I know the difference between the two, but even then I can think of many worse songs. Even Kokomo, is not the worst song EVER. It may be the worst song they did, but still better then most songs and deserving of being this post.
welcome back my friends to the show that never ends=
while listening to z 105 or some such dreck in a desire for rock nroll and to avoid the presidents news conference got some tunes that went back to back.
in one the "worst songs ever" face offs, in a head to head ultimate dreckfest
styx's "grand illusion" easily defeated loverboys "workin for the weekend" in which is worse category.
news from the heartland: well, kids its fair time again here in the midwest and that means elephant ears, corn dogs, a guys chance to make it with a bearded lady and yes, of course, music. and one of the bands that is mentioned so much on this thread will be performing at my county fair. STYX rock on mr. roboto!!!
The most recent installment in my bad midwestern radio saga:
While surveying a complicated historic window surround on site this morning, the plaster guys had their boom box on. Fine, I like job site music even when it's bad it keeps the energy level up.
But then the plasterers finished up and left - unplugging the boombox during the last 15 seconds of "I Wear My Sunglasses At Night" and leaving the jobsite in silence...with only the sound of "Sunglasses at Night" echoing through my skull for the next 45 minutes.
This is the worst song ever. And I have had the chorus from it in my head for 6 months at least now. I don't know how it got there as I despise all country and distance myself from it as much as possible.
Achy Breaky Heart
Billy Ray Cyrus
You can tell the world you never was my girl,
You can burn my clothes up when I'm gone,
You can tell your friends just what a fool I've been,
And laugh and joke about me on the phone.
You can tell my arms go back to the farm,
You can tell my feet to hit the floor,
Or you can tell my lips to tell my fingertips,
They won't be reaching out for you no more.
But don't tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
I just don't think he'd understand.
And if you tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
He might blow up and kill this man.
You can tell your Ma I moved to Arkansas,
You can tell your dog to bite my leg,
Or tell your brother Cliff whose fist can tell my lip,
He never really liked me anyway.
Or tell your Aunt Louise, tell anything you please,
Myself already knows I'm not O.K.,
Or you can tell my eyes to watch out for my mind,
It might be walking out on me today.
But don't tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
I just don't think he'd understand.
And if you tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
He might blow up and kill this man.
(Repeat Chorus to end)
As bad as Billy Ray Cyrus is, when it comes to music I will take the vapid and bad over the earnest and bad anyday. In my view, Interpol is the new Rush.
I remember seeing some 40-ish women on the news who were basically ready to re-live their teenage days by throwing their panties onstage to Rick Springfield. Please.
Any song in which the lyrics are about the song itself, or its performer
-Songs in which the performer announces his/her riches, sexual prowess, musical/lyrical prowess
-Songs that discuss what is happening in the song (For example, "We praise you, O God." If you were praising God, you would be saying "God, you are mighty, you are all-powerful and loving, etc." Not "I praise you.")
-Songs that persistently remind you that they are of a particular genre. (I went to some club and the lyrics of the song were "YOU ARE LISTENING TO HOUSE MUSIC" repeated sixty or seventy times. Any artist that presupposes the ignorance and stupidity of its audience and their inability to discern what they are hearing doesn't deserve to exist.)
Mr. Softee ice cream truck song
Selection from the collected oeuvre of Phish
Songs with vocoder
Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows or Amy Grant versions.
i was at the super wal-mart b/c it was the only grocery store open at 4 am the other night and i really needed some milk. some asshole manager gets on the PA and starts chewing out the help for not restocking fast enough. then he says, "maybe this song will speed you up." then he proceeded to play "shoot to thrill" by ac/dc.
the association alone has ruined for me what was already one of the worst ac/dc songs ever, and that's saying something.
btw, after that i decided i could wait for HEB to open at 6, i wasn't going to support that assholery
susan, gotta agree, most songs about rockin' from town to town, bein' on the road, missin' the home folks 'cause we've been rockin' so long, etc really really suck
my personal least favorite is "turn the page" by bob seger
however, i must say that "we're an american band" by grand funk railroad is an exception -- "sweet sweet connie doin' her act" supposedly once slept with bill clinton
on the flip side, the absolute best song of that sub-sub-subgenre is undoubtedly "lodi" by CCR
GAAAHHHHHH thanks Susan I thought I had purged that from my brain now that I don't live in Philly anymore. Now it's stuck in my conciousness again. Crap.
MC Smokety Smoke you are so wrong about Ted Nugent, Damn Yankees AND Styx. Just ask Adam Sandler, or any sane person in Rock n Roll, they are great. As far as worst song, I'd have to say "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar. Fire Away! (POOOTAH!)
I really miss the days when those highly talented boy band members would point out the relative pitch of each note in the air while simultaneously singing them.
I don't think that West Philly ice cream truck is selling ice cream. 10 pm, border of the ghetto, on a school night, in October...I think it's another kind of ice. Maybe a little crack?
One night I randomly sang along to the ice cream truck in Japanese. "Watashitachi wa aicu curemu o tabemashita!" It works so well!
e909 thanks for mentioning The Nuge, I was hoping somebody would. However, I would not consider the Amboy Dukes "Journey to the Center ..." the worst. I think Sweaty Teddy's worst (which is saying A LOT), would have to be "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang." I've only heard the song once, when I was about 18, and I still want those three minutes back.
#1: We Built This City, by Starship...
What City, and What Rock and Roll?
#2 Radio Goo Goo, Queen (Is that the name of the song)
From the GooMaster Himself.
#3 The Final Countdown, by Europe
Cowbells, not Trumpets, Drago - This guy looks like a female pornstar:
[img]http://www.mtv.com/bands/e/europe/the_final_countdown_281x211.jpg
[/img]
Worst EVER, WRONG. Try in the top 50 of the best ever written. I still remember where I was, what I was wearing who i was talking to when the video appeared on mtv 22 YEARS AGO.
Pretty much anything by George Thoroughgood is awful - compounded by the fact that every one of his songs is the same and is easy enough for a drunken frat boy to remember. Of the few people I would have rot in hell (or be stuck in Mormon heaven, south-park-style) George would be among those few.
However, the worst song of all time is - without question - Jethro Tull's aqualung. Its is six and a half minutes of trying to be sympathetic about a homeless pedophile. And the melody sucks too. It did not help that when I was in college all we had in range was a lousy top 40 station and a classic rock station. Each of them only played 10 songs over and over for 5 years and on each of those stations one of those songs was, you guessed it, aqualung.
Worst Rock Song Ever!!!
I know the difference between the two, but even then I can think of many worse songs. Even Kokomo, is not the worst song EVER. It may be the worst song they did, but still better then most songs and deserving of being this post.
and not deserving of being on this post
keep this post alive
I once convinced a friend of mine that Mike Love sings the word "Botswana" in kokomo
In my house we always sang that '80s hit by Human League "Don't You Want Me Baby" as "Don't Chew On Me Baby". Sort of a zombie crooner.
I remember the sound of that song ist was bad
How about this
Don't you want my baby
Good song for adoption agancys
I like Karma Chameleon.
Take off to the Great White North.. by Rush for the Mackenzie Brothers..Just heard it on CBC.
HawHaw. I think it's funny that .38 Special got tagged on this list - a couple of members were Architecture Grads from GATech.
My addition to this list would be anything by Boston, and anything by Rush (ooooo, that is gonna get me killed)
IF YOU WANT MY BODY
AND YOU THINK I'M SEXY
BABY COME ON OVER TONIGHT
welcome back my friends to the show that never ends=
while listening to z 105 or some such dreck in a desire for rock nroll and to avoid the presidents news conference got some tunes that went back to back.
in one the "worst songs ever" face offs, in a head to head ultimate dreckfest
styx's "grand illusion" easily defeated loverboys "workin for the weekend" in which is worse category.
news from the heartland: well, kids its fair time again here in the midwest and that means elephant ears, corn dogs, a guys chance to make it with a bearded lady and yes, of course, music. and one of the bands that is mentioned so much on this thread will be performing at my county fair. STYX rock on mr. roboto!!!
anything by BON JOVI is a full time suckfest.
any song written by a hair band
any song written by creed
any song written by Kid Rock
any song written by any band claiming to be "Modern Rock"
actually, now that i think of it, all rock sucks except for the rock that i like, so there
Just heard Styx on a tile company's hold music. I can't even name the song, trying to block it from reemerging into my concious memory.
That guy's voice feels like sticking an exacto in my eardrum.
The whole "rap-rock" thing. Kid Rock, Linkin Park, etc. etc.
Honestly. It should've stopped with Run DMC and Aerosmith.
rap and roll really stinks. Run DMC/areosmith was cool, but the whole music scean has been infected with it? yuck
The most recent installment in my bad midwestern radio saga:
While surveying a complicated historic window surround on site this morning, the plaster guys had their boom box on. Fine, I like job site music even when it's bad it keeps the energy level up.
But then the plasterers finished up and left - unplugging the boombox during the last 15 seconds of "I Wear My Sunglasses At Night" and leaving the jobsite in silence...with only the sound of "Sunglasses at Night" echoing through my skull for the next 45 minutes.
Gaaahhhhhh!!
liberty"hoosier mama" bell- ted nugent and rick springfield will be playing at ribfest in indy. its a free for all with jessie's girl. rock!!!
This is the worst song ever. And I have had the chorus from it in my head for 6 months at least now. I don't know how it got there as I despise all country and distance myself from it as much as possible.
Achy Breaky Heart
Billy Ray Cyrus
You can tell the world you never was my girl,
You can burn my clothes up when I'm gone,
You can tell your friends just what a fool I've been,
And laugh and joke about me on the phone.
You can tell my arms go back to the farm,
You can tell my feet to hit the floor,
Or you can tell my lips to tell my fingertips,
They won't be reaching out for you no more.
But don't tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
I just don't think he'd understand.
And if you tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
He might blow up and kill this man.
You can tell your Ma I moved to Arkansas,
You can tell your dog to bite my leg,
Or tell your brother Cliff whose fist can tell my lip,
He never really liked me anyway.
Or tell your Aunt Louise, tell anything you please,
Myself already knows I'm not O.K.,
Or you can tell my eyes to watch out for my mind,
It might be walking out on me today.
But don't tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
I just don't think he'd understand.
And if you tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
He might blow up and kill this man.
(Repeat Chorus to end)
As bad as Billy Ray Cyrus is, when it comes to music I will take the vapid and bad over the earnest and bad anyday. In my view, Interpol is the new Rush.
I remember seeing some 40-ish women on the news who were basically ready to re-live their teenage days by throwing their panties onstage to Rick Springfield. Please.
Now Ted Nugent, on the other hand...
i think ted's female fans pretty much go commando!
I'm bringing back this classic post in my anti-per-graphic *bump* activity.
Thank you vado. Mwwwwwaaaaaahhh!
Old journal entry: Suicide-Inducing Mix Tape
Jesus Freak - DC Talk
Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction
Black or White - Michael Jackson
Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Any song in which the lyrics are about the song itself, or its performer
-Songs in which the performer announces his/her riches, sexual prowess, musical/lyrical prowess
-Songs that discuss what is happening in the song (For example, "We praise you, O God." If you were praising God, you would be saying "God, you are mighty, you are all-powerful and loving, etc." Not "I praise you.")
-Songs that persistently remind you that they are of a particular genre. (I went to some club and the lyrics of the song were "YOU ARE LISTENING TO HOUSE MUSIC" repeated sixty or seventy times. Any artist that presupposes the ignorance and stupidity of its audience and their inability to discern what they are hearing doesn't deserve to exist.)
Mr. Softee ice cream truck song
Selection from the collected oeuvre of Phish
Songs with vocoder
Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows or Amy Grant versions.
Songs with vocoder? No way! You mean vocoder used to correct pitch (Cher, Do You Believe in Love)? or vocoder as in Kraftwerk?
Vocoders rock!
i was at the super wal-mart b/c it was the only grocery store open at 4 am the other night and i really needed some milk. some asshole manager gets on the PA and starts chewing out the help for not restocking fast enough. then he says, "maybe this song will speed you up." then he proceeded to play "shoot to thrill" by ac/dc.
the association alone has ruined for me what was already one of the worst ac/dc songs ever, and that's saying something.
btw, after that i decided i could wait for HEB to open at 6, i wasn't going to support that assholery
good try! although none of these come close to the worstness of "rockin into the night" by .38 special...
susan, gotta agree, most songs about rockin' from town to town, bein' on the road, missin' the home folks 'cause we've been rockin' so long, etc really really suck
my personal least favorite is "turn the page" by bob seger
however, i must say that "we're an american band" by grand funk railroad is an exception -- "sweet sweet connie doin' her act" supposedly once slept with bill clinton
on the flip side, the absolute best song of that sub-sub-subgenre is undoubtedly "lodi" by CCR
"Mr. Softee ice cream truck song"
GAAAHHHHHH thanks Susan I thought I had purged that from my brain now that I don't live in Philly anymore. Now it's stuck in my conciousness again. Crap.
john lennon - imagine
MC Smokety Smoke you are so wrong about Ted Nugent, Damn Yankees AND Styx. Just ask Adam Sandler, or any sane person in Rock n Roll, they are great. As far as worst song, I'd have to say "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar. Fire Away! (POOOTAH!)
I really miss the days when those highly talented boy band members would point out the relative pitch of each note in the air while simultaneously singing them.
i wanna be a blue collar man!
I hate Jimmy Buffet.
I don't think that West Philly ice cream truck is selling ice cream. 10 pm, border of the ghetto, on a school night, in October...I think it's another kind of ice. Maybe a little crack?
One night I randomly sang along to the ice cream truck in Japanese. "Watashitachi wa aicu curemu o tabemashita!" It works so well!
e909 thanks for mentioning The Nuge, I was hoping somebody would. However, I would not consider the Amboy Dukes "Journey to the Center ..." the worst. I think Sweaty Teddy's worst (which is saying A LOT), would have to be "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang." I've only heard the song once, when I was about 18, and I still want those three minutes back.
the nuge is somewhat of a duchebag, but i mean come on, the guy wrote fred bear, which is braggable
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while.
Worst rock song ever, anythin by any of those pop punk bands, such as good charlotte, new found glory, etc.......
In no particular order:
#1: We Built This City, by Starship...
What City, and What Rock and Roll?
#2 Radio Goo Goo, Queen (Is that the name of the song)
From the GooMaster Himself.
#3 The Final Countdown, by Europe
Cowbells, not Trumpets, Drago - This guy looks like a female pornstar:
[img]http://www.mtv.com/bands/e/europe/the_final_countdown_281x211.jpg
[/img]
WTF!!!!
Tom Sawyer by Rush. Jump by Van Halen is a close second.
WE built this city, by starship
Worst EVER, WRONG. Try in the top 50 of the best ever written. I still remember where I was, what I was wearing who i was talking to when the video appeared on mtv 22 YEARS AGO.
i know it's not really rock propr, but while we're at it...
michael mcdonald - what a fool believes
awful.
Pretty much anything by George Thoroughgood is awful - compounded by the fact that every one of his songs is the same and is easy enough for a drunken frat boy to remember. Of the few people I would have rot in hell (or be stuck in Mormon heaven, south-park-style) George would be among those few.
However, the worst song of all time is - without question - Jethro Tull's aqualung. Its is six and a half minutes of trying to be sympathetic about a homeless pedophile. And the melody sucks too. It did not help that when I was in college all we had in range was a lousy top 40 station and a classic rock station. Each of them only played 10 songs over and over for 5 years and on each of those stations one of those songs was, you guessed it, aqualung.
ps - The Nuge should be referred to by his proper nickname - "sweaty teddy"
beware the wrath of tull, crowbert: "for he who made kittens put snakes in the grass!"
icedragon -
sorry,
you've simply built fond memories around....
THE WORST SONG EVER!!!
that's all.
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