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« on: 10 May 2006, 05:03 »
Everyone has a couple. You know, the cheesy pop crap that never fails to bring a huge grin to your face, despite (maybe because of?) how bad they are.

Mine include:

Unique II - Break My Stride
Nikki French - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Hilary Duff - Come Clean

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« Reply #1 on: 10 May 2006, 07:33 »
I love pop. Well written pop is hard to come by these days.
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« Reply #2 on: 10 May 2006, 08:44 »
Shakira ft Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie - I don't think it's a bad song at all, Shakira is actually pretty awesome, but it's addicting and never fails to get me to sing along.

Muph & Plutonic - Heaps Good - This is just fun cheesy whiteboy hip-hop.

(Crap, neither of these are really pop, just Top 40.)

Cyndi Lauper - She-Bop
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl

(I have nearly perfect scores in Kareoke Revolution for those last two, I'm not ashamed to admit.)
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« Reply #3 on: 10 May 2006, 09:52 »
Pretty much every Boney M song ever.  It doesn't get much cheesier or more awesome than Rasputin.
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« Reply #4 on: 10 May 2006, 10:54 »
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« Reply #5 on: 10 May 2006, 11:01 »
A-Ha - Take on Me
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby?
New Order - Blue Monday
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Tears for Fears - Mad World

I want the eighties back.
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« Reply #6 on: 10 May 2006, 11:23 »
The Vapours - Turning Japanese

Wheeeey!
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« Reply #7 on: 10 May 2006, 11:31 »
LFO - Every Other Time

also Anything that is by the Spice Girls.
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« Reply #8 on: 10 May 2006, 12:19 »
shakira, definitely. "underneath your clothes" is such an awful song, but i love it.

also, i have this thing for "one night in bangkok" by murray head.
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« Reply #9 on: 10 May 2006, 13:23 »
Quote from: KharBevNor
A-Ha - Take on Me
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby?
New Order - Blue Monday
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Tears for Fears - Mad World

I want the eighties back.


All of that plus

Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Duran Duran - The Reflex
Avril Lavigne - Complkicated, Sk8er Boi.
Ashlee Simpson - La La, Pieces of Me, Boyfriend
Hillary Duff - Wake Up, Beat of My Heart
ABBA - Everything.
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« Reply #10 on: 10 May 2006, 13:52 »
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agreed!
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« Reply #11 on: 10 May 2006, 14:12 »
A lot of what has been mentioned:

Shakira - Ojos Asi
Britney Spears - Toxic
All Saints - Never Ever, Black Coffee, Under the Bridge etc.
TLC - Waterfall(This song has a funny effect on me, though I won't elaborate)
Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath and so on, many of their hits basically.
Though Independent Woman will always be better in Elbow's version.
Danser Med Drenge - Sig du kan li' Mig(danish 80's pop)
Sugababes - Overload, Round Round, Freak Like Me(when they were slightly edgy)
Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle(When she wanted to be Britney Spears and not a horny slut, though I guess nowadays there is no difference)
Aqua - Doctor Jones, Good Morning Sunshine, Happy Boys and Girls(I owned their first album when I was a kid and I know it by heart)
Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

and plenty of Abba.

That is it I think, if we are not going to round up all the ridiculous dance like Kate Ryan or Bailando.
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« Reply #12 on: 10 May 2006, 14:22 »
Ah, the thread anchored on the *other* slope of the Hipster Uncanny Valley.

I would say
Lipps, Inc - Funkytown
But that's a cheesy disco tune (is there any other kind?)
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« Reply #13 on: 10 May 2006, 14:38 »
That reminds me:


Flashdance!!! OH WHAT A FEEEEELIING.
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« Reply #14 on: 10 May 2006, 14:45 »
Quote from: KharBevNor
A-Ha - Take on Me
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby?
New Order - Blue Monday
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Tears for Fears - Mad World

I want the eighties back.


You forgot Love and Pride - King.

... and Mylene Farmer. I think she's pop.
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« Reply #15 on: 10 May 2006, 15:19 »
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A-Ha - Take on Me
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby?
New Order - Blue Monday
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Tears for Fears - Mad World

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Britney Spears - Toxic
Madonna - Vogue, her past 4 albums...I'm a closet Madonna fan
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« Reply #16 on: 10 May 2006, 15:21 »
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
Or pretty much any Duran Duran song
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« Reply #17 on: 10 May 2006, 15:31 »
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I want the eighties back.


There's a lot of good 80s style synthpop around. Off the top of my head... Elegant Machinery, Empire State Human, Lavantgarde, probably a few hundred others. Not everyone has acknowledged that 2 decades have passed since then :D
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« Reply #18 on: 10 May 2006, 15:36 »
I like a fair amount of Shakira's stuff (at least I like what I've heard)
"J'en Ai Marre" by Alizee
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« Reply #19 on: 10 May 2006, 15:38 »
Mmmbop
Spaceman by um...I can't remember, but it was on that top 50 one hit wonders show the other day.
The Sunscreen Song
Praise You (oh the summer we spent dancing badly to that!)
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« Reply #20 on: 10 May 2006, 16:30 »
I can barely let myself contribute to this because my list is so long and extensive that I could never remember it all, and then I'd just feel very uncomfortable and angry at myself for a job poorly done.

So I'll leave it at this: I second the '80s suggestions, ESPECIALLY Come On Eileen, which is actually one of my favorite songs of all time.  I was at an '80s dance party at some co-op a month or two ago and my friend and I had been pestering the DJ all night to play come on eileen.  We really wanted cigarettes but didn't want to miss the song, because you know when you're drunk and you just NEED something to happen?  So we went up to her, asked when it was playing, then TOLD her "WE ARE GOING OUT TO SMOKE SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT PLAY THIS SONG FOR LIKE EIGHT MINUTES, OKAY?"

She agreed, so we went outside and were enjoying our cigarettes when this guy walks out to talk to us, and one of us had started humming a line from the song, and the boy goes, "Oh man, I love Come On Eileen.  They just played it."

It was the most depressing moment of my life.
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« Reply #21 on: 10 May 2006, 16:36 »
Man, the 80s is back pretty heavily, at least in the UK.  You've got the kind of pop popjustice talks up, which is basically all heavily rooted in 80s revivalism.. check out Rachel Steven's 'So Good' or 'Some Girls'.  They're huge.  And it's a given that the rock scene is stuck in the past, so of course the 80s loom large there... that topic's well flogged, though, I'm sure.

I tend to be more embarrassed by liking eg. Sufjan Stevens than Beyonce, so am not sure what to put down... 80s nostalgia, I have plenty, love most of the songs mentioned above.. disco.. I love it, although more the stuff coming from the disco scene in the States than the Euro stuff like Abba.  Still, I have a feeling I'm probably alone in preferring classic disco to classic rock. Give me Earth Wind & Fire over the Zep any day! :D

OK, some songs I think are pretty damn bad but somehow like:
'Hands to Heaven' - Breathe (80s one-hit wonders, slow number that sounds like George Michael's slow numbers circa 'Faith')
'I Ain't Missing You' - John Waites ("At all. no way. since you been gone.")
'Jessie's Girl' - Rick Springfield ("I wanna tell her that I love her, but I guess the point is moot" - for real!?)
'2 Become 1' - The Spice Girls ("Be a little bit wiser baby, put it on, put it on..." - Baby Spice no less!)
'Iris' - Goo Goo Dolls (Fuck.. disaster.. great example of how the brain and the heart don't always listen to each other though.. how can this grab me at all??)
'It Started With A Kiss' - Hot Chocolate
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« Reply #22 on: 10 May 2006, 16:40 »
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It was the most depressing moment of my life.

Man, you've had a pretty sweet life, eh.  ;)  

Dexy's get huge hipster points as well in certain circles.  They crafted this weird grubby blue-eyed soul record when no one else was really doing that... I remember when the singer launched a solo career in drag, all hairy and crusty.  It was a little scary.

I have to say 'Come On Eileen' is one of those songs I've heard soooooo many times I don't even really know what I think of it!?  Every school dance as a teenager, every silly party of retro night, every wedding, etc.  The sucker's ubiquitous, almost up there with Abba's 'Waterloo'.
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« Reply #23 on: 10 May 2006, 16:40 »
Uh, I guess the closest thing I have to pop is the new Rob Zombie album. (which is utter shit)
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« Reply #24 on: 10 May 2006, 16:53 »
i miss the 90s. such good pop.

i want you + truely madly deeply- savage garden
closing time - semisonic
couting blue cars - dishwalla
if you could only see - tonic
all spice girls
all abba
all the songs listed by KharBevNor
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« Reply #25 on: 10 May 2006, 17:43 »
Cindi Lauper - Time After Time
Salt 'n' Pepa - Push It
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« Reply #26 on: 10 May 2006, 18:36 »
The main one that comes to mind is Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing. Terrible, but hearing it one too many times has endeared it to me.
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« Reply #27 on: 10 May 2006, 18:42 »
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Come On Eileen, which is actually one of my favorite songs of all time.


Mine too. I was singing it today in the cafeteria and I got weird looks. Most sing-along-able song ever.

Also, Take on Me - A-ha
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« Reply #28 on: 10 May 2006, 18:54 »
I used to play a slow acoustic version of Come On Eileen.  Killed at parties.
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« Reply #29 on: 10 May 2006, 19:08 »
Another vote for Come on Eileen. My sister played it at her wedding; I was happy. I danced like the crazy fool I am.

A kid used to sing Take on Me all the time in my grade 10 math class. That's all I remember from that class. That and the random bird calls that the boys would shout out.

Holding out for a Hero- Bonnie Tyler mmmmmm eighties
Turning Japanese-The Vapors how can you not enjoy?
The Wedding Singer soundtrack (both of them)-good times
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« Reply #30 on: 10 May 2006, 19:42 »
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Also, Take on Me - A-ha

Yes!
Also, I Will Survive! It's my super karaoke song.
And Haddaway - What Is Love, baby don't hurt me... I was teaching it to myself for solo piano and vocals for a silly sort of thing, and after listening to it fifty odd times it grew on me.
And I can't not sing Blondie's Call Me if I hear it. Not that I can remember all the words, but I try.
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« Reply #31 on: 10 May 2006, 20:04 »
JOURNEY.

also, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something.
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« Reply #32 on: 10 May 2006, 20:50 »
Bee Gees - Staying Alive
 Bee Gees - How Deep is Your Love?
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out <-------- jokes about my sexuality ahoy!
Donna Summer - On the Radio
Donna Summer - Mac Arthur Park
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler - It's a Heartache
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus


BOSTON - MORE THAN A FEELING
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« Reply #33 on: 10 May 2006, 21:41 »
Glukoza - Shvanie (remix)

Yay for crazy Russian techno sung in German.
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« Reply #34 on: 10 May 2006, 22:53 »
If it counts as pop, all of Boston's self-titled album.
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« Reply #35 on: 10 May 2006, 23:59 »
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Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out <-------- jokes about my sexuality ahoy!

Yeah, that's an incredible tune.  Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards are legends.

Saw a funny interview with Nile about this song where he was saying that when they went to Studio 54 all the black queens were dressing up as Diana Ross... so they knew the market was there, but had to write the song in such a way that (conservative, Christian) Ross wouldn't flinch.  She thought it was just this positive song about coming out of your shell.  :)

He also said in the same interview that the chorus for Chic's 'Le Freak' started out as "aaaah FUCK OFF!" rather than "aaaah FREAK OUT!"  Would've been quite a different song.  :) :)
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« Reply #36 on: 11 May 2006, 00:15 »
es anyone remember Maria Mena?  She had a short lived pop-radio spurt with Chicago radio, at the least.  She had the cutest song called You're the Only One.  Definatly a favorite of mine.  Then, as mentioned... anything 80's.
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« Reply #37 on: 11 May 2006, 05:02 »
Men At Work - Land Down Under
Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Natalie Imbruglia - Smoke
Fuel - Shimmer
The Veronicas - 4ever (I know it's shit, but the chorus is so catchy!)
Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle (I've heard an awesome DnB mashup of this song, actually)
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« Reply #38 on: 11 May 2006, 05:19 »
How about "The Sun Always Shines On TV" by A-ha? I was actually listening to that while the eclipse was taking place in 1999.
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« Reply #39 on: 11 May 2006, 06:39 »
The cheese to end all cheese:


La Macarena - Los del Rio
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