You Loved That Song!
Years later, Baby Boomers are a bunch of hypocrites
No one my age, or any other age for that matter, will admit to loving the song “You Light Up My Life” sung by Debbie Boone. You are all liars. While you are making fun of it, and denying ever listening to it, would you mind explaining to me how it spent 10 weeks at Number One; a record not beaten until 1991?
I once interviewed, by phone, for a radio show I hosted, Pat Boone. I confessed to him that I was in love with his daughter when I was a young teen. He laughed and said, “You and every other adolescent boy in the country.”
So why does this song show up in Rolling Stone as Number 4 on their list of “The Ten Worst Songs Of The 1970s”? I’ll tell you why. Because you’re all liars. You won’t admit that in between listening to The Doors and Led Zeppelin, you knew every word to “Afternoon Delight”!
Charlatans! Stand up and admit it, Baby Boomers. In some polls I read, “Afternoon Delight” appeared as the worst song ever. What a crock of shit. In the same Rolling Stone poll it appears as Number Two. I’m calling that bullshit. I’d go see the Starland Vocal Band today, if they weren’t divorced (yes, they were two married couples) and hated each other. Not the point!
Baby Boomers are the coolest generation ever. We need to apologize to no one.
Okay, so there was the song, “Feelings.” I think we should apologize for that. I hated it when it came out in 1975, and I cringe when I hear it today. I’m not saying we were perfect. Fortunately, in 1998, The Offspring corrected Morris Alberts’ mistake.
But, “Billy Don’t Be A Hero” was as much an anti-war song as anything CSNY ever recorded. A sympathetic tear comes to my eye as I sit here thinking that Billy never came back to make her his wife. He couldn’t keep his pretty head low, the stupid sonuvabitch. Number Eight on the list? I beg to differ.
Own up. We loved those songs then, and we love them now. You don’t have to lock yourself in your room and turn the lights out to listen to these greats. These are your songs. These are great songs. They make us happy, and there’s a reason we know every goddam word; because they are great songs. The so-called worst songs of the Seventies are better than the best songs of the current generation.
Got any other suggestions of great songs that are dissed now? Put them in the comment section at the bottom of this page. It’s time to fight back.
K-Tel FOREVER!!
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