okay i was at a local big box retailer pickin up a few things for the holiday you know. and i heard what i declare to be the worst rock n roll song ever. it is Rockin' Into The Night" by .38 Special. God it sucks. Coincidentally, one of the best songs ever, "Let There Be Rock" by the Drive By Truckers which i was listening to on the drive over, actually mentions .38 Special.
Dropped acid, blue oyster cult concert.
14 years old.
and i thought those lasers were spiders chasin me
on the way home got pulled over
in rogersville alabama
with a half ounce of weed
and a case of sterling big mouth
my buddy gene was drivin
he just barely turned sixteen
and i liked to im sorry but we lived to tell about it
and we lived to do a whole bunch more of crazy
stupid shit
and i never saw lynyrd skynyrd
but i sure saw molly hatchett
with .38 special and the johnny van zandt band.
Living now in the flyover states, vado, I am being forced to rediscover all the bad music that has been produced in the last few decades.
Workin' for the Weekend may be worse than Rockin' Into the Night. Can't even remember that bands name although I can picture the album cover - one guy had on a red headband.
My personal worst has to be Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now by Jefferson Starship. Please stop, now.
heh, i saw boc when i was 14. that was when they released godzilla.
isn't there a new reality tv show coming out about one hit wonder rockers? something about whether they still have it or not? i know loverboy and vanilla ice will be part of it.
To be perfectly honest, I would say maybe only one or two of the songs that have made it on this list actually deserve to be here. The rest are Ultimate Classics.
Night Ranger should not be here!
Fleetwood Mac doesn't belong on this list either! "don't stop, thinkin' bout tomorrow" isn't their best, but it's not in the worst rock category like WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS - Queen's opera rock crap.
yeah you guys are comin up with some bad tunes. still i think my pick is worse my runner up would be juke box hero by foreigner.
"i never saw lynyrd skynyrd
but i sure saw ozzy osbourne
with randy rhoades in 82
right before that plane crash
and i never say lynyrd skynyrd
but i sure saw ac/dc
with bon scott singin
Let There Be Rock!!!!!!
Tick Tock You don't Stop.
Color Me Bad, although I love them, had some horrible songs. They always had the guy break in and sing in Spanish to try to spice up the song. Sort of their take on the deep voice in Boys II Men.
( In deep Voice) "Baby, I know I hurt you, but you just don't understand how much you mean to me do you. Why won't you come back, blah blah."
Still got love for the both of them, but those parts were always so ridiculous.
Diamanda Galas fucking rocks, she reminds me of Nina Simone, a gothic Nina Simone...
name just about ANY Beach Boys or Rolling Stone song and it'll get my vote as worthless pieces of shiite......Hootie and The Blowfish - SUCK, George Thorogood - SUCK, Crash Test Dummies - SUCK.........
Commish ... I have this thought about Color Me Badd (or "CMB"). Now, consider, briefly, if you will, their chart-topping mega-smash "(I Wanna) Sex You Up." "Sex" is typically an intransitive verb; in other words if the singer from CMB wanted to consummate a relationship with his ladyfriend, he would say something like "I want to have sex with you." An intransitive verb, for those of you who may remember, is used when one indirectly acts upon another, as in:
A does someting with B
or
C has had dinner with D
CMB has done an amazing thing by creating a transitive verb version of the word sex. In the world of CMB neologisms, sex has become that you do to some one. Thus:
A does something to B
or
C tells something to D
or
E will "sex up" F
If you think about it, CMB's dualistic verb use is emblematic of the dialogic, a term coined by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin. Dialogia is when a word becomes aware of competing definitions for the same thing. Dialogism is thus the characteristic mode of a world dominated by heteroglossia. Heteroglossia describes the constant interaction between different meanings of a particular world. Thus, in CMB's lyrical, normative universe, the verb "to sex" is both dialogic and heteroglossic.
But my vote for Worst Song Ever would be Kiss' "I Was Made For Loving You," from their incredibly terrible not-so-rocking disco album, "Dynasty" .... I think these are the outfits they wore during that particularly sucky time in their not-so-great career
beta, I love Nina Simone .. but have you heard this one by Galás?:
Schrei X
that's got to be one of the most torturing albums I've ever heard, even worst than the worst song by King Diamond & Mercyful Fate or The Monkees...
The Singer, also by DG, where she does the worst blues covers I've ever heard, its pretty terrible too...
btw, some songs by Cinderella, Poison and Mötley Crue should be in this list too..
Javier, Round and Round signals when I "grew up" and became jaded - I heard that song and knew that true heavy metal was doomed to be overtaken by commercially-driven hair bands.
The first Motley Crue was brilliant. The one with the leather crotch on the cover. Has "Live Wire" on it. Then they became just a hair band too.
AC/DC Shook Me All Night Long remains one of the best rock songs ever, in my opinion. Had no small part in the naming of my son, in fact.
Worst Rock Song Ever!!!
okay i was at a local big box retailer pickin up a few things for the holiday you know. and i heard what i declare to be the worst rock n roll song ever. it is Rockin' Into The Night" by .38 Special. God it sucks. Coincidentally, one of the best songs ever, "Let There Be Rock" by the Drive By Truckers which i was listening to on the drive over, actually mentions .38 Special.
Dropped acid, blue oyster cult concert.
14 years old.
and i thought those lasers were spiders chasin me
on the way home got pulled over
in rogersville alabama
with a half ounce of weed
and a case of sterling big mouth
my buddy gene was drivin
he just barely turned sixteen
and i liked to im sorry but we lived to tell about it
and we lived to do a whole bunch more of crazy
stupid shit
and i never saw lynyrd skynyrd
but i sure saw molly hatchett
with .38 special and the johnny van zandt band.
Living now in the flyover states, vado, I am being forced to rediscover all the bad music that has been produced in the last few decades.
Workin' for the Weekend may be worse than Rockin' Into the Night. Can't even remember that bands name although I can picture the album cover - one guy had on a red headband.
My personal worst has to be Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now by Jefferson Starship. Please stop, now.
Liberty, I agree ....The Band Loverboy ... the guy wearing the headband ...Mike Reno.
we built this city is pretty horrific. all these bands will be coming to indy soon lb!!
mr roboto by styx
maniac (theme song from flashdance)
honest mistake - the bravery
what's going on - 4 non blondes
i would walk 500 miles - proclaimers
hit me with your best shot - pat benatar
To make a building whose narrative develops when you walk through it with the exact same change in tempo as Lynard Skynard's Freebird.
It would take nine minutes and seven seconds to complete the journey.
heh, i saw boc when i was 14. that was when they released godzilla.
isn't there a new reality tv show coming out about one hit wonder rockers? something about whether they still have it or not? i know loverboy and vanilla ice will be part of it.
All I have is two words:
Night Ranger
as much as i love ozzy... i have a love/hate relationship with the duet "close my eyes forever" by lita ford and ozzy.
i'll probably get backlash, becasue its The Who
but Pinball Wizard is godawful
bad company - feel like makin' love. my ears start bleeding when i hear this song.
Armageddon is the Worst Movie ever.
armageddon is one of my absolute favorite movies of all time.
The three little pigs song. Who was that anyway?
Green Jelly did three little pigs
Javier, I hope you are kidding.
The commish... I never kid. I'm sure you yourself have Tivo'd it in secret.
I can't afford TIVO.
I don't own one either, but I like to kid people about their Tivo habits.
and by the same token...that Aerosmith song in the movie is one of the best rock songs of all time.
Johnny Winter: Rock 'n Roll Hootchie Koo
Bob Seger: I'm Going to Katmandu
WORST
talking about Aerosmith, the 'Pink' album cover is as bad as anything inside...
anything by Diamanda Galás can be considered the Worst Song ever.. wether it is Rock or not..
not sure if this is rock, but Push the lil Daisies by Ween is horrible. But, kinda fun to listen to and annoy other people with...
anything by the red hot chili peppers or offspring.
ballroom blitz by sweet. makes me cringe also.
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm: worst "rock" song in my opinion
oh man... so bad
I cant believe this hasn't come up on this list yet...
I would do anything for love....but i wont do that.
someone please kill me now...its stuck in my head...HELP!!!
I HATE Meatloaf!!!
red hot chili peppers!? what!???
i had "up town girl" by billie joel stuck in my head for a solid week and a half. once it settles in, it's an unstoppable force.
"come sail away" by styx is a nightmare as well.
set an open course and go
To be perfectly honest, I would say maybe only one or two of the songs that have made it on this list actually deserve to be here. The rest are Ultimate Classics.
Night Ranger should not be here!
'monster mash'
i second several meatloaf songs.
margaritaville...no it isn't a good song. no. stop it.
(although i will accept questions regarding it being a
rock song)
what's that song... "don't stop, thinkin' about tomorrow"
Yeah, that song sucks Cris
on the flip side...
best rock song ever.
right now i'm on a gnr kick...welcome to the jungle
acdc - back in black
there are of course several other beatles, zepellin and other
songs that are up there...but for pure rockin the bus...
for the best rock song this week:
Metallica: The Outlaw Torn
The Dogs D'Amour: Last Bandit
and the best non-rock song:
Digable Planets: Flyin' High In The Brooklyn Sky
DJ Shadow: Hindslight
Digable Planets are friggin awesome. Cool Like Dat has got to be one of the best Hip Hop songs ever recorded.
Any song by those goddamn Ying Yang Twins lands dead last. Idiots!
yup, DP are great.. almost everything in Reachin' (Time & Space) is superb!...
if Phil Collins solo work does count as 'rock' then I nominate all his songs...
Fleetwood Mac doesn't belong on this list either! "don't stop, thinkin' bout tomorrow" isn't their best, but it's not in the worst rock category like WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS - Queen's opera rock crap.
anything by journey.
yeah you guys are comin up with some bad tunes. still i think my pick is worse my runner up would be juke box hero by foreigner.
"i never saw lynyrd skynyrd
but i sure saw ozzy osbourne
with randy rhoades in 82
right before that plane crash
and i never say lynyrd skynyrd
but i sure saw ac/dc
with bon scott singin
Let There Be Rock!!!!!!
To add on to Black Bat's hatred for arcade game songs....
....Pacman Fever is the absolute worst song ever written. There is no comparison.
Tick Tock You don't Stop.
Color Me Bad, although I love them, had some horrible songs. They always had the guy break in and sing in Spanish to try to spice up the song. Sort of their take on the deep voice in Boys II Men.
( In deep Voice) "Baby, I know I hurt you, but you just don't understand how much you mean to me do you. Why won't you come back, blah blah."
Still got love for the both of them, but those parts were always so ridiculous.
Diamanda Galas fucking rocks, she reminds me of Nina Simone, a gothic Nina Simone...
name just about ANY Beach Boys or Rolling Stone song and it'll get my vote as worthless pieces of shiite......Hootie and The Blowfish - SUCK, George Thorogood - SUCK, Crash Test Dummies - SUCK.........
Commish ... I have this thought about Color Me Badd (or "CMB"). Now, consider, briefly, if you will, their chart-topping mega-smash "(I Wanna) Sex You Up." "Sex" is typically an intransitive verb; in other words if the singer from CMB wanted to consummate a relationship with his ladyfriend, he would say something like "I want to have sex with you." An intransitive verb, for those of you who may remember, is used when one indirectly acts upon another, as in:
A does someting with B
or
C has had dinner with D
CMB has done an amazing thing by creating a transitive verb version of the word sex. In the world of CMB neologisms, sex has become that you do to some one. Thus:
A does something to B
or
C tells something to D
or
E will "sex up" F
If you think about it, CMB's dualistic verb use is emblematic of the dialogic, a term coined by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin. Dialogia is when a word becomes aware of competing definitions for the same thing. Dialogism is thus the characteristic mode of a world dominated by heteroglossia. Heteroglossia describes the constant interaction between different meanings of a particular world. Thus, in CMB's lyrical, normative universe, the verb "to sex" is both dialogic and heteroglossic.
But my vote for Worst Song Ever would be Kiss' "I Was Made For Loving You," from their incredibly terrible not-so-rocking disco album, "Dynasty" .... I think these are the outfits they wore during that particularly sucky time in their not-so-great career
worse than "beth"?
ugh, beth.
ok i think I got the worst rock song ever... Round and Round by Ratt.
beta, I love Nina Simone .. but have you heard this one by Galás?:
Schrei X
that's got to be one of the most torturing albums I've ever heard, even worst than the worst song by King Diamond & Mercyful Fate or The Monkees...
The Singer, also by DG, where she does the worst blues covers I've ever heard, its pretty terrible too...
btw, some songs by Cinderella, Poison and Mötley Crue should be in this list too..
Javier, Round and Round signals when I "grew up" and became jaded - I heard that song and knew that true heavy metal was doomed to be overtaken by commercially-driven hair bands.
The first Motley Crue was brilliant. The one with the leather crotch on the cover. Has "Live Wire" on it. Then they became just a hair band too.
AC/DC Shook Me All Night Long remains one of the best rock songs ever, in my opinion. Had no small part in the naming of my son, in fact.
"anything by the red hot chili peppers or offspring"
I agree, Ether.
"takin' care of business" is a terrible terrible song. the guy's voice = instant boredom.
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