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This one has to belong here! The song that convinced me that British chart music by the mid-1980s had deteriorated beyond the point of no return.

Artists like George Michael and Culture Club were being hailed as the prime musical talents of the decade. Can you imagine the Rolling Stones or The Beatles releasing something like this a couple of decades earlier?

I can't believe I'm posting this because I can't even let myself hear it.

I can't stand this band. The song actually gives me misophonia -- rage so bad I want to hit things. When it used to come on the radio I'd freak out if I couldn't get away.



Saga -- Wind Him Up ^

The same thing happens with most POLICE songs.

* I managed to post this without hearing it -- yay *

Yeah, that's pretty ropey!

First song by The *olice that I heard was 'Roxanne', and was not impressed. Have to say though that I find 'Message In A Bottle' very listenable and even 'catchy'.

Sting is a bit of a dork.

LOL!

McArthur Park ^


Having My Baby ^

The only POLICE I can kind of enjoy is King of Pain.

Gosh. Maybe its that you're allergic to reggae, and I am not. But I like Sting and the Police. Not like they ever a main course of my musical diet, but I like a number of their songs.

On the other hand... I had never heard/heard of "Saga" before now.

And now that I have heard that song... I am not in hurry to ever hear it again. Lol!

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I do hate reggae, and I always wondered if that's the problem with Police.

I have some kind of trauma-reaction to Every Little Thing that started when I was about 13. I don't remember what happened but I know it's always been a trauma trigger. Maybe the disdain started from that?

Sting seems like a narcissist to me too, though. That's never good.

Never knew Richard Harris could sing (I know, there's an obvious response to that!). Thought that Donna Summer recorded a decent version of 'MacArthur Park'.

He isnt actually singing. He is kinda talk-singing. The way that Rex Harrison does on "If I could talk to the animals". Or that William Shatner did on Shatners Sixties recordings of Beatles, and Dylan songs.

Mac Arthur park has a cult of folks who love to hate it. A deejay in Chicago does a show called "the Annoying Music show" that often features the many versions of it including both Donna Summer's and Richard Harris's. Something about lyrics like "someone left my cake out in the rain...I dont think that I can TAKE it because it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe AGAIN!! !!" and something about our love being like "a striped pair of pants" that inspires the negative loyalty.

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This little number may well be interesting from an artistic, visual or even a psychiatric angle, but it's rubbish as music, I'd aver. Doesn't help that Dury looks like British serial killer Fred West here either. This got to number 1 in the UK. How?

The guy on the first piano is mega-annoying too!

A dance record that ...kills your urge to dance!

Reminds of actor Jack Webb (star of Dragnet) and his version of this soul hit by Otis Redding:

^ This has some similarities with the above, though there is a bit more musical content. Seeing Savalas in this video reminded me also of Kojak and all the other awful American cop shows that invaded British TV screens in the 1970s - Ironside, Starsky & Hutch, Hawaii Five-0, Columbo, Cannon, etc. Then again we produced the equally dire 'Dempsey & Makepeace' in the 1980s...

I think we got a winner here. LOL

I can't believe this hasn't even been mentioned yet.



The song and the music video seem to be contending to see who can be the worst.
I actually used to listen to this. To be honest it's still a guilty pleasure.