OT: All Time Worst Songs

[mhentz]

The Pina Colada Song.

I absolutely love the message of this song. Two absolute scumbags looking to cheat on each other who then accidentally bump into each other along the way because they're so dishonest with each other about who they really are that neither of them is even able to recognize their own partner in a sex wanted add. And then they fall in love with the people who...who they actually are? or who they're pretending to be in the sex wanted add?....I can't tell... or whatevs. A real song for the morally bereft 70s.

Another of my favorites along those lines is "Lady Willpower" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. Good ol' Gar is so impressed with this woman for being able to resist is advances for so long but he's just about had enough of this crap and if she doesn't finally give in and sleep with him NOW, then he's going to stop chasing her and move on to the next one and she'll be the big loser for it. You go get 'em Gary.

 

[psuro]

I absolutely love the message of this song. Two absolute scumbags looking to cheat on each other who then accidentally bump into each other along the way because they're so dishonest with each other about who they really are that neither of them is even able to recognize their own partner in a sex wanted add. And then they fall in love with the people who...who they actually are? or who they're pretending to be in the sex wanted add?....I can't tell... or whatevs. A real song for the morally bereft 70s.

Another of my favorites along those lines is "Lady Willpower" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. Good ol' Gar is so impressed with this woman for being able to resist is advances for so long but he's just about had enough of this crap and if she doesn't finally give in and sleep with him NOW, then he's going to stop chasing her and move on to the next one and she'll be the big loser for it. You go get 'em Gary.

Don't you hate when people are not as morally superior as we are?

 

[Marshall30]

The Pina Colada Song.

We renamed that "Do You Like Penisalotta".

 

[Howie'81]

It's tough to top The Buoys and their ode to cannibalism: Timothy

I loved that song. I was a Give Up Your Guns fan too.

 

[Howie'81]

You Light Up My Life
--Debbie Boone

 

[Marshall30]

"Half - Breed" by Cher.

 

[PSU Mike]

Fly Robin Fly by The Silver Convention

These lyrics were repeated over and over and over and over...

Fly Robin Fly
Fly Robin Fly
Fly Robin Fly
Up, up to the Sky

It hit no 1 on the Billboard Charts in '75. I was into disco/funk/dance music in the '70's and early '80's so I'm not a hater of the genre, but this was one of the worst songs ever that happened to become very popular.

Fly Robin Fly by The Silver Convention

These lyrics were repeated over and over and over and over...

Fly Robin Fly
Fly Robin Fly
Fly Robin Fly
Up, up to the Sky

It hit no 1 on the Billboard Charts in '75. I was into disco/funk/dance music in the '70's and early '80's so I'm not a hater of the genre, but this was one of the worst songs ever that happened to become very popular.

That was used in the old PSU Sunday morning highlight show (TV Quarterbacks?) in the 70's. I seem to recall Jimmy Cefalo in particular.

 

[mhentz]

Don't you hate when people are not as morally superior as we are?

I take it you're on Rupert Holmes' level then? Cheat on your wife a lot?

 

[mdking001]

Footloose

 

[psuro]

I take it you're on Rupert Holmes' level then? Cheat on your wife a lot?

Never had a wife. Of my own anyway.

 

[Tri-Power65]

Anything by Nickelback, though the singer gets credit for tapping Avril Lavigne for a few years.

 

[Tri-Power65]

Agree! That shrill reaching into my spine and violently makes me ill.

The Cardigans "love me" song does the same.

Flag on that. The Cardigans singer is simply too stunning to be on this list...



Now go back to the Pitt board.

 

[yeahtoasty]

I loved that song. I was a Give Up Your Guns fan too.

Hah. Alright, then, allow me to submit Dawin and Silento's latest crime against America's eardrums, the song that asks the magical question "Whatcha gonna do with that dessert?"

I didn't think Silento could make anything worse than last year's dreadful "Watch Me Whip, Watch Me Nae Nae" but here we are.

 

[MrDibbs]

Reading this thread is a hoot ... Never knew that I liked so much bad music.

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" was big when I was working on a project west of Baton Rouge ... we had to get up around 2 am and drive to this pipeline suspension bridge to take measurements before the sun came up. Driving across the Morganza Floodway on some single lane gravel; trail and Bonnie Tyler would come on the radio (every night) and Dibbs would crank up the volume.

The story about getting to 2nd base in the high school gym is better, but that song is great IMO.

Now if you want my vote for a bad song ... anything by The Captain and Tennile.

 

[rohrmd9]

The category is worst songs, not songs that you personally hate.

Same difference as far as I'm concerned ...the worst songs, to me, ARE the songs I hate the most. Each person has their own metrics for defining bad songs.

 

[Grant Green]

Same difference as far as I'm concerned ...the worst songs, to me, ARE the songs I hate the most. Each person has their own metrics for defining bad songs.

First, 'same difference' makes no sense and sounds dumb.
Second, no, each person has their own metrics for defining what songs they don't like. There are many metrics for what actually makes a good song or bad song. It is not purely subjective.
For example, in a list that someone posted, Stairway to Heaven was voted as one of the worst songs ever. That is just plain wrong. People may hate it because it is so over played, but it is a tremendous song.

 

[doublehaul]

That was used in the old PSU Sunday morning highlight show (TV Quarterbacks?) in the 70's. I seem to recall Jimmy Cefalo in particular.

I believe it was a highlight tape of John Cappelletti, they did on TV Q-Backs.

 

[fairfaxlion2]

In the last 20 years, the worst songs were "Who let the dogs out?" and "Mambo No. 5." They were popular at roughly the same time, and so bad it was mind-bending

 

[royboy]

My Sharona

 

[BBrown]

Anything by William Shatner.

Psy--Gangnam Style

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Los del Rio--Macarena

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I like this version of Common People with William Shatner and Joe Jackson.

 

[BBrown]

Divinyls - I touch myself
The Bangles - Eternal Flame ( they were hot though)
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Bow Wow Wow - I want candy
Dexys midnight runners- Come on Eileen



I LOVE Rock Me Amadeus (rip Falco)

Yea I like Rock Me Amadeus too but I like Turning Japanese as well.

 

[BBrown]

Raspberry Beret- Prince

fwiw I love Tighten up - Archie Bell

now tighten up on that bass…...

Try the Hindu Love God's version of Raspberry Beret.
I love it but then I'm a huge Warren Zevon fan.

 

[Marshall30]

Cher...Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

 

[manatree]

Cher...Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Isn't that the theme song for Congress?

 

[Marshall30]

Isn't that the theme song for Congress?

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rohrmd9]

First, 'same difference' makes no sense and sounds dumb.
Second, no, each person has their own metrics for defining what songs they don't like. There are many metrics for what actually makes a good song or bad song. It is not purely subjective.
For example, in a list that someone posted, Stairway to Heaven was voted as one of the worst songs ever. That is just plain wrong. People may hate it because it is so over played, but it is a tremendous song.

Crap, didn't know the word usage police were lurking ... I feel so embarrassed.

 

[Marshall30]

The idiocy about the phone number on the wall.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

The idiocy about the phone number on the wall.

I think you're talking about 867-5309/Jenny by Alex Call and Jim Keller, who I believe were members of Tommy Tutone -- the group that recorded the song.

 

[psuro]

It's All About the Bass - Meghan Traynor or Mitzi Gaynor or whatever her name is.

 

[manatree]

I think you're talking about 867-5309/Jenny by Alex Call and Jim Keller, who I believe were members of Tommy Tutone -- the group that recorded the song.

My roommates and I had the misfortune of receiving that phone number. We lasted two months before re requested a different number.

 

[Chris97]

The idiocy about the phone number on the wall.

Which one? I like the two of which I can think (Take that grammar police!)

 

[GuStHeCaT]

I believe it was a highlight tape of John Cappelletti, they did on TV Q-Backs.

Winner winner chicken dinner! I will never be to hate 'Fly Robin Fly' as it is forever associated with those clips of Cappy during his Heisman season, shown ad infinitum on TV Quarterbacks. Which, if I could tune the antenna (much easier in late fall when the leaves were down), I could watch three times on different stations on any given Sunday..

 

[KPG55]

Anything by Bob Dylan or any country artist.

 

[GuStHeCaT]

Hoobastank - The Reason

 

[Op2]

You want the worst song? I've got a one word answer: Macarena

 

[childsSkip]

From the 70s.

• Midnight at the Oasis. Maria Mauldar
• Seasons in the Sun. Terry Jacks
• The Night Chicago Died. Paper Lace
• 90% of the Disco music ever made. That's being conservative

95% of disco, especially "Disco Duck"

 

[Sviatoslav]

80s pop music was so wonderfully bad:
Worst song ever made, BIly Ocean's masterpiece "Get out of my dreams, get into my car"
Really anything by Billy Ocean sucked. That one is just the worst.

Other bad 80s music - too many to narrow down:
Physical - Olivia Newton John
Funkytown
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco (i had to research who sang this garbage)
Sunglasses at night - Corey Hart
We don't have to take our clothes off - Jermaine Stewart (had to look this one up too)
We Built This City - Starship (pure garbage)

 

[flinter]

Last Kiss by J Frank Wilson-guy totals his car and kills his girl-get the hankees ready.
Most anything by Queen.
Hate Steve Miller and most of Fleetwood Mac's catalog.
I did perform the Jolly Green Giant in a music class with a guy on guitar who went on to Julliard-as I was 6'6" at the time and dressed in green, it's still one of my favorite memories of '66.
Spinning Wheel
That's enough for now.

 

[flinter]

I just remembered- Lucy in the Sky by William Shatner. Just like his acting- over the top.

 

[bkmtnittany1]

Notre Dame fight song!