I just saw this question on Yahoo Music and thought I'd bring the discussion to TeeBeeDee.
What's the cheesiest love song EVER?
The songs they mentioned:
You're The Inspiration - Chicago
The One That You Love - Air Supply
Suddenly - Billy Ocean
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Hello - Lionel Richie
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
Tonight, I Celebrate My Love - Peabo Bryson
that should get you going... (my personal fav is Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On... the Titantic song)
Posted: Feb 7, 08 3:06pm
Muskrat Love - The Captain and Tenille
Posted: Feb 7, 08 3:11pm
Muskrat love by America too!
Posted: Feb 7, 08 3:21pm
you never fail me Carol... Muskrat Love!!! I'm going to giggle about that one all day.
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:02pm
That's the first one I thought of too!
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:25pm
I thought of it also while driving home from dinner. Too funny!
Posted: Feb 8, 08 5:42pm
lol This totally set me off laughing. What the hell is Muskrat Love and why did we listen to such crap? Was is the Captain's cool hat? So much then was just sooooo wrong!
Posted: Feb 7, 08 3:11pm
Where do you start?
Some recording artists (?) entire careers have been spent working on songs as such.
Michael Bolton, Journey, Celine Dion, Ambrosia, Pablo Cruise, REO speedwagon, Starland Vocal Band, Christopher Cross, Leo Sayer...
There are far too many to mention. Many of the above bring laughter to me and then I have to shut it off. I know many, many people love this stuff. I am not alone in saying it's quite intolerable to certain temperments. They sure sell a lot, just not to moi.
Posted: Feb 7, 08 5:48pm
"Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney and Wings????
Posted: Feb 7, 08 6:02pm
i suppose 'in your eyes' by peter gabriel could be considered cheesy. but if you've seen the movie 'say anything'? omg. lloyd dobler forever. (i was 29 when that movie came out, but i feel 16 again everytime i watch it. totally.)
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:31pm
I love that song. It's not cheesy to me. Not familiar with that movie "say anything".
Posted: Feb 9, 08 9:06am
Totally great love song, but totally NOT cheesy... and who doesn't love John Cusack holding a boom box over his head in "Say Anything"!?!?
Spuff... you have got to see that movie. One of the great romantic movies scenes of all time.
Posted: Apr 20, 08 1:09pm
Dont know the movie but you have peaked my intrest in checking it out. For me The best is "Silly Love Songs" WIngs. I actually have many I love a lot (Hopefully Know one finds this out)..I mean seing "Muskrat Love " maybe that is the cheesiest of em all but I guess I love cheesy..
Posted: Feb 7, 08 6:22pm
OMG, the cheesiest EVER, has to be "I Honestly Love You" by Olivia Newton John! My nose runs just thinking about it!
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:26pm
YES!!!! that is the cheesiest!
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:32pm
by Debbie Gibson?
It was a praise song to God, not meant about human love at all, but still cheesy
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:24pm
Oh lord, I cannot believe I'm the first one to mention this one: "You Light Up My Life". It was The Song That Would Not Die when I was in high school.
I love me a cheesy love song... but this one is so cheesy it makes me break out in an itchy rash.
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:26pm
Oh Dear! That may be tied with "I honestly love you".
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:30pm
Was it by Debbie Gibson?
The song was actually written as a praise song to God, don't know if anyone knew that, nothing about human love at all.
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:30pm
Was it by Debbie Gibson?
The song was actually written as a praise song to God, don't know if anyone knew that, nothing about human love at all.
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:31pm
The one by Debbie Gibson?
It was actually a praise song to God, not about human love at all.
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:31pm
The one by Debbie Gibson?
It was actually a praise song to God, not about human love at all.
Posted: Feb 7, 08 7:39pm
Nope, Debby Boone... that was WAY before Debbie Gibson's time. And it may have been written about God's love, but it was used as the theme song for an equally cheesy movie.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 8:23am
Okay, you win. "You Light Up My Life" IS the cheesiest song ever.... yeesh! But boy did I love Debby Boone's hair!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4Kfvxczs0
Posted: Feb 8, 08 10:30am
Man don't you hate the stutters on tbd? I hope they get everything fixed soon. I kept getting a unique 2 message. I was so deperate to post here I went to the got it together singles thread 7 to ask Spuff to post something for me.
You're right, I knew it was a Debbie but picked the wrong one. I posted this on the singles thread last night. But it is the song I'm thinking of, so perhaps part of the reason it sounds so cheesy, is because it was not meant to be a love song for people.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 11:01am
not only was it cheesy...but like a lot of fakers...she sang it a milisecond behind every musical note so she can be sure she kits the right key....an infuriating lag.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 6:41pm
LOL watch it Katherine I had to sing that song in high school lol, but it was cheesy.
Posted: Feb 7, 08 8:30pm
"Honey," by Bobby Goldsborough. Hands down. Do I win something?
Posted: Feb 8, 08 8:46am
Wow... "Honey" is way up there, except that I just heard it figuring prominently in a movie I LOVED. "Breakfast on Pluto" with Cillian Murphy, and as cheesy as the song is, it fits in the movie seamlessly.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 9:54am
I Got You Babe- Sonny & Cher...
I think Muskrat Love is by far the winner! :)
Posted: Feb 8, 08 10:05am
Well, just about anything by Johnny Mathis would probably fit the bill, these days. (Mathis, for you youngsters, was the provider of choice for "makeout Music" in the late 50's and 60's). His stuff was always pretty sappy, even back then.
By the way, can't MacArthur Park get a dishornable mention?
Posted: Feb 8, 08 10:58am
MacArthur Park.....(done by Richard Harris)....is an acid trip. Read the words closely. Jimmy Webb even said the song was more about dropping acid in the park than it was a love song....of which he wrote many.
My brother opened for Jimmy Webb in Philly two years ago. Jimmy Webb is an on-stage talker extraordinaire.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 3:01pm
Nick, MacArthur Park was absolutely the first song that popped into my head.
Somebody give that guy a good cake recipe, already!!
Posted: Feb 8, 08 5:47pm
And what was "someone left the cake out in the rain...." even mean? Yeah cheese, but by far, Muskrat Love, I Honestly Love You and You Light Up My Life make me wanna gag. The entire 1970's were pretty much cheesy! And not in a good or tasty way!!
Posted: Feb 8, 08 6:44pm
Nick Oh Nick not the imfamous MacArthur Park lol. Yesssssssssssss it definitely gets a vote for being cheesy
Posted: Feb 9, 08 9:08am
Johnny Mathis might have been for the 50s and 60s, but I used his "12th of Never" for the first dance at my wedding in 1986. Cheesy, possibly... and yet, I still listen to him.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 10:30am
Was it Paul Anka that sang "Havin' My Baby"?
Posted: Feb 8, 08 3:53pm
". . . . what a lovely way of saying how much you love me."
Barf!
Yes, that was Paul Anka.
Posted: Feb 9, 08 11:40am
That was definitely Paul Anka. Two years ago he recorded an album titled "Rock Swings". He does songs by Soundgarden, Nirvana, The Cure, Michael Jackson, Billy Idol, Eric Clapton, Van Halen, The Pet Shop Boys, Spandau Ballet and a few more. This record is both funny and excellent. Highly recommended.
Posted: Feb 9, 08 11:49am
I was pregnant with my first son when Havin' My Baby came out - I think it definitely added to my horrendous morning/afternoon/night morning sickness no doubt. What bad flash backs!
Posted: Feb 8, 08 10:44am
Knock Three Times
Posted: Feb 8, 08 5:13pm
Okay. I'm going to say this here because I tried to say it in a story that required only 3 words at a time and I got deleted.
"Does your bubblegum lose it's flavor on the bedpost over night"
I'm not sure if it's a love song or not but I know it's a song.
So there.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 10:52am
" Honey " by Bobby Goldsboro.....I second that nomination...
"see the tree how big its grown...but friends It wasnt long ago...it wasnt big" ??????????
WTF ????
"shotgun" controlled the dashboard radio....who's responsibility it was to turn off "Honey".
I'd dive over the front seat to switch that one off.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 10:53am
Precious and Few
Posted: Feb 8, 08 12:11pm
You're back!! Where have you been Olivia??
Posted: Feb 8, 08 12:19pm
I've been hiding.
(from nipple girl)
DO NOT
tell her I'm in here.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 3:16pm
I missed you soooooooooooo very much!
Glad to see you back you little monkey you!
your secret is safe with me!
Posted: Feb 8, 08 3:39pm
"Always and Forever" - Lionel Ritchie?
"We've Only Just Begun" - The Carpenters
"Baby I Want You" - Bread (not to be confused with "I Wanna Make it With You" - the Velveeta of love songs...)
Posted: Feb 8, 08 5:52pm
Now tweedle I have to say this now that you've sparked a memory or two here. Bread's cheesy songs, at least in our part of town, got us all a lot of lip action. At least the words make some kind of sense, not like "someone left the cake out in the rain"!
How about what cheesy songs did for you as a kid? What was good make out music in your world?
Posted: Feb 9, 08 5:26pm
Bread and cheese. . . .
Sounds about right.
Posted: Feb 8, 08 3:50pm
What about Michael Jackson's "Ben?" From the movie "Willard," it was a love song to a RAT!
Posted: Feb 8, 08 6:38pm
Pattycake you're killing me with laughter.