The Bob Dylan song is actually “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”. I won’t comment on your opinion of the song. 
Yeah. I like a lot of these.
See, now that one came out while I was in the 7th grade and it seemed deep and significant. I can’t quite shake an echo of the feeling.
This one came out when I was nearly three. I couldn’t read, so Dad put a piece of red tape on the A side to let me put it on the spindle the right side up. I don’t even want to speculate on how many times in a row my parents heard that song.
Ok. That one I’ve always hated. You have me, there.
When you say released, you just mean offered for sale, right? There’s no need for top 40 airplay? In that case I have the LP of the music from the It’s a Small World ride at Disneyland. If you tie someone up, you can leave the stack arm raised and the record player will repeat one side indefinitely.
I think “Chocolate Rain” is this century’s answer to “MacArthur Park”. Both singers really seem to care (about what I have no idea)*.
*Props to Rodney Dangerfield
I do this in every one of these threads:
Vanilla, No way No way
Why, you haven’t lived until you’ve heard William Shatner’s version of “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Of course, you may rather not live than have to listen to it.
Holy cow, that’s some high-test hate fuel right there. There’s not a trace of energy in front of or behind the camera. The Spice Girls weren’t very good musicians, but they (appeared to be) earnest, which covers for a lot. The late Wesley Willis’ songsaren’t good either, but he was sincere, which is why he’s missed by a lot of people. He was just a big hearted schizophrenicman trying to control his inner demons through music.
These clowns have made the worst mistake in entertainment - they’re bored and boring. And they’ve made me annoyed at the Muppets, too. Hate it, hate it, hate it!
Thanks for the link. This one’s getting bookmarked.
My brother went through a stage where he would listen to Japanese pop music.
I don’t know any of the names of the songs, but that is, in fact, the worst music I have ever heard.
I also heard a guy cover “All the Single Ladies”, but that wasn’t so much bad as it was hilarious.
I’d say most stuff after 1989 and 99.9% of everything after 1999.
Patches.
Seriously, the rest are really good by comparison.
Two kinds: a rap that’s bad enough without having explicit sex words in it, and all-time favorite folk/country songs adapted for disco. Those make me so mad.
I like a lot of John Mellencamp’s work, but Our Country…god.
Hell is being stuck in a bar with a 120" big screen TV showing last year’s Chiefs-Bears game on endless replay and only Chevy TV commercials.
“Rape” by Peter Wyngarde. Both racist and misogynist.
The thing is, the music is quite cool, but the lyrics and delivery? Ye gads. And that intro … Rape! Rape! Rape! Rape! Rape!
There’s something badly askew with my sensibilities, because I like some of the worst songs mentioned! Oh, I’ll point and laugh along with everyone else, but I’ll sing along to Achey Breaky Heart in my car when I’m driving alone.
I will offer up: “Shannon” by Henry Gross (about a dog, very sad)
and “Wildfire” by Michael Martin Murphey (about a horse).
"…she’ll be ridin’ WIIIIILD FAAAAHHRRR (repeat repeat repeat) she’ll be riding’
WIIILLLLD WIIIILDD WIIIIIIILLLLD FAAAAAHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Me too. It is utterly without redeeming value.
Any song by the execrable “Chipmunks” would have to be a contender.
This one gets my vote too. Musically bland, incredibly insipid, stupidly blindly patriotic lyrics. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. And the lyrics don’t just communicate “yay, the US is so great!”, but it also manages to insult other countries at the same time. “And I’m proud to be an American/where at least I know I’m free”. Hey, Lee ol’ buddy, I have some shocking news for you… people are free in other countries as well!
“Never Been to Me” wasn’t “released”–it escaped…
Oh, I’ll see “Patches,” and raise you … “Patches”:
Since the most horrific pop songs of all-time have been excoriated many times previously, I will try to break (somewhat) new ground. Worst release all-time by a major group: The Who’s cover of Jan & Dean’s “Bucket T”.
Dave Barry’s listing is based almost entirely on lyrics, which is unfair to songs which musically have redeeming features (like “Macarthur Park” in its original version). If you’re going for rock songs with awful lyrics, Deep Purple and Golden Earring have some of the all-time worst.
Lonely is the night without you
Just as lonely as a shepherd without sheep
- “She Flies On Strange Wings” (Golden Earring)
See the blind man, he’s shooting at the world
Bullets flying, ooh taking toll
If you’ve been bad - Oh Lord I bet you have
And you’ve not been hit oh by flying lead
You’d better close your eyes, you’d better bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
- “Sweet Child In Time” (Deep Purple)