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Nov 16, 2008 20:58

So yesterday I lost about two hours of my life to this list, the 25 cheesiest songs of the 70s. It wasn't so much the songs themselves - I didn't know all of them, even the one about canibalism - and the idea of definitively writing a list of cheesy songs from any era is pretty ridiculous, but still. It was the idea of the accompanying horrific ( Read more... )

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shoebox2 November 16 2008, 14:01:54 UTC
Heh. This is pretty much fish in the barrel and somebody handed the author a gun - every 70's song is cheezy to some degree, just by virtue of the era in which it was made. You can't get away from that hair.

[shameless self-promotion]Which is more or less why I've been working on a similar feature on my own blog, actually [/shameless self-promotion]

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tinderblast November 19 2008, 10:24:11 UTC
Ha, my mother was a big Rod Stewart fan. As soon as I saw 'Maggie May' I thought of her.

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fer_de_lance November 16 2008, 20:17:49 UTC
25 cheesiest songs of the 70s

I love this list solely because it has the greatest description of any song ever:

At first I chose "Y.M.C.A." and then I thought "In The Navy," but then "Macho Man" came up and I realized these guys were single-handedly determined to ruin music as we knew it. And they succeeded. Except that nowadays this doesn't sound so bad because the stuff on the radio is actually quantifiably worse.

*giggling*

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tinderblast November 19 2008, 10:25:08 UTC
Macho Man is so funny and over-the-top, though, I just don't see how anyone can hate it.

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