I am happy to say that I have escaped almost all of the songs mentioned in this thread. However, in response to an early posting, I should confess that I actually like some of the Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire) songs, especially Tous les Chemins, Resurrection, and Entre les Etoiles. I am also pro-Christmas-carol.

Among songs that turn up in folkie circles, I think I would give the prize to "Harriet Tubman". One long incoherent mixed metaphor containing no information about its nominal subject. Another such song, whose insipidity makes me cringe, is "Bridges".

Of course, if the stuff that comes out of the loudspeakers these days counts as songs, then they all belong in one big lump at the bottom.