If a musical based on ABBA songs just wasn’t bad enough for your taste …

UncleScoopy

You’re gonna love Muskrat Love, the musical.

If “Muskrat Love: A Celebration of the Songs We Hate to Love” ever goes on the road, I will buy a ticket!

I was disappointed that they failed to include: “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo,” “Feelings,” and of course my all-time favorite, “Seasons in the Sun.”

10 thoughts on “If a musical based on ABBA songs just wasn’t bad enough for your taste …”

  1. My first thought when I read “Muskrat Love” was a bad song was “No I like that song.” Then I listened to it on YouTube and realized 2 things. First that song really sucks and second I had been thinking of “Radar Love” when I thought I liked it. Honestly, I have absolutely no memory of ever having heard Muskrat Love before. I grew up in the 70’s (born in 68) so I must have heard it before. But I couldn’t have heard it very often. But another reason may be that the song hasn’t been used much if at all in movies, TV shows or commercials. But regardless, now that I have listened to it, I will do my best to never listen to it again.

    1. “Billy Don’t Be a Hero,” “You’re Having My Baby,” and “Seasons in the Sun” all hail from 1974, which seems to be the nadir year for schlocky songs like these; you could also add “The Night Chicago Died,” “Sunshine on My Shoulders,” “Please Come to Boston,” “Angie Baby,” Spiders and Snakes,” and “My Melody of Love,” just to pick six rotten apples from from a very large barrel. (Some might add Blue Swede’s version of “Hooked on a Feeling,” but not me; it’s certainly more fun to listen to than the older B. J. Thomas version.
      I’m sticking with my original choice, “I’ve Never Been to Me,” as the crappiest hit song ever, with dishonorable mention going to Red Sovine’s “Teddy Bear” (if you can even call that a song).

      1. Well, as they say in Poland, “MOJA DROGA JA CIĘ KOCHAM.”

        Boy, that was a bad song, even by Bobby Vinton’s standards.

    2. I always thought in “Billy” that the truly sad part was when the girl singing it *didn’t* die, preferably mid-syllable.

  4. A lot of this new crap (which to be fair, does keep guys in the gym locker room moving it along to get the hell out) isn’t even as foul as the old crap. I have a special place in the heart of my bottom for “Torn Between Two Lovers”.

  5. For the life of me, I don’t understand why Charlene’s “I’ve Never Been to Me” doesn’t enter the worst-song debate more often.

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