What 70's song defines "cruel" to you?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I'm gonna say "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glenn Campbell

[JVS]

1. Rhinestone Cowboy, how is that cruel?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. It just hurts me - hurts me bad

maybe it's the fact that its been played a billion times!

And I just don't like it!

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I love that song!

:hi:

[blondeatlast]

4. "You're Having My Baby"

Cruel to the subject of the song, even crueler for the listener.

[Burma Jones]

5. We would do a cruel thing with this song

As a college buddy was breaking up with his long time Girl Friend, who thought for sure they would get married right out of school, we broke into that song in the other room. She was very upset, and the singing did not help. But then, as Rick James says, "cocaine is a hell of a drug."

[RandomKoolzip]

6. "Old Time Rock and Roll," Bob Seger.

Least favorite song of all time. If I could go back in time and prevent Mr. Seger from recording that foul, foul chanson....then I'd still have two wishes left.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. That's very Back to the Future

I can see his children fading, fading, fading......

[MissMillie]

9. Agreed!!!!!!

Then again, I've never been a Seger fan.

[Archae]

8. Any songs from the Steve Miller Band

Most over-hyped, under-talented bunch of dorks to pop up during the 1970's.

[southpaw]

10. A man after my own heart.

Steve Miller just plain sucked...

fortunately, he's not sucking in view of the public anymore.

[ArkDem]

21. I'm guessing that you don't

speak of the pompatus of love.

[Archae]

24. That is one of their stupidest songs.

The worst is "Rockin' Me Baby."

[dolo amber]

11. "You light up my life"

Writing a cheesy love ballad to your god is just...ookie. :puke: :scared:

[Commendatori]

12. Before I answer, I would need

you to define "cruel." No offense, but the only cruelty involved in "Rhinestone Cowboy" is the thought of making someone listen to it.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. you got it - the song is cruel to me - it makes me hurt!

that's what I'm talkin' 'bout

[Commendatori]

16. Oh, in that case, have you ever heard

"Ring My Bell?"

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. Um - yes. Tori Amos did a good cover of it

but the original is as evilly repetitive as it is insipid

[Commendatori]

20. Never heard the Amos cover,

but can't imagine that you could make anything decent out of that song. Wretched.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. She made it creepy and dirge like - it's actually worth listening to

n/t

[LTR]

13. Muskrat Love

Didin't US troops play that when they were trying to drive out Noriega?

[Bridget Burke]

14. Much overlapping with "The Dirty Thirty"

Or "The worst songs of all time from Texas"--just compiled by John Nova Lomax, music editor for The Houston Press. A few highlights:

21. John Denver, "Sunshine on My Shoulders." Denver -- an army brat -- went to Texas Tech, so we'll throw him in here. Washington Post critic Tim Page once said that 1974 was the worst year in pop music history. It was the year of "Seasons in the Sun," "Piano Man," "Waterloo," "The Way We Were," "Billy Don't Be a Hero," "You're Having My Baby," "I Honestly Love You"…Page honestly has a point. And the quasi-Texan Denver certainly carried the standard for the Lone Star State.....

19. Steve Miller, "Abracadabra." "I wanna reach out and grab ya." I want to reach out and grab a sledgehammer when I hear this song....

14. Michael Martin Murphey, "Wildfire." One of a million smarmy relics from a smarmy decade. As a matter of fact, that's not a bad nickname for that particular ten-year stretch: the Smarmy Seventies.

Check out the whole list for some anti-70's & anti-Dallas snarkiness:

http://houstonpress.com/issues/2004-04-29/racket.html/1/index.html

[Malikshah]

17. That old fav--Afternoon Delight

Thought it'd already been mentioned

[CrownPrinceBandar]

19. "Don't Give Up On Us, Baby".........

by David Soul. It hurts me, physically.

[ArkDem]

22. Born to Run

Yikes!!!!!!!!

[SarahB]

23. "Short People"- Randy Newman

It traumatized someone I know anyway who was pretty short in high school during the 70's anyway. He still despises Randy Newman.

[Quahog]

25. Seasons In The Sun

Cruel to the audience. Cruel to the dying guy. Cruel to the dying guy's loved ones. Utterly awful in every way.