ITT: Songs We Can't Belive Were Hits

I'm not using YT because I blocked her channel

http://www.vevo.com/watch/taylor-swift/bad-blood/USCJY1531563

This was a Top 10 hit in the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqXnC4Wk5bs

>>60281561
wut

>>60281038
I remember i heard this for the first time and i was fucking blown away. Then i listened to it years later and thought it was shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPgaz3Re0ik
Literally a top 40 hit in the US

>>60283410
Weird. I just had the same exact reaction.

>>60281533
Because of le irony and people spreading something because they thought it was funny.
The very same people then wonder how it was a hit, not realizing they were the fucking reason for that.

>>60281561
Was it? It's great non the less, also the video is ace.

>>60283410
As far as avant-garde goes it's pretty uninteresting desu

>>60283957
it gives me goosebumps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMGUmADYlYE
It was their biggest hit. I really do love this song.

>>60281561
It's like the Slug and Lettuce never closed and became flats

>>60284020
Was about to post this. I first heard it when I was about 7 from my Dad and I credit it with opening up the world of music to me. The whole album is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8DCS1JKbI

great song, but it was a little too dissonant and non-catchy to be a radio hit, no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PAzqBUNlCs

>>60281561
Definitely a weird song to be a hit. Nonsensical vocals, afrobeat rythyms, noisey guitar. Good tune though.

>>60281556
Seriously, what the fuck is this song? Why does it get praise but Weezer's Make Believe gets shit? They commit the same crimes! The difference is Rivers always has conviction in what he sings/plays.

>>60286363
people think that going from country pop to synthpop is a "mature artistic evolution"

>>60286414
It's not good Synthpop though. 'Cause I'm A Man should be Top 40 in a fair world.

>>60283823
And because of that we later got songs like "Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass Ass"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9drIwmmU4

>>60281038
that's actually really fucking cool. weird that it was a hit, anyways.

>>60283957
the rest of the album is better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjERnmcjbAE
this went to no. 1 in the uk

>>60287551
totally deserving desu

>>60287525
if you think the album is anything other than a compilation you are retarded

http://youtu.be/VcDy8HEg1QY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg
>>60288825
I fucking hate that song, what were those assholes thinking? Were they trying to ripoff primus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6j4f8cHBIM

>>60286289
Postpunk was a big thing in England in the seventies, this is a pretty blatant throwback to a lot of that stuff with more "modern" glossy production and catchy vocals. That's still a pretty brutal guitar for a hit song though

>>60284020
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMGUmADYlYE
yeah, amazing song desu senpai.