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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 14:10:13 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby tlw 2015/12/22 14:44:28
Can we have a "so bad it's good" sub-thread? 
 


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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 14:17:05 (permalink)
This would be a candidate...
 


 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 14:17:47 (permalink)
OK, let's see.

"God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols, released just in time for the Royal Jubilee in 1977.

Not because it was a bad song or badly performed, it wasn't. But because the BBC and commercial stations instantly banned it and the ever outraged tabloid end of the UK's press, who already had a huge down on the "scandalous" and "anti-social" punk fashion and culture anyway, visciously (sorry) pitched into the band and Rotten in particular. Some record shops, including Woolworth's chain stores which were a big part of the singles market, refused to stock it.

That the song didn't "insult her Majesty" in the slightest was neither here nor there.

And it sold like mad.

Which, for the first time, left the BBC in the awkward position of not being able to play the number one single in the UK.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 14:28:04 (permalink)
As for really bad hit songs, the list is almost endless.

Though it's hard to think of anything worse than the output of St Winifred's School Choir.

Search youtube for them if you must, just don't say I didn't warn you.
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 15:19:11 (permalink)
Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennille.

 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 19:54:03 (permalink)
Oh ya, muskrat love was a stinker, but not as bad as tip toe through the tulips by Tiny Tim.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 20:23:38 (permalink)
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Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennille.


Anything by Captain and Tennille was pretty bad. Well played, sung and produced - but bad.

Fortunately on the UK side of the Atlantic we didn't suffer from them as much as the US.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 23:36:44 (permalink)
I mostly agree with Sharke on this one...with notable exceptions.

And

@Beagle...Old Man Down The Road is just Keep On Chooglin or Run Through The Jungle with different lyrics. John was mighty good...but very repetitive.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 23:48:35 (permalink)
Lionel Richie's Say You, Say Me.
 
He got up to accept a nomination or award of some sort and said "I can't believe it" and neither could I.
 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/22 23:55:42 (permalink)
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Lionel Richie's Say You, Say Me.
 
He got up to accept a nomination or award of some sort and said "I can't believe it" and neither could I.
 
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Yeah that was pure mush. Horrible song considering he had some great tunes around that time (Running With The Night, Is It Me You're Looking For).

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 03:17:07 (permalink)



 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 03:58:35 (permalink)
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Can we have a "so bad it's good" sub-thread? 
 


I don't mind, that should be fun. I also said iirc that the thread can and should be improved. What would be impossible I think would be a so good it is bad sub thread.
post edited by kakku - 2015/12/23 04:12:53

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 04:07:30 (permalink)
Failed embedding. But it was supposed to be Yngwie Malmsteen shredding the guitar nearly into fire. Neo-classical style ofc. I used to idolize him but nowadays I idolize those who are great composers.
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 08:02:41 (permalink)
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This one is easy!  Friday by Rebecca Black.
 



Up until you posted the video, I had only seen the Bad Lip Reading version of this song which I thought was kinda funny. The original, not so much.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 08:04:15 (permalink)
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Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive'... if I can dive for the off button, I will


I like Cake's version of this song. :-)

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 08:35:47 (permalink)
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I mostly agree with Sharke on this one...with notable exceptions.

And

@Beagle...Old Man Down The Road is just Keep On Chooglin or Run Through The Jungle with different lyrics. John was mighty good...but very repetitive.

yes!  all of his songs sounded the same!  excellent musician, but I didn't care for hardly any of his songs.  CCR was pretty much the same stuff as JF, too.
 
My next candidates:
Eddie Murphy - "Party All the Time"
Right Said Fred - "I'm Too Sexy"
Billy Ray Cyrus - "Achy Breaky Heart"
Los Del Rio - Macarena
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
and one of my most hated of all time:
Starship - "We Built This City"

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 09:16:20 (permalink)
Hi,
 
Wow ... no Miley or Mariah songs listed yet? Or Taylor?

Music is not about notes and chords! My poem is not about the computer or monitor or letters! It's about how I was able to translate it from my insides! 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 09:53:16 (permalink)
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I mostly agree with Sharke on this one...with notable exceptions.

And

@Beagle...Old Man Down The Road is just Keep On Chooglin or Run Through The Jungle with different lyrics. John was mighty good...but very repetitive.

yes!  all of his songs sounded the same!  excellent musician, but I didn't care for hardly any of his songs.  CCR was pretty much the same stuff as JF, too.
 
My next candidates:
Eddie Murphy - "Party All the Time"
Right Said Fred - "I'm Too Sexy"
Billy Ray Cyrus - "Achy Breaky Heart"
Los Del Rio - Macarena
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
and one of my most hated of all time:
Starship - "We Built This City"

I like Swift and that achy song. Maybe even ice ice baby cause I seen the Carrey version.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/23 16:57:50 (permalink)
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Hi,
 
Wow ... no Miley or Mariah songs listed yet? Or Taylor?




I can't add any because I don't know any!

 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/24 10:09:30 (permalink)
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Moshkito
Hi,
 
Wow ... no Miley or Mariah songs listed yet? Or Taylor?




I can't add any because I don't know any!



Let's see ... I'll try to be polite ... for one, I have no tickets to the nude show, which will be fake, of course! For two, the size of the stage for this other would be so big that I won't fit in the audience, and her voice is like an old steam engine ... all power and no go. Just a female Pavarotti. No thanks, I don't think I want my ears drilled again by the Rolling Stones! And the other ... so plasticine and fake, that the oil all comes out in drippings ... talk about a Barbie doll!
post edited by Moshkito - 2015/12/24 10:24:44

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/24 14:16:46 (permalink)
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Moshkito
Hi,
 
Wow ... no Miley or Mariah songs listed yet? Or Taylor?




I can't add any because I don't know any!



Let's see ... I'll try to be polite ... for one, I have no tickets to the nude show, which will be fake, of course! For two, the size of the stage for this other would be so big that I won't fit in the audience, and her voice is like an old steam engine ... all power and no go. Just a female Pavarotti. No thanks, I don't think I want my ears drilled again by the Rolling Stones! And the other ... so plasticine and fake, that the oil all comes out in drippings ... talk about a Barbie doll!




Better Nate than lever??? 

 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/27 20:20:14 (permalink)
Believe it or Not,
 
There is a tie for first place.
 
1. Me
1. you
 
In jest be I,
as is any discussion per the OP.
 
Do you like catsup/kethup on your eggs?
 
Thought so. 
 
What about 4:33 by John Cage?
 
Thought so.
 
Put up and shut up.
 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/27 20:53:48 (permalink)
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/27 21:40:15 (permalink)
This is the most unfortunate thread in history. These songs may on occasion breach our peace by inflicting themselves on us in small doses. One at a time with a period of time lengthy enough to allow us to recover. An amount we can survive, mostly. However to have them all brought to our attention all at the same time forcing themselves into our memory is at best abusive and at worst dangerous. For our blood pressure may hit stratospheric levels never before attained by man or beast. That is not the worst of it. For we now may suffer the recurring trauma of playing them back repeatedly ad infinitum within our heads.  
 
There should have been a strong warning in the title to the effect of "read at your own risk"!
 
 
P.S. now I am trying to think of the very worst songs ever. This is the power of suggestion that this thread has unleashed on the unsuspecting world and the poor innocent reader.  

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/28 02:21:16 (permalink)
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This is the most unfortunate thread in history. These songs may on occasion breach our peace by inflicting themselves on us in small doses. One at a time with a period of time lengthy enough to allow us to recover. An amount we can survive, mostly. However to have them all brought to our attention all at the same time forcing themselves into our memory is at best abusive and at worst dangerous. For our blood pressure may hit stratospheric levels never before attained by man or beast. That is not the worst of it. For we now may suffer the recurring trauma of playing them back repeatedly ad infinitum within our heads.  
 
There should have been a strong warning in the title to the effect of "read at your own risk"!
 
 
P.S. now I am trying to think of the very worst songs ever. This is the power of suggestion that this thread has unleashed on the unsuspecting world and the poor innocent reader.  

Sorry.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/28 02:29:50 (permalink)
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Believe it or Not,
 
There is a tie for first place.
 
1. Me
1. you
 
In jest be I,
as is any discussion per the OP.
 
Do you like catsup/kethup on your eggs?
 
Thought so. 
 
What about 4:33 by John Cage?
 
Thought so.
 
Put up and shut up.
 
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Actually this was a serious thread in my part as I was curious to know what people thought about hit songs.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/28 08:37:17 (permalink)
Sorry Kakku, I was a little flippant wasn't I.  I generally attempt to avoid that type of verbosity and will be more respectful of an OP's intention the next time I reply. 
 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/28 08:39:46 (permalink)
A serious thread in the CH...good luck with that...

 
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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/28 08:45:14 (permalink)
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Sorry Kakku, I was a little flippant wasn't I.  I generally attempt to avoid that type of verbosity and will be more respectful of an OP's intention the next time I reply. 
 
Jesse Q. Screed
 
 
 

NP, I hardly even understood all that you said (language barrier). I gotta check that flippant word too. Besides, nobody probably takes me seriously after the things I usually say.

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Re: Worst hit songs 2015/12/28 08:50:01 (permalink)
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A serious thread in the CH...good luck with that...

I tried (failed).

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