RANT: The Pina Colada Song

[sighyoung]

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Yes, the 70's were good to us in so many ways.

[heyzeus]

When a list leads with the Eagles, it is a list I am going to make fun of behind its back.

[sighyoung]

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Sure, Percy Faith's career extends back decades, but thank goodness easy-listening radio in the 70's allowed this genius to bring us some of his finest masterpieces.

[heyzeus]

If we are going to go with crappy decades, I think the 80's take it. How about all that European techno-garbage crap? Loof ballons. [expletive] you.

Or this gem ..

Sometimes you're better off dead
There's gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police, there's a madman around
Running down underground to a dive bar
In a West End town

In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
West End girls

West End Girls!

Go back to Prague or wherever you are from.

Nothing wrong with the Pet Shop Boys but hardly the best music of the decade. The 80s had the best albums by some of the best bands in rock history and the birth of alt rock - the Replacements, the Smiths, REM, the Pixies, Husker Du, U2, They Might Be Giants, the Cure, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Violent Femmes, Sonic Youth. Nirvana's Bleach? Yep, 1989. Same with Pretty Hate Machine by NIN. That's a damn versatile decade. Also it didn't feature the pina colada song, or the "lime in the coconut" song, or Peaceful Easy Feeling for the love of Christ. Or disco. Or Afternoon Delight. Really, the worst songs of all time. Starlight Vocal Band + KC and the Sunshine Band = death for all that is holy.

[jim]

Lol at zues. Most of those want me to punch my own face in. Rem? Seriously?

[lukethedrifter]

Down in Jamaica they got lots of pretty women
Steal your money then they break your heart

[heyzeus]

I take it you're familiar with Shiny Happy People and therefor know who REM ate?

[Cronos]

I take it you're familiar with Shiny Happy People and therefor know who REM ate?

Michael Stipe is a cannibal? Well my opinion of him just turned rather sour.

[sighyoung]

The Bay City Rollers.

/boom goes the dynamite

[sighyoung]

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y! NIGHT!
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y! NIGHT!