Most awesomely bad metal song

Just watched the end of VH1’s Most Awesomely Bad Metal Songs … Ever. And the winner was … yes! The Final Countdown, by my compatriots Europe.

You can already hear that damned synthesizer riff, can’t you? Dah-dah-DAH-DAH! And now it will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Sorry about that.

Watching the show did bring back a lot of atrocious 80s poodle metal I had successfully managed to repress. Including Winger. Remember Winger? Shudder