What's the cheesiest song you like?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

I listen to Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" all the time, and have been told it is capable of invalidating all my jazz tastes and putting me in the cheese camp of music. :P

In a little while from now,
If I'm not feeling any less sour,
I promised myself, to treat myself,
And visit a nearby tower ..........
And climbing to the top,
Would throw myself off,
In an effort to, make clear to whoever,
What it's like when your shattered .......
Left standing in a lurch,
In a church with people saying .....
My God, that's tough, she stood him up,
No point in us remaining .......
I may as well go home,
As I did on my own,
Alone again, naturally.

To think that only yesterday,
I was cheerful, bright and gay,
Looking forward to, and who wouldn’t do,
The role I was about to play.
But as if to knock me down,
Reality came around,
And without so much as a mere touch,
Cut me into little pieces.
Leaving me to doubt, all about God and His mercy,
Oh, if He really does exist,
Why did He desert me?
And in my hour of need,
I truely am, indeed,
Alone again, naturally.

It seems to me that there are more hearts,
Broken in the world that can’t be mended,
Left unattended, what do we do?
What do we do?

Now looking back over the years,
And whatever else that appears.
I remember I cried when my father died,
Never wishing to hide the tears.
At sixty-five years old,
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man,
She had ever loved had been taken.
Leaving her to start, with a heart so badly broken,
Despite encouragement from me,
No words were ever spoken.
And when she passed away,
I cried and cried all day,
Alone again, naturally .....
Alone again ................................. naturally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

[carly denise pt deux]

1. Please Don't Go- KC and the Sunshine band

Carly

[stuntcat]

41. KC *thump thump*

:loveya: I love him.
I saw him a couple of years ago, I don't care how old he is, he's a cutey.

[carly denise pt deux]

58. He sure is cute!

Carly

[wildhorses]

2. in my midnight confession...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCdGqed6Ajg

The Grass Roots

The sound of your footsteps
Telling me that you're near
Your soft gentle motion, baby
Brings out the need in me that no-one can hear, except

In my midnight confessions
When I tell all the world that I love you
In my midnight confessions
When I say all the things that I want to
I love you

But a little gold ring you wear on your hand makes me understand
There's another before me, you'll never be mine
I'm wasting my time

Staggering through the daytime
Your image on my mind
Passing so close beside you baby
Sometimes the feelings are so hard to hide, except

In my midnight confessions
When I tell all the world that I love you
In my midnight confessions
When I say all the things that I want to
I love you

But a little gold ring you wear on your hand makes me understand
There's another before me, you'll never be mine
I'm wasting my time

In my midnight confessions
When I tell all the world that I love you
Na na-na na na na na-na
Na na-na na na na na-na

[greendog]

3. "Walk Right In" by the Rooftop Singers

Walk right in, sit right down
Daddy, let your mind roll on
Walk right in, sit right down
Daddy, let your mind roll on
Everybody's talkin' 'bout a new way of walkin'
Do you want to lose your mind?
Walk right in, sit right down
Daddy, let your mind roll on

Walk right in, sit right down
Baby, let your hair hang down
Walk right in, sit right down
Baby, let your hair hang down
Everybody's talkin' 'bout a new way of walkin'
Do you want to lose your mind?
Walk right in, sit right down
Baby, let your hair hang down



Walk right in, sit right down
Daddy, let your mind roll on
Walk right in, sit right down
Daddy, let your mind roll on
Everybody's talkin' 'bout a new way of walkin'
Do you want to lose your mind?
Walk right in, sit right down
Daddy, let your mind roll on
Daddy, let your mind roll on

[blockhead]

10. and i always thought that was a Dr. Hook song.

I guess i never heard the original.

[greendog]

19. The "original" original was an old ragtime tune from the 20's.

It was recorded by Gus Cannon and Cannon's Jug Stompers. The Rooftop Singers cut their version in 1963.

[spiderpig]

29. OhMyGod! Earworm alert!

If there are no more posts from Catnapper, hold yourself responsible!!!

[crim son]

4. "Telephone Line" by ELO.

For example. :blush:

[Zookeeper]

5. "Hard to Handle," sung by Tom Jones....

"What's New, Pussycat?" is a close second.

And I'm less embarassed about liking a cheesy song than I used to be. :)

[crim son]

9. I see no good reason for that.

:P

[Zookeeper]

12. HEY!

I'm old. I can like anything I want.... :P :+

[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. At least Tom Jones didn't steal his name from an obscure opera composer!

Just from a novel by Henry Fielding.

Or perhaps it's his real name.

[Zookeeper]

34. And it's hard to believe....

that Englebert and Tom were once equally popular. (I always though EH was very creepy.)

[WeRQ4U]

6. "I love a rainy night"

Eddie Rabbit

[Strawman]

7. "Makin' It" by David Naughton

I win.

MAKIN' IT
David Naughton

Makin' it, oo makin' it

I'm solid gold
I've got the goods
They stand when I walk
Through the neighborhoods

I'm makin' it
I've got the chance, I'm takin' it
No more, no more, Fakin' it
This time in life, I'm makin' it (ooo)

Makin' it

Hello uptown, Goodbye poverty
The top of the ladder is waiting for me

I'm makin' it,
I've got the chance, I'm takin' it
No more, no more fakin' it
This time in life, I'm makin' it (ooo)
Makin' it, makin' it

Listen everyone here
This coming year's gonna be my year
I'm as bad as they come
Number two to no one
I've got looks, I've got brains
And I'm breakin' these chains
Make some room now
dig what you see
Success is mine
'Cause I've got the key
I'm makin' it
(repeat chorus)

[opiate69]

8. "'Enry the Eighth" - Herman's Hermits...

I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am

Second verse same as the first

I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am



I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am

H-E-N-R-Y
Henry (Henry)
Henry (Henry)
Henry the eighth I am, I am
Henry the eighth I am

Yeah!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

25. I think that's an old vaudeville song he revived. Funny!!

[swag]

11. Madonna "Beautiful Stranger"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhUNmY1PcM8

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Europe - "The Final Countdown"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASisLT5XHtg

[salin]

14. definitely cheesy.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. But oh so fucking great.

[salin]

16. any song from Billy Joel's "The Stranger"

from the title song, to "Only the Good Die Young", to "Moving out", to my favorite "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant".

Also - something only folks listening to pop music in the early mid seventies would know/remember (and I was a kid and it was all I listened to) "Midnight in the Oasis"

I was way too young to get what this was about - but even though I realized that it didn't sound too much different than some car ads at the time - I absolutely loved it - Below are the lyrics. I would guess that most folks didn't acknowledge it enough to remember it but here goes:


Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows paintin' our faces
Traces of romance in our heads

Heaven's holdin' a half-moon
Shinin' just for us
Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon
And kick up a little dust

Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, 'til the evenin' ends
'Til the evenin' ends

You don't have to answer
There's no need to speak
I'll be your belly dancer, prancer
And you can be my sheik



I know your Daddy's a sultan
A nomad known to all
With fifty girls to attend him, they all send him
Jump at his beck and call

But you won't need no harem, honey
When I'm by your side
And you won't need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride

Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, 'til the evenin' ends
'Til the evenin' ends

Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Got shadows paintin' our faces
And traces of romance in our heads

Oh, come on...

Very Cheesy (probably more cheesy than the Billy Joel that I first mentioned.)

[MAGICBULLET]

17. waiting for a star to fall

Boy Meets Girl - can't get cheesier than that but I LUV it

[lizziegrace]

45. Me too!

The youtube video of that has been pulled. :(

[MAGICBULLET]

46. REALLY?

that sucks I never saw the video! I'd like to just to take me back to 1988 for a minute.

[lizziegrace]

48. You can see one of their videos

on VH1.com Search on Boy Meets Girl. It's a song I don't know, but still you can get a fix.

:hi:

Welcome to DU!

[MAGICBULLET]

51. THANK YOU

another cheesy, but incredible song, is "Electric Blue" by Icehouse. :hi:

[charlie and algernon]

18. The Rainbow Connection

[opiate69]

20. Awesome! My former singer used to sing that for soundcheck..

this guy was a master at doing voices.. the metal-heads that came to see us always looked a little confused when he'd go into that.

[momophile]

61. now that's just a good song

nothing at all cheesy about that one.

[mitchum]

21. "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Actually I prefer it to any of Queen's overblown nonsense. You can get out the pitchforks and torches now.

[enigmatic]

31. I love that song

Hell, I wished that she would have been Meat Loaf's ingenue for Bat Out Of Hell instead of Ellen Foley, but that's just me. I loved Jim Steinman's original version of Rock N Roll Dreams Come Through w/ Rory Dodd on vocals; WMMS in Cleveland played the shit out of it when Bad For Good was released, but I think they were the only one.

[unsavedtrash]

22. Sailing by Christopher Cross

It's not far down to paradise
At least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away
And find tranquility
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me

It's not far to never never land
No reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy
Of innocence again
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me

Sailing
Takes me away
To where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free

Fantasy
It gets the best of me
When I'm sailing
All caught up in the reverie
Every word is a symphony
Won't you believe me

It's not far back to sanity
At least it's not for me
And when the wind is right you can sail away
And find serenity
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me

[fudge stripe cookays]

53. Me too.

Because it reminds me of my dad. He died right before it came out. :cry:

[steelemagnolia]

55. Blissfully Peaceful - Love it

[spiderpig]

23. I'm going to want to kill myself in the morning

for admitting this,

but I love "Ready to Take a Chance Again" sung by (kill me now) Barry Manilow. It was the theme for "Foul Play", and I have many fond memories of that silly movie, including Goldie driving her little yellow Beetle along Highway 1.

"That was one tough Mamma!"

[Manifestor_of_Light]

26. Barely Manenough wrote "You deserve a break today"

He got rich writing jingles like "State Farm is there".

[spiderpig]

28. Um, thanks for making me feel better...

NOT!

:eyes:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. "We Built This City" by Jefferson Starship

I don't know why people hate it so much. It's a very well crafted pop song.

The Carpenters were underrated. John Denver was underrated.

Personal note:I studied & played classical music quite intensely for about 20 years, on two completely different instruments. I also sang and took lessons in singing opera.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

33. OMG no way!

Somebody actually LIKES that song?

:wow:

[vixengrl]

57. This heartens me to admit one of my favorites, from John Denver:

ANNIE'S SONG (John Denver)

You fill up my senses like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime, like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses come fill me again.

Come let me love you, let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you, let me always be with you
Come let me love you, come love me again.

INSTRUMENTAL VERSE

...Let me give my life to you
Come let me love you, come love me again.

You fill up my senses like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime, like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses, come fill me again.



I just find it very simple and sweet.


Another of my kind of sappy faves is from the Hollies:

The Air that I Breathe

If I could make a wish
I think I'd pass
Cant think of anything I need
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound
Nothing to eat, no books to read

Making love with you
Has left me peaceful, warm, and tired
What more could I ask
There's nothing left to be desired
Peace came upon me and it leaves me weak
So sleep, silent angel, go to sleep

Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe
And to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe
Yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe

Peace came upon me and it leaves me weak
So sleep, silent angel, go to sleep

Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe
And to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe
Yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe

Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe
And to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe
Yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe
And to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe
Yes to love you

(And thus it is revealed I am a romantic.)

[enigmatic]

30. "Believe"- Cher

I can't help myself; it's probably one of my 5 favorite guilty pleasures to listen to. If I pick up my guitar, it's of the first songs I'll play most times. Sometimes I'll play it as a Lightin' Hopkins country blues thing, which has Mrs. E is even more convinced I'm insane :D

[alarimer]

59. I heard Robbie Fulks do this song

I have it on a live cd (At the Double Door, I think). It sounds better when he does it.

[gbate]

32. I like all the ones listed so far, but my favorite is Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks.

[Dukkha]

35. Journey "Faithfully"

it doesn't get cheesier than that
and I'm a big time music snob
:hide:

[lizziegrace]

49. And

"Open Arms"

:)

[idgiehkt]

36. "A Moment Like This" by Kelly Clarkson

pass the kleenex. :)

[Raffi Ella]

37. Beautiful by Christina Aguilera

It is *so* cheesey and yet it never fails to choke me up whenever I hear it on the radio.

[idgiehkt]

39. honey that is a gay anthem

I guess without the video it might be considered cheesy but when you watch the two men french kissing it kind of brings home the point.

[Raffi Ella]

42. ah,that's right....

It does have meaning when you put it those terms but still...straight people identify with the lyrics and angst in her voice too and I call CHEESE when in that context :P

[Coventina]

38. "I Will Survive" regardless of artist. Although Cake's is my fav.

:yoiks:

[AngryAmish]

40. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[stuntcat]

43. BORN TO BE ALIVE by Patrick Hernandez

I LOVE this song!!!! 'Cause we were BORN, BORN, BORN, BORN TO BE ALIVE :p

The cheesiest video you will ever witness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-aI1Ch39ZU

[racaulk]

44. "Spice Up Your Life" by Spice Girls

That song is pure cheese, but don't ask me why I like it, I just do, OK? :P

[Mad_Dem_X]

52. I like "Say You'll Be There"

The Spice Girls are the Queens of Cheese.

[taterguy]

47. Going Nowhere by Tommy Womack

Not gonna post lyrics or a youtube link because I'm sure you all are already familiar with it

[mentalsolstice]

50. "I Want To Know What Love Is" by Foreigner n/t

[steelemagnolia]

54. I LOVE that song

especially on a cold, rainey day.......it gets me reflection

[stirlingsliver]

56. Brandy, You're A Fine Girl

What a fine girl you would be.

But my live, my love, and my lady is the sea.

It is. It is.

[Burma Jones]

60. Be, Neil Diamond, from Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Lost
On a painted sky
Where the clouds are hung
For the poet's eye
You may find him
If you may find him

There
On a distant shore
By the wings of dreams
Through an open door
You may know him
If you may

Be
As a page that aches for a word
Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
And the one God will make for your day

Sing
As a song in search of a voice that is silent
And the sun
God will make for your way

And we dance
To a whispered voice
Overheard by the soul,
Undertook by the heart
And you may know it
If you may know it

While the sand would become the stone
Which begat the spark
Turned to living bone
Holy, holy
Sanctus, sanctus

Be
As a page that aches for a word
Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
While the one God will make for your day

Sing
As a song in search of a voice that is silent
And the one God will make for your way