# Worst song ever recored **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177 "2003-06-25T00:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dumberthanmost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dumberthanmost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumberthanmost)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/1 "2003-06-25T00:17:01Z")
What is the worst song. My vote is “Everyrose has it’s thorn” by Poison ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/2 "2003-06-25T00:50:38Z")
Loving You - Minnie Ripperton. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/3 "2003-06-25T00:52:37Z")
One popular choice is **MacArthur Park** by Richard Harris. My personal choice is **I Know What Boys Want** by The Waitresses. ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/4 "2003-06-25T01:47:49Z")
Does “Revolution #9” by the Beatles even count as a “song”? If so, it’s my vote for the biggest waste of recording tape ever. ---
**Author:** ![AveDementia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/5 "2003-06-25T01:50:08Z")
I have, in my possession, the worst disco song ever recorded- EVER. But I really don’t think you want to know what it is. Trust me, you don’t want to know anything about it- it will only cause you to be curious, and then your curiosity will nag you like a flea in your shorts or a hair trapped under your clothes, and then you’ll begin to froth at the mouth with the excitement and danger of it all and you’ll have to hunt it down, like those idiots in horror movies who go down to the basement ALL ALONE, or like someone who thinks too hard about a girl going to college with her horse and you think you’re starting to go mad, but you’re not going mad, even though it seems like madness and you’re pretty fairly convinced that it actually is madness, IT ISN’T and you’ll realize that once you actually hear the song, because when the first strains of the synthesized clapping and the canned rhythms start drawing your hands to your eyes to scratch them out of your head you’ll know- THERE IS NO HORROR ON EARTH THAT CAN COMPARE TO BAD DISCO!!! So just, you know, for the sake of inhumanity, the future of our Borg-like existence, the sanity of our pets, and to save the rainforests- just forget I ever said anything. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/6 "2003-06-25T02:29:48Z")
> [@](#): > > THERE IS NO HORROR ON EARTH THAT CAN COMPARE TO BAD DISCO!!! And what other kind of disco is there? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/7 "2003-06-25T02:36:00Z")
The Night Chicago Died is pretty dire. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/8 "2003-06-25T02:38:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manduck \* > \*\*The Night Chicago Died is pretty dire. \*\* I’ll see your song, and raise you a “Lion Sleeps Tonight.” ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/9 "2003-06-25T02:38:24Z")
‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by William Shatner. It’s infamous for a reason 'ya know… ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/10 "2003-06-25T02:41:54Z")
“I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston is the most abominable collection of noises I’ve personally heard. I swear that the sound of kittens being squashed by enormous trucks carrying crack-addled baboons scratching chalkboards with their unmanicured fingers is subliminally mixed into the recording somewhere. The whole song is just so viscerally unpleasant that I just want to throw myself through a window everytime I hear it. Which isn’t as often as it used to be. In cases where I have no control over the source of the abominable song, I just simply turn off my hearing aids and spend the next several minutes in contemplative silence. ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/11 "2003-06-25T02:47:02Z")
Ah yes, I heard Disco Duck just a few days ago. Still horrible after all these years. But what about Muskrat Love and Surfer Joe? I was trapped in a driver’s ed. car with a instructor who played those songs over and over again. Oh, and I think something sung by Leonard Nimoy, but the details have been wiped out by some innate self-preservation thingy. ---
**Author:** ![jacksen9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jacksen9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacksen9)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/12 "2003-06-25T02:52:52Z")
“Micki you’re so fine and you nearly blow my mind, hey Micki.” I am not sure what the actual title is, but I hate it most. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/13 "2003-06-25T02:53:51Z")
“Honey” - Bobby Goldsboro. This song should be on everybody’s “Music to Let People Know the Party’s Over, So Get the Hell Out of My House” mix-CD. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/14 "2003-06-25T03:18:13Z")
**Jacksen9** , that song is called (!) _Mickey_, and it’s by Toni Basil. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/15 "2003-06-25T05:15:20Z")
Seasons in the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/16 "2003-06-25T05:47:57Z")
Anything by Good Charlotte ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/17 "2003-06-25T06:06:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BadBaby \* > \*\*Ah yes, I heard Disco Duck just a few days ago. Still horrible after all these years. \*\* Hear it on KFOG, by chance? If so, then you’ll probably agree that Madonna’s mis-take on American Pie was awful. Lest anyone think there’s a radio station anywhere that makes a habit of playing Disco Duck, it was in a daily feature called “Ten at 10” where they play “ten great songs from one great year” and occasionally, they do themes. On every Friday the 13th, they do “Hits from Hell.” Here’s what they played the last time around - I’m sure we can all agree that these are dreadful. Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis Toni Basil - Hey Mickey Bobby Goldsboro - Honey Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Rick Dees - Disco Duck The Amazing Salute to Buddah Records Medley Henry Gross - Shannon Archies - Sugar, Sugar Los Del Rio - Macarena Madonna - American Pie Macarthur Park was officially named an all time Hall of Shame stinker some time ago by this program just so they didn’t have to play it each time around. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/18 "2003-06-25T06:21:15Z")
Walk Like a Man. ---
**Author:** ![Melanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Melanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melanie)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/19 "2003-06-25T07:19:43Z")
But bad music is good music coz its funny ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177/20 "2003-06-25T07:36:49Z")
How about [Mr Blobbys](http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_720127.html) Christmas No. 1. Not sure it can be classed as a ‘song’ though. _\<…shudder…\>_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-song-ever-recored/184177.md?page=2)