# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/121 "2009-01-21T23:22:37Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > Jeez, I love that song. And I think her singing is better Dave Edmunds’. Agreed. What makes this song hilariously bad? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/122 "2009-01-21T23:54:10Z")
I’m surprised that Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus hasn’t been mentioned yet. I still think it’s one of the worst songs ever written. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/123 "2009-01-22T00:06:00Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > Agreed. What makes this song hilariously bad? 😕 I think it’s more so the video. Did you see the “turn around brighteyes” part? Friggin’ nightmares for a week from that. As far as best of the worst goes, I think I have to give it to that “Christmas Shoes” mess. It was like some long ass Sears commercial for Jesus Shoes. I made myself sit through the whole thing too; most masochistic five minutes of my life I think. I laughed, I cried, I gave myself a concussion with my own damn shoe. Worst or the worst- that blasphemous Comfortably Numb cover. Seriously, why the fuck was that? That one just pissed me off. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/124 "2009-01-22T00:34:13Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > I’ll see your bet and raise you [Billy don’t be a hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0lKmznjgfQ) and [Dead Skunk in the middle of the road](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuY44PHC0wI) To be fair, “Dead Skunk” isn’t unintentionally hilarious. It’s meant to be a light, comedic, novelty song, so I’d say it doesn’t fit the intent of the O.P. > [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > What is the most hilariously bad song ever to have received any amount of commercial success? It doesn’t count if the song is funny on purpose (unless it fails in that aim and is funny despite it), really bad but not funny, or if it never made the charts anywhere. > > Valete, > Vox Imperatoris > [@akrako1](#): > > I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet, but “My Ding-A-Ling” by Chuck Berry is frequently at the top of most ‘worst songs of all time’ lists. It’s pretty hilariously bad if you ask me: I’d say the same thing about “My Ding-A-Ling.” Chuck obviously wasn’t singing about a children’s toy. It could almost be called a “party record” that received tons of airplay. Again, written intentionally for comedic value. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/125 "2009-01-22T00:37:33Z")
> [@CaveMike](#): > > That was probably Linda McCartney. She was often cited as a terrible singer; although I don’t know if it was justified. I think that question has been answered: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoH9zP\_n\_g0&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoH9zP_n_g0&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/126 "2009-01-22T00:44:05Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > I’ll see your bet and raise you [Billy don’t be a hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0lKmznjgfQ) and [Dead Skunk in the middle of the road](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuY44PHC0wI) I see your cheesy Billy song and raise you another: “Which Way You Going, Billy?” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n8SPVEhZN5E/hqdefault.jpg "poppy family "which way you goin' billy?"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8SPVEhZN5E) Ugh, it is to die. And also “Warrior” by Scandal deserves an honorable mention. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Hn9lpMUJOq8/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hn9lpMUJOq8?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/127 "2009-01-22T01:13:00Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > To be fair, “Dead Skunk” isn’t unintentionally hilarious. It’s meant to be a light, comedic, novelty song, so I’d say it doesn’t fit the intent of the O.P. > > I’d say the same thing about “My Ding-A-Ling.” Chuck obviously wasn’t singing about a children’s toy. It could almost be called a “party record” that received tons of airplay. Again, written intentionally for comedic value. Ditto “Fish Heads”. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/128 "2009-01-22T02:06:18Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > What? no “love” for [Biz markie?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJHnRtZkiHo) What is the world coming to? I read the whole thread before posting because I just knew someone would mention this before me. Is this the part where I admit that I owned this song on cassette? I love this song. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/129 "2009-01-22T03:29:32Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > And also “Warrior” by Scandal deserves an honorable mention. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9lpMUJOq8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9lpMUJOq8) I don’t even have to click the link. One mention of the title and I’m already shootin’ at the walls of heartache, bang bang. ☹ Trivia: Patty Smyth (not to be confused with Patti Smith), lead singer of Scandal, has been married to John McEnroe for years. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/130 "2009-01-22T04:41:31Z")
I’d like to nominate [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n23ZFo5NLqc) because well screamo is just…that…funny. OMG!!! We’re, like, gonna fucking die!!111eleventyone _screams incoherently_ ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/131 "2009-01-22T04:46:51Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > I don’t even have to click the link. One mention of the title and I’m already shootin’ at the walls of heartache, bang bang. ☹ Know what happens to\*hot \*liquid in a cup when you suddenly laugh out your nose as you are tentatively sipping so as not to burn your tongue? Well, at least I didn’t snort it which would have happened just a split second later. I don’t have to click the link either and I mentally made the gun with my fingers when I got to the “bang, bang” part. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/132 "2009-01-22T07:01:30Z")
> [@tds1273](#): > > I think it’s more so the video. Did you see the “turn around brighteyes” part? Friggin’ nightmares for a week from that. Oh no. You’re referring to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler. I was defending “Queen of Hearts” by Juice Newton. In reference to Ms. Tyler’s song, though, you are spot on. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/133 "2009-01-22T08:10:29Z")
One step further on the “One Night in Bangkok” correction from earlier: Not only is it “about a Chess Tournament”, but while the hit song was made popular as a single by Murray Head, it’s actually FROM A MUSICAL called Chess (by some of the guys from ABBA and, believe it or not, Tim Rice) So the lyrics you’re making fun of, there, make a hell of a lot of sense, actually, given the context. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/134 "2009-01-22T12:49:30Z")
Last night on American Idol, someone auditioned with the song “Before He Cheats”, which is the one by Carrie Underwood where she tears up the cheating guy’s car, and I realized I’d rather hear Muskrat Love. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/135 "2009-01-22T15:21:01Z")
[I think we may have a winner.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20) _When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/136 "2009-01-22T20:15:14Z")
_Someone_ in my immediate family not only has Donna Fargo’s _The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A._ on their Ipod, but has given it _five stars_. Not that it’s all that horrible a song\*, but it’s a notorious producer of near-fatal earworms, as bad as _I Never Promised You A Rose Garden_. \*well, actually it is. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/137 "2009-01-22T21:05:34Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Since it’s supposed to not just be bad, but HILARIOUSLY bad, I nominate the totally hilarious “Good Morning Starshine”. Ooby glibby dooby bibby blobby blooby… If the criterion for “bad” is nonsense syllables, how about “Oo, Eee, Oo-ah-ah, Ting, Tang, Walla walla bing bang…”? Or “Sha nah nah nah, Sha nah nah nah nah nah…” Or “Sing a boop boop aboopa lopa lum bam boom” Or “Doo bee Doo Bee Doo…” Or “Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip , Mum mum mum mum mum mum, Get a Job” ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/138 "2009-01-22T21:24:10Z")
Hubba-hubba, zoot-zoot? Ebba, hooba, zut-zut, a nom-nom? Or… “I’m the Scat Man! Squee-ba-ba-bada-babo.” (Of course, I can never listen to this song the same way ever again, post-internets) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/139 "2009-01-22T21:40:39Z")
> [@tds1273](#): > > Hubba-hubba, zoot-zoot? Ebba, hooba, zut-zut, a nom-nom? Whelp, I have a new earworm. Hoofeffa, hoofeffa, ha ha hoofeffa… ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891/140 "2009-01-22T21:41:21Z")
> [@Elenfair](#): > > One step further on the “One Night in Bangkok” correction from earlier: Not only is it “about a Chess Tournament”, but while the hit song was made popular as a single by Murray Head, it’s actually FROM A MUSICAL called Chess (by some of the guys from ABBA and, believe it or not, Tim Rice) So the lyrics you’re making fun of, there, make a hell of a lot of sense, actually, given the context. 🙂 Plus, if you’ve never heard the instrumental intro to the full version, well… ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0y-4I1JHJIE/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/0y-4I1JHJIE?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilariously-bad-song-ever/481891.md?page=8)