Ok, we had worst band, how about worst songs?
I nominate “Elvira,” but I can’t say who does it.
All songs are eligible, as long as they were really written and are not deliberate parodies.
Tainted Love
I always listened to classic rock, but there were some songs that I would willingly switch to top-40 NKTB crap just to avoid:
(As I never wanted to buy the albums, I don’t know who sings them)
More than a Feeling
Love is Like Oxygen
Two Tickets to Paradise (Eddie Money, I think)
All Right Now
That’s all I can dredge up from my memories, the others have been suppressed.
–sublight
“All of My Love” by Led Zeppelin.
“Morning Train” by Sheena Easton.
“Horse With No Name”
“The Night Chicago Died.”
“Wildfire”
“You’re Having My Baby” ::vomity sounds::
“Billy, Don’t Be a Hero.” ::booming vomity sounds::
“All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You” by Anne & Nancy Wilson. ::explosively booming vomity sounds::
(“Elvira” is done by The Oak Ridge Boys.)
What’s wrong with tainted love?
Thanks for the info re elvira.
“My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Slimeball.
“Red, Red Wine” UB40
ugh. shudder
i think my view of tainted love has been, ahem, tainted by the fact that when i worked in a shop they played it over the tanoid on a loop. but not the original, oh no! this shop didn’t want to pay loyalties to the artist. so it was covered by some unknown untalented warbler.
don’t touch me please i cannot stand the way you squeeze
“Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyd. OK first half, then one of the worst guitar solos ever. A local radio station once put up a billboard “Honk if you hate Free Bird.” I wore out my horn.
“The Joker”
“Take the Money and Run”
“Jet Airliner”
Anything else by Steve Miller that they play nowadays. Miller did do some very good songs – “Space Cowboy,” “Living in the USA,” “Your Saving Grace,” “Going to Mexico” – but his popular ones are all self-plagiarized crap (when he’s not ripping off other people’s riffs – i.e., “Jet Airliner” = Free’s “All Right Now”).
“Rosecrans Boulevard” – Johnny Rivers. Really awful song and lyrics, by the same songwriter – Jim Webb – who did “Macarthur Park” (which probably belongs here, too).
“Tonight’s the Night”
“Do you Think I’m Sexy?”
Rod Stewart is a fine singing talent who wouldn’t know a good song if it bit him in the ass.
“Blister in the Sun” Violent Femmes
“I Feel Like a Woman” Shania Twain
“Ramble On” Led Zepplin
That’s just what I can think of right now. I’m sure that there are more.
“Smooth” by that Guy From MatchBox Twenty With a Funny Haircut and Carlos Santana
If I hear it one more time, I can’t be held responsible for my actions. I hate everything about it. Have since it came out. Message to radio stations everywhere: Enough with the “Smooth”!!!
I feel much better now.
Blue - Eiffel 65. I worked in a nightclub when it was popular and the DJ used to send it out on my behalf (gee, thanks).
Who Let The Dogs Out?
Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
I don’t really like Eminem
Tom Sawyer - Rush
I hate those two Jimmy Buffet songs…
Margaritaville and some other one that I can’t think of right now.
Oh yeah…
and that Tom Sawyer song. I think it was Rush that sings it or something.
IN THE YEAR 2525…
Anything by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Leslie Gore, Gary Fit and the Union C, and a wide array of “sad teen love” songs circa 1961. “Last Kiss” springs to mind, so does “Johnny Get Angry”.
Most modern songs ar ewretched, too, but are too bland to be downright insulting.
I will do my best to not make this a copy of my worst bands list.
Millenium - Robbie Williams
There was a song by the black fellow from Miami Vice. God, that was horrid. So was the video.
That “graduation” song that came out some months back.
Anything by The Crash Test Dummies
I don’t listen to the radio much these days but the first song that comes to mind is one off the Titan A.E. soundtrack (I think). Friends of mine played it OVER and OVER in the car on the way to & from Georgia. Don’t know if it’s been released as a single, but I believe it’s called “Slave to Karma” or something like that… natters on and on about a spinning wheel, the singer has this voice that made my brain want to exit swiftly through my ears and impale itself on the gearshift.
Oh, how could I foget than damn “Hamster Dance” song.
Muskrat Love - in fact, anything by Captain and Toenail
Midnight at the Oasis
I Honestly Love You
I can’t come up with any more without sickening myself
I absolutely despise “Indiana Wants Me”; it’s like, stop your whining; you’re getting what you deserve. I also can’t stand “Ballad of the Green Berets”, and “Fast Car”. Any time one of these comes on the radio, I almost break my finger stabbing the scan button.