I agree with every 80’s song listed except maybe Sister Christian, that one is somewhat tolerable. Here are two I would add
- Somebody’s Watching Me - Rockwell
- I Wanna Be a Cowboy - Boys Don’t Cry
There is a lot of bad music to choose from.
Crazy Frog always comes up in discussions like this, but it’s honestly not that bad (hear me out).
I mean, the song is Harold Faltermeyer’s Axel F, which is a pretty great (or at the very least inoffensive) synth instrumental which was used really well in the original context of Beverly Hills Cop. Having an animated frog go “ding ding” at various points during the song is certainly not a good thing, and if I’m going to listen to Axel F you know I’m gonna be listening to the original, but really, does that make it the worst song of the whole decade?
Unless of course you’re of the opinion that the original was among the worst of the eighties, I can’t see how an animated frog saying “ding” pushes it into worst-song-of-the-decade territory?
Except for “The Doggone Girl Is Mine”, of course, by McCartney and MJ!
1960’s: “Which Way You Goin’, Billy?” by The Poppys
1970’s: “Looks Like We Made It” by Barry Manilow
1980’s: “The Warrior” by Patty Smyth
1990’s: “Rico Suave” by Ricardo
2000’s: “Thong Song” by Sisquo
Plus, it spawned this.
No . . . Even if it was the worst song released in the '80s, it was not “representative of the worst cultural and musical trends of that decade” – quite the reverse of them, rather.
Plus Bobby McFerrin is pretty cool for vocalizing all the sounds/percussion/singing.
I did put “for me” at the start of my post! (mainly cause I usually get jumped on about how much I hate Rivers of Babylon!) In New Zealand you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing that damn song when it came out. (Crazy Frog I mean, but that goes for Rivers of Babylon too) I’ve never heard the original. (again, the Crazy Frog song)
&, as another example, I think most of the Op’s songs weren’t that bad - its the constant playing on top 20 radio that gets to me.
1960’s: “Light My Fire” by The Doors
1970’s: “You Light Up My Life” by Debbie Boone
1980’s: “Bad to the Bone” by George Thoroughgood (or whatever)
1990’s: “Believe” by Cher
I’m not up enough on the last decade to even hazard a guess.
“I’ve Never…” was a 1970’s song.
“Having My Baby” was by Paul Anka
This is exactly the song that came to mind when I read the thread title.
Seasons in the Sun should be in contention worst song of the 20th century.
Curiously, I had never heard The Thong Song until now. It is quite bad.
Beyonce aside, I love all those songs. They’re all songs I used to love playing ironically to annoy my hipster friends in high school and college, and now weirdly like in a partly-non-ironic way. Especially “Total Eclipse of the Heart” – Jim Steinman is a god.
Oh, now that I think of it The Thong Song and Who Let The Dogs Out along with possibly The Ketchup Song should all be ranked ahead of My Humps for worst song of the 2000s.
You would think so by the sound of it, but it was kind of a throwback. It actually came out in 1982.
I’ve Never Been To Me was first released in 1976 and took several years to become a hit.
Some good nominations for the other decades, although I too am not up on bad music of the 2000s to nominate anyone.
60s: Anything by the early Beatles since stations played everything off their first 1 and 1/2 albums to death, to the exclusion of their later, [del]better[/del] good, stuff.
70s: Too many to choose from!
80s: Unskinny Bop by Poison. Yes, it was 1990. That means they should have known better. Even in 1986 when I was a young teen, I couldn’t find anything cool about hair metal. Fast forward to 1991 for the good stuff. Now I’m not saying I embraced grunge with open arms, but compared to Hair Metal?
90s: Rockefella Skank. Symbolizes the worst in bad Big Beat techno, of which there were inexplicably 3 or more hit songs of in the late 90s. Too. Damn. Repetitive. Please alter your sampling more and use more interesting “instruments”! And would it hurt to have some actual lyrics? If you only took the harder-sounding “instrumentation” and occasional use of one-or-two-verses from Trance songs and combined them with the simple beats from Big Beat I’d have a genre I LOVE, but there are very few examples of this that I’ve found. (The latter half of Movements in Still Life by BT is one example, but the first half is pure unimaginative Big Beat. But it’s true, my little sister who was 4 years old at the time LOVED “Dance to the beat, shuffle my feet” being sung 10 bazillion times in that BT song, and it’s sadder in a way because you should know better than Fatboy Slim. I GET IT NOW! Big Beat was marketed to kindergarten girls!)
Me either. Oddly enough the worst song for me would probably be an off track on some album I purchased voluntarily, (which is odd because usually the worst tracks by good bands are better than the crap they keep playing on the radio.)
I take that back, in the early 2000s I did have terrestrial rock radio on occasionally. So I’d have to vote for anything by Nickelback or Puddle of Mudd. They do represent the worst trends in the early to mid-2000s in rock (i.e. a horrid mixture of faux-metal hardness and faux-sensitivity. Note that that last sentence doesn’t refer to emo which tends to do both of those more genuinely than the above two groups)
70s- Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (Carpenters)
80s- Shakedown (Bob Seger)
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I share your bewilderment.
I would nominate a Milli Vanilli song for that then for the 80’s. In the 90’s, something by New Kids on the Block. In the 2000’s…I’m not sure yet, but probably a song that has one stanza repeated 8 times with no other lyrics sung by a no-talent child who was the product of the Disney Channel marketing machine…Jonas brothers maybe, but I haven’t really listened to any of their songs yet.