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Manilow and now this?
I'm riding on the roof, I swear.

 

Barry Manilow is not cheesy. Sappy maybe. But cheesy definitely not.
How can you call classics like Copacabana, Can't Smile Without You, and It's a Miracle cheesy?

 

Hall and Oates cheesy? I think not. I own all their stuff and thought these guys were way above the cheese ratings.

 

Because they blow innumerable herds of goats?

 

Well, hold on tight. It's going to get bumpy.

"Cheesy" songs from my iTunes, with number of listens.

"Always" Atlantic Starr, 18
The entire Backstreet Boys catalog, countless
"When I See You Smile" Bad English, 22
"Into The Night" Benny Mardones, 10
"Butterfly Kisses" Bob Carlisle, 15
"Waiting For A Star To Fall" Boy Meets Girl, 17
"Lady In Red" Chris DeBurgh, 10
"Sometimes When We Touch" Dan Hill, 27
"More Than Words" Extreme, 13
"Don't Stop Believin'" Journey, 3
"Faithfully" Journey, 2
"What About Me" Moving Pictures, 18
"To Be With You" Mr. Big, 22
"Against All Odds" Phil Collins, 34
All of Richard Marx's cheese, like 45 total listens
"Oh Sherry" Steve Perry, 7
"Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" Stevie B, 25

 

To put Dan Hill on this list is crazy...but then again, I always hated people at dances who slowdanced to this while making out....just loathed them,.....

 

Oh. My. Fucking. God.
I'd need a HazMat suit and a respirator before I'd hit "Play."

 

Bad English, IJAG? Really?

Wow. And let me say that backwards.

Wow.

 

Oh God, "To Be With You", what an absolute piece of shit.

But I like "Oh Sherry" ("I should have been goooonnnneeee") and don't mind "Against All Odds".

 

You have to be kidding about "Oh Sherry". Anything that Steve Perry lays his voice pipes to is deadly. He should be banned from singing....

 

A glaring omission on the list and this thread is REO Speedwagon's "Keep on Lovin' You". Ow--painful. The true Everest of cheesy pop singles, especially considering from whence this band came in the Golden Country/157 Riverside Avenue realm.
Some people are sentenced to eternity in hell for horrible, heinous acts; Kevin Cronin got his ticket stamped for writing this song.

Agree with the list on "Every Rose has its Thorn". What's worse than a below average hair metal band? One that sings a schlockily written tune with lyrics that could have been carved out by any decent first grader in 10 minutes between lunch and recess.

I don't really know their songs (really, I don't), but Air Supply could fill a bin in the Rock and Roll -- Cheese category.

And Peter Cetera's entire post Chicago career was cheeze/schlock city. That's what you get for leaving a good band behind, Peter, you fucker. I do not celebrate any of the man's catalog.

 

You rip Steve Perry but like Peter Cetera? Kee-rist....