Yeah, this was his weakest song on Double Fantasy. Oh Yoko from Imagine was much better.
Can I nominate anything by Gary Puckett? Especially Young Girl?
Young Girl get out of my mind…
My love for you is way out of line…
something.
You’re much to younnngggg girllllll
The amount of songs he has about liking too young women is a little creepy.
Oh and Carly, THE SONG IS ABOUT HIM!!!1
I also happen to hate MacAurthur Park, it has to be a joke about the cake right?
What about that damned “Pina Coloda Song.” It’s so bad, I don’t know how to spell it.
I Am The Walrus. It’s just wierd, and it makes no sense. It actually creeps me out a little, and I don’t go for songs that scare me.
Kids helped me here:
**Love Will Keep Us Together
I believe in Miracles
Midnight at the Oasis
Mandy **
“Muskrat Love” (Captain and Tennile)
[…how this became a hit has always baffled me.]
“Go All The Way” (The Raspberries)
[…I hate… nay … despise this song… it’s like Disney’s “It’s A Small World” for me… I even regret typing the words because now I can hear the song and I can’t get it out of my head!!!]
Maybe My Ding-a-ling by Chuck Berry. What a waste.
I’m with Trion and Odieman. Nothing else even comes close to the sheer aural pain that is “In the Year 2525.” I still remember the feeling of utter horrified fascination the first time I heard that song.
However, although it’s nowhere close to Worst of All Time, it does my heart good to see I’m not the only one who hates the Pina Colada song.
OK, this squarely falls under the “novelty” category, but I can’t let it pass. The public radio show “This American Life” did a show called “Numbers” a few years back. One of the segments is about two people who first conducted a poll on what characteristics people like and dislike about paintings - then attempted to create a painting that, statistically speaking, almost everyone should love, and another one that everyone should completely hate.
They then did the same thing with music. From their web site:
You can hear bits of the songs here. The piece starts about 10m 30s into the realaudio clip.
Personally, I much prefer the “bad” song…
Midnight at the Oasis cracks me up. I actually own the damn thing, having run across it in some bargain bin.
Whenever I play it, it gives me that familiar feeling of being in a bar that’s trying to get everybody to go home.
Word Man’s Seasons in the Sun still tops my list. It’s lacerating my brain right now and I keep trying to make We had joy we had fun end but it just goes up an octave and repeats itself.
I’ve Never Been To Me by Charmaine (I think!) as mentioned earlier, is my all time most hated song. I have mentioned on this board before that I found its “I’ve kissed princes and undressed kings but I would much rather be a poor housewife with 8 screaming brats and I would be so much more fulfilled blah blah” subtext…bloody annoying
I just called to say I love you by Stevie Wonder was another one I always hated. Horrible syrupy thing. It was number 1 in the Uk for about 7 years as well! [/slight exaggeration]
Oh and everything I do I do it for you by Bryan Adams. Ugh! Again horrid sentimental trash. I guess all the Darrens and Sharons down the disco had it as ‘their tune’, pass the blinking sickbag!
Oh and I love ‘Seasons in the Sun’ and ‘In the Year 2525’! Honestly as I have said before, I thought ‘Seasons’ was really moving and beautiful when I was a kid and I still have a soft spot for it! Yeah the guy in it does go on a little bit too much about dying though (and why is he dying? he never tells us!) 
All these responses, and no one’s mentioned House of the Rising Sun by the Animals?
With all due respect to all the folks who have cited other songs, I can’t understand how “In The Year 2525” wasn’t a unnanimous choice. That song is awful in every way a song can be awful; mind-numbingly stupid lyrics, pretentious, inadvertently hilarious vocals; a terrible tune and beat, seemingly endless and pointless repetition… I can’t imagine how a song could possibly be worse without being deliberately written as a joke.
“I Am the Walrus”???!!! Are you kidding? That song kicked ass! That song kicked the cosmic ass of the universe! 
Look, just because it was too deep or difficult for you doesn’t make it a bad song. It was sheer frickin’ genius. If it disturbed you—hey, it was meant to be disturbing. To shake you up and make you think a little.
If you thought “I Am the Walrus” was too much to handle, I guess you haven’t heard “Tomorrow Never Knows.” :eek:
“Oh Yoko” was a nice little love song. WTF is wrong with it? (This from a person who doesn’t find fault with anything Lennon ever did—with one exception: “Run for Your Life”:mad:).
Yeah, there have been some extreme stinkers already cited here. “What’s Going On” (the Non Blondes one, not the Marvin Gaye classic “What’s Goin’ On”) and “Akey (sp?) Brakey Heart” :rolleyes: are truly evil.
But my personal worst of all time is (the fortunately long forgotten) “Hold the Line” by Toto. Ugh.
I’ll agree with the nominations for “cats in the cradle” and “macarthur park”.
Another sure candidate for worst is a son whose title I think is “Deacon Blue” or something like that by Steely Dan.
What? No mention of My heart will go on?
Nope, Rysdad, you are wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.
FIRST PLACE goes to Steve Miller and his shitball-o-riffic classic-rock station staple, “The Joker”. WORST LYRICS EVER. And that fucking “Reet reeeeaarrr” guitar lick in it makes me want to stab my ears with dull # 2 pencils. Dammit, I am getting angry now just thinking about it.
Also, honorable mention goes to Rod Stewart’s “If you want my body, and you think I’m sexy song”. If I have the title wrong, don’t bother correcting me because I can assure I don’t care what it’s called. In fact, most of Rod’s catalog sucks the crank. He’s definitely in my “Top five artists whose nose you’d like to break” list. I think his hair helped get him there. I don’t want top break Steve Miller’s nose, and his music is worse.
Rod and his hair. ::balls up fists:::
“Doll Parts” by Hole. This song incites me to my own personal riot. Also, anything else by Hole, Bush, Smashing Pumpkins, Britney Spears, boy bands, rap that rips off - oh, I mean samples - from good rock songs… There’s such a variety of songs from the midden heap, it’s hard to select the most putrid and vile.
Choices, choices, so many choices
Worst Song Of All Time
I’m Henry the Eighth I Am
Excellent choice I give it 9.5 on the WSOAT scale
Almost qualifies as Novelty, but it got heavy mainstream airplay in the 60`s
“Your Song” by Elton John
Representative of a whole category of “song about the song” Give ‘em all 8 WSOAT points
Add to the list:
Jim Croce - I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
For the lyrics and sappy melody, this is definitely a hearty 10 on the WSOAT scale
Good morning, starshine, the earth says “Hello”
You twinkle above us, we twinkle below
Good morning, starshine, you lead us along
My love and me as we sing our early morning singing song
Gliddy, glup, gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy
La, la, la, lo, lo
Sabba sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba
Le, le, lo, lo
Tooby ooby walla
Nooby abba nabba
Early morning singing song
Thanks don’t ask . Thanks a lot. Show a little mercy, will ya?
Frank O – I can’t seem to find the lyrics for Toby Keith’s latest travesty. However,
http://webworld.ibusinessdot.com/cd/country/how_do_you_like_me_now.htm
seems to dislike him:
“…songs like the self-written “Die with Your Boots On” and a pointless ditty called “Country Comes to Town,” even Keith’s hard-edged baritone swaggering over flashy, high-voltage arrangements can disguise the basic lack of musical substance and creative vision. Yet on “Heart to Heart,” a tender song Keith wrote for his young son, and an exquisite story song called “New Orleans,” Keith surprises by turning in heartfelt, impassioned performances that transcend the general ordinariness that is otherwise the order of the day.”
Achy Breaky Heart
Absolutely appalling I give it 9 WSOAT points
The repugnance was compounded by the idiotic hairdo, that stupid kick/stomp and hearing it every 5 minutes.
**Kat and reeder **–
Thanks for this reminder. No, really. [sub]@%@ jerks[/sub] I don’t remember disliking this song when it came out, but now I think it had to be a joke - 9.5 WSOAT points
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down…
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard
Jabe – I don’t know. Sounds kind of poignant. Shame I haven’t heard it. 7.5 WSAOTs on lyrics alone
(Pour some sugar on me)
Ooh, in the name of love
(Pour some sugar on me)
C’mon fire me up
(Pour your sugar on me)
Oh, I can’t get enough
I’m hot, sticky sweet from my head to my feet yeah
(Huh!) Hey!
(Huh!) Hey!
(Huh!) Hey!
(Huh!)
Listen!
Red light, yellow light, green-a-light go!
Crazy little woman in a one man show
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love
Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up
(Loosen up)
I loosen up
Cracklin Rosie – Neil Diamond
Definite clunker – but not annoying enough for high praise 7 WSOATs
Cracklin’ Rosie, get on board
We’re gonna ride till there ain’t no more to go
Taking it slow
Lord, don’t you know
Have me a time with a poor man’s lady
Hitchin’ on a twilight train
Ain’t nothing there that I care to take along
Maybe a song
To sing when I want
Don’t need to say please to no man for a happy tune
Oh, I love my Rosie child
She got the way to make me happy
You and me, we go in style
Cracklin’ Rosie you’re a store-bought woman
You make me sing like a guitar hummin’
So hang on to me, girl
Our song keeps runnin’ on
Young Girl – Gary Puckett (and the Union Gap, no less) 7 WSOATs
Rushtopher – You’re right
Also - This Girl Is A Woman Now
Gary Puckett At Christmas
WTF???
He’s starting to look like Barry Manilow here
http://www.crescentmoontalent.com/corporate/gpuckett.htm
My Dingaling – Chuck Berry
In the Novelty song class, I think
Now this here song it ain’t so bad
Prettiest little song that you ever had
And those of you who will not sing
must be playing with your on Ding-a-ling
I beg to differ, Chuck, especially lines 1 and 2
Muskrat Love – Captain & Tenille 9 WSOATs
Even in their heyday, people were asking WTF?
Muskrat
Muskrat, candlelight
Doing the town and doing it right in the evening
It’s pretty pleasing
Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug out in Muskrat Land
And they Shimmy Sam is so skinny
And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Singing and jinging a jango
Floating like the heavens above
Looks like Muskrat Love
Nibbling on bacon, chewing on cheese
Sam says to Suzie
Honey, would you please be my Mrs.
Suzie says, yes with her kisses
Now he’s tickling her fancy, rubbing her toes
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes as they wriggle
Sue starts to giggle
[retch] gaaaaaaaaa [/retch]
Infectious Lass
I can’t seem to find anything on:
I’ve Never Been To Me by Charmaine (I think!) as mentioned earlier, is my all time most hated song. I have mentioned on this board before that I found its “I’ve kissed princes and undressed kings but I would much rather be a poor housewife with 8 screaming brats and I would be so much more fulfilled blah blah” subtext…bloody annoying
Sounds detestable – I’ll give it 8.5 WSOATS on your say-so
How about:
KUNG FU FIGHTING
CARL DOUGLAS
Oh-oh-oh-oh…
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting, those jerks were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit fright’ning,
but they fought with expert timing
There was funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were trapping when up, they were trapping when down
It’s an ancient Chinese art, and everybody knew their part
For my friend, ain’t you a stiff, then I’m kickin’ from the hip
AAAAAAGGGGHHH I can’t go on!
Bryan Adams is the reason NAFTA took so long to sign.
Hearing The Best Years of our Lives allows my balls to pass unscathed through chickenwire.