The worst songs ever

[ADirtyPerv]

Jump by Van Halen.

So annoying!

I know a girl who says this is her go-to masturbation song. And I don't know how to believe her.

Every time I hear this song I think about the fact that I had "Jumper" and "Jump" on my iPod. If I ever had to do a thing where I save a guy from jumping off a building, I'd better not choose the wrong song. They're right next to each other!

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Go Ask Alice, Jefferson Airplane

White Rabbit is almost at the opposite end of this scale. A true classic rock legend.

 

[sister jenny]

Number 1 worst song ever for me.

Guns’n Roses - Knocking on heavens door.

It’s fucking awful, and when Axl does the whole Ay ay ay I just wanna throw the TV/Radio/whatever out the window.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Number 1 worst song ever for me.

Guns’n Roses - Knocking on heavens door.

It’s fucking awful, and when Axl does the whole Ay ay ay I just wanna throw the TV/Radio/whatever out the window.

Well, it's not even their song. Do you feel the same about the original?

And Axl isn't much of a singer anyway.

 

[CuriousJInLA]

Worst song ever is Tonight’s Going to Be a Good Night by Black Eyed Peas. It’s revolting

 

[SimonDoom]

Number 1 worst song ever for me.

Guns’n Roses - Knocking on heavens door.

It’s fucking awful, and when Axl does the whole Ay ay ay I just wanna throw the TV/Radio/whatever out the window.

My G&R pick is November Rain, a song that is nails on a chalkboard to me. I consider them one of the most overrated bands, mainly I just don't like his voice.

 

[sister jenny]

Well, it's not even their song. Do you feel the same about the original?

And Axl isn't much of a singer anyway.

The original is great.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

And what the hell were The Beatles thinking with Wild Honey Pie? They put out a bunch of really bad clunkers.

 

[HordHolm]

And what the hell were The Beatles thinking with Wild Honey Pie? They put out a bunch of really bad clunkers.

The list of bad Beatles songs is very long...

Oobla-di - what a shocker.
Anything that involved a John and Yoko collab - remember kids, smack is a very nasty substance
Most of the stuff they did before Revolver, though that's just the 1960s teen pap

It adds up. The reality was they had about three good years before the substance abuse and the fame caught up with them. Interesting how those good years pretty much mirrored the same good years the Beach Boys had. Brian Wilson was very open about the fact that they were spurring each other on.

 

[SimonDoom]

The original is great.

Agreed. Which in a way makes the G&R cover worse.

That's a good subset challenge for this thread: what's the worst cover of an otherwise good song?

That one would be high on my list.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Agreed. Which in a way makes the G&R cover worse.

That's a good subset challenge for this thread: what's the worst cover of an otherwise good song?

That one would be high on my list.

And the flip side are adaptations that are almost more intriguing than the original

Imagine Redemption by Jefferson Starship for example. Lennon's tune ... adjusted.

 

[SimonDoom]

And the flip side are adaptations that are almost more intriguing than the original

Imagine Redemption by Jefferson Starship for example. Lennon's tune ... adjusted.

I wasn't aware of that song but looked it. That is interesting. It combines Bob Marley's Redemption Songs, too.

I think of Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower as an inventive cover. Listening to the original Dylan tune, it's hard to imagine how Hendrix came up with his version, which I think is one of the best covers ever.

Another memorably weird cover: Manfred Mann's cover of Springsteen's Blinded by the Light.

I like the Pointer Sister's Fire version more than I like the Springsteen original.

Donna Summer's disco version of McArthur Park.

Naked Eye's 80s synth-pop version of Burt Bacharach's There is Always Something There to Remind Me.

 

[Off_base]

I'm afraid of Americans

David Bowie

 

[Aviastroitel]

“Little Drummer Boy.”

It’s shit.

#hottake

"A child, a child, shivers in the cold / Let us bring him silver and gold," (Do You Hear What I Hear?)

I mean, wouldn't a blanket and or a heater be slightly more appropriate?

(Aromatherapy [Frankincense] ain't so great at dealing with hunger pains either.)

 

[Voboy]

I wasn't aware of that song but looked it. That is interesting. It combines Bob Marley's Redemption Songs, too.

I think of Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower as an inventive cover. Listening to the original Dylan tune, it's hard to imagine how Hendrix came up with his version, which I think is one of the best covers ever.

Another memorably weird cover: Manfred Mann's cover of Springsteen's Blinded by the Light.

I like the Pointer Sister's Fire version more than I like the Springsteen original.

Donna Summer's disco version of McArthur Park.

Naked Eye's 80s synth-pop version of Burt Bacharach's There is Always Something There to Remind Me.

Another good cover is Pet Shop Boys' "Always on my Mind." That shit's been covered by everyone and their mother, but the Boys actually put something original in theirs.

"A child, a child, shivers in the cold / Let us bring him silver and gold," (Do You Hear What I Hear?)

I mean, wouldn't a blanket and or a heater be slightly more appropriate?

(Aromatherapy [Frankincense] ain't so great at dealing with hunger pains either.)

For me, it's the "pa-rumpa-pum-pum" bullshit. It's impossible to sing that with a straight face and not sound like an idiot. Merely typing it just now made me feel like a dork.

 

[cw5523729]

And Axl isn't much of a singer anyway.

Truer words have never been spoken

 

[Djmac1031]

That's a good subset challenge for this thread: what's the worst cover of an otherwise good song?

Limp Bizkit's cover of Behind Blue Eyes by The Who is pure sacrilege. Fred Durst needs to be punched in his talentless throat.

 

[Trionyx]

“Little Drummer Boy.”

It’s shit.

My mother hated it with a passion. Can’t help but think of her whenever I hear it.

 

[Djmac1031]

“Little Drummer Boy.”

It’s shit.

#hottake

Just what a mother with a newborn infant needs. Some little shit showing up and banging away on his drum just after she finally got the baby to sleep.

 

[Bloodandglitter]

It's My Life by No Doubt. Horrible cover.

Scar Tissue by RHCP
What's Going On by 4 Non Blondes

They are first songs that came to mind

 

[MillieDynamite]

Not the worst song ever, but the most repetitive.

Second place.

Third place.

But these are fantsitic songs, just says the same thing, over and over, over and over, and again.

 

[Djmac1031]

Not the worst song ever, but the most repetitive.

Second place.

Third place.

But these are fantsitic songs, just says the same thing, over and over, over and over, and again.

And then there's this obnoxious, repetitive piece of crap:

 

[MillieDynamite]

I can't knock rap, not even bad rap.... It's genetically impossible for most black people to admit they don't like rap! Truth be told, a lot of us play it just to piss off white folks.

And then there's this obnoxious, repetitive piece of crap:

 

[Djmac1031]

I can't knock rap, not even bad rap.... It's genetically impossible for most black people to admit they don't like rap! Truth be told, a lot of us play it just to piss off white folks.

In my defense, I was a mobile DJ for many years and was forced to play this damn song repeatedly and watch cringy white people think they were hip while trying to dance to it.

 

[MillieDynamite]

LOL ... My Pops told me to embrace my heritage, "even the parts you aren't thrilled about."

In my defense, I was a mobile DJ for many years and was forced to play this damn song repeatedly and watch cringy white people think they were hip while trying to dance to it.