Worst Song?

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 10:57 PM

We've been through this so many times...but why not again then?

Sylvia's Mother
Havin' My Baby
I've Never Been to Me
You and Me Against the World


Most of the stuff Rod Steward recorded, but not all of it...

Most of the stuff Whitney Houston belted out at extreme decibels.

And then....there's Rap.   EEEEEEEEEE-YAUUUUUUGH! That was BAAAAAD!

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Kaleea
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 10:55 PM

it don't git much worse than:
Muscrat Love

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 09:35 PM

Inasmuch as the total number of copyrighted songs must, by now, be on the order of 10^7, it would be rash to take the question literally. However, among the songs that are sung at sings I go to, there is one that stands out as being so embarrassing that it forces me to come up with some business in another room. It is called "Harriet Tubman". It contains not a single good line. It contains no information about its ostensible subject. Its imagery is unimaginable. It sets my teeth on edge. I think there is an element of bullying in writing a song that bad about an admirable subject. Giggle, and you're a racist, must be the idea.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: If you disagree with a prescriptivist, you are a slob; if you disagree with a descriptivist, you are an idiot. :||

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: GUEST,Padre - Still working on his cookie
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 07:12 PM

Subjective - The theme from 'Billy Jack" (One Tin Soldier)

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: GUEST,Obie
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 07:10 PM

Anyone will improve with practice, Lucy. I have heard many singers sound terrible at first. It is hard to hit the notes when you lack confidence, and experience also teaches us the importance of choosing suitable keys. Strange as it may seem, if they keep at it they often improve to a more than acceptable point. However, the thread refers to songs rather than singers. If the song is a piece of crap then improvement may be hard to gain.

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Hawker
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 06:33 PM

I have heard goods songs sung badly but not as many bad songs! In fact I cannot think of one offhand though i know there are songs I don't particularly like, usually because i have heard someone murdering them! Its a bit like the person you particularly didn't like at school putting you off their name!
sometimes I wonder if we should tell the murderers but usually I just say a prayer that they will improve with practise!
Cheers Lucy

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: GUEST,obie
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 06:09 PM

Very subjective except for "Achey Breaky Heart". That is without doubt #1 on the all time shitlist! It was also #1 on the hit parade forever and a day. Go figure....................

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Crane Driver
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 05:58 PM

Very much a subjective thing. One man's meat is another man's two-veg, and all that. And there's a world of difference between bad songs and songs I don't like - there are songs I can recognise as good even though I can't stand them, and songs I really quite like even though I accept they're not very good as songs.

And I'm sure there are people out there who love all the songs put forward here as examples of the worst. People differ. Learn to live with it.

Andrew

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: GUEST,Penguin Egg
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 05:49 PM

That Bucks Fizz thing that won the Eurovision Contest. Save your Kisses For me, I think it was called.
Congratulations by Cliff Richard.
And since Lennon's Imagine has already been nominated, how about Jealous Guy?

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: number 6
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 05:07 PM

Third time I mentioned it here in the Mudcat .... "Green, Green, Grass of Home" .. by Tom Jones, or by anyone as a matter of fact.

sIx

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 05:05 PM

Ard mahacha - if you mean Bill Caddick's song, it's fine when performed by Bill Caddick.

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: bobad
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 05:05 PM

"That bloody awful Unicorn song."

Have you heard the version as performed by it's writer Shel Silverstein - not nearly as annoying as that by the Irish Rovers.

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 04:59 PM

That bloody awful Unicorn song.

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: mandotim
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 04:16 PM

Bit on the Side do the Wild Rover to the tune of Streets of London. Get's 'em over with all at once...
Tim from Bit on the Side

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 04:07 PM

Scooby

You should hear Eddy Richards' version of the Wild Rover....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 03:53 PM

I think the Wild Rover but as Mick Pearce says thread has been done before.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 03:42 PM

There's nothing wrong with "Streets of London" except that it's been done to death. I liked it the first 10 or 20 times I heard it. I think it was a victim of its own success. I certainly wouldn't put it on any "worst song" list.

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 03:37 PM

Criteria?

It comes out of someone's mouth and goes into someone elses ear. It realy is a personal thing. If you feel the need to leave the room then it cannot be too good.

I find stuff on the country end of Irish a bit room clearing and anything by the Kings Singers.

But to name a song? Sorry alcihol had set in and judgement has gone. I wiil return.

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Danks
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 03:15 PM

"Streets of London" - worst song!!! What criteria are you using?

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 02:05 PM

If you set the Filter to worst and the Age dropdown to All you'll find several previous threads on suggestions for various types of worst songs!

Mick

Subject: RE: Worst Song?
From: woodsie
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 01:59 PM

Down Along The Cove, on Dylan's John Wesley Harding - What is this throwaway 12 bar doing on an album otherwise packed with Zimmo's finest?

Also:
Streets Of London
Imagine
Anything by Supertramp
Anything by David Gray

Subject: Worst Song?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 01:44 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/04/19/eye.ent.worstsong/index.html