. Y.
>peg
>only a fool would say that

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Genius of Love is baller as fuck, definitely overplayed though.

uneducated opinion

meme opinion

>tfw will never not make sterile music

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I have been saying this for fucking years

nah

I don't know One of these Nights is pretty alright.

This

dude. that's a banger.

1990 was basically the 80's. hair metal, thrash metal, new jack swing, synthpop, etc. were all still big that year.

This

based

>shitting on steely dan
even if it's bait, just fucking kill yourself.

I just heard Livin on a Prayer in the radio again today
Fuck that song

I think You Give Love a Bad Name is worse

It's not a bad song but overrated
Deep Purple have so many better songs

Fuck you

Bad opinions
Especially Sultans of Swing
I really can't stand Walk of Life

user just couldn't figure out the riff

classic rock ended around 80-81, aided by the onset of Mtv and new wave. Songs became more simplified and the sounds became more sterile and uniform. Classic rock radio would be much better if they excluded anything after 81.

This
Bon Jovi is the worst
How did it take so long to mention them?

i agree with this 100% i hate hearing bands like fucking nirvana and GnR on classic rock stations
there is so much good 70s rock you could fill an endless playlist yet you hear the same 50 hits from 1966-1995

Yes sounded pretty good, but that's probably because they didn't have the kind of loud-guitar-driven hard rock you're talking about, instead having a more CSNY-esque, psychedelic, symphonic kind of sound with relatively quieter guitars and loud bass. That's why Jon Anderson's vocals come through clear as a bell.

some of my favourite earliest memories are laughing at the video for i wanna rock with my old man, fuck you