Back in the Seventies if you listened to commercial radio you didn’t just know the songs you loved — you knew the songs you hated as well.The Seventies were a time of incredible diversity in Top 40 Radio. Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wildside” was a Top 10 hit (One imagines that program directors all across the country had no idea what the lyrics meant.)!
The prodigious expansion of the music industry produced commercial juggernauts like Rumours, Saturday Night Fever, Frampton Comes Alive, Hotel California among many others but they also produced massive hit singles that became unavoidable like Paul Anka’s egregious “You’re Having My Baby” or, worse still, Debby Boone’s fatuous “You Light Up My Life” which held the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten consecutive, and agonizing, weeks in 1977. The horror! The horror!
Join Sex 14’s and g. extrasauce as they hunt down the WORST song of the Seventies. We invite you to help find that elusive creature — that one song that — even in a sea of crap — manages to float to the top. We want to hear from YOU! If you were alive in the Seventies, what song was the bane of your existence? If you are only discovering the Seventies as part of the past — what song has made you shake your head in disbelief?
Send all your suggestions to wurstsong@gmail.com. You can make as many suggestions as you like — there is plenty of horrific music from which to choose. “Afternoon Delight” anyone? “Feelings”? What could be more horrific than that awful disco song by KISS?
Join Sex 14’s and Sparklemotion for an afternoon of covers that are better than the original. There are actually quite a few of them but perhaps the most iconic is “All Along the Watchtower” where even the song’s author, Bob Dylan, when he heard Jimi Hendrix’s version apparently said, “So that’s how the song’s supposed to go.”
Join us for an afternoon of musical invention — songs IMPROVED by great interpreters. This is a special fundraiser show and our phone lines will be open. Make a donation and we’ll play your suggestions.
