De gustibus.
I esp agree with a song posted by HISSNLISSN
OMC - How Bizarre
I was in a bar when hearing this song for the first time. I was appalled, esp of the lead singer.
Even more appalling was the response - grinning faces at the tables around me, as if their favorite song, people leaping from their seats hurrying to the dance floor.
How bizarre, indeed. (That same bar burned to the ground a year later, bar owner suspected of arson to cash in on the insurance policy - Unfortunately not so bizarre for our region here in Meeshegan)
“Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”
jeeeezus… it’s awful.
Ahhh, the 90’s. I’d call up WHTG almost every time that Rob Acampora was working, just so I could piss him off by requesting that tune. Good times…good times…
Barbie Girl, don’t know if it was mentioned because I don’t feel like reading the other entries for fear of a horrid flashback.
That was a bad one, but Paula Cole committed a greater crime with “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” I remember wanting to stick a fork in my eye every time that song came on.
I also loathed the Crash Test Dummies’ “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.”
Jesus, I’d never heard “Shut Up (and sleep with me).” That’s 2 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
You’ve hit that at least one other time in a thread. What don’t you like about it? I think it is a great, great song - one of the better 1-hit wonder singles, ever. YMMV and all - I wouldn’t try to convert you and am not looking for you to convert me. Just curious…
Two Princes by the same group was horrible as well.
Oh, there’s more. Ten years later (or so), there’s his comeback single, Fuck You (I am in love).
I think it’s a perfectly cromulant song, however if I may hazzard a guess, it might be because it’s the sort of song that will play during the pivitol scene of every Very Special Episode of Party of Five / Dawson’s Creek / Friends / whatever.
I would go with Steal My Sunshine by Len as up there with the worst. Possibly Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex.
Really? That’s a playful summertime tune, one of the better tunes of the 90s. Have you no fun in your soul? 
Now this I can agree with.
I think it’s a good song, though it’s hard for it not to be overshadowed by the stolen hook.
One hit wonder?
My suggestion has already been posted: Eiffel 65: Blue. You can virtually expand it to any popular music coming from continental music in the 90s, though.
From a US perspective, the Verve are a one-hit wonder. If they had any other other hits, I certainly have never heard of them.
Well, guys, it’s been fun, but I’m going* all-in*:
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“The Drugs Don’t Work” had some success but, yes, you’re right: The Verve was mostly a OHW in America. However, “Bittersweet Symphony” was fucking awesome. I could listen to that song over and over again.
No conversation about bad 90’s music would be complete without mention of that whole god-awful “Swing revival” era that we were cursed with for a while there. The Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (great name…NOT), The Brian Setzer Orchestra (the only tolerable group of the whole bunch), and the like were practically signs of the Apocalypse. The “Latin Music Explosion” wasn’t too hot, either. Santana was awesome as usual, but I think we all could have done without Marc Anthony and his couple of horrible singles.
I misremembered that one as being from the early 2000s, but you’re right, it’s a terrible song. I’m not going to click the link, just seeing the song title I had that “OH GOD NO!” feeling, like watching a horror movie.
It may well be one of the best late '90s R&B songs, but I’m struggling to think of a single late '90s R&B song that I would personally want to listen to. But in fairness to “No Scrubs”, when I was checking the video I thought “This isn’t that bad, I probably wouldn’t have hated it so much if it hadn’t been so overplayed.”
“No Scrubs” was vastly inferior to “Unpretty.”
I guess that ties in with something I’ve been wondering throughout this whole thread - would we have liked many of these “worst songs” anyway? If it’s not of a genre we’d usually listen to, is it any surprise that we didn’t like it? Like with people saying ‘My Heart Will Go On’, is a Celine Dion ballad from a romance movie the sort of thing that you would have liked, regardless of how good it actually was?
For example I could have put a nu-metal or modern country song as my choice but I chose a Steps song because I was heavily into teen pop back then, but even I knew ‘5,6,7,8’ was bad. I think the true measure of a Worst Song Ever is if, theoretically, it would be right up your alley but everything is just so bad that even though it’s of your favourite genre you can’t stomach it.
I hope that makes sense.
The incredible level of suckiness in this song made Eminem’s mini-parody all the more hilarious. The original song goes, “New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits/Chinese food makes me sick/and I think it’s fly when girls stop by for the summer…”
In “Marshall Mathers,” Eminem parodies this refrain. The lyrics are here. Just scroll down to the line that begins with New Kids on the Block. (Warning: contains homophobic content)