The worst song.... [Archive] - Aural Moon - Progressive Rock Discussion

Rick and Roll

01-12-2007, 01:33 PM

to me has always been the Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville"... BUT...

last night flipping around the radio I heard something that I've managed to avoid for years...in the recesses of my mind...something so formulaic and overdone and sappy....that I had to listen to it when it came on. And it got stuck in my head. Like watching an accident, i couldn't pull away....

Asia's "Don't Cry". What a crappy song!

Any other strike you the same way?

PeterG

01-12-2007, 04:34 PM

I had a similar experience but it was excruciating... I was at a restaurant for Breakfast and a christmas song came on and it was painful. I couldn't get away and i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.

Maybe you know Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime.

Ugggg.... Damn what a bad song; what a moronic hook it is worse than Sir Paul's Ebony and Ivory.

So, we are finishing up and we were able to get out without suffering the whole song....

...the next night, i wake up in the middle of the night with that stupid 'hook' circleing around in my head. i didn't even get a break with a stupid verse... just.. .

"Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... Simply having a wonderful Christmas time... " :ick:

Wanted to jab two, eight-inch stainless steel spikes in my head to make it stop... but, I didn't have any handy.

PeterG

KeithieW

01-12-2007, 05:52 PM

Now Jeff Beck is a GREAT guitarist but did he have to record "Hi Ho Silver Lining"?

EVERY Damned party I've ever been to (including my own 50th) it gets played and every time it comes on you get a host of BAD air guitar players jumping around during the solo.

I know because I WAS that cricket bag.............:)

DEzerov

01-12-2007, 08:17 PM

I worked at an FM radio station, a rocker, back in my undergrad days, usually overnites or weekends and people always over-requested two tracks that I still loathe 25+ years later...Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Rush's Workin' Man...

Plus anything by most of those "hair bands" in the 80's...Great White, Cinderella, Poison, Ratt, Motley Crue...

(Must admit some of Twisted [FCKing] Sister, Whitesnake, Dio and Y&T was alright...):rawk:

Rick and Roll

01-12-2007, 08:57 PM

I couldn't get away and i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.
Wanted to jab two, eight-inch stainless steel spikes in my head to make it stop... but, I didn't have any handy.

PeterG

What a great story! And those two lines I must remember...crack me up:flutter:

Sir Paul...didn't he recently say to his estranged wife "Those are MY breasts"?

mossy

01-12-2007, 09:02 PM

ooooo, rick. agree margaritaville is up there with the worst but there is one more that beats it out ...

cracklin' rosie by Neil Diamond.

uggh.

mossy

01-12-2007, 09:04 PM

also, song sung blue - Neil Diamond

I'm sure he's a nice guy but..

Rick and Roll

01-12-2007, 09:27 PM

also, song sung blue - Neil Diamond

I'm sure he's a nice guy but..

My wife and mother and sister paid a hundred each to see him.... always crack up when he sings xmas carols.....jewish :rolleyes:

Longfellow Serenade.......:ick:

DEzerov

01-12-2007, 10:14 PM

My wife and mother and sister paid a hundred each to see him.... always crack up when he sings xmas carols.....jewish :rolleyes:

Longfellow Serenade.......:ick:

"Hey little boy, I couldn't help but hear,
you feelin left out of Christmas cheer.

Well I've come to say you that you shouldn't be sad,
this is the one month that you should be glad.

Cause it's nice to be a Jew on Christmas.
You don't have to deal with the season at all.
You don't have to be on your best behavior, or give to charity.
You don't have to go to Grandma's house with your alchoholic family..."

podakayne

01-12-2007, 11:39 PM

dang -it sis!....now i got those damn songs in my head... :eek:

posted lovingly by the lady mossy
"...song sung blue - Neil Diamond...worst but there is one more that beats it out ...cracklin' rosie by Neil Diamond."

...help me peter...where are those damn spikes!!!!!=8^O

Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
"I couldn't get away and i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.
Wanted to jab two, eight-inch stainless steel spikes in my head to make it stop... but, I didn't have any handy."

roger

01-13-2007, 11:06 AM

> i felt like i was being bombarded with a moron ray.

THAT is classic.

sharcnorris

01-13-2007, 11:46 AM

Genesis- Misunderstanding, Makes me want to pee sitting Down
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podakayne

01-13-2007, 02:15 PM

...sorry sharc i dont see what the problem is with that:headscrat :flutter:

teermin8r

01-13-2007, 07:48 PM

Sing by the Carpenters. It still brings back memories of Big Bird and Kermit.

Roger -Dot- Lee

01-13-2007, 08:58 PM

I still maintain that "Domanique" by The Singing Nun has got to be the worst song ever recorded. Period.

Roger -Dot- Lee, Trust me on this.

julieval

01-13-2007, 09:36 PM

I still maintain that "Domanique" by The Singing Nun has got to be the worst song ever recorded. Period.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Soeur_sourire.png/200px-Soeur_sourire.png Here is an actual picture of the singing nun with her axe.

I have laughed so much reading this thread. We purposely don't keep 8 in stainless steel spikes in the house for this very reason.

The song that brings the taste of a gun barrel to my mouth is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. Kill me now. And throw me in Lake Superior.

VAXman

01-14-2007, 08:43 AM

Rick and Roll

01-14-2007, 09:24 AM

1. Vax, absolutely about Sir Paul....one extreme or the other - Let 'Em In was a great idea (like the Righteous Brothers' "Rock and Roll Heaven" or that "Night Shift" song by the Commodores?), but a putrid song. The one by Paul that kills me is "Junior's Farm". I actually used to like that song. I hear it now and it's painful.

2. Roger, the Singing Nun.....have to agree there:ick:

3. J, the Gordon Lightfoot song brings back a funny memory. Roy Firestone, a noted sportswriter and talking head, used to do imitations, and he did Gordon Lightfoot singing the national anthem to the tune of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald "while sitting in the 34th row with just an acoustic guitar"... imagine "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light"....:rolleyes: Speaking of "Imagine", Lennon's "Instant Karma" always gets on my nerves...

What really bothers me about that song is that Gordon reads you a straight history lesson to a song. Maiden does this in "Alexander the Great" and it's silly. It's a great song, but just hearing someone sound like their reading from a textbook is funny. Sing along: "King Darius the third, defated fled Persia, the Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes, then Egypt fell to the Macedonian King as well, and he founded the city called Alexandria".

DEzerov

01-14-2007, 12:58 PM

Can't agree with you on Instant Karma, Rick...imho...it's vintage Lennon...

How about Bill Shatner's Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds.... Oh My God...

Rick and Roll

01-14-2007, 02:36 PM

How about Bill Shatner's Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds.... Oh My God...

I guess what I really mean are songs that try to be good. Shatner's never tried to be anything but camp. That's not even his worst..."Rocket Man", now that's funny!

Still thinking about the "taste of a gun barrel" along with the "spikes"...you two must have a fun relationship :knowing:

VAXman

01-14-2007, 04:10 PM

ANYTHING called RAP or Hip-Hop. Everytime I hear Hip-Hop makes me think of the Peter Cottontail song; both are trite shit, so I suppose the thoughts each conjures up are fitting.

roger

01-14-2007, 05:29 PM

oh c'mon:

Spock Baggins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFoytXbjjWI)

hahahahaha

Rick and Roll

01-14-2007, 05:34 PM

ANYTHING called RAP or Hip-Hop. Everytime I hear Hip-Hop makes me think of the Peter Cottontail song; both are trite shit, so I suppose the thoughts each conjures up are fitting.

Hmmm...I was hoping to avoid that in this thread. Just throwing out a question about what song you may have heard that makes you ill, especially from an artist that should know better. I did like the McCartney ones vax...

On the main page I read about a decline in "Rap and Hip-Hop sales"...then reading further, I noticed that R and B is lumped into that category. That is not only inaccurate, but kind of intenionally misleading.

Anyway, Peter Cottontail may be bad, but the Peter Rabbit theme (the Beatrix Potter) story is insanely wretched....:ick:

Rick and Roll

01-14-2007, 05:42 PM

oh c'mon:

Spock Baggins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFoytXbjjWI)

hahahahaha

didn't we post this not too long ago?...i especially like the "forehead dance" he does with the girl....

roger

01-14-2007, 05:44 PM

> didn't we post this not too long ago?

oh, probably. it just fit this thread so well...

roger

01-15-2007, 08:10 AM

ok. not really a song, sort of, but it's the absolute worst:

Pickle surprise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0H30zcoHg)

VAXman

01-15-2007, 10:00 AM

ok. not really a song, sort of, but it's the absolute worst:

Pickle surprise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0H30zcoHg)
People often wonder why I loathe endless september and the demise of the internet. Bandwidth wasted on such awful stupidity should be punishable by death... a death by drowning under all of the AO(hel)L floppies ever produced.

roger

01-15-2007, 10:20 AM

People often wonder why I loathe endless september and the demise of the internet. Bandwidth wasted on such awful stupidity should be punishable by death... a death by drowning under all of the AO(hel)L floppies ever produced.

so, you liked it then, Vax?

:knowing:

Thor

01-15-2007, 09:12 PM

I agree Roger what a horrid little tune... Let's all sing till we puke on a white habit, everybody...

Dominique, nique, nique s'en allait tout simplement
Routier pauvre et chantant
En tous chemins, en tous lieux, il ne parle que du bon Dieu

ONE MORE TIME IN ENGLISH...

Dominique, nique, nique, over the land he plods
And sings a little song
Never asking for reward
He just talks about the Lord
He just talks about the..... blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuugggggghhhhhaaaaaaa chunks.

UGGH!!! :(

Thor

01-15-2007, 09:17 PM

I also find the song Disco Duck to be one of the worst musical[?] endevors ever.
Oddly enough it comes in as a tie with the Macarena song, for the all around absolute waste of time. money energy and anything else you can think of.

KeithieW

01-16-2007, 03:36 AM

For someone who recorded some of the most influential albums EVER (Hunky Dory, Ziggy, Low etc. etc.), I should think that David Bowie is wondering what to do with the person who suggested releasing "The Laughing Gnome".

Can I borrow your bucket please Thor? :doncab :horsepoop

zvinki

01-16-2007, 03:01 PM

PFD

01-16-2007, 03:03 PM

Two songs that make me puke.

"Electric Avenue" by...um.....that Jamaican guy

"When Doves Cry" by Prince

VAXman

01-16-2007, 03:08 PM

Two songs that make me puke.

"Electric Avenue" by...um.....that Jamaican guy

"When Doves Cry" by Prince
You guys are scaring me... I don't know anything by the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince other than that awful "Rasberry berret" song that, unfortunately, got some radio airtime on the commercial channels.

PFD

01-16-2007, 03:09 PM

You never heard When Doves Cry?? It was all the rage in 1984.

Rick and Roll

01-16-2007, 03:11 PM

Many disco era tunes that go something like "my body, your body, everybdoy, my body..." Yuck!! But in the spirit of Rick's thread how about Rush's "I Think I am Going Bald". Maybe because it strikes too close to home but when you combine Geddy's impassioned vocals with such silly lyrics you get a ridiculous song. And I am a huge Rush fan.

I'm not very talented on the "lyric-o-meter" when it comes to deciphering meaning, but I always thought (or may have read or been told) that the whole song is a metaphor. "Wall street shuffles there, dressed in flowing hair"...that sort of thing.

I know Neil's the word god, but I'll bust his ass if deserved ("Countdown", the bright "stuff" of dreams, for instance). but I'm pretty sure that's the tenor of "Bald". Let me know what you think...

Impassioned vocals...read: screeching :yougo

Rick and Roll

01-16-2007, 03:13 PM

Two songs that make me puke.

"Electric Avenue" by...um.....that Jamaican guy

"When Doves Cry" by Prince

Eddy Grant I believe....

Vax you've heard Prince songs...probably the "played" ones.... i remember we'd say "This is what it sounds like..when doves cry..." (insert choking sounds)......

VAXman

01-16-2007, 03:17 PM

Eddy Grant I believe....

Vax you've heard Prince songs...probably the "played" ones.... i remember we'd say "This is what it sounds like..when doves cry..." (insert choking sounds)......
The only one I *have* in my collection is the song D.M.S.R. which appeared on the "Risky Business" soundtrack. Other than that song and the "fruity hat" song, I don't think I know anything by the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

Rick and Roll

01-16-2007, 03:22 PM

The only one I *have* in my collection is the song D.M.S.R. which appeared on the "Risky Business" soundtrack. Other than that song and the "fruity hat" song, I don't think I know anything by the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999.....

VAXman

01-16-2007, 03:59 PM

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999.....
Not me. I found out M was pregnant with Kevin in spring of 1999. I was hospitalized and nearly died from a DVT in the summer of '99 and then Kevin was born in the Autumn of '99. Wasn't much partying going on save for a couple of nights in the beginning of '99. :knowing:

KeithieW

01-16-2007, 04:02 PM

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999.....
A half decent video I seem to remember from the "Purple Pain".

Saw him present an award on some z-list celeb awards show in England. He was dressed from head to foot in a pink body suit. He looked like a peeled prawn. The organisers had flown him over at great expense. He was accompanied to the stage by a couple of GIGANTIC minders and the only words he spoke were "Thanks be to God". Then he walked off and out of the building.

What a Jerk!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rick and Roll

01-16-2007, 04:08 PM

Not me. I found out M was pregnant with Kevin in spring of 1999. I was hospitalized and nearly died from a DVT in the summer of '99 and then Kevin was born in the Autumn of '99. Wasn't much partying going on save for a couple of nights in the beginning of '99. :knowing:

alrighty then....

I was mentioning a song that may have crossed your path. Many times you'll hear something and not realize who it was by.

VAXman

01-16-2007, 04:13 PM

alrighty then....

I was mentioning a song that may have crossed your path. Many times you'll hear something and not realize who it was by.
WHich song?

I wasn't listening to much radio on 1999. I was too busy listening to all the naysayers foretelling of the end of the world at 1 second past midnight 31 Dec. 1999.

Rick and Roll

01-16-2007, 04:24 PM

WHich song?

I wasn't listening to much radio on 1999. I was too busy listening to all the naysayers foretelling of the end of the world at 1 second past midnight 31 Dec. 1999.

The song was called 1999...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_%28album%29

recorded in 1982...has it been that long?

I used to hear it at bull roasts and weddings, that sort of thing.

artboy

01-16-2007, 10:06 PM

worst song of all time?... No doubt....MUSKRAT LOVE.. The Captain and Tenille

Roger -Dot- Lee

01-16-2007, 10:10 PM

ONE MORE TIME IN ENGLISH...

I'm not sure what's more disturbing: The fact that Thor knows the lyrics or the fact that he knows the ENGLISH TRANSLATION AS WELL!

Roger -Dot- Lee, *shudder* ... just, *shudder*

Rick and Roll

01-16-2007, 10:11 PM

worst song of all time?... No doubt....MUSKRAT LOVE.. The Captain and Tenille

I have a version of that on "America's Greatest Hits"...not sure whether they were initially responsible for that :dunno:

artboy

01-16-2007, 10:31 PM

I have a version of that on "America's Greatest Hits"...not sure whether they were initially responsible for that :dunno:

It doesn't matter.. the song disturbs me either way
:doncab

podakayne

01-17-2007, 01:45 AM

that song just makes me laugh...and if forced to listen to it...i'd rather have america's version then the capt'n...i can at least focus on the harmonies an not the words...oh crap!...now i've go that song floatin in my head

let me outta here! (knew i shouldn't have peeked at this thread again)
:confused: :bang!:

floridatodd

01-19-2007, 02:15 AM

Dizzy miss lizzy cover by the beatles... what a horrible way to end the help album...only track of them i dont dig...

cribguy

01-19-2007, 08:04 AM

Pretty much ANY Bon Jovi...:horsepoop

And Freebird drives me to the brink every time.:aua:

jtmckinley

01-19-2007, 11:13 AM

Let us not forget "Kung Fu Fighting", or better yet let us forget, please...

Rick and Roll

01-19-2007, 11:24 AM

Let us not forget "Kung Fu Fighting", or better yet let us forget, please...

Again, we could spend a whole thread on bad 70's songs ("Eye sockets in flight, Afternoon Delight" (lol works better than skyrockets), or Beach Baby, Don't Rock the Boat, Thunder Island)....

But FloridaTodd's Beatles cut is a great example...songs by a band that should know better. (of course my orginal song, Don't Cry, was by Asia who obviously writes blatantly commercial pap and knew better).

Another Beatles song like that for me is "Honey Don't".

Methem

01-19-2007, 01:33 PM

Many disco era tunes that go something like "my body, your body, everybdoy, my body..." Yuck!!

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/Baccara_-_Sorry_Im_A_Lady.mp3

...:p

-Methem

zvinki

01-19-2007, 02:42 PM

You obviously know what I am talking about methem. What a catch-22 that was. If you wanted to meet chicks you had to put up with that stuff and dance otherwise you end up a lonely prog-loving geek.

Thor

01-19-2007, 03:43 PM

Can Doves actually cry?... do they have tear ducts? do we care if doves are unhappy... look one just shit on that guys car over there.... hey maybe it was a pigeon [aka flying rat] pigeons don't cry either as far as I know.... hmmm. Maybe Prince would cry if I told him the song sucks

Scree_Hee_Hee

01-19-2007, 03:59 PM

Maybe you know Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime.
PeterG

ARGH! I must agree...:horsepoop

floridatodd

01-19-2007, 06:13 PM

Again, we could spend a whole thread on bad 70's songs ("Eye sockets in flight, Afternoon Delight" (lol works better than skyrockets), or Beach Baby, Don't Rock the Boat, Thunder Island)....

But FloridaTodd's Beatles cut is a great example...songs by a band that should know better. (of course my orginal song, Don't Cry, was by Asia who obviously writes blatantly commercial pap and knew better).

Another Beatles song like that for me is "Honey Don't".

:grinz:

Methem

01-20-2007, 08:27 AM

You obviously know what I am talking about methem. What a catch-22 that was. If you wanted to meet chicks you had to put up with that stuff and dance otherwise you end up a lonely prog-loving geek.
Today the equivalent for that sort of stuff is probably the eurodance music...

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html
Click "House" and then "eurodance"...

Cheap and cheesy: most would consider it much worse than the early disco...

-Methem

VAXman

01-20-2007, 09:02 AM

You obviously know what I am talking about methem. What a catch-22 that was. If you wanted to meet chicks you had to put up with that stuff and dance otherwise you end up a lonely prog-loving geek.
Only if you wanted the shallow chicks.

I knew quite a number of chicks in high school school that loathed disco as much as I. Liz P., Liz K., Sam, Louise, and Mel were all good friends of mine. We listened to the same bands, we went to most of the same concerts, and we did many of the same recreational activities.

When I got to college, there were plenty of the (at that time the term was) JAPs but there were still normal chicks who listened to decent music. There was a band called Yasgur's Farm playing the college area watering holes. There were always women at those gigs looking for some drink, good tunes and reliving the era of free love. :knowing:

...and I would never have been able to marry a woman who didn't have similar musical interests!

Rick and Roll

01-20-2007, 09:33 AM

Liz P., Liz K., Sam, Louise, and Mel were all good friends of mine.

Is this Liz Phair, Sam Cooke, Louise (and Thelma), and Mel from Alice? (or Mel from Grand Funk):???:

VAXman

01-20-2007, 01:29 PM

Is this Liz Phair, Sam Cooke, Louise (and Thelma), and Mel from Alice? (or Mel from Grand Funk):???:

Only if Sam Cooke and Mel Schacher were females. :)

Just some fine young women from my high school days. Several of them enjoyed a special ride in my yellow 1972 Mustang Grande Sprint!

http://www.nicecarsforwomen.com/Ford/Mustang/FordMustang_History/1971_1973_Mustang/g.htm
Not exactly like mine but the closest I could find with a quick googling.