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Friginator
May 13, 2014

by zen death robot
"Wild Thing" by the Troggs. Yeah, everyone remembers it and it's actually pretty enjoyable for what it is, but it's just so loving lazy. There's a total of one rhyme ("Thing"/"Sing"--okay, one and a half if you count "everyTHING") and it's basically just a few riffs reworked from "Louie Louie" (which every rock band in the world was playing their version of when "Wild Thing" was recorded), and oh..they didn't write it. It's a cover of a song by a band called the Wild Ones. And it only reached #1 because two competing companies had pressed copies and both wanted their version to sell.


Is there a song that even comes close to rivaling the sheer lack of effort the Troggs put into this song? This is really important you guys!

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Jack-in-the-Bach
Oct 15, 2005

All the songs that never got made probably

Friginator
May 13, 2014

by zen death robot
No, I mean ones that got to #1.

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
Laffy Taffy by D4L

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Friginator posted:

No, I mean ones that got to #1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLagAgoPCE

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

edison's first album "hey i just invented the gramophone so i guess im at #1. suck the poo poo out of my rear end in a top hat ft. Westinghouse"

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Actually, did any of the Vengaboys songs reach #1 - those were always the worst

EDIT: yep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom,_Boom,_Boom,_Boom!!

quote:

"Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" is a song by the Dutch Eurodance group Vengaboys. It was released in June 1999 as a single. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart on 26 June 1999.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyiQ4I-mcQ

DONKEY SALAMI
Jun 28, 2008

donkey? donkey?

came here expecting an insightful retrospective of tone loc


so disappointed in the op

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I'm going to go with La Bamba. That poo poo isn't even in english. wtf, you lazy fucks?!

client
Aug 19, 2010

im not sure if this is the laziest but it's definitely the most out of left field

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo

7 goddamn weeks at number 1

PinkoBastard
Oct 3, 2010

Song unironically owns

Pure Blaxplotiation
Jan 19, 2009
Surfin Bird reached number 4 and it has like 5 words in the whole song.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

What? No of course it's not a rip off of David Bowie's Under Pressure.

This is dun dun dun de da dun du ish.

Not dun dun dun de da dun dun ding ding!

dads_work_files
May 14, 2008

important_document.avi

The flute solo is quality though

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Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
All music is stupid when you get down to it. Bunch of sounds strung together that makes a bunch of dumb hairless apes enjoy themselves and jump around. :sad:

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