![]() ![]() I haven’t decided which was worse, this or “Nikita”. One of my least favorite Elton John tunes. I think I would rather rock out to some “Chariots of Fire”. I do like a lot of Easy Listening music – in small doses – but I really can’t make it through this whole song. So I guess I’m supposed to love it, but what can I say? 2. The song also won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture, which proves my point. It was alright, but I think I will punish it for being associated with one of the most boring and overrated movies of all time. I can’t change the station fast enough when it comes on the radio. This song is a little to slow for me, but not slow enough to be a good ballad. I’ve heard this song more in the past couple of years than I did during the entire ’80s decade! And it’s not even on my iPod! This may not have made the list if it were not so overplayed. This is one of the most overplayed ’80s songs out there. The only exception is “With Heaven On Our Side”. I definitely prefer their rock songs, such as “Juke Box Hero”, “Long, Long Way From Home”, and “Feels Liek the First Time”. People tend to trash “I Want to Know What Love Is”, but at least that song has a choir to lift things up a little. I love Foreigner, but this is one of my least favorite songs by them. Here is my top 5 (or worst 5) of Horrible songs from that year. You can see the top 100 hits from Billboard that year. Hooked On America – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Waiting on a Friend – The Rolling StonesĢ. Even the Nights Are Better – Air SupplyĤ. Waiting for a Girl Like You – Foreignerħ. Ebony and Ivory – Paul McCartney and Stevie WonderĨ. On March 13, 2009, Stuck in the 80s released their Horrible Hits of 1982 Podcast (Episode 159). ![]() Joan Jett is a pioneer and icon who is still rocking today! However, this is one of Jett’s signature songs, and had a bit of a resurgence as it was the theme song of the incredible television show Freaks and Geeks, which ran for only one season, from 1999-2000. This is unsurprising as Joan Jett was ahead if her time. This anthem for any punk, freak, or misfit, only charted moderately upon release (however, it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Japan Hot 100). The song was definitely autobiographical.” They weren’t supposed to play instruments. They were supposed to be dainty, wear dresses. ![]() When she was singing those lyrics, it was radical because there were no girls doing anything other than what they were supposed to do, they were all supposed to be like the girl groups. Her co-writer Kenny Laguna told us: “‘I don’t give a damn about my reputation, it’s a new generation,’ that was the whole thing, a girl could do what she wants to do. This song made a very bold statement, establishing Jett as an independent-minded rocker with no concern for traditional gender roles in rock. “Because what people were saying to me was I had a bad reputation because I played an electric guitar and I had black hair and a leather jacket, and maybe I swore… So I turned around the meaning of it, and I’m proud of my bad reputation.” “I always wore it as a badge of honor,” she said. Speaking with Rolling Stone in 2022, Jett talked about her bad reputation. One day Joan said something and I said, ‘You shouldn’t do this.’ I was trying to give her the advice of an old man, but she was a teenager at the time, and she says, ‘Look, I don’t care about my bad reputation.’ I said, ‘Whoa, there’s the song.'” It was so frustrating, we thought we should write a song about it. In a Songfacts interview with Laguna, he said: “It’s about Joan having been kind of a wild woman in The Runaways, and us trying to make a record deal, going around having people say, ‘No, she’s too crazy, like the punks and nazis.’ Joan had this bad reputation, no label would sign her – that’s why we own the records. ![]() Joan Jett wrote this song with Kenny Laguna, who produced the album and helped her establish a solo career after her group, The Runaways, broke up. In honor of Joan Jett’s birthday today, the song of the day is “Bad Reputation”. ![]()
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