What's the WORST song ever?

garnet • Aug 14, 2004 8:19 pm
Don't know if you guys have had this thread on here recently....but I just heard "Jenny from the Block" by Jennifer Lopez on the radio. That has got to be the most assinine, annoying song ever. And now it's stuck in my head! I can't take it! :smashfrea
Trilby • Aug 14, 2004 10:43 pm
MmmmmmmmBop-Hanson lads. Worst catchy song ever.
CanonBall-the Breeders. Best catchy song ever.
smoothmoniker • Aug 14, 2004 11:04 pm
"luuuuuuuuuuuvvvvving youuuuuuuuuuu
Is easy 'cuz your beautiful.

la la la la la
la la la la la
la la la la la, la laaaaa laaa laaa

-sm
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 14, 2004 11:12 pm
Worst Heh heh heh
Second place goes to "Teen Angel". :bawling:
TheSnake • Aug 14, 2004 11:26 pm
"Tropical Hot Dog Night" by Captain Beefheart is simultaneously the worst and greatest song of all time.

If you've never heard it, I highly recommend a listen.
garnet • Aug 14, 2004 11:31 pm
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Worst Heh heh heh
Second place goes to "Teen Angel". :bawling:

I like Banana Phone! Kinda catchy, and I like the singing skunks--they're damn cute! Although I imagine it could become pretty aggravating. What's "Teen Angel"? Don't know that one!
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 14, 2004 11:39 pm
TEEN ANGEL
First Verse
That fate-ful night the car was stalled
up-on the rail- road track
I pulled you out and we were safe
but you went run - ning back___

CHORUS
Teen An - gel, can you hear me
Teen An - gel can you see__ me
Are you some - where up a -bove
and am I still your own__true love

Second Verse
What was it you were look-ing for
that took your life that night
They said they found my high school ring
clutched in your fin -gers tight____

REPEAT CHORUS
Just sweet six - teen and now you're gone,
they've tak - en you a - way
I'll nev - er kiss your lips a - gain,
they bur - ied you to - day____

REPEAT CHORUSWords and Music by Jean Surrey & Red Surrey :vomit:

Maybe Jinx will tell you how those singing badgers can wear you down. :)
garnet • Aug 14, 2004 11:43 pm
xoxoxoBruce wrote:


Maybe Jinx will tell you how those singing badgers can wear you down. :)

Yeah, they are badgers I guess. The scary part is that I just listened to it it about 14 times. :eek:
Undertoad • Aug 15, 2004 12:36 am
smoothmoniker wrote:
"luuuuuuuuuuuvvvvving youuuuuuuuuuu
Is easy 'cuz your beautiful.

That song makes much more sense when you find out it was originally a lullaby sung to her daughter, Maya Rudolph.
Undertoad • Aug 15, 2004 12:38 am
I wasn't around for "Teen Angel" so I'll nominate another Death-Rock classic, "Run Joey Run", in which the singer is going to be shot dead by the dad of the girl he knocked up.



Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me
Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married...just you wait and see.

She called me up, late last night, she said Joe, don't come over
My dad and I just had a fight, and he stormed out the door
I've never seen him act his this way, my God, hes going crazy
He says he's gonna make you pay, for what we've done, he's got a gun, so

Run Joey Run Joey Run
Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me
Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married...just you wait and see.

I got in my car and I drove like mad, till I reached Julie's place
She ran to me, with tear-filled eyes, and bruises on her face
All at once, I saw him there, sneaking up behind me, WATCH OUT!
Then Julie yelled, he's got a gun, and she stepped in front of me
Suddenly, a shot rang out, and I saw Julie falling
I ran to her, I held her close, when I looked down, my hands were red,
and heres the last words Julie said...

Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me
Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married.....aaahhh..ahhhh
ahhhh....ahhhhh

Run Joey run Joey run Joey run Joey run Joey run
perth • Aug 15, 2004 12:50 am
smoothmoniker wrote:
"luuuuuuuuuuuvvvvving youuuuuuuuuuu
Is easy 'cuz your beautiful.

la la la la la
la la la la la
la la la la la, la laaaaa laaa laaa

-sm

Know what? I hate you. It's gonna take weeks to get that outta my head again. :)
Nothing But Net • Aug 15, 2004 1:05 am
"Muskrat Love" by the Captain and Tenielle.

This abomination haunted sorority houses throughout the late '70s.

If I ever hear it again I cannot be held responsible for my actions.
elSicomoro • Aug 15, 2004 1:18 am
"You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone
marichiko • Aug 15, 2004 2:01 am
ANYTHING John Denver ever sang. "Rocky Mountain hype... Blah, blah, blah." "Thank God I'm a country boy." Thank God, he's gone! :eyebrow:

Oh, yeah, Bruce. I was around for "teen angel," too. :vomit:
Trilby • Aug 15, 2004 9:36 am
Thanks a lot, Bruce. I've been singing BANANAPHONE all morning. And I get up early!


Plus, I can't help feeling that the line, "...it ain't no pony" is merely used as a gratuitous rhyming device for the line "...it's no balogney". It doesn't really add to the information about the BANANAPHONE.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 15, 2004 9:55 am
garnet wrote:
Yeah, they are badgers I guess. The scary part is that I just listened to it it about 14 times. :eek:
I couldn't turn it off in the middle. Had to wait till the end and if I waited too long and heard the first 2 notes, rinse, repeat. :lol:

Brianna, the "heh heh heh" after the link, was a warning. ;)

"Muskrat Love" by the Captain and Tenielle.
Because it revealed your real agenda? :)
Griff • Aug 15, 2004 10:09 am
Meatloaf: Stop Right There. just stop... now (still like Scooter though)

Did someone redeux Teen Angel or was there just a really weak knock off a few years back?
garnet • Aug 15, 2004 11:39 am
Brianna wrote:


Plus, I can't help feeling that the line, "...it ain't no pony" is merely used as a gratuitous rhyming device for the line "...it's no balogney". It doesn't really add to the information about the BANANAPHONE.


Yeah, what the hell is up with that? And I've never seen baloney that looks like that--what are those big white chunks in it?
melidasaur • Aug 15, 2004 12:18 pm
i'm intrigued by this Bananaphone song - where can I listen to it? I've never heard it ever!
Trilby • Aug 15, 2004 1:15 pm
garnet wrote:
Yeah, what the hell is up with that? And I've never seen baloney that looks like that--what are those big white chunks in it?


Agreed. I think it looks like a slice of salami. And if Lookout reads this, no, I don't know how to play "hide the salami" (couldn't let that one go by!)
vsp • Aug 15, 2004 1:15 pm
I'll have to find a way to link to a heavy-metal cover of Bananaphone I have.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 15, 2004 4:08 pm
melidasaur wrote:
i'm intrigued by this Bananaphone song - where can I listen to it? I've never heard it ever!

The link in post #4. :)
melidasaur • Aug 15, 2004 7:35 pm
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
The link in post #4. :)


Thanks!

Check out www.gunthernet.com for a HORRID song... apparently it is the smash summer hit of Europe. I spent the entire summer in Europe and did not hear it at all. It's called the Ding Dong Song.
Elspode • Aug 15, 2004 7:37 pm
Brianna wrote:
Agreed. I think it looks like a slice of salami. And if Lookout reads this, no, I don't know how to play "hide the salami" (couldn't let that one go by!)


You don't know how to play "hide the salami"?

Girl, that's just *sad*. :eyebrow:
garnet • Aug 15, 2004 8:43 pm
melidasaur wrote:
Thanks!

Check out www.gunthernet.com for a HORRID song... apparently it is the smash summer hit of Europe. I spent the entire summer in Europe and did not hear it at all. It's called the Ding Dong Song.


That sounds like a bad ripoff of that "I'm Too Sexy" song...ugh. :thumbsdn:
Trilby • Aug 15, 2004 9:34 pm
Elspode wrote:
You don't know how to play "hide the salami"?

Girl, that's just *sad*. :eyebrow:


I'm just telling Lookout that. I really DO know how to play! :D
melidasaur • Aug 15, 2004 11:59 pm
Banana phone - wish I had never visited that site - I can't get that song out of my head, nor can I remove the image of dancing badgers from my brain! AAAAAHHHHHH!
Sun_Sparkz • Aug 16, 2004 1:46 am
Griff wrote:
Meatloaf: Stop Right There. just stop... now (still like Scooter though)

Did someone redeux Teen Angel or was there just a really weak knock off a few years back?


Meat Loaf is a god!

wash your mouth out!
Sun_Sparkz • Aug 16, 2004 1:50 am
marichiko wrote:
ANYTHING John Denver ever sang. "Rocky Mountain hype... Blah, blah, blah." "Thank God I'm a country boy." Thank God, he's gone! :eyebrow:



oh!!!

shock horror!!

John Denver is THE MAN!!

"Country Boy" rocks out over here! you might be taking it too seriously or something.. loosen up and enjoy! it rocks!! In the club, just past midnight, whack that on and watch the dance floor go wild! it rocks!! Its so funny!

And don't even get me started on "rocky mountain high", "country road" and "jet plane" and cant forget "feather bed" so much meaning for me its inexplicable!

And i've only been listening to his albums for 6 months after i inherited a bundle form my grandad, they are the best!
jdbutler • Aug 16, 2004 8:23 am
[QUOTE=Sun_Sparkz]oh!!!

shock horror!!

John Denver is THE MAN!!

Yeah, the Dead man...He was too busy getting High in the Rocky Mountains that he forgot to gas up his Jet Plane...dumb bastard.
dar512 • Aug 16, 2004 9:57 am
Undertoad wrote:
That song makes much more sense when you find out it was originally a lullaby sung to her daughter, Maya Rudolph.

I think this is not the song you are thinking of. I'm fairly sure the song that SM hates is the Minnie Ripperton tune from the 70s.
Undertoad • Aug 16, 2004 10:28 am
And Maya Rudolph was Minnie Ripperton's daughter. Little piece of trivia I've hung onto.
marichiko • Aug 16, 2004 10:46 am
Sun_Sparkz wrote:
oh!!!

shock horror!!

John Denver is THE MAN!!

"Country Boy" rocks out over here! you might be taking it too seriously or something.. loosen up and enjoy! it rocks!! In the club, just past midnight, whack that on and watch the dance floor go wild! it rocks!! Its so funny!

And don't even get me started on "rocky mountain high", "country road" and "jet plane" and cant forget "feather bed" so much meaning for me its inexplicable!

And i've only been listening to his albums for 6 months after i inherited a bundle form my grandad, they are the best!


Differnt generation, different country, "At tempus, a mores!"
dar512 • Aug 16, 2004 11:08 am
Undertoad wrote:
And Maya Rudolph was Minnie Ripperton's daughter. Little piece of trivia I've hung onto.

Ah. Now I see what you were saying.

Must have changed the lyrics for the album. Cause some of the lines are:

"Making Love with you is all I wanna do"

and

"And every time that we oooh I'm more in love with you"
jdbutler • Aug 16, 2004 12:32 pm
How about that irritating "Tiny Bubbles (in my tub)"
lookout123 • Aug 16, 2004 2:08 pm
"worst" is so subjective that it is hard to throw one out that is really the worst. one that i equate with fingernails on a chalkboard though is Stairway to Heaven. i hate that song!

and close behind that you can list just about any other Led Zeppelin song. sorry, don't stone me.
wolf • Aug 16, 2004 2:23 pm
Wind Beneath my Wings.

Oh, and that abomination from Titanic.

I was at a psychic faire all weekend. There was a motherfuckingsleazyloungeact piano guy there (who switched off with a harp player) who kept playing those two songs.

I nearly shot him.

Nearly.
lookout123 • Aug 16, 2004 2:27 pm
they only played those two songs?

if so, did you look for a camera to see if you were on that Mtv show Boiling Point ?
warch • Aug 16, 2004 2:37 pm
Lookout! We seem opposites in every regard. Not that that is a bad thing, its getting eerie. I love any/all Zeppelin. Jimmy Page!

Now the Doors....any of those selections is a contender. Ick. LA Woman.

But my vote for all time worst..."Never Been to Me" by someone named Charlene.
She needs a good puck to the mouth. :)
perth • Aug 16, 2004 2:37 pm
lookout123 wrote:
one that i equate with fingernails on a chalkboard though is Stairway to Heaven. i hate that song!

Good call. I used to like it actually, but there isn't a classic rock station in the area that doesn't play that song a hundred fucking times a day. and it's usually preceded by an Eagles song, which makes it that much worse. If you can get away with publicly proclaiming that you hate Led Zep, I imagine I can get away with professing my deep hatred of the Eagles.
lookout123 • Aug 16, 2004 2:43 pm
i have to be honest - there is very little, in the way of music, that i like from the 70's.

black sabbath (original line-up of course)
the misfits (any line up with glenn)

i can't think of much else.
wolf • Aug 16, 2004 2:57 pm
lookout123 wrote:
they only played those two songs?

if so, did you look for a camera to see if you were on that Mtv show Boiling Point ?


It certainly seemed like he only played those two songs, but anyone familiar with sleazyloungeactpiano knows that everything they play sounds like those two songs.

(There was a brief respite when they didn't have enough drummers to accompany the belly dancers and so piano guy turned up the drum track on his keyboard to compensate for the three drummers they did find who suffered badly from "white man's disease".)

I never heard of Boiling Point, but probably would not be a good candidate, since I pretty much don't get there often. I take a lot of outrageous stuff pretty calmly.
ladysycamore • Aug 16, 2004 3:06 pm
ANYthing by Eminem usually does it for me. Punk ass mother fucker. :mad2: :mad:
dar512 • Aug 16, 2004 3:08 pm
Let's differentiate. There is a difference between a truly horrendous song. and one that has merely been overplayed on the radio.

my standard radio rant

Radio is now a nearly complete monopoly. As much as I hate what Microsoft has done to the software industry, I hate clear channel more.

I know there is good music being made out there. It's a darn shame that all you can find on the radio is homogenized pap.

I only listen to NPR and talk stations lately.

end rant
perth • Aug 16, 2004 3:19 pm
Our local public radio station has a couple decent music shows throughout the day and usually a good Jazz show in the evenings. I tend to find the stuff I end up buying by listening. I rarely switch to anything else anymore.

And you're splitting hairs. Overplayed is one of the key factors in determining *my* personal "worst song ever". :)
dar512 • Aug 16, 2004 3:32 pm
perth wrote:
And you're splitting hairs. Overplayed is one of the key factors in determining *my* personal "worst song ever". :)


I dunno. It makes sense to me. First, it helps to decide who to blame - the scary songwriter or the moneygrubbing stations.

Second, for some songs, if I don't listen to them for a while, I may start enjoying them again. Whereas, bad songs are bad forever. I have to admit though, that I still can't listen to almost anything by the Eagles - way too overplayed.

On the original topic. I suggest "She's Having my Baby". Many of you will be too young to remember this one, but trust me on this. This song sucks in a really big way.
perth • Aug 16, 2004 3:48 pm
dar512 wrote:
I dunno. It makes sense to me. First, it helps to decide who to blame - the scary songwriter or the moneygrubbing stations.

I find it best to just lay the blame on everyone even remotely involved. Saves me a lot of thinking. :D
lookout123 • Aug 16, 2004 4:02 pm
warch wrote:
Lookout! We seem opposites in every regard. Not that that is a bad thing, its getting eerie. I love any/all Zeppelin. Jimmy Page!

Now the Doors....any of those selections is a contender. Ick. LA Woman.

But my vote for all time worst..."Never Been to Me" by someone named Charlene.
She needs a good puck to the mouth. :)


the Doors? i actually like some of their stuff. i don't believe in the whole hero worship of Morrison, but they knew how to put out a decent song when they weren't completely whacked out of their gourds.

as far as Zepellin? like i said, it is completely subjective - i guarantee most of my favorite music would leave most people scratching their heads and saying "WTF?" but i don't like Zepellin's sound much, and i really hate the fact that they borrowed so much from the old blues musicians without giving the proper credit. please don't ask me to go back and give examples. i just remember one of my instructors going on and on about some of Zepellin's stuff, and i happened to be paying attention in class and thinking to myself - "bullshit - that song was straight outta Muddy Waters, and that one was Howlin Wolf!" but that has been about 15 years, so it would take some serious time for me to track down the specifics.
anyway - i am glad you enjoy the band though.
99 44/100% pure • Aug 16, 2004 4:55 pm
[gag!]

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's soulful homage to a young girl's loss of her virginity . . .

This Girl Is A Woman Now

This girl walked in dreams, Playing in a world of her own.
This girl was a child, Existing in a playground of stone.
Then, one night her world was changed; Her life and dreams were rearranged.
She would never be the same again.

chorus
This Girl is a Woman Now; She's learned how to live.
This Girl is a Woman Now. She's found out what it's all about
And she's learnin', learnin' to live.

This girl tasted love, as tender as the gentle dawn.
She cried a single tear, A teardrop that was sweet and warm.
Our hearts told us we were right, And on that sweet velvet night.
A child had died, a woman had been born.

chorus

[/gag!]
99 44/100% pure • Aug 16, 2004 4:56 pm
Darn! Now you all know how OLD I am!
Sun_Sparkz • Aug 16, 2004 7:14 pm
jdbutler wrote:




Yeah, the Dead man...He was too busy getting High in the Rocky Mountains that he forgot to gas up his Jet Plane...dumb bastard.



And that makes his music any worse how?
melidasaur • Aug 16, 2004 8:25 pm
What's New, Pussycat? by Tom Jones - that song sends me into a blind rage!
lookout123 • Aug 16, 2004 9:31 pm
Sun_Sparkz wrote:
And that makes his music any worse how?



no the plane crash was just a bonus to everyone who had to endure the music.
marichiko • Aug 16, 2004 9:58 pm
I don't know if anyone around here ever listen to Country Western (its one of my occasional secret vices). Here's a song by Toby Keith that's still getting some air time:

American girls and American guys will always stand up and salute;
Will always recognize
When we see ol' glory flying,
There's a lot of men dead,
So we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our head.

My daddy served in the army,
Where he lost his right eye.
But he flew a flag out in our yard 'til the day that he died.
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me
To grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

Now this nation that I love has fallen under attack.
A mighty sucker punch came flying in from somewhere in the back.
Soon as we could see clearly through our big black eye,
Man we lit up your world like the Fourth of July.

Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly,
And there's gonna be Hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell!
It's gonna feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you...
Brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue!

Oh, Justice will be served and the battle will rage.
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
You'll be sorry that you messed with the US of A
'Cuz we'll put a boot in your ass
It's the American way.

Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly,
And there's gonna be Hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell!
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you...
Brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue!

Of the Red, White and Blue..
Of my Red, White and Blue...

This song makes me want to puke every time I hear it!
garnet • Aug 16, 2004 10:04 pm
marichiko wrote:
Here's a song by Toby Keith that's still getting some air time:

This song makes me want to puke every time I hear it!


I'm not a country music fan, but that song is definitely the worst of the worst. The "boot in your ass" line makes me cringe...embarrassing. I think this was one of the songs on VH-1's "worst" list recently. :greenface
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 17, 2004 12:06 am
lookout123 wrote:
but i don't like Zepellin's sound much, and i really hate the fact that they borrowed so much from the old blues musicians without giving the proper credit.
Zeps manager also named and managed Stone the Crows, who's lead singer Maggie Bell, was the best blues singer in the British Isles. If you've never heard her, you should, even if your not into blues. :)
marichiko • Aug 17, 2004 12:09 am
Sun_Sparkz wrote:
And that makes his music any worse how?


Sun Sparkz, all I can say is that you would have had to of been here. Most Americans find John Denver's music as contrived as his name (You DO know he changed his named from something like John Syndervonhammmer to John Denver, after he moved to Colorado, right?) He wrote "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" while lounging on the grounds of his palacial estate in Aspen - just about the most expensive, chi-chi place on the face of the earth. If you want to find a "country boy," you'll have better luck on the streets of L.A. than you would on the streets of Aspen. Someone (I forget who) did a parody of that song and called it "Thank God, I'm a Billionaire!" Regular Country-Western singers here in the States may sing songs about coon hounds and Mom and apple pie, but if they make it big, there's no pretense about that. They strut their stuff in all their glitter while talking about their humble roots. John Denver tried to still come off as a poor boy while raking in the cash hand over fist. The hypocrisy of this turned people off.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 17, 2004 12:09 am
99 44/100% pure wrote:
Darn! Now you all know how OLD I am!

You dislike that song because you were traumatized by the subject matter at such an early age. ;)
hollyoake • Aug 17, 2004 4:28 am
ahem... :yelsick:
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com
:greenface
Griff • Aug 17, 2004 7:43 am
That's no Chicken Dance.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 17, 2004 8:16 am
It's got a good beat, Mr Clark, I can dance to it.
OoPs. now I'm showing my age. :o
Elspode • Aug 17, 2004 1:53 pm
99 44/100% pure wrote:
[gag!]

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's soulful homage to a young girl's loss of her virginity . . .

This Girl Is A Woman Now

[/gag!]


Let's not forget the equally vile "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon", in which it is apparently intimated that until a female has got herself a man and lost her maidenhead, she isn't able to be woman...
Trilby • Aug 17, 2004 2:19 pm
Then there is the cunundrum poor, maligned (she said with sarcasm) Britney Spears found herself in when she was "not a girl, not yet a woman"--betcha a lot of teeny-bopper boys beat off to that one. Yuck.
Pie • Aug 17, 2004 4:25 pm
wolf wrote:
Wind Beneath my Wings.
Oh, and that abomination from Titanic.

I'm with you there. And anything by Celine Dion. <shudder>

- Pie
Lady Sidhe • Aug 17, 2004 6:52 pm
Yeah, Gary Puckett had those crappy songs, I'll have to agree with that. His voice gets on my nerves, too. Britney Spears is a teenybopper without talent who sounds just like every other teenybopper without talent out there nowadays.

One song I just cannot stand, though, is Spirit in the Sky. Don't know who sings it, don't care. It's annoying, and it sucks.


Sidhe
Trilby • Aug 17, 2004 7:09 pm
On the other hand--I am currently (as in right now) listening to Harry Belafonte. He's soooooo good. Day-O!

Sorry---:guinness:
Sun_Sparkz • Aug 18, 2004 2:54 am
marichiko wrote:
Sun Sparkz, all I can say is that you would have had to of been here. Most Americans find John Denver's music as contrived as his name (You DO know he changed his named from something like John Syndervonhammmer to John Denver, after he moved to Colorado, right?) He wrote "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" while lounging on the grounds of his palacial estate in Aspen - just about the most expensive, chi-chi place on the face of the earth. If you want to find a "country boy," you'll have better luck on the streets of L.A. than you would on the streets of Aspen. Someone (I forget who) did a parody of that song and called it "Thank God, I'm a Billionaire!" Regular Country-Western singers here in the States may sing songs about coon hounds and Mom and apple pie, but if they make it big, there's no pretense about that. They strut their stuff in all their glitter while talking about their humble roots. John Denver tried to still come off as a poor boy while raking in the cash hand over fist. The hypocrisy of this turned people off.


Are you serious? so he is a fabricated country pop star?

oh lord.

*spirals into dismay and disbelief*
Griff • Aug 18, 2004 7:09 am
Brianna accidently put the Thompson Twins Hold Me Now on another thread. So I'll list it here. :)
99 44/100% pure • Aug 18, 2004 1:12 pm
Lady Sidhe wrote:
Yeah, Gary Puckett had those crappy songs, I'll have to agree with that. His voice gets on my nerves, too.


Ugh -- I'd forgotten about "You'll be a Woman Soon" -- yes, equally vile. As to Puckett's voice, he and all the other caterwaulers of both genders (Dion, Carey, etc.) fit in a category I call "Sounds like they're swallowing a bucketful of cum." Ironic, considering Puckett's subject matter.
marichiko • Aug 18, 2004 2:32 pm
Sun_Sparkz wrote:
Are you serious? so he is a fabricated country pop star?

oh lord.

*spirals into dismay and disbelief*


Actually most of them are fabricated to a greater or lesser agree, John Denver was just so obvious about it. Here are the lyrics to a Country Western Song that I really DO like:

Gone Country
(sung by Alan Jackson)

She's been playing in a room on a strip
For ten years in Vegas
Every night she looks in the mirror
But she only ages
She's been reading about Nashville and all
The records that everybody's buying
Says 'I'm a simple girl myself
Grew up on Long Island'
So she packs her bags to try to her hand
Says "this might be my last chance."

She's gone country, look at them boots
She's gone country, back to her roots
She's gone country, a new kind of suit
She's gone country,
here she come!

Well the folk scene is dead
But he's holding out in the village
He's been writing songs speaking out
Against wealth and privilege
He says 'I dont believe in money
But a man could make himself a killin'
Some of that stuff dont sound
Much different than Dylan.
I hear down there it's changed you see
They're not as backwards as they used to be."

He's gone country, look at them boots!
He's gone country, but to his roots
He's gone country, a new kind of suit
He's gone country, here he comes!

He commutes to LA
But he's got a house in the valley
The bills are piling up
And the pop scene just aint on the rally
He says 'Honey I'm a serious composer
Schooled in voice and composition
But with the crime and the smog these days
This aint no place for children
Lord it sounds so easy, it shouldnt take long
Be back in the money in no time at all'

He's gone country, look at them boots
He's gone country, back to his roots
He's gone country, a new kind of suit
He's gone country, here he comes
Yeah he's gone country, a new kind of walk
He's gone country, a new kind of talk
He's gone country, look at them boots
He's gone country, oh back to his roots

He's gone country
He's gone country
Everybody's gone country
Yeah we've gone country
The whole world's gone country

Songs like this are the reason I'll listen to CW occasionally. The song is a great parody of the whole CW/ Nashville scene, plus its got a great melody and rock beat that make me want to start dancing every time I hear it. (Alan Jackson appears on his covers in a very swank cowboy style suit with boots, (of course!) that would probably have bought an entire cattle ranch at the price. He doesn't pretend to be anything other than what he is.
dar512 • Aug 18, 2004 2:40 pm
I can't speak to John Denver the man, but I did like his music.
jdbutler • Aug 18, 2004 3:14 pm
For all you country music fans,
I Wrote this classic April 10, 2001

I saw you at the rodeo/
I had a date in mind/I asked if you'd go out with me/
You said "That would be fine"/
Now he we sit at Taco Bell/
Havin' refried beans and wine/
And I'd like to get/
Into your pants
'cause I juse shet in mine/

I thought I just had/
gas to pass/
God-damn them beans and wine/
My bowels just plain erupted/
Couldn't hold in in this time/
I didn't bring spare/
Underwear, but/
I sure will next time/
So let me get/
Into your pants/
'cause I just shet in mine.

Other titles begging for lyrics:

"You're much prettier than just three beers ago"
"Sniffin on her skid marks since she's gone"
"If you really really loved me, you'd have married someone else"
She had her only tooth pulled...to make room for my hawg"
"Next to you/Janet Reno's/Looking good"
Why don't they name babies Judas"
Everytime I see you / I wish I were born blind"
"She's got a mind / Like a steel seive"
"Bring your snorkel with ya / 'cause you'll be divin for my muff"
'I'm a prayin for Alzheimers / 'cause I still remember you.
"My poppa told me / Ya' can't unsuck a dick"
99 44/100% pure • Aug 18, 2004 4:55 pm
jdbutler wrote:

"If you really really loved me, you'd have married someone else"


*snort* That's great -- could be a real song! You ought to write it up and shop it around!
marichiko • Aug 18, 2004 5:19 pm
Oh, CW has some great one liners:

"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me." - Jimmy Buffet

"Forget about it. I can't remember when it felt so right, so just forget about it." Allison Kraus

"Some people say you shouldn't tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree; but I say fate should not tempt ME!" Mary Chapin Carpenter

"You ain't much fun since I quit drinking." Toby Keith

etc.,etc.,
Tigana • Aug 18, 2004 7:29 pm
Hello Everyone,
I'm new here but I had to chime in on this one
Does anyone remember the macarena (SP?) ? :greenface
Trilby • Aug 18, 2004 7:32 pm
NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo! Not the Macarena!!
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 18, 2004 10:50 pm
Welcome to the Cellar Tigana. Shame you had to arrive on such a *sour note*. :lol:
melidasaur • Aug 18, 2004 10:53 pm
Imagine listening to the Macarena and Mambo #5 over and over and over again - I once was in the same room as a faulty jukebox that really liked to play those two songs over and over and over again.
marichiko • Aug 18, 2004 10:56 pm
AAAARGH! Not The Macarena! I'd forgotten the damn thing and now it will be playing in my head all night. I'll get you for this! :D
wolf • Aug 19, 2004 1:00 am
I have tried very, very hard to repress that memory. Particularly of AlGore "dancing" to it.

Thankyouveryfuckingmuch.
Tigana • Aug 19, 2004 3:05 am
ooops! :biggrin: Heck of a way to make my first impression, but you have to admit if thats not the worst it's in the top 10 maybe even the top 5 !
jdbutler • Aug 19, 2004 9:39 am
Do You Love As Good As You Look
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?
Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goalposts Of Life
Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye
Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart
Heaven's Just A Sin Away
Her Body Couldn't Keep You Off My Mind
Her Cheatin' Heart Made A Drunken Fool Out Of Me
Her Teeth Was Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure
Here's A Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares
How Can A Whiskey That's 6 Years Old Whup A Man That's 33?
How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?
How Can You Believe Me When I Say I Love You When You
know I've Been A Liar All My Life?
I Been Roped And Thrown By Jesus In The Holy Ghost Corral
I Can't Get Over You, So Why Don't You Get Under Me?
I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life
I Don't Know What Came Over Me (When I Came All OverYou)
I Don't Know Whether To Come Home Or Go Crazy
I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling
I Don't Want Your Body If Your Heart's Not In It
I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me
I Flushed You From The Toilets Of My Heart.
I Got In At 2 With A 10 And Woke Up At 10 With A 2
I Hate Every Bone In Your Body Except Mine
I Just Bought A Car From The Guy That Stole My Girl, But The Car
Don't Run So I Figure We Got An Even Deal
I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You
I Knew I'd Hit Rock Bottom When I Woke Up On Top Of You
I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain't Used Up)
I Meant Every Word That He Said
I Still Miss You, Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better
I Wanna Whip Your Cow
I Wish I Were In Dixie Tonight, But She's Out Of Town
I Would Have Wrote You A Letter, But I Couldn't Spell Yuck!
I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dawg Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win
I Wouldn't Take You To A Dog Fight Even If I Thought You Could Win
I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than A Frontal Lobotomy
I'll Get Over You As Soon As You Get Out From Under Him
I'll Marry You Tomorrow But Let's Honeymoon Tonite
I'm Gettin' Gray From Being Blue
I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home
I'm Havin' Daydreams About Night Things In The Middle Of The Afternoon
I'm Just A Bug On The Windshield Of Life
I'm Not Married But The Wife Is
I'm So Miserable Without You, It's Like Having You Here
I'm The Only Hell Mama Ever Raised
I've Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
I've Got Four On The Floor And A Fifth Under The Seat
I've Got Red Eyes From Your White Lies And I'm Blue All The Time
I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back In My Bed While I Cry Over You
I've Got The Hungries For Your Love And I'm Waiting In Your Welfare Line
If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me, Her Memory Will
If Fingerprints Showed Up On Skin, Wonder Whose I'd Find On You
If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You
If I Had Shot You When I Wanted To, I'd Be Out By Now
If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?
If It's Got To Be Later, How 'Bout Later Tonight?
If Love Were Oil, I'd Be A Quart Low
If My Nose Were Full of Nickels, I'd Blow It All On You
If She Puts Lipstick On My Dipstick, I'll Fall In Love
If The Jukebox Took Teardrops I'd Cry All Night Long
If The Phone Don't Ring, Baby, You'll Know It's Me
If Whiskey Were A Woman I'd Be Married For Sure
If You Can't Feel It (It Ain't There)
If You Don't Leave Me Alone, I'll Go And Find Someone
else Who Will
If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
It Ain't Love But It Ain't Bad
It Don't Feel Like Sinnin' To Me
It Takes Me All Night Long To Do What I Used To Do All Night Long
Learning To Live Again Without You Is Killing Me
Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head)
May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
My Every Day Silver Is Plastic
My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus
My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field, While Your DearJohn Was Breaking My Heart
My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him
Oh, I've Got Hair Oil On My Ears And My Glasses Are Slipping Down, But Baby I Can See Through You
Oh, Lord! It's Hard To Be Humble When You're Perfect In Every Way
Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed
Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill
Please Bypass This Heart
She Feels Like A New Man Tonight
She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft
She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger
She Made Toothpicks Out Of The Timber Of My Heart
She's Got Freckles On Her, But She's Pretty
She's Out Doing What I'm Here Doing Without.
Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love
Tennis Must Be Your Racket 'Cause Love Means Nothin' To You
Thank God And Greyhound She's Gone
The Last Word In Lonesome Is "me"
There Ain't No Waste In My Baby's Love Canal
They May Put Me In Prison, But They Can't Stop My Face From Breakin' Out
Touch Me With More Than Your Hands
Velcro Arms, Teflon Heart
What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)
When We Get Back To the Farm (That's When We Really Go To Town)
When You Leave Walk Out Backwards, So I'll Think You're Walking In
Who You Gonna Believe, Me Or Your Lying Eyes?
You Can't Deal Me All The Aces And Expect Me Not To Play
You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too
You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd
You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat
You Hurt The Love Right Out Of Me
You Were Only A Splinter As I Slid Down The Bannister Of Life
You're A Cross I Can't Bear
You're Ruining My Bad Reputation
You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly
Cyber Wolf • Aug 19, 2004 11:35 am
jdbutler wrote:
The Best of the Worst Country-Western Song Titles...


Wow...as detailed as some of these titles are, who needs to hear the song?
99 44/100% pure • Aug 19, 2004 1:41 pm
jdbutler, are these compiled on a site somewhere? Or are you just amazingly fastidious to present them in alphabetical order for us? Funny stuff there, thanks!

BTW, my mom used to sing the "chewing gum" song to us -- I had know idea it was a REAL song, much less C&W!
wolf • Aug 19, 2004 1:46 pm
I think "Chewing Gum" was pop rather than country, actually.

"I'm Going to Hire a Wino" is one of my favorite songs.

And I hate country.
jdbutler • Aug 19, 2004 1:50 pm
99 44/100% pure wrote:
jdbutler, are these compiled on a site somewhere? Or are you just amazingly fastidious to present them in alphabetical order for us? Funny stuff there, thanks!

BTW, my mom used to sing the "chewing gum" song to us -- I had know idea it was a REAL song, much less C&W!


I know that some may disagree, but I'm not that anally inclined so as to put them all in order. They were sent to me in an email years ago and I saved them to a file. As far as I know they are all real song titles, but they are funny! :thumbsup:
melidasaur • Aug 19, 2004 2:37 pm
Another song that sends me into a blind rage - McArthur Park. I hate that song! :angry:
marichiko • Aug 19, 2004 3:39 pm
jdbutler wrote:
I know that some may disagree, but I'm not that anally inclined so as to put them all in order. They were sent to me in an email years ago and I saved them to a file. As far as I know they are all real song titles, but they are funny! :thumbsup:


I recognize a couple, but many are definately ones that probably got 5 minutes of air time and were never played again. Country is actually an interesting genre. There's the sappy, "Ma' Coonhound done left me" group, but there are also some incredibly clever songs with great lyrics and a terrrific rock beat that make wading through the "coonhound" songs worthwhile. Its also like belonging to a secret club. Most people just hear the word "country" and their mind turns off. To each his own. I couldn't stand a strict diet of Country only, but there are some country songs that make me want to laugh and dance at the same time. Can't beat that. ;)
footfootfoot • Aug 25, 2004 9:03 pm
Another song that sends me into a blind rage - McArthur Park. I hate that song!


my sister once arrived at her 8:00am math class in HS to see the words to this song written on the blackboard, by the teacher who was in a frothing rage, screaming at the students: "DON'T EVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!"

Out of curiousity, I transcribed the song to see if I could divine some message that I should be warned against. No idea.

Terri Gross had Jimmy Webb (the perpetrator) on the other day and they chatted about the song. She failed to extract any useful info either.

As far as the math teacher goes I think they didn't had the really cool meds we have now...

FYI:
Written By: Jimmy Webb

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

MacArthur 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

MacArthur 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!

[break]

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
You'll still be the one
And I ask myself "why?"

[break]

MacArthur 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!

However,
NOTHING is as bad as Cher's stirring "gypsies, tramps and thieves" You might as well say beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice.
triestemoi • Aug 25, 2004 9:17 pm
how about "Flying Purple People Eater"

That's got to be one of the worst
Brigliadore • Aug 26, 2004 2:29 am
Gosh I have to pick just one? There are so many horrible songs. Anything by Alanis Morissette makes me switch the radio station. I cant stand her, for some reason her voice is like driving nails into my ears. Anything by the Backstreet Boys or InSync is right up there too. I worked at a place that played them at least twice a day. It was horrible. There are other songs but its late and I cant think of them right now.
Trilby • Aug 26, 2004 7:38 am
OK-here's one: Disco Duck
Elspode • Aug 26, 2004 12:50 pm
footfootfoot wrote:
Terri Gross had Jimmy Webb (the perpetrator) on the other day and they chatted about the song. She failed to extract any useful info either.


It should be pointed out, though, that Jimmy Webb is one of the great pop songwriters of all time, if sales are any indication. That, and I have a long-held, even if grudging, respect for him.

We do one of his songs in my band..."The Last Unicorn", originally performed by America for the soundtrack of the animated filim of the same name.

"Chewy, Chewy" by 1910 Fruitgum Company, the flipside of "Green Tambourine"...now *there's* a bad song.
hollyoake • Aug 26, 2004 1:04 pm
... at the risk of being hit by anyone remotely religious... any hyms!!
perth • Aug 26, 2004 1:22 pm
Can you back that up any further than saying "they're religious, so they suck"? I'm not a big fan of religion myself, but some of those songs, properly performed, are truly works of art.

You're not going to get away with classifying an entire genre as "suck" here. You can claim all country, rap, R&B, or rock & roll sucks, but that telegraphs ignorance, not good taste.

Edit: Illustrative example: Eric Clapton performing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
jinx • Aug 26, 2004 1:25 pm
Anything by Gloria Estefan, specifically The Rhythm is Gonna Get You.
hollyoake • Aug 26, 2004 1:41 pm
okay i can try to redeem myself here by saying, 'any hyms sung in a british local church' as that is all i have experienced, sorry for upseting anyone!
perth • Aug 26, 2004 1:51 pm
Ew, much better. I agree completely in that case. :)
footfootfoot • Aug 27, 2004 3:35 am
Elspode wrote:
It should be pointed out, though, that Jimmy Webb is one of the great pop songwriters of all time, if sales are any indication. That, and I have a long-held, even if grudging, respect for him.

We do one of his songs in my band..."The Last Unicorn", originally performed by America for the soundtrack of the animated filim of the same name.

"Chewy, Chewy" by 1910 Fruitgum Company, the flipside of "Green Tambourine"...now *there's* a bad song.


True =Webb, and it should also be pointed out that because of the afforementioned math class incident the song has attained a dimension that I find priceless so I really enjoy it in a very perverse way. (well not like that) esp the version by the four tops. I think they could sing the phone book and I'd listen to it.

and in shame I drop my head and admit to owning the album with chewy chewy on it. What can I say? I was only seven and a "latch–key kid."

THERE SHOULD BE LAWS!!! :eek:
Tomas Rueda • Aug 27, 2004 1:01 pm
Ever heard those songs that have no tune at all, played in the whole scale? (C,D,E,F#,G#,A#,C) such as Debussy's Clair de Lune and such?
Elspode • Aug 27, 2004 1:52 pm
Dude...Clair de Lune, and most anything else by Mssr. Debussey, is incredible. I have like five different rendtions of just that one piece.

Wolf, tell him...tell him Tomita's version is mind bogglingly great.
wolf • Aug 27, 2004 3:52 pm
Tomita's version is mind bogglingly great.

Oh, and if you value your hearing and sanit, stay WAY FAR AWAY from Schoenberg. (or anything else describing itself as "12-tone row".
marichiko • Aug 27, 2004 8:43 pm
Kronos Quartet - loath them! A friend of mine has every CD put out by this modern classical/jazz group and I once had to endure 6 hours in the car with her playing nothing but on her tape deck. AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG! :greenface
Elspode • Aug 28, 2004 1:40 am
Have you ever heard Kronos' version of "Purple Haze"? It is great!

I will admit that they can get avant gard to the point of noise, though.
lookout123 • Aug 28, 2004 2:58 am
achie breaky heart... *vomit* *wipe mouth off and laugh at mullets*
marichiko • Aug 28, 2004 4:45 am
Maybe Kronos could do "achey breaky Heart." ;)
cowhead • Aug 30, 2004 2:34 pm
best worst song ever? the Shaggs "doin' it" it's so completely beautifully horrible.. like rubber-necking at a train wreck. I tried to find a link to it somewhere on the web, but so far no luck.

other than that pretty much the bulk of new country (bleargh!) most of the new crop of top 40 (punke).. yeah I know I'm getting old and out of touch with popular music.. HEY! wait a second.. I was never in touch with popular music :)
richlevy • Aug 30, 2004 10:40 pm
Sun_Sparkz wrote:
Are you serious? so he is a fabricated country pop star?

oh lord.

*spirals into dismay and disbelief*

P.S. G.W. Bush wasn't born in Texas. :cool:

Worst song? "Everybody was Kung Fu fighting...but they fought with expert timing."
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 31, 2004 6:41 am
perth wrote:
snip-
You're not going to get away with classifying an entire genre as "suck" here. You can claim all country, rap, R&B, or rock & roll sucks, but that telegraphs ignorance, not good taste.

Edit: Illustrative example: Eric Clapton performing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"

Eric Clapton sucks. :p
Cyber Wolf • Aug 31, 2004 7:26 am
Hey now, "My Father's Eyes" is a good one.
As for bad, has anyone mentioned Hanson's MMBop here yet? That was pretty raucous.
Trilby • Aug 31, 2004 9:01 am
Cyber Wolf wrote:
As for bad, has anyone mentioned Hanson's MMBop here yet? That was pretty raucous.


Second posting down. MmBop worst catchy song ever.
Cannonball-(Breeders) best catchy song ever.
hollyoake • Aug 31, 2004 9:08 am
what about The Mr Blobby song!!!
Trilby • Aug 31, 2004 9:21 am
what is the Mr. Blobby song?
DanaC • Aug 31, 2004 9:53 am
Truly Brianna you dont want to know.
DanaC • Aug 31, 2004 10:00 am
Two worst songs for me are "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels
and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as sung by William Shatner.

"Girl you'll be a woman soon" I hate on a sociopolitical level but kind of like as a soulful piece mainly because it works so bloody well in that scene from Pulp Fiction.
perth • Aug 31, 2004 1:46 pm
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Eric Clapton sucks. :p

No. YOU suck. :D

Actually, while I've always enjoyed his old stuff, I would have to agree that his newer stuff (80's and newer) does kind of suck, at least when compared against his early work.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 31, 2004 1:51 pm
Clapton moves around the musical spectrum almost as much as James Taylor. His concerts almost guarantee you'll hear both stuff you love and hate. :)
Undertoad • Aug 31, 2004 1:55 pm
All my favorite musicians turn into old Englishmen. :D
Griff • Aug 31, 2004 4:35 pm
Holding Pete listening to Clapton do Wonderful Tonight at the Carrier Dome... :thumbsup:

I may be a dork but at least I'm an old dork. hmm.. maybe that's not quite what I want to say.
jinx • Aug 31, 2004 4:40 pm
DanaC wrote:
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as sung by William Shatner.


Omg are you serious!? I love Shatner... pure comedy.
DanaC • Aug 31, 2004 5:45 pm
Totally serious. I love Shatner but i cannot watch that performance without cringing to the max. Though in fairness Leonard Nimoy's offering was even worse and since it was straight faced attempt, even more cringy
warch • Aug 31, 2004 5:48 pm
Another one that falls into the "so bad it might be brilliant" category.
"I am, I said' Neil Diamond.
Happy Monkey • Aug 31, 2004 5:57 pm
Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" video is mind-numbingly, shockingly, bad.
Brigliadore • Aug 31, 2004 6:06 pm
Happy Monkey wrote:
Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" video is mind-numbingly, shockingly, bad.

dam, you beat me to the punch. I was going to suggest that video. For those of you who haven't seen it, DO NOT seek it out! A: That stupid song gets stuck in your head and B: the dancing hobbits in rainbow shirts is sure to give anyone nightmares.
ladysycamore • Aug 31, 2004 7:17 pm
wolf wrote:
I have tried very, very hard to repress that memory. Particularly of AlGore "dancing" to it.

Thankyouveryfuckingmuch.



LOL sorry to be late on this one, but as I read it, I was reminded of my cousin's wedding where at the reception, the whole wedding party was on a stage (yes!) LEADING the guests in doing the Macarena (sp??). Oh lawd what a memory, but the wedding overall was a blast. :D
Griff • Aug 31, 2004 8:00 pm
The kids earned a trip to TGI Fridays for their successful behavior mod. I don't know if it's always like this but it was all eighties. Some pretty cool old tunes were played but when they ran out a George Michaels / Laura Branigan one two punch, I had to leave the table :vomit: :vomit: :vomit: :vomit: :vomit: :vomit: :vomit: :vomit:
Trilby • Aug 31, 2004 8:09 pm
Laura Branigan bought the farm just the other day--brain anuerysm I believe. She was 47.
Griff • Aug 31, 2004 8:19 pm
Sure make me feel like a jerk... :(
Trilby • Aug 31, 2004 9:10 pm
Griff wrote:
Sure make me feel like a jerk... :(


No! I just meant look what really bad songs/singing can do to a person! I knew that sooner or later Laura was gonna blow a blood vessel. I didn't mean to make you feel bad. I always hated Laura Branigan's stuff.
footfootfoot • Aug 31, 2004 10:15 pm
DanaC wrote:
Two worst songs for me are "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels


OH I think I know that one, does it go:

I've got a brand new combine harvester, you've got a brand new key, I think we should get together and try them out...
:D
Joe Faux • Sep 10, 2004 12:51 am
After some careful thought, two songs come to mind:

"Copa Cabana" by Barry Manilow
http://www.angelfire.com/va/srisons/cabana.html

"Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl..."

"Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/1423/icebaby.txt

"Take heed, 'caese I'm a lyrical poet..."

Oddly enough "Ice Ice Baby" was sampled from one of my favorite songs.

"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie
http://www.queenwords.com/lyrics/songs/sng19_02.shtml

I ran a DJ company when "Ice Ice Baby" was released and it killed nightly to play this shit on the big speakers to a roomful of screaming girls. Sometimes I'd slip "Under Pressure" into the mix just to watch the crowd turn on me. I never had the time to explain the song was a rip off...
flippant • Oct 6, 2004 6:15 pm
Eye of the tiger......or.....the Oscar Mayer Weiner Song.......................................Did that work anyone? :D
Roosta • Oct 6, 2004 7:10 pm
The lion sleeps tonight. I think it was by a bunch of twats called Tight Fit. Unbelievably crap!
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 6, 2004 9:36 pm
C'mon Roosta, that's a great song by the Tokens. Wimoweh, Wimoweh,[SIZE=1]Wimoweh,[/SIZE][SIZE=1]Wimoweh.[/SIZE] :band:
lumberjim • Oct 6, 2004 10:59 pm
didnt read this thread, but i just heard " we built this city" by starship on our musak. yuk
lumberjim • Oct 6, 2004 11:07 pm
lookout123 wrote:
"worst" is so subjective that it is hard to throw one out that is really the worst. one that i equate with fingernails on a chalkboard though is Stairway to Heaven. i hate that song!

and close behind that you can list just about any other Led Zeppelin song. sorry, don't stone me.
you sir, are dead to me
Clodfobble • Oct 7, 2004 10:41 am
No no, LJ, the Dead are an entirely different overplayed group.
Xaos • Oct 7, 2004 12:54 pm
Joe Faux wrote:
After some careful thought, two songs come to mind:


"Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/1423/icebaby.txt



I'd have to agree with joe this has to be one of the worst songs along with Daphne & Celeste - Oo Stick You and witchdoctor << I can't remember who sung this one
wolf • Oct 7, 2004 1:25 pm
David Seville, and that's a fantastic novelty song.
Vindwyn • Oct 9, 2004 2:20 am
I don't know if it's the worst song ever, but it's certainly one of the most disturbing. Green Jelly had a song called "House Me Teenage Rage."

I hadn't heard of the song until my boyfriend mentioned it a couple of months back. It turns out that it was something that a friend of his had played for him back in high school. Teenage homones...they're crazy.
melidasaur • May 5, 2005 10:30 am
Had to revive this thread because my husband just got a copy of "Spaced Out" - the album collaboration of William Shatner and Leonard Nemoy. The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins is a terrible, yet hilarious song.

The whole album is sooooo funny. I'm sure they are just laughing themselves to the bank.
Happy Monkey • May 5, 2005 10:40 am
The Bilbo music video is even more awful and even more funny than the song alone. You can probably google for it.
mrnoodle • May 5, 2005 1:46 pm
I'm a child of the 80s, so that's when I developed most of my seething hatred for certain music.

"Unskinny Bop" by Poison. When I first heard the chorus, I vowed never to hear the whole song, under any circumstances. They played it in the mall over and over, and I would walk outside until it was finished. Really. Poison is false metal. To this day, I've never heard that song all the way through, and I never will. I hope they're all raped by syphilitic baboons.

Anything from "St. Anger" by *cough* ""Metallica"" or whoever has inhabited their bodies. For that matter, "Whisky in the Jar-O". It sucks no matter what version.

Speaking of Thin Lizzy, "Jailbreak" is also fucking retarded.

"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak,
Somewhere in the town..."

Maybe....hmmm......at the JAIL? Fucking die.

"L.A. Woman" is mindless garbage.

I would put Ratt on here, but their guitarist is one of my favorites. Still, they have the most incomprehensible lyrics of any band, in any genre.

You're In Love
You take the midnight subway train
You're callin all the shots
You take the evening one on one
You're only livin to have fun
You're struck by lightnin
You're in love.
______________________
Lessee......

Tiffany - "I Saw Him Standing There" makes me grind my teeth into powder.
B-52s - "Love Shack", particularly the lines sung by the guy.
Any Guns n Roses song that has whistling in it.


I'll stop now. sorry. :blush:
Trilby • May 5, 2005 2:13 pm
mrnoodle wrote:

B-52s - "Love Shack", particularly the lines sung by the guy


Really? I always loved the B-52's....especially rock lobsta
:band:
glatt • May 5, 2005 3:17 pm
The B-52s are fun. I still break out their CDs every once in awhile. My daughter likes to dance around to them too. Drives my wife up the wall.
mrnoodle • May 5, 2005 3:59 pm
you married up, it seems
;)
xoxoxoBruce • May 7, 2005 12:02 am
Are you from North Vietnam? They hated the B-52s also. :blush:
Guyute • May 7, 2005 10:11 pm
"Every Rose Has It's Thorn" -Poison- When that buttwad singer starts his "EEEVERY ROOOSE Has it's Thowwwwn" twang I want to hurl. It is the most Un-rock song I have ever heard. I would rather listen to 50 hours of Celine Dion than 5 seconds of Poison, because at least she can frikkin' sing!!! Bruce Willis can sing soul music better than that pinhead can sing anything ("Out On The Boardwalk" I think)!!

dishonorable mention- anything the Stones recorded after about 1985. Come on guys, go count your money somewhere....................stop boring us to death with your fart-sound recordings...
Griff • May 8, 2005 8:28 am
Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue have a duet on his Murder Ballads album that requires me to stay away from open windows, high places, loaded guns, and train tracks.
hollyoake • May 9, 2005 3:46 pm
is that the Wild Rose song?
Griff • May 9, 2005 7:52 pm
That's the one. Thing is Cave isn't that bad an artist but that is just awful.
Dude111 • Sep 6, 2020 8:32 am
The worst song??

FAST CAR - Tracey Chapman -- Aweful :D
xoxoxoBruce • Sep 6, 2020 2:24 pm
&#9835; I come from Montana
I wear a bandana
&#9835; With foot in the stirrup
I gallop awwaayy
lumberjim • Sep 7, 2020 12:41 am
Dude111;1057556 wrote:
The worst song??



FAST CAR - Tracey Chapman -- Aweful :D
Not even close, dude. And there's no E in awful.

That's a good song.

We built this city by Starship is the worst song. Followed closely by, I've got my mind set on you. By a washed up Beatle. George or Paul.

Both by the untalented remnants of dead bands. Same reason the Foo fighters suck.

Stahp.
Undertoad • Sep 7, 2020 1:03 am
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

Friday - Rebecca Black
Griff • Sep 7, 2020 7:55 am
lumberjim;1057625 wrote:


Same reason the Foo fighters suck.

Stahp.


Hold your horses.
lumberjim • Sep 7, 2020 8:23 am
Grohl is a poser.
Clodfobble • Sep 7, 2020 9:12 am
Dave Grohl composed, performed, and recorded every instrument of the Foo Fighters first album, calling himself "Foo Fighters" so that people wouldn't know he was just one guy. Only after it was a massive hit did he hire musicians to play the other parts so he could play concerts on tour.
glatt • Sep 7, 2020 10:42 am
lumberjim;1057625 wrote:
Not even close, dude. And there's no E in awful.

That's a good song.

We built this city by Starship is the worst song. Followed closely by, I've got my mind set on you. By a washed up Beatle. George or Paul.

Both by the untalented remnants of dead bands. Same reason the Foo fighters suck.

Stahp.



Starship is the worst. I let it be known how I loathe We Built This City, and in an attempt to be funny, my son pulls it up on the device fairly often. It’s not funny.
lumberjim • Sep 7, 2020 10:44 am
Clodfobble;1057637 wrote:
Dave Grohl composed, performed, and recorded every instrument of the Foo Fighters first album, calling himself "Foo Fighters" so that people wouldn't know he was just one guy. Only after it was a massive hit did he hire musicians to play the other parts so he could play concerts on tour.
Yup. Total poser
lumberjim • Sep 7, 2020 1:32 pm
glatt;1057647 wrote:
Starship is the worst. I let it be known how I loathe We Built This City, and in an attempt to be funny, my son pulls it up on the device fairly often. It’s not funny.



It's playing on the music channel in the showroom right now.



Marconi can suck it
DanaC • Sep 7, 2020 3:58 pm
Maurice Chevalier - Thank Heaven For Little Girls
footfootfoot • Sep 8, 2020 8:54 am
glatt;1057647 wrote:
Starship is the worst. I let it be known how I loathe We Built This City, and in an attempt to be funny, my son pulls it up on the device fairly often. It’s not funny.

In comparison to how I feel about that song... you love it so much you want it to have all of your babies. You want to have its lyrics tattooed all over your body. That's how much I hate that song in comparison to you.


I actually hate that song. You merely dislike it.
Flint • Sep 8, 2020 2:50 pm
I read somewhere that "Achy Breaky Heart" is the worst song. It only has two chords, and the chorus is exactly the same part as the verse.

Basically it's "human music" from Rick and Morty.
Diaphone Jim • Sep 8, 2020 3:48 pm
Jon Stewart had the Foo Fighters on once.
I thought it was a joke.
Cacophony doesn't go far enough.
footfootfoot • Sep 9, 2020 2:45 pm
Neighbor is playing Maroon 5's "Memories" Pretty much makes me want to punch maroon 5 in the mouth.
Undertoad • Sep 9, 2020 4:00 pm
Did you ever have bad meatloaf? Like not spoiled, not inedible, but something isn't exactly right with it? And after you eat it, you keep burping it up a little? So you know your stomach is kind of rejecting it, asking you why you ate it -- and at the same time, you keep experiencing this weird off taste in your mouth?

that's Maroon 5
Griff • Sep 9, 2020 4:06 pm
Perfect
Flint • Sep 9, 2020 4:17 pm
Undertoad;1057748 wrote:
Did you ever have bad meatloaf? Like not spoiled, not inedible, but something isn't exactly right with it? And after you eat it, you keep burping it up a little? So you know your stomach is kind of rejecting it, asking you why you ate it -- and at the same time, you keep experiencing this weird off taste in your mouth?

that's Maroon 5


whereas King Crimson is like ice cream with pickles in it

...

eta: which is good, and on purpose
footfootfoot • Sep 11, 2020 12:19 am
Undertoad;1057748 wrote:
Did you ever have bad meatloaf? Like not spoiled, not inedible, but something isn't exactly right with it? And after you eat it, you keep burping it up a little? So you know your stomach is kind of rejecting it, asking you why you ate it -- and at the same time, you keep experiencing this weird off taste in your mouth?

that's Maroon 5



I was wondering where that was going. I am not disappointed.
Belle • Oct 10, 2020 4:33 am
garnet;118526 wrote:
Don't know if you guys have had this thread on here recently....but I just heard "Jenny from the Block" by Jennifer Lopez on the radio. That has got to be the most assinine, annoying song ever. And now it's stuck in my head! I can't take it! :smashfrea


Ohhh...Poor guy!!! It's is an annoying song though. I just had heard once in a local bus, before my [LINK REMOVED]GoldenBusTours. where a guy was listening and i said to him to use his hand free. Why giving pain to other passengers. :eyebrow:
Flint • Oct 10, 2020 4:52 am
wow! 35% off--thats a deal on Golden Bus Tours (the *best kind* of bus tours)!! question-- do I have to wear a mask? I'm a "patriot" so..
Dude111 • Oct 10, 2020 4:41 pm
FAST CAR by Tracey chapman BLOWS!!!
BigV • Oct 11, 2020 7:19 pm
Dude111;1059838 wrote:
FAST CAR by Tracey chapman BLOWS!!!


Wrong. That's a great song.