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!

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

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

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

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.

Make it stop. :scared:

:puke:

:puke:

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.

yes, that was an awful song

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.

Sorry. Couldn't help myself.

No text, just LOL

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

:cry:
rocknation

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

:rofl::rofl:

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.

It is an awesome song!

and Bryan Adams' song from the Robin Hood movie.

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.

but his music is pure, unadulterated feces.

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.

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.

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.

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

"Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" is hell.

:puke:

*yuck*

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

:puke:

:shrug:

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.

And I envy you.

May karma be gentle with you...

:grr:

good, I mean bad one!

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.

it has no votes yet!!

:D

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

:spank:

of Don't Worry, Be Happy :sarcasm:

I HATE that song. :puke:

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

:puke:

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

:P

It makes me suicidal... :scared:

:wtf: were they smoking?

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!

life and what passes for the music business are very strange

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

:patriot:

Thanks for reminding me... not.

x(

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

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."

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

dumb....

Looks more like Billy Carter -

It's this thread that blows

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

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

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!

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

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

I had blocked out Horse With No Name
!

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

:scared:

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

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

The contrast of moods there just slays me

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..........!

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

:scared:

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

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

:scared:

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

PUKE AND A MILLION. :puke:

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

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."

:think:

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

They are frightening.

:scared:

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.

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

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

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??"

:blush:

:P

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

:toast:

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

;) :P

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

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

yuck

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

Apparently that is a good thing.

;)

Runners Up:

Morning Train - Sheena Easton
Feelings - Morris Albert
Afternoon Delight

and I also really dislike Honey too...

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'...

Maybe Dystopia........

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

:puke:

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

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

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.

Since it is about a guy getting out of prison.

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.

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

:eyes:

No other song turns my thoughts so quickly to suicide

Some of her other stuff was really hot!

not a great song, of course, but amusing.

I don't know My Sugar Walls...

:)

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.

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.

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.

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)

same with Horse With No Name

seriously

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

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.

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

Still annoying dogs anywhere in a five mile radius.

Evil, devil music.

"Photograph" is definitely on MY shitlist!

:puke:

milli vanilli

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....

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

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

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

Turns my gut every motherfucking time.

Massive turd on so many levels.

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

How can you hate that song?

:P :P

Mingled with the good people we meet?

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.

But somehow everyone hates that song.

I was pumped!

Paul Anka :puke:

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

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:

every time you are near - duh.

And disco still sucks.

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

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:

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

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:

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.

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)

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

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

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

I remember it...:rofl:

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...

:nuke:

what a sight to see!!

And what is a Sharona, by the way?

the guitar solo in that song kick ass.

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

beer ...

I prefer the darkness.

Debbie Gibson. :puke:

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

Mz Pip
:dem:

: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)

*shudder*

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

I really COULD do without that. :D

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:

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:

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

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...

"having My Baby" was the pits.

With songs like this, who needs renditioning?

:puke:
rocknation

Probably the only crossover hit of the original ska era.

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.

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.

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..."

"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:

:banghead:

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

song top my list of worst song ever

:rofl::rofl:

:hi:

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

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.

:scared: