| John the OFM | 30 Oct 2009 6:46 p.m. PST |
One rule. Not that anyone will abide by it, but…
Provide a Youtube link, so we can all suffer. "Please Come to Boston", Dave Loggins
YouTube link I would suggest anything by Donovan or Cat Stephens, but that would mean that I would have to look them up on Youtube, and the above is enough for one night. |
 Murphy  | 30 Oct 2009 6:51 p.m. PST |
Theres some weiner that recently redid Jim Croce's Classic "Operator", but instead of getting the "dang she's gone, and it sucks feel", he just went with, "I'm whining, and my manhood is questionable, Please beat me up..She left me for good reason……"
The voice of the singer sounds like he's going for, "singing on exhalation"…
All in all not a very good remake… |
| highlandcatfrog | 30 Oct 2009 7:00 p.m. PST |
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 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 30 Oct 2009 7:02 p.m. PST |
Eddie Rabbit – Drivin' my life away
Minnie Ripperton – Loving You
Captain and Tennille – Muskrat Love |
| GarnhamGhast | 30 Oct 2009 7:02 p.m. PST |
Oh no, I'm not clicking on any of your links! |
| highlandcatfrog | 30 Oct 2009 7:04 p.m. PST |
Aw, come on. It's not like they're Zardoz links. |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 30 Oct 2009 7:04 p.m. PST |
Ok… you asked for it.. link Guaranteed not Zardoz. |
| Richard1967 | 30 Oct 2009 7:10 p.m. PST |
AAAAAAAAWWWWWW…..MY EYES…MY EARS….I'M RUINED FOR LIFE… |
| Feet up now | 30 Oct 2009 7:12 p.m. PST |
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| highlandcatfrog | 30 Oct 2009 7:14 p.m. PST |
Good one Vsb, I need to see Critter about a mind wipe now. I still think my entry is worse though, simply because it was meant, and taken, seriously. (Yeah, there's some "things" from the 80s I'd rather not remember.) |
| mandt2 | 30 Oct 2009 7:17 p.m. PST |
Every song Pat Benetar ever sang. Oh man. Waa, waa, waa, waa, waaaaaaaaa. Also, every song Bread ever recorded. |
| Acharnement | 30 Oct 2009 7:17 p.m. PST |
Pretty much anything by Bread. Wimpy songs, wimpy group. Entirely saturated by wimpyness through every aspect of their being. I actually had to listen to one second of this pablum so I could get the link.
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| nebeltex | 30 Oct 2009 7:17 p.m. PST |
how about "one tin soldier" by coven? |
| lugal hdan | 30 Oct 2009 7:29 p.m. PST |
Buckcherry (who is not usually this wimpy) "I'm Sorry". Gack. |
| John the OFM | 30 Oct 2009 7:33 p.m. PST |
Links, ladies and gentlemen. Links.
I have given strict instructions (!) that none may be considered for the poll without links. READ THE ONE RULE!
The reason? You must suffer by looking it up. This will only augment your hatred. |
| John the OFM | 30 Oct 2009 7:37 p.m. PST |
Here is an interesting one:
YouTube link
"Torn Between Two Lovers", by Mary MacGregor.
SHE is not the wimp. She is having her cake and eating it too. Whatever that means. It is the poor sap who ACCEPTS this situation who is the wimp. EDIT On second thought… listening to her sing… Yeah, it's wimpy. She's a wimp, doesn't have the strength to decide. |
| aecurtis | 30 Oct 2009 7:43 p.m. PST |
YouTube link YouTube link YouTube link YouTube link YouTube link YouTube link When driving, any three of these played in a row on the radio would probably send me aiming for a bridge abutment. The last one would do it by itself.
____________________________________ This one, however, is so unique that it should send anyone running for a shotgun to put themselves out of their misery: YouTube link
____________________________________ Allen |
| Grunt1861 | 30 Oct 2009 7:47 p.m. PST |
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| aecurtis | 30 Oct 2009 7:48 p.m. PST |
By the way, John, I object to one of your choices of candidates. On the surface, some may think it wimpy, but this is one of my favorite songs ever, and this version is superb: YouTube link Allen |
| dmclellan | 30 Oct 2009 7:49 p.m. PST |
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| Militia Pete | 30 Oct 2009 7:50 p.m. PST |
Feel the wrath of the worst song ever!
YouTube link Johnny Barleycorn by Traffic. Even Howard Stern used this song to torture his audience back in the late 80's when his ratings were not so hot… Oh the pain. Oh the agony. Hide the children… |
| dmclellan | 30 Oct 2009 7:54 p.m. PST |
Allen, your list is … beyond words. Suicide hotline calls just tripled from seeing the titles! |
| John the OFM | 30 Oct 2009 8:00 p.m. PST |
I disagree with some choices too.
For one, Pat Benatar is … dangerous! "Hit me with Your Best Shot" is spitting in the face of danger. And, I LIKE John Barleycorn. |
| Feet up now | 30 Oct 2009 8:17 p.m. PST |
|
 McKinstry | 30 Oct 2009 8:21 p.m. PST |
WARNING! This song is so sickeningly sacharine that it has been known to cause Type 2 diabetes simply through repeated playing. YouTube link Sorry – I see Allen already identified this atrocity. I will grant that Muskrat Love is nearly as bad and is, as far as I know, considered grounds for justifiable homicide in 4 states and the US Micronesian Protectorate. |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 30 Oct 2009 8:24 p.m. PST |
Since VSB wimped out :) Wimped out? No. It was an early post in the thread and I did not want to be accused of Zardozimizing everyone. Once we got over that fear I provided a link, yes? |
| Ratspike | 30 Oct 2009 8:25 p.m. PST |
10 on the Wimp O Meter.
Richard Harris
Mac Arthur Park
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| Lord Hypnogogue | 30 Oct 2009 8:28 p.m. PST |
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| Son of Liberty | 30 Oct 2009 8:29 p.m. PST |
Here's my nomination: Seasons In The Sun – Terry Jacks 1974 YouTube link |
| Brent27511 | 30 Oct 2009 9:29 p.m. PST |
My shot at the title: YouTube link The Carpenters – Top Of The World |
| Brent27511 | 30 Oct 2009 9:32 p.m. PST |
My wife's shot: YouTube link Michael Martin Murphey – Wildfire |
| Desert Rat | 30 Oct 2009 9:39 p.m. PST |
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 Editor in Chief Bill  | 30 Oct 2009 9:41 p.m. PST |
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| BrianW | 30 Oct 2009 9:59 p.m. PST |
OK, I wasn't going to get involved in this discussion, but here is my choice:
YouTube link "In the year 2525" by Zager and Evans.
BWW |
| Ambush Alley Games | 30 Oct 2009 10:18 p.m. PST |
Allen beat me to Terry Jacks and Seasons in the Sun. But truly the most wimpy song ever has to be "Coward of the County." In my teen years, when this song was new, some idjit played it five times in a row on the jukebox at my favorite pizza place. On play six, I nudged the juke box hard enough to cause the needle to skip (yes, needle – that's how long ago it was) and then stood there waiting for the fight to start. Oddly enough, the guy who tried to play Coward of the County six times in a row just sat in his booth giving me dirty looks. I suspect he may have listened to "I Am Woman" half a dozen times on the way home that night. I have no excuse for my belligerent behavior other than: a) I'd had one, maybe two pitchers of Dr. Pepper and was looking for a fight and b) Kenny Rogers made me do it. |
| DeanMoto | 30 Oct 2009 10:30 p.m. PST |
Anything from Kenny G. Oh, and Air Supply. |
| highlandcatfrog | 30 Oct 2009 10:52 p.m. PST |
Oooh! I thought of something even wimpier than anything named thus far: YouTube link Fight On! |
| Mlatch221 | 30 Oct 2009 10:53 p.m. PST |
Oh man, I feel as if I've been locked in a room and forced to listen to one of those "Soft Rock, Less Talk" format radio stations. LOL Since somebody already posted 10 CC's "I'm Not In Love", I figured I'd add something from the next chapter in their career:
YouTube link And since I was subjected to this at the grocery store recently (and nobody else has done it yet):
YouTube link |
| Andrew Walters | 30 Oct 2009 10:56 p.m. PST |
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| borrible | 30 Oct 2009 11:02 p.m. PST |
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| SBSchifani | 30 Oct 2009 11:07 p.m. PST |
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| CeruLucifus | 30 Oct 2009 11:15 p.m. PST |
The wimpiest song I can think of is a sequence in a wimpy pompous jumble of a would-be movie that fooled people into thinking it had something important to say and got nominated for awards. It was painful looking this up but I did it for you guys. "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann from the film "Magnolia". Worst movie ever made, worst scene ever. YouTube link (Well, it's the second worst scene ever. The worst is the from the same film, the end sequence where frogs fall from the sky.) |
| Mlatch221 | 30 Oct 2009 11:20 p.m. PST |
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| Mlatch221 | 30 Oct 2009 11:29 p.m. PST |
Oh yeah, and how could I forget…? YouTube link And in case you're wondering, yes, you have been! LOL |
| Grunt1861 | 30 Oct 2009 11:36 p.m. PST |
YouTube link
I'm pretty sure this is the one.
I am embarrassed to even listen to it. |
| Mrs Pumblechook | 31 Oct 2009 2:33 a.m. PST |
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| Hrothgar Berserk | 31 Oct 2009 4:18 a.m. PST |
Surely the Terry Jacks song metioned by PH Lewis and Ambush Alley has to be the wimpiest song EVER. I was 9 yrs old when it came out and we made fun of it back then! Thanks guys, now I'll have "We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun…." in my head all day! |
| Connard Sage | 31 Oct 2009 4:30 a.m. PST |
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| Plynkes | 31 Oct 2009 4:45 a.m. PST |
Seasons in the Sun is not a wimpy song. Not the way we used to sing it, anyway. We had joy, we had fun;
We had Cardiff on the run*.
But the joy didn't last,
Cuz the bastards ran too fast. *Yes, we did. Happy times. I got arrested. |
| I Pat Cod | 31 Oct 2009 5:16 a.m. PST |
aecurtis beat me to it. Most of these songs are pretty wimpy, horrid, actually, but "Honey" came down from a higher league. iPat |
