# Musical Abominations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549 "2010-05-15T15:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/61 "2010-05-19T01:19:58Z")
Ok, I can see tha this thread is going to lose me a few hours tha I will never get back. However, no list would be complete without this masterpiece that Idon’t think anyone has suggested so far: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/R2r5H5QlKlo/hqdefault.jpg "Simply the best - Pop Idol losers torture football fans") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2r5H5QlKlo) “Simply the best” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/62 "2010-05-19T03:21:44Z")
Leona Anderson [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQc-WDMnow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQc-WDMnow) [Tim-Tay-Shun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ukeZqJYPY), rendered by Red Ingle and Cinderella G. Stump (Jo Stafford) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/63 "2010-05-19T03:35:07Z")
Still the [gayest](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_MPSc7VN4) thing I’ve ever seen. And, uh, I’ve seen some very gay stuff. But this is gayer than Tom Cruise fucking Barbra Streisand with a strap-on. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/64 "2010-05-19T03:37:23Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Welk was the leader of that crowd of shows. Not to mention Mitch Miller. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/65 "2010-05-19T04:48:42Z")
I’m not sure whether this was linked before, as YouTube seems to be broken, or my net connection is having issues, or there are sunspots out there, or the pileated woodpeckers cut the phone lines again, or what, but I present… [The Unltimate Shatner.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-yy2URAYqU) With groovy animation! [sub]And they want this guy to be Governor General?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/66 "2010-05-19T13:09:28Z")
Just in case you have an item that you wish would fit into this thread but which is just a little too good for the smackdown nature of what’s going on here, I have started a sister thread [Offbeat/Unusual Versions of Music that you still consider good](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=563670) where the OP reads [like this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12468646&postcount=1) So please consider that thread as an option to get in on the fun-poking and guilty pleasures. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/67 "2010-05-19T13:32:13Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Still the [gayest](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_MPSc7VN4) thing I’ve ever seen. And, uh, I’ve seen some very gay stuff. But this is gayer than Tom Cruise fucking Barbra Streisand with a strap-on. _Garçon!_ A towel to expunge the Red Bull from my monitor and a gallon of brain bleach, _tout suite_. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/68 "2010-05-19T14:31:43Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > We got this far without [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04) ? I would really like to know the backstory behind this. Who are the dancers? When was this made and _why?_ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/69 "2010-05-19T16:45:58Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I would really like to know the backstory behind this. Who are the dancers? When was this made and _why?_ > **[The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Bilbo_Baggins)** > > "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is a song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventures in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit. The recording was featured on the 1968 album Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, the second of Nimoy's albums on Dot Records. It was also released as a single (Dot Records Cat. #45-17028) in July 1967, backed with a "modern thought-image" folk song called "Cotton Candy". > When the single was originally... ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/70 "2010-05-19T21:19:58Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Still the [gayest](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_MPSc7VN4) thing I’ve ever seen. And, uh, I’ve seen some very gay stuff. But this is gayer than Tom Cruise fucking Barbra Streisand with a strap-on. [hijack] Then, clearly, you’ve never seen [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2YF05iX2w). [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/71 "2010-05-19T22:52:43Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMk7sVdECU&feature=PlayList&p=BFED320A15D17DCB&playnext\_from=PL&playnext=1&index=51](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMk7sVdECU&feature=PlayList&p=BFED320A15D17DCB&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=51) Just coming in here to post this one. It’s got all the ingredients - talented singer in her own right covering a song that is totally out of her genre, trying to make herself look really cool and tough, in some enormous Vegas-style revue, with a crowd of people cheering her on who would probably never ever EVER enjoy the original group, and she’s just butchering an awesome tune. And she’s **serious** about it, you can tell she’s really trying to kick some major ass and failing mightily. IMO this is far worse than somebody who can’t sing in the first place getting up and singing badly. It’s Celine Dion doing AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long”. No, really, I’m serious. Go ahead and watch. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/72 "2010-05-20T02:31:55Z")
Musically, literarily, theatrically, cinematically, you name the category, and no abomination has ever been more abominable than the abomination that abominates here: [http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000570.php](http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000570.php) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/73 "2010-05-20T02:43:17Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > [The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Bilbo_Baggins) Interesting. I notice that Mrs. Miller was also one of the guest stars on _Malibu U._ _twitch_ ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/74 "2010-05-21T23:59:10Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > David Lee Roth gets weird > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_sN16fdzdMg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sN16fdzdMg) Was that really David Lee Roth? Wow, that was terrible, awful and bizzarre. He looks like an old man. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/75 "2010-05-22T01:57:24Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > Was that really David Lee Roth? Wow, that was terrible, awful and bizzarre. He looks like an old man. Getting old … it happens to everyone. You just wait. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/76 "2010-05-22T15:56:04Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > Was that really David Lee Roth? Wow, that was terrible, awful and bizzarre. He looks like an old man. It did make me laugh, though. Nervous laughter. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/77 "2010-05-22T16:02:36Z")
What do you folks think about this? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HSNSTerj2Kc/hqdefault.jpg "Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Totp 1971") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNSTerj2Kc) ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/78 "2010-05-22T21:01:14Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > Musically, literarily, theatrically, cinematically, you name the category, and no abomination has ever been more abominable than the abomination that abominates here: > > [http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000570.php](http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000570.php) I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna poop myself. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/79 "2010-05-22T21:22:47Z")
> [@Guy\_Incognito](#): > > Ooh, You Touch My Tra La La. Not safe for work, or anywhere really. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYtqAWDF2U](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYtqAWDF2U) [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8rm56hTDDs&feature=related) is a way awesomer video of that song. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549/80 "2010-05-22T21:43:49Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > What do you folks think about this? > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNSTerj2Kc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNSTerj2Kc) Silly lyrics, but you can see why it was a hit. As far as silly lyrics that were a hit, though, it’s hardly unique: “[Boop boop diddum daddum waddum–chew!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYt1onc2k5M&feature=related)” “[Mairzy doats and dozy doats and little lamzy divey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Cbk6SJUTM&feature=related)” “[Mahna mahna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA90IlymdZ4)” “[They’re coming to take me away haha](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4&feature=related)” Way more where those came from. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-abominations/539549.md?page=5)