Oh come on, it had Paul Shaffer and Dweezil Zappa! And backup singers walking backwards and forwards randomly for no known reason!
Well that was an experience. Before I watched, though, I had a couple of cocktails to brace me up, because I thought it was going to be Dick Dale the surf guitarist. I would probably have needed to check into a mental hospital if it had turned out to be the case, but luckily it was just a standard Lawrence Welk drone.
Anyway, it’s a good song, just a bad performance, so 
And yet, “My Funny Valentine” is one of the greatest songs ever written. Go figure.
I had to keep reading the title of the thread after reading the posts to stay in frame.
Anything by Yoko Ono has already been said and rightly so.
I humbly submit Yo Little Brother (Only because Wildman Fischer has no Youtube presence)
Nolan Thomas is Cartlon Banks…but slightly blacker…
My submission?
Barbie Girl by Aqua. It’s a wikipedia link, since I’m at work and can’t youtube at the moment.
Umbrella by Rihanna is just teeth-settingly awful.
Also, there are a bunch of songs like “Quintessence” and “Synchronicity” where it sounds like the musician just learned a new big word.
I almost forgot Treat Your Mother Right by Mr. T.
“Cry Me a River” both for the implied Brittany hate and for the “ga ga ga ga” bits.
And whatever that “this shit is bananas” song was, both inherently and for it’s YTMND send up.
I can’t believe I’m the first one to call this out on the Straight Dope! Did I miss a post somewhere? One Night in Bangkok is about coming to Bangkok for a chess tournament. All towns look the same when you’re just looking at a chess board.
Hence “I get my kicks above the waist.” Not usually heard in Bangkok.
I’d just fascinated by how much Murray Head looks like his brother Tony in certain shots.
I’ll see your bet and raise you Billy don’t be a hero and Dead Skunk in the middle of the road
Dude! That’s a lot of excellent music!
Seriously. TEOTH is one of those songs that if comes on the radio, you just have to pump up the volume to max and start singing along. *Especially *if at least two people in the car were born before 1980.
GOOH!* That’s one of the finest songs ever. Heathen!
*Get Out Of Here!
It is my destiny to mention this in every unintentionally (?) funny song thread: Undercover Angel, by Alan O’Day. It’s about a guy who apparently has a wet dream and then must search ever after for a sex partner who can live up to it.
“She said, ‘What?’
I said, ‘Ah-oo-oo-oo-wee’
She said ‘All right!’
I said, ‘Love me, love me, love me!’”
:eek:
Luckily I didn’t get MTV until 1988 or so, so I’ve never seen her videos. But she’s got a helluva voice.
The flip side to “Run Joey Run” might have been worse. Presenting “The Blind Man In The Bleachers” by David Geddes:
And, no one has mentioned “Seasons in the Sun” yet, unless I missed it.
No mention of Dan Hill’s 1977 Sometimes When We Touch? A sickening blend of hokey melody and been-in-therapy-way-too-long lyrics for which Mr. Hill, having both written and sung the song, has to take complete responsibility.
Lyrics here: http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/ls64.shtml
Yoko Ono has been mentioned but I want to nominate one particular song. One of Lennon’s first big post-Beatle hits was Power to the People. I bought it on 45 in the early 70’s. The B side was by Yoko that, IIRC, started with a sound like a cat sharpening its claws on a billiard table and accompanied by Yoko making a noise like a baby alien just after it emerged from someone’ stomach. I think the “song” ended with the sound of a tree falling.
I have tried to find the name of the song but apparently the original B-side was banned by Capitol Records, and descriptions of Touch Me which replaced it don’t seem to jive; there were no discernable lyrics to what I heard.