Worst Songs

True Blue by Madonna. Forever ruined for me because of the dopey video contest she ran for it back in the ‘80s.

Thanks a lot, OP. I had that damn song stuck in my head all week and it had finally stopped tormenting me... until I read your post.

Let's get this one out of the way, right now.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING could possibly be worse than this. It's probably played on repeat in the ninth circle of hell:

Any rock song with "rock" in its lyrics, e.g. "We Built this City". I heard it at the grocery store last week and am still traumatized.

Mathew Wilder. The video is a stupid and annoying as the song.

Mine will always be "Lady in Red."

This is aggressively vile in so many ways:

“Sugar Walls”......and just about everything else she did...

You're Beautiful.

Sexbox by Latoya Jackson

Never Been to Me

Shake Your Love - Debbie Gibson. A friend of mine used to turn to me periodically and sing "I just can't shake...your love." Just so that the damn piece of drivel would be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Madonna’s “Holiday”

R11 deserves a second nomination for Worst Video.

Fucking "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks is SO awful it makes my eats bleed!

Caribbean Queen 😖

Under the Bridge downtown is where I did some drugs

9 of these songs are on my iPod.

Mmm MMM MMM

The one that starts with "Once there was a girl who."

Hotel California - the Eagles. Thankfully never stuck in my head but it gets played all the time in coffee shops and pubs. It goes on forever, to the extent that it feels as if time is starting to go backwards. It also exemplifies the music I hate the most. West Coast rock.

Another vote for We Built This City by Jefferson Airplane. Absolutely HATE that song!

The DL anthem, “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I’ve Got Love in my Tummy”...

East Atlanta oooooh na na

Yummy Yummy Yummy I Got Love in My Tummy. I'm not even kidding. It's been in my head since around noon yesterday, and I'm getting desperate.

Dan Fogelberg is a frequent contributor to "Worst Songs." Here's the worst of the worst.

Anything by Bread. Anything by Air. And yes, R26. Dan Fogelberg is awful.

Can't decide between Bohemian rhapsody and Stairway to heaven. Hate them both.

Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-Lez

How that piece of garbage managed to leap up to #3 Billboard / #2 Cashbox, while the far superior "Tied Up," stalled out just entering the top 40 is beyond me.

Tom Sawyer by Rush gives me the sicks.

That hideous Train song - actually either Hey Soul Sister or Drops of Jupiter. God awful.

I always hated "Love Is a Battlefield."

Every song by the Chainsmokers, but especially Closer:

So baby pull me closer

in the backseat of your Rover

That I know you can't afford

Bite that tattoo on your shoulder

Pull the sheets right off the corner

Of the mattress that you stole

From your roommate back in Boulder

We ain't ever getting older

Falco, "Rock Me Amadeus". If making bad music is a sin, he's burning in Hell.

Sugar, from the Archies Wonderwall

R8- Never was crazy about that song, but that video is freaking adorable!!

Hands down, of songs that charted in the US, it's the execrable CB Savage.

Among vehicle tunes, "Car Wash" sucked, too.

Considered one of the worst songs ever made.

You beat me to it, R39. I was about to post this.

"You Light Up My Life."

Ga Ga Ooh La La

This drivel. Sounds like he's passing a kidney stone.

"Upside Down," by Diana Ross.

They ran this into the ground after Family Ties.

I hate this fucking song because of Glee and all the 20 year olds who play it because they think they're so cool.

I hated the original version, R46 (I hated all the one-word-name bands). I actually only listened to it when Glee came around and those kids gave it an enjoyable context.

Uh, hello. Let me remind you of this audio bullet to the brain. Enjoy!

R38, I loved the instrumental intro to Carwash...

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, Vicki Lawrence's one hit.

Even Cher passed on that.

OMG, R29, I thought I was the only one who felt that way. LOVE Tied Up. Deserved way better recognition.

Who Let The Dogs Out?

Most pop post 2000 is absolute garbage. But My Humps is really the turd at the bottom of the bowl (or bowel). This shit was number 1 in Australia and number 3 in the US and UK.

How anyone can hate on Hall and Oates is beyond me. They farted out better tunes in their sleep than the entire top 40 today.

James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go

"Sharin' the night together" by Dr Hook and the Medicine Show. This band did some of the smarmiest, sleaziest songs ever and I am surprised that pop culture vultures have not reused and satirized their repulsive oeuvre the way they have everything else.

There's a current "deep cuts" type thread making the rounds. Someone posted an artist who is one of the main practitioners of the kind of shit music r53 is talking about. I don't remember her name, but it was one of those "alternate spelling" names.

All of the above.

What I Like About You by The Romantics with December by Collective Soul right there nipping at the heels.

This song by PowerSource actually peaked at #61 on the Hot 100. Game over.

As I get older bad songs from the past seem like fun nostalgia, but eye of the tiger is still a dreadful song.

anything from The Greatest Showman soundtrack

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight

[quote]As I get older bad songs from the past seem like fun nostalgia, but eye of the tiger is still a dreadful song.

Agree. I can appreciate something like Kokomo by The Beach Boys that I hated at the time. But Eye of the Tiger and Don't Worry Be Happy still have me reaching to change the radio station.

"Wives and Lovers" by Jack Jones. Even at 12, I knew what garbage that was.

Anything by Cheryl Crow.... "every DAY is a-whine-ding rowad...."

Ahhhhhh!

"Time Passagesssssssss."

Firework katy perry her awful voice is especially terrible in this one.

Bronze age here: MUSKRAT LOVE is the winner for the ages

Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner, with or without musical background.

R64 I hated Kokomo then and I still hate it now.

Toni Tennille tells a hilarious story about performing Muskrat Love in the Gerald Ford White House. The Queen was present and Henry Kissinger was visibly scandalized by the song while Toni was singing it, feeling it was "inappropriate for royalty."

I love "Tom's Diner." The original.

I agree that the video for R8 is actually fucking adorable & actually made me tear up and smile. The song though is an ear worm.

Another Dan Fogelberg crapfest

r66

Soak Up The Sun was great

[quote]How anyone can hate on Hall and Oates is beyond me.

They got lazy after H20, very lazy.

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

I Did It All For The Nookie

Summer Girls

[quote]How anyone can hate on Hall and Oates is beyond me.

I never hated them, but I didn't like anything after Abandoned Luncheonette as much as I liked Abandoned Luncheonette.

Dear mama by Tupac or 2pack?

Sophie b. Hawkins - damn, wish I was your lover

[quote]Toni Tennille tells a hilarious story about performing Muskrat Love in the Gerald Ford White House. The Queen was present and Henry Kissinger was visibly scandalized by the song while Toni was singing it, feeling it was "inappropriate for royalty."

Toni, not Kissinger, is the one who comes off as the moron in this story. He was absolutely right. What a stupid shitty song to sing in front of the Queen.

It just goes to show how subjective music is. I love Dan Fogelberg. One man’s trash, another man’s treasure. I know “Longer” is garbage but I can telp but love it.

Do you love Karen Carpenter, Bread, ONJ, and "Afternoon Delight" as well, R82?

I like ONJ because not all of her music was as dull as her mid 70s phase.

God, there are some horrendous songs listed here. Don’t forget “You Light Up My Life”. Actually, keep doing your best to forget it.

Having My Baby-Paul Anka. I just read his book.

R83- I love Olivia. And I don’t wanna hear shit about it. Xanadu is a masterpiece between her and ELO. I’m not mad at Bread either. I don’t deserve to live.

R83 R87 ONJ =I'll Leave Ya the Note in the John

I HATE "Ring My Bell" ! by Anita Ward

Well, R87, no surprise there, a Dan Fogelberg fan liking ONJ and Bread.

r89 - does it all need to be so high brow and precious? No room for guilty pleasures? Just all Velvet Underground, Tribe Called Quest, Kendrick Lamar, Rolling Stones and Aretha all the time? Get over yourself, you judgmental prig.

David Bowie - "The Laughing Gnome"

It doesn't even work as a novelty song.

Thunder Th Th Thunder ....lightning and the thunder ....thunder th th thunder

Madonna is great but the way she sang that stupid version of Santa Baby like Elmer Fudd makes me want to punch a kitten. Santa babeee, swwip a sabwwe under the twwee. Somebody please stop it before she gets to the part about the pwwatinum mine.

R76 no it's not it's fucking vile! Crow's only decent song was her first hit, all I wanna do.

Anything by lady Gaga is awful as well.

PPAP

"I like ONJ because not all of her music was as dull as her mid 70s phase."

I must be really dull, then because her mid-1970s material contains my four fave ONJ songs:

1974 - "If You Love Me Let Me Know"

1974 - "I Honestly Love You"

1975 - "Have You Never Been Mellow"

1975 - "Please Mr. Please"

I Touch Myself

Any "song" that is mostly sampled with a few added stupid lyrics on top (see: P Diddy, Kid Rock, MC Hammer, etc.)

I'm Blue abbadee abbadie abbadee...........

MAKE IT STOP

There are three songs from the 1980s I hate so much yet they were three of the most popular songs of the decade:

"Karma Chameleon" - Culture Club - It's ironic because I love CC and all their songs, except this one.

"Every Breath You Take" - The Police - I can listen to almost any Police song except this one.

"Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor

Telephone Man

R33, that is one of the worst songs EVER!!!! Now that we’ve established this, I have some of these songs on my iTunes.

Walking on Sunshine

Break out

The massive attack/madonna cover of my favorite marvin gaye track, I Want You. And massive attack are my favorite band.

Anything Billy Joel.

Anything.

Ahem...

Worst ear worm ever...

This just makes me want to get up and dance, y'all! Get my feet HOT for Jesus!

Any dance song where they shout out the names of cities, whether it be Lionel Ritchie or Huey Lewis, or you name it. Far worse than "we built this city," which at least has a catchy tune.

Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi. That’s the one with woo woo sound, right??

Also If I Ever Lose My Faith in You by Sting

And It’s My Life and Hella Good by oN Doubt

R 104, one of my absolute favorites! Loved the way it was used recently on Black Mirror.

Whip My Hair

Whip your own damn hair Willow.

I actually like this song but it sure is an ear worm.

R105 is what happens in a single weekend when you give 3 Disney Imagineers piles of cardboard, 55 gallon drums of scenery paint, and a case of whiskey.

Debbie Gibson for the win

So romantic

Gross

Sylvia's mother

R116, that’s one of my favorites, old chap!

"Never Been to Me. —Charlene"

A gaggle of angry drag queens are going to duct tape and torture you for that.

r90 Reread the thread title.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... THE WORST!!!

Windy, Windy, Windy, Windy, et cetera ad infinitum.....

Actually, I think I can do even better:

Mariah Carey - all I want for Christmas (is you to shut the fuck up)

Hollaback Girl

[quote]Mariah Carey - all I want for Christmas (is you to shut the fuck up)

Ain't that the truth. One year my upstairs neighbor was drunkenly decorating his apartment while playing this on an endless loop. For four hours.

[quote]You talk, talk, talk to me Your eyes touch me physically

The Warrior by Scandal has some of the most infuriatingly stupid lyrics ever written.

anyone say 500 miles by The Proclaimers yet?

Also Come On Eileen needs to be here

R128, what's worse than grease on Olivia Newton John? Answer: "Cum" on Eileen. Good old 80's humor.

Pour vous:

#1 = Taylor Dayne's, "I'll Always Love You" ... the most clawing song EVER written. Every. Single. Lyric is trite, overused, cliched and unoriginal.

I'll Always Love You Taylor Dayne I'll always love you For the rest of my days You have won my heart and my soul With your sweet, sexy ways You gave me hope When I needed someone near You bring me happiness Everyday of every year And I'll always love you For all that you are You have made my life complete You're my lucky star Your are the one That I'd been searching for You are my everything Tell me who could ask for more And I'll always love you Honey, this will never end I need you by my side, baby You're my lover my friend Oh, my friend You gave my world A thrill I've never known And filled my eager heart With a love to call my own And I'll always love you You must know how much I do You can count on me forever And I will take good care Of you I'll always love you I'm so happy that your mine I always love you Till the end of time

#2 = "This Girl is On Fire" by Alicia Keys.

Who let the dogs out and sweet caroline One of the worst things about going to sporting events is those two god awful piece of shit songs are still played.

[R123] ... the first time I heard that song I was driving. I seriously considered swerving into oncoming traffic! :P

Not as bad as Taylor Dayne, Alicia Keys or the Christmas Song ... but this is a contendor ... from the KISS canon ...

That thing by Minnie Ripperton or "She's Having My Baby" by Paul Anka.

Top those, bitches.

This song must have been learned phonetically.

Joyride is a decent song, wtf

This shit on the other hand.

This could be used to torture criminals Most disliked video on youtube ever also lol

Thank god this only went viral on the internet but if it had gone on radio this is the clear winner or at least top ten worst.

The Greatest Love of All

I actually kind of like Bieber’s “Baby”. Can’t stand any other Bieber song or indeed Bieber himself.

r130: I'm assuming you meant 'cloying' when you typed 'clawing'. But rather than an "Oh, dear" I'm giving you a "Bravo!". "Clawing" is indeed the perfect adjective to describe "I'll Aways Love You".

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now.

"What's worse than grease on Olivia Newton-John? Answer: "Cum" on Eileen. Good old 80's humor."

Actually, you "almost" got it right.

Q: "What's worse than Olivia Newton-John IN 'Grease' ?"

A: "Come (cum) on Eileen."

[quote]"Never Been to Me. —Charlene"

I find that song too amusing to ever think of it as a bad, much less the "worst" song.

Muskrat Love/ Captain and Tenille. YUCK.

"Let it GO" Holy Fucking SHIT

Don't worry be Happy. Worst song ever. Doo doo da, la la la , fuck you.

R143: R129's version makes much more sense ("Grease on Olivia Newton-John - Come on Eileen")

My Way. Worst song, worst sentiment, and a cringe-inducing part of every karoke set by old men who think it tells their story.

R149 reminds me of the awfulness that is Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York."

This Is The Hard Part by the Pussycat Dolls. I despise that song.

Owl city- fireflies

Sometimes When We Touch.

Nobody -Sylvia

That god damned "I Love It" song by Iconapop. I swear that was in just about every commercial and rom-com trailer for several years straight. It's so loud and obnoxious.

Oh baby, you got what I need...This guy sings like Alfalfa if Alfalfa was a black man and alive.

All popular music now. And just about everything posted here, but Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band years ago was just nauseating. It was a bonafide libido extinguisher.

Honey by Bobby Goldsboro. Most of you are too young to have heard it but my love for humanity compels me to warn off everyone, EVERYONE, who may be put in the path of this abomination to avoid it with the last ounce of strength in your being.

You know, I'm in the mood for some Bobby Goldsboro....what shall I listen to?

A new contender for the worst:

"Look What You Made Me Do" by Taylor Swift

Absolutely horrible.

But r158, look how big the tree has grown...

R160 Endgame is equally as terrible.

Chris Brown- With you The lyrics were cheesy beyond belief and he tricked everyone into thinking he was the sweetest.

Will Smith- gettin jiggly with it/ men in Black

112- peaches and cream

Squeeze- tempted

Sonny and Cher- I got you babe

achy breaky heart hollaback girl perfect illusion hips don't lie

Key Largo

A Kind of Hush

For all of the kiddies in DL land who don't know how the lovelorn used to connect in the olden days - through the written word - well just listen to this gem of a classified...

I give you American Pie by Don McLean: cloying does not fully cover it's insipid lyrics: MEGA HIT in the middle bronze age

Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day that I die This'll be the day that I die

La bamba- I think it was los lobos

R168, those insipid lyrics sold for 1.2M at auction a few years ago. I'm sure you'll say there's no accounting for taste but I thought McClean was a master at thinly veiled references throughout the song and that's why it has stood the test of time. It's a time capsule of sorts and encompasses a time of innocence before "the music died..."

This man is revered as a genius songwriter/artist?

The video is awful too, so enjoy.

Wow. This thread is scary!

Pass the dutchie on the left hand side. Whole foods played it three nights in a row. I had to change stores.

Wait- I thought 'Never Been to Me' by Charlene was the official theme song of Datalounge?

This shit right here from The singer’s voice to his looks ! It’s all shit

Any song by Paul.Anka should be considered.

My Sharona.

too many!

sweet caroline.

anything by oasis

anything by britney spears

"I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight" Cutting Crew

"Sister Christian" Nightranger

"Eye of the TIger" Survivor

"Mr. Roboto" Styx

Most anything by Bon Jovi

"MacArthur Park" WTF, cake in the rain, takes so long to bake it...WHAT ARE THEY ON ABOUT, AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

All these songs are terrible! I would change the station if any of them came on the radio.

I LOVE "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

I also LOVE 'MacArthur Park" by Sir Richard Harris. Hate the version by Donna Summer.

I would have to vote for that Charlene song. It made me go WTF when I heard it on the radio.

"I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to see." WTF does that mean? You saw the king's butt? That song was written by drunk 14 year olds.

Hands down they are:

Los Del Rio - La Macarena

and

Jesus loves me this I know for the bible tells me so.

“Yellow (fucking) Submarine”. I love the Beatles, but this disaster should NEVER have been recorded.

My Humps, by that grotesque, sticky looking Fergie and The disgusting. Black Eyed Piss.

Playground in My Mind by Clint Holmes

Run Joey Run by David Geddes

Two truly abominable excretions

Nothing’s Going to Break My Stride-horrible!!

Hated this one as a child no less than I hate it now.

Purple Rain -- Prince. Completely overwrought. And when is rain ever purple?

"Somebody's Watching Me" -- Rockwell

"I Got a Brand-New Pair of Roller Skates" -- Melanie

"My Way" - Frank Sinatra

I WWed myself 3 times before I realized this was an old thread. There are so many bad songs on this thread. Dan Fogelberg, and ONJ are the most obvious multiple offenders. But my most excrescent excrescence is that 1976 mess about 'I'm not talkin' 'bout movin' in.'

This. It gives me a headache.

Love "Music Box Dancer." Gonna turn off my music now and listen to it five times. Thanks, r193.

Another vote for "Who Let The Dogs Out" And because I'm feeling a bit evil. I've attached the video. Dare you to watch it.

worst song of the 20th century

After listening like mad to Meet the Beatles in the winter of 1964, I did not immediately fall in love with anything on The Beatles' Second Album. Now I love the songs I hated, particularly in their original versions, such as the Miracles' "You Really Got a Hold on Me."

r190, that Melanie song is actually called "Brand New Key."

I know, who gives a shit?

“Love For Sale” by ANYONE...ANY VERSION.

A finger-snappin’ ditty about child prostitution.

What am I missing?

R190, I love both of those songs.

R189, agreed about Purple Rain.

I have a big problem with Prince.

I know he is a brilliant multi-instrumentalist, but he seems to be a misogynist and he can't sing!

There was a great deal of shite on the radio in 1976, R192.

Have always hated "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks.

Imagine my surprise to find that it is an English language remake of "Le moribond" by Jacques Brel.

Lady in Red, Three times a lady

Shitty songs all around

R197, thanks for that old photo of the Miracles.

Claudette, the only female member, was Smokey's wife for many years.

Smokey's falsetto is not for everybody, but you can't deny he is a great songwriter.

R158 Isn't that song about spousal abuse anyway? Sounds like it was written by an incel keeping a girl he kidnapped in his basement with no food and water for weeks.

And that one, r202, was the shite-iest.

I like Roberta Flack. But I have a problem with this song:

I hate it.

R184, it's a Ringo song, so it's okay.

Most of you are too young to remember that "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro contains the line "What the heck" which was very strong language for 1968.

R206, how is "Honey" about spousal abuse? Because his wife was afraid that he'd be mad that she wrecked the car?

R208, OMG, I remember my mom telling me how bad that song was, back in the 80s.

Thanks for that memory.

This song is torture.

She wrecked the car? Doesn't he say that she's stupid in the song? God what a lame song.

"Native New Yorker" by Odyssey really sucks.

For a song that means to celebrate the wonders of NYC, its lyrics are completely inept.

And its a just a corny old disco song.

R214, okay, yes, "She was always young at heart Kinda dumb and kinda smart."

But he means it in the most loving way......

"Benny and the Jets." Don't even get me started....

Top this...

R217 GBYBR was the first Elton John album I didn't buy. I hated it, and it was everywhere. Who needed a copy of his own?

Lady Bump

So, any song with Lady in the title.

And any song sung by "boys". Or Boyz.

Honey is an earworm as well. That's doubly offensive.

[quote]any song sung by "boys"

Yeah, right.

"Simply having a wonderful Christmas time..."

Makes me want to slit my wrists.

They're the exception to the rule R224

The entire score to that stupid Julie Andrews movie about that narcissistic cunt who flies over England with an umbrella.

i don't like it when my asshole sings in loud farts

God Bless the USA

Mainly because of the type of people who love it.

DON'T tell me not to live!

Just sit and putter!!

Life's candy and the sun's!!!

A ball of butter!!!

Push Push in the Bush.

That Minnie Riperton song:

La la la la la LA LA LA LA LA LA [SOUNDS ONLY DOGS CAN HEAR]

R232, yep, those Minnie Riperton whistle register high notes (Mariah C. does them too) make me think, "just because you can sing notes that high does not mean that you should!" lol

R233 God put a stop to that shit by killing Riperton and ruining Carey's voice

"Take On Me" by Aha. That shrill falsetto singing, Jesus, like fingernails on a chalkboard. The song never would've been a hit without it's expensive, innovative video combining live action and animation. Maybe the ultimate example of a great video making a crappy song a hit.

R235, I know. Hated that song.

I think the band "Aha" is Norwegian or something. So the lyrics make no sense. Scandinavians speak fluent English, this is true, but they shouldn't think that they can be lyricists.

Anything by Ace of Base...some of the lyrics to their songs were coded language for skinheads.

Mister Mister Kyrie and Broken Wings makes me want to bust my own eardrums....oh and that Sussidio song...I despise those so much

It's really hard to have a more banal song than this:

Sister Suzie, brother John

Martin Luther, Phil and Don

Brother Michael, auntie Gin

Open the door and let 'em in, yeah

Anything by Yoko Ono.

Oh, r239, how do you sleep?

Stevie Wonder is a legend, deservedly so, but for writing tripe like “I Just Called to Say I Love You and “For Your Love”, he should be waterboarded.

R242, in a similar vein, the Beatles are possibly the worlds most famous and best rock/pop band.

But individually, what have the lads come up with?

John - (tbd) Paul - Coming Up, My Brave Face, Let 'Em In George - Crackerbox Palace, I've Got Mind Set on You Ringo - The No No Song, You and Me Babe

That is a whole lot of crap!

R243 here. Taking suggestions for your least liked John Lennon solo tune.

I love "Let 'Em In." It was HUGE at the Candle when it was new. [BOLD]HUGE![/BOLD]

OP is way off. I don't believe Hall & Oates ever had a bad song.

There is no worse Lennon song than "How Do You Sleep?" You can find it yourself.

Nothing can top "My name is Michael, I've got a nickel" for sheer treacle. Hated it at 13, hate it even more now.

R248, yep "Playground in My MInd."

I have never heard the songs in r248 or r249. I think I shall not look them up.

Yep, Clint or Cliff whatshisname (I used to know all this stuff). That and Sammy's "Candy Man" were enough to ruin my puberty years.

Here, R250, you haven't lived until you hear something this awful. And it was a HUGE hit, played to death, no less.

(Be sure and suffer through to the chorus and little boy Michael singing. Just... wrong).

Even as a kid, I hoped the boy singing Michael got beat up at his school for it.

R245 I now realize "Let 'Em In" doesn't just have annoying lyrics -- it also has annoying music.

What was up with McCartney's voice on that track? Who was he trying to sound like? Whoever it was, it didn't work.

R252 How does a song like that even get released?

I can't believe something that awful would be popular.

The Beatles - Wonderful Christmas Time

R256, I think the answer is AM radio!

It was the early 1970s, Nixon was president, inflation was rampant....and seven year olds liked that song.

R257 Don't blame us.

According to Wiki, the little kid was the songwriter's son. And he died young.

But not young enough.

I kind of remember the Michael/Playground song. It was a hit in DC, IIRC, where I lived at the time. I didn't listen to radio much in 1973, though.

That year I mainly listened to my old Kinks and Beach Boys albums, introducing some of my dorm friends to the Kinks. Joni, Pink Floyd, and Elton were wafting out of every other dorm room. I didn't really hear "singles."

Funny that the flip side to that one-hit wonder is "There is No Future In My Future"

Sugar Walls, written by Prince, performed by Sheena Easton.

I wouldn't have thought the singer of "Playground in My Mind" was black or half black.

Opus - life is life

🤢🤮

R48, I agree about the song Gotta Get Down on Friday.

R48, Everybody's Russian!

Cool Nights - Paul Davis just....no

"Cross your heart with your living bra" was also very risque back in 1968. (Judy in Disguise).

A subset of this thread could be worst rhymes.

From "Him" by that Rupert Holmes guy who did that stupid Pina Colada song:

Over by the window, there's a pack of cigarettes. Not my brand you understand, Sometimes the girl forgets

r239, those are real people in McCartney's family; except for "brother John" which is a reference to former band mate John Lennon, and "Phil and Don" which is a reference to the Everly Brothers.

[quote]As I get older bad songs from the past seem like fun nostalgia, but eye of the tiger is still a dreadful song.

My son was in high school band a few years after "Eye of the Tiger" was popular, and when the band was rehearsing the song for an upcoming halftime performance, the teacher (accidentally?) referred to it not once, but TWICE, as "Eye of the N****r." No one ever said anything about it, so he never got in any trouble. It really is a terrible song, but ever since I heard about the "new" name, that's all I can think of every time I hear it.

Whoever wrote the theme songs to [italic]Full House[/italic] and [italic]Friends[/italic] should be thrown into an active volcano along with all evidence they ever existed.

OP, it's hard to hate a song we didn't record. If you hated Kiss On My List, then it would make sense.

Celebrate Good Times ... Come On! Kool and the Gang.

Almost any AM radio hit from the 1970s.

Almost any Top 40 hit since 1994.

Baby Shark....whatever you do, don't listen to it. You will never get it out of your head. You've been warned.

These pale in comparison to MacArthur Park and Feeling and that godawful Minnie Ripperton song where she caterwauls through the whole thing.

I'd like to thank all who despise Muskrat Love, and She's Havin' My Baby, as much as I did. It truly helps that others are willing to share the hate. It’s been a long while since these were in rotation but these were two searingly dreadful songs.

Not even MacArthur Park comes close.

Notice how many of these worst songs are from the 70's?

The 70's was either a bad decade for good music, or a great decade for horrible music.

There were a lot of bad songs in the '70s, true. These days, everything bad sounds so much like everything else that's bad, it is impossible to distinguish one song from another. Hence, few mentions.

R282, the reason is that most queens on this site haven't listened to anything but Sondheim since the 70s.

I don't listen to Sondheim, r284, but I did stop listening to most popular music sometime in the 1980s. I picked up classical. But starting in 1999 or so, popular music started becoming a whole new kind of horrible. I'm sure there are "worst songs" one could find if one could stand to listen to popular music, but I can't, so I can't.

Anything by Fergie. Especially “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Fergilicious”. To me she represents the most banal and z-list of pop stars that came about in the early to mid aughts.

Speaking of Kool and the Gang, how did they go from Jungle Boogie to this sappy stuff?

oh. dear. god

Extra points for being on the Pretty Woman soundtrack.

Elusive Butterfly was one of the worst songs of the 1960s.

Bohemian Rhapsody. We are the champions.

We All Sleep Alone by Cher

I’m sorry, I have to say that I love the video for R8. It made me cry.

I hate "Georgy Girl"...a little bit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsIbfYEizLk

I hate "Georgy Girl"....a little bit.

This thread is proof rock ‘n’ roll was a mistake.

R2865, agreed. Today's music is like, "Let's take everything you love about music away...the harmony, the pretty melody." You're left with hip hop.

Sorry, the above should have said, R285.

Is all of that "hip hop," though, r298? I believe there's a lot of truly odious pop that does not wear the hip hop tag. Of course, I could be wrong.

If the 1970s was so bad, then why was every decade after it progressively worse than the one before it?

R300, the seventies was a super decade for classic rock: Stones, Who, Led Zep, etc.

The cool thing was that pop radio stations played rock, soul, and pop itself. You always had hits by Al Green, but John Denver and Neil Diamond too.

Mixed in with all that was always a bunch of stupid songs like "Playground in My Mind."

Not sure if I have stated this clearly. The point is that we didn't have Pandora. Pop radio was diverse!

R288, that song is so bad it's good!

R280, I LOVE MacArthur Park.

The piano riff is amazing, and I love Richard Harris's 'talk-singing.'

Someone let the snake out on the plane…

Also, let's face it, MTV (1980?) has ruined pop music.

Pop music became a visual medium i.e. performers needed to be attractive more than they needed to be talented.

I mean, would Britney Spears have a career is she only relied on the radio?

On the other hand, lots of folks LOVE 80s pop, so .....I have just utterly contradicted myself!

R303, as do I.

It Must Be Him!

awghhhh. should have listened. That damn "Baby Shark" song is stuck in my head. Won't sleep tonight. Damn!

This has almost 3 Billion views on YouTube?

God help us all.

'The Windmills of Your Mind' is deeply stupid without any of the charm of 'Macarthur Park'.

Even Barbra can't sell this dead horse.

I hate this song.

[quote]'The Windmills of Your Mind' is deeply stupid without any of the charm of 'Macarthur Park'.

I remember a line from some old TV variety show (Carol Burnett? Sonny & Cher?) One of the characters says something, and the reply is, "You've got cobwebs in the windmills of your mind."

I stopped listening to radio sometime in the late ‘60s, after FM became so formulaic. I listened to WNEW and WABC FM in 1967, having listened to WABC AM for a number of years.

FM radio was originally positioned to save us from AM. Instead, it became AM.

I hate I Love.

R311 Aren't those lyrics by that old couple who wrote a lot of songs for Streisand? They over-rhyme the shit out of everything.

"You've got SPLINTERs in the windmills of your mind."

[quote]"You've got SPLINTERs in the windmills of your mind."

Yes, but I definitely heard "cobwebs" somewhere—Sonny & Cher? Laugh-In? The song was immediately mocked right after its release.

This pullover by Jess Conrad

"Band of Gold" by Freda Payne sets my teeth on edge.

R310, the director of that video so totally stole that from Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street.

R317, speaking of Carol Burnett Show song parodies, there was a really funny one where Harvey Korman spoofed "Having My Baby."

I am unable to find it, but I remember it had a line something like, "A whole lot of lovin', cause there's something in the oven..."

It was hysterical.

R320, I really like that song.

Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"

There is no bigger pile of feces than Jack and fucking Diane by John Cougar Mellendump.

Love Miss Ross but hate Upside Down. Don't like Don't Cry Out Loud either.

Any rap song

Undercover Angel

I don't get the love for "Under Pressure" by Queen/Bowie - Uumm dla da day, uumm dla da day, da dayo, o kayo... and then this shit goes into overdrive with Freddie screeching "Why, Whyyyyyyyyy!!!! Fucking obnoxious song.

Good one, R328. I mean, really bad one that sucks big time.