Worst Song Ever

[NickNTime]

After days of thinking about the worst song ever I too came up with Starship. We built this city


Makes my skin crawl.

A notoriously bad song from a terrible band.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

I'm a bit embarrassed that there are a few songs posted that I still really like!

The OP contained one of the songs that I consider to be a real stinker but, generally, I can find something redeeming in a lot of the music you've discussed. Its situational.

This one, though, gives me a bad feeling.

That is hive-producing. It's hasn't crossed over into "so bad it's good," but I think it's somewhere in the neighborhood of "so wretched you have to respect it's wretchedness."

I think there are heaps of songs like that and some of the ones on here I do like. I have quite a few that I would never admit to publicly liking but if I hear them I just have to sing and dance along to it. Barbie Girl by Aqua springs to mind

This is why power windows were made: stop lights, when one is enjoying a heinous tune.

Holly crap, are you serious. That white boy who translate black music for teen girls, pretty much by being white dude. Dude, not pretentious at all, and plodding, well considering blacks had been playing ragtime for over a hundred years before his day, and African drums for pretty much the beginning of modern man, yes, plodding too.

You know, kinda how blondie had the first #1 rap song, and beasty boys had the first #1 rap album.

Waaaaaaait juuuuust a minute. We ARE talking about the man cited as a primary influence by noted musical hacks the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Bob Dylan, Springsteen and Elvis Costello, right? Despite a career that only lasted a year and a half? The first significant rock musician to write, arrange AND perform his own music? The guy of whom Keith Richards said, "Listen to any new release. Buddy's in there." THAT Buddy Holly?

I slap your cheek with my horn-rimmed glasses, sir, and invite you to a duel at dawn on the killing fields of Clovis, New Mexico!

Peggy Sue with ripsnorting intro and evening gowns.

Peggy Sue, on Ed Sullivan.

Oh boy!

Rave on.

Maybe Baby.


I hear Western swing, I hear blues, I hear making out in a 1958 Chevy Impala at a drive-in in Lubbock, Texas, and I hear guileless youth, but I hear no pretension.

I don't understand how the existence of other music, that influenced him, diminishes his greatness. He and Elvis didn't just do black music, they fused black music with, among other things, the "hillbilly music" and the church experiences that they'd grown up with in the rural Southern and Southwestern U.S. Is it unfair that black artists didn't have access to the same avenues of commercial success? Yes, and white audiences were cheated out of a lot of great music as well.

The Blondie thing is yes, ridiculous. But then again, if you go back through the Grammys, some egregious stuff has happened. Best New Artist of 1979? A Taste of Honey. Over Elvis Costello.

Americans synthesize stuff, it's what happens when you have the cultural jambalaya we do exploitation and all, demonstrated as much prior to our experiment pretty much only by the OG of multiculturalism, India, and to radically different conclusions.


And Americans aren't alone. Culture goes back and forth over all kinds of ponds.

Is it OK that one of the most interesting hip hop artists or at least the guy gifted with some of the best flow, I think, is francophone African and French, (Solaar) or does Gil Scott Heron have a lawsuit from beyond the grave, since he kind of invented the genre.

Yes, this.

And I don't think our motto should be, "Out of many, one." I think it should be, "Out of many, cool new stuff."

Yar, but I was pointing out how the eagles are no more pretentious and/or plodding than buddy holly was.

And I think buddy did little to no synthesizing, sure they had a style, but it was not unique, he was simply the only one getting away with it above ground. Not to mention he was a one trick pony.

Check out Johnny Otis, a white dude, hat several hits in 51, but rejected white people in favor of black. So it was the R&B charts for him.

http://youtu.be/qOrQTh_Cq7U

http://youtu.be/6fE1jVB0abE

Love the Johnny Otis. Thanks.

We'll just have to disagree on the Eagles and Buddy.

After days of thinking about the worst song ever I too came up with Starship. We built this city


Makes my skin crawl.

Congratulations: I think you qualify for the Olympics of this thread.

 

[mediocre]

I made the Olympics....Bugler's Dream

In honor of the upcoming Olympics, this song kinda irritates me....Worlds Greatest, R Kelly

 

[Pelagie]

That 'Moves like Jagger' song makes me feel very stabby.

 

[BonBon1976]

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (shudder)

 

[desertslave]

I'd successfully put this one out of my mind until I saw it in a collection I almost bought on Amazon (whew, near miss!)

Okay, your dog died. Was it really necessary to caterwaul this way? Srsly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Wpn3dFrEs

 

[YourCaptor]

I hear making out in a 1958 Chevy Impala at a drive-in in Lubbock, Texas, and I hear guileless youth, but I hear no pretension.

Lol, and I raise you the sound of an amp falling of the roof of a 1949 oldsmobile rocket 88 somewhere in the jim crow south, inventing distortion.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Lol, and I raise you the sound of an amp falling of the roof of a 1949 oldsmobile rocket 88 somewhere in the jim crow south, inventing distortion.

FOLD!

Damn you and your high-stakes poker.

I nominate Jet. Are you Gonna Be My Girl.

It's simple. It's hooky. It's one chord. It's HORRIBLE. It was heavy in satellite rotation last time I had a workplace and so I was battered over the head with it every day multiple times. You're probably tapping your little feet wondering what's up my butt that I can't stand this song.

Problem is it's also known as "lust for life" by Iggy pop, with all redeeming features by way of him by way of Detroit, by way of, like, before these twits were unleashed on the planet.

There is simply NO "there" there. At all.

This makes Horse with No Name into "Satisfaction."

I have no problem with derivation if you can spin it into something. I have no problem with the homage. I have no problem with the sample or the quote. But this is the boneheaded rip off in action.

I was about to say it makes MacArthur Park into Patti Smith, but I actually hate that song almost as much.

It's just so hard to hate a song that played a role in manipulating one into upgrading one's iPod.

 

[TerraMartin79]

I detest Baby by Justin Beiber. I can like some of his stuff but that song is so damn repetitive and I can't stand it.

 

[Netzach]

FOLD!

Damn you and your high-stakes poker.



It's just so hard to hate a song that played a role in manipulating one into upgrading one's iPod.

There IS that. Though the iphone ad that uses "you me and the bourgeousie" by the submarines - how did that ever get greenlit? If you actually follow up on the song ID in the kazaa "lookit how cool" you have a song that makes you not want to buy anything let alone the new iphone. I think I actually did walk everywhere and went hardly anywhere and bought nothing else the month I downloaded this and put it into rotation.

So cool it hurts posing by apple, or apple exec on the verge of postal having his/her fun?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7mC5GXLl_E&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL10BE39EDCD546565


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvt0boSRXQ&feature=autoplay&list=PL10BE39EDCD546565&playnext=2

I have no major ew sellouts hate when it comes to putting your stuff in ads. I save my rage for the companies that will just copy your shit when you say "no"anyway.

I have such glee that this song is in an ad, being someone who bought the download (even if they're sound is meh, and 15 years ago, breathy baby-voiced twee pop alert) and forgot to run to buy the iphone. Song goes in the clever-but-nothing-groundbreaking bin. Song + ad goes in one of my favorite consumer wtf moments ever list.

I think this song, without context, would be one of those songs that make me stabby, actually.

 

[Netzach]

OMG there is so much bad music pleasure in this thread.

 

[desertslave]

These aren't exactly the worst songs ever, but OMG they're deadly dull. I've caught both of them on the radio the last few days. Maybe it was because of the time, or the light, but they make me sleepy! I like John Mayer, but these tunes are like music for insomniacs. <yawn>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQtGqmi2O2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5EnGwXV_Pg

 

[lildee]

I don't really follow music, but I asked my husband what his vote would be and he said that the American comic journalist/writer Dave Barry ran a poll on this very topic a few years ago, and his readers voted something called "MacArthur Park" the worst song. Of course I've never even heard OF it, let alone heard it, but I googled it and listened to it and it is truly nauseating.

I looked up the reference on Wikipedia -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Barry's_Book_of_Bad_Songs

They list Dave Barry's six worst and I've never heard of any of them. Probably a mercy. But I also noticed that the poll was run 15 years ago, and there's a part of me thinks that's time enough for them to have come up with something even worse.

 

[cfuhrer]

FOLD!

Damn you and your high-stakes poker.



It's just so hard to hate a song that played a role in manipulating one into upgrading one's iPod.

I thank you, sir for that link; because at the bottom of the page was a Mr. Bean video that was comedic gold.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&rl=yes&v=8HhncO6w4Pc

 

[cfuhrer]

Not a fan of Journey, period.

But I hold special hate in my heart for this one. After seeing it send 20 some odd sorority girls screaming to the dance floor like teenagers. (Not that they were much older than teenagers anyway, but the screaming was really unnecessary).

http://m.youtube.com/results?gl=US&client=mv-google&hl=en&q=don't+stop+believin&submit=Search

 

[cfuhrer]

My candidate? FRIDAY!!!!

So egregiously bad I feel bad not recognizing it as amazing,

A little something to cleanse the pallet

 

[TarevaChine]

I still remember Al Gore's appalling attempt every time I do it.

*shudders* Putting that thought in my head was just mean.

This is why power windows were made: stop lights, when one is enjoying a heinous tune.

and I didn't think anyone knew what I was doing.

NOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOO, the dance steps to it. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Make it stop, please, I beg you, make it stooooopppp.

My thoughts exactly! Let us not forget the [URL="http://youtu.be/nelIsramDnI"]lovely dance[/URL] to Acky Breaky Heart.


I know they were only kids, but [URL="http://youtu.be/NHozn0YXAeE"]UGH![/URL]!

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

There IS that. Though the iphone ad that uses "you me and the bourgeousie" by the submarines - how did that ever get greenlit? If you actually follow up on the song ID in the kazaa "lookit how cool" you have a song that makes you not want to buy anything let alone the new iphone. I think I actually did walk everywhere and went hardly anywhere and bought nothing else the month I downloaded this and put it into rotation.

So cool it hurts posing by apple, or apple exec on the verge of postal having his/her fun?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7mC5GXLl_E&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL10BE39EDCD546565


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvt0boSRXQ&feature=autoplay&list=PL10BE39EDCD546565&playnext=2

I have no major ew sellouts hate when it comes to putting your stuff in ads. I save my rage for the companies that will just copy your shit when you say "no"anyway.

I have such glee that this song is in an ad, being someone who bought the download (even if they're sound is meh, and 15 years ago, breathy baby-voiced twee pop alert) and forgot to run to buy the iphone. Song goes in the clever-but-nothing-groundbreaking bin. Song + ad goes in one of my favorite consumer wtf moments ever list.

I think this song, without context, would be one of those songs that make me stabby, actually.

Maybe it was an intern.

Here's someone's playlist of the best apple ad songs. It does make a good workout playlist. And man, that Jet song. Best song ever, I think we can all agree on that.

Not a fan of Journey, period.

But I hold special hate in my heart for this one. After seeing it send 20 some odd sorority girls screaming to the dance floor like teenagers. (Not that they were much older than teenagers anyway, but the screaming was really unnecessary).

http://m.youtube.com/results?gl=US&client=mv-google&hl=en&q=don't+stop+believin&submit=Search

Truly, truly bad. God, you just fouled my brain. And after I gave you Mr. Bean, too.

A little something to cleanse the pallet

Thank you. I love that he shares the same ubiquitous moronic grin. That makes it extra special.

*shudders* Putting that thought in my head was just mean.

Had Gore not attempted that vote-killing dance, we'd now have a very different country, and maybe the balanced budget we had at the end of the Clinton administration.

Not that I'm still bitter.

 

[kiwi_submissive]

Do Ya Fuck on First Dates - Kevin Bloody Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b65Zf6r-RE

 

[johncsuk]

adding to the contribution of records so bad.
Kenny Everett did a radio show section on the world's worst records.

can highly recommend :

Paralysed by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy which has to be heard to be believed.
and
Wunderbar by Zara Leander

 

[johncsuk]

http://www.discogs.com/Kenny-Everett-The-Worlds-Worst-Record-Show/release/1331195

 

[johncsuk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEZAivzl1Q&feature=kp

The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, not sure if enjoy is the right thing to say

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Do Ya Fuck on First Dates - Kevin Bloody Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b65Zf6r-RE

OMG... Kevin Bloody Wilson. A friend went to Australia and came back with some KBW some time ago. I don't remember this particular song, but I do remember getting quite a few good laughs out of his stuff... Have not thought of that in ages!

 

[Sir_Winston54]

"I've Got a Brand New Pair of Rollerskates"

 

[midwestyankee]

Has no one yet had the cajones to put to pixels this title: "The Eggplant that Ate Chicago?