The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 1987
A musical retrospective of the worst pop songs of the year 1987
A musical retrospective of the worst pop songs of the year 1987
@laurels4811
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
Ok, I generally hate these "worst of" complications… but this one? Yeah, man, you're right…these all suck.
@milesbaillie1011
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
The difference between 80s Chicago and 60s/70s Chicago is night and day lmao. It's actually wild
@koalaandthekholes
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
How dare you talk bad about funky town
@stone670ad
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
All these tunes are actually awesome
@C_Train74
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
You are totally right about “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”
@tedjones6174
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
No, man. I'd really like to know how we got from early Chicago to "Shitcago" as you say. Really wish you'd do that video. But I'd forgive you for not wanting too listen to that much Chicago.
@BubblegumDolphin
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
The disrespect for Alien Ant Farm's 'Movies'
@commercialairliner
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
Yeah, ngl, Shake You Down is legitimately a banger
@scottmattern3437
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
I am a total music expert. I’ve never even heard of this Abbot guy. Ever. Today is first time ever hearing that name
@felipechalreo
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
Todd loves Chicago
@Qrqyt
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
The year I discovered punk
@OffRampTourist
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
I was there and it was really this bad. Some areas had one good (usually college) station and that was the only place to hear the good stuff.
@parascryptor
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
20:13 I've been looking for this song for months. I didn't expect to find it this way
@boredincan
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
I'm not a fan of Pseudo Echo, but they have plenty of claims to fame. Their last album release was in 2020
@ferrous__bueller
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
That Lisa Lisa take is the most off point thing I may have ever heard from Todd. How do you not like “Need You Tonight”?
@Rileyposting
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
i just realised ive been absentmindedly singing europe's carrie as gary until now. what the fuck.
@JJ-fg2wd
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
Gregory Abbott wants to meet that dad!
@STNeish
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 pm
My last year of high school.
@joeyjoejoe1394
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
I’m hoping whenever Todd does that Bruce Willis (or “Bruno”) song on OHW he pretends Willis wasn’t already famous until the “did he ever do anything else?” card
@EarlFaulk
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Kenny gs song bird was frigging everywhere on the radio back then
@Cool70sfreak
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Google auto captions at 23:48 are hilarious
"I WISH TO THE HILLS IT CUT A FRIGGING CHEEK"
@IfWeShadows
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Genesis and Kenny G on this list is sacrilege.
@smellson213
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
this what they were bumping in fnaf 💔💔
@KyoKusanagi-ep3kp
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
On the Invisible Touch album Tonight Tonight Tonight is almost 9 minutes long and is a very beautiful, glowing piece of neon drenched synth rock ambience with a fantastic ethereal instrumental section in the middle. Tony Banks getting all floaty sounds out of his Emulator 2 and Phil Collins bashing these percussive sounds out of his Simmonds electronic drum pads.
On the Live At Wembley Stadium concert film it’s one of the highlights of the set – very atmospheric and powerful it’s an absolute monster of a live track especially in 5.1
However that radio edit they did as a single I just cannot listen to it. I dunno how they took a 9 minute song and got it to 4 mins or whatever. But it went to number 3 in the US so I’m sure the band weren’t complaining.
@Illustraful
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Top 10 worst songs of 87 but you don't include I Just Can't Stop Loving You by Jacko?
@Illustraful
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Oh no, you did not diss Tonight Tonight Tonight! That is epic awesomeness!
@Hammerhead547
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Fun Fact:
At the time kenny g wss romantically involved with one of the actresses on Dallas.
After the show ended, she became involved in managing his career and produced his grammy winning live vhs in the early 90's.
@1998_MIN
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Also I have really come to like smooth jazz and even that really dated Yamaha keyboard preset, mostly because that kind of stuff makes up the stock music that Jon Bois uses in his videos, so I have positive associations with it.
@1998_MIN
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
I know they take a lot of effort and they're not really in line with the more balanced and historical angle Todd does now, but I would be so down for a new "Worst songs of (former year)" video. The writing would be so much better
@squidcaps4308
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
The Glenn Medeiros song…. it is one of the most syrupy songs ever made. You hear that chorus once and think "wow, this is a great song, a bit cheesy but really well produced pop ballad". Then you hear that chorus again.. and again… and again.. it REALLY milks those few bars that should be in a much better song and used more sparingly but boy… it really has only one good idea and they beat it to death until it comes torture, and i'm only half joking as i think it is a song that could be used for actual torture. It goes on and on and you hate yourself for humming along, it getting stuck in your head as incomplete melody that it really is. If they had used that line ONCE and figured out a followup, made a nice little acoustic homely ballad.. there are elements for actually good song, produced by someone with more taste and less dollar signs in their eyes.
@el-kiote
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
6:10
@jmckenzie962
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
In 2025, Glenn Medeiros' daughter Lyric (yes that is her legal name, mf named his kids "Lyric" and "Chord" smh) is a TikToker who constantly loves to remind everyone that her dad was a "teen heartthrob" in the 80's
@TheDealer1228
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Ain’t no way he put Lisa Lisa on this list 😩
@johnjamele
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
The worst songs of 1987 are vastly better than the sludge polluting the top 10 in 2025.
@jeromelancashire3278
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
23:29 THAT'S A CLARINET!
@richardmccaughey5928
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Thank god! I thought I was the only one who couldn't stand Chicago.
@Douglas.Scott.McCarron
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Just to clean the palette
https://youtu.be/7uAUoz7jimg?si=5E50WvcsoHre03Ff
@Mara_380
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
I love how last auto-generated chapters are titled "This City" "This Guy" "Hate This" "Screw This"
@rjjcms1
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
How indeed did Jefferson Airplane/Starship go from Somebody to Love the hippy-trippy craziness of White Rabbit in the late 60s to the blandfest that was 1987's Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now? Especially as they opened the 80s (as Jefferson Starship) with the tremendous Jane – admittedly not Grace Slick singing on that one,but a powerful rock vocal on a firecracker of a track nonetheless.
@rjjcms1
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
The Final Countdown got to number 1 in the UK just before Christmas 1986,after which they had a second hit with Rock the Night in very early 1987. Was that one a hit in the US too? Then came the mush that was Carrie,which only got to number 22 here and passed me by.
@rjjcms1
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
When I hear the expression soft rock I think of something like the Eagles or many of those groups from the mid-70s. I would call most of the ones in this video 80s ballads and power ballads rather than soft rock.
@josephrowe849
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
For that band with Grace and Marty, I honestly loved their Jefferson Starship era stuff (Jane, Find Your Way Back, Be My Lady, No Way Out and Layin' It On The Line). Jefferson Airplane, I only liked Somebody to Love but didn't care for Whit Rabbit (too trippy) As Starship… We Built This City had a killer sound but they lyrics were total shit. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now was a lot better since the lyrics weren't nearly as ridiculous and the sound was a little better as well.
@microfrogyt
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Am I weird because I don't hate Kenny G? Like, if he popped up on Spotify I'd listen to a song, but I wouldn't actively go out and listen to his music.
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