I was surprised to discover on the "worst song" thread that the song "Afternoon Delight" usually scores high on worst song lists.

That made me wonder...is it really that bad? I didn't think so, from what I remembered, so I have looked it up and listened to it carefully, and with a critical ear.

I can now say simply to all those people who think it's one of the worst songs ever...Ha! You must be joking. You must have fallen and busted your ear or something. Or maybe you are just jumping on the bandwagon with other people who have a tin ear...?

Musically it is downright superb. Terrific tune, great chord changes and neat rythmic stuff happening, good instrumentation, great harmonizing vocals...hell, this song is an almost perfect popular songs in the musical sense. It could hardly be better.

As for the lyrics, they are perfectly all right. Nothing to complain about there. What is wrong with some people in the glorious days of their youthful 20's writing a song about the joys of making love in the afternoon? And it's done tastefully too...a very upbeat, enthusiastic, friendly song.

It's not corny. It isn't badly written. It isn't poorly performed. There is frickin' NOTHING wrong with the song "Afternoon Delight" except that you probably heard it on the radio too many times between 1976 and whenever...and you got sick of it merely because of repetition. Or you heard someone else say "it sucks" and jumped on the bandwagon.

When there are so many abysmal, wretchedly badly written songs out there...stuff like "Billy, Don't Be A Hero", for god's sake, or "My Baby Does The Hanky-Panky", there is no reason on earth to go after a very well written and played song like this one just because you figure you heard it once too often.

So there ya go. That song won awards and got a lot of airplay. You know why? Cos it's damn good, that's why. Most people only wish they could write an arrangement that good.