Worst song of all time
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standardtomIn a fun burst of “opinions are like assholes,” CNN.com has done a few stories and a poll on the “worst song of all time.” ( Part 1, Part 2, some songs that were chosen, and various opinions about them, 1974: Creme de la creme of clunkers )
So, let’s have your opinions... what are the worst songs in history, in your (not-so) humble opinions?
“There's Got To Be A Morning After” by Maureen McGovern immediately pops to mind for me. “I Just Called To Say I Love You” sounds like Stevie Wonder is seriously toking helium, to the accompaniment of a broken circus calliope.
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timksweden observed to me years ago that "All I Need Is a Miracle" by Mike + The Mechanics should be titled "All I Need Are Singing Lessons."
So c'mon... let's hear 'em!
* Ahem... um... I will admit that I kinda like some of the songs on CNN's lists... *scuffs toe*...
So, let’s have your opinions... what are the worst songs in history, in your (not-so) humble opinions?
“There's Got To Be A Morning After” by Maureen McGovern immediately pops to mind for me. “I Just Called To Say I Love You” sounds like Stevie Wonder is seriously toking helium, to the accompaniment of a broken circus calliope.
Friend-unit Tim
timksweden observed to me years ago that "All I Need Is a Miracle" by Mike + The Mechanics should be titled "All I Need Are Singing Lessons."So c'mon... let's hear 'em!
* Ahem... um... I will admit that I kinda like some of the songs on CNN's lists... *scuffs toe*...
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Date: 2006-04-26 08:23 pm (UTC)" Oh You, I don't know what to say, you take my breath away".
repeat 50 times.
A very close second choice from near the same year.
Date: 2006-04-26 08:30 pm (UTC)Song: Wildfire Lyrics
She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark, flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night
Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came a killing frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down its stall
In a blizzard he was lost
She ran calling Wildfire [x3]
By the dark of the moon I planted
But there came an early snow
There's been a hoot-owl howling by my window now
For six nights in a row
She's coming for me, I know
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go
We'll be riding Wildfire [x3]
On Wildfire we're gonna ride
Gonna leave sodbustin' behind
Get these hard times right on out of our minds
Riding Wildfire
Re: A very close second choice from near the same year.
Date: 2006-04-26 09:25 pm (UTC)Re: A very close second choice from near the same year.
Date: 2006-04-28 10:36 pm (UTC)Maybe time has mellowed me?
Re: A very close second choice from near the same year.
Date: 2006-04-26 11:05 pm (UTC)Re: A very close second choice from near the same year.
Date: 2006-04-26 11:20 pm (UTC)Re: A very close second choice from near the same year.
Date: 2006-11-13 06:54 pm (UTC)Anything by Bruce Springstein cause he cant sing
Anything by Lyle Lovett cause he cant sing
Anything by Willie Nelson cause he wines too damned much
Sinaed O'connor...no explanation needed
Chris Isaak.."No, I wanna fall in love" cause I cant stand his voice.
I could go on forever.
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Date: 2006-05-14 04:04 am (UTC)Rex Smith had Farrah Fawcett hair. My sister had his 8-track and I remember having to hear that song over and over.
with Apologies to Eric Carmen
Date: 2006-05-14 12:18 pm (UTC)I wrongly credited that....*song* to Eric Carmen. I remember the Farrah Fawcett luxurious bangs.
Re: with Apologies to Eric Carmen
Date: 2006-11-13 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 08:25 pm (UTC)and how about "Afternoon Delight" or even worse "the Pina Colada Song"?
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Date: 2006-04-26 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 10:25 pm (UTC)"the Pina Colada song" was sung by some dork and it was about a guy who decided he was gonna cheat on his wife and posted a personal ad about liking Pina Colada's and a bunch of other crap, got a response, and when they met in a bar it turned out it was his wife, who didn't know he liked Pina Colada's and all the other crap. It truly is dreadful.....LOL
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 10:30 pm (UTC)look up the lyrics for Pina Colada Song, truly a dreadful piece of 70's schlock.....LOL
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:33 pm (UTC)http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~shuppr/lamusic/pina.htm
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-13 07:04 pm (UTC)was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
Of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read
"If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the Cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape."
I didn't think about my lady
I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad
"Yes I like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we'll plan our escape."
So I waited with high hopes
And she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."
That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape
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Date: 2006-04-26 08:29 pm (UTC)There's another list online somewhere of the 50 worst songs, and the worst one on that was "We Built this City" by Starship.
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Date: 2006-04-26 08:33 pm (UTC)"Muskrat Love"
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Date: 2006-04-26 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 08:52 pm (UTC)I loathe "Break Out" by Swing Out Sister so much that I'm actually compelled to sit and watch the video anytime it comes on and re-experience my hatred. That whole era of British lite-pseudo-jazz-pop was pretty bad anyway, but that one really takes the prize.
I'm not even sure it's such a bad song, it just makes me cringe. And the video with the kooky chick making kooky fashions and being kooky and wearing a LOT of black plastic bracelets.
I loathe that song so much, I'm almost to the point of loving it in a really sick, perverse way.
Meanwhile, I'm "over" people hating on "We Built This City." Because, dude, there are much WORSE songs by Jefferson/Starship. Like "Sara," for starters. ;-)
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Date: 2006-04-26 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 09:50 pm (UTC)"Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro is awesome.
Another delicious piece of crap is 1959's "The Three Bells" by The Browns":
There's a village hidden deep in the valley among the pine trees half forlorn
And there on a sunny morning little Jimmy Brown was born
All the chapel bells were ringing in the little valley town
And the songs that they were singing was for baby Jimmy Brown
And the little congregation prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation bless this hour of meditation guide him with eternal love
There's a village hidden deep in the valley beneath the mountains high above
And there twenty years thereafter Jimmy was to meet his love
All the chapel bells were ringing twas a great day in his life
For the songs that they were singing was for Jimmy and his wife
And the little congregation prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation bless oh Lord this celebration
May their lives be filled with love
From the village hidden deep in the valley one rainy morning dark and grey
A soul which wait in the heaven Jimmy Brown had passed away
Just the lonely bell was ringing in the little valley town
Twas there well it was singing to our good old Jommy Brown
And the little congregation prayed for guidance from above
Lead us not into temptation may his soul find this salvation of Thy great eternal love
It's so bad it's good.
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Date: 2006-04-27 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 10:35 pm (UTC)I will say that most of the songs listed as the WORST songs are more accurately the most over exposed songs - those songs that may have been well crafted and performed but played so much that you felt you could not escape their grasp. I don't blame the song for that. But here is my short list of such songs:
AC/DC "Back in Black" (or most anything by them, Survivor "Eye of the Tiger", Queensryche "Silent Lucidity", "Stairway to Heaven" by led Zeppelin, "we Are the Champions/We Will Rock You" by Queen. These songs I will instantly tune out and hold no value to me anymore.
Oh - truly the worst song in my eyes (holds no song writing quality) is My Humps, close second is Hollarback Girl. If 5 year olds wrote pop songs...
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Date: 2006-04-26 11:02 pm (UTC)I think "We Built this City" by Starship is a pretty big stinker.
Third Place
Date: 2006-04-26 11:23 pm (UTC)By contrast, I love his ballad "You and Me.
My vote
Date: 2006-04-27 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 12:53 am (UTC)And I'm not ashamed to say that.
I'll also say that "Hollaback Girl" cannot be the worst song of all time, for the simple reason that it is not a song.
As far as I'm concerned, The Music Died the day Madonna released "Justify My Love." Ah, the novelty of the music-less song.
Another excellent example of that is Twitney's "I'm a Slave For You," or however the moron chose to spell those words (I'm sure it was "4 U," but I don't give a shit).
I refer to Celine Dion's song from "Titanic" as "My Heart Will, Hopefully, Stop."
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 08:32 pm (UTC)BTW, in regard to Tom's mention of me in his post: In fairness, whoever the lead singer was for Mike Plus the Mechanics didn't really have a bad voice at all. It's just that SONG. Oh, the horror....
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Date: 2006-04-27 02:33 am (UTC)This post has spawned a host of earworms for me. *sigh*
Date: 2006-04-27 04:42 am (UTC)That said, if I NEVER again hear:
1. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton
3. Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
I could die a happy man. That comes from doing time in high school in LA (lower Alabama) during this period. Thank Gawd there was plenty of tasty cheese available then to offset these overplayed things.
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Date: 2006-05-14 04:00 am (UTC)