# Most hilariously bad song ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891 "2009-01-18T21:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/61 "2009-01-19T21:52:50Z")
> [@The\_Juggernaut\_of\_Modernity](#): > > I’d like to nominate Vanilla Ice’s magnum opus, [Ice Ice Baby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g&feature=related) > > The video really seals the deal on its hilarious awfulness. Was everything that ridiculous in the early 90’s? [Why, yes!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx64_N4AA04) Also, I’m surprised “Muskrat Love” hasn’t gotten a mention yet. Did I just miss it? ---
**Author:** ![msean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@msean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msean)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/62 "2009-01-19T22:02:35Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > One of the standard answers to this question is [MacArthur Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)). Obviously you’ve never heard “Howdy Hootie Saperticker”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/63 "2009-01-19T23:52:17Z")
> [@The\_Juggernaut\_of\_Modernity](#): > > I’d like to nominate Vanilla Ice’s magnum opus, [Ice Ice Baby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g&feature=related) > > The video really seals the deal on its hilarious awfulness. Was everything that ridiculous in the early 90’s? I’m contractually obligated to post [this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3KRdNpm85c) What’s your real name? Robert Van Winkle Why’d you change it? Nothing rhymes with winkle ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/64 "2009-01-20T01:42:28Z")
> [@The\_Juggernaut\_of\_Modernity](#): > > I’d like to nominate Vanilla Ice’s magnum opus, [Ice Ice Baby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g&feature=related) > > The video really seals the deal on its hilarious awfulness. Was everything that ridiculous in the early 90’s? Do you listen to any current popular music (or buy into **any** trends incl. style, fashion, movies, etc)? Because _trust me_, it will seem just as ridiculous in 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/65 "2009-01-20T02:56:07Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > [Brand New Key](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFknAdVvNM) by Melanie. > > Oh, the sheer torture… When I was a teenager I listened to the four album compilation of hers. That really brought back memories!! ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/66 "2009-01-20T03:47:38Z")
> [@mrpayday](#): > > anything written by Jim Steinman > > [Total Eclipse of the Heart](http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=840B27zYfOk) I don’t think the song in and of itself is all that funny/bad, but the video is HILARIOUS. Anyone who hasn’t seen it is really missing out. Aside from the bizarrely literal interpretation of the line “turn around bright eyes”, the Children of the Corn boy’s choir, Ms. Tyler’s big '80s hair, and the fact that the whole thing seems to be set at the Gothwood School for the Sexual Exploitation of Young Men, there’s also…NINJAS! ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/67 "2009-01-20T03:53:15Z")
I can’t believe we’re 65 posts in and no one has put up the most unintentionally hilarious music video of all time: [Never Gonna Give You Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI) by Rick Astley. How, in this age of rickrolling, can we not have done this yet? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/68 "2009-01-20T03:57:38Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I don’t think the song in and of itself is all that funny/bad, but the video is HILARIOUS. Anyone who hasn’t seen it is really missing out. Aside from the bizarrely literal interpretation of the line “turn around bright eyes”, the Children of the Corn boy’s choir, Ms. Tyler’s big '80s hair, and the fact that the whole thing seems to be set at the Gothwood School for the Sexual Exploitation of Young Men, there’s also…NINJAS! It’s funny, but not a lot of people remember that the video for [Holding Out For A Hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI) is actually even MORE over-the-top and hilarious than the one for TEOTH. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/69 "2009-01-20T04:01:30Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > When I was a teenager I listened to the four album compilation of hers. That really brought back memories!! That’s weird, I thought she was black for some reason. I especially like this [Bastard Fairies Cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1aFy2Fg-8). Also [Rasputina](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMrCEmqiTKo&feature=related) does an interesting cover. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/70 "2009-01-20T04:02:26Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I don’t think the song in and of itself is all that funny/bad, but the video is HILARIOUS. Anyone who hasn’t seen it is really missing out. Aside from the bizarrely literal interpretation of the line “turn around bright eyes”, the Children of the Corn boy’s choir, Ms. Tyler’s big '80s hair, and the fact that the whole thing seems to be set at the Gothwood School for the Sexual Exploitation of Young Men, there’s also…NINJAS! You forgot to include the fact that the dress Ms. Tyler was wearing was sheer enough that you could tell the room temperature of the scenes in the video. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/71 "2009-01-20T04:02:50Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It’s funny, but not a lot of people remember that the video for [Holding Out For A Hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI) is actually even MORE over-the-top and hilarious than the one for TEOTH. Oh, that reminds me of [Don Johnson - Heartbeat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI5kolBpAk). Definitely hilariously bad. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/72 "2009-01-20T04:09:33Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It’s funny, but not a lot of people remember that the video for [Holding Out For A Hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI) is actually even MORE over-the-top and hilarious than the one for TEOTH. I don’t remember ever even seeing that one before. It IS pretty funny, but I have to give “Total Eclipse of the Heart” the edge if only for the random ninjas. And at least the “Holding Out for a Hero” video bears an obvious relationship to the song’s lyrics – imperiled and inexplicably big-haired frontierswoman cries out for a hero to save her from black-hatted arsonists bearing neon whips. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/73 "2009-01-20T04:11:36Z")
Nobody will evar top The Night Chicago Died: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-L0NpaErkk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-L0NpaErkk) ---
**Author:** ![Pitter\_Patter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@Pitter\_Patter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitter_Patter)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/74 "2009-01-20T04:21:26Z")
Check out Scott Walker’s “Montague Terrace (in Blue)” on You tube, and get a bucket handy. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/75 "2009-01-20T04:21:36Z")
Ok, Manduck, I see the gloves have been dropped. Allow me to retort, Dick Dale appears on the Lawrence Welk show, [One Toke over the line.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg) And Lawrence Welk calls it a Spiritual. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/76 "2009-01-20T04:23:16Z")
Just a couple hours ago, I heard “You Got What It Takes.” Here’s a sample of the lyrics: “Ow! You don’t live in a beautiful place And you don’t dress in the best of taste Oh! Nature didn’t give you such a beautiful face But baby, you got what it takes, Oh! to satisfy You got what it takes to set my soul on fire” Anybody who said that to his girlfriend in real life would get a well-deserved kick in the crotch. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/77 "2009-01-20T04:32:23Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I don’t think the song in and of itself is all that funny/bad, but the video is HILARIOUS. Anyone who hasn’t seen it is really missing out. Aside from the bizarrely literal interpretation of the line “turn around bright eyes”, the Children of the Corn boy’s choir, Ms. Tyler’s big '80s hair, and the fact that the whole thing seems to be set at the Gothwood School for the Sexual Exploitation of Young Men, there’s also…NINJAS! > [@jayjay](#): > > It’s funny, but not a lot of people remember that the video for [Holding Out For A Hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI) is actually even MORE over-the-top and hilarious than the one for TEOTH. What. In the HELL. Were those?!?! I remember both of those songs, but I have mercifully purged those videos from my brain. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/78 "2009-01-20T05:13:47Z")
> [@The\_Juggernaut\_of\_Modernity](#): > > I’d like to nominate Vanilla Ice’s magnum opus, [Ice Ice Baby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g&feature=related) > > The video really seals the deal on its hilarious awfulness. Was everything that ridiculous in the early 90’s? Yes. :(. ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/79 "2009-01-20T06:03:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Anyway, I’d like to submit the entire Modern Talking ouvre, most particularly [“Brother Louis.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ect3VoEUJn8) Modern Talking always made me want to modernly talk on the big white phone. Retch!!! ---
**Author:** ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/80 "2009-01-20T06:12:22Z")
There’s a chance this song contains some NSFW lyrics, but I can’t understand a damn thing he’s saying. [“Here You (That’ll Be Right)” – NEDS Kru featuring The Wee Man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08) Then there’s always [“Fast and Danger” by Ill Mitch.](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=19683996) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891.md?page=5)