April 20, 2004

• Sweet Jesus, is there anything worse than MacArthur Park?
• Strange how the 80's stake claim to six of the top ten...or is it!
• terrible songs from longer ago tend to be forgotten, don't they?
• Any song at all that contains the phrase "rock and roll" in either title or lyrics goes stright into my Worst. Song. EVAR. list without further editorial input. This heuristic encompasses both the Starship and the Huey Lewis submissions. It also includes the last track from AC/DC's otherwise admirable (sensible. refined. elegant) album, BACK IN BLACK.
• Come now goetter don't you know that Rock and Roll ain't noise polution? just the junk produced in the 80's.
• The jury also whittled down the bulk of "rotten, excruciatingly bad low-hanging fruit from the '70s," Marks says. Which means that it's a strongly, strangely biased "worst" list.
• hmmmm not sure what petebest2's recommendations actually mean, thought I hope the top 100 includes: 'The Living Years' by Mike and the Mechanics: THERE'S NO ROOM FOR WHISTLING IN ROCK or anything by Travis, especially 'Why does it always rain' on me' (I don't care, now f**k off and go and moan somewhere else) And as a self-confessed R.E.M. nut I'm ambivalent about Shiny Happy People: I can't listen to it because I hate it, but I still don't think it's a bad song ...
• I'd forgotten about that Eddie Murphy song. Bet he wishes he could....
• Oh yes ... and what was that Status Quo song which had the lyrics "I ain't runny-nosing" from 1982
• The jury also whittled down the bulk of "rotten, excruciatingly bad low-hanging fruit from the '70s," Marks says. They'd have to. They could comprise an entire top 100 from this crap. 'Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man/That he didn't, didn't already have' GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
• Nah the crap from the 80s is way worse because it was synthesized crap. At least the 70's used actual stringed instruments to stage their heinous musical crimes. What was that Technotronic song . . thank the monkey I've forgotten . . .
• and goetter you really must make an exception for 'noise pollution' - c'mon it's the record Jesus made for your sins! It's infallible!
• any list of worst songs ever that i would create would include everything by paul mccartney and wings. that's some painfully trite shit to listen to.
• Jet? Band on the run? Classics. (seriously)
• Petebest-2-electric-boogaloo, Noise Pollution is IMO (fuck that) a very lame track on an otherwise exceptional album. It's like my reminder that these overgrown schoolboys are indeed mortal. Their auditory feet of clay. /reeling from maudlin mixed metaphors
• Pump Up The Jam.
• I'm gonna have to go with "Who Let the Dogs Out?" followed closely by "Whoomp! There it is" ... embarrassingly horribly cock-punchingly bad.
• >set derail on goetter no I say! You're wrong! The tv-evangelist opening, where he blows the timing by 6 beats is proof positive that it is divinely inspired. Praise Angus! >set derail off
• *startles, then adopts fixed, glassy stare* You're right. That's the mortal element that makes the record redemptive, proving that Angus is the Messiah. Praise Angus! *hands over all worldly possessions to Angus-cult*
• C'mon, Macarena has gotta be there. The witless dance for white people pretending they're Ricky Martin has to be enough alone. And yes Jefferson Starship is cringeworthy, but it's selection kinda disrespects decades of hard work Phil Collins put in to hold the honour.
• Poison's "Unskinny Bop". Much as I got sucked in by them as a small-town eleven-year-old, even then I knew this song was awful. Likewise anything by Skid Row. I'm really glad to see "Achy Breaky Heart" way up there. That's a song I'll change the channel/leave the room to escape.
• Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic Pump up the jam Pump it up While your feet are stompin' And the jam is pumpin' Look at here the crowd is jumpin' Pump it up a little more Get the party going on the dance floor Seek us that's where the party's at And you'll find out if you're too bad I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day Make my day Make my day Make my day Make my day Yo! Pump up the jam Pump it up While your feet are stompin' And the jam is pumpin' Look at here the crowd is jumpin' Pump it up a little more Get the party going on the dance floor Seek us that's where the party's at And you'll find out if you're too bad I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day Make my day Make my make my make make my day Make my day Make my day Make my make my make make my day Yo! Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam Pump it pump it pump it pump it, Yo! Pump up the jam A pump up the jam Pump up the jam Pump it up a pump it pump it pump it Pump up the jam Pump up the jam Pump up the jam Pump it pump it pump it pump it pump Pump up the jam Pump it up While your feet are stompin' And the jam is pumpin' Look at here the crowd is jumpin' Pump it up a little more Get the party going on the dance floor Seek us that's where the party's at And you'll find out if you're too bad I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam Pump it pump it pump it pump it, Yo! Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam pump it up A pump it up yo pump it Pump up the jam Pump it pump it pump it pump it, Yo! Pump it up Pump it up Make my day Make my day Make my make my make make my day Make my day Make my day Make my make my make make my day Yo! I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Make my day I don't want a place to stay Get your boody on the floor tonight Oh, about it being stuck in your head now? YerwelcomE! < hides >
• this is the first list that ever got it right. using any criteria at all "we built this city" really IS the worst song ever released. it is an inescapable fact, mathematically proveable, and woven into the very fabric of the universe. who cares, they're always changing CORParation names.
• I'm honestly surprised that there was no Wham! mentioned. And I love Wham!
• Shinything - The link you posted has Blue Suede's "Hooked on a Feeling" catagorized as one of the worst songs from the 70's. Could anything be worse than the original version of the song? Hmmmm... how about a rendition by The Hasselhoff. Warning: link requires Java.
• "The Final Countdown" by Europe makes me want to jab icepicks in my ears.
  
  Any song at all that contains the phrase "rock and roll" in either title or lyrics goes stright into my Worst. Song. EVAR. list without further editorial input.
  
  Goetter, I respectfully suggest you make an exception for "Rock and Roll" by the Velvet Underground.
• [Self link, sorta] Here is my winning entry from Plinko.net's "Worst Mixtape Ever" contest. No list of bad songs could possibly compete with this. If anybody wants to hear the mix, let me know. It is lots of fun.
• Ok, embarrasing as this is to admit to you, my newfound monkey friends... I actually a producer on a joint NHL/Mickey Thomas (late of Starship) vanity project that rewrote the lyrics to, "We built this city on Red Wing goals". There is your Worst. Song. Ever. As a matter of fact, I think I'll share that one as an extra track for all the lucky folks on my CD list. Be afraid you six... Be very afraid...
• Nixxon, I suppose one could grandfather them in under the Zeppelin clause.
• I actually a producer on a joint NHL/Mickey Thomas (late of Starship) vanity project that rewrote the lyrics to, "We built this city on Red Wing goals". Get out. shotsy : I have most of the songs on the first place winner for the worst mixtape ever, including the Todd Rundgren track, and the Laibach. Something From Nova Akropila woulda done much better than Life is Life, I think. ObTerror : lookin' forward to mixtape day }:-)
• My question here: Is culture the product of herding or similarities among human beings? My view: Like anything, music is subjective. Play some of these songs to someone who has never been exposed to society, and they will not hear the noise of marketing, music videos, or offensive paper journals. Take all that away, and by listening to the actual lyrics, the actual sounds, and the real perception of a song will be realized. I believe these lists are made solely of songs that the people making the lists think other people don't like.
• surlyboi: thanks for the warning. I'll be sure to make your cd EXTRA special. ;) jim_t: GAACK. That man is a fecal King Midas. But can he stand up to Paul "Having My Baby" Anka?
• boo - have you seen the Life is Life video? It is truly spectacular. That is half the reason that song in particular made the list... The thing is that I have a real weakness for bad music. Not boring bad music, but the truly spectacular failure. And it is out of love, not irony. People like Rundgren, Julian Cope and a few others found these places late in their careers that were/are so far out and horrible that the results can't help but me magical. The list as published was only interested in shooting fish in a barrel, not exloring the textured depths of bad music. As such, I didn't think it was worth much.
• on preview: the list I refer to is the blender list, not the plinko list. Does anybody remember when Blender was a multimedia CD-ROM magazine? I found an old copy when I was at my parents house for Christmas. It doesn't run on my current computer though. Sad to say.
• :: Looks at CD already burned for Surlyboi :: :: thinks about what is coming in the mail :: :: feels queasy :: :: decides "what the hell, he might think my CD is shite anyway" :: :: drops Surlyboi's CD in mail and crosses fingers ::
• :: Looks at CD already burned for Surlyboi :: :: thinks about what is coming in the mail :: :: feels queasy :: :: decides "what the hell, he might think my CD is shite anyway" :: :: drops Surlyboi's CD in mail and crosses fingers ::
• Actually, my above post is a little harsh, I'm going to clarify... ambrosia: yes, this is why I tried to stay away from this conversation! On a more positive note, the most annoying, yet entertaining, piece of music I have ever heard is avaliable here from this page. What I was trying to say above is that "We Built This City" is perhaps not a very good song, but it's hundreds of times better than what the Neanderthals and early Homo-Sapiens used to sing when they were trying to invent music. As it is relative, they would think "We Built This City" was most wonderful thing they'd ever heard... ... unless, humankinds whole perception of music is subjective, but hopefully that's not true.
• Of course perception of music is subjective, and its a damn good thing because I don't want to be crazy for thinking 50 Cent can't rap. The music we listen to today is not 'evolved' from cave man music. Cultures produce music that reflects cultural trends. Additionally, I don't think music was 'invented' in any conscious way. It is physiologically bound to ourselves, so I don't see how we can take any credit for its invention.
• Ok then noccolo since we are on the topic of bad music and societies reactions to it, how in the world do you explain the William Hung phenomenon? Anyone who has heard this guy sing or read any of the headlines must ask themselves, why the heck is this guy so popular? Is it just our need to laugh at those who will let us or what? thanks niccolo I was wanting to find a way to bring this link into a thread for some time now
• oops derail but I just had to!
• Get out. I shit you not. We had a show in a big hangar on an Air Force Base near San Jose during All-Star weekend in '98. I ran around like a madman coordinating the whole thing for a webcast that probably all of 20 people listened to. Still, adding it to my CDs would be cruel. I'll dig it up and shamelessly self-link myself when I get home. That way, only the truly masochistic will actually have to listen to it. =)
• surlyboi - please do.
• Noccolo, I have a song that I madly, truly, hate, regardless of social norms or whatever. Back in about 1998, 1999, or possibly a bit earlier, I was a sad, lonely child. A sad, lonely child who got the chorus to a horrible, cheesy, vapid RnB pop song stuck in his head. For two weeks. None stop. The same four lines. For forteen days. I can't remember what the song was, but it very very nearly drove me to suicide. I'll never forget those four lines, though: Don't love me for fun, girl, Let me be the one, girl. Love me for a reason, Let the reason be love OH GOD IT'S COMING BACK
• surlyboi : you misinterpreted the tone of my original post. ;-) (note smiley)
• Destination unknown As we pull in for some gas Freshly pasted poster Reveals a smile from the pack Elephants and acrobats, Lions snakes monkey Pele speaks righteous Sister Zina says funky
• squeak, William Hung is/was an engineering student: therefore I doubt he's the unperceptive, unaware individual he makes himself out to be. Nonetheless, his percieved innocence seems to be very endearing, and amusing to the populus at large. Perhaps it illustrates an underlying honor that is not seen in society? Yes, it's something for people to laugh at, but I don't think that's enough to bring his level of success. I'm not sure how you can take such national affection to financial success. I'd be very interested to talk with someone who bought his work. ...music we listen to today is not 'evolved' [from the past]. There are two question here: first of all, did music evolve from one single source, and therefore implying that music is unique because it was only discovered once? Or alternatively, notes were developed in multiple places, because the concept of music is universal to humanity? From what I could find on the internet it seems that musical scales are unique to different cultures, but the notes are generally the same: "If [music] is as ancient as some believe, this could explain why we find so much meaning and emotion in music even though we cannot explain why it makes us feel the way it does." Blaise, that's fine - I think the reason I commented here was I was having a discussion a couple of weeks ago about music from the 1980's and how different genarations had altering perceptions of it. And how my genaration seemed to despise it: and the reason we decided upon was that when people my age were growing up, our older siblings were listening to music of the 80's. However due to the great changes in the early 1990's, the whole attitude of young people had a whole new selection of music to find different, and therefore they had rather a 'tired' perception of the last remaining music of the 1980's. Perhaps I am used to many people making too many assumptions, too quickly: [a culture] -> [bad]. Yes, there is annoying music, and it's very right to dislike it: that asserts your individuality, but also caution may be a good thing when doing the opposite: asserting your group affiliations, rather than being independant, is sometimes a problem... I have never come so close to almost breaking Godwin's Law.
• A friend and I a while back spent some time finding some really scathing reviews for albums on All Music: Kansas - Monolith By this release, Kansas had pretty much exhausted every aspect of their musical style. There is some fine playing here, but the band's success seemed to be having an effect on their integrity and judgment, given the penchant for pop songs and juvenile lyrics. The concept of the album, futuristic Indians with space helmets, doesn't help. Even though the chorus to "People of the South Wind" is catchy, the ridiculous keyboard melody that starts the song is shamefully aimed at FM radio. This release lacks effort and direction and is best left unexplored. Mott The Hoople - Shouting and Pointing So this is how a great band ends -- with many of its original members but none of its visionaries; with a good idea of what made their band great, but little idea how they used to do it. At least the remnants of Mott the Hoople had the good sense to truncate their name to Mott with 1975's passable Drive On. Its sequel, 1976's Shouting and Pointing, is nothing less than an embarrassment, not just a record that made it blindingly obvious that the band could not carry on, but a record that sounds in hindsight like the roots of Spinal Tap. New lead vocalist Nigel Benjamin is a tad unbearable, particularly when he decides to escalate into a falsetto, but what sinks the record is the attempt to stay true to Mott's loud, glammy update of old-time rock & roll and Ian Hunter's wry, self-deprecating wit. When Hunter commented on the plights of a rock & roll band to a heavy Chuck Berry beat, his humor was sharp, the melancholy was deep, and the music rocked hard. Here, it all sounds like pastiche and parody, whether it's the balls-out rockers, two-part epics, or the "Ballad of Mott the Hoople" rewrite "Career (No Such Thing As Rock 'N' Roll)," which illustrates just what a foolish endeavor this whole enterprise was. Shouting and Pointing isn't necessarily unlistenable, since it's so bad that it inspires a sort of perverse fascination. With each track, you can't believe that it can get worse, but it does, culminating in a ludicrously inept reading of the Vanda/Young classic "Good Times," the only time those words and this record could reasonably be put in the same sentence. Shouting and Pointing follows the same form as Mott the Hoople, but gets it hideously wrong, resulting in one of the true nadirs of '70s rock.
• 47 comments into the thread and not a single person has come to the defense of Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy." This song doesn't deserve to be on this list, if even just for the lyrics. I mean, come on... In every life we have some trouble When you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy Genius, pure genius. You can't get any closer to summing up my life philosophy in 3 lines than that. Also, "Ice, Ice, Baby" isn't as bad as people say, I can think of many songs that are worse, like for example anything by Jay-Z. ) <- for Bobby McFerrin
• Peaches. I Don't Give A... SO FUCKING BAD. SO VERY VERY VERY PAINFULLY BAD.
• On the whole though, I tend not to remember the bad. My view towards music is to accentuate the positive. I know theres a lot of stuff that i will say sucks, but I tend not to think of it in terms of looking for bad music. Rather, I find it's far easier to say what's good. I operate from a healthy default assumption of "sucks til proven otherwise."
• Boo... I kinda figured, but still, the thought's pretty devious. =) But, without further ado, here it is, in all its six minute, 44 second glory... May god have mercy on your souls =)
• sorry, but i can think of a few that are much worse than "we built this city"... -who let the dogs out? -anything by ace of base? -anything on a jock jams cd? -that peaches song? -informer; by canadian rapper, snow? -etc... c'mon!
• I'd never heard it before ("We Built This City"). Your live version, surlyboi, is distressing. "The spirit of sports"? Did he really say that? Come on, since when do rock and roll and sports belong in the same sentence?
• Ooh! Ooh! freakin' . . what was that one . . St. Elmo's Fire. suck diddly-ucktastic bullplop! Argh, the 80s radio hits are why Nirvana mattered so much to me.
• You mean John Parr's "Man in Motion"? That song, like... SPOKE to me maaaan.... =) and yes, it's now stuck in my head, thankyouverymuch
• I would not wish the harmonic era of the Andrews/McGuire sisters to pass unnoticed here, when such lyrics as the following were all the rage (going here personal recall from early childhood on, when they were sung to me or played for my dining pleasure ijn the highchair): Down in the meadow in an iddy biddy pool Swam three iddy fiddies and a mama fiddy too. "Swim," said the mama fiddy, "swim if you can", And they swam and they swam right over the dam. Boop boop diddum diddum waddum do! Boop boop diddum diddum waddum do! Boop boop diddum diddum waddum do! And they swam and they swam right over the dam! Or this: -- Chew chew to Broadway from Cinncinati Don't get icky with the 1-2-3! Life is just so fine on the solid side of the line. Hold tight, hold tight, o hold tight hold tight, Buddha raki-saki want some seafood mama! Shrimp-y and rice they're very nice! [Repeat] I like oysters, lobster stew, I like my tasty butterfish, ooo! When i come late at night I get my fav-o-rite dish -- Fish! [Repeat Hold tight etc] Taken me many decades to ignore if not forget -- somehow one never really rids oneslself of some infantile things.
• I'm with Argh regarding the sheer horror that is "How Bizarre," and with Nixxon regarding VU's "Rock and Roll," because I fucking love that song. Nixxon also brought back a horrible memory. I was on a competitive dance team in high school, and we once had to perform a routine to "Final Countdown" (and this was the late 90's. Our choreographer had lamentable taste). The two months I spent hearing that song twenty times a day may well have been the worst time of my life. Amazingly enough, the same woman forced us to dance to BOTH "The Heart of Rock and Roll" and "We Built This City." She got caught sleeping with a sixteen-year-old and had to leave town and change her name. Our new coach picked much better music. When I was a toddler, I quite liked the worst song of all time, but I thought it said "We Milked This City On Rock and Roll."
• If you like Pina Colada And getting caught in the rain ...
• Agh, Peaches? I... like... peach... esss *sob* *runs off sobbing, runs into a post, falls over, picks himself up and runs off again* There's Mr. PacMan too. He's really bad.
• I'm not into yoga I'm pretty sure I have half a brain... Ever been to the dunes on the Cape?
• I should mention that I REALLY LIKE the remix of Wrong 'Em Boyo using the vocals from Peaches Fuck the Pain Away
• Nominate for All Centuries Most Dismal Song Lyrics Award -- This ae night, this ae night, Every night and a', Fire and sleet and candle light An Christe receive thy saule. When from hence away art past, Every night and a' To whinny moor thou com'st at last And Christe receive thy saule. If ever thou gavest hosen and shoes Every night and a' Sit thee down and pu' them on And Christe receive thy saule. If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gave nane Every night and a', The whinnies s'all prick thee to the bare bane, And Christe receive thy saule. From whinny moor when thou may'st pass Every night and a' To Brig o' Dread thou com'st at last And Christe receive thy saule. If ever thou gav'st meat or drink Every night and a' The fire s'all never make thee shrink And Christe receive thy saule. If meat or drink thou ne'er gave nane Every night and a' The fire will burn thee to the bare bane, And Christe receive thy saule. 9repeat first 4 lines.]
• Two words: Gloria. Estefan.
• shotsy said: "have you seen the Life is Life video? It is truly spectacular." I, too, was surprised when I saw that song on your list, but I haven't seen the video. Is it on the web somewhere?
• surlyboi - regardless of song quality, that is a great recording. I don't know if that was part of your responsibility, but for a stadium recording I was rather impressed by the quality. high five. go wings!
• liet - there is a description of the video here. there's about a minute of the video itself on this page. You can get the whole clip by requesting it from the guy who runs this site. If you do be sure to let me know. I first saw it about ten years ago on a Wax Trax video collection called "Black Box" or something. I am confused though, are you guys defending the song because you like it or because Laibach has done worse songs? I have respect for any fake-Nazi band that dedicates an entire album to covers of Sympathy for the Devil, but this song is just so wonderfully bad...
• Surlyboi, that is just execrable. I'm going to have to go pour lye into my ears now...
• William Hung is/was an engineering student: therefore I doubt he's the unperceptive, unaware individual he makes himself out to be. I dunno, niccolo, I know some engineering graduates, and most of them do seem quite oblivious socially. In a cute sort of way. Backstreet Boys better be on that list.
• Heh, I married an engineering graduate. Perception is not a strong characteristic.
• when it comes to bad lyrics... few can make me cringe like Outkasts latest single...
• We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom.
• But worse: 2 Live Crew, Banned in the USA. Aaaugh!
• don't know about the worst song of all time, but my college station seems bound and determined to play ani di franco's lamentable utter steaming load of a shit song "bliss like this" every morning, just to piss me off. if you haven't heard it, consider yourself lucky. it starts off with what i can only assume is sampled random monkey screeching. one of my friends works at the station. when she sees ani on her set list she either skips it or substitues something else, just 'cause she knows how awful 99.9% of her catalog is. i like her for this. ani is teh 5uXXX0r. on related notes, soul asylum's "runaway train" will make me run screaming across the room to shut off the damn radio. anything by rush hits me wrong; only dogs can hear geddy lee sing and they hate his castrato voice too. "paradise by the dashboard light" makes me want to vomit (flashback to seeing a live video, and watching that fat bastard meatloaf slobber all over his backup singer - eeeeew). bob seger blows chunks... he has maybe one or two songs that i can handle, but i am so sick of hearing him whine about how cool he was back when he wasn't old and fat. every friggin' song he does is about how he used to not be old and fat, and weren't those the days. maybe when i hit 45 i'll start to like him, but i doubt it. and radiohead's most recent efforts rank right up there too - if i wanted to hear random whining and electronic noise i'd tune the radio in to static and step on my cat's tail. someone needs to tell them that they suck before it gets too late.
• I can agree that "We Built This City" is terrible, but in my mind, NO song will ever come close to the extreme awfulness that is "Diamond Girl." (No idea who it's by, and I don't care enough to research it. Though then I'd know who to blame and who needs to pay for all of my suffering. Hmm...)
• . . . sssSoul . . Asylum . . . *eyes widening, teeth gritting, gripping mouse tightly* "Mama, get mah gun . . "
• Here it is - the worst song ever (Track #1 - "Diamond Girl" by Nice & Wild). Do you disagree? My ears are bleeding...
• MsVader - I like that it's track #1 on the compilation ("gotta lead off with our strongest song!"). I'd never heard it before. It's kind of the goatse of music. And about that album cover... are those flames coming out from between your thighs or are you just glad to see me?
• "Diamond Girl" was originally recorded by Seals & Croft.
• My college roommate, as a prank, took a bunch of my tapes I'd made, and in that blank space that was always leftover at the end of side 2, filled the dead air with selections from "The Best of Bread". It was the most startling thing to have Terence Trent D'Arby or now embarrassed to admit, Rick Astley suddenly turn into cheesy crooning 70's guitar pop. The "Seals & Crofts" reference just reminded me of that whole episode...thanks, Wolof!
• I found here diary by a tree And started reading about me ... Bread! Aargh! Thanks right back at you!
• her diary, dammit, not here. *remembers Baby I'm a Want You, brain combusts*
• The Sylvers. Cheesy Jackson 5ive knockoff. The DeFranco Family. Cheesy Osmond Bros. knockoff.
• "Muskrat Love." "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia".
• Please stop me.
• I once had someone get angry at me for saying that "Muskrat Love" was a bad song.
• "Beth". "Hell is for Children". "Xanadu".
• REM's "Lion Sleeps Tonight" cover version. The entire second side of "Venus and Mars", and everything recorded by Sir Paul since then.. "I Honestly Love You by OJ John...
• i'm spent.
• Madonna's American Life is a great song. How the hell did it end up in such awful company? I mean come on, nothing's as bad as that awful Eddie Murphy song.
• I knew that this thread would flush you out of cover, Sully.
• "Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder. Listen to the MP3 if you don't believe me.
• Achy Break Heart. Billy Ray Cyrus has a special place reserved for him after he dies where that plays non-stop for all eternity.
• i do so hope there's a special hell-place reserved for those who do crappy remakes of good songs, too. doing a great remake of a song is an art. taking an already famous song and milking it because you already know it's a hit (for example: damn near anything on a "tribute album", the sunday's take on "wild horses", ugly kid joe redoing "cats in the cradle", and i still loathe faith hill for making "piece of my heart" into a feel-good pop song - sucked the soul right out of it, she did) is a cheap shot and shouldn't be attempted. what's a good remake is of course subjective. but i'll personally volunteer to cockpunch anyone who feels that any of the three specific examples above are better than the originals. plus the young dummies out there hearing it on the radio keep thinking it's an original song. ignoramuses. get a sense of musical history! if the name next to the credits ain't the name of the singer, take a minute to find out who did it first - listen to that - and then decide if you like the new version. have you heard these guys doing their rendition of "nothing compares 2 u"? now that's a good remake.
• That one about short people. No, wait. I love that song.
• Seriously.
• Nobody likes... dum de dum dum dum de dum Oh, fergedit.
• Short people got no reason to live.
• Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. that is all.
• I don't know if anyone has mentioned it (I haven't actually read the trhead, or the link) but: Paul Young's cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart. So fucking bad even the original becomes tainted by it.
• Paul Young's cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart. Good Jeebers, preserve me from this.
• Actually, that whole Me First disc rocks. The "End of the Road' cover is a riot.
• like a bridge over troubled waters. i just got so sick of hearing that song back in '69 that i refuse to listen to it. everyone seemed to think it was the song for distraught young souls. i stopped listening to new music when bob seger retired.
• why do they sing that one in church? It's about heroin isn't it? err bridge over troubled waters, not bob seeger.