I completely agree with you. I also appreciate the fact that people could say and do what they wanted with the thought-police and cancel culture judging and banishing them to oblivion. It was way better back then than now. So, yes..... let's have a return to the old days!
I love all songs from 60’s 70’s, brings back happy memories of growing up and family fun……all seemed well back then. Compared to the time we are in today ???? I go back to those days in my mind all the time to run from the stuff going on now
No wants to sound like their parents, living in the past when "everything was better", but it's true as far as the music of today. Back in the '60s, people were more open-minded and accepting of different kinds of music. Today, unless people hear a specific narrow type of music (rap, hip/hop, Taylor Swift)- they won't give it a chance.
@@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 well, no. but so what? it's corporate music financed by corporations. i have no idea if i've ever actually heard anything by her but if i haave it made no impact. but good luck with the bank account.
I don't know whether to like this video for its lovely walk down memory lane with some of the most 'cherished' songs of my generation, or to dislike it for its disconnected, unjust, scathing commentary from someone hearing it without the appreciation of having been in the historical context of the culture that produced it.
totally wrong, he's from the younger lot, the perfect lot yeh right songs of today is mostly full of sexual chat in there music it's like listening to a porno song, but that's OK 🤬
So far so good, I haven’t heard anything said about The Mothers of Invention, you know, Frank Zappa’s old band. I agree with the whole Beatles pick up to a point. That point would have to be Sergeant Pepper that’s where I think it all went wrong. Thankfully, they redeemed themselves with Abbey Road. I would never want to see The Doors in concert. I think starting riots at concerts are the biggest insult to fans second, only two the singer turning your back to you and just singing like that.. I would be thinking “what are you turning your back to me? I could just stay home and play the record.”
@@alanmcentee9457peeoow. Yeah!!! I remember in the 80's, I was on a motorcycle with my boyfriend. We had to stop at a red light. Puke or what??? There was actually a dead skunk (grosse... inside out!) right under the light. It was a small road, & we were first at that light !!! Waiting for that light to turn green was pukifying !!! It seemed to take forever for that light to turn green!!! Thanks for the memories!!!!!!! 💗🕊️💗
I liked it...and still do...because I was spending the night at my friend's house and was in love with his older sister. She would walk around the house singing it, so it is intrenched in my mind.
Some I could do without. But my older brother (18 years older than me) actually had me listen to some of these songs and learn a few kinda his version of musical appreciation class. Study lyrics for some, guitar or piano for others.
I honestly thank God I grew up LONG before everyone looked for utter feltergarb to be permanently insulted and offended by. The world before 2000 was so much better off.
I don't "hate" any of these songs OR Bands. Who hated them? No one "deserves" hatred for making music. If I have to think of a song I "hate", it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'. I could go forever and never hear it again. 😅
@@shakerman55 tell me about it, have absolutely no idea who any of them are except that they have weird nanes. Fragile little snowflakes of this generation.
this is all silly. Many old song lyrics are dated to the jargon, slang & expressions of that time, because they were created at that time. Imagine what people of the 60's would think of many song lyrics of the 80's, 90's and today. They may be your most hated songs, but how important is that to anyone but you?
Could'nt stand the 80s, but did like the 90s and 2000s as my son's were teens then so heard it played all the time. Radio stayed turned OFF in the 80s, worse decade for me but not for others. Can't force people to like everything. I was born in the 50s so grew up during 60s and 70s and listened to majority of it, some great, some not so. Preferred music from 1920s to the early 70s, with lots of classical thrown in. Everyone has their favourite decade that does'nt suit others. No point getting upset about it, just don't listen to stuff you don't like. Radios have and off switch, use it when something you hate comes on. I listen to Amazon radio stations as I can select decades I enjoy and avoid those I don't. With normal commercial radio its guaranteed that something will come on that you hate, but if you turn it off you may miss next one you do like. No win situation, that's why I stick to specialised radio stations for decades I love like Amazon's and BBC Sound of the 60s, 70s and 90s. Get to hear music you love without having to suffer music you don't like. There is a Sounds of the 80s channel on BBC Sounds for those who like that sort of thing, same on Amazon too. Check them out and happy listening.
@davidwiley4953 Johnny Burnette didn't write it. It was written by the Sherman Brothers, a couple years before they started writing songs for Disney. All the songs from Mary Poppins and all from the Jungle Book except the Bare Necessities were written by them.
The Monkees caught way too much flak for them not writing their songs or not playing their instruments, many groups did the same thing and since the Wrecking Crew was the group of musicians who played on the records, I don't see the problem
Those songs and groups are what my generation grew up with . They are better than todays music .Whom ever you are that did this video , most likely you were not even born yet.
'Muskrat Love' was originally titled 'Muskrat Candlelight' by its composer and first performer, Willis Alan Ramsey. It was renamed 'Muskrat Love' when covered by America on their 'Hat Trick' album. Neither version was as offensive as C&T's take with all the synthesized burps and farts thrown in as an effort to be cute.
How can you fault the singer of Young Girl for singing that song. He is telling the young girl to stop acting grown up and be a kid. Musicians always have young girls after them and a song telling them to be a kid is how a musician communicates with their fans.
Totally agree Kim. Gen Z have a lot to answer for. Totally intalented and clueless about making music worth listening too. All woke salad crap. Not memorable whatsoever.
@@trance9158talking about music of those decades, not what was going on politically. And btw, WE in the UK did'nt have no part of your war with Vietnam. We were kids enjoying the music of our time. We never looked at newspapers or watched the news, our parents shielded us from war, we lived in relative peace here. These such matters were only discussed by our parents when we were asleep in bed at night. All we cared about was if our favourite singer or band was No. 1 in the charts and watch them perform on Top Of The Pops in the 60s and 70s, great music.
It’s obvious you didn’t live in the 60’s and the 70’s. Many of those songs are favorites. Disco Duck was to make fun of disco because disco sucked so badly.
I love most of these songs!!! I don’t understand why Young girl” is so maligned when he is telling the girl, who apparently fooled him regarding her age, to stay away but nobody worries about Neil Diamond’s “You’ll be a woman soon” or Oingo Boingo’s “I love little girls”, Stray Cats’ “Sexy and 17” or the Beatles’ “You’re 16” Also, there was/is NOTHING RACIST about Speedy Gonzalez and having been born and raised in Mexico I can tell you he was one of our favorites, and Pat Boone’s song was actually translated and covered by SEVERAL Mexican pop bands. I wish people who know nothing would stop speaking for us and erasing the things we love.
Songs hated by who exactly? This list does not seem to reflect any the opinion of any general group of people. It looks as if one person simply listed a bunch of stuff he doesn't like.
@@desertrat7634 Soooo right. How DID I survive listening to - and loving - both the Osmonds and Jimmie Hendrix as well as everybody else! This generation wants everybody to shut up because it 'triggers' them. LOL
These songs of the 70’s , 80’s, & 90’s were pretty great, although some of the 90’s music 🎵 were not as great 😊. Most of the 70’s,80’s songs I really enjoyed because I am from the era of music 🎶 of the 60’s&70’s. The song called “Feelings “ is one that I really like!! 😅😊❤💜😎🖤☮️🌈🦄🦋🇺🇸🇹🇨🏴🇬🇧. Thanks for the memories of those years back then!! 😂 42:38
I loved every song you hate! I'm a baby boomer, yu have to come from that era to appreciate " maybe not so much the lyrics" but the music is very memorable!! Many were happy and fun!
Same here. Baby boomer who knew good music when she heard it. Today's garbage is far from satisfactory, in fact it is abysmal compared to the great music we had. My kids were born in 70s and 80s and now in late 30s and 40s, they had their own musical tastes that were rooted in the mid 90s and upwards. Britpop, rock, indie, grunge, dance, each lad had his favourites. They were'nt interested in rap from what I could make out, usually turned it off when that come on, their choice entirely. No one can force someone to listen to something they don't like?
The Osmonds were the Jackson 5's top bubble-gum competition before MJ went solo. I remember them both having their best happening from '69 to the the earliest '70's.
@@longagoandfaraway7868 "One Bad Apple" was written for the J5, but they never performed it. That's why, even though the Osmonds performed it, it sounded like the J5. BTW, in the 60's, the Osmonds were Andy Williams back-up singers. In their turn, Donny and Marie were introduced on The Andy Williams Show.
Every Mexican i knew growing up, love the song speedy Gonzales. The current younger generations can't handle anything that points to the fact that there are stereotypes for reasons and just recognizing that is not hateful. Modern fragility will be the death of the free world.
The narrator saying that Speedy was a racist character is confusing. So, making a Mexican character a cool and likable good guy is somehow wrong? And then singing about him makes it worse? The narrator has a strange idea of what racist means. Don't despair though. A lot of kids from the newer generation are getting plenty tired of the world being offended. There is hope!
I’m Mexican American and I’ve always liked Speedy Gonzales and his cousin SlowPoke Rodriguez. They are caricatures, and exaggerated ones at that. But they were funny to me as a kid. I’ve watched more recently and I still see the obvious humor.
Gabriel Iglesias has a great stand up routine talking about speedy Gonzales on RU-vid. I wish white liberals would stop being offended for everyone else.
Only people who don't like themselves & hayte who they are get offended by silly little things like that. I admire & salute you my wonderful amigo/amiga?.. ❤ Bless you
Yeesh, you can taste the salt coming from here! I get it, we get it but c'mon now. I'm an 80s baby myself and I grew up around that kind of music, watched TV shows that were a LOT more exciting than whatever we got nowadays. You may not like it but you got masses that grew up listening to that and didn't need to understand it.
Your most hated songs. I and many disagree. Lighten up and laugh a bit because your generation seem to sit around and wait to complain about the smallest things like a cartoon.
Carrie Fisher was 22 years old when she filmed the "You're Sixteen" video. Songwriters aren't necessarily writing about themselves, or writing about the present. There's nothing in the lyrics to suggest the guy is older than here. It's a lot more likely the song is about two high school sweethearts who are the same age. Was Sheb Wooley really concerned he'd be eaten by a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater, or do you think he thought it would be a catchy, successful song?
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" is about oral sex. Members of the band gave an interview, saying that they wanted to see if they could get it past the censors. They made it sound so cheesy that censors ignored it. 🤣🤣🤣
i don't like your commentary the most hated songs we liked them a lot. You have to put a bad spin on them. i guess you are to young to understand, we were changing the world back then.
How were you "changing the world?" A pretty self serving thing to say, if you ask me. I think some of the songs weren't that bad, but certainly Feelings, Afternoon Delight, Muskrat Love , and Kokomo are horrible. Still, this Nick guy, the narrator, is an a-hole. Pretty mean spirited to call Toni Basil "Middle Aged".
These were good songs! So I guess you’re gonna defend the crap that’s out today. At least these songs were family, friendly, and the singers had talent. I’m sick and tired of this generation being so damn overly sensitive which I’m guessing the narrator is part of the generation.
Obviously done by someone that didn’t experience that era. Agree with some but there were definitely worse. How about Here Comes the Judge.and My Ding a Ling? Or possibly D.O.A…or The Archie’s and The Cowsills?
@@SmokeyGoodness I have the Bloodrock albums too and and like them. Arguably unique and groundbreaking at the time, so based on whatever criteria was used to compile this list could have been included. I disagree with many of the songs on the list.
I had a Smart Mother. I'd just turned 22, when John Lennon said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. I was shocked. We went to church every Sunday. My Mom said, "If the Beatles came to our town on Sunday, would you want to go to church? Or go see the Beatles??" I replied, "I'd rather go see the Beatles." I didn't worship the Beatles. It's just that, we went to church every Sunday, & we knew that God is with us every day. So yeah. I'd rather go see the Beatles. My Mom didn't get mad or scold me. She said, "That's all John Lennon meant,". 💗🕊️💗
The three songs, “Video Killed the Radio Star”, “Mickey” and “Physical” made MTV, I wouldn’t place them as the worst of 80’s. The songs were cutting edge in the songs were successful in bridging music into video to create a whole new industry. The three songs were perfectly meshed into video, with one specifically written for such cutting edge crossover.
When you judge these songs, you criticize the generation that grew up with and enjoyed them. If you can't say anything nice, maybe you shouldn't comment at all
This is a stupid way to kill time…🙄….and I’ll never get this time back. Did I like all of these songs when they came out? No. But then I’m not a RU-vidr trying to make money while whining about the pathetic nature of past popular culture music. Note; you should take a look at some of the crap that comes out now. Definitely NOT subscribing.
"MacArthur's Park" is not a metaphor. It's quite literal. The songwriter, Jimmy Webb wrote it about a breakup picnic. His girl wore a long, yellow cotton dress. A cake was brought; it had green icing. It started to rain. You can read all about it in Jimmy Webb's book, "The Cake and the Rain". Also, the Monkees' 3rd album - done entirely by them - Headquarters, shot to #1 and the only reason it didn't stay up there was because of a little album called "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and it stayed there for 11 WEEKS. I'd also argue that their latter stuff is actually better than their bubblegum first 2 albums. Also, they continued to release albums, including "Pool It!", "Justice", and "Good Times", which was released in 2016 and ranked as high as 14 on Billboard (#1 on Billboard Vinyl releases).
Btw, people don't like a song based on the lyrics; they're barely aware of them. They like a song because of the music- the beat, melody, etc, or the harmonies or sound of a singer's voice. Most people couldn't give a sh-t about lyrics.
How about a 45 minute video on the gawd-awful horrible songs for the past ten years. Oh, wait, you're gonna have to do a entire series of 45-minute videos for that.
I have to admit "Physical" "Mickey" "We Built This City" "Never Gonna Give You Up" & "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" are some of my favorite songs from the 80's! I've seen both Olivia Newton - John and Starship in concert!
Nick, Nick, Nick. This should have been titled “MY most hated…” and every time he says “people” or “everybody” should be replaced with “I”. I love Nick but I disagree with almost every word….except muskrat love and Tiny Tim.
Genesis surprised me a bit. "Batdance" was actually terrible, my wife hates it and she is a huge Prince fan. "Physical" was pretty cheesy, but ONJ will always be one of my faves; plus the video was pretty funny actually.
BTW, I watched the Looney tunes all the time and Speedy Gonzales wasn't even remotely racist,all you are doing is taking the lyrics out of context and putting your spin on it.
This sounds better than the shit somepeople call music to day. using the n word all the time and call women wh** just because they can and get others fired for just singing the along. Because they have the wrong color and are forbidden to sing it.
I always liked The Buggles. Plus Mickey (Toni Basil) had one of the greatest lines ever to slip past the top 40 radio censors. "I'll do it any way you want. I'll take it like a man".
speedy gonzalez, neither the character nor the song have ever been considered racist in mexico. believe me. this is just other people being outraged on behalf of a culture that truly doesn't care, and enjoyed the cartoons very much.
The Monkees weren't fake. They did live concerts. Peter Tork learned 🎶 at that famous, exclusive Juliard school in NYC. Mike Nesmith played serious guitar, b4 the Monkees. & Their tv show was hilarious; corny but funny. Mickey Dolenze was an actor on tv when he was a little kid. (Circus Boy) David Bowie is really David Jones. He changed his last name to Bowie, so he wouldn't get mixed up with Davey Jones!!! It's now 2024. I've still got a c.d. of, The Monkees greatest hits !!!!!
Where to start? 1) You had to be there. This sounds like a most hated list by someone who didn't live through these decades. Not surprising as it sounds like a copy of many similar RU-vid videos with many of the same songs - also by people who didn't live through these decades. Yes some fans didn't like "Revolution #9" for example but many others, such as my friends and I, found it one of the most interesting songs on an album that was full of filler songs. Also we listened to it over and over as we had to wait for the next Beatle release. We did not have the luxury of sitting down and listening to the entire Beatles catalogue at one time. Also bitching about "We Built This City" now ignores the fact that the B side had empty space where the local DJ could adlib the sections about their own city. It was fun listening to local DJ's trying to fill in your city. Now we just hear the pop single version. 2) Popular yet hated? If a song sold hundreds of thousands of copies at the time then clearly it wasn't hated by many. The fact that decades later we don't want to hear Girl or Physical is a reflection of both our changing times and not a reflection on the song or band when it was popular. 3) Overplayed. The reason that many of the 60's-80's songs are disliked by the current generation is that we've overplayed them to death. If I never hear another song from those decades then I'd be okay for that. If Directors would just stop using music from the last century in movies and tv shows. 4) Pop v.s. Rock v.s. Novelty. When you make this type of video, if you jump through various music genera then you are going to get poor reactions. Placing innocuous music like the Carpenters with novelty songs like Disco Duck with attempts at avante garde like Revolution #9 is just an easy and sloppy way of throwing together a video. 5) Old Stories. Like other videos, it falls back on old stories that don't matter anymore like the Monkees being a manufactured band. Of course they were and they fully agree having sung "Hey, hey we are the Monkees, you know we like to please, we're a manufactured image, with no philosophies..... You say we're manufactured. To that we all agree. So make your choice and we'll rejoice and never be free. Hey Hey we are the Monkees, We've said it all before. The money's in. We're made of tin. We're here to give you more." Many groups were manufactured such as obvious ones such as The Partridge Family but even groups like the Sex Pistols and Culture Club. To create this type of list you need to stick within a category of music or select criteria that can be used across categories.
I was almost 6 years old in early 1970 when Billboard announced that "Sugar, Sugar" was the number one song of 1969. My older brother threw a fit. Not even a mention, here? C'mon! At about the time "Feelings" was popular, "The Gong Show" had an episode where all the contestants sang the song. Only the first contestant was allowed to finish, so he won the episode. When the celebrity judges realized what was happening, they gonged all the remaining contestants on their first note.
Dude, you want to show top hated songs but you don’t play any of them. Not even a little good. Play at least 15/20 seconds of them. That’s pathetic man. Get it right so you can get descent comments
All I got out of this is how screwed up perceptions are today. With a raciest here and there added in. The 1960's and early 70's was really a different world. We didn't find hate everywhere like we do today. We didn't get all worked up over nothing like we do today. About the only thing we hated back then was the stupid War. We laughed at Tiny Tim and sure as hell didn't mind hearing it and there was a radio station called Dr. Demento that loved to play the crazy songs like "Their Coming to Take Me Away" and I'm looking over, my Dead dog Rover who I hit with a power mower" along with some Weird Al stuff. Maybe we were all too stoned to let anything bother us and just get a laugh out of it. In a way your reasons for bashing what was fun is part of what is going wrong with everything today and it's really sad.
They were obviously loved by millions, if not me, or we wouldn't know them and be discussing them now. I've grown to where I don't ask whether I like a song (especially an oldie hit), but rather why did it work on anyone?
