# Best Songs about Whiney Losers... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485 "2009-12-16T15:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/21 "2009-12-16T18:27:51Z")
Apparently _this_ put them in a **Grand Funk** … Mean mistreater, you make me cry, You lay around, and watch me die. Mean mistreater, can’t you see I’m real? Are you satisfied, with the way you feel? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/22 "2009-12-16T18:29:32Z")
“Lonesome Loser” by the Little River Band: [http://www.lyricsdownload.com/little-river-band-lonesome-loser-lyrics.html](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/little-river-band-lonesome-loser-lyrics.html) “The Diary of Horace Wimp” by the Electric Light Orchestra: [http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-diary-of-horace-wimp-lyrics-electric-light-orchestra.html](http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-diary-of-horace-wimp-lyrics-electric-light-orchestra.html) “What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers: [MusicMaza.com is for sale | HugeDomains](http://www.musicmaza.com/view-english-lyrics/What-A-Fool-Believes-Lyrics.html) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/23 "2009-12-16T18:35:34Z")
God Only Knows - Kid Rock \*"Everybody knows my name They say it way out loud A lot of folks fuck with me It’s hard to hang out in crowds I guess that’s the price you pay to be some big shot like I am Outstretched hands and one night stands Still I can’t find love … I said it too many times And I still stand firm You get what you put in and people get what they deserve Still I ain’t seen mine No I ain’t seen mine I’ve been giving just ain’t been gettin’"\* Yeah, Kid, everybody gets what they deserve… except you of course. God has singled you out. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/24 "2009-12-16T19:15:26Z")
Similarly, the formerly ground-breaking “The Streets”, namely Mike Skinner, singing about how awful it is having taking drugs and having sex with an unnamed pop starlet, in [When You Wasn’t Famous](http://www.lyricstime.com/the-streets-when-you-wasn-t-famous-lyrics.html): > [@](#): > > When you’re a famous boy, it gets really easy to get girls, > it’s all so easy you get a bit spoilt. > But, when you try to pull a girl, who is also famous too, > it feels just like when you wasn’t famous. Poor Mike. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/25 "2009-12-16T19:27:55Z")
Richard Farina’s [Hard Loving Loser](http://www.top40db.net/Lyrics/?SongID=67337) is a hoot. By the end of Terry Jack’s “Seasons in the Sun,” I was ready to kill the singer. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/26 "2009-12-16T19:28:11Z")
“Just My Imagination” and “Lovefool” ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/27 "2009-12-16T19:32:14Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Well I know his girl died and all, but [Honey](http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/bobby_goldsboro/honey.html) has to be the sappiest, whiniest crap out. God, I haven’t heard that song in years! “See the tree how big it’s grown…” Not whiney but my vote for psycho loser is Alanis Morissette for You Oughta Know. Although I love the song! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/28 "2009-12-16T19:42:14Z")
All those Teenage Death songs were whiny. It’s hard being dead and not be kinda whiny about it. I thought this thread would be about Beck’s “Loser” (“I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me”) but maybe it doesn’t fit? I don’t know what the rest of the lyrics are. Loved those Eagles lyrics **Jackmannii**! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/29 "2009-12-16T19:49:43Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > By the end of Terry Jack’s “Seasons in the Sun,” I was ready to kill the singer. I always have to mention it when this song is mentioned, but “Seasons in the Sun” is a dreadful translation of the much more sardonic “[Le Moribund](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhvoYYIdnQ)” by Jaques Brel, the point of one of the verses being “My friend, I’m dying, but I’m sure you’ll take good care of my wife, because I know you’ve been fucking her”. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/30 "2009-12-16T19:58:07Z")
Their tongues are firmly in their cheeks, but “Self-Esteem” by Offspring has a pretty big loser as the protagonist. > [@](#): > > We make plans to go out at night > I wait till 2 then I turn out the light > All this rejection’s got me so low > If she keeps it up I just might tell her no I love those Eagles lyrics, too. I always sing along at that point (if I wasn’t already). ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/31 "2009-12-16T20:12:50Z")
IMHO Five for Fighting’s \*\*Superman (It’s not easy) \*\*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRz4FY0ZcwI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRz4FY0ZcwI) tops them all . Way to turn Superman into a self-involved whiner. “…I’m only a man in a silly red sheet Looking for kryptonite on this one way street.” ---
**Author:** ![beatlejuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@beatlejuice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beatlejuice)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/32 "2009-12-16T20:48:47Z")
Bee Gees How can you mend a broken heart how can you stop the rain from falling down how can you stop the sun from shining… Get a grip. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/33 "2009-12-16T21:03:17Z")
“Lovefool” by the Cardigans. Nina Persson’s smoking hot looks don’t redeem this song. “Whoever’s In New England” by the otherwise generally assertive Reba McIntyre. “Eurotrash Girl” by Cracker. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/34 "2009-12-16T22:04:31Z")
You Am I’s “Heavy Heart” is probably the best ballad around for someone wallowing in self-pity after a break-up. No redemption, no final-verse uplift. Just a guy who’s “like a waterlogged ball that no-one wants to kick around any more” and doesn’t want to do anything except sit in his room drinking wine, smoking and feeling sorry for himself. He even acknowledges that he’s “piss[ing] off [his] friends… digging a hole just staring at the floor” and doesn’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/35 "2009-12-16T22:18:51Z")
_Twisting_ by They Might Be Giants ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/36 "2009-12-16T22:49:09Z")
Eliot Smith, “Waltz No. 2”. In and of themselves the lyrics may not look so whiny as they appear on the page, but as it’s sung it’s about the whiniest thing ever. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/37 "2009-12-17T00:22:59Z")
I want to second [Just My Imagination by The Temptations.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvLd0UXizU) Holy cow, talk to the girl, already! But wait, there is an even bigger loser out there in R&B land. [Reuben Studdard’s I’m Sorry For 2004](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmiiUqeKwnI). I’d like to point out that this was released in 2003 and this dickless wonder is apologizing for things he hasn’t even done yet. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/38 "2009-12-17T00:49:09Z")
[The Marmalade - Reflections Of My Life](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gw-QTQ0LoA) All my sorrows, sad tomorrows Take me back to my own home All my cryings, feel I’m dying, dying Take me back to my own home.l ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/39 "2009-12-17T01:24:12Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > After the BCS game, the whiney loser song will be “Texas Fight”, which my sources tell me is not to be freestyled. > > **ROLL TIDE!** , soon to be the SEC’s 4th consecutive BCS Champ. > 😃 We get it..you like the SUC.Give it a rest. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485/40 "2009-12-17T02:07:01Z")
“Clean Sheets” by the Descendents: > [@](#): > > [snip] > The warmth of a bed to a guy who sleeps on the floor > Was enough to perpetuate all the lies I heard before > I want to hold you, I’ll hold my pillow instead > Cause my pillow will never lie or be with a stranger in my bed > > [snip] > > Woke up this morning alone on the floor > Thinking about those clean sheets and the way it was before > When I looked in the mirror, I saw your face and thought of the past > But now I know how dirty you are, I took my fist and smashed the glass Even when I was a whiney loser, I thought the narrator sounded like a guy who was begging a girl to kick him in the balls just so he could feel self-righteous about the pain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-about-whiney-losers/521485.md?page=3)