The Beach Boys' 1988 hit "Kokomo," about a nonexistent Caribbean island the band members want to visit in their dreams, is one of the most insidious earworms of all time. You'll have that song in your head for the rest of the day after reading this article: you're welcome.
It's not just an earworm, however, as 23.27% of respondents agree that it's the worst song of the 1980s.
Writing in Mel, critic Tim Grierson didn't hold back on how much he hates the song.
"There's one Beach Boys smash that's such an abomination it doesn't deserve to be remembered alongside the group's classics. I'm talking, of course, about 'Kokomo,' that ungodly piece of sh*t," he wrote.
Coming in at a very close second (21.92%) was David Bowie and Mick Jagger's ill-fated collaboration that produced the stinker "Dancing in the Street." In third place (19.37%) was Europe's "The Final Countdown," its illustrious keyboard intro notwithstanding. Soft Cell's synth-heavy re-imagining of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love" came in fourth (18.47%). And the least badly hated '80s song, according to the poll, was Starship's "We Built This City" (16.97%).
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