Worst Song Ever Written
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The horror that is "Macarena." There was even a stupid dance move to go with it. It has been plaguing every white-trash wedding ever since.
"Gloria" by Laura Brannigan. It actually took THREE PEOPLE to write that one.
I'm sure a lot of disco songs will get mentioned.
Also, I've always detested "Goin' Up the Country" by Canned Heat, but that's probably more the vocal than the song itself.
Remembering that rap is/are not "songs", I'm leaving at least 500 of those masterful creations of assonance and non-rhyme off this list.
In truthfulness, I'm sure that over the last thirty years of composing that *I* have probably written the worst song ever written. Some my early teenage angst stuff is downright cringeworthy.
--Ted
I'm sure a lot of disco songs will get mentioned.
Also, I've always detested "Goin' Up the Country" by Canned Heat, but that's probably more the vocal than the song itself.
Remembering that rap is/are not "songs", I'm leaving at least 500 of those masterful creations of assonance and non-rhyme off this list.
In truthfulness, I'm sure that over the last thirty years of composing that *I* have probably written the worst song ever written. Some my early teenage angst stuff is downright cringeworthy.
--Ted
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Oooh, "Honey." It makes me shudder. There was also "Watching Scottie Grow."
How about "MacArthur Park," "Afternoon Delight," "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft," "Having My Baby," "In the Year 2525," "Muskrat Love" ... I have to stop, some of these are now stuck in my head.
--Justin
How about "MacArthur Park," "Afternoon Delight," "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft," "Having My Baby," "In the Year 2525," "Muskrat Love" ... I have to stop, some of these are now stuck in my head.
--Justin
Oh...."MacArthur Park." That one is so melodramatic and contains one of the strangest song metaphors ever. Lost love = homemade cake left in the park. 
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Words can not adequately express how much I despise this overplayed piece of garbage.
Words can not adequately express how much I despise this overplayed piece of garbage.
Oh...."MacArthur Park." That one is so melodramatic and contains one of the strangest song metaphors ever. Lost love = homemade cake left in the park.
The Maynard Ferguson version of this song kicks ass. Donna Summer's makes me want to choke her.
I really hate anything by Daughtry. He just sucks. All his songs suck. He makes me hate my life a little.
Life by Desree arguably the worst lyrics ever written:
"I don't want to see a ghost,
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news"
That song, and that verse, were the fist things that popped into my head when I saw this thread title!
WTF is even going on in that song?For another one that scores points for terrible lyrics, repetitive chords, lazy orchestration, and getting viciously stuck in your head, what about The Sundays 'Here's Where the Story Ends'?
"And the devil in me said/
Go down to the shed..."
Gmaj7, Cmaj11, Gmaj7, Cmaj11, Gmaj7, Cmaj11, Gmaj7, Cmaj11,...
Any song that gets stuck in your head probably isn't as bad as you think it is. I hate rap, but I realized that Eminem must be some kind of genius when his songs would invariably get stuck in my head for days upon having heard them once or twice.
"Last Christmas" is a crime against...well, Christmas.
Ah, I see a lot of people have read that Dave Barry book.
Me, I can't fucking stand "I Will Always Love You". Dolly Parton's version sounds okay, but Whitney...AAAIGH. What a warbling, screaming, no-talent HACK.
Also, "How Do I Live". Or, as LeAnn Rimes sings it, How do ah leeeeeeeeeeve without chewwwww....
And of course there's Neil Diamond's "I Am, I Said" which contains such lyrical gems like this:
I am, I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair.
(seriously, what the hell? The CHAIR?)
Me, I can't fucking stand "I Will Always Love You". Dolly Parton's version sounds okay, but Whitney...AAAIGH. What a warbling, screaming, no-talent HACK.
Also, "How Do I Live". Or, as LeAnn Rimes sings it, How do ah leeeeeeeeeeve without chewwwww....
And of course there's Neil Diamond's "I Am, I Said" which contains such lyrical gems like this:
I am, I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair.
(seriously, what the hell? The CHAIR?)
"Achy-Breaky Heart" is another crime against music 
and guaranteed to make me switch off the radio/tv the minute it comes on.
I thought about offering that one...I can't think of a song that will make me hit the radio dial so quickly and forcefully as Whitney's version.Me, I can't fucking stand "I Will Always Love You". Dolly Parton's version sounds okay, but Whitney...AAAIGH. What a warbling, screaming, no-talent HACK.
Does M.C. Hammer's "Can't Touch This" even count as an actual song...?
You know its name and I am not even going to say it - by Hanson.
Ooh! Ooh! How about "Don't Worry Kyoko" by Yoko Ono?
Anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about should be grateful....
Anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about should be grateful....
Pretty much anything written (and sung) by that psycho that thinks she can sing should go in this thread. Seriously, she must have been AMAZING in bed to have Lennon so dizzy and wrapped around her finger.
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