50 Worst Songs Ever.....

[Turn7]

Blender Magazine's list of the 50 Worst Songs Ever:

1. We Built This City ... Starship ... 1985

2. Achy Breaky Heart ... Billy Ray Cyrus ... 1992

3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight ... Wang Chung ... 1986

4. Rollin' ... Limp Bizkit ... 2000

5. Ice Ice Baby ... Vanilla Ice ... 1990

6. The Heart of Rock & Roll ... Huey Lewis and the News ... 1984

7. Don't Worry, Be Happy ... Bobby McFerrin ... 1988

8. Party All the Time ... Eddie Murphy ... 1985

9. American Life ... Madonna ... 2003

10. Ebony and Ivory ... Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder ... 1982

11. Invisible ... Clay Aiken ... 2003

12. Kokomo ... The Beach Boys ... 1988

13. Illegal Alien ... Genesis ... 1983

14. From a Distance ... Bette Midler ... 1990

15. I'll Be There for You ... The Rembrandts ... 1995

16. What's Up? ... 4 Non Blondes ... 1993

17. Pumps and a Bump ... Hammer ... 1994

18. You're the Inspiration ... Chicago ... 1984

19. Broken Wings ... Mr. Mister ... 1985

20. Dancing on the Ceiling ... Lionel Richie ... 1986

21. Two Princes ... Spin Doctors ... 1992

22. Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) ... Toby Keith ... 2002

23. Sunglasses at Night ... Corey Hart ... 1984

24. Five for Fighting ... Superman ... 2000

25. I'll Be Missing You ... Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112 ... 1997

26. The End ... The Doors ... 1967

27. The Final Countdown ... Europe ... 1987

28. Your Body Is a Wonderland ... John Mayer ... 2001

29. Breakfast at Tiffany's ... Deep Blue Something ... 1995

30. Greatest Love of All ... Whitney Houston ... 1986

31. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm ... Crash Test Dummies ... 1994

32. Will 2K ... Will Smith ... 1999
Starship's We Built This City landed at the top of Blender's "50 Worst Songs Ever" list.


33. Barbie Girl ... Aqua ... 1997

34. Longer ... Dan Fogelberg ... 1979

35. Shiny Happy People ... R.E.M. ... 1991

36. Make Em Say Uhh! ... Master P featuring Silkk, Fiend, Mia-X and Mystikal ... 1998

37. Rico Suave ... Gerardo ... 1991

38. Cotton Eyed Joe ... Rednex ... 1995

39. She Bangs ... Ricky Martin ... 2000

40. I Wanna Sex You Up ... Color Me Badd ... 1991

41. We Didn't Start the Fire ... Billy Joel ... 1989

42. The Sounds of Silence ... Simon & Garfunkel ... 1965

43. Follow Me ... Uncle Kracker ... 2000

44. I'll Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) ... Meat Loaf ... 1993

45. Mesmerize ... Ja Rule featuring Ashanti ... 2002

46. Hangin' Tough ... New Kids on the Block ... 1989

47. The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You ... Bryan Adams ... 1996

48. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ... The Beatles ... 1968

49. I'm Too Sexy ... Right Said Fred ... 1992

50. My Heart Will Go On ... Celine Dion ... 1998

[KLang]

I wonder what their criteria is? Some of those aren't that bad.

[JoeBob]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=501&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20040420/ap_on_en_mu/music_worst_songs

[Dave99]

I'd say 45 of those are solidly in the field. :thumbup:

[RTKar]

Most of them are deserving, a few are simply way over played. I didn't see any songs by Barry Manilow, Milli Vanilli, nor the Captain and Tenille (sp)...MAN that song Muskrat Love will about drive you nuts and the song Manic Monday by I don't know who was horrible, heard it every Monday about 50 times "cuzz" the radio at work only tuned in AM and I didn't dare change the station because I was the new guy at the time.

[Lizzerd]

I don't even recognize most of these songs, but I've got a real problem with at least these two being on the list...



26. The End ... The Doors ... 1967
42. The Sounds of Silence ... Simon & Garfunkel ... 1965


What's up with that? The End is my favorite Doors song and The Sounds of Silence is IMHO, beautiful.

I didn't see the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", either. Don't know who did it or when, but it turns my stomach every time I hear it. And Where is "YMCA"?

Stupid list.

[Madmaxfan2]

Add Brandy, Billy Don't be a Hero, The Night Chicago died, Sometimes when We touch, and Feelings to the list. Talk about puke! :eek:

[Robstar]

I liked quite a few of them - probably more than I hated :eek:

[lone_groover]

All worthy picks, but the list should be the 500 Worst at the very least. That's IF they exclude ALL of country music, the entire oeuvre of Andrew Lloyd Webber and his collaborators, and the collected works of Neil Diamond.

BTW, remember TAKE THE L OUT OF LOVER ? :(

:)

[Napoleon]

What, no 10cc or Artful Dodger?

[JT265]

I'd say 45 of those are solidly in the field. :thumbup:


:rofl:

[IlliniRacer]

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
One Tin Soldier (Legend of Billy Jack) - Coven
Don't Steal My Sunshine - LEM
You Get What You Give - New Radicals

I'm sure there are many many more

[Brickman]

In The Year 2525

Denny Zager and Rick Evans Reached #1 07-12-69 on the Billboard Charts.

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find........

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine, doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
``Guess it's time for the Judgement day''

In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say ``I'm pleased where man has been''
Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing...

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday...

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.......

[Railbird]

When this list came out I swear every hack DJ had to play a little bit of "we built this city"

The result being I've had that pop drivel stuck in my head for a week.

[DaveL]

Can I get votes for "Run, Joey Run", and "Playground In My Mind"?

[racer2c]

All worthy picks, but the list should be the 500 Worst at the very least. That's IF they exclude ALL of country music, the entire oeuvre of Andrew Lloyd Webber and his collaborators, and the collected works of Neil Diamond.

BTW, remember TAKE THE L OUT OF LOVER ? :(

:)

My dad despises all things ALW. He calls it "trite classical pop".

How about the trucker era in the 70's? Convoy? Remember the 'Streak'. All those 'talking' songs were pitiful.

A whole lot of bad junk from the '70's. Disco Duck anyone?

Artful Dodge? I'm great friends with the keyboard player from Artful Dodger! I had no idea anyone would ever remember those Cheap Trick wanna be's!

This list is bogus for one reason...they forgot the Macarana.

[racer2c]

Is it not PC to say that 99% of rap blows. MTV2 has a rap show where they run the lyrics at the bottom of the screen.

"G-Unit (What)
We in here (What)
We can get the drama popping
We don't care (What, what, what)
It's going down (What)
'Cause I'm around (What)
50 Cent, you know how I gets down (Down)"

And yes, I agree with l_g on the country thang.

[racer2c]

Oh and I'll probably take heat for this too, but Buffet sucks!

There, I feel better.

[JT265]

Wasn't there a song entitled "ToeKnee, don't be a hero"?

[anait]

Oh and I'll probably take heat for this too, but Buffet sucks!

There, I feel better.

You mean, you never wanna get drunk and...well, you know...??? ;) :D

[racer2c]

You mean, you never wanna get drunk and...well, you know...??? ;) :D

Name the place...oh, you meant the song...never my my bad...um, boy is my face red. Sorry. ;)

[anait]

Okay, that is a very personalized, subjective list. I mean, how do you quantify a 'bad' song? There are so many ways to do it. Poor lyrics. Poor performance. Poor harmonic structure. Cliched riffs. 'Dated' sound. But it seems to me that list has way more to do with a young-ish person's view of certain styles, performers, genres, or time periods than with a well thought out criteria of what constitutes a 'bad' song.

Or maybe I'm just being defensive 'cause I like some of those songs. :rofl:

[anait]

Name the place...oh, you meant the song...never my my bad...um, boy is my face red. Sorry. ;)

Dat's okay, I couldn't resist! :p Ah, I can smell the coconut oil and the booze already...

[RacinM3]

Any "worst" list without at LEAST one Britney Spears track on it is, IMHO, incomplete.

[Cam]

Any "worst" list without at LEAST one Britney Spears track on it is, IMHO, incomplete.

Or Backdoor Boyz or OuttaSync, Etc.... :thumdown:

BTW... Crash Test Dummies on the list? The list is trash can material!

[Robstar]

What about BROS - "When Will I, Will I Be Famous" :laugh:

[Warlock!]

...get drunk and...well, you know...
...Britney Spears ...HO
Oh God... I'm drowning in my own saliva...

Warlock!

[chop456]

BTW... Crash Test Dummies on the list? The list is trash can material!

That MMmmm mmmmm mmm song makes me want to drive my car off a bridge.

That and the 4 non-blondes song are my picks for worst songs. And "You got a brand new pair of roller skates" or whatever the hell that one is.

[Cam]

You got a brand new pair of roller skates" or whatever the hell that one is.

Ahhhhh.... Melanie! You aren't even old enough to have been terrorized by that on the radio of your mothers car when it was first released! :p

[Sean O'Gorman]

Is it not PC to say that 99% of rap blows. MTV2 has a rap show where they run the lyrics at the bottom of the screen.

Rap as a genre isn't awful. Its just what it has been turned into over the past 10-15-20 years or so that blows.

[JT265]

Ahhhhh.... Melanie! You aren't even old enough to have been terrorized by that on the radio of your mothers car when it was first released! :p

Melanie and her "tune" were likely the best advertisement for planned parenthood until Mumbles hit the stage.

[Ankf00]

lets just remember one thing, that mindless **** from that other state to the north that starts with "TE" is not country, it's nashville ****. it doesn't count. it's hereby and forever disqualified from consideration as country, hell, it's forfeited its right to be considered music.

and how is a beatles song on there before a nickelback or lit or ja rule or metallica load/reload song?

[cart7]

1. We Built This City ... Starship ... 1985

I'd add the equally worthless Sarah by the same.

Talk about a once great band that transformed into one of the most inane, 80's pop/rock drivel groups of the time. It's hard to believe that the Jefferson Airplane became the Jefferson Starship.

Grace Slick went from "7 inches of pleasure" after "one pill making her larger" and the "other making her small" to

"Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll" [: GAG :]

[Purple Panic]

I'm sorry, but this list is extremely heavily biased towards 80s and 90s tunes and just about ignores every other genre, except for throwing in a stray Beatles song (which I happen to be quite fond of). There are so many more worse songs that belong on that list and should have been murdered before they appeared on the charts.

If you have to base it on 80s and 90s, where's the Rick ghAstley?! Where's the Toni Basil?! Where's the New Edition?! Where's the Eminem?! Where's the rest of the New Kids on the Block?!

Somebody without a brain made up that list for the sole purpose of being controversial. Somebody who needs to shut his trap and get some taste. :flame:

[rosawendel]

i've said it before, and i'll say it again. worst song ever, submitted for your enjoyment/suffering:

"(BER-DA-LER) won't you take me to (BER-DA-LER) funkytown"

[Gangrel]

Any "worst" list without at LEAST one Britney Spears track on it is, IMHO, incomplete.

...and let's not forget Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson, and Sonny and Cher...

[Dirty Sanchez]

This list would make my "Stupidest 50 Lists Ever" list. :cool:

[Madmaxfan2]

Anything by the Osmond Brothers, or Donnie and Marie is fair game. Top 40 in the 70's produced the worst drivel ever! Thank God for AOR (Album Oriented Rock)

[Sean O'Gorman]

Personally I think some of the bias is due to expectations. You'd expect crap from New Kids on the Block, Nickelback, Britney Spears, etc. but not from the Beatles, or Jefferson Airplane (or Sharship or whatever its called).

[nrc]

What about "Hey Mickey"?

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/images/basilcover.jpg

[KaBoom21]

This list is incomplete with Phil Collins' "Susssudio", Heart's "All I Want to Do is Make Love to You", and Scandal's "The Warrior" ("Shooting at the walls of heartache, BANG BANG! I am the warrior......." ) :eek:

[Jervis Tetch 1]

All worthy picks, but the list should be the 500 Worst at the very least. That's IF they exclude ALL of country music, the entire oeuvre of Andrew Lloyd Webber and his collaborators, and the collected works of Neil Diamond.

BTW, remember TAKE THE L OUT OF LOVER ? :(

:)The Motels, but hey, that had a good riff at the end and Martha Davis was the new wave babe of 1982. Good song, so don't add it.

But what about this crap?

You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Let Your Love Flow - The Bellamy Brothers
Every Rose Has a Thorn - Poison
Turn On the Radio - Autograph
I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
*** On Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot
I've Never Been to Me - Charlene
Theme From the Greatest American Hero - Joey Scarbary
Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Greco
...and No. 1
Afternoon Delight - The Starland Vocal Band

UGH! :eek:

[pinniped]

Funny you should mention Autograph...I went to law school with a guy who played drums for them...really cool guy but man did that band SUCK...

[Hot Rod Otis]

What, no "Stairway to Heaven"? It would be on my list.

[Rob]

How about that awful Police song? "Do doo doo doo, da dah dah dah" is dumb dumb dumb dumb.

[Robstar]

Every Rose Has a Thorn - Poison

NNNNOOOOOOOOO !!!
I love that track ! :o

[Cam]

You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Let Your Love Flow - The Bellamy Brothers
Every Rose Has a Thorn - Poison
Turn On the Radio - Autograph
I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
*** On Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot
I've Never Been to Me - Charlene
Theme From the Greatest American Hero - Joey Scarbary
Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Greco
...and No. 1
Afternoon Delight - The Starland Vocal Band

Yikes!!!!!! You owe me a nights sleep after that list! I am gonna have nightmares I guarantee it! :eek:

[racer2c]

S**t if we're going into 80's hair bands, that's a whole list and thread to itself.
:)

[Ziggy]

What if God was one of Us? Joan Somebody

check out the lyrics.

Keep on Lovin' You - REO Speedwagon
MacAurther Park - Babs
anything by the band "Poison"
anything by the band "Great White"
anything by the band "White Snake"
One way or another - Blondie

To name a few.....

Ziggy

[Jervis Tetch 1]

NNNNOOOOOOOOO !!!
I love that track ! :oSorry mate, NO hair metal bands exist in my catalog sans the first two Motley Crue LPs, but then they were kind of in their own little group weren't they?

To this day Bret Michaels of Poison blames Kurt and the Seattle gane of ruining a good thing.

Hey Bret, if it wasn't Kurt, it would have been Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, AIC, or Mudhoney, so he wouldn't have won anyway.

Add to the list ANY James Taylor song or Key Largo by Bertie Higgins. :thumdown:

[nrc]

What if God was one of Us? Joan Somebody


Joan Osborne - who actually has some really excellant stuff.

[lone_groover]

A'ight. Since we're making a list. Here's a deservedly obscure little ditty by a no-talent David Bowie imitator from Philly(!):

ESCALATOR OF LIFE by Robert Hazard and the Heroes

Here's a couplet to wrap yo' membrane around:

We're riding on the escalator of life
We're shopping in the human mall,...

:cry: :eek: :cry:

[mueber]

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me HAPPIE.......

[Chief]

That list has no cred.....Bloodrock's DOA would be my Worst Song EVER. This thing made it made it up the charts too, in the early 70's. You can't even find the lyrics (not licensed!).

[Corner5]

"Shake your Booty" KC and the Sunshine Band! :thumdown:

I like Blondie! No Doors song should be on that list. :saywhat:

[redmist]

most of those songs suck, but come on, 50 worst? 99% of all rap songs are worse than those, add to that all the boy band, brittany and brittany wannabe crap out there, and those songs on the list aren't in the top 1000 worst songs

[FTG]

I can't believe the thread is this long and no one has mentioned, "Having my baby."

The only song ever written about a chick, that makes the woman being written about want to vomit.

[pineapple]

I can't believe the thread is this long and no one has mentioned, "Having my baby."

The only song ever written about a chick, that makes the woman being written about want to vomit.

And the urge to puke had nothing to do with morning sickness. :)

It was a sickening song. Imagine some dopey dingus singing some sappy song because he forgot to wear a jimmy. Havin my baby what a lovely way to say how much you love me...blech. More like, havin your baby, what a stupid way to say the chronic was just too good.

[Sean O'Gorman]

I don't know how I missed this the first time around, but how did The End make the list? I'd really like to hear their logic behind that one. :shakehead

[Jervis Tetch 1]

This just in...I was shopping with my Canadian girlfriend and she was thrilled to death to see a CD containing AIR SUPPLY's greatest hits...as seen on TV no less.

Yes, she bought it. Yes, she played it in the car. Yes, she sang along.
Yes, I wanted to puke.

So know I must add that to anyone's list of purgatory penned songs.

Only a Canadian would hurt a Yank so...

May Kurt Cobain have mercy on my miserable soul for having to listen to that. :cry: :eek:

[RaceGrrl]

"Wildfire"
"Feelings"
"Seasons in the Sun"

[pinniped]

Anything from the early 70-'s early 70s hangover hit machine rock bands...journey, styx, etc...knights in white satin, hold up your lighter crap

Any hair band

Anything by the surf punks

And I have to say that when my office manager had a fight with her husband and then forced us all to listen to the gypsy/squaw era Cher classics interspersed with Styx, I thought I was experiencing the depths of ehll...we need a barf emoticon, where do I get one?

A close second is listening to one of those commercial country stations that plague the airwaves...my bro in law nascar fan foisted that on me last weekend...huuurrrlll...each song a pathetic caricature of two or three old songs, updated with modern production and a mealy mouthed fake southern accent...beleeeeaaahhhh :eek:

[stroker]

Okay, I've read all three pages of this--

Half the worthy songs listed were AM classics in the 70's. I'd forgotten most of them. I'm sure there are more, but I can't resist dropping the Neutron Bomb on all of you.

I defy every single one of you to listen to "Bilbo Baggins" sung by Leonard Nimoy at this link

http://frogstar.com/trek/index.asp

and tell me it's not the worst song of all time.

Any of the William Shatner stuff comes in a virtual second place finish.

My work here is done.

heh, heh, heh, heh..... :rofl:

[anait]

This just in...I was shopping with my Canadian girlfriend and she was thrilled to death to see a CD containing AIR SUPPLY's greatest hits...as seen on TV no less.

Yes, she bought it. Yes, she played it in the car.

:rofl:

Aw, c'mon, I love that CD!!! :p Sure, the lyrics make you roll your eyes, and the harmonies/arrangements are designed to provoke a sappy reaction...but they're a fun indulgence when I want to remember those blissfully ignorant years of teenage angst!!!

But mr anait agrees with you, and I only play it when I'm home alone, or driving alone...or sing at the top of my lungs when I'm in the shower alone...

Hey, can we do an 80's karaoke night at T-O this year??? ;) Cover your ears, folks, anait's gonna sing...

And I know just where to touch you,
And I know just what to prove;
I know when to pull you closer,
And I know when to let you loose.
And I know the night is fading,
And I know that time’s gonna fly;
And I’m never gonna tell you everything
I’ve got to tell you,
But I know I’ve got to give it a try...

...I can make tonight forever,
Or I can make it disappear by the dawn;
And I can make you every promise that has ever been made,
And I can make all your demons be gone.

But I’m never gonna make it without you,
Do you really want to see me crawl?
And I’m never gonna make it like you do,
Making love out of nothing at all.

[CART T. Katz]

I defy every single one of you to listen to "Bilbo Baggins" sung by Leonard Nimoy at this link

http://frogstar.com/trek/index.asp

and tell me it's not the worst song of all time.

bilbo baggins.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

even funnier with this (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/88286) visual to go with it.

[Rob]

Sure, the lyrics make you roll your eyes, and the harmonies/arrangements are designed to provoke a sappy reaction...but they're a fun indulgence when I want to remember those blissfully ignorant years of teenage angst!!!
I never dreamed I'd ever see the term "teenage angst" associated with Air Supply. :laugh:

[devilmaster]

The problem with any list is that it is a personal list......

There are some songs, that although bad, could easily get bumped off the list by a tonne of songs that a group of people could think up.

Seems like some of the songs on that list might be on there because they were overplayed to death....

My additions:
Spirit in the Sky - remake, Doctor and the Medics.
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Radiation Ruling The Nation - Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor


Steve

[anait]

I never dreamed I'd ever see the term "teenage angst" associated with Air Supply. :laugh:

:D What can I say, I was madly in love with a guy who wouldn't give me a second look, and I'd read WAY too many trashy novels. I'd sing those songs over and over and over and over...sitting in schoolyards, in computer class, on orchestra/band trips... :p

[JT265]

:rofl:
And I know just where to touch you,
And I know just what to prove;
I know when to pull you closer,
And I know when to let you loose.


WOO-HOO!!!! Game ON!!! :thumbup:



:rofl:

[doppelganger]

Reading this thread proves there's no shortage of lousy songs. I'd like to
add "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell.

[meadors]

Said it before. Number most despised song just down right annoying.

Wonderful, mahvelous By GEorge Gershwin


puke puke puek

[pkvracing12]

I don't even recognize most of these songs, but I've got a real problem with at least these two being on the list...




What's up with that? The End is my favorite Doors song and The Sounds of Silence is IMHO, beautiful.

I didn't see the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", either. Don't know who did it or when, but it turns my stomach every time I hear it. And Where is "YMCA"?

Stupid list.
love the doors Jim Morrison ROCKS!

[Rob]

I've just been reminded one of the worst songs ever written. It's Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al".

[stroker]

Oh, Crap! I forgot--

"Heart Light" by Neil Diamond!

God, what a horrible thing.

[cartman]

Ziggy -
Don't blame Joan Osbourne for "What if God was One of Us", Prince wrote that little gem. Prince's version of it is much better than Joan's musically but it's still the same lame lyrics. He must have written it while he was in one of his religious phases.

I definitely disagree with some of the songs on that list, but I can't take any worst song list seriously that doesn't include the following:

Heartbeat - Don Johnson
She's Like the Wind - Patrick Swayze

These guys (and Eddie Murphy) should really have stuck to acting. I do have to give Eddie props for "Boogie in Your Butt" though, at least that one was entertaining.