Songs You Dislike From Your Birth Year

I dislike this mostly because it was the #1 song in America on the day I was born and hogged the top spot for several weeks, keeping far superior hits like "Baby-Baby-Baby" and "Sometime Love Just Ain't Enough" from getting to #1. That said, however, this is undoubtedly one of the most boring, lame, and unconvincing breakup ballads ever recorded. The production isn't smooth, the lyrics are hackneyed, the narrator makes an incredibly feeble plea for forgiveness, and the tune itself is dull sludge. It almost feels like being attached to an Eddie Murphy movie alone was enough to catapult a single to massive success from the mid-80s to the late 90s.


This is pretty much a grand tour of why I just can't get that much into the early 90s for music. It feels like an amateur composed this, what with its ineffectually peppy vocal performance, repetitive production, and dumb lyrical premise.


Political consciousness was quite obviously well out of Extreme's league. It's bad enough this song drags on far longer than it needs to, but it also has easily some of the most inept lyrics of any save-the-world rock song, and matters certainly aren't helped by the track's incongruous melody, which clearly belongs in a hedonistic party jam, not a solemn political statement. The chorus is just pathetic, too. I do still prefer this over Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson's "Scream," but that's only because I prefer stompin' glam rock over dry noise.


I'm certainly not a fan of Vanilla Ice, but is "Ice Ice Baby" really as annoying as this ridiculous catastrophe of a novelty hit?


A completely reprehensible crap-fest supposedly about murdering gay men. The lousy, useless beat certainly doesn't help matters, either. Though this was luckily not a hit in America, Mad Cobra's "Flex," which uses the same production, did become a pretty sizable hit and is also pretty bad, but fortunately not offensive (although Mad Cobra himself is also maliciously homophobic).