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TOP TEN WORST SONGS EVER!!!!Have fun...and good luck with the reference!It's actually a good song, or so my wife says....22 points are up for grabs...
btw- Any mention of the Boss in these lists will get you FOREVER BANNED from this blog!!!!! Show tunes are acceptable, however...
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in no particular order......
1. The entire Korn discography. Hell, put Limp Bizkit's in there as well. Oh, and Creed's too.
2. I Wanna Sex You Up- Color Me Badd
3. Boys of Summer- Don Henley
4. Time of Your Life- Green Day
5. The End- The Doors
6. Freedom- Paul McCartney
7. Goodbye Earl- Dixie Chicks
8. Patience- Guns-N-Roses
9. Kokomo- Beach Boys
10. My Heart Will Go On--Celiene Dion
honorable mention:
I Remember You-- Skid Row
Heartbeat-- Don Johnson
Sunglasses At Night-- Corey heart
My Ding-A-Ling-- Chuck Berry
BTW Tim: Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" may not be one of the worst songs ever, but it sure aint one of the best. Sorry. Don't ban me. I'm just being honest.
Agreed on PINK CADALLAC,,,but dammit I RMEMBER YOU is a very underrated power ballad!..and THE END? I'm surprised by that one...but BOY do I agree w. your #1!!!
Just hated the "free form stoned out Oedipus rant" at the end of that song.
Bleh. Pretentious.
Bach's voice really gets me on that song though. I think that is why it is so bad for me.
"AND HE.....uh....um.....WALKED ON DOWN THE HALL!"
Lame, Jim. Lame.
Worst songs ever:
1)It's A Small World After All...the ultimate worst. Imagine having to run the ride at Disneyland and having to listen to that all day.
2)Alley Cat...is there anything more cheesy?
3)Pepe...The title song of a movie most of you probably never even heard of. It was an attempt to make Mexican comedian Cantiflas an American movie star. It didn't work.
4)Always...I've just never warmed to this song by Irving Berlin.
5)The Anniversary Waltz...I love Jolie (No, not Angelina, Al Jolson!...some of you really must find some cultural touchstones beyond your own generation), but I just don't care for this puppy.
6) We'll Follow the Old Man Where Ever He Wants to Go...Another Berlin clinker from the movie White Christmas, but...
7)What Do You Do With A General When He Stops Being a General...may be the penultimate Berlin clinker from the same movie, still there's...
8)Mr. Monotony...I don't mean to pick on Irving Berlin, cause I like a lot of his stuff, but this another stinker he cranked out...Of course...
9)True Love...from High Society shows that even Cole Porter could write gag-inducing songs...
10)Yesterday...by the Beatles. This song has always grated on me. Never liked it, never will.
Gee, I'm already at ten and could probably do ten more. Just when I'm getting started.
Shit! PATRICK SWAZIE!! How could I forget? Oh yeah, it is Swazie singing. That 's how.
Ouch..WE BUILT THIS CITY..What a piece of CRAP...and I even LIKED Starship in the 70's but DAMN....as my brother Jerry once said, 'When a band starts singing about themselves, it's OVER!"
Hey, $ surely you can't put COME SAIL AWAY in that category (and it's DeYoung, btw- you're confusing him with Chris DeBerg, of LADY IN RED fame- which damn well make MY list...)or perhaps former Cheifs QB Steve Deberg?
Okay here goes...
10) Sex and Candy /Marcy Playground- rarely does hearing the opening chords of a song actually make me cringe...this one does it. Awful!
9) Never Say Goodbye /Bon Jovi: "Remember at the prom that night- you and me , we had a FIGHT"...the Nobel Committee really missed out on that one...
8) BABE / Styx- Most people pojnt the finger at KILROY for ruining this band, BUT, as Tommy Shaw pointed out on BEHIND THE MUSIC, THIS was the song that signaled the beginning of the end..
7) All I Wanna Do / Sheryl Crowe- MAN, I really don't like this song!
It just annoys me for some reason...
6) Anything on MUSIC FROM THE ELDER by KISS- File this one under, "Hey, what's the quickest pah to career suicide? I know...a KISS CONCEPT album"...what WERE they thinking?
5) ANYTHING by Destiny's Child- Sorry, they just suck... BOOTYLICIOUS my ass!
4) RED WHITE AND BLUE /Lynyrd Skynyrd (Mach II)- "My hair's turning white, my neck's always been red, my collar's still blue" Somewhere in florida, Ronnie Van Zant is STILL spinning in his grave...
3) Lady In Red/ Chris Deberg- Yep...it made the list!
2) Shakedown/ Bob Seger- I love Bobby, but this song is LAME-O!!!!And it's about the last we heard from Segar...Coincedence? I think not!
1)Constant Craving/KD Lang: I LOVE Lang's voice, but something about this song makes me literally and violently ill! Logan's Mommy will appreciate this pick!
Honorable Mention:
ANY Meatloaf song that WASN'T written by Jim Steinman- Meatloaf without Steinman is like tuna without mayonaise...
Gwen Stefani solo- absolute shite!
Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue- Toby keith can stick a boot up his OWN ass for all I care!
Your crazy....Sister Christian is solid!! And On My Own..come on...for sheer camp value its a beauty....
Ok..this was a hard one to narrow down. Tim made it easier by listing two of my all time worsts..Constant Craving (I cant even say the title without cringing) and Never Say Goodbye (Jon evidently was referring to losing his song writing ability when he said "you lost more then that in my back seat baby")
1- Anything by Conway Twitty...the sleazeist man to ever record a song. With titles like "Lord i love the lady in those tight fitting jeans" "I can tell youve never been this far before" and the unforgettably ugly cover of "I need a lover with a slow hand" THIS IS THE UNDISPUTED WORST CANON OF SONGS EVER PUT TOGETHER BY ONE SINGER!!!!
2- Any song Elton John did after 1978.
3- Dancing in the Sheets by Shalomar. Just because it was on the Footloose soundtrack does NOT give it a free pass.
4- The Battle OF Evermore by Led Zepplin but the Lovemongers did a version of it for the Singles soundtrack that i just hate even more then the original. All that screechy headache inducing repetitive crap just sends me into migraine.
5- Dripping From The Cross...a hymnal thats been around for a few hundred years. Baptists arent known for their subtlety.
6-We Built This City....we all agree on this one. It IS the worst song ever. Evidently although they built this city on rock and roll they were hell bent on destroying the city with this crappy song.
7- One Tin Soldier by Coven. I HATE HATE HATE this song. Of course the Billy Jack movie was a classic.
8- Any "song" by the Ministry. All it takes is one bad mushroom trip to make you hate the music that was playing while you were sucked into a swirling black vortex of fear and darkness. Good Times
9- Walk Like An Egyptian by the Bangles. A silly nerve grating song that hasnt become nostalgic or charming even after 20 years.
10- although i am a closet Foreigner fan i recognize how vile and misogynistic most of there songs were. As ive told Tim many times...they are songs written for horny teenage boys. Songs like "Urgent", "Hot Blooded", "Dirty White Boy" come to mind.
Okay, there are so many to mention I will be stirring for the rest of the night, so I will list the worst songs of performer(s) I love...
10) Battle of Evermore- LED ZEP
I think they even got John Paul Jones to drink when they recorded that song.
9) Night of the Long Knives- AC/DC
Boring. Most of that "For Those..." album, too.
8) Walking In Your Footsteps- THE POLICE.
What was a song like that doing on such a brooding masterpiece anyway?
7) Diamonds and Pearls- PRINCE
6) Cold Shot- STEVIE RAY VAUGHN
5) I'm sorry. I don't like reggae songs. The coupla songs I ever liked, I don't remember the name of. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
4) Catch My Fall- BILLY IDOL
Andre Carriere, if you read this, please don't beat me up.
3) Paper In Fire- JOHN MELLENCAMP
I can't think of any songs I like by this artist that has an accordian in it. Nothing against accordians, mind you.
2) That weird shit that happens and the end of PINK FLOYD'S The Wall.
1) Adult Education- HALL & OATES
Number 5 in my original post doesn't make sense in that I didn't list an artist I loved. Damn, I can't think of one.
See..even Mills agrees on the Battle of Evermore. Blech!!!
And Paper and Fire i agree with too...ugh...Mellencamp was on autopilot.
While I could add a dozen or so Hall and Oates tunes, I actually dug ADULT ED., despite the silly video...and SISTER CHRISTIAN is a fine song...-5 pts for you , rick8...
Many things can make a song terrible. A misbegotten lyric that makes the listener queasy. A shrieking arrangement. A particularly slap-worthy performance. An previously great artist reaching the bottom of the barrel and finding more success than with the good stuff. (Did you realize that "My Ding-A-Ling" is Chuck Berry's *only* Number One single? Doesn't that make you want to kick the American record buyer in the 'nads?) I tried to get a little of all of that.
Read on, IF YOU DARE.
No particular order. (Google the lyrics if you feel like singing along.)
"I've Never Been To Me" -- Charlene
"We Built This City" -- Starship
"I Am A Rock" -- Simon & Garfunkel
"A Better Place To Be" -- Harry Chapin
"What I Am" -- Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
"Layla (Unplugged Version)" -- Eric Clapton
"In The Year 2525" -- Zager and Evans
"The Living Years" -- Mike and the Mechanics
"Tonight's The Night" -- Rod Stewart
"My Ding-A-Ling" -- Chuck Berry
Oh, jeez. I forgot "God Bless The USA" by Lee Greenwood. That one's worse than anything I listed.
It gets mad bonus points because most of the people who love it think it's called "I'm Proud To Be An American."
Many very good lists here. Had to think on this to avoid too much duplication, but I stand on this list with pride. Incidentally, these are all songs that you can't hear the titles of without them virally infecting your brain for days. My apologies in advance.
10) ANY Conway Twitty, Justin Timberlake or Michael Bolton: I'm sure Twitty's in hell. The rest to join soon, according to my blood-signed contract.
9) MacArthur Park: "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." ... well, shit.
8) Chevy Van: Ever hear something so bad it just makes you laugh 'til you squirt milk out your nose? When there's no milk around?
8b) Muskrat Love: Bestiality, anyone?
7) Ode to Billy Joe: If this song evaporated into nothingness forever and were ever wiped from our memories, I truly believe world peace would ensue.
6) Cat's In the Cradle: I don't care what issues you (or I) have with our fathers. This just sucks. Tear-jerking for the sake of jerking tears. Hey, ain't that the formula for country?
6b) Don't Take the Girl - For the same reason as the Chapin.
5) Afternoon Delight: I'm starting to get ill.
4) Wind Beneath My Wings: *Particularly* that Bette version. The extra 90 seconds or so of "flyyyyy so high" and "thank God for you" crap at the end often induces a violent diarrheal reaction in me, particularly when played in restaurants when I'm trying to eat.
3) Run, Joey, Run - Die, Joey, Die! I hope her daddy catches you and pulls your heart out your anus!
2) M. Bolton's "When a Man Loves a Woman": I know I mentioned him already, but this song particularly enrages me. Enrage, I say! "How am I supposed to live with you?", you ask, Bolton? YOU'RE NOT!
1) Seasons in the Sun: This one and the Bolton are close, but I gotta go with this one for the sheer staying power it has had with me. When I was 4 years old I knew this was crap! I hate this song with a loathing so deep that it makes me feel like crying.
Enthusiastic nods to others already mentioned:
I Just Called To Say: This is the same guy who did "I Wish" and "Superstition"? Come on!
Kokomo: This just makes me sad.
We Built this City: Voted #1 worst ever on VH1.
Korn, Limp Biskit: If Limp lost Fred and brought in Zach de la Rocha, they'd rule! Korn is near hopeless. When members leave to become born-again Christians, you suck.
Never Been To Me: I think Charlene was a depressed nympho.
God Bless the USA - There are few songs I will actually get up and leave the room rather than hear. No matter who I am around.
One Tin Soldier: I had to learn to play this in my first guitar class. Nothing to beat a nasty song into you like knowing all the chords.
Gotta stop now. Feel depressed.
Is it too late to add...?:
* Bette's "From a Distance"
* The Human League's "Fascination"
* Alanis' "Ironic" - I love that the only thing ironic about this song is that none of the things she lists are really examples of irony.
* "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"
* "Sylvia's Mother" - Does anyone remember "Freakin' at the Freaker's Ball"? How acn the same band do both of these songs? Has Michael Bolton considered joining a reconstituted Dr. Hook?
I just realized how many of my picks were older. I think what makes those songs so bad to me is that many of them were recorded in an era of better song-crafting. The chords and arrangements are actually very catchy, not just push-button pop. So, they stick in you... like a rusty blade... or a septic buttplug.
And stay there.
Hey Mikey- Remember Dr Hook ALSO did SHARIN THE NIGHT TOGETHER and SEXY EYS...both which make SYLVIA'S MOTHER seem like STARIWAY TO HEAVEN...
...and Rick , 10 points for being ...errr...man enough to admit a fondness for Justin T. , BUT -8 more points for dissing the Mellancamp Canon! How dare you!!!!
Logansmommy said:
" Any "song" by the Ministry. All it takes is one bad mushroom trip to make you hate the music that was playing while you were sucked into a swirling black vortex of fear and darkness. Good Times."
Don't blame the drugs, Joy. You were just on the wrong drug. You don't eat mushrooms while listening to Ministry. You snort cocaine or eat acid! It makes all the difference in the world.
I hate cheap irony and overwrought arrangements, so I have no soul.
You know, I just KNEW this thing would eventually turn into a you-gotta-be-friggin'-kidding-me-that-song-is-high-art-on-a-platter fest.
I could've said, "Hey, how dare you diss..."
"Boys of Summer"
"Smuggler's Blues"
"Babe"
"Cold Shot"
"What I Am"
...but I didn't, did I?
X-man, you are right. That breathy stuff he does in "Sharin' the Night" ("...oooh...yeah...") sounds like a pedarast in a dark schoolyard corner.
And, Cats In the Cradle still sucks. Call your dad and clear it all up between you and that song suddenly sounds like Chapin squeezing out a turd.
Well, this geezer would just like to comment that about 75% of the songs you young whippersnappers have mentioned as the worst I've never even heard of...and given that you think they are the worst, that's probably a good thing.
HOw could I forget MacArthur Park...that cake's icing melting in the rain has got to be one of the damned dumbest lyrics I've ever heard.
Yeah, MacAuthur Park is a huge suckfest- particualy the 'Richard Harris" rendition from the good ole days...
Ricky- mid 80's Boss was never my favorite, but come on! Don't diss the video, he's a dad throwing a ball, not a ball player (and he changes the line live to "screw ball")Anyhoo, as a ball fan, you gotta give him props for mentioning Craig Nettles in the video!
Tutt- you made milk suqirt outta my nose with the "pererast" line! And I ain't even drinking milk!
BTW- for My money, if you wanna shitty Harry Chapin song, look no further than TAXI ("Taking tips...and gettin' stoned!") God , I can't help but giggle just thinking of it!
DOH- too many typos - PEDARAST was the word...
Oh yeah. "Super Bowl Shuffle!"
They should all be ashamed.
As loathsome as "Cat's In The Cradle" and "Taxi" are, "Better Place To Be" is easily the worst Chapin song, at least for me. (And he's got lots of candidates, believe me -- "Sniper" and "Mail Order Annie" are right up there as well.) Google the lyrics if you dare. It's breathtaking in its awfulness.
I'm with Mike: not going to waste time defending any stuff I like that's shown up -- that's a battle I'll never win.
Wasn't there a Bee Gees tune about a guy stuck in a well or something? I remember listening to that and laughing. Lyrics were something like "I did it to him. Now it's my turn to die!"
Or a cave or tunnel?
In any case, pretty damn bad.
Oo! Oo! Oo! skoehler cribbed a comedy bit by Denis Leary describing "SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE"!
Are you a fan, skoehler?
I saw Blootie and the Ho-fish at Farm Aid 95 in L'ville. Their guitarist looks like Michael Rappaport and he bitched about his monitor like a diva through their entire set. Rucker mumbles worse than Vedder.
skoehler,
Me too on the Cure For Cancer!
Thank god, I have finally met someone who really digs Leary.
On record"Speedball"- live "Screwball"...
And Adam, I believe the song to which you refer is the BeeGees NEW YORK MINING DISASTER- I kinda dig old, pre disco BeeGees. And yeah, I like the disco stuff too...so shoot me!
..And if you wanna REALLY bad version of CATS IN THE CRADLE, check out the Ugly Kidd Joe version!!! Nausiating!
Of course, the song is Please Mr Please. Duh.
What a bunch of pretentious rock snobs. It's all about OPINION folks.
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