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Bruce the Duck @ Aug 20 2006, 06:04 PM wrote: I think everyone can agree that the more you are familiar with and enjoy the original songs, the more you'll like the polka medley. That's probably why I don't much care for AWBP. There are only two songs on there that I like. The rest are either songs that I never heard of before the polka or songs that are...crap.

Which is why "Polka Power!" is one of my least favorite polkas, if not my least favorite polka. I can count the number of songs in that one which I like on one hand.

Yeah, "Polka Power!" doesn't have many songs that I really like on it, but it does have plenty of songs that I was familiar with at the time the album came out. And several that I wouldn't admit to liking in public.

Bruce the Duck @ Aug 20 2006, 07:04 PM wrote: BTW, anth, you do realize that in an earlier post you claimed that "Bohemian Polka" was your favorite, right?

I saw that earlier and was hoping nobody would point it out. That was the young, stupid me who posted that.

ITA that the more songs you like in a polka medley, the better it is. And that's one of the things that works to PYEO's disadvantage to me. More than any other polka, it's stuffed with a bunch of one-hit wonder songs. I wasn't really into music when it came out (being three and all) and only a handful of the artists ever did anything else of note, so a lot of those songs are long-forgotten. But I'm more familiar with the songs featured in all of the later polkas (although other than BP, TAP is the only one where I actually like all of the music) and all of the previous polkas.

How dare you call Vanilla Ice a "one-hit wonder!" Tis an outrage! Didn't you see "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze?"



You're right, they're mostly one-hit wonders, with the exception of R.E.M., B-52s, Warrant, Metallica, Billy Idol, Motley Crue, Bel Biv Devoe, and Janet Jackson. Okay, so only LESS THAN HALF of the songs were one-hit wonders, but still.

But even witht he one hit wonders, I loved those songs growing up, and I was especially familiar with "Unbelievable," "I Touch Myself," and "The Humpty Dance," having heard them countless times at Bar Mitzvahs that year.

Bruce the Duck @ Aug 20 2006, 08:49 PM wrote: You're right, they're mostly one-hit wonders, with the exception of R.E.M., B-52s, Warrant, Metallica, Billy Idol, Motley Crue, Bel Biv Devoe, and Janet Jackson. Okay, so only LESS THAN HALF of the songs were one-hit wonders, but still.

What other hits did Bell Biv Davoe have?

I know this does not really count but I really like Who Stole the Kishka a lot

Bel Biv DeVoe had a song called "Poison" that I actually kinda liked. It was a hit.

Thank you, Patti!

I love all of the polkas, really - my least favorite is probably Angry White Boy. According to my play counts, I've listened to Polka Your Eyes Out one hundred and three times, meep. But I looove The Hot Rocks Polkas :)

algonacchick @ Aug 20 2006, 10:58 PM wrote: Bel Biv DeVoe had a song called "Poison" that I actually kinda liked. It was a hit.

Thanks... the only song by them that I knew was the one included in the polka, and that was only because it was in the polka.