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Location: Vernon CT | Ok everyone. A few posts lately about "songs". Here's another. I was thinking while listening to the Radio about the WORST song ever by an Established (Not 1 hit wonder)Rock or Pop Rock group or Solo act. My vote goes to Benny and the Jets by Elton John. Damn, I hate that song!!! :( |
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Location: south east Michigan | The Night Chicago Died
Seasons In The Sun
Oh wait.... no one hit wonders.
Faith Hill covering Joplins "Piece of My Heart".
Add Philadelphia Phreedom to Benny & the Jets
And, I... hate... Axel.... Rose. Little Child of Mine. :mad: |
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Location: Vernon CT | Forgot about that one SlipKid. Philly Freedumb sucks to!!! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | "The Crunge" - Led Zeppelin |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I thought we'd already beat on everything William Shatner recorded in another thread! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Mr. Moonlight - The Beatles
When I Was 17 - Sinatra
Most late-career John Denver.
(okay, not fair. I wasn't a fan to start with...
but he got even more trite and fey.)
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Choll' Shatner sounds better with the Irony turned up full. He IS an Ironic Icon, after all.... |
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Location: south east Michigan | "trite and fey"
Wow... I have to remember that one. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Anything that's played too much. Once upon a time that was freebird ... now reduced to a poor cliche. Poor freebird, I knew you when you were new ... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Slipkid:
"trite and fey" I had to look it up to make sure I meant what I thought I meant. Sometimes my vocabulary outstrips my memory.
trite –adjective
1. lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
2. characterized by hackneyed expressions, ideas, etc.: The commencement address was trite and endlessly long.
3. Archaic. rubbed or worn by use.
fey adj.
1.
1. Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality: "She's got that fey look as though she's had breakfast with a leprechaun" (Dorothy Burnham).
2. Having visionary power; clairvoyant.
3. Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell.
4. Fated to die soon.
5. Full of the sense of approaching death.
2. Scots
1. Fated to die soon.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Aw Jeff, that falls under REALLY Bad cover songs...
"Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus was an Original piece of pseudo-country-cow-flop.
Tiny Tim was just goofin' on people (He doesn't really talk like that), But Cyrus was serious! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
[QB] Aw Jeff, that falls under REALLY Bad cover songs...
"Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus was an Original piece of pseudo-country-cow-flop.
Wasn't BRC a 1 hit wonder?? |
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Location: Okinawa Japan | Every Rose Has it's Thorn by Poison my god! Just shoot me! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I used to be a waitress, and in one place I worked, there was a waitress who would walk up behind me when it was busy and sing lines from the worst songs she could think of, to get them stuck in my head. She was a cool person and funny as hell, but it usually worked. Many an evening, I'd have that stupid dead tree song by Bobby Goldsboro ("Honey") going around and around my brain. I don't consider him a ONE hit wonder, because later he came out with the equally terrible "Watching Scotty Grow". I am still friends with this woman, but now that I think about it, I wonder why. |
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ooo-eee-ooo-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-(whatever)...."
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Location: Boston | Macca and wackojacko too monsters cominhg up with the magical drek that is
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Location: Location Location Location | Macca and wackojacko too monsters cominhg up with the magical drek that is
Ebony and Ivory It doesn't make that song any better, but it was actually McCartney & Stevie Wonder.
My vote would go to anything my Melanie..What was that Rollerskate Key Song?? :rolleyes: |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Ignoring the 'no one hit wonder' criteria: "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" (Loudon Wainwright III). |
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Location: Tennessee | Silly Love Songs -- Paul McCartney
Weas - Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods. One hit wonders. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Ignoring the 'no one hit wonder' criteria: "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" (Loudon Wainwright III). HEY... That was a GOOD Song to sing while hitch-hikin', Man!
I gotta look-up the tab/chords for that! :p
Found it too... Thanx for reminding me of that! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Wow, there are a lot of "crappy" songs out there by established artists. I'm almost sorry I started this thread as it has reminded me of that fact!AAAHHHH!!!!! |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Brooklyn:
Macca and wackojacko too monsters cominhg up with the magical drek that is Ebony and Ivory It doesn't make that song any better, but it was actually McCartney & Stevie Wonder.
Paul: I don't want to fight, Michael.
Jacko: Paul, I'm a lover, not a fighter.
I was thinking "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You" by Michael Bolton. Laura Branigan's version was even worse, but I'm not counting her as a real artist. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "Don't Stop Believing"- Journey
... And are intentionally overlooking anything from Air Supply so as not to hurt Stephen's feelings? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | OMA ,
Glad I could help(?)! 
...how 'bout worst 'package'; "Ben" (MJ)  |
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Location: GA USA | Uh oh, Otto, I see two of your songs here already.
Damon, thanks for mentioning "We Built This City". I just switched my vote to agree with you. I thought Mickey Thomas was great with Elvin Bishop, and okay on his own with Starship, but throw Grace Slick back in the mix, you can count me out. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
I used to be a waitress, and in one place I worked, there was a waitress who would walk up behind me when it was busy and sing lines from the worst songs she could think of, to get them stuck in my head. She was a cool person and funny as hell, but it usually worked. Many an evening, I'd have that stupid dead tree song by Bobby Goldsboro ("Honey") going around and around my brain. I don't consider him a ONE hit wonder, because later he came out with the equally terrible "Watching Scotty Grow". I am still friends with this woman, but now that I think about it, I wonder why. That's too funny. I used to do the same thing to co-workers.
My favorite was walking by and singing "And Bingo was his name-o"
5 minutes later you'd hear B I N G O coming from someone's lips. Even better if they started clapping. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Another thought: anything by Tony Orlando and Dawn. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | What have you got against "campy" lounge singers? |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Up to three, Otto. Have I got taste or what!! :rolleyes: ;)
Canterbury and Damon, I had a co-worker like that too. We had vicious wars! Nasty stuff like: "Lime in the Coconut" "Kung Fu Fighting" "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover". He had a doomsday weapon though. When things got too tough for him he'd always whip "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" on me and I would be ruined for the day. That plunkety Emenee guitar/ukelele thing haunts me to this day.
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Location: GA USA | Otto strikes back! Take that, Slipkid. |
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Location: Boston | Originally posted by Brooklyn:
Macca and wackojacko too monsters cominhg up with the magical drek that is
Ebony and Ivory It doesn't make that song any better, but it was actually McCartney & Stevie Wonder.
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Location: south east Michigan | The worst thing to come out of that collaberation was when MJ asked PM for some advise on where to put his money. PM suggest he invest in a music catalog and MJ said, "Good idea... I'll buy yours." |
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Location: NJ | McCartney shoulda' just killed him, right there on the SPOT.
He's a rich, white guy, so he woulda' gotten away with it.
He woulda' spared us ALL years of horrible music
(not to mention the damage countless pre-pubescent sphincters).
He'd still have his Songs.
If he DID end up DoingTime, he'd be OUT by now & woulda' never met HopAlong, and would still have his money.
(btw; - Sorry if I offend those that previously lauded the tune, but Johnny Cash's "Hurt" (as is most of his stuff) is just UNlistenable. I hated it when it first came out, and the media OVERplayed it SO much, that when Cash finally died, my intial response was "serves y'right"). |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | (With that in mind) can I suggest a MJ / Henry Rollins duet? |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by cliff:
Johnny Cash's "Hurt" Believe it or not, I went to a funeral once where they played that (from a CD). Left me with an unpeaceful uneasy feelin'.
Of course, it's a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. Makes you wonder, "Why, Johnny?" |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "Muskrat Love" |
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Location: NJ | ". . "Why, Johnny?" . . "
Rick Rubin. That'sWhy. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Originally posted by cliff:
Johnny Cash's "Hurt" Believe it or not, I went to a funeral once where they played that (from a CD). Left me with an unpeaceful uneasy feelin'.
Of course, it's a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. Makes you wonder, "Why, Johnny?" |
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Location: Rocheter, MN | No question about it: it begins and end's with Jefferson Starship's "We Built This City (On Rock and Roll)". I loathe that song with the heat of a thousand suns. |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Seasons In The Sun
I had been familiar with the Kingston Trio's version of this song before Terry Jacks hit with it. The Trio's version is terrific, so naturally Capital buried it on one of their albums.
Jacks' version suffers from a terribly amateurish vocal and a bubble gum arrangement. Why it hit I have no idea, which explains why I'm not a record executive. |
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| America - Horse With No Shame
"There were plants and birds and rocks and things..."
C'mon, didja really run outta nouns?!?! There's nothing else in a desert that's one syllable, like maybe SAND?
Close second: Neil Diamond - I Am I Said
"...to no one there, and no one heard, not even a chair."
Really? You make a pathetic declaration to no one and you expect an answer from furniture?!? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "Oh-blah-di, Oh-blah-da"--- Which only goes to show that even creative people can have a bad day.
But the really bad time came when the Beatles realized that they could record any old piece of crap and it would make the charts! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by g8r:
Really? You make a pathetic declaration to no one and you expect an answer from furniture?!? I was at a "Dead" concert once and saw about 20,000 people doing that.
There went 3 hours of my life that I'll never get back ....... |
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Location: Central Oregon | G-L-O-R-I-A |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Since we're starting into wade in lyrics, I present "Wild Thing".
Ala American Bandstand:
I'll give it a ten for beat, a nine for dance and a one for lyrics... |
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Location: GA USA | 3 votes and it's official... "We Built This City" is the worst song ever. Thanks to all our lovely contestants. |
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Location: Jet City | Capt, I think we have it right. Look what I just read.
From Wikipedia:
In April 2004, the song was awarded "the #1 Most Awesomely Bad Song Ever" by Blender magazine,[1] in conjunction with a VH1 Special of The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever. In order to qualify for the distinction, the songs on the list had to be a popular hit at some point, thus disqualifying many songs that would by general consensus be considered much worse. Blender editor Craig Marks said of the song, "It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism. It's a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s."[3]
Blender magazine contributor Russ Heller later set a record for listening to "We Built This City" continuously for 24 hours. He was encased in a Plexiglas booth — without earplugs — beginning Friday, October 13, 2006 at 8:00 a.m. at a Best Buy store in New York City.[4]
Paul Kantner who had left the group just prior to the single being recorded called the song "garbage" at the time it was released.
During a January 30, 2008, interview with DC101's Elliot in the Morning, Grace Slick called this song "one of the stupidest songs ever written".[citation needed] |
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Location: NJ | It was comPLETEly formulaic and targeted for airplay on BigCity Rock&Roll radio stations.
Work the theme of "radio" into a song, and you're virtually guaranteed a degree of airplay . . . |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I dunno ... That tune didn't bother me any more than most of "Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship, Airplane" or whatever the flock their name is. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by cliff:
It was comPLETEly formulaic and targeted for airplay on BigCity Rock&Roll radio stations And every formula rock radio station used that in their plugs for... too long!
[They were good when they had Papa John Creach] |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by mrmanley:
No question about it: it begins and end's with Jefferson Starship's "We Built This City (On Rock and Roll)". I loathe that song with the heat of a thousand suns. LOL that's just too funny...
I always thought the line "Marconi played the mambo, I heard it on the radio" was a fun line.
I've gotta say, and maybe I already have, I have a hard time spotting a bad song, especially one that actually charted, people made or are making a living off of, and people buy it.
Now there are lots of songs I don't like, but criticizing someone else's art is just bad form in my world.
Personally, as example, I can't listen to anything by Yoko Ono. I don't get it on any level. I also think she's an evil witch who put a spell on Lennon and ruined the Beatles and I'm not even a fan of the Beatles. But.. I still won't say her "music??" is bad. It's hers, and only she can decide if it's good or bad. I can decide to listen or not. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Go back and read that Reputation column again, Damon. You missed one. Very nice! In case anyone's wondering, Wikipedia has a new entry from the Captain...
The song was voted "Worst Song Ever" by the Ovation Fan Club in a poll from June 2008. |
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Location: Pullman, WA | I liked "Dead Skunk", especially the instrumental break " ..alright!, let's stink ...!" Probably because I was a just a crude adolescent Montana boy when I first heard it. There was often a dead skunk in the middle of the road in and around that little town. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I also like "Dead Skunk".
It was a sing-a-long favorite in the car with the kids.
Poor Otto. When you share like that it lets everyone know where your head is at. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I'd like to nominate 'Tie me kangaroo down, Sport' as the worst song.
Oops, sorry Otto. 'nother one! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Jefferson Starship reeked, but Airplane had Jorma Kaukonan, one of my favorite guitarists of all time. Admittedly, he was much better with Hot Tuna, but you can hear glimmers of what was to come on J.Airplanes first album. Remember that little number called "Embryonic Journey"? |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Poor Otto. When you share like that it lets everyone know where your head is at. It may be even worse when you're railroaded into sharing like he was:
"Otto, you have some great songs. I've gotta get them. Did you bring them? Give me your flash drive. Total Eclipse of the... you've gotta be kidding... Seeya next year!" |
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Location: Central Florida | Wouldn't miss it for the world, Jas!
And for what its worth, I'm not ashamed of anything in the book. Nor should anyone else be. It all means something to somebody. I like Mr Ovation's outlook on it. :cool: Although it is still fun to bash sometimes!
Slipkid, if you guys really do know where my head is at you'd tell me right? I mean... I'd really like to know. :p
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