My friends and I have this little competition going on to see who can make the most awful unlistenable mix cd ever. I’m looking for songs that are undeniably horrible. Not even so bad they’re kind of good and listenable, just the kind that make you skip through the cd. I have a couple so far.
“White Girls” Mighty Casey
“Diary of an Unborn Child” 'Lil Markie
“Christmas Shoes” Newsong
“Angry American” Toby Keith
“MacArthur Park” Donna Summer
“Dear Mr. Jesus”
“I Did Yo Boyfriend” Melody
Can you guys think of any to add? Or any reasons the ones don’t work?
I think that both Shatner and Nimoy’s songs are intentionally and knowingly bad camp, very tongue in cheek, and because of that we want to watch these videos. The artist is in on the joke. I agree that humor is a redeemable quality.
“Blind Man in the Bleachers” isn’t even close to Dave Geddes’ worst track. Remember Run Joey Run ? The song about a jealous father who shoots his daughter by mistake? That cloying female voice singing “but we’re going to get married please” wanted me to shoot both the girl and her boyfriend.
**No Charge ** by Melba Montgomery, a mid-70’s country hit, is one of those songs where a kid tries to charge his mom for his chores and she gives a laundry list of all the things she’s done for him for free–from withstanding his labor to paying for his college. It’s also drowning in the gloppiest strings you’ve ever heard. I’d charge anyone who had me sit through that self centered guilt trip.
Although I love both songs, I could see how sound collages like the Beatles’ Revolution Nine and Pearl Jam’s Hey Foxymophandlemoma would be the definition of skippable tracks for most people.
