Worst Song of All Time!

[The Sushi Bandit]

Poll question: Worst Song of All Time!

These pukers deserve notoriety only only because of their lasting cringe-ability, but that you cant get them off your mind.

Sorry but there are only 9 I can name on this poll and I know there are more!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Even with only 9 options, You Light Up My Life shoulda been there

[nytemare]

2. "My Humps" Black Eyed Peas

[AlCzervik]

4. yes.

[blondeatlast]

12. I was just gonna post the same. Yes, indeed. nt

[usedtobesick]

22. Enter Sandman when sung by Pat Boone

Or anything on his "In a Heavy Metal Mood." could be worse CD as well of all time....

[Broken_Hero]

30. YES!

You took the words right outta my mouth, that song deserves to die, to perish, to cease to exist...to have its heart crushed....

[ghostsofgiants]

41. I was thinking that too...

But I honestly think "Shake Ya Laffy Taffy" by D4L gives it a severe run for its money.

[name not needed]

75. Not quite.

The other day, I was at a friend's house, watching Yo Momma on MTV. After the show was over, a music video came on. All I heard was the chorus, which consisted only of "booty booty booty booty rockin everywhere". I win.

[deadparrot]

76. God yes.

Make it stop. :scared:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

142. Yup.

:puke:

[myrna minx]

223. Thank you.

:puke:

[Brigid]

3. "Honey"

That's the first song that came to mind when I saw the thread title. I hadn't even looked at the choices yet. I will never understand why that song was so popular.

[Skittles]

118. *SHUDDER*

yes, that was an awful song

[terrya]

5. "We Built This City"

It was so horribly sad to hear Grace Slick, performing quite possibly the most banal, most soulless, song ever written. It's horrible on all possible levels. The video is even worse than the song, if that's possible.

[derby378]

85. "We built this city with craaaap aaand briiiiiicks..."

Sorry. Couldn't help myself.

[Castilleja]

176. LOL!

No text, just LOL

[rocktivity]

165. Yes, indeed-how could "We Built This City On Rock and Roll"

And Somebody To Love have come out of the same mouth???

:cry:
rocknation

[Crazy Dave]

6. Other - The Kinks "Come Dancing"

And the video was way over-played on MTV. At least it was back when MTV used to play only music videos.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. I JUST heard that song on the radio an hour ago.

:rofl::rofl:

[HEyHEY]

27. That's a great tune! Go to hell!

[Crazy Dave]

29. It should have been a Muppet song

It sounded like a kid's song and I can just picture Kermit and Miss Piggy dancing to it.



When it comes to the Kinks I'm more of an "All Day and All of the Night", "You Really Got Me" and "Lola" kinda guy.

BTW - Ray Davies has a new solo CD out.

[redwitch]

264. You tell 'em HEyHEY!

It is an awesome song!

[_testify_]

8. Everything by Meatloaf

and Bryan Adams' song from the Robin Hood movie.

[giant_robot]

34. Amen to that!

The next time I'm in a bar and somebody plays "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" more that once, I'm going Tom Cruise jump-the-couch batshit crazy and smashing the fucking jukebox.

That said, he (Meatloaf) was brilliant in Fight Club, despite the fact that I hate his music.

[_testify_]

36. I agree, his role in Fight Club was well done

but his music is pure, unadulterated feces.

[CanuckAmok]

130. Meatloaf......

Okay, I know Meatloaf. He's like a friend-once-removed. We get together when he's in Vancouver.

He't totally weird about his music. Like, he's obsessive over it, and what he's going to do next, etc.

But in his defence, Meat is an off-Broadway performer, and was for years before releasing an album. Jim Steinman wrote Bat Out of Hell, and picked Meatloaf and Ellen Foley (Billie on Night Court) to perform it. Meatloaf never expected (or believes he's qualified) to be a rock star. But if you were a starving artist-theatre performer and someone offered you anhuge-assed recording contract, what would you do?



On a related topic, you should see Meatloaf in "Focus" with William H. Macy, David Paymer and Laura Dern. Meatloaf plays Fred, one of Henry Miller's most frightening and menacing characters. Meat plays him to a "T" and is brilliant. I'm surprised he wasn't nominated for a Best Supporting Oscar.

[gollygee]

46. Oh god how I hate Meatloaf's music

I also hate We Built This City and My Humps though.

There are a lot of stinkers to choose from.

Oh and I hate Can't Fight This Feeling by REO Speedwagon.

[gollygee]

47. Can't Fight This Feeling by REO Speedwagon

but I also hate many listed including We Built This City, any of those god-awful Meatloaf songs, and I agree that My Humps is excrutiatingly awful.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

95. Hell With That. The Song Bat Out Of Hell Is One Of The Most Make Me Wanna

drive fast songs ever. I think that song is brilliant.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

143. Oh, gods....I DESPISE Meat Loaf.

"Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" is hell.

:puke:

[Kellanved]

9. Cheri Cheri Lady - Modern Talking

*yuck*

[blondeatlast]

13. Not the worst, but dammit--now it's an earworm. nt

[tuvor]

10. Toby Keith's Red White and Blue.

You know, the "boot in your ass/that's the American way" song.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

144. Oh, yuck...

:puke:

[LSK]

11. where is Daryll Worley Have you forgotten???

:shrug:

[stanwyck]

167. I was at a Fourth of July

picnic when the band played that song. I was dumbstruck by how amazingly horrid the song was. But, now, awful as it is, I doubt Bush is quite as fond of the song. Another reminder of how we haven't forgotten Bin Laden - though Bush says "he doesn't think about him" anymore. Guess Bush has "forgotten" his macho "smoke'em out" boasting.

[Orsino]

14. You're all forgetting "Let the Eagle Soar."

And I envy you.

[blondeatlast]

58. And it could have remained forgotten, until now.

May karma be gentle with you...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

145. Fuck it. You just gave me a horrid earworm.

:grr:

[Road Scholar]

157. AMEN BROTHER!!! Just the way it is. nt

[begin_within]

15. "Feelings" by Morris Albert

[The Sushi Bandit]

17. Wo Wo Wo.... Feelings Wo Wo Wo.... Worst!

good, I mean bad one!

[hfojvt]

16. Kokomo is the only one on that list I really despise

If I was to make a list of songs I cannot stand. Hmmm.

Don't Worry - be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Start me Up - Rolling Stones
The Dance - Garth Brooks
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
The Chicken Dance Song
The Electric Slide
Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

I am sure there are more, but since I no longer listen to the radio I do not have to hear nearly as many. Mostly I hear the songs I have listed played at wedding dances and parties.

[The Sushi Bandit]

20. Why didnt you vote for it??

it has no votes yet!!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

147. How could you despise Kokomo?

:D

I agree with your list, though. "Ice Baby" is such an annoying song.... :puke:

[regnaD kciN]

183. Very easily...

:spank:

[Kolesar]

224. Mosquitos, no see ums, oh my itchy Mama

[nickinSTL]

205. thanks SOOOO much for reminding me...

of Don't Worry, Be Happy :sarcasm:

I HATE that song. :puke:

[Coventina]

18. "Sussudio" by Phil Collins.

Maybe I spelled it wrong, but I don't care.

:puke:

[jane_pippin]

19. Ha! I was just going to say, "You forgot Su Su Sudio-o-o"

Worst song EVER. (I don't know or care how to spell it either.) Good call.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

141. LOL! That song is so addictingly bad.

:P

[azmouse]

21. Muskrat Love by The Captain and Tenille

It makes me suicidal... :scared:

[tigereye]

38. that song has never made any sense

:wtf: were they smoking?

[Bridget Burke]

204. "Muskrat Love" was a silly throwaway tune on Willis Allen Ramsey's

First album. For many years, it was his only album. Title: "Willis Alan Ramsey" (!)

Willis comes from Alabama, but his LP was one of the best from the Texas Singer/Songwriter scene--the part that overlapped with the Cosmic Cowboys. Many FINE songs--plus that silly Muskrat number.

He took the Muskrat royalties & lived in the British Isles for years. Last I heard, he's ready to go back into Show Bis!

[tigereye]

206. it's so funny that that song garnered him so many royalties

life and what passes for the music business are very strange

[Frank Cannon]

276. Didn't America have a semi-hit with that as well?

WTF is it with these people that compels them to perform that song?

[Sugar Smack]

23. Other. "Wasn't Me" by Shaggy. Hands down.

:patriot:

[WildEyedLiberal]

25. OMG I forgot about that song!

Thanks for reminding me... not.

x(

[Hissyspit]

109. I said "Wasn't me" in conversation yesterday and it reminded me

of that song after having forgotten it for several years. I did it to myself, arrgh!

[WildEyedLiberal]

24. I had to vote for Chicago

That song is painful to hear.

"We Built This City" is an honorable mention because Grace Slick once sang "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit."

[HEyHEY]

26. Convoy?! What the fuck is wrong with Convoy!?

[tigereye]

39. there there HH

you just didn't have to hear it 10 zillion times in the 70s. :eyes:

[Burma Jones]

54. Convoy is just plain dumb

dumb....

[RebelOne]

189. It's dumb if you haven't seen the movie.

[JVS]

62. I knew someone else must like that song!

[HughBeaumont]

146. Billy Fries ain't no Johnny Cash.

Looks more like Billy Carter -

[Kolesar]

169. And a chartruse microbus

It's this thread that blows

[Left Is Write]

28. You put "Honey" on the list! MrsG is not going to be happy about this!

My vote is split between "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka and "What I Am" by Edie Brickell.

[Broken_Hero]

31. My Humps...

people all ready said this, but I concur, this song is horrible...

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. The Star Spangled Banner (n.t)

[Floogeldy]

178. THIS IS THE FBI!!! COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!

GET DOWN ON THE GROUND! GET DOWN ON THE GROUND! LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS! LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS! DON'T MOVE! DON'T MOVE!

[1gobluedem]

33. Horse With No Name

It makes me physically ill -- always has. Yech.

[SiobhanClancy]

42. I agree totally....

Instant bad mood,every time I hear that hideous piece of tripe.

[The Sushi Bandit]

243. Tripe says it all!

[The Sushi Bandit]

52. Ouch!!!

I had blocked out Horse With No Name
!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

148. 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain....

I like America's other stuff, but that song is just agony.

:scared:

[Capn Sunshine]

35. Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Damn, that was annoying when it was popular.
A song about a load of pig iron in Lake Superior?

[tigereye]

40. it's a good story song

I have to say Who let the Dogs Out? was worse.

[JVS]

65. LOL!

The contrast of moods there just slays me

[whatsername]

112. I disagree.....

As the daughter of a Coastie, that song summed up all of the fears I had, as a child, of my father gone to sea for so many months at a time. May not be the greatest song of all times, but has meaning to many of us!!!

Now...REO Speedwagon I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore..........!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

150. I like GL, but that song drives me nuts.

His voice changes like 1/2-pitch the entire time....

:scared:

[Kolesar]

194. It was iron ore, my metallurgically-challenged friend

What do people in your town do for a living, anyway? Clean swimming pools?

[alarimer]

37. I've never been to me

I can't remember who sings it but it is utter dreck, probably worse than Afternood delight.

[Arugula Latte]

56. Yes. My vote goes for that piece of crap.

:scared:

[KamaAina]

226. That'd be Charlene

undoubtedly ashamed to attach her full name to that record, suitable for use only as a novelty coaster or Frisbee.

[SmileyBoy]

43. "Like Toy Soldiers" by Martika

PUKE AND A MILLION. :puke:

[MelliMel]

117. Anything by Martika. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

44. I voted for Chicago because I can't stand them...

...but my real worst song is "Torn Between Two Lovers." Thankfully it doesn't turn up much these days.

[smitty]

45. "My Sugar Walls" by Sheena Easton. So bad, it'll make you

cringe. Sample these Immortal lyrics lyrics:

"Lemme take you somewhere you've never been,
I can show you things you've never seen,
I can make you wanna fall in love again,
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls

Heaven on earth inside my sugar walls.

I can tell you want me, its impossible to hide,
You body's on fire admit it! Come inside my sugar walls."

[Arugula Latte]

57. Hmmm ... What could she be singing about ...

:think:

[JVS]

64. She's using those walls to trap you and make you spend your life...

on the "morning train" THE HORROR, THE HORROR!

[BlueJazz]

48. That Paul Anka song: She's havng my fucking Baby.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

151. Never heard the damn thing, but I've seen the lyrics.

They are frightening.

:scared:

[RebelOne]

190. I hated that song.

[HughBeaumont]

49. "The Name Game". Shirley Ellis.

The Holy Mountain of ALL stupid/annoying/smashworthy songs.

Here are some lyrics:

Shirley!
Shirley, Shirley bo Birley Bonana fanna fo Firley
Fee fy mo Mirley, Shirley!

Lincoln!
Lincoln, Lincoln bo Bincoln Bonana fanna fo Fincoln
Fee fy mo Mincoln, Lincoln!

Come on everybody!
I say now let's play a game
I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody's name
The first letter of the name, I treat it like it wasn't there
But a B or an F or an M will appear
And then I say bo add a B then I say the name and Bonana fanna and a
fo
And then I say the name again with an F very plain
and a fee fy and a mo
And then I say the name again with an M this time
and there isn't any name that I can't rhyme

. . . et cetera, et cetera, NO.

Every time this abomination comes on I get a sing-along from nearly everyone in the car while I cover my ears in pain and suffering.

[Blue_Tires]

55. YES---I was just about to mention that

another vote could be for "The Ballad of the Green Berets"

[JVS]

70. Chuck!

[sleepyhead]

140. Mitch!

[JVS]

71. OMG, I never heard the part where instructions are given!

DUH! As though we couldn't figure out the pattern!

[bumblebee1]

113. At least the name Chuck wasn't included.

[HughBeaumont]

162. And my mom talked about how, back in 196-whenever the hell that came out

she and her friends, during sleepovers, would yell that song, except use the words "Chuck" and "mitch" in place of "Shirley" and "Lincoln". WILD bunch!

I'm like "Mom, why couldn't you have told me you got drunk or something??"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

152. Heh....I always sing along.

:blush:

:P

[SKKY]

50. You're so vain - Carly Simon...

Come on people! What the hell does having dreams about clouds in coffee have to do with vanity anyway? Huh?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

98. Holy Shit!!!!! I Just Posted The Same One!

:toast:

Had no idea it already made the list. I HATE that fucking song!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

153. Oh, c'mon....There are worse songs than that.

;) :P

[donheld]

245. Who cares, it's a great song!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[SKKY]

51. The all-time worst, suckiest, horrible song ever is, without a doubt...

..."Heartbeat" by Don Johnson. It doesn't suck. It suckity-suck-sucks!

[mtnester]

80. Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time...bleh awful

yuck

[bumblebee1]

114. I saw the video.

The part where Don Johnson is showing "passion." Actually, he looks like he's trying to take a hard dump.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

155. Never heard it.

Apparently that is a good thing.

;)

[Burma Jones]

53. Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

Runners Up:

Morning Train - Sheena Easton
Feelings - Morris Albert
Afternoon Delight

and I also really dislike Honey too...

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

99. Funny Thing. I Hate That Song Too. But Once, When On Mushrooms,

about an oz of pot, a rock of hash, and 7 hits of "blue fly" acid, the song actually sounded absolutely beautiful. Weird thing that was. True story too. Me and my bud call that day 'Utopia'...

[Burma Jones]

125. Seasons in the Sun Beautiful?

Maybe Dystopia........

Of course, that's a whole hell of a lot of brain candy.........

[WritingIsMyReligion]

156. Blech...I forgot that piece of shit.

:puke:

[Pool Hall Ace]

232. Oh yeah, the other day I was listening to the Music Choice 70s channel

and as soon as I heard that DOON DOON DOOON at the beginning of SitS, I *dove* for the remote!

[blondeatlast]

59. "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"--only for those of a "certain" age...

Swear to God, it's worse than "My Humps" and "Let the Eagle Soar" COMBINED.

It's ABBA minus the intelligence, I swear to you.

http://macpro.freeshell.org/music/45/45-chirpy.html

[Arkham House]

60. Come now--how can it be anything but "Rocky Mountain High"???

[NNadir]

61. I'd have to go with "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." It's the "Support our Troops"

song.

Most of the people who have that stupid-ass yellow ribbon on their SUV's couldn't give a shit about "our troops," and the connection to the song - which sucked anyway - makes me sick.

[alarimer]

89. It's ironic that the song was used for returning troops

Since it is about a guy getting out of prison.

[NNadir]

121. It would be nice if they were returning troops.

But they haven't come back, except for those killed and maimed. They cannot leave the army and in that sense many of them are prisoners.

The "yellow ribbon" game is a fraud in which it is pretended that the soldiers will be returning soon, but they won't. They will be a long time in the Halliburton Garrison.

[alarimer]

135. well, yes, that's true

originally it was used for the hostages, which I suppose is more appropriate.

[regnaD kciN]

184. And it came from a "true story" in Reader's Digest...

:eyes:

[JVS]

63. "Morning Train" by Sheena Easton

No other song turns my thoughts so quickly to suicide

[In_The_Wind]

67. yikes

Some of her other stuff was really hot!

[smitty]

69. Like " My Sugar Walls" ?

[In_The_Wind]

72. I was thinking of that one and about Strut.

[nickinSTL]

209. I actually find Strut kind of amusing...

not a great song, of course, but amusing.

I don't know My Sugar Walls...

[begley]

250. That song is perky and Sheena is cute.--or at least was.

:)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

66. Seasons in the sun - Terry Jacks

Ugh ugh ugh and ugh again ..... an audio 5th of Jack Daniels. This song would depress the touring company of Up With People. In mid-performance.

[smitty]

68. "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris. Truly awful

It didn't even make sense when you were stoned.

"MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All that sweet green icing flowing down
Someone let the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can make it."

Far out, man, it even baffled Cheech and Chong.

[Nikia]

86. My sister and I had heard Weird As's Jurassic Park on the radio

My dad (a musician) decided to play and sing for us MacArthur Park which the song is a parody of. We thought that it was almost as funny as Weird Al's song. I kind of like the song though.

[Patiod]

134. Someone tortured that with me once in college.

I had a 103 fever, and called next door and asked her to please turn it down because I was sick.

She turned it UP, and went out shortly afterwards, leaving the record player on "repeat". I hated that song before, but now I loathe it! (I got back at her eventually)

[begley]

251. yeah, I hate nonsensical lyrics.

same with Horse With No Name

[raccoon]

254. Great! I'm not the only person who can't stand that song. nt

[ktlyon]

73. anything by Buck Owens

seriously

[blitzen]

101. you've got to be kidding me! i don't believe that you're serious

please provide a well thought-out critique of a buck owens classic--otherwise i won't believe you

[ktlyon]

126. I really don't like anything he ever did.

I watched Hee Haw every week. I think Roy Clark is a fantastic musician, Buck was not. I was sorry to hear he died last month but I thought all his songs sounded the same and used the same two notes. His voice was like fingers on a black board to me. That is as " thought-out"" as I can get for you today sorry if I upset you. I just flat out didn't like him. Hee Haw was a not to missed show in my life then but I couldn't stand ol Buck.

[blitzen]

131. his good stuff was pre-Hee-Haw....he had a great band, great

electric guitar stuff by his buddy Don Rich--who died in a motorcycle crash in 1974. Early and mid-60s Buck Owens is good...Hee-Haw was crap

[giant_robot]

74. "Loviing You" by Minnie Riperton

Still annoying dogs anywhere in a five mile radius.

[tonekat]

222. Yes! Like fingernails on a chalk board!!! n/t

[barb162]

77. any Chipmunks song

[BlueIris]

78. Toss up between "Photograph" (Nickleback) and "Arms Wide Open" (Creed).

Evil, devil music.

[GirlinContempt]

94. Nice choices

[WritingIsMyReligion]

158. OMG

"Photograph" is definitely on MY shitlist!

:puke:

[Evergreen Emerald]

79. girl you know its true ooh ooh ooh I love you

milli vanilli

[mconvente]

137. hahah

Girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's, girl you know it's....

[Mikimouse]

81. Let the Eagle Soar...hands down winner...n/t

[Brigid]

82. How could I forget that one?

Listening to that one is . . . painful. :hangover:

[Mikimouse]

83. It should be used as an instrument of torture...imagine a combo...

video and audio with Asshat singing it. The mental image is sufficient to induce nausea.

[KamaAina]

229. Actually Asscroft would be happy to do it live

I can see the CD now: "John Asscroft Live from Gitmo" :puke:

[Bombtrack]

84. "This is how we do it" - Montel Jordan

[swag]

87. "No Woman, No Cry"

Turns my gut every motherfucking time.

Massive turd on so many levels.

[The Sushi Bandit]

90. Hey thats a Marly Classic!

[2bfree]

92. That is a wonderful song.

Errrrrr.............

[GirlinContempt]

93. I concur

[Fountain79]

111. Massive turd?

How can you hate that song?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

159. Oh, bah on you.

:P :P

[Burma Jones]

193. What? You've never observed the Hypocrites

Mingled with the good people we meet?

[donheld]

247. Each to his own I guess. I say great song.

[Nikia]

88. I actually like or don't mind any of those songs

The ones that I recognize at least.
I don't like "Picture" sung by Kid Rock and Sherryl Crow. I think that's what it is called anyway.
I don't like the My Hump song either.

[PittPoliSci]

91. MacArthur's Park never makes the list.

But somehow everyone hates that song.

[JVS]

100. At my first Pitt Ft-ball game that was the first song of the Halftime show

I was pumped!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

96. Having My Baby

Paul Anka :puke:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

97. Oh God, "You're So Vain" By Carly Simon.

[donheld]

246. One of the all-time classics!

I'll bet you think this post is about you.

[Race4Peace]

102. "Barney" theme song. my dad hums it all the time, drives me fucking insane

a 46-year old humin' a todler's favorite tv show. makes me wanna get out the crowbar from under my bed, of which i forged from railroad iron. very valuable shit, man. im thinkin of making a new samuri sword from the same resource. very very very good peice of artillery that crowbar is, though. damn good aim and geometry.




i was able to keep the tv repairman from entering my house after i killed my first telivision.
i strongly advise against it. tv repairman are not good served rare.

:evilgrin:

[Zorra]

103. "Close to You" By the Carpenters - Why do birds suddenly appear

every time you are near - duh.

And disco still sucks.

[NMMNG]

104. (I Got My Mind) Set On You

Weird Al Yankovic's parody This Song is Just Six Words Long summed it up quite nicely.

[regnaD kciN]

187. One of Weird Al's best...

This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long

Couldn't think of any lyrics
No, I never wrote the lyrics
So I'll just sing any old lyrics
That come to mind, child
You really need words
Whole lotta rhyming words
You gotta rhyme so many words, mm...
To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it
To do it, to do it right, child

This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long

I know that you're probably sore
'Cause I didn't write any more
I just didn't get to complete it
So that's why I gotta repeat it

This song's just six words long (six words long)
This song's just six words long (six words long)

Oh I make a lotta money
They pay me a ton of money
They're payin' me plenty of money
To sing this song, child
I gotta fill time
Three minutes worth of time
Oh, how will I fill so much time? Mm...
I'll throw in a solo, a solo, a solo
A solo, a solo here

This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long

This song's got nothing to say
But I'm recording it anyway
I know if I put my mind to it
I know I could find a good rhyme here

Oh, you gotta have-a music
You need really catchy music
This song has got plenty of music
But just six words, child
And so I'll sing 'em over
And over and over and over,
And over and over and over, mm...
And over and over and over,
And over and over and over again

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

105. "Let the Eagle Soar" - John A$$croft.

[Virginia Dare]

240. It's excellent comedy though....n/t

[njdemocrat106]

106. "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba and "Fly" by Sugar Ray

Funny thing is, I actually like some of the bad songs in this thread (You're the Inspiration, Sussudio, Can't Fight This Feeling). No one ever said I had good taste. :P

[DainBramaged]

107. TUBTHUMPING? BEST fall down drunk song of the 20th century

There was a Butthumping mix, Danny Boy Mix, Gunshot Mix,

We’ll be singing
When we’re winning
We’ll be singing

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You’re never going to
Keep me down (This should be our motto)

Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away

He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that
Remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that
Remind him
Of the better times:

Oh danny boy
Danny boy
Danny boy...

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You’re never going to
Keep me down

Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away

He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that
Remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that
Remind him
Of the better times:

Don’t cry for me
Next door neighbour...

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You’re never going to
Keep me down

We’ll be singing
When we’re winning
We’ll be singing

(No wonder you like some of the songs we hate!!!!!!)

:toast:

[Nikia]

168. It might not be what the song is about

But to me:
I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to
Keep me down

is rather inspirational.

It might not be what the group intended but when I listened to it, I thought that it described a person's struggle with alcoholism. Then I thought how it could apply to a lot of situations just like I think "All the Things She Said" by TATU could apply to a lot of other situations besides a lesbian relationship.

[Hissyspit]

108. "Once You Understand" Think (1971)

Chorus continues
Underneath entire song)

Things get a little easier
Once you understand
Things get a little easier
Once you understand.....

I`ll be expecting you to
Get a haircut by Friday
(Forget it, Dad)
(That won`t change anything)
Forget nothing, you`ll do as I say
As long as you`re living in my house

He knows I`m not feeling well
And yet he doesn`t take one
Second out to help his mother
His only concern is for himself

(Come on, Ma)
(What do you want from me)
Don`t argue with your mother
Just shut up and listen

But, Mom, all my
Friends will be there
(I said, no, you can`t go)
But why
(I don`t want you
In that neighborhood)
Why, what`s wrong
With that neighborhood
(I don`t like the kind of
People living there)
Why, what`s wrong with them
(Nevermind)
(Some day, you`ll thank me)

Are you sure no one kept you
Company tonight while
You were babysitting
(What`s that supposed to mean)
Just curious
(Admit it, Mom, you don`t trust me)

Where are you going now
(To my friend`s house)
Don`t you have things
To do in the house
Don`t you have any homework
Why don`t you sit down
And read a book (oh, ma)

Don`t oh, Ma, me
You`re wasting your life
Away with the foolish things
(What are you talking about
How about your bridge club
And your ladies groups
And your parties and
Your daytime programs
What about all that)
That`s different

Ma, I`ll be home at eleven
(You better be home at ten or
Don`t bother to come home at all)

When I was your age
I was working twelve hours a day
Six days a week helping to pay
For the food and the rent
(I don`t understand, what`s
That got to do with me)
If you can`t figure that out
For yourself, you`re stupid

Hey, Dad
Did you see my new guitar
I joined a group
(Son, there`s a little bit more
To life than joining a group
And playing the guitar)
Yeah, Dad, what is there to life

Mister Cook (yes)
You have a son named Robert
Robert Cook, age seventeen (yes)
I`m sorry, Mister Cook
You better come down
To the station house
You son is dead (dead, how)
He died of an overdose (oh, God)

[Fountain79]

110. Hey what's wrong with the meatloaf song? n/t

[Acebass]

115. "She wore an Ittsy Bitsy Teeny Weeni Yellow Poke-a-Dot Bikini"...

Yes, for real, I wouldn't lie abut something like that...

[The Sushi Bandit]

174. That song is CUTE!!

and was my first exposure (no pun intended) to suggested nudity!

[Acebass]

266. Mine was Betty Page...LOL...n/t

[Feron]

236. Did you see the movie One, Two, Three?

The Russian Communists used that song appropriately as a torture device. :D

[Acebass]

265. I think it was aPeter Sellers Flic...LOL...

I remember it...:rofl:

[wildhorses]

116. the worst song of all time? WTF

Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart

Baby, baby
I’m aware of where you go
Each time you leave my door
I watch you walk down the street
Knowing your other love you’ll meet
But this time before you run to her
Leaving me alone and hurt
(think it over) after I’ve been good to you ?
(think it over) after I’ve been sweet to you ?

Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Think it over
Think it over

I’ve known of your
Your secluded nights
I’ve even seen her
Maybe once or twice
But is her sweet expression
Worth more than my love and affection ?
But this time before you leave my arms
And rush of to her charms
(think it over) haven’t I been good to you ?
(think it over) haven’t I been sweet to you ?

Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Think it over
Think it over

I’ve tried so hard, hard to be patient
Hoping you’d stop this infatuation
But each time you are together
I’m so afraid I’ll be losing you forever

Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart

Baby, think it over
Think it over, baby
Ooh, think it over baby...

[Strong Atheist]

122. Of Course, I like that song.... nt.

[ronnykmarshall]

129. Oh it's ON now!

:nuke:

[The Sushi Bandit]

182. Oh my God!!!

[x-g.o.p.er]

119. It was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater...

what a sight to see!!

[x-g.o.p.er]

120. My Sharona

And what is a Sharona, by the way?

[DelawareValleyDem]

198. OK but

the guitar solo in that song kick ass.

[Strong Atheist]

123. I love Kokomo.... nt.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

160. So do I.

The short little sax bit in it is cool. :thumbsup:

[Strong Atheist]

192. The Muppet's did a great video of this. nt.

[Strong Atheist]

124. "Ninety nine bottles of beer on the wall, Ninety nine bottles of

beer ...

[peekaloo]

127. You Light Up My Life.

I prefer the darkness.

[Patsy Stone]

154. Absolutely. n/t

[Mz Pip]

260. That's it

Debbie Gibson. :puke:

THough I do find Mac Arthur Park annoying, all that sweet green icing flowing down...

Mz Pip
:dem:

[JCMach1]

128. McArthur Park!!!

:puke:




Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

CHORUS
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

CHORUS



There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one.

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why.


Chicago or even "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams>

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh NO!! (upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change)

[begin_within]

132. "Ho Ho Ho, it's Magic! Never believe it's not soul" - don't know who

[SmileyBoy]

208. You are thinking of the crap group Pilot.

*shudder*

[nickinSTL]

220. thanks soo...much...

out of all the bad songs in this thread, THIS one decides to become my earworm.

I really COULD do without that. :D

[merh]

133. So many bad songs, so little time

1. Never Been to Me ~ Charlene
"I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me...."

2. The Night Chicago Died ~ Paper Lace
And ther was no sound at all
But the clock upon the wall ......
Then the door burst open wide
And my daddy stepped inside
And he kissed my mama's face
And he brushed her tears away

The night Chicago died
(Na-na na, na-na-na, na-na-na)

3. Let the Eagles Soar ~ By anyone, but especially A$$croft

4. You Light Up My Life ~ Debbie Boone

and I could go on and on and on, like most of the songs do :argh:

[regnaD kciN]

186. Ah, yes..."The Night Chicago Died"...

How can you tell a song by a band from outside North America? When it is set "on the East Side of Chicago." Which, from the last time I checked, appears to be somewhere at the bottom of Lake Michigan.

:spank:

[ballabosh]

217. There actually is an East Side

in Chicago, which is not generally known to most people outside the city (or probably by most people in the city). The "East Side" is a neighborhood located on the south east side of the city, so the song is not technically wrong.

That being said, I'm not sure the singers knew about the East Side neighborhood either.

More info:

http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/esstwelcome.html

[mconvente]

136. gotta be we built this city

because this crap of a song came from a band (or part of a band) that originally had some of the best music ever - like "Volunteers" - that's what makes this song even more sad then the crappy song itself...

[RebelOne]

138. I don't know if I posted this before, but

"having My Baby" was the pits.

[rocktivity]

139. ISRAELITES by Desmond Dekker and the Aces

With songs like this, who needs renditioning?

:puke:
rocknation

[kwassa]

164. A great song, a ska classic.

Probably the only crossover hit of the original ska era.

[Burma Jones]

196. Piffle.......that song is great if only for the bass line

The Lyrics are good too:

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
So that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

My wife and my kids, they are packed up and leave me.
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

Shirt them a-tear up, trousers are gone.
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

After a storm there must be a calm.
They catch me in the farm. You sound the alarm.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

Poor me, the Israelite.
I wonder who I'm working for.
Poor me, Israelite,
I look a-down and out, sir.

[sleepyhead]

149. You don't bring me flowers

by Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand. I worked with someone who LOVED that song and sang along at full volume whenever it came on his radio. Made me run screaming out of the room.

[Patsy Stone]

161. Well, I don't see the clear winner on here

Wildfire, by Michael Martin Murphy. "She ran calling Wiiiiiildfire. She ran calling Wiiiiiildfire..."

If I had to pick another, "Shannon", by Henry Gross: "Shannon is gone. I hope she's drifitng out to sea..."

[WritingIsMyReligion]

163. Okay, here's my official shitlist:

"Afternoon Delight"--Starland Vocal Group
"Photograph"--Nickleback
"We Built This City"--Starship
"Let the Eagle Soar"--John Ashcroft
Anything by Meat Loaf (:puke:), but especially "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" (:grr:)
"Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue"--Toby Keith
"My Humps"--Black-Eyed Peas
"Have You Forgotten"--Daryll Worley
"Horse With No Name"--America
"My Sharona"-- ???
"Mr. Roboto"--Styx
"Baby I'ma Want You"--Bread

And that's just a sampler....

:banghead:

[TK421]

166. My Sharona was The Knack and yes....I frigging hate that song, too

:banghead:

[EstimatedProphet]

170. No question-'Hollabick Girl' by the plastic thing Gwen Stefani

[B3Nut]

200. Ooooh. Major barfalicious earworm

That "song" is pure torture. I pity the poor recording engineer that had to sit through the making of that! Hopefully it was recorded in a digital workstation, if they tracked analog I'd be afraid the poor engineer would be eyeing the editing razor blades and his wrists alternately.

Truly awful! In Madison that "song" usually vomits forth from Z-104...no station makes me want to smash a radio as violently as Z-104 does...if I walk into a business and they have it on, I leave.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[entanglement]

171. Billy Joel "We didn't start the fire" and that God-awful Titanic theme

song top my list of worst song ever

[WritingIsMyReligion]

172. OMG I forgot "We didn't start the fire"

:rofl::rofl:

[entanglement]

173. Great minds and all that

:hi:

[doc03]

175. Little Drummer Boy

[Castilleja]

177. I detest that song!

And my husband loves it. He also loves about half of the songs in this thread. I try to ignore that about him........:hurts:

[doc03]

195. I think the reason I hate it was, a Chrismas play we had in

like the 3rd grade and we had to sing it over and over again for weeks.
My part was rum rum rum pa rum pa pump pum.

[Castilleja]

234. Ooooh, like torture

:scared:

[nickinSTL]

212. wooo...that's a good one.

I HATE that song...not sure whether that or Don't Worry, Be Happy wins for worst song for me.

[PennyK]

179. NOT "From a Distance"!!!

I'm a big Bette fan and although "Wind Beneath My Wings" is truly cringeworthy, "From a Distance" is a song about peace. I was actually singing it and crying on 9/11 when i went to pick my kids up at school. Bette is a true supporter of the cause, so please don't pick on her.

[cry baby]

180. "Midnight at the Oasis", "Afternoon Delight", "Loving You" (Minni...

Ripperton)all cause nausea for me.

[pokerfan]

249. Don't mind Oasis at all

Maria Muldaur's vocals on Oasis were amazing. The lyrics may have been banal, but her singing was fantastic.

But I hope that there is a special circle of hell reserved for whoever wrote this:


Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto's always been 'when it's right, it's right'
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night?
When everything's a little clearer in the light of day
And we know the night is always gonna be there any way

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
And the thought of rubbin' you is getting so exciting

Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight

Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always thought a fish could not be caught who wouldn't bite
But you've got some bait a waitin' and I think I might try nibbling
A little afternoon delight

Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight

Please be waiting for me, baby, when I come around
We could make a lot of lovin' 'fore the sun goes down

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
And the thought of rubbin' you is getting so exciting

Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight

Afternoon delight!

[fishwax]

181. closing time

just typing the words i risk having that shit cycling through my head for the next several hours :scared:

[regnaD kciN]

185. No country? No disco? You call this a list?????

:eyes:

P.S. And no Timothy by The Buoys??? What's wrong with you people?

[nickinSTL]

213. I woul have to KNOW some country to list any...

and I'd rather not know any :puke:

[ScreamingMeemie]

188. I LOVE "Honey"...

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[2bfree]

242. Me too!

Did you see the movie Breakfast on Pluto? Honey was featured in the movie and was a major theme!

[donheld]

191. "Worst song" is in the ear of the beholder

I hate these friggin' best/worst song polls. You hate what you hate and I'll hate what I hate, but we all have a right to like (or hate) whatever we choose.

[ScreamingMeemie]

199. Thank you donheld. It irks me that "Honey" is on these all of the time.

I can think of several songs I don't like more than any of these. It sometimes feels like a "group think" kind of thing. :hi:

[donheld]

244. There's some very good songs on this list

If some don't like them that's too bad. I'll like what I like regardless. It is kind of a "group think" mentality. I love DU but, nobody can tell me what songs to listen to and which songs I can like.

P.S. anybody doesn't like this post, I'll bet they think this post is about them. Their so vain!

[DanCa]

197. Meat Loaf's vocals are fantastic

I don't know why anyone would put him on the list. I wont do that, let me explain to you what that is- when he sings the song he goes into a litney of things he wont do, such as he wont lie to his girlfriend, that's what that is. Do we got it now :D
Of course music is subjective and you do have the right to disagree with me.

[kmla]

201. Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band

Has the notoriety of being one of the worst videos ever made as well.

"....abra, abra - cadabra.

I wanna reach out and grab ya...."

Did he overhear this on a school bus full of third grade girls? Sounds like a song one would chant while double-dutching. But a rock and roll hit song? Not so much.

[Bonhomme Richard]

202. "Feelings" Nothing more than feelings...n/t

[Karenca]

203. Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton

And every time that we oooooh
I'm more in love with you
La la la la la la la... do do do do do

screech screech screech

[Karenca]

207. I cant remember the name, but on the video the singer had these huge hands

that she kept moving about and she was soooo tall.
The same words were repeated over and over...it was horrible.
Also it won some kind of award...this was about 9 or 10 years ago.
The stations played it constantly....Used to drive me crazy.

[Bridget Burke]

210. No "Proud To Be an American" yet?

By the detestable Lee Greenwood.

[KamaAina]

227. Title is "God Bless the USA"

At a conference last year I was subjected to not one but two amateur karaoke-style cover versions of it. :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Sabriel]

211. Jack and Diane

I waitressed at a place where the cook only played that album. I HATE that song.


And now it's stuck in my head.

[The Sushi Bandit]

214. How bout Paul and Paula??

[begley]

252. Horse With No Name, The Year 2525, MacArthur Park

I hate lyrics that don't make a bit of sense.

[miss_american_pie]

215. Take a Letter, Maria

I had to think about this for a while, but that's it.

[Karenca]

216. Also anything Barry Manilow............eom

[Spider Web]

218. 'Don't let your Meat-Loaf'

All that Meat and no potatoes!

'S'

[Virginia Dare]

219. The "ooga chukka" song...n/t

[The Sushi Bandit]

230. dont know that one!

[Virginia Dare]

239. It's an oldie, but a baddie, from the 70's...

I think it was actually called "I Can't Fight This Feeling".

[Bossy Monkey]

263. "Hooked on a Feeling," as covered by Swedish band Blue Swede n/t

[marigold20]

258. Yuck!!!

..

[tonekat]

221. Other, let's see....anything by Harry Chapin, Mr Maudlin Music

Basically, he only had one song. Just rearranged the words a bit.

Oh, and "Gimme Dat Ting" I dont remember who did it.

And the Minnie Ripperton song with the irritating cry..."Loving You"?

Always hated "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" too.

[immoderate]

270. The Shaggs?

They were great!

--IMM

[Buddyblazon]

225. "I'm all out of love."

Air Supply.

"Whoomp, there it is"
Tagteam

[KamaAina]

228. Admit it. If there were a radio station with this thread as its playlist,

you'd listen. Maybe (hopefully) not all day, but you'd listen. Yes, you, you who slow down and crane your necks when there's a five-car pileup over in the southbound. You'd listen.

[TK421]

231. Girl you know it's true- Milli Vanilli

that comes to mind

[bertha katzenengel]

233. worst recording or worst song? Bette Midler didn't write "From a Distance"

Julie Gold wrote it, and I liked hearing her sing it at the Birchmere a few years ago. I liked her version better than Bette's.

I'm not crazy about it but one of the worst songs of all time?

Oh, well, to each his own. :hi:

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/snd/fromadistance.html

[Feron]

235. Suzanne Vega-Tom's Diner

Other nominees include:
-"It's So Simple" by Victoria Beckham
-Anything by David Hasselhoff or Kevin Federline

[borlis]

237. Black Betty whambalam

:puke:

[The Sushi Bandit]

238. My worst is "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"

makes me puke!

[Ron Mexico]

241. The song that the old guy dances to on Six Flags commercials. (n/t)

[donheld]

248. From A Distance, won a Grammy as Song Of The Year

And it's no wonder.


From A Distance


From a distance the world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.

From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
it's the voice of every man.

From a distance we all have enough,
and no one is in need.
And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease,
no hungry mouths to feed.

From a distance we are instruments
marching in a common band.
Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace.
They're the songs of every man.
God is watching us. God is watching us.
God is watching us from a distance.

From a distance you look like my friend,
even though we are at war.
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
what all this fighting is for.

From a distance there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves,
it's the heart of every man.

It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves.
This is the song of every man.
And God is watching us, God is watching us,
God is watching us from a distance.
Oh, God is watching us, God is watching.
God is watching us from a distance

[The Sushi Bandit]

253. This is the all time worst "Miss American Pie"

(shuddering)

[raccoon]

255. "These Boots Were Made for Walking"--Nancy Sinatra

:puke:

I read the feds played that song at full volume when they had the Branch Davidians under siege. That should go under the heading of cruel and unusual punishment.

[RebelOne]

267. One of my favorite songs. Expressed my feelings

about a lot of relationships I had.

[The Sushi Bandit]

256. This is my best poll of all time!!

256 threads!!

[Metta]

257. 96 Tears and all those dead teenage girl songs. Yuck!

Feh. Hairball. Gag.

[Jazz2006]

274. Oh, yes - Tell Laura I Love Her - gag!!!

[marigold20]

259. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy.......

you know the rest - far worse than Honey

[Zookeeper]

261. "Eve of Destruction."

I can't remember who recorded it, and it was kind of funny, but most of the worst songs have already been named.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

262. What? No "Sister Christian"?! I will take every song in this thread,

well, except for maybe "My Humps", over that ridiculous, pretentious, pseudo-rock anthem, anytime.

:) MKJ

[immoderate]

268. In the Year 2525!

Honorable mention: "She's Leaving Home" (even the Beatle can turn out a clinker.)

--IMM

[redwitch]

271. I agree 150% on the Zager and Evans slop BUT...

I like "She's Leaving Home". :-)

[immoderate]

275. Well, it's my least favorite Beatles' tune.

doesn't stop me from playing Sgt. Pepper though.:D

--IMM

[arwalden]

269. These Are Pretty Bad...

Proud To Be An American
Run Joey Run
Billy Don't Be A Hero
Having My Baby
Feelings

[derby378]

272. PUBERTY LOVE!!

Worst. Song. Ever.

[flaminbats]

273. I love Billy Joel, but I hate this song!!

Careless Talk..http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Careless-Talk-lyrics-Billy-Joel/B822F3F8B3E9E77348256870001C1732