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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Worst Song Of All Time--Absolutely, Positively THE WORST....
...song ever recorded. The George Bush of recorded music.
For me, it's "Danny's Song" by whoever records it, or Billy Joel "For The Longest Time" (GAWD, I HATE that one!!), or the disco version of "Stairway to Heaven"--hated it so bad, I broke it over my knee right in the record store!
What's yours?
TrogL
(32,818 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the possible exception of Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby."
TrogL
(32,818 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)that I heard this as a small child, and until I read the words as an adult - possibly on DU, in fact!- I thought that the line 'BRLFQ spells Mom and Dad' was 'FLQ, that's Mum and Dad!' We had Canadian connections, and had been on a trip there at about the time when the FLQ (Front for the Liberation of Quebec) had kidnapped and murdered a Cabinet minister, and this was a big matter of conversation. I didn't at that age understand the political aspects of this, and thought that the group was simply a band of 'kidnappers'. I thought that the song meant that Scotty's parents were members of this 'kidnapping' organization; it didn't chime in with the rest of the song, but songs often didn't make much sense!
Less sensationally, I also misheard the line 'Micky Mouse says it's thirteen o'clock' as 'Micky Mouse says it's thirteen above' - again the Canadian influence, as much conversation during a Canadian winter is about how many degrees it is 'below' or, if one is lucky, 'above'.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)What a lovely way of sayin' how much you love me
lastlib
(22,981 posts)Sequoia
(12,461 posts)Sure. I was watching his crusade back in the day when that song was popular and he said something along the lines of the husband being foolish for "...and I'm being good." because he should just get on with his life and get married again since there are no marriages in heaven. Yep, I hated that song too because it made the wife out to be stupid.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)there was nothng else to do. There was a horrible sister singing group as his warm up act. They were on for about an hour and a half. Then he came on for about the same length of time. I don't know how many whiskey and waters I chugged that night.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)You must mean the worst in your lifetime
There was a time in our history when all there were so many bad songs it would drive you nuts....like
"On Top of Old Smoky"
"Mearsey Dotes"
"Big Rock Candy Mountain"
And dozens of others that would drive you nuts if you had to listen to them now
TrogL
(32,818 posts)People wonder why I'm insane.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)"Oh oh oh oh oh ohhhh
You don't have to go..."
Until I reminded her she got to rock out to "Ooomp whadda didda diddum whaddam do...something about fishies fimmin in a pool..."
but hey! i like Big Rock Candy Mountain! Cigarette trees and lakes of whisky? What's not to love?
rocktivity
(44,555 posts)All I had to do is start humming this...
rocktivity
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)that's pretty hilarious!
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But Rock And Roll saved me from a life of insanity....and the grownups hated it which made it all the better
One of the greatest songs of my time was Yakety Yak...and it became my favorite because the local radio station refused to play it because it showed disrespect for parental authority....Another one was The Summertime Blues.
Summertime Blues lyrics
Well, I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler
About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
Every time I call my baby to try to get a date
My boss says, "No dice, son, you gotta work late"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Well my mom n' papa told me, "Son, you gotta make some money
If you wanna use the car to go ridin' next Sunday"
Well, I didn't go to work, told the boss I was sick
Now you can't use the car 'cause you didn't work a lick
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
I'm gonna take two weeks, gonna have a vacation
I'm gonna take my problem to the United Nation
Well, I called my Congressman and he said quote
"I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
TrogL
(32,818 posts)The radio was strictly regulated in my household. The only stations allowed were CJRN which played Barry Manilow and Frank Sinatra (occasionally dabbling in the nonsense cited above) and the CBC which played classical. I begged for a set of headphones so I could listen without bothering anybody else. One day I turned the knob to the local rock station. The first song I heard was Pink Floyd's "Money". The style fit right in with all the jazz and experimental music I'd been listening to on the CBC so other rock music paled by comparison. I was ruined for life but the album let me know somebody else was out there.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)I was lucky really....someone gave me a portable radio...this was in the late fifties and every Saturday one station used to play the top 40 tunes and I would take my radio outside and listen to rock and roll...and it made me feel connected living like I was in a small town.
But Pink Floyd was something special to me and will be always...The Wall and Dark Side of The Moon just thrilled me ...I still love listening to it today....and I must have seen the movie The Wall half a dozen times and I rarely watch a movie more than once...and it never gets old
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)It was awesome. Especially Clarence singing the bass line, "I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote"!
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)swam little fishies and the Mama fishie too. Also the not to be forgotten My Old Flibber
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)Not just a sanitized version.
One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fires were burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking,
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning
I'm headed for a land that's far away
Besides the crystal fountains
So come with me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a land that's fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night.
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
And the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers' trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall
The winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey too
You can paddle all around it
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are made of tin.
And you can walk right out again,
As soon as you are in.
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws nor picks,
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
....
I'll see you all this coming fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And you are right...the lyrics are great...it is really a hobo dream song.
LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)Though that does make me think of songs I sang in Singing class in primary school, and there was one that was Kipling's 'Rolling Down to Rio' set to music, which was fairly dire: not the words so much as the tune and way it was sung. The lines 'I'd like to roll to Rio/ Some day before I'm old' sounded like 'I'd like to roll to Rio/ Some day before I mould'! I suppose the quality of our singing voices, including mine, could have made anyone start to mould; but still!
Bake
(21,977 posts)And yes it is horrible. I'd rather hear Watching Scotty Grow! Or else jab icepicks into my ears.
Bake
rug
(82,333 posts)bluedigger
(17,077 posts)A "kid" being a baby goat, I believe.
rug
(82,333 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)most people think the lyrics are nonsense syllables......little lambseedivey
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)True story!
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)rode the rails in the depression trying to find some kind of life...
It was a sarcastic jab at politicians...
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Which goes to show you that you just can't lump all thing together just because they sound like silly songs.
But I never really heard the lyrics because I just dismissed it out of hand...a mistake often made.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I had to learn all the lyrics
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Until it was posted to me here...and I had to change my mind about it.
Thus the saying don't judge a book by it's cover.
hlthe2b
(101,729 posts)uggh.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Just the thought of that one gives me the willies.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Anything manilovian..... songs that stay in the brain forever
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)bluedigger
(17,077 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Must have been tough to work in a dentist's or doctor's office back when this was getting airplay.
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)TrogL
(32,818 posts)What's the song?
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)generally sounded like an infinite number of cats being thrown into an infinite number of blenders. Horrible stuff, but heard by only a few, thankfully.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)oh wait...yeah, that didn't help
(And look how young John Stewart was back then! lol)
But JPJ held up his end.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)She's brilliant, and that song is amazing.
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I think he got a bad bag of pot the day he wrote that stinker
rppper
(2,952 posts)Ok, that's a guilty pleasure song, like the bee-gees...I always like wings more than Lennon....
My entries....."god bless the USA" by lee greenwood.....I heard that song every time I'd turn around after the gulf war, and I was part of it....I heard it in 1980 after Reagan became president....lee greenwood has a hit song every time a war breaks out....write something new Lee....
"undercover angel" from the 70's....I remember it being an annoying song as a 10 y/o....
raccoon
(31,091 posts)I think Macarthur Park has been listed in multiple surveys as the worst song ever.
TrogL
(32,818 posts)I hate typical pop songs because they're all three chords, predicable lyrics. Ignore the disco version and listen to the original.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)I enjoy it for its eccentricity.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)hlthe2b
(101,729 posts)I read somewhere that Jimmy Webb wrote those lyrics on a dare.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)That blows chunks like a malfunctioning woodchipper.
caraher
(6,276 posts)And if you don't know it... PLEASE don't try to find it and listen!
pa28
(6,145 posts)I've never heard "Macarthur Park" so I naively went up to youtube and listened. NOW WHAT!!!!11!
annabanana
(52,791 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)and they didn't know it, so I started singing a snippet, someone walking by
heard me and joined in, and soon about 5 or 6 of us were singing it at the top
or our lungs, with emotion....
It was like a flash mob!
I was surprised that so many of us knew the lyrics.
My two teenagers love to warble it out whenever they get the chance,
again, because the lyrics are so silly and dramatic at the same time.
pa28
(6,145 posts)I'm still worried about his wet cake that he left in the rain.
Patiod
(11,816 posts)Take it from someone who lived next to a psycho bitch from hell. I had a 103 fever, and called her and told her I was sick, and asked if she would turn down the music. She blasted it, put the arm over so the record would repeat (yeah, I'm old) and left the room and locked the door. So that song played over and over all night.
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Hands Down. Worst lyrics ever.
Write the Songs Lyrics:
Ive been alive forever,
And I wrote the very first song.
I put the words and the melodies together,
I am music,
And I write the songs.
I write the songs that make the whole world sing.
I write the songs of love and special thing s.
I write the songs that make the young girls cry.
I write the songs, I write the songs.
My home lies deep within you,
And Ive got my own place in your sole.
Now, when I look out through your eyes,
Im youg again, even though Im very old.
Chorus
Oh my music makes you dance
And gives your spirit to take a chance,
And I wrote some rock n roll so you can move.
Music fills your heart,
Well, thats a real fine place to start.
Its from me its for you,
Its from you, its from me,
Its a world wide symphony.
Chorus
I am music, and I write the songs.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)How over-wrought can one get? And it's not just the lyrics, it's the musical composition: orchestral swell, crashing cymbals. Good grief!
I only know this song because Lover Boy makes a determined effort to listen to bad songs. He actually relishes them.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)I have suggested it to several friends.
Maine-ah
(9,902 posts)caraher
(6,276 posts)caraher
(6,276 posts)We had to sing that damned song for some kind of school musical show, wearing red crepe paper vests. I don't remember whether I actually pretended to move my lips - just standing there was traumatic enough without voicing such insipid lyrics.
MrsBrady
(4,187 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Is it safe to come out yet?
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)pipi_k
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zeemike
(18,998 posts)I could not make it to the 10 second mark...
which one?
hahahahahaha
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But it did not get any better....although the first one was the worst.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)A British Institution.
Mark Knopfler wrote a song about Lonnie.
Some quotes about the man
"He was the first person we had heard of from Britain to get to the coveted No. 1 in the charts, and we studied his records avidly. We all bought guitars to be in a skiffle group. He was the man." Paul McCartney
"He really was at the very cornerstone of English blues and rock." Brian May.
"I wanted to be Elvis Presley when I grew up, I knew that. But the man who really made me feel like I could actually go out and do it was a chap by the name of Lonnie Donegan." Roger Daltrey
"Remember, Lonnie Donegan started it for you." Jack White's acceptance speech at the Brit Awards.
Now, go to bed, pipi_k...with no supper!!!!
begin_within
(21,551 posts)played regularly by Dr. Demento on his L.A. radio show in the 1970s. I heard them many times on that show.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)*cringes even typing it out
annonymous
(882 posts)This song is full of juvenile sex references. My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas is a close runner up.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)In order to steal booze for their party plus keep the college power-to-be off their backs for a few hours, Droz locks the dean and a bunch of school snobs inside an Alumni Fundraiser. Before he leaves he puts Afternoon Delight on the CD player, hits the repeat button and turns the volume way up - then locks the music cabinet. On the way out he then puts one of those Clubs you use for your car on the doors leading into the fundraiser so no one can get out. So all these people are stuck in a room listening to "Afternoon Delight" over and over again including the college republicans with their leader wonderfully played by David Spade.
I always imaged if there was a hell it would be something like that! Trapped forever in a room with college republicans while "Afternoon Delight" is on endless repeat.
dawg
(10,610 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Come on, lyrics don't get any finer than that.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I had forgotten about those abominations. Thanks for nothing.
Kablooie
(18,571 posts)Submariner
(12,485 posts)especially when sung by drunk Karaoke singers at a wedding.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)I hate that festering turd of a song so much I wrote a 2,000 word article about it.
http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=5304:its-beginning-to-sound-a-lot-like-christmas
Ugh.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)First heard it in the 80's as one track on a new artist sampler album.
[link:
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)God, I laughed, Brilliant. And bad.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Was part of the same promo album I heard around '84. Found it on youtube: Heathen Dan's 'I Like'
[link:
zanana1
(6,085 posts)ceile
(8,692 posts)But nothing makes me want to swan dive off a multi-story building more than this:
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)I listen to Linda Perry's vocals as more of an instrument in the composition, and really don't pay much attention to the lyrics.
Oh well, something for everybody out there.
Stay away from tall buildings when it's on ceile.
ceile
(8,692 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)especially if you have to listen to it repeatedly because a family member is a fan of the programme: 'Neigh-baaas! Everybody needs good neigh-baaas!', etc.
Of 'proper' songs, I would agree on 'Honey'; and then there's the one from the early days of answering machines, 'Hello, This is Joanie'.
Response to LeftishBrit (Reply #53)
FSogol This message was self-deleted by its author.
jobycom
(49,038 posts)I'd also put "Today's Tom Sawyer" on the list if I wasn't afraid of the death threats from Rush fans. That spanks anything listed in this thread so far. Except "Hang on Sloopy." It's at least better than that.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)My god what a terrible song. Not a fan of Rush generally but I like to think of it as a cosmic joke, much like "Touch of Gray" being the only Dead song to ever chart despite being a crappy song--one even Grateful Dead fans generally don't like.
You will pay for this. BWAHAHAHA
you could do to me would be as bad as what that band has done to me. ARGHHHH!!!!
Silver Swan
(1,110 posts)[link:
|sarge43
(28,939 posts)May not be the worst, but has to be one of the most bizarre.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)have to admit that it was original! Maybe the Captain was high that night.
sarge43
(28,939 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)although not sure why THAT song even needed parodying...
So delicious
and nutritious
into your mouth with a shove,
tastes like Hamster loooooove....
Muskrat love fun facts:
Written and recorded as Muskrat Candlelight by Willis Alan Ramsey in 1972
Covered by America in 1973 (Yes THAT America - been through the desert on a rat with no name...)
Covered by the good Cap'n and his friend Tennille in 1976.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Carmen Dragon did the arrangement of America the Beautiful that you used to hear at sign-off time on the TV. It's a fabulous piece of work--great orchestration, interesting key chanages. He conducted the Glendale Symphony Orchestra. I played under him at summer music camp in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1971. We did the finale of Shostakovich's Fifth symphony.
He was a very nice, friendly, approachable guy. He has a daughter who is a harpist, also named Carmen Dragon.
said arrangement of America the Beautiful:
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)ANd that fun fact is more fun than all mine put together - especially you getting work with him!
on a side note, I think if I were ever to date, fall in love with and marry a lady named Carmen Dragon, I might change my last name to hers instead of the usual thing. How awesome is that for name?
At the very least I would insist she not change her last name to mine.
zanana1
(6,085 posts)Only people who want to seem tough say they don't like it. It's adorable.
FSogol
(45,357 posts)It was the B side of "Seasons in the Sun."
Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
'Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more
Because the meat from the pork is so sweet
And the bone from the pork give to me
Put the bone in she begged him
As she paced across the floor
Put the bone in she yelled out once more
Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more ...
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)as to what that is about.
FSogol
(45,357 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)That's what scared me.
FSogol
(45,357 posts)progressoid
(49,825 posts)Now my brain hurts
dana_b
(11,546 posts)not only sappy but that "whoa whoa whoa - feelings" made me actually nauseous. So overplayed at the time too,
Vanje
(9,766 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)(I do like The Offspring) but I still have a more 'meh' attitude just because of the chorus. yuck.
Before we got married both my husband and I really hated that song along with another one that I can't recall right now. Right before we were married we agreed we would ask the band not to play it and the other song. Anyway, we both forgot and at towards the end of the reception my sister got up and started singing with the band and you guessed it, sang "Feelings". I think they played the other one too but I just can't recall it right now. Maybe I'll see it in this thread!
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)Gosh I hated that song, it was so overplayed too. Not the worst, but definitely in my top ten.
Edited to add, not the Christmas Carol, the pop song by Three Dog Night, that starts out "Jeremiah was a bull frog". Yuck! Even my kids hate that song.
zanana1
(6,085 posts)Don't know the name of the moron who sang it, but it was out -of-this-world stupid and sounded like it had been written and composed by a six year-old boy. Does anyone else remember it?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The drummer had one hand and a hook.
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)One of the main reasons this song sucks so bad is who it came from.
This is your brain on drugs:
This is what happens when you detox:
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Bernie Taupin did, and while he's written a ton of great songs, he's also done much worse.
dawg
(10,610 posts)It's the schmaltzy execution, horrible 80's production, and regrettable "radio dj" interlude.
Burma Jones
(11,760 posts)I play this to punish my kids........
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Seasons in the Sun.
Demonaut
(8,909 posts)sorry but every thing they've performed sucks
treestar
(82,383 posts)Repetitive and tuneless in a boring way.
2nd place: Virginia, by Billy Joel
3rd place: that song by Meat Loaf, anything by him with his unromantic rejection of love
Next: that song by Dan Fogelberg where he meets his ex in a grocery store
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)EVER!!
RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)She takes all the depth and meaning out of that song and her version is flat, emotionless, pointless and sounds horribly contrived
I remember when it was released, one of the radio hosts in the town I was living in at the time obviously either didn't like it or her or perhaps both and, before he started playing it, he asked "Hey Madonna, how long has it been since you've had a really good hit?"
Then Madonna's voice started crooning "A long long time ago..."
A dishonorable mention goes out to the Fugees with their stupid remake of "Killing Me Softly"
Doc_Technical
(3,504 posts)n/t
baldguy
(36,649 posts)I win.
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)barf city
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Initech
(99,915 posts)Gillionaire - "I'm Da Bes"
El Mundo - "Chacarron Macarron"
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)I'm pushing it here.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)Or anything by Neil Sedaka.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Here are a couple others:
Billy, Don't Be a Hero
Macarena
Achey Breaky Heart
Lady in Red
God Bless the USA (Proud to be an American)...sentiment is cool, sappy song sucks
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Leonard Pinth-Carnell!!!
Grammy23
(5,808 posts)Lots of deserving "bad" songs mentioned here. Looks like there is plenty of material to keep us going for a long time. One that always sends me into orbit (in a bad sort of way) is Peggy Lee groaning and moaning her way through "Is That All There Is". The most depressing song EVER. I always wondered how many people made the decision to just slit their wrists and be done with it after hearing this sad, pitiful song.
Rhiannon12866
(202,983 posts)Despite the fact that I first heard it as a child at the NYC World's Fair when it was an actual ride. The ice cream truck that cruises through my neighborhood plays it...
chemenger
(1,593 posts)She's just sixteen years old ... Benny Mardones' Into The Night.
DutchLiberal
(5,744 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)... anything by Britney Spears, Niki Minaj or Justin Beiber
... Back that A*** Up - don't even know which mass-produced thug it belonged to
... An Innocent Man by Billy Joel
... Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnnie Tyler
... God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood (or whatever the title is). Makes me want to do a "Sig Heil", then vomit.
... what was the one by Toby Keith that came out after Sept 11, 2001? Yeah, that one too.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)[Introductory 30-second Instrumental Interlude]
Well, I'm goin' out west where I belong
Where the days are short and the nights are long
Where they walk and I'll walk
They twist and I'll twist
They shimmy and I'll shimmy
They fly and I'll fly
Well they're out there a'havin' fun
In that warm California sun.
Well, I'm goin' out west out on the coast
Where the California girls are really the most
Where they walk and I'll walk
They twist and I'll twist
They shimmy and I'll shimmy
They fly and I'll fly
Well they're out there a'havin' fun
In that warm California sun.
[24-second Instrumental Interlude]
Well the girls are frisky in old Frisco
A pretty little chick wherever you go
A-a-and they'll walk and I'll walk
They'll twist and I'll twist
They'll shimmy and I'll shimmy
They'll fly and I'll fly
Well they're out there a'havin' fun
In that warm California sun
Yeah they're out there a'havin' fun
In that warm California sun
rppper
(2,952 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)bif
(22,560 posts)I hate his whiny voice.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)and I can ALMOST understand not appreciating his voice but his songs really are amazing. One of the best songwriters I can think of. Maybe if you heard them performed by someone else?? I love me some Neil.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)"Cinnamon Girl"? "Down By the River"? "Hey Hey, My My"?
I usually hate that kind of stuff but Neil Young transcends the limits of his genres.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)"Southern Man"? "Revolution Blues"? "Let's Impeach The President"?
How can you not like the man? Yeah, maybe his voice is grating at times, but you gotta love the ideas he puts voice to.
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)"Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" is in my top 20 list of all time great albums.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)"oooooh, dead. . . shot her dead. . ."
MountainMama
(237 posts)I love Neil Young's voice. I think he sounds like a reedy, rangy angel.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)...almost kinda sounds like Neil, but not really.
On edit: I think you are calling out "Horse..." as a really bad song (by America), but then referencing Neil Y as the inspiration, whom you also don't care for.
Which is fine, but I respectfully disagree.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Sounds like early ABBA duetting with Rowlf from the Muppets.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)but certainly "Timothy" deserves an "honorable" mention:
pink-o
(4,056 posts)So I can't hate it as much as I would like cuz The Buoys did me a favor. I'm 57 now and I still don't eat meat.
As for worst song, I gotta go with anything Terry Jacks or Paper Lace. It's when people hear that schlock they think the 70s sucked
dogknob
(2,431 posts)because he put that band in Kill Bill that plays that annoying song that got made into a Vonage commercial.
Woo Hoo Woo Hoo Hoo (repeat until killed)
kentauros
(29,414 posts)So I thank you for the thread and the chance to let you know anyway
Myron Floren - Disco Accordion (mp3 link)
http://www.wfmu.org/365/2003/031.shtml
Richard Dawson - Apples and Oranges (mp3 link)
http://www.wfmu.org/365/2003/059.shtml
Anna-Lisa Ingemansson - Oxdragarsång
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2003/03/365-Days-Project-03-20-ingemansson-anna-lisa-oxdragarsang-1972.mp3
http://www.wfmu.org/365/2003/079.shtml
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I think I win the thread, even with those Bobby Goldsboro tunes. A couple of drinks dredges up bad trivia.
FloridaJudy
(9,465 posts)Cover of a song ever recorded.
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begin_within
(21,551 posts)And I am a genuine fan of the Lawrence Welk show. Obviously they didn't understand what "toke" was as Welk was very conservative and if he had known he wouldn't have allowed that song. I think I read about it somewhere on a discussion forum; they didn't know at the time they did that song what "toke" meant.
abbeyco
(1,555 posts)Either song is just equally vomit-inducing for me...check 'em out:
Seasons in the Sun:
Daddy Don't You Walk so Fast:
Feel free to on this beautiful Saturday morning!
JCMach1
(27,544 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)qwertyMike
(2,901 posts)jpak
(41,742 posts)a thing of beauty.
Lemmy
(15 posts)Hands down, the worst song ever recorded. Most of their other crap is awful too.
Lean on me comes a close second.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Not because it was a bad song but because every place our band played, someone would keep yelling out Free Bird...
We could play it but no one really wanted too.
Texasgal
(17,029 posts)All out of love, Lost in love, Making love out of nothing at all...
MountainMama
(237 posts)the absolute worst godawful song ever ever ever is "Mr. Roboto" by Styx. I loathe that song with the fire of a billion suns.
In second place is "Muskrat Love."
I also hate "Midnight at the Oasis" and that Jack Jones song "Wives and Lovers," wherein Mr. Jones tells the wife to "fix your makeup, soon he'll be at the dooooooor." It's telling her to look sharp or he'll have an affair.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)dawg
(10,610 posts)I love that song!
rppper
(2,952 posts)At the Houston Texas jam back in the early 80's.....the played the songs from the roboto album, nothing else....less than 4 songs into it the crowd got hostile....bottles thrown onstage, etc, etc....that was a horrible album....I think Dennis DeYoung left the band shortly afterwards....
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)by Bobby McFerrin. Basically, because at the time I was suicidally depressed.