# The worst song of all time is....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123 "2001-11-08T03:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![howgoesit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@howgoesit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howgoesit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/21 "2001-11-08T08:50:20Z")
The worst song I have ever heard was “21 and legal” by Cyrus Sullivan. It never made radio (thank God) but I got it off the [net](http://www.ampcast.com/search/band.php?id=4798). Jesus, it was awful. I don’t see how this guy can keep a straight face when he is promoting it on his website. I feel sorry for all of the family and friends he must be pissing off by making them listen to it. On another note, I once called a radio station and requested them NOT to play “Don’t Call Me Daughter” by Pearl Jam, then a few years later “American Woman” by Lenny Kravitz…Simply because they played those friggin’ songs WAY too much. * * * You don’t like what I say? You don’t like what someone else says? Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/22 "2001-11-08T08:51:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*Some songs are so bad that you run when they come on. **Holy Diver** By R.J. Dio is so bad that I listen. \*\* Aaah, Ronnie James Padavona - definitely there in the ‘so bad it’s good’ category. How about some of his other hits ‘Rock and Roll Children’ and ‘Dream Evil’. Wow. Memories. [Aside]If you’re reading this, Andy, hi![/Aside] No, the worst song every is **I Smoke Some Grass (Really, Really High** by **Ween** , which is 7:45 of the title being repeated over and over, deadpan, with ‘nothing’ music underneath it. The CD single it’s on (Push The Little Daisies, with 3 almost identical versions of the title song as well as this opus) is the most excruciating piece of plastic I’ve ever owned, and is the **Metal Machine Music** of the 90’s. To quote Tom Lehrer talking about one of his own records, play it on 78rpm so you get through it quicker :). ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Stewart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dave\_Stewart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Stewart)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/23 "2001-11-08T08:53:16Z")
[C&W drawl] “don tell my heart my achy breaky heart I jus don think itd understn” [/C&W drawl] ---
**Author:** ![Gaspode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gaspode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaspode)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/24 "2001-11-08T09:16:29Z")
So far two nominees are actually in my collection and get regular if infrequent playing: 4 Non Blondes “What’s Going On” and “Galveston” by Glen Campbell. Does that make me pathetic or what? :o My own personal nominations: River of Dreams by Billy Joel (At the end of of my career, I go walking in my sleep… bleh.) And I actually like some B. Joel. Talk about crappy songs sold entirely because of the artists past rep. Or the alternative: Honey by Mariah Carey. The woman screeches shithouse lyrics across 10 octaves. ---
**Author:** ![howgoesit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@howgoesit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howgoesit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/25 "2001-11-08T10:03:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*Some songs are so bad that you run when they come on. **Holy Diver** By R.J. Dio is so bad that I listen. \*\* Heh heh…Lest we forget the [cover](http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=842905564/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/album.html/artistid=BOONE*PAT/itemid=389826) done by Pat Boone. Sadly, I like Pat’s version better… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/26 "2001-11-08T11:37:18Z")
“Hold my hand” by Hootie and the Blowfish. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/27 "2001-11-08T13:48:14Z")
Ah, the eternal “Worst Song” thread. As long as this question keeps coming up, I shall continue to cast my vote for… “In The Year 2525” by Zager & Evans Stick-a-fork-in-your-head bad. ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/28 "2001-11-08T13:57:43Z")
I’m not sure which is the worst song of all time, but suffice it to say, **REO Speedwagon** has to be involved. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/29 "2001-11-08T14:06:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Teen Angel as performed by Mark Dinning, or anybody else. The only reason why this strunz was allowed anywhere near a recording studio is because one of his relatives had a brief affair with one of the MacGuire Sisters (or something like that). Sorry, doesn’t qualify – it’s a novelty song, a parody of the “death rock” genre. If sung as the songwriter intended, it can reduce a room to gales of helpless laughter. People used to beg me to sing it at parties.(Key: Drag out the line “I’ll never kiss your lips again.” then sing the next line – “They buried you today” in a bright and breezy manner.) I’d choose “Coward of the County” by Kenny Rogers (who has a long list of wretched songs. However, the sentiment of this one – “Sometimes you have to fight to be a man” – is despicable. Even country music fans hate this piece of excrement. And if you think “Macarthur Park” is bad, you never heard “Rosecrans Boulevard” by the same songwriter, Jim Webb. At least “Macarthur Park” rhymed. . . . ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/30 "2001-11-08T14:21:18Z")
_Loving You_ (I think that’s the title) by Minnie Ripperton. The Visa commercial proves it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/31 "2001-11-08T14:23:29Z")
ps - apparently she hates it too… _“la la la la la la la la la la AAAAAAAARRRRRgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”_ ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/32 "2001-11-08T14:39:49Z")
“I Know Why Boys Want” by The Waitresses. Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![Enore\_Tsotset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@Enore\_Tsotset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enore_Tsotset)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/33 "2001-11-08T14:41:51Z")
Paul Mcartney’s new song, **"From a Friend to a Lover"** He just gives up on lyrics and sings(warbles?) “la la la la la la la la” BTW, **Mercutio** , _Spanish Guitar_ is coughed out by **Toni Braxton** ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/34 "2001-11-08T14:56:46Z")
Wow - Seasons in the Sun is so hard to beat, but here goes: **Ebony and Ivory** by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (I was tempted to go with the Oscar-winning excrescence of “I Just Called to Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder, but Ebony and Ivory has the added bonus of Beatle-badness along with Stevie-Wonder’s-evil-twin badness…) Top that - two entirely respectable musicians producing kill-me-now crap music. Sure, other stuff on the list is bad, but none came artists like these to rock-music royalty types of this caliber! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/35 "2001-11-08T14:58:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WordMan \* > \*\*Wow - Seasons in the Sun is so hard to beat, but here goes: > …none came artists like these to rock-music royalty types of this caliber! \*\* uhh - none came **from** artists like these **two** rock-music royalty types. Okay, the drugs are starting to wear off… ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/36 "2001-11-08T15:20:21Z")
**My Sharona** , everytime I hear this song I’m looking around for someone to kill. Apparently fate thought it was pretty funny one year to put somebody above my apartment that loved to play this full blast at 2am. ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/37 "2001-11-08T15:30:17Z")
Whoever sings: _I love you Always forever Near and far blah blah blah_ It comes on every morning when my alarm goes off…I almost kill myself trying to get to the radio to shut it off…and then it’s in my head for the rest of the day and I find myself singing it outloud and then the self loathing begins. either that or anything by **Rod Stewart** bleck. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/38 "2001-11-08T15:59:48Z")
_Horse With No Name_ by America, if only for that immortal line: "In the desert you can remember your name, “'Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.” Little idjit should’ve been punted in the scrote for writing that. Second place goes to anything written by Steve Miller. No-talent schmuck. ---
**Author:** ![Shampoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Shampoop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shampoop)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/39 "2001-11-08T16:04:06Z")
can anyone give me an amen or two for the Macarena? ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123/40 "2001-11-08T16:26:32Z")
There was a song in the early 80’s (natch) called “I’ve Never Been to Me” that was caterwauled by a woman whose name escapes me now (may be a self-defense mechanism). Incredibly stupid lyrics alternately spoken/screeched over an annoying plinking piano sound. Utter Shite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-song-of-all-time-is/92123.md?page=3)