Thanks to all of you, who have now reminded me of songs that I had happily forgotten…I now have a multitude of bad songs in my ear that I can’t turn off…a choir of Whitney, Mariah, Celine…with poser metal and country in the background…BLECH!
However, the one song that makes me jump up screaming from the couch and kick in the stereo is “Live it up” by Mental As Anything. It has it all: stupid lyrics, oom-pah-pah melody…if this song is on when my radio alarm goes off in the morning, the day is basically over already.
I was dancing with my darlin’ to the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see.
I introduced her to my darlin’ and while they were dancing,
My friend stole my sweetheart from me.*
Well, Missy, if you were familiar enough with the song to be dancing to it, maybe the lyrics should have clued you to not introduce your boyfriend to any of your old running mates.
Actually, my vote has to go to the late Marty Robbins, for El Paso. WHY does the chick run out to give a last kiss to the man who murdered her boyfriend, as he lies dying in the dirt behind Rose’s Cantina?
The sequel to that song (released about twenty years later), should get an honorable mention. Thankfully, I can’t remember the name of it, but it seemed to be about a bush pilot flying over the desert of West Texas, when he is revealed to be the reincarnation of the ill-fated gunman from the first song. I might have enjoyed the song if it had ended with the ghost of Felina making him crash his plane, but it didn’t.
Other honorable mentions:
Billy, Don’t be a Hero Big John’s Cajun Queen (another sequel) The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia Tell Laura I Love Her Angie Baby Delta Dawn (congratulations, Ms Reddy, you get two)
Thanks to all of you! I now have a list of 2 pages of songs that I love but forgot all about!
The one song that I have not seen, and find it incredibly hard to believe no one has mentioned, unless to save the mental health of anyone in this thread is…(drum roll please)
a weemawup a weemawup a weemawup (cont. for 29 min.)
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.
Ya know, I heard the Metallica version first, so now whenever I hear this song on the radio I find myself singing in James Hetfield’s voice:
*
There I go-ah,
On the road agean-ah.
There I am-ah,
Up on the stayaaa-gah.
Here I go-ah,
Playin the saong ageannn-ah.
There I gohh-ahh,
Turn the paaayyyy-gahhhh.
*
quote: “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” and what appears to be the same song, “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim,” both by Jim Croce.
::sheds a tear::
Dude, don’t EVEN talk about Jim Croce. He was killed in a helicopter crash, so all of his music automatically kicks ass. No, really, his entire “Photographs and Memories” album is verboten. Off-limits. Cool stuff.
I’m troubled to hear some of the coolest songs ever get hosed on (about half of them in one single post), but My Heart Will Go On and ANYTHING by Barbra Streisand tie in my book for WORST SONG EVER.
Oh, my darling Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me
Twice on the pipe if the answer is no
Oh, my sweetness
Means you’ll meet me in the hallway
Mmm, twice on the pipe means you ain’t gonna show
There’s some old song from the fifties…can’t remember who sang it. It goes,
“When you’re young and so in looooove…as weeeee
And bewildered by the wooooorld…we seeeeee
How can we keep love alive,
How can anything survive,
When these little minds tear you in twooooo…”
AAGGHHHH! Make it stop! Make it stop!
“Town Without Pity.” That’s what this horrible piece of…horribleness is called.
And anything by Neil Diamond. I’ve always wondered, who is Rosie and why is the poor girl crackling? Can’t she get some ointment or something for that?
And let’s not forget, “I love the nightlife, I want to boogie, on the disco rou-OUUUUND!”
Excuse me, I think I’ll go sing “Itsy-Bitsy Spider” repeatedly with my daughter until all this goes away…
Ohgodno! Now it’s back in my head, and it won’t go away!
My son and I were in the car. He was about 4 years old at the time. That song came on. My son has incredible verbal memory. Days and nights of “a weem a weck a weem a weck a weem a weck a weem a weck…” follow.
"Honey how you’ve grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play
When we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree
She turned my life into a living hell
In those little tops and tight capris
I pretended to be readin’ the National Probe
As I was watchin’ her wax her skis
On Saturday night she walked in with her date
And backs him up against the wall
I tumbled off the couch and heard myself sing
In a voice I never knew I had before
CHORUS
I’ll teach you everything I know
If you teach me how to do that dance
Life is short and quid pro quo
And what’s so strange about a down-home family romance? "
I’ve heard that song before, but I must have convinced myself that I hadn’t. After reading all those lyrics, I’ve come to the conclusion that dude is fucked in the head.
She ran calling Wiiiiiiiiiildfire…
Can I suggest a current nominee? Dunno who it’s by but it’s some unspeakably lame R&B ballad (easily the worst musical genre ever IMHO) that goes “I know that he loves me because blah blah blah …” and some tripe about their first argument and how they compromised and haven’t argued since and AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH I just want to grab that singer by the throat, throttle her and then tell her that “he” is actually shagging her little sister, or something, anyway… DIE! DIE! DIE!
(Sorry, I just have to hear that song every day at the gym and it’s really starting to piss me off :mad: )
My incomplete list of my All Time Most Hated Songs.
The Little Drummer Boy (Chistmas song, Any version, any artist) - This song is in the top spot because I hate it so much it actually makes me angry. I think a Christmas Eve nightmare would have this song as its soundtrack and include an army of alive nutcracker guys doing their stiff-legged mummy walk at me.
Brass In Pocket, The Pretenders - I don’t know why I hate this song so much. It might be the singers voice. I think the line I hate the most is “I want some of your attention, give it to me”. Shut up, bitch. Stop begging for attention.
Song I Don’t Know The Title Of - It might be called ‘I Know That Love Is True’ but I don’t know. It’s sung by some guy with a really annoying voice, and there is an annoying, breathy ‘Ha haha haaaaa ha’ part in it. This song makes me want to stick gum in my ears.
Another Song I Don’t Know The Title Of - The first line goes “She’s just sixteen years old, leave her alone they saaaaaaaaay” . Yes, leave her alone you dirty old man. She’s 16, you perv.
Any and Every Song By Rush - I’m sorry to all you people who like Rush, I hate them. Maybe I don’t ‘get it’. I don’t know. I hate Geddy Lee’s whiny voice, I hate their icky annoying songs. I hate the song Tom Sawyer most of all, but any other Rush song will also make my skin crawl.
On Broadway, George Benson (i think) - The Less Talk/More Music station in NY used to play this oh, about 3 times a day. I especially hate the part when he says “On Broad-way-hey-hey-heeeey” and then the backup singers say (On Broadway)…
Check out the lyrics to Charlene’s “I’ve Never Been to Me” here, NutMagnet, and you may want to think about upgrading that score a bit. It gets particularly retch-worthy when she gets to the SPOKEN part of the song, but the part that really gets to me is:
(In other words, if you don’t breed, your life is useless and you’re a whore…)
And for those of you who nominated “She’s Having My Baby”: I’ll agree with you that the Paul Anka version reeked, but I still laugh my head off when I remember Dr. Johnny Fever of WKRP in Cincinnati playing “She’s Having my Baby” by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
