Everyne is entitled to their opinion on this subject, but anyone whose poinion is different from mine is wrong.
The worst song ever is “In The Year 2525,” by Zager & Evans. Kudos to those who mentioned it.
You won’t find a worse song anywhere, ever. There’s no combination of sounds detectable to human ears that could be worse than that song. The sound of a school bus full of crippled children being T-boned by a gasoline truck, exploding and burning with corpses flung all about and being run over by other cars that hurtle off the road and explode themselves while the occupants scream in terror would still be a more pleasant sound than “In The Year 2525.”
Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa there sailor! Have you heard Z&E’s follow up - “Mr Turnkey”?. Cheery little ditty about a man who rapes a woman in a Wichita bar and kills himself in prison, IIRC. Definitley a comedown from even “2525”…
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I belive it was Carry On My Wayward Son by whom I know not, but your title has more "meaning." hee
I love this thread. Ah, the memories. A great book called Hollywood Hi Fi mentions lots of 'artists" and their "songs", such as Fabio, etc. Also the Shatner phenomenon. By the way, I've heard Golden throats and thought the singing was Not that bad at all.
Round & Round by Ratt comes to mind. Also Play That Funky Music White Boy, Delilah by Tom Jones, Livin La Vida Loca (really!)
By the way, Mandy is a Wonderful song! How dare you malign it!!!
Not so much a song, but the truly worst music I have ever heard was an Ornette Coleman album called “Science Fiction”. Imagine the sound of a large water fowl being sodomised by an eggbeater.
I’m also told that this album is a realtivley middle-of-the-road effort for Coleman. Lord have mercy!
Too bad that Star Trek thing didn’t work out for them.
But the all-time worst piece of “music” ever recorded is still “We Built This City”.
Words cannot describe how putrid this song is. (As for “We Built This Starbucks”: I started to play it a few minutes ago, very softly so as not to annoy Rhiannon8404. She heard the first four notes and made me turn it off. She’s good.)
You Light Up My Life. This is a cute harmless little song that you play and play and play when you’re 13 until one day, out of nowhere, comes the time that it gets played ONE TIME TOO MANY.
You immediately develop powerful aural antibodies to it, and your body contends with it from there on in with violent projectile vomiting.
Another vote too for the Glue Factory Duet-Horse with no name and Wildfire. And oh yeah, that one that goes “Someone’s knocking at the door, somebody’s ringing the bell (repeat ten times over). Do me a favor, open the door, let 'er iiiiiin!”
A merciful Lord has wiped the “artist” and title from my memory banks.
Another vote for “Ebony and Ivory.” You think, “A song about racial tolerance, sung by the great Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, no less! How bad can it be?” Answer: suicide-inducingly bad, that’s how!
And although I can’t say in all honesty that this is the worst song I’ve ever heard, for sheer inanity “Cater 2 U” by Destiny’s Child genuinely can’t be beat.
But the absolute worst song I have ever heard is a little gem called “Who’s in the House” by a gentleman known as Carman. I certainly do not condone illegal downloading, but I would encourage you to spend a buck or whatever and legally acquire the thing just to marvel at the sheer mind-boggling awfulness of it. The answer to the question of the title? J.C. Why, yes, that’s J.C., as in Jesus Christ. The lyrics themselves are pretty unremarkable: they’re pretty standard Christian music fare. But what puts this song over the edge into terrifyingly bad music is that the words are set over a droning club beat and contain the immortal line, “Dance! We’re kickin’ it for Christ!” Has to be heard to be believed, honestly.
Oh, and I almost forgot: “(I Got That) Boom Boom” by Britney Spears feat. the Ying Yang Twins. And yes, it really is just as bad as you can infer from the title.
Actually, if you pay attention to the lyrics, the song is meant to be ironic. Life sucks, basically, and everyone around you is telling you just to be happy. It’s sarcastic.
“Sex Bomb”, Tom Jones. Ugh, what is the appeal of this man? He’s fugly and he looks like he smells of cheap cologne and desparation.
Faith Hill’s remake of “Piece of My Heart”. She should be shot for that.
The first is one that Dave Barry mentioned in his “Bad Song Survey” years ago; he said something to the effect of, “It’s a shame that some songs aren’t more widely known and didn’t get the votes they deserve…it is quite possibly the worst song I’ve ever heard.” That song was Hooty Sapperticker by Barbara and the Boys. I have a copy, and it is truly appalling. Imagine if you will: most of the song consists of “the boys” saying “hooty hooty hooty!” over and over, followed by Barbara saying, “Howdy Hooty Sapperticker!” Seriously, if you can match that, I am in awe.
And yet, there is another horrible song that comes close. If you dare, download and listen to I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek by the Go Gos (no, not those Go Gos, some other low-rent band from the 1960s.) Ridiculous and awful in ways that only a song from the sixties can be.
OK-my Carrion isn’t the Kansas tune (no doubt wretched anyway).
It goes like this:
“Carrion, on the road the that I must travel,”
Carrion, —can’t remember the rest–
Lots of guitar–sounds kinda Survivor-ish (in terms of music).
That is the only lyric that I can call to mind. Definetly from the '90’s–early on.
Husband says that it’s “Carry Anne”.
I like my version better. Why is Carry Anne laying down in the road that the guy must travel? None of it makes any sense–so it must be deep and significant, somehow…
