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Bad music you love

This "song" is perfect for a corporate promo video:
 

Reminds me of my time in Japan working with NEC Software/Firmware/Hardware Engineers.




At some point in the dim past I actually watched the movie from which this video was taken.
 
A few days ago I was chatting to a friend about bad music our parents liked. That reminded me of Julio Iglesias:


Ugh, even as a kid I hated it. It's so bad.

Funny. I must have listened to this 100 times if not more. It was one of several songs on one of my old mans cassette tapes that did permanent duty in the car stereo for over a decade. Evey time we went out somewhere in the car......
 


In 2025 these cheesy 80s lyrics read prophetic in hindsight. Five Star reminds me of why I still carry a Nokia 3210!


Take a look at me, wire to a machine
Never would believe it, this can't be happening
Boxes that go beep, little lights that leap
Tapping on a keyboard, what's happening to me
And when the electricity starts to flow
The fuse that's on my sanity got to blow
System addict
I never can get enough
System addict
Never can give it up, oh oh, no oh
Beauty or a beast, don't know which I see
Still I couldn't leave it
Fascination won't it cease
You know it's got the best of me
Sight and sound
Untangled in complexity all around
System addict (system addict)
I never can get enough
System addict (system addict)
Never can give it up, no oh
System addict
You've got the hardware habit
And when it gets to be too much
Can't go on
I really need the human touch
But I'm too far gone (yes, I'm too far gone)
(No, I can't go on)
System addict
I never can get enough (system addict)
System addict
Never can give it up
System addict (system addict)
(You got the hardware habit)
I never can get enough (system addict)
System addict (system addict)
(You got the hardware habit)
Never can give it up (system addict)
System addict (system addict)
(You got the hardware habit)
I never can get enough (system addict)
System addict (system addict)
(You got the hardware habit)
Never can give it up (system addict)
System addict (system addict)
(You got the hardware habit)
I never can get enough (system addict)
System addict (system addict)
(You got the hardware habit)
Never can give it up (system addict)
 
Not bad but maybe not something an (older) man, like me, should dance to, like I did last summer. Bad style so to speak. Although I'm old enough to completely ignore that, so I danced on. :)

Catchy song. :)


 
Anything Beach Boys and the likes.
Anyone trying to mimic opera without formal education (better shoot me at the spot)
Early computer-like low res synths.
 
Les Dawson was an accomplished pianist. It was part of his comedy act. I am told it was quite hard to do if you know how to play.
Yes, I know.

My mother was a pianist, any time he was on the TV doing that routine she would say 'He must be very good because it's really hard to play like that.'
 
For those who, like me, can’t stand U2: Richard Cheese doing ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’
 

Boney M - Rasputin​

This music is absolutely terrible in every respect. It's like André Rieu but from 1970s and made for the early teens audience: a phony construction from top to bottom purely for the money (and, one assumes, the leg over). Money M wasn't big in the USA iiuc but sure was in Europe.

Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on

Add to these quality lyrics that front man who can't dance, can't sing, can't even hop around in time to the disco beat but always takes his shirt off and, according to my wife who still has the Boney M LP she was given when she was 8, is fugly.

However, despite all those dimensions of dismal, there's the pleasure of extreme cringe watching this, perhaps blended with a little bit of schadenfreude thinking about those who had to live down their enthusiasm in the half century since.

 
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