I nominate Fern Gully 2.
The first one was kinda cute in its way.
The ‘sequel’ had almost nothing to do with it and surely fits ‘irredeemable shit’.
I’ll see your Less Than You Think, and raise you Metal Machine Music.
That’s not a 15 minute song. That’s a 3 minute song where someone forgot to hit “stop” on the recording equipment and ended up with a bunch of microphone feedback.
I’ll see your Achy Breaky and raise you “Indian Outlaw” by Tim McGraw. I love a lot of 90s country, but this song is not only trite and idiotic, it’s also offensive to an entire culture. What a steaming pile from an otherwise pretty decent artist (if you’re into country music).
I didn’t want to listen to the song, so I just read the lyrics. What the everloving fuck!?!? Can you put more clichés in one song?
200 Motels
Some of Frank Zappa’s finest music (yes, I’m serious), embedded in a chaotic pile of self-indulgent video garbage.
Movies: I am surprised nobody has mentioned Elvis Presley’s movies yet. They depressed me when I was a kid, have not watched then since, hope to never watch them again ever.
Music: Concur with Metal Machine Music. And then there is a German genre called Schlager which most of non-Germans probably don’t know about. Believe me: ignorance is bliss. From the article:
Some Germans view schlager as their country music, and American country and Tex-Mex music are both major elements in schlager culture. (“Is This the Way to Amarillo” is regularly played in schlager contexts, usually in the English-language original.)
Between 1975 and 1981, German-style schlager became disco-oriented, in many ways merging with the mainstream disco music of the time.
You can’t make this up. The concept of schlager culture is so inherently wrong that it makes my head spin.
I saw the RiffTrax version. Yeah, it is truly horrible, even with the jokey commentary. The leading lady is very attractive. That’s the one complement I’ll give it.
When I first started listening to music I liked the top 40 of that time, it would the Alone Again Naturally, Afternoon Delight, Playground in my Mind type songs. You could probably find similar songs from every era. And the specific songs for me are "memory songs” and I like them because it took me back to that time. I know they are stupid, but I like it.
TV: Turn On. Cancelled during the first show. It can be found online and is awful in every respect.
I’m not much on avant-garde and I tend to like traditional grand opera better than really modern stuff, but I have to admit that when I heard Aribert Reimann’s Medea at the Komische Oper in Berlin, I was very impressed and fascinated by it.
Mind you, it did take me about an hour of listening to the performance to really warm up to it. I think your problem may be partly that you’re trying to experience atonal music by just listening to “bits” of it. It really is hard for ears accustomed to familiar melodic music to get used to the unmelodic stuff!
But the more I listened, the more I was in awe of the singers’ virtuosity. Singing true pitch without the usual scaffolding of predictable melody and rhythm, with depth of tone and emotional impact, is HARD.
Isn’t there a video of John Lennon playing with Chuck Berry and then Yoko Ono starts in and the look on Berry’s face was one of astonishment and horror?
I think we can eliminate anything that won an award like that, from possibly getting universal agreement that it is terrible.
Me! Once I was listening to music with a friend of mine using a large capacity CD changer, and she turned to me after a song came on and asked “Scabpicker, what the fuck are we listening to?”
I replied “My favorite record, by my favorite band” It was Sonic Youth’s Confusion is Sex. I think it was this song.
I’ve been known to voluntarily listen to Metal Machine Music, as well.
I’ve heard that over and over again about “Caillou.” How that ever stayed on the air boggles my mind, and I’ve never seen an episode.
Maybe I missed it, but that short-lived TV series inspired by the GEICO cavemen was pretty bad.
I also remember when Madonna did a remake of “American Pie”, and radio stations were bombarded with requests to NOT play it.
Indeed there is.
If you watch the complete video, Chuck doesn’t seem that taken aback. As long as they paid his fee up front -in cash- I doubt he really cared. That whole week that John & Yoko took over the Mike Douglas Show was intended to be provocative and Yoko fulfilled the brief.
That’s not the video most people think about, but it is equally horrible. I do note that this video you link looks to be edited to maximize the shock and effect, so it is a little manipulated for effect that was likely not the original broadcast.
In the one most people remember I believe they were singing a well known song (Johnny B Goode) and she let lose with a wail, then the sound engineer cut her mike.
It looks like CBS has kiboshed most copies on the internet of the one most people remember. Here’s the best version I’ve found where her mike is already cut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aoeIh21_QU
Yeah, I made it through about five minutes. There’s a whole album of that?
Double album. And there’s no out groove on side 4, so it goes into and endless repeat.