Worst Songs EVER recorded.

[justathought555]

Wait, I'm having a vision. Beautiful butterflies. No, one butterfly, and ugly, made out of steel, no, iron. That's it, oh, the horror, it's Iron Butterfly's, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Rumple Foreskin

Excuse me, but In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ruled!!

You just had to be something other than sober to appreciate its genius.

 

[Boxlicker101]

This is an interesting thread. I can remember listening to the radio in the forties and fifties and there were some truly awful things around. Achy Breaky Heart is more recent but it belongs on anybody's list of worst. Some of those that were listed I actually rarther like. Some others that should make the worst list and haven't been mentioned.

Abadabadabadabadabadaba (said the monkey to the chimp) I don't know how many abadabas there are in there but even one is too many.

Chinese Mule Train.

A song Perry Como (one of the best) recorded around 1943 about beboppers and bombing Tokyo.

Having My Baby.

If I were a Carpenter.

Lady Jane. This was obviously a reference to marijuana but it was a stupid song nonetheless.

Transfusion and Ape Call, recorded by Nervous norvus about 1955.

Ballad of the Green Berets was bad enough but the follow-up song, The A-Team was vastly worse.

Kimo-Kimo, sung by Nat (King) Cole, also one of the best.

Beep Beep from 1958. Nothing to to with the Roadrunner.

Given time, I can probably think of some more and I probably will.

 

[shereads]

What about that godawful "If you like Pina Coladas" song?

Ptooie!

That one rates 5 Snow Shovels. (Intensity of my urge to smack the person responsible in the face, with a snow shovel.)

 

[shereads]

Has anyone said 'Do you believe In Life After Love' by Cher? That song makes me want to jump out a freakin' window.

I made a clumsy attempt to cover everything by Cher, but I phrased it poorly. The longer she keeps her career alive, the more I grow to hate that warble-thing she does with her voice. My pet peeve (okay, one of my several pet peeves) is performers who could easily pass for their own impersonators. Cher and Liza Minelli leap to mind. If they leap there once too often, they'll be inviting a game of Whack-the-Mole.

 

[Guest]

I made a clumsy attempt to cover everything by Cher, but I phrased it poorly. The longer she keeps her career alive, the more I grow to hate that warble-thing she does with her voice. My pet peeve (okay, one of my several pet peeves) is performers who could easily pass for their own impersonators. Cher and Liza Minelli leap to mind. If they leap there once too often, they'll be inviting a game of Whack-the-Mole.

sher, you clack me up.

though i hafta say
anything kid like...
the song that never ends
anything related to barney might just take top billing in the pain in the ear ratings.

 

[Goldie Munro]

I have been too lazy to read through all the posts so forgive me if I repeat any!

My most hated songs are

Lady in Red by chipmonk face Chris de Burgh and

Come on Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Run Joey Run.........ugh.

Patches.

Rocky? ya know the one where the chick keeps saying Rocky I never done this and that before and ends up kicking the bucket.

 

[Guest]

Muskrat Love - Captain & Tennille

abracadabra...cant member who warbled that one.

we built this city...starship

make the world go away...??

 

[oggbashan]

I have a collection of dire 45s.

One of them is an Italian group trying to do rock with a song called 'Boom! Boom! Surf!'.

Someone should have told them that trying to imitate Elvis AND The Beach Boys on one track is not sensible.

Og

 

[Goldie Munro]

I have a collection of dire 45s.

One of them is an Italian group trying to do rock with a song called 'Boom! Boom! Surf!'.

Someone should have told them that trying to imitate Elvis AND The Beach Boys on one track is not sensible.

Og

Og do you collect everything? LOL wish we had sound to hear that one!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Og do you collect everything? LOL wish we had sound to hear that one!

Would there be a way to record a post so it could be played back by other AH members? I have recorded poems and I have listened to other people's recordings but how about recording a post on here? Might be neat. More likelym, it would be messy, though.

 

[haldir]

abracadabra

That was by the Steve Miller band.

Was shite but - I have good memories of dancin with a hot lass who rubbed herself upand down ma legs to that one. Please forgive me.

My personal all time hates are

"Tie a yellow ribbon" - Dawn

"New Boy in Town" - Eagles (I think, Jock hickster could be wrong)

"Old Yeller" - dont know who

"My Way" - old blue eyes

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Two more. (My name is Rumple, and I'm a bad song addict.)

Take a Letter, Maria

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Guest]

I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder.

Argh!

 

[cloudy]

Take a Letter, Maria

....address it to my wife
say I won't be coming home....

ow...earworms.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder.

Argh!

Hi, Lou. It's so nice to see you back.

In order to avoid hijacking the thread, I don't care all that much for "Hello Dolly" either.

 

[Guest]

Hi, Lou. It's so nice to see you back.

In order to avoid hijacking the thread, I don't care all that much for "Hello Dolly" either.

Cheers, Box!

Despite what I said on another thread, it is nice to be back.

Oh yeah, and I can't say Shakespeare's Way With Words, by One True Voice ever did that much for me.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

....address it to my wife
say I won't be coming home....

ow...earworms.

Don't blame me, I'm an addict. It's all haldir's fault for mentioning Dawn.

As for, I Just Called to Say I Love You. That thing's so bad, I don't think I've ever heard the ending.

Some of the old "death and dying" teen songs are so bad, they've become camp. such as Teen Angel and Patches.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[thebullet]

haldir said:
"New Boy in Town" - Eagles (I think, Jock hickster could be wrong)

The song was called "New Kid in Town". And I had the great honor to hear it before it was released. I was at a folk club and saw Chris Smithers and John David Souther. J D Souther co-wrote "New Kid in Town" along with, I think, Jackson Browne and one of the Eagles, don't remember who.

Souther sang it at The Main Point about six weeks before that memorable Eagle's version came out.

And now you tell me it was one of the worst of all time. I'm shocked. Shocked!

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Was Not Was - Walk the dinosaur

 

[cloudy]

Was Not Was - Walk the dinosaur

Oh, god! I had forgotten all about that one!

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Oh, god! I had forgotten all about that one!

You should change the word dinosaur to dragon and send the lyrics to you-know-who!

 

[cloudy]

You should change the word dinosaur to dragon and send the lyrics to you-know-who!

 

[cloudy]

You should change the word dinosaur to dragon and send the lyrics to you-know-who!

It was a night like this
fourty million years ago

I lit a cigarette
picked up a monkey
start to go.
The sun was spitting fire
the sky was blue as ice

I felt a little tired so I watched "Miami Vice".

I walked a dinosaur
I walked a dinosaur!
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody walk the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody walk the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody walk the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody walk the dinosaur.

Boom boom acka-lacka-lacka boom

boom boom acka-lacka boom boom
. . .

I met you in a cave
you were painting Buffalo

I said I'd be your slave
follow wherever you go.
That night we split a rattlesnake and danced beneath the stars

You fell asleep
I stayed awake and watched the passing cars.

I walked a dinosaur
I walked a dinosaur! . . .

A shadow from the sky
much too big to be a bird

A screaming
crashing noise
louder than I've ever heard.
It looked like two big silver trees
that somehow learned to soar

Suddenly a summer breeze and a mighty lion's roar.

I killed a dinosaur
I killed a dinosaur!
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.

Boom boom acka-lacka-lacka boom

boom boom acka-lacka boom boom
. . .
Boom boom acko-locka-lacka boom

boom boom acka-lacko boom boom
. . .

 

[stingray61]

anything by Paul McCartney (sic)