Hey, Biffy – got any cool anagrams for the other two Odors?
Earmark Zany.
Can’t beat that. Which leaves Me No Nerd, Josh.
Awesome – thanks to you both!
Then I presume you also have hatred in your heart for anything by your other neighbour, Ozzy Osbourne. For someone whose supposed to be “The Prince of Darkness” and the epitome of cool, he sure has a soulless voice. That coupled with the meter of the lyrics just always sounds off to me. It’s like he knows the words but sings like he’s doing karaoke; he doesn’t *own *the song.
Don’t get me started on Kevin “filthy overalls, toora loora” Rowland of Dexy’s Midnight Runners 
This video is addictive in its sheer badness: David Hasselhoff - Hooked on a Feeling - YouTube
Hasselhoff actually has a great voice but why he agreed to all the weird leaves me wondering if he was hooked on or high on something. The timing of saying “girl, you turn me on” while his daughter(s) are floating on the screen always skeeved me.
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Most may disagree, but I thought this was one of the wonderful, uplifting moments in the pantheon of pop music history:
(things really heat up from :47 to 1:04)
[/QUOTE]Jeebus haploid… now I know that my memory of singing along with this in the car as a child is not a hallucinatory fever-dream. (shiver)
This doesn’t qualify since it’s many many cringeworthy moments, but Meat Loaf’s new Braver Than We Are. It just made me sad. I am trying to pretend it never happened, and overdosing on Bat Out of Hell and selected others of his.
Ca. 1990, I dated a man who owned a used record store, and EVERY.SINGLE.TIME someone purchased Prince’s “Lovesexy”, they would cringe and say “…the cover…”
I wonder how many of the kids’ parents knew what they were doing when they allowed them to participate in this. (RHCP’s “Aeroplane”)
I always cringe when the song “Take the money and run” plays and that point where they try to rhyme “taxes” with “facts is” comes up.
Did I miss someone mentioning Celine Dion’s cover of “You Shook Me All Night Long?”
By all accounts, Saget was always blue, he just covered it up for the networks. His take on the Aristocrats(NSFW) is probably the gold standard.
:eek::eek:Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa??? Part of me so wants to look this up but the other part of me knows that won’t be good for anyone.
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I wonder how many of the kids’ parents knew what they were doing when they allowed them to participate in this. (RHCP’s “Aeroplane”)
[/QUOTE]One of the parents was the bands bassist, Flea whose daughter is front and center. And I think I heard that the other kids were from her class.
I heard that “My Beauty” was actually a fairly good album, but it sold something like 500 copies in large part as a protest against the cover. :smack:
This is the “winner”.
Cross-dressing may not have been as accepted in 1999 as it is now but come on, it had pretty much ceased to be seen as absolutely outrageous. So, this cover already fails if it was attempting to cause a scandal. If it was trying to be all progressive then, good for him, but his posture and facial expression totally undermines the message. He just looks embarrassed.
I can heartily recommend to everyone in this thread “Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs”, reading from which has become something of a family tradition. It’s not current, but for a historical perspective on this important issue it is essential. I think some posters may already be familiar with it, given some nominations.
DBBoBS made me aware of several songs which are constant cringe – the big winner, of course, MacArthur Park – a song about a cake in the rain (and the vocals! OMG. I played the song to my husband and he thought it was a Weird Al parody – there is one of it, though, it’s pretty good, “Jurassic Park”). But the cringiest is either the chorus from “I Am, I Said” (Neil Diamond)
I am, I said
to no one there
and no one heard at all
not even the chair
I say ‘not even the chair’ all the time…
Or maybe the whole song “Timothy” – nothing like a pop song about cannibalism.
Anyway, read the book!
I honestly don’t believe you people. Do you know nothing? 
This is the nadir of a once proud career.
Breakfast Can Wait by Prince
Starts off ok. Then there’s the helium break. A real station switcher.