Top 10 Most Hated 1970s Songs

[@jamesmccosby4680]

You're Sixteen was a song by Johnny Burnett written in the '50's, not Ringo when he was 33! Ringo sang a cover because he like the original and wanted to pay homage.

[@danielkianmckiernan4909]

And the reference to statutory rape is ignorant, because the age of consent in most states is now 16 years and the average age of consent was lower in the '70s. (I'm not saying that anyone should have sex with anyone lacking psychological maturity. I'm noting the ignorance of a legal claim.)

[@carlhelmick7711]

Wow, Had to do some looking but I found the song. Released by Johnny Burnette September 1960 . Yeah that went a ways back. Also back in those days people looked at the song as just that a song. And Johnny Burnette wasn't that much older back then .

[@lauraingeorgia5052]

Even so, it's still creepy & cringy ... Especially nowadays. Even though age of consent was lower in those days, I heard that Elvis was really into 14 yr old girls. And apparently, that was the age Priscilla was when they met. Elvis, the pedophile. 😳

[@glen1ster]

I would've thought "The No No Song"would be the most disliked.

[@catherineshaw1122]

The legal age of consent in Britain was then, and remains now, 16. Whomever is behind this channel is lazy af or just a moron.

[@lanceobe6801]

If I had a time machine I would go back to the 70s and a heartbeat and leave the insanity of 2020 in the dust.

[@mogznwaz]

Me too!

[@eddieboggs8306]

1970 Vietnam War was still going on and Cambodia. Nixon in 74 had Watergate Scandal. We remember the old days by filtering out the harsh realities and remembering only the good.

[@ChrysanthsMum]

@@eddieboggs8306 My brother and father were in Vietnam, we were for Nixon Watergate had nothing on Obama and Biden, gas prices were through the roof and I’d give most anything to be back in those days. It was all pre Mad-Mouth-Madonna.

[@petebentley3156]

@@mogznwaz me to now!!!!!

[@t-squared6406]

no doubt trashy times!!!

[@agirlfromcapella]

The 70's was awesome. People were not so serious as they are now. I miss people having fun.

[@john-ic5pz]

A M E N to that

[@richardplume3212]

Agree people could smile at themselves without having to go to counciling what happend

[@lynnmcculloch5485]

I'm 61,and still playing 70s music, best times of my life

[@lisaf7688]

Right on!

[@toby9999]

Me too.

[@steveharris9861]

I'm 66 and wishing I was back in the 70s 😀

[@RobertJones-ux6nc]

I am 65 playing 60's and 70's music and my Great-Niece who is 5 loves listening also and dancing to it. ❤

[@timmy707707]

@@RobertJones-ux6nc Play her the good stuff and not this rubbish.

[@truthvslibs2484]

Most of those songs are still better than the crap that's on today.

[@commanderstraker1082]

Nothing- NOTHING!- is as revolting as "You Light Up My Life".

[@alanheath7867]

COULDN’T AGREE MORE!!!

[@Anonymous-js5zn]

For me, You're Having My Baby is the worst song ever made.

[@starladodge]

I agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@agoogleuser4443]

That's not the point. He's comparing them to the hundreds of the awesome songs that came out in the 70's, not what came out later. And yes, I was around in the 70's and know all these songs (born in early 60's).

[@jamesslick4790]

Y'all realize that "Disco Duck" is SUPPOSED to be "dumb". It's a friggin' parody record.

[@stephen579]

If it was dumb you wouldn't hear it

[@jamesslick4790]

@@stephen579 😳🤔😉

[@dbkparm]

It's a novelty record. It's not a parody.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@dbkparm I get that it's not a parody of a particular song, But it IS a parody of Disco culture itself.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@stephenpriest2766 It would be nice to have a Dr. Demento today....But ALL music sucks so bad now, How would we identify parody?🤔🤷‍♀️

[@RandomPenster]

FYI: You're Sixteen was written by Paul Anka, yes. However, it was recorded by Johnny Burnette in 1960, and it was popular for a while, taken as a teenage boy's love for a girl, so it wasn't viewed as creepy in that scenario.

[@banderfargoyl]

Narrator seems not to know that this is a cover! It's not Ringo's song. But to the point, it's not a 70s song.

[@bobtalks]

It was actually written Bob and Dick Sherman. That duo went on to write songs for Disney films for decades.

[@davidlean8674]

If he thinks this is creepy wait till he discovers 1983 "Every Breath you take" Tthe police. Or pretty much the entire Jimmy & the Boys album "Not like everybody else"

[@timoshea2400]

that's the problem with judging in retrospect nothing creepy about the song at all

[@Xegethra]

16 is the U.K's age of consent anyway.

[@thomosburn8740]

Everyone who heard Ringo sing "You're Sixteen" knew it was a cover tune from the late fifties. No one was creeped out by it because it was a nostalgic performance of a old song expressing youthful passion.

[@shirleytyler-szkolny6981]

Yes! It has a very '50s, "bobby socks" feel to it!

[@rays7437]

Yes, exactly

[@Joey-ln9qb]

Also the age of consent is 16 in some states.....

[@jerrybrown1446]

@@Joey-ln9qb Would you want your sixteen year old daughter getting plowed by Ringo, tho?

[@louismcglasson7913]

This video is so lame no need to explain anything.

[@lusl1094]

Back when singers did not need autotune to stay in key.

[@crazierthan-u7571]

Rick Beato said that that's what makes a singer interesting -- little imperfections; not always being perfectly on key. Autotune strips vocalists of their uniqueness. Makes them all sound similar -- robotic. Autotune was never meant to be used to the extent it is now.

[@debiogle3798]

The best music of all times!

[@okjohn59]

Amen Brother!

[@d.e.b.b5788]

yeah, but some were never IN key. Greatful dead, for example, always sounded off key.

[@JA-pm4pu]

It's not even that they "need" it now, it's the style of music that's popular. It's like '80s drum machines---just what 2021 sounds like.

[@michaelcummingsherrera1232]

Ringo Starr was simply covering a song from 1959, no more, no less.

[@GeeCeeWU]

@I STAN Kim Jong-Un but Can't STAND Trump Exactly.

[@juliereminiec4937]

1960

[@beechnut79]

Statutory rape wasn’t “in your face” nearly as much in those days. But I do believe Chuck Berry was busted for it.

[@ShinyAvalon]

Neil Sedaka also did this song. It was originally written for the teenagers who were the primary audience for rock & roll in 1959.

[@terrypussypower]

@I STAN Kim Jong-Un but Can't STAND Trump No, it doesn’t hold up at all. Ringo recorded and released his song in the UK. And in 1973 in the UK, the age of consent was *16.* So, the argument put forward in this video is clearly wrong.

[@jimtheanvil]

Within 40 seconds I lost it. Rock Me Amadeus is an utterly immense song.

[@PRmoustache88]

I really like the synth chords.

[@harrynac6017]

It's not on the list, being released in 1985.

[@deeperthings]

It was safe. It was not a creature of the 70's.

[@watcherwlc53]

@@harrynac6017 right but it was represented by a snippet in the intro

[@davidcolin6519]

@@harrynac6017 In my opinion, the true nadir of music was that decade.The 80s were truly terrible. I don't even count the rap and post rap period because I don't actually consider it to even be music.

[@michaeltaylor2121]

The 70s was the greatest decade of music in history, apparently. There were some bad songs in the 70s but it's no where near as bad as today's rubbish. I was born in 1970 and as a kid growing up, I loved the music and I still and always will.

[@patticooke9300]

True words spoken here !

[@cincymutt]

I dunno, it's close, but I personally think the 60's top it.

[@lpi3]

Because music was not so easily accessible back then

[@mariateresaeppolito3020]

Most people would agree the 1970’s music had the most diversity than any other decade in history.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

Everyone was stoned, which is why everything sucked.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

@@jetstream6389 If you like complex melody, check out India. That tradition was always more advanced melodically. European music was always more about complex harmony and African music more about complex rhythms.

[@jeanninemartin5507]

We had The Rolling Stones, Beatles, Janis Joplin, AC/DC, Journey, Boston, Kansas, Chicago, Jim Croce, Carpenters, Jimmy Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Queen, Aerosmith, Bee Gees, Led Zepplin, and the list goes on!

[@martianshoes]

@Anna Clara No, not everything. But mostly Barry Manilow and the Watergate hearings.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

@@martianshoes Manilow was more 80s. Think Frampton Comes Alive, Calling Occupants of Interplantary Craft.

[@wendiwonderly1419]

Debby Boone never sang badly. The song was massively overplayed much like my heart will go on in the 90s

[@cynthiafrank3833]

They wore that stupid song out!!

[@socksumi]

Her singing that insanely insipid song while her fundie fanatic father was drooling all over the floor made me want to puke.

[@heleneclark563]

Yes thank you!!! The song was so overplayed that it was nauseating.

[@deborahcox9387]

I was in elementary school when this song was popular and have to agree it was way over done e every school concert ig was either sung ar played in the orchestra, sadly I wound up in the orchestra playing it I k ow for at least 3 years. I loved playing violin but hated doing that song.

[@johnmadison3472]

Yes, and one of the reasons disco, in general, was hated by many.

[@mikecarr4178]

Judging a song because the songwriter was arrested thirty years later is a very 2020 take on the matter.

[@donnabreedlove6862]

Most of these are cringe worthy. I remember how they overplayed these. They would come on the radio and I would change the station. I would add "Seasons in the Sun" because of the perky annoying chorus.

[@RobMacKendrick]

Mike Carr Exactly.

[@sethralavode9012]

Yes, Seasons in the Sun is a perky song..... .........

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@sethralavode9012 But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach.

[@elfpimp1]

@@donnabreedlove6862 WE HAD JOY,WE HAD FUN, WE HAD SEASONS IN THE SUN!!

[@pdoylemi]

The Pina Colada Song is not what you describe at all. It was a song showing how a relationship between two people who really belong together can get so bogged down and depressing after years of mundane life can feel desperate to get out - in this case, only to discover that they were wrong.

[@SimonFoster23111971]

and it has a damn good riff in the background

[@wisdomseeker3362]

I was a preteen when this song came out , and I remember hearing it on the radio on a sunny day when moma was driving me and my little brother to Dauphin Island to play on the beach . So many fun times . I'd do anything to have just one of those days back again .❤

[@pdoylemi]

@@wisdomseeker3362 We are separated by a few years but at our age, it isn't much. When this song came out I was waiting for replies from the colleges I applied to. So you would have been a kid to me then, but I also have a happy beach memory of this. A group of my friends and I all piled into a few cars and headed for the Lake Michigan beach at South Haven. When it came on, I started singing along, then my girlfriend joined in, and soon everyone in the car was singing. Fun times - I can still picture Sue next to me on the front bench seat of my 1968 Impala with her younger sister on the right, and Steve and Bruce in the back seat with their girlfriends all singing like fools!

[@bloodyblade916]

I love that song

[@ScottTR]

Top ten of all time worthy song .

[@steveboltz3951]

Maybe I’m weird, witch I hope I am, but I like a lot of these. I’m sure those of us who love these songs it’s because they bring back good times.

[@CyclingM1867DubbysMama]

I was born in 1970, and so I heard these songs throughout my childhood. To me, they're part of that and I can't hate them for that reason, although I come close with You Light Up My Life because a choir I was in had to sing it far too often. To this day, none of us in that choir can stand that song. haha But the rest are at least all right.

[@soulman-yb9yo]

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[@tuppy]

same.

[@christinewaide5249]

I’m sure we all love all of these songs. Except Muskrat Love. Lol. But that’s why we’re on this page. Because we love the old songs.

[@KevinGrumpyCuzz3243]

Those that didn't grow up in the seventies can't truly appreciate our music, the great and the not so great.

[@tomupton1921]

"You're Sixteen" is about a memory! I never thought that song was creepy!

[@jeanlongsden1696]

also 16 is the age of consent in the UK

[@tomupton1921]

@@jeanlongsden1696 You shouldn't have told me that. Now I know Courtney Hadwin is legal?? JK

[@robertpowell7672]

@@tomupton1921 Had to google her.

[@tomupton1921]

@@robertpowell7672 She's pretty good! I like her music so much that a friend of mine accused me of wanting to bleep her. It isn't true, but now I can kid him by saying she's legal!!

[@beverlybarnes3122]

Yes 16 is a sweet memory. Especially when you're 68😭😭😭

[@theheathen100]

These songs weren't hated in the '70s, they are hated today by people who were raised in the 2000s.

[@korridalton278]

Excellent point!!!

[@briw5512]

Amen!

[@budlewis721]

Speak for yourself, heathen (a suitable name for that opinion). It was bad enough that all the great underground radio was vanishing (they constantly flirted with FCC condemnation; and would play albums and long songs without commercials), but the Top 40 stations would not only play hits 3 times an hour, they'd play the most insipid songs that often, too. A novelty song might be funny the first 75 times on day one, but that couldn't sustain a song that was just musically bad. '70s songs were so formulaic and saccharine, I turned my radio off for most of 10 years. Groups that were the bastion of great cutting edge music in the '60s, like Steve Miller, Chicago Transit Authority, Jefferson Airplane, Elvin Bishop and a metric shitload of others, either started putting out vacuous ballads/love songs, or disappeared. Radio was so bad I had to pick up my harmonicas again, and that's some serious desperation because I can't play worth a shit.

[@theheathen100]

@@budlewis721 That's it...just vent. Do you feel better now? You're pissed because the radio, 40&50 years ago, sucked...(in your opinion.) ....a punk pissed off at the establishment - what a concept.

[@budlewis721]

@@theheathen100 My, aren't we sensitive! Punk? I? I like that type of music, but was that addressed to me? My feelings are hurt! I didn't pick your name; don't blame me if you chose it to sound tuff behind your safe anonymity. I'm not pissed; I was under the impression that this was the forum to "vent", as you put it, not your inner child's comfy place. Is that how you interpret a dislike of insipid music? Or just disagreement in general? The subject was, after all, music "from 40 or 50 years ago". I bet you're extra aggressive to music critics. They're always disliking music that you like. That's a risk you take when you put your opinion out in public: it's seen by everyone. It's you who are a little testy. No... make that two little testes.

[@laurasanders4531]

After all of these years I still love these songs. I would take them over anything they have today!

[@teijaflink2226]

Yeah if these are the worst songs from the 70s it wasn't at all that bad as I expected, lot worse now, some may have bit cringy lyrics but still the melodies are pretty good.

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

Really?! You like to listen to Disco Duck? 🤣

[@anthonymolloy9953]

She not underage in England,its not all about the us

[@eddieboggs8306]

Yet another 70's bashing episode. Hated. So much they can't stop talking about it.

[@mauriciopraga9058]

@@kamakaziozzie3038 I really LOVE Disco Duck. I was seventeen when it came out, and it was funny as hell. We played it in all parties. I still play it sometimes with a lot of nostalgia. Am I supposed to be ashamed, according to your vision?

[@cbobby]

I hate the narration, really very annoying (not the songs)

[@scottguest7720]

Then don’t watch it. Simple

[@adelerountree1406]

Ignorance of a young dump Ding a ling🙃

[@gowdsake7103]

I agree

[@jrebecca0195]

I never understand people who comment just to put a channel down. Keep scrolling if you don't like it!

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

@@jrebecca0195 Because there is a thing called "dissent". Without dissenting opinions, and speaking thus, it may appear as if we're all fine with...whatever. Oh, and you didn't like their opinion, but YOU didn't keep scrolling. Way to lead by bad example.

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

These songs are waaaay better than the so called gems found in the charts today!

[@jn8ive60]

Yeah, and we didn't have cell phones or streaming or the internet and WE LIKED IT! Hey you kids geroffa my lawn!

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

@@jn8ive60 marvellous

[@clineezwood7942]

You're probably listening to Disco Duck now.

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

@@clineezwood7942 Disco Duck sucks but most of the others I actually like!

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

@@jacobgrafstrom1917 well, I was born in 1980 and for natural reasons wasn't around in the 70s....I can't stand modern music so thank God for the gems of the 60s and 70s! I know people in the 90s and 00s who prefer 50s, 60s and 70s music but you have a point of course. Most people prefer the music of their generation but speaking for myself, I never liked the 90s music scene growing up. Found a cassette tape of Gilbert OSullivan in the early 90s and never looked back! ...Well, I did of course, turning the other great artists of 60s and 70s. Beatles and ELO are just two of my other favourite and oh yeah, Starland Vocal Bands US no.1 hit from 1976 Afternoon Delight is a gem of a song!

[@NRH_Wx]

Sounds like someone born in the 90’s did this video.

[@TheoriginalBacchuscleric]

Zoomer narration detected!

[@NRH_Wx]

@@TheoriginalBacchuscleric some one has a brain...

[@TheoriginalBacchuscleric]

@Molten Nightshade You're right about the first part. But IDK about the second. The narrator could be a millennial, but I'm betting on zoomer.

[@deed468]

Just what I was thinking. You can't really understand the decade and realistically draw judgement unless you lived it. Analysing another decade's music cannot be done in isolation from the rest of the culture and certainly not by today's WOKE standards.

[@quietquitter6103]

Hell I'd wager he was born much later even.

[@suziecarpenter9352]

As someone born in 1960, these are the songs of my teen years. I would much rather hear these, even if you consider them bad or goofy to the blatantly obscene songs of today. The 70's were a more innocent time.

[@iqosuser2754]

Correct I agree 👍 💯 let's face it. One line bass 🔊 of today with racial snears and how bad the world is. 😮😮today's youth are plastic. The worst Christmas Carol of the 1970 is better than todays shit.

[@johnvane5240]

I liked the songs when they came out and I like them now. The Pina Colada song was and is an absolute classic of the 1970s. Enough said.

[@laurenvisovatti2066]

I loved You Light up my Life and Pina Colada

[@Gill12283]

I love the Pina Colada song and still do

[@bighuge1060]

This video is one colossal failure, for sure. The gleeful disgust in the narrator's voice only makes me dislike the narrator.

[@MarlieLoop]

Love the pina colada song

[@doughinkley8796]

Why they assume Ringo was talking about a current relationship and not looking back on a high school relationship?

[@kenrk]

Also, I believe it was a cover of a 60s song as well, so it's not like he wrote the song.

[@joemasse4568]

Ringo made a great version of this song, get your mind out of the gutter? It’s a cover?

[@kenrk]

@@joemasse4568 No idea what you're talking about. Do you even know what the term "cover" means?

[@jewgirl952]

I agree totally!!!! When I first heard Ringo's song, I understood he was reflecting on when he was in high school.

[@darrylbradshaw3527]

Good point! Besides, the age of consent is 16 in several states and in most countries.

[@lionheartroar3104]

No one called me..I like all these songs...sue me..The worst song on this list sounds better than today;s top 10.

[@Anonymous-js5zn]

@OneHairyGuy Not for me. Not only would I rather listen to Sorry by Justin Bieber, but I'd actually watch the damn video over listening to You're Having My Baby, which I think is the worst song ever made. I love 1970s music, it's possibly the best decade in music, but You're Having My Baby is just the worst.

[@brucedillinger9448]

Wait...WHAT? You really like You're Having My Baby? Tell me you're kidding. 😬😖😲

[@raoularmagnac2037]

Very well said! These were real songs and real music! 🎵🎶

[@brucedillinger9448]

@@raoularmagnac2037 these were real BAD songs, yes.

[@johnaverick7468]

@@Anonymous-js5zn It so damn YUUUK.. " Having my baby " Get a grip I say !

[@patpruett6060]

Oh and you light up my life was sung at our wedding 43 years later we still like it

[@musicof70scody14]

I would take the 70s music any day over today's GARBAGE so called music

[@davidarmitage4132]

Here here!

[@hydrolito]

Celtic Woman has some nice songs and online you can find quite a bit.

[@marshallborder9089]

Agree

[@yousee66]

I agree!, but I was an 80's teen../early 20's 🤘😁...still loved 70's music as a kid👍

[@noemistephanie93]

Same and I was born in the 90s

[@WMJCPA]

The Paul Anka song You're Having My Baby was inspired by his own wife's pregnancy at the time. He wrote it as a tribute to her and that's all it represented. I heard him talk about it at the time.on one of the late night talk shows. He said he was so overcome by the joy of the occasion that he was compelled to write this song.

[@alanheath7867]

That comment above is public record. He actually during an interview when the song was released stated that the song was about his wife and the fact they were having a baby! So pwwwwwwwt! ( Electronic Rasberry!)

[@TrussttN01]

WKRP killed this song. First episode I think. Johnny Fever was playing the “Hallelujah”Tabernacle Choir version of it lol. Absolutely hilarious!

[@hulkjelly6876]

Context. It's one hell of a thing!. Thanks for that.

[@robinmckay6349]

I loved the song I was just coming of age and I wanted to feel that feeling I ended up having a little boy it was a song of love and the outcome of the song produced the ultimate. Love

[@homeschoolmom2799]

I remember seeing him talking about this, too. I thought it a wonderful tribute to his wife and the child they had created together.

[@debbieguitor1745]

It was a time when music could be silly and fun. Not everything had to have a deep negative meaning or try to educate the listener.

[@bobf.5538]

Hey even green Tambourine was pretty good

[@markhunter8554]

@@bobf.5538 I believe that was released in the 1960s.

[@markhunter8554]

I wasn't listening to silly and fun music in the 1970s.

[@jamescressey3390]

@@markhunter8554 correct

[@jeffclement2468]

Guys...her name's "Debbie" ok? 😹

[@markdoeller758]

I fell in love with "You Light Up My Life" when the song was played in the previews before the movie was released. Being 13 years old I wasn't a solid rocker. I got into the sappy love songs and I saw the commercial enough times that it kinda stuck with me and I wanted to hear the rest of the song. Before the movie was even released in the theaters I was in a stupid accident and was in the hospital. By the time I got out, I was already hearing it a few times on the radio. Any kid in the late seventies had a cassette recorder by then and would record a few songs off the radio if there were no other household noise goin on. LOL!! By then, it was just a matter of time to catch it first coming on and be on the ready at the record button! Sometimes the DJ will be kind enough to cue what's coming up after the commercial break! 👍

[@alanwilson8407]

My sympathies. Debbie Boone? WTF?

[@melissacooper8724]

I played a rendition of You Light Up My Life on my violin at my own wedding!

[@markdoeller758]

@@alanwilson8407 sympathies?? Debbie Boone had only one hit that I know of but it was a chart topping #1 smash hit!! What the hell have you accomplished???

[@pamelasmith6221]

This song was played at the funeral for a boy who died tragically when I was a child back in the late 70’s. It had the whole church in tears.

[@keithsmith3425]

All these songs are better than what is on the radio today. I love them

[@margaritanguyen5085]

Dam straight.

[@sandragraves1177]

No. They're not. I was there. This is actually a pretty decent list. Now go back in you're trailer and stop yelling at every one to get off your lawn. You're pathetic

[@shyman99]

@@sandragraves1177 - Yeah, I was there too. And this list sucks. You have been dismissed.

[@LisaNC832]

Same!!

[@annointed1636]

Same here,xcept for disco duck

[@Name-ps9fx]

"Feelings", if you can be bothered to read the lyrics, is a song about the unrequited love of a man to the woman he lost. Those are the feelings he'll have the rest of his life.

[@melissacooper8724]

When the song "Feelings" comes on I think of Steve Urkel sitting in the tree and singing this song on his accordion!

[@timmy707707]

That does not excuse the sappiness of the arraignment and the overall cringe..

[@F96-t6s]

I laughed when the guy said "the singer doesn't actually say what he's feeling". I wasn't the sharpest knife in the kitchen at the time but even then, it seemed pretty clear to me what the song/singer was "saying". Rediculous video.

[@wisdomseeker3362]

​@@F96-t6s _Ridiculous_

[@giuliana1644]

It's like hating "What's Up" because it doesn't explicitly say what is going on

[@jamesslick4790]

Fun Fact: "Muskrat Love" was actually recorded three years EARLIER by a more serious band: "America"!

[@danithompson1693]

I consider myself a 70's music savant and you taught me that Muskrat Love fun fact--thanks!

[@firefly59]

yes, don't remind me, that was the only America song I didn't like. Another fun fact - it was originally recorded even before the America version by the guy who wrote the song.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@firefly59 Oh, I know the "author" who spawned this "song" recorded it, But the VERY FACT that "America" did has been messing with my mind for almost 50 years. 😲(I'm a huge "America" fan.) 😊

[@PhoenixLyon]

@@jamesslick4790 I love America, too. Which album/ song do you like best? I love Harbor, and Sandmam is top ten for me. Watership Down is too sad, but beautiful.✌🎸

[@peggyl2849]

I knew that - couldn't stand the song by either one though I did like America.

[@wisdomseeker3362]

I used to hear 'Muskrat Love' on the way to middle school on my daddys car radio and he would sing it so beautifully. Sadly, daddy passed in April of this year . I have never been this heartbroken in all of my life . I love you daddy and I'll miss you for the rest of my life .❤

[@retirementready9406]

Ringo Star’s “You’re 16” is a great song! He’s singing about himself when he was the same age as the 16 year old girl. Not as a nearly 40 year old man fantasizing about a 16 year old.

[@yukimikasaki9705]

Exactly!! And it's such a memorable latter-day bubble gum hit, and you obviously have an open mind, Larry. The rest of you Peek Freans can just accept the song is history, and like it. And stop emulating Stan Gortikov!!!

[@ilovemydog6847]

"You're Sixteen" is a song written by the Sherman Brothers (Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman). It was first performed by American rockabilly singer Johnny Burnette, whose version peaked at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1960 and number 3 in the UK in 1961.

[@rovinnomire8335]

Umm, yeah, sure thing.

[@jennybrown9431]

What a f...g stupid reflection on this song - its got f all to do with him Your video is sooo crap.

[@gholwiih]

Sure thing bud, tell yourself that. So why didn't they cast a younger man in the video? You know, to represent Ringo as a younger version of himself?

[@jeanninemartin5507]

Your Sixteen was about a girl being able to date! Most girls had to wait until they were 16 before they could date! You really show how little you know about these songs and the reasons behind them! They were big hits and we love them!

[@andrewwalsh816]

16 is the age of consent in Britain. Get your facts right before you slander people

[@arronjerden915]

@@andrewwalsh816 16 is still the age of consent in a lot of the USA as well.

[@gregingram4996]

It's the fantasy of many 16-year-olds to be romanced by an older guy! I was 16 for most of 1973 and can personally attest to this one!

[@t-squared6406]

exactly,he didn't research these songs!!!

[@sushicraves]

Run threw the jungle was a Vietnam protest song. The best way to stay alive was run through the jungle

[@jhenry9486]

Most of these songs are still great today! Ghee, every song doesn’t have to be deep in order to be worthy of listening to. The 70’s had the BEST MUSIC!

[@lisaa8795]

Yes it did. But these 10 songs were among the worst the 70s had to offer.

[@jhenry9486]

@@lisaa8795 that is a matter of opinion.

[@markhunter8554]

@@jhenry9486 It's an opinion that I share. But you're right the seventies had great music but not most of the songs they played on the radio and certainly not the songs on this list.

[@jamescressey3390]

#Longlivethe70s

[@sarahstuder9360]

The 70’s were the best

[@joeblow9210]

You blasted those songs in a funny way, but for me as a teenager in the '70s, I loved them along with millions of people. I still don't mind hearing them even though most don't hold up too well. These are a part of the soundtrack of our lives.

[@Juliet_Capulet]

I always thought You're Sixteen was supposed to be a memory of Ringo's, not him being 33 and her being 16.

[@TheDaziedaze]

I absolutely agree! Why are they trying to turn it into something that is wrong when it is not. It’s just a song of remembrance.

[@Juliet_Capulet]

@@TheDaziedaze Like "My Eyes Adored You," another favorite of mine. That one still makes me cry. This one just makes me rock out!

[@misha6699]

@@bobbywall172 Oh, but Johnny was only 26 when HE sang it, so that makes it completely different ;-) Of all the objections to a song I've ever heard, this video's objection to "You're Sixteen" has to be one of the silliest.

[@GeeCeeWU]

@@TheDaziedaze Exactly.

[@juliereminiec4937]

it was Ringo's memory of being that age

[@tobymummert3035]

I'm a retired DJ and Rupert Holmes Escape was definitely in the top five most requested songs to sing during karaoke! I retired in 2019 and the song was still being asked for left and right for people to sing. So pina colada or Escape is still extremely popular at least in the karaoke world!

[@birdsfan57]

For me, his other, though less often played hit, "Him" is my one of my all-time favorites.

[@nolanhasty557]

I thoguht this list was a load of shit as soon as i saw Escape

[@mrs.dr.spencerreid3992]

Yeah‼️

[@fenderstratguy]

It’s still a brilliant song

[@fenderstratguy]

@@nolanhasty557 Escape is a great song. Hell, I wish I could write a song that “hated”.

[@Ed-dc6lb]

Dude, think you're not seeing the flaw in your argument. Every one of these "most hated" songs was a HIT! The 70"s, at least music wise, was a fun, eclectic decade. There was an anything goes attitude. Thank God I was around to experience it. I truly feel sad for the woke, fall in line like good social media androids around today. You can call me crazy if you want, but I'm proud to say I enjoyed every one of the songs you had on your list. I'm surprised you missed Chuck Berry's "My Ding-A-Ling". Should be required listening..lol!

[@theclearsounds3911]

The version of My Ding-A-Ling that was a hit was a seriously chopped up single version, as was so typical in the 70's. I don't think they could have played the album version on top 40 radio! Fortunately, the 70's also had album rock stations, and that's where I heard the album version. It's a fun song! So is Disco Duck! What's wrong with being totally silly once in a while? I didn't want to spend the entire 70's listening to songs protesting the Vietnam war and the killing of whales!

[@tombowman2154]

Music was a lot more fun, upbeat.

[@bootsarmstrong8421]

You're right. It was a very eclectic decade and that's what made the music so enjoyable. It was adventurous. I enjoyed most of it. From disco, rock, pop, ballads and the quirky sound of Steely Dan. I bought hundreds of records. Great time to be a teen.

[@angel196989]

and don't forget Kung Fu Fighting :D

[@frankjuster8726]

@@angel196989 kung flu fighting . 2020 version .

[@NoOne-bp2jw]

When I saw that we looking for hated songs, Muskrat Love and Having my Baby were my first thoughts.

[@johnharris6655]

"You're 16" is actually a Remake of a 50's hit song. So it is just a cover by Ringo on an album that was all covers.

[@shyman99]

The album it's from was not all covers.

[@johnaverick7468]

Oh, Everythings a Witch Hunt for perverts now. I think " Thats " kind of perverted in itself !

[@isallah1kafir196]

There is a *culture/life-style coming into the west, in which a 16 year old girl would be married already* for 7 Years. But luckily nobody would sing about it, since singing is forbidden. Then in the Folk-Music scene from the British isles I know one other song in which a sixteen year old girl is married off. OK married.... Enjoy this age, who knows the next couple of generations may be the last ones in which music is still being allowed to be produced and enjoyed. Luckily for me, I'll not be around anymore when music will be removed...

[@mikecalhoun2645]

I really like, your 16!!! Still better than a lot of crap on the radio today

[@rmac5119]

Was about to make the same comment.

[@ronknox3376]

...and I quote, "For his part, Johnny Burnette was in 1960, when his version of “You're Sixteen” came out. But in '50s and early '60s pop, it was probably safer to assume that the people singing these pop songs were playing characters, not necessarily being themselves." Ringo was covering a song like many did. He didn't write it nor do I think he was fixated on teenage girls when he recorded it. Only in the current era do we make something out of nothing. Johnny Cash's name wasn't Sue either if you get my drift. ;)

[@makesmecrazy6572]

I knew Ringo didn't do this song first. I couldn't think of the o'boy,s name who did it first, so thank you for that.

[@beautygoddessbridget]

I honestly thought it was about a daughter. That's how naive I was lol.

[@backtoshellac6459]

The fact the creator didn't know this/failed to put it in really shows how much he cares about the video 😂

[@jflaugher]

Johnny Burnette wrote and recorded "You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful (And You're Mine)" back in 1960. Ringo was just singing a Rock & Roll standard. Besides in the pop music of the 50's, 60's, and 70's it was assumed that the people singing these songs were playing characters, not necessarily being themselves.

[@gregoryclemen1870]

YUP!!!!!, IT WAS JUST A COVER TUNE!!!!, it is real interesting how people read into something that just is not there !!!!

[@nancysherburne7445]

I was going to post a comment with that same thought. I like Ringo's voice to start with and always felt like you, that he was playing the part of a teenaged boy who fell for a 26-year-old. Perfectly natural and acceptable. I think it takes a dirty mind to think the over-30-year-old Ringo would fall for a girl half his age.

[@OGRE_HATES_NERDS]

ivwouldnt necessarily call it a standard but yeah

[@gregoryclemen1870]

@@nancysherburne7445 there is nothing wrong with looking back on our teenage years, for most of us it was the best time of our lives, being at high school age, the things we did on the weekends, and who we dated!!!! NEIL SEDAKA wrote/sang a tune "OH CAROL" , who by the way is a" real person". her real name is carol klotz, and he wanted to date her, and she turned him down. you would know her better as "CAROL KING"!!!!. they both went to the "juilliard school of music"( neil sedaka got kicked out of the school------for what, I do not know)

[@cynthiamclellan6745]

@@nancysherburne7445 Yeah - I've never heard a bad thing about Ringo - I know he's a vegan & looking great at 80🇬🇧

[@zeeblats]

Clickbait = Most hated songs that were the most popular? Well done though, I clicked AND engaged 👏👏👏👏 If you're after bad lyrics, there are hundreds worse than this.

[@raphaelrau1728]

Boy you were in a bad mood when you made this?! Half these songs are good and way better than the awful stuff pumped out today!

[@RicoBurghFan]

I was a teenager in the 70s anf I think these songs were dreck.

[@RicoBurghFan]

Low bar my man. Such awful song s.

[@user-pe9gz8si8k]

No way

[@Axess-sv8nq]

@@user-pe9gz8si8k Yeah way. The music coming out these days is absolute trash that only complete idiots could like. Garbage like "W.A.P."? Come on. You'd HAVE TO be a complete moron to like that crap.

[@michaelcrockette8694]

guess l’m a complete moron. love all of these songs.

[@Colhogan06]

Many artists will sing a song from the perspective of a younger person. Its the target audience. For example Ringo's your Sixteen. That song was actually sung by Johnny Burnett in 1960. It was a cover. The artist sings the song from a 16 yr old boys perspective. The same concept applies to the Beatles song, "I saw her standing there". That song references a 17 yr old girl. But again sung from a 17 yr old boy's perspective. None of these artists were trying to be creepy or worse. There are many other songs out there that are sung from the perspective of a much younger person. This is how we made it through our youth. We had music to help us when we were down and because of the perspective of the singer, it was easy to put our 16 yr old selves in some of those songs in order to make us feel better.

[@veritastriumphantchurch776]

That's right. And remember 15 and 16 year old girls back then were like mature young women and not like the sad tattoo and pierced covered little tramps you see now.

[@puppycat58]

You are right on....you broke everything down...they take and twist everything. .I just like the song 🎵 if I like it...if I don't. .I just didn't buy it

[@SC-gp7kt]

Yea this narrator is a just another brainwashed snowflake.....everything is "creepy"

[@michelleobrien8036]

Amen

[@jimjam1719]

sfc-mp corp- you nailed it! unfortunately, these youngsters, called millenials, zoomers, and crappers, don't understand much of anything, they want to cancel history and culture that they were never a part of, they don't understand what was going on nor do they want to fully understand it, they just criticize and expect to be taken care of with entitlements, they only see things with their indoctrinated ideology, which taints their perspective, i.e. they are not too deep with their thinking skills. ringo was singing from a young persons perspective so younger people would identify and buy the records, no way was he creeping. like i said with today's culture thought process, they see things through the ways they were taught/brainwashed, not with an open mind, with deeper thinking. our schools today are a breeding ground for useless idiotic eaters to do the dirty work of the elites. the future does not look bright.

[@cynthiajohnson9412]

The Seventies maybe was the last decade when people didn't routinely search out song lyrics for any sign of rape. 'You're Sixteen' was just a sweet celebration of innocence. Are you people so cynical that you can't even recognize a reminiscences of a simpler time in one's life. We have a whole generation that needs to speak to a therapist about why you all see everything as so gritty and ugly in your world. You lunatics even turned 'Baby It's Cold Outside' into a date rape song. Jesus Christ, the woman went to the guy's apartment with the intent of seducing him! And the social pressures kept her from following through! How the hell could you miss that! It's the whole point of the freakin song! You'd have to be pretty twisted in your rape obsession to miss that.

[@tarasbulba3190]

Well said.

[@richardmaclean7581]

Music and songs are to be felt (not cotton nor flannel or polyester) Feelings produced by the hit denotes the timeline and world at large.

[@cynthiajohnson9412]

@@richardmaclean7581 : Sounds like a rationalization for misguided translation if ever I've heard one. It would be nice if we could raise our expectations toward a little bit of objectivity and take away the carte blanche that allows people feel free to paint their own twisted obsessions into everything around them. Could we start there please? In other words, people really don't have the right to project their own bile into everything around them. You want to sneer at a song, be my guest, but turning the intent of a song on it's ear to push a dark and frankly toxic political agenda is just going too far. So knock it off!

[@Dion-rz3fz]

Its just like two people of the same gender cant even share an apartment to cut expenses without everyone wondering if there's something perverse going on. We have lost our innocents' now-a-days. A couple of generations ago many brides were 16, and frequently the groom would be in his late 20s or older. The really strange thing about this modern hypocrisy is how a man in his 30s better not express his attraction to a 16 yr. old by asking her for a date, but if he wants to engage in sodomy with another man that's perfectly acceptable! Sick culture.

[@SailorBarsoom]

There's also the possibility that Ringo is singing about when HE was sixteen, but no, gotta be rape of one kind or another. It really does seem like we live in a time when nothing is *allowed* to be innocent. Really, including "You're Sixteen" in a list of worst (or best) songs *of the Seventies* is a cheat, because it's a cover of a song from 1960.

[@patpruett6060]

As usual I disagree with the critics glad I grew up with ALL these great songs

[@dps1943]

You are judging the 70's from 40+ years in the future. That doesn't work. Why? When you're older you'll figure it out.

[@DaveGreg100]

Agreed. People do that with movies and old cars and advertising. It's no way to go through life. "Presentism": a stupid way to look at things, Dennis. Usually it's just a ruse to be "offended" and virtual signal about the way things were in the past. Being "offended" is a choice.

[@annoldham3018]

Oh god no!

[@lucypotato8793]

Really bad songs in the 70's... I was a kid/teen then too. These bad songs never were theeeee worst. There were some great songs in the 70's for sure but 60's & 80's way better. so much fun!

[@hollystowe2372]

Yeah, crap as Disco Duck deserve to be made fun of, even as a parody. Terrible stuff.

[@ellacarson2048]

There was great music in the seventies. But not those songs

[@LivingOnCash]

I imagine to the ears of a 20 year old like this guy, these songs are bad but for those of use who actually were adults in the '70s, these songs while silly, bring those years back to us and make us smile and sometimes groan too. They may not have been the best music out there at the time but they were still part of the sound track of our youth.

[@lezorford7155]

Unfortunately...I have mixed emotions. Or, should I say, feelings?

[@dakotawatson8229]

I'm one of the rare 21 year olds that adores music from the 1960's to the 1990's. Some of these songs are a little odd, but I'd rather listen to this type of music than the crap that's made today. I think for some of the songs he's listed, like You're 16 by Ringo Starr, he needs to do more research on.

[@Jubilian3000]

Rhinestone cowboy still takes me back to being a kid in Southern California heading to soccer practice.

[@markhunter8554]

The sound track of my youth was Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

[@52Rambler]

@@markhunter8554 same here, and it's funny not one of their songs are on this list lol lol.

[@johnmoore1290]

Ringo was singing a song from 1960. Give the "woke" BS a rest.

[@justmike2944]

KISS Christen Sixteen .. Lookin for one from the 1970 . lol

[@tgreen4259]

So, does this guy not understand that musicians target teenagers because they have disposable income they would use on music? You can make the same argument about being creepy with the song "Domino" by Kiss that was released in 1992

[@susanl7765]

Johnny Burnette was 26 in 1960, when his version of “You're Sixteen” came out.

[@steveswangler6373]

@john moore since Ringo was covering a song and singing about an underage girl it's ok? actually, that makes it even worse. sad, that you call protecting teenage girls "woke BS". must be a trump supporter, girls should be prey huh? along with the 106 assholes that liked your moronic comment.

[@keithprice5208]

In the UK the age of consent is 16, so Ringo would not have been committing statutory rape. I do however agree that there was a significant age difference, making such an action questionable, but not illegal.

[@MichaelLauzon1976]

In regards to Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" (4:27), saying it was the biggest of the decade is a lie, because "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees was on the chart for 33 weeks...!

[@ponchatoulamike]

Thought this was going to be entertaining instead of self-righteous "woke" person telling me these songs have ill-intentioned lyrics.

[@roryrory5047]

Well said this guy is a wanker

[@jimjam1719]

i second that notion. the narrator is pretty dumb and sees from his "asleep" perspective. he needs to wake up to reality and what is really going on.

[@shakey2634]

Nothing “woke” about it. All art is subjective and he’s entitled to his taste. Throwing the word “woke” at this says more about you than him.

[@jimjam1719]

@@shakey2634 art is subjective and he is entitled to his taste, however, so are we, which says you are hypocrite, if we are entitled to our free speech like he is, then we say what we want, which says you are a hypocrite. case closed.

[@shakey2634]

@@jimjam1719 In what way am I a hypocrite? Do you even know what that means? I never said you couldn’t express yourself. I, like you, just expressed an opinion. An opinion that you politicizing a music video commentary told me a lot about you. Strike a little too close to home for you? Time to go upstairs for lunch, I hear your mom calling.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

These are classics that are more lyrically subtle. I would rather listen to these than most of the songs written nowadays that are more openly nonsense and full of profanity

[@faustinfenton4540]

Not 70 song but I can't stand butterfly kisses.

[@kansaskactusiijlk4986]

Boomer bashing, that's all this is, nothing more.

[@clod8]

I agree-these songs are masterpieces compared to the lewd, repetitive, derivative bs of today’s music.

[@jillpeacock4540]

Yes I agree. My son thinks I'm a prude. No it's simply low class and tasteless to use profanity. But everybody says the F word. Oh ok. So they commit suicide, you going to as well? I know I wouldn't take you to meet my friend and family with swear words every other word. And sometimes... blasphemy. I'm glad I'm not going to be punished for your bad behavior. Certainly would've take that person to a dressy event. That's like having someone go out to a classy restaurant.... And they chew their food like a pig. Ewwwwww nauseating.

[@brianb6024]

@@faustinfenton45407

[@deedubya5382]

Being born in 1961, I spent my entire teens in the 70's. I can attest to the fact that exactly zero of these songs was hated, for the most part. They were all smash hits, and you couldn't avoid them. Somebody must have loved them.

[@shawnuel]

It’s all about perception, I guess. In my circles, ALL of these songs were hated, for the most part (born in 1963).

[@Holly707]

Born in 1961 and I agree, these songs were well loved and appreciated. Now for rap is the worse for it speaks loud and clear of demeaning women and glorifying the thug life.

[@pazyamor2292]

@@Holly707 Don't generalize.

[@Holly707]

@@pazyamor2292 It is what it is

[@yousee66]

Born in '66...had just about most of those 45's &.....get this at 9-10 yrs old had that Paul Anka album..LOL

[@pittypaws6633]

I thought the "Pina Colada" song was good because instead of a couple breaking up they find that they were both truly meant for each other. What they thought they were both lacking for in their relationship they had had all the time. It just took an ironic twist for them to realize that.

[@pamelasmith6221]

Yes!!!! They were both looking for something that was already there.

[@rohnkd4hct260]

Where you in a bad mood when you wrote this?

[@SirManfly]

gawd these were some of the most nauseating songs of the 70's and i always changed the station when they came on !!!

[@karenstrycharz1499]

@@SirManfly I so agree with you! I still change the channel 🤣lol! if one of them comes on my “oldies station!”

[@kenngoodwin4323]

I don’t recall these song’s being hated. Most were fun songs.

[@tamilugo3886]

Agreed I liked them guess there's no accounting for taste . The Beatles seriously ? They have no clue about what's a good song !

[@RobMacKendrick]

Some were just overplayed. (All of Rupert Holmes' songs were just beaten into the ground by the radio stations.)

[@elmoomle4565]

Exactly. I recall all these songs receiving MASSIVE radio airplay...so...they were obviously 'hated' ... at least according to this ridiculous video.

[@MegaBadgeman]

Also music at the time just wasn't taken serious then. There was loads of fun records out there because people weren't afraid of being seen to have fun, in fear of being labelled weird.

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@MegaBadgeman Yeah, the whole decade was like that. You could be a little eccentric and the world didn't come to an end. That's why it was so fun.

[@jamesferguson5279]

Just for the record, "Your 16" came out in 1961 and was originally sung by Johnny Burnette. So your critisizing Ringo Star for doing a remake of an old classic.

[@martincolvill5453]

I started my radio career in the 70s. The music reflected the times. Fun and frolicking, loving and ... well, definitely not today. We were still battling the Cold War with every year more and more nukes being built. How about Nixon and Watergate? Remember streaking? It was the 60s getting older. Would I go back to the 70s over living today? IN A HEARTBEAT!!!

[@ClassicRock-SER]

I don’t despise any of these songs. They’re a part of us who grew up listening to them on our AM radios.

[@mothershelper1981]

Absolutely agreed! I think he has completely misconstrued the intention of the original music. He's probably a 20 something.

[@gregorywilliams5105]

@@mothershelper1981 I hated most of these at the time and still do. Oh well, we're all different.

[@mothershelper1981]

@@gregorywilliams5105 absolutely true. We all have our separate set of tastes and that's fine. Wouldn't we be boring if we were all the same?

[@gregorywilliams5105]

@@mothershelper1981 Yes, it sure would!

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Music on AM radio! Now THOSE were the days.

[@budmuffin3841]

I still like the “worst” songs from the 70’s better than most contemporary songs.

[@JM-po7fr]

Back then was real music, today what is it?

[@homeschoolmom2799]

Agreed! Much of today's music is vulgar, x-rated (language and scenarios), blasphemous, and has no rhythm or sound appeal. Rap is like fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears and I do not consider it music.

[@kendallcaminiti-hess2243]

I agree with both of you...today's "music" is coming from "people" who should be either in jail or in a mental hospital with NO release date...Can't stand it! Give me the music from the 50's up to the start of the "rap c**p" any old day (FYI-born in 1968)

[@allend6137]

@@kendallcaminiti-hess2243 Interesting 🤔 for 1968. I was born in 1970.. 50’s 👎🏾 60’s a few things, but the 70’s & 80’s 🤩🤩🤩🤩. I’ve only recently about 10 years or so ago gave up on current music. I don’t absolutely think it’s crap 💩 it’s just very redundant. Like every song is the same song.. with the same lyrics and the same beat etc 😂

[@daffyslooney2867]

You got that right!

[@mabdog1988]

And another thought; these songs are remembered after all these years. What songs of today will be remembered?

[@Jugivadi]

Touché

[@micanales9869]

None at all

[@DjStorm-1]

Hopefully none of the crap from today. Well maybe something by Ed Shreean

[@ericmatthews3775]

Probably none.

[@mikesimonian484]

They need to be completely forgotten. They're horrible.

[@rodneywoodcock8235]

I always thought the song "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold was pathetic. Some guy whining about having a younger sister. I have a couple of sisters and it's not all that bad. Your sisters are bound to have a couple of cute friends that they'll bring around the house, instead of complaining, use it to your advantage.

[@leemarlin9415]

Hey dude you’re sucking all of the fun out of life. They're just songs don’t take them so literally just enjoy them.

[@lrod8721]

Exactly, this fool must be a trill at parties

[@markhardiman1179]

There's a hater for every occasion.😝 I remember when these songs came out & still like them.😁

[@mangemoi1163]

Heaven forbid a person should have their own opinion.

[@quietquitter6103]

@@mangemoi1163 And we are telling him that his opinion is ill-informed and stupid.

[@mangemoi1163]

@@quietquitter6103 So anyone that doesn't like what you like is "ill-informed and stupid" Yours is the only opinion that matters. Got it.

[@PittsburghSportsFan43]

I think you need to re-listen to the Pina Colada song. I think that was meant to be a sweet song. Like "You were with the right person all along, you just didn't realize it." I guess it could be taken either way, but I prefer the optimistic view. I also liked Afternoon Delight.

[@gregoryclemen1870]

YUP!!!, that is what happens when couples do not communicate with each other!!!!! just like the tune went, when they made the hookup "AWWW ITS YOU!!!!, I NEVER KNEW!!!!".

[@michaelmorgan7893]

The only thing I had against the Pina Colada Song, is that they ran it in the ground and broke it off. I wanted to hear other Rupert Holmes songs like "Him" and "I Don't Need You"

[@josbar2835]

@@gregoryclemen1870 I know! It's soooo adorable that they had soooo much in common, including deciding to go see someone else, outside the relationship and keep it secret! Yes, that was total sarcasm. =D

[@bicthechick5382]

@blackngoldfan89, absolutely the way I took it! I believe that's what was meant. The music was light-hearted & fun, not like it was something bad. It was a glorious revelation to the couple that they were still that attracted to each other, even when they didn't know who the other was. I just think it's wonderful!

[@thesausage351]

Agreed. I was with him until I heard this song mentioned!

[@stormdancer0]

I'd still take any of these songs over anything sang between 2010 and today.

[@tracyjacoby2382]

Agree!!👍

[@Heartwing37]

OMG! I was raised in the 70’s and graduated from in ‘79….and I could not get through the first 3 songs in the lis video!!! I’d rather be punched in the face than listen to these horrible songs! Of course, todays music sucks too but in a different kind of torturous way! 🤢🤮

[@Jaynlena69]

Yes! 70s most 80s and some 90s were the best song decades. None of this crap today even compares.

[@josepherhardt164]

TBF, I'd take a head of cabbage over anything sung between 2010 and today.

[@josepherhardt164]

@@Jaynlena69 Last half of the sixties had some great songs, too! :)

[@fallenhero3130]

I have to defend “The Piña Colada Song.” It’s catchy, and it tells a story that’s cutesy and unexpected. It’s definitely a creative song.

[@sunlovinglady8562]

I'm embarrassed to say that I loved all of these songs at the time! The 70s... what an era! I sometimes really miss those years.

[@carolinew1152]

Don’t be embarrassed.... be proud & thankful for all it was for us!!!

[@paulmcguire3789]

I still like them

[@stevefarms7494]

70s has heart and soul into there music unlike music if that what they call it today ..

[@rodneybrowne2932]

dont fall into the wokeness generation like this guy is

[@barryinglett7034]

I loved some and liked others but this guy is a joke!😂🐻

[@wendyo2561]

It seems that the only person who hates these songs is the guy talking

[@leonardszubinski4709]

Women, for the most part, always had crappy taste in music, movies and TV shows!

[@wrotenwasp]

No doubt. He has that big time beta male voice . Sounds like a young Woody Allen. Probably looks like him too. Probably didnt even grow up in the 70s.

[@whatareyoudoingyouidiot342]

I hate every single one of these songs. Especially "Afternoon Delight". One of the most insipid things ever written.

[@tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283]

@@whatareyoudoingyouidiot342 yeah it’s a pretty crappy song especially considering it’s about getting fucked while the sun is still out.

[@dbkparm]

He's not the only person who hates this drivel.

[@rmat.847]

Most of today's music has crap lyrics. 70's was corny, but at least they showed imagination.

[@l.russellbrown9732]

Since Beethoven and Mozart there have only been 2 types of music Music that is a hit And music that ain't

[@thecrippledrummer]

@@l.russellbrown9732 except there wasn’t something such as a “hit” during Beethoven’s era.

[@l.russellbrown9732]

Hits were measured differently than But there were hits

[@l.russellbrown9732]

When audiences loved the music The leaders, kings queens wealthy aristocrats commissioned the great composers.... the ones who were writing "hits"

[@gazooie1958]

Good melodies too.

[@paulaboisvert105]

Just because the generation that eats tide pods & rather listen to filth that doesn't mean these are bad songs.

[@18dmedic]

These songs from the 1970's are tons better than the crap that is playing on the radio stations of today.

[@jameswood231]

I agree.

[@tanjabeasley3111]

I agree !

[@johnerwin9024]

Yeah, sampled today's stuff, forgettable- -

[@leighjones6514]

Completely agree

[@rickreeve1246]

u got that right

[@Brian_L_A]

The Seventies? I was there. These are great songs and fun. Unlike today's (c)rap music.

[@markhunter8554]

I was there too and I hated most of these songs.

[@0therun1t21]

@@markhunter8554 Same, but I agree it's still better than most of today's stuff.

[@The3289691]

Very clever! Lol. I’m not too big on the Rap stuff but it’s not my time anymore. I was around in the 1970s and this guys list is nonsense. But..it’s his list. Just his.

[@donkeyslayer4661]

The 70s, when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous. The music, it could have been better.

[@markhunter8554]

@@donkeyslayer4661 70's album rock was great; top forty a.m. radio was a joke.

[@yvettezollinger1616]

Ringo’s “You’re Sixteen “ was actually a cover of Johnny Burnette’s original who was 26 when he first sang it.

[@homeschoolmom2799]

One of my close friends in high school (1976) was 16 when she dated her then 26 year old boyfriend and none of us though anything about it. She did end up pregnant and they married. Unfortunately, they divorced after their 6 year old child died of congenital heart disease. Many couples divorce after the death of a child. Another close high school friend began to date her husband who was 22 when she was 16. She married him when he was 24 and she was still 17, though she stayed in our senior year and graduated. They would eventually have two sons. My friends have been married for almost 44 years (they married in Dec 1976), and they are both born again Christians, as are both of their sons. No one ever considered either of these men to be 'pedophiles'.

[@stickman1742]

The narrator was just being a complete ass by putting that one in.

[@ForeignerFan74]

That Was A Great Song

[@ktcarl]

True. Ringo covered that tune because it was one of his favorites when he was in his 20's.

[@ktcarl]

I was in a Classic Rock band in my 40's and we would sing 'I Saw Her Standing There' which is about a 17 yr old girl. We didn't think twice about it. We sometimes would joke with each other about her at least being legal.

[@davidwilliams2722]

I'm 63, love "You're Sixteen," and still perform it with my guitar. Most often, however, I substitute "You're Six-tee" for the less appropriate younger age at my age.

[@caliblue2]

Cool! My new song 😆

[@paultaylor7082]

I remmeber a comedian who used to open his act with the old Sam Cooke song, 'Only Sixteeen', a Number One Hit in 1959 for Craig Douglas in the UK. The next line was even better. 'At least that's what she told me, Your Honour'.

[@intentionallyinpired]

I’m pretty sure whoever created this list is not over 30 lol.. these songs are awesome

[@ellenmancuso2489]

No, they are not awesome.

[@1ndomitus]

@@ellenmancuso2489 You're correct, *_''Beyond Awesome''_* is more accurate.

[@craigblack7076]

Forget the quacking and Mr. Dees looking like a fool on American Bandstand. It's the killer bass line that drives this song. As I've always said: The melody is the song and the lyrics are just an incidental necessity sometimes.

[@markhunter8554]

Awesomely bad.

[@DaveCM]

As Rick James said, "Cocaine is a hell of a drug." "Disco Duck" was supposed to be bad. That was the point of the song. But, people thought it was good and loved it. His evil plan backfired.

[@mosquitobight]

The duck puppet in the video didn't have much of a bill. It looked more like a worm.

[@luci-fer250]

cocaine was a good song too

[@robertpayne2717]

RICK DEES WAS BRILLIANT HE KNEW DISCO WAS NOT GOING TO LAST .1 How many radio stations have since the 70's advertise as having a Disco format. As opposed to those having a Classic Rock format or country format?

[@painkillerjones6232]

"Evil"??? Anything that took disco down a notch, or helped its demise, was a Godsend!!!

[@prof2yousmithe444]

This is odd as this is being told by a kid who never lived through the 70s and has no clue as to what he is talking about.

[@FreezyAbitKT7A]

100% true here's my adds: Shannon, Wildfire, Rock On, Sausalito Summernight, Another One Bites the Dust, Don't Cry Daddy. Hotel California (music is fine. complaining about getting kicked out of a fine hotel for tearing it up..childish and weak. The song is a joke folks. Fans who took it serious made it bad)

[@jillthompson1734]

Well I lived through the 70's and I don't think that anyone who commented on the songs was wrong. People love those songs. I think that you were not born or lived through the 70's.

[@AJ-yw7hf]

@I STAN Kim Jong-Un but Can't STAND Trump - I used to like 'Wildfire' too, until it got too sad for me, Lol. It was a unique, beautiful song that lots of people liked though, & many people still like it. (P.S. I'm thinking you meant to say 'people *half* my age.')

[@mikewrasman5103]

Damn straight!

[@KattMurr]

How do you know Nick's age??? Guessing by his voice??

[@way2golf496]

Sorry. but even what some people think as the worst songs of the 70s still blows away a lot of the crap put out since 2000.

[@toby9999]

That's the truth!

[@ronalddonner3396]

"Those who can-DO.Those who can't-become music critics!"

[@ontogeny6474]

70's music was strange, weird and brilliant all at the same time. What's not to love?

[@RobMacKendrick]

Word.

[@MrHans818]

Bests time to grow up in.

[@MrOpinionCantSignIn]

What i responded with "Ten annoying songs of the 70's that shall live forever" would have bern a better title

[@bttrflygal]

Yes

[@Williamadlam1]

@@RobMacKendrick interesting songs of the 70s

[@Knightshade08]

It's always interesting to see younger generations (we did it too) try to relate to older generation stuff out of context and with their current frame of reference. Growing up, I liked all of these songs, and still do. This is the clear example of why people of one generation tend to disparage songs of another.

[@johntapp1411]

On the contrary-at least in the case of older songs. I have listened to songs I’ve loved as far back as the 1920s, and as far North as the 1990s. Any further up, and I am plain lost.

[@Black_Sun_Dark_Star]

I do not think this list is widely agreed. Whatever it is, these songs are still better than the trash of today

[@hairdisc]

Growing up in the 70’s pre-teen and young teen, I was very much into music. The 70’s was the most diverse decade EVER! There was Country, Pop, Soul, Easy Listening, Rock, Funk, spoken word, nostalgic, Disco and even classical. There was good and bad like every decade. Some songs I may not want to hear again, but if I do, it brings back memories. Todays music will be looked at very similar

[@andynaz5631]

And don't forget progressive rock music. Yes, King Crimson, Camel, Genesis, Pink Floyd, UK, Jethro Tull, these were played on the obscure "FM" stations in the seventies. Steely Dan even wrote a song about it in the song FM.

[@CarolShook-yg9nn]

That's what my brother says. The 70s covered all musical genres it was a mix of everything which equaled up to one awesome experience

[@stitichinsara]

Obviously you weren’t around in the 70’s!! I loved many of these songs... they were all hits! It was the time for those songs... some of the songs had such good melodies!!

[@b.k.r.doggielover5449]

I was born in 1962, and grew up listening to these songs. I loved them.

[@mrlafayette1964]

love me some Afternoon Delight

[@kansaskactusiijlk4986]

"The dust bin of history" This is nothing but more judging from history lacking millennials. Those who don't remember history are condemned... SMH

[@rays7437]

Feelings? Listen again. He says what the feelings are

[@RMDx2]

None of these songs are as annoying as the guy who narrates this video.

[@johntapp1411]

Or the cacophonous claptrap that two offshore songwriters are peddling nowadays.

[@davidmeyer1157]

Agreed...👍😁

[@unseen8513]

We get 5 seconds of the song and then he starts making as sorts of comments about it. What is strange is I hears some of these still being played on an oldies station here. Yeah not Disco Duck but a few of the others.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

As far as I can tell, the guy just hates yacht rock.

[@johntapp1411]

@@ernststravoblofeld I’m not a fan, but hey-more thought was put into those songs than the toxic goo out on the market.

[@outsider238]

The problem with this video is that the people who made it weren't around in that era to understand the fun of it all. They're just looking at it 40 years later with no idea how much fun a lot of that actually was. If you didn't live it, you don't get it.

[@raoularmagnac2037]

I totally, completely agree! 👌👍

[@bttrflygal]

Yes ..

[@chocodiledundee1]

Absolutely right .... the wave frequency back then obviously was totally different than now , I was born in the 70’s I do know exactly what you mean

[@bttrflygal]

There were several genres all ai once in the 70s am stations. Was a teen at that time

[@toddkurzbard]

This right here. (And I WAS around then and remember these).

[@kennethmimbs4932]

Worst song ever was from the 90s ACKY BREAKY HEART

[@paul16451]

Yep...even Billy Ray said the same...and Weird Al's take on it was absolutely brilliant.

[@PabloCruise1]

You’re wrong.

[@johnaverick7468]

Your right THERE, Thats the dumbest sounding damn song !

[@donnaleeclubb119]

They did have that song "Swingin" too. LOL. But you are getting into Country Music, which I LOVE, but some of it is not too deep. LOL.

[@charlesaguilar1708]

I Never liked " Billy,don't be a Hero". Sounded so Stupid to me!

[@dudanunesbleff]

Feelings was a big hit. People didn't hate it. Were you alive on the 70's? I was a child then, but can remember that people didn't hate these tunes.

[@Coowallsky]

Nick is proud of his provincial taste in music.

[@sparklecanada0112]

Terrible...and Hated...is Subjective To Each Person...Not Conclusive. "One Person's Garbage is Another Person's Treasure". How about do the era some justice and respect. F. Y.I. "You're Sixteen" is a Remake of a Johnny Burnette song from the 1960's. Not a Pedophile's Chant. Do Better Research or Refrain From Commenting.

[@rodneybrowne2932]

his wokeness is coming out

[@barryinglett7034]

He makes the comment that Feelings doesn’t explain why the singer is upset even though he says”Feelings, for all my life I’ll feel it. I wish I never left you girl,You’ll never come again”. How descriptive does it need to be for him to understand that the song is about a person that lost the woman he loved. The same thing is the basis of the Scott English song”Brandy” which was released in the U.S. by Barry Manilow as”Mandy”. I never heard him or anyone else say that it was supposed to be so bad!🤷🏻‍♂️🐻

[@barryinglett7034]

As far as “You’re Sixteen” goes. Did he expect it to be sung by a 16 year old boy for it to be acceptable? I guess that Neal Sedaka must have been being a adulterous man since he had the hit “Happy Birthday,Sweet 16”.🤷🏻‍♂️🐻

[@51cadet]

You are absolutely right. Although I may agree with many of the selections being "terrible" those songs would not have made it to the airwaves without a following and those folks are going to be offended by this video. Let's be real, this video is insulting some people's tastes. I did grow up in the '70s but the bands I liked then were no pop bands so they were never this bad. I think the corniest thing a band I liked did was "Private Eye" by Hall and Oates, but they didn't do that until the early '80s. By then, I was much more into Jazz. You are also right that Johnny Burnette wrote and released "You're Sixteen" in the '60s. 1960 to be exact when Burnette was at the inappropriate age of 26. Ringo Starr covered it in 1973 at the age of 33 then again on a tour in 1990 at the age of 50. This song shouldn't be performed by anyone out of high school...but that's just my opinion.

[@laustcawz2089]

@@51cadet 16 is (& has long been) the age of consent in the U.K.

[@joemcmillan2089]

The most cringe worthy part was your review of songs that were enjoyed by many. I'll be missing your future posts.

[@patriciatardugno4463]

"Billy Don't Be A Hero", was a good warning song. By the time it came out, about 1974, we were in Vietnam WAY TOO LONG! THE SLAUGHTER OF AN ENTIRE GENERATION WAS TOO BLATANTLY WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER!

[@nicoleknight9412]

In 1971, Walter Cronkite called the war in Viet Nam "a lost cause, and suggested the U.S. get out. That upset a lot of people, but he simply said out loud what many people were just merely thinking

[@su-rv2uq]

Not to mention that we never should have been there in the first place.

[@michelleobrien8036]

Those of us that were in combat over there wished we had this kind of warning before we went. But when you're drafted you don't have a choice.

[@michelleobrien8036]

@@nicoleknight9412 thousands, if not millions, protested in the streets decrying our involvement in that war. And Woodstock in the Summer of 69 was an anti-war weekend of peace and love and rock and roll.

[@nicoleknight9412]

@@michelleobrien8036 Then there was the Kent State massacre in 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen went on the campus and opened fire on students protesting the war, outraging the nation. By the way, thank you for your service. You fought in a very unpopular war, and you vets did not deserve the disrespect you got, even though I myself was against it .

[@delavalmilker]

Generally agree with this list. However claiming Ringo Starr's "Sweet Sixteen" is about pedophilia is really a stretch.