Just for fun -- The Worst Songs Ever

I never apologize for liking music found horrible by others since I am subjected to that which I consider the most dreadful stuff and yet, there are some they play that I like too. Overwhelmingly, I don't like most of the alternative rock both my teenagers favor, but a few, are great. I confess I once loved You Light Up My Life and do you remember the horrible movie by the same name? When I hear it now, I am astounded but I used to sing it. With feeling! Probably for Bill. Makes me think youth is wasted on the young. That made me mad a few decades ago. :)
There are many ballads I loved, still love and MAY still love if I but heard them. I love music in a minor key and songs that make you sad when that's the right way to go and songs that make you dance badly. Crocodile Rock, for instance. Five or so of my sisters and I recorded tht together at an amusement park and we sounded terrible but we had such fun, if it comes on I am there in an instant. Even though I think Paul Simon is an ass, Simon and Garfunkle still warm the cockles of my heart. Some of the old stuff is the soundtrack I'd put to my life. And although I am no fan of country music, George Jones and some of the others have the same effect because they recall my dad and some fun, warm, loving memories. He Stopped Loving Her Today, which is about as dorky as they get, gets listened to, sometimes through smiles and tears or smiles or tears because it evokes childhood in a heartbeat and in a good way. I really love music, don't claim to be an expert on any kind and really do think it all has value, even the most awful stuff, if it gives one person pleasure. Music is one of the most wonderful things on earth! One man's favorite song is anther's worst song ever but even bad songs can be so bad they may not be good but they get your attention. David Soul's song and what aboaut Patrick's Swayke's She's Like the Wind? I saw Wedding Crashers a few weeks ago and the Shout sequences killed me. It's one I love as hackneyed as it could be and as hatable too! I think the ones you know stink up the joint are the best because you love them in spite of that.
Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver
 
I love Patrick Swayze's She's Like the Wind!:)

Actually, I like most songs and enjoy many of the ones mentioned here. Can't stick up for "Having my Baby", though. Awful.

I really hate country music. Recently, I had an MRI and had headphones on and the technician put country music on and left me for 45 minutes! The lyrics cracked me up.



Erica
 
Robin -

In my old car, I had a 6 CD changer with 4 Buffett CD's and various others that got rotated through, but the Buffett's were a constant. I would often put them on random play. I got really quick with the skip button whenever "Why don't we Get Drunk and Screw" came on and my daughters were in the car. I had to laugh when you said that.
 
Great thread! I agree with many of the songs listed. "Muskrat Love" probably tops the list. Can you believe Captain and Tenille's version was a remake? The original was sung by "America." Who the heck would remake a song like that?

I also can't stand "Precious and Few."
 
Nobody has mentioned YMCA yet. Hate that song and to my horror you can hear it in some exercise videos, like DA The Sizzler for instance.

I like R Kelly but maybe so because I'm swedish and don't really listen to the lyrics in english spoken songs. I know his lyrics is terrible, it's mostly about sex isn't it?.
 
Oh Bobbi--you should really try a good tough leg workout to AC/DC--they get you rockin!

Pixie, My Sharona was the Knack & how dare you smack my Knack.

OK, how did we miss these:

--Short People by Randy Newman
--Kumbaya--whoever wrote that song should be strung up by their gonads & forced to listen to it 24/7
--Innagadadavida, Iron Butterfly--I know for sure I spelled it wrong but it still sucks either way.
--Anything by Tiny Tim & his stupid eukelali (sp?)
--Anything by Stevie Nicks--I swear that woman's mother was a sheep

ETA: by the way, my music suggestion for Cathe's next kickbox workout (should there be one)--Eye of the Tiger. Anyone from the Philly area would jump at the idea! Or should I say jumping side kick? :p
 
Oh I LOVE YMCA! I actually saw the Village People down the shore like 10 years ago & they were one of the funnest club bands I've ever seen!
 
Laura, Bon Scott is a genius and I am a barbarian to not appreciate him. The leg workout I get is running away when ACDC is played because it must be played at full volume. Will these people never value silence for the sake of silence?

Don't get me started on Stevie!
Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver
 
You guys really have to look at country western to get the real bad songs:

You're the reason our kids are ugly Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn

Plastic Jesus on the dashboard of my truck Various

D I V O R C E by Loretta Lynn(?)


There's website dedicated to bad C& W.

From pop music

I'd have to venture anything from the Rolling Stones from 1978-1984, they almost went disco

Anything from KC and the SoundsaLike (Sunshine) band

Any disco for that matter.

Dave (really feeling my age)
 
Country music often makes me want to howl like a hound would if it heard a siren.

I will never forget when my husband reazlized the Nirvana song he was hearing was coming from a Cathe workout. He did not approve. I thought it was wild and fabulous.

I cannot think of the theme from Jurassic Park and not think of Kathy. That was Kathy, wasn't it, who found her self lost in the menu listening to that theme? My memory is messed up from this insomnia thing. I hope it was because, to my mind, it was and always will be. :)I think my mind is in rambling mode and I'll answer to Babble as well as Bobbi if anyone cares to call me that.


Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver
 
What about Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer? Poor Grandma!
Your-Friend-In-Fitness, DebbieH (AKA "Den Mother Debbie")http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/wavey.gif[/img] If You Get The Choice To Sit It Out Or Dance...I Hope You DANCE!!!
 
Dave - the country songs are awful but the titles are to die for. (I grew up in Tallahassee, FL so I got my phair share of C&W, and I AIN'T talkin' 'bout Cardio-Weights).

My fave CW titles are:

Flushed From The Bathroom of My Heart

Drop-Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalpost of Life

and (this one cracks me up every time) . . .

It Took a Helluva Man to Take My Woman But It Didn't Take Him Long

A-Jock
Recovering Floridian
 
>
>
>Here are mine:
>
>1. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) by
>MeatLoaf. What the in the heck is it that he won't do?
>Anybody know?
>
>2. Don't Worry Be Happy....I hate even bring this one up
>because now it's stuck in my head. "The landlord say your
>rent is late
>he may have to litigate, Don't worry be happy." Uh...if I'm
>about to be evicted. I'm gonna worry just a little bit.


Oh my gosh!! ROTFL!!! So, so funny!!!
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Bobbi, you remembered!

Babble, girl, you got a mind like a steel trap, insomnia or not! (I bow deeply to this -- my own mind is more like a collander these days! :))

It was me, indeed, who kept finding myself sitting like a moron on my step, staring at the menu screen and mindlessly listening (and grinning like the banjo playing kid in Deliverance). I found that Jurassic Park techno mix online and I confess I still bust it out right here on my lil 'puter screen from time to time. :+ Who knows why I fixate on things...

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Hey Soosan!

Ewww, "Precious and Few"!!! Remembering that one feels like dredging the old mental septic tank. A hymn to adultery, I think, wasn't it? Whatever it was, even when it was a new tune when I was a teenager (when dinosaurs roamed the earth, as my kids say ;-)) I thought it was ghastly. Now I think it's worse!

And I am speechless that "Muskrat Love" was a remake. I'm trying to picture the conversation in which Darryl a/k/a Captain said to Toni a/k/a Tennille "Say, here's one we ought to re-do..." Geez!!!

http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/sport/sport-smiley-003.gif Kathy S. http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/sport/sport-smiley-001.gif
 
Hey, Bobbi, one mo' thang!

Just so's you'll know, I LOVE Diamonds and Rust. :) And there was a brief moment when I was a freshman in college when I liked "Mandy" -- then I found out it was an homage to Barry's dog and that, well, opened my eyes to Barry's general weaknesses. :)

Bob Dylan is fingernails on a blackboard to me. DH thinks he's a deity. Go figure.

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