Worst Song Ever

[EmilyMiller]

I’m sure some people are fond of this, but really? Cringe turned to 11.

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love a
People talk about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong, doin' you wrong
Well, don't you worry, baby, don't worry
'Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, right here at home
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Ooh wee baby, I'll sure show you a good time
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
People keep talkin' about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong
Well don't you worry, don't worry, no don't worry mama
'Cause I'm right here at home
You're the cutest thing I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Come on baby now, I'll show you a good time

 

[CelticTiger88]

I’m sure some people are fond of this, but really? Cringe turned to 11.

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love a
People talk about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong, doin' you wrong
Well, don't you worry, baby, don't worry
'Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, right here at home
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Ooh wee baby, I'll sure show you a good time
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
People keep talkin' about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong
Well don't you worry, don't worry, no don't worry mama
'Cause I'm right here at home
You're the cutest thing I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Come on baby now, I'll show you a good time

I agree. It's terrible listening.....

 

[CelticTiger88]

I’m sure some people are fond of this, but really? Cringe turned to 11.

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love a
People talk about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong, doin' you wrong
Well, don't you worry, baby, don't worry
'Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, right here at home
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Ooh wee baby, I'll sure show you a good time
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
People keep talkin' about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong
Well don't you worry, don't worry, no don't worry mama
'Cause I'm right here at home
You're the cutest thing I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Come on baby now, I'll show you a good time

But maybe worse that that is Blue from Eifel 65......

 

[EmilyMiller]

I agree. It's terrible listening.....

Hi - don’t think we have spoken on here before - just PMs .



Em

 

[JaxRhapsody]

That's the only collapse of a suspension bridge that was caught on film that I know of. If it's got that distinctive swaying of the deck up and down, and then the deck peeling off the cables, than that must be the one.

I've been trying to find it, and honestly it's pissing me off. There was a television company(like Gracie Films, Curiosity Company, Regency Productions, CBS Television, etc) that used a twisting bridge as their company effect. You think something like this would be an easy Google search. I can't even remember the tv show they produced. The only thing that pops up is the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I’m sure some people are fond of this, but really? Cringe turned to 11.

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love a
People talk about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong, doin' you wrong
Well, don't you worry, baby, don't worry
'Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, right here at home
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Ooh wee baby, I'll sure show you a good time
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
People keep talkin' about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong
Well don't you worry, don't worry, no don't worry mama
'Cause I'm right here at home
You're the cutest thing I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Come on baby now, I'll show you a good time

I don't like that song.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I don't like that song.

Couldn’t get a cell signal for Amazon Music on part or a trip recently and it was on the radio (at least for the few seconds it took me to recognize it).

Em

 

[CelticTiger88]

Hi - don’t think we have spoken on here before - just PMs .



Em

Now that you mention it - you're right!

Maybe we should both make a wish!

 

[Mastered_again]

I’m sure some people are fond of this, but really? Cringe turned to 11.

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love a
People talk about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong, doin' you wrong
Well, don't you worry, baby, don't worry
'Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, right here at home
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Ooh wee baby, I'll sure show you a good time
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I get my lovin' on the run
I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
Ooh, whoo, ooh, whoo
People keep talkin' about me baby
Say I'm doin' you wrong
Well don't you worry, don't worry, no don't worry mama
'Cause I'm right here at home
You're the cutest thing I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
Come on baby now, I'll show you a good time

It was overplayed on the radio - that can take an ok song and make you sick of it. Personally, I think "midnight toker" (somewhat scandalous in the 70's) gave it undeserved popularity. Just the sort of thing to make your parents hate it. Ergo, kids loved it.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Part of that is that You Are My Sunshine is structured like a murder ballad, but cuts out before the actual, you know, murder.

I've always found "You Are My Sunshine" to be so creepy!

 

[CelticTiger88]

I've always found "You Are My Sunshine" to be so creepy!

Yes. It is creepy and boring.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

That's the only collapse of a suspension bridge that was caught on film that I know of. If it's got that distinctive swaying of the deck up and down, and then the deck peeling off the cables, than that must be the one.

Muahahahaha! I fucking found it! It is the Tacoma bridge, Double Hemm productions.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Couldn’t get a cell signal for Amazon Music on part or a trip recently and it was on the radio (at least for the few seconds it took me to recognize it).

Em

I just download music. I also only listen to the only radio station that plays 90s and current rock Alt105.1. I have almost 700 songs on my phone.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Okay, I'll play. I've been ignoring this thread far too long.

I've been hearing this song in public places for over a decade and every time it just drives me crazy.

The middle section 'When you lose the one you wanted, because he's taken you for granted, and everything you had got destroyed' is just so unbelievably ledden. It's not just that wanted and granted don't rhyme, it's that there doesn't seem to be any flow to the final line at all. I hadn't realized until I looked it up just now that this was Beyonce, which I'm kind of disappointed in since I keep reading she's the voice of a generation.

(I'm old and spend more time reading about music than I do listening to it).

Looking at the lyrics just now there's also this weirdly patronizing 'girls would make better boys than boys' attitude to it. I'm not going to go frothing at the mouth at how 'woke' everything is these days, or how, if she thinks all men are assholes it's because she keeps chosing asshole men - I am going to leave it as an exercise to the reader to write thier own song starting

If I was a girl,

Don't feel any need to make the words fit any kind of meter or rhyming scheme, in fact points will be deducted if you do.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Muahahahaha! I fucking found it! It is the Tacoma bridge, Double Hemm productions.

"Double Hemm Productions is the vanity card of television comedy writers and Drawn Together creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, formed in 2003." "Availability: Can be seen on Drawn Together, 2004-2009 episodes of The Man Show, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Unhitched, The Drawn Together Movie!, seasons 2-4 of The Cleveland Show, DJ & the Fro, and The Grode Family."

I guess I wasn't watching much TV in that era, because I never saw any of those.

 

[gunhilltrain]

"Brand New Key" is the dirtiest song ever. WAP can't hold a candle to it.

I think this song is a competitor. Sheena Easton is now sixty-four. Those yellow ear rings (?) are so 1980's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EastonLive2009.jpg

 

[XerXesXu]

I've been trying to find it, and honestly it's pissing me off. There was a television company(like Gracie Films, Curiosity Company, Regency Productions, CBS Television, etc) that used a twisting bridge as their company effect. You think something like this would be an easy Google search. I can't even remember the tv show they produced. The only thing that pops up is the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

Apparently, the engineers used the wrong harmonics.

 

[gunhilltrain]

It was overplayed on the radio - that can take an ok song and make you sick of it. Personally, I think "midnight toker" (somewhat scandalous in the 70's) gave it undeserved popularity. Just the sort of thing to make your parents hate it. Ergo, kids loved it.

The Steve Miller Band was one of those groups that everybody listened to but probably no one truly liked. They just filled in some pop-cultural space. This whole video fits that description: flashy (for the time, anyway) but basically meaningless.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

"Double Hemm Productions is the vanity card of television comedy writers and Drawn Together creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, formed in 2003." "Availability: Can be seen on Drawn Together, 2004-2009 episodes of The Man Show, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Unhitched, The Drawn Together Movie!, seasons 2-4 of The Cleveland Show, DJ & the Fro, and The Grode Family."

I guess I wasn't watching much TV in that era, because I never saw any of those.

I've never even heard of dj&fro, unhitched, and the grode family. Didn't know drawn together had a movie either, it was a satire of reality shows where people share a house, except with cartoons with a parody of Superman, Betty Boop, disney princes, Josie[and the Pussycats], gross/crass internet cartoon, and Link. On Comedy Central with The Man Show. Andy is a comedian that had a short lived show on fox. The Cleveland Show is a Family Guy spinoff.

 

[SimonDoom]

The Steve Miller Band was one of those groups that everybody listened to but probably no one truly liked. They just filled in some pop-cultural space. This whole video fits that description: flashy (for the time, anyway) but basically meaningless.

Count me as one who liked Steve Miller. He wasn't a favorite, but I have fond memories. His music helped define mid-70s easy rock, so I think of TSMB as part of the soundtrack of my youth. The Joker. Swingtown. Fly Like An Eagle. Jet Airliner. Take the Money and Run.

A 70s tune that definitely was NOT a favorite was Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life, which I just could not stand. One of the most maudlin chart toppers ever. It gets extra "bad" points from me because it was at the top of the charts for so long and you just could not get away from it.

Another song I could never understand the appeal of was Richard Harris's MacArthur Park, which I still think is unlistenable. I don't like the way he sings, the melody is bleh, and the lyrics are ridiculous:

I don't think that I can make it.
Cause it took so long to bake it.
And I'll never have that recipe again.

What?


Donna Summer did a nice disco cover of it much later.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Count me as one who liked Steve Miller. He wasn't a favorite, but I have fond memories. His music helped define mid-70s easy rock, so I think of TSMB as part of the soundtrack of my youth. The Joker. Swingtown. Fly Like An Eagle. Jet Airliner. Take the Money and Run.

A 70s tune that definitely was NOT a favorite was Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life, which I just could not stand. One of the most maudlin chart toppers ever. It gets extra "bad" points from me because it was at the top of the charts for so long and you just could not get away from it.

Another song I could never understand the appeal of was Richard Harris's MacArthur Park, which I still think is unlistenable. I don't like the way he sings, the melody is bleh, and the lyrics are ridiculous:

I don't think that I can make it.
Cause it took so long to bake it.
And I'll never have that recipe again.

What?


Donna Summer did a nice disco cover of it much later.

I was one of those people who listened to the Steve Miller Band too although I didn't think much about it. They were just there. The first time I ever heard "Fly Like an Eagle" was at a bookstore near Columbia University. (No, I didn't go to Columbia.) I remember being somewhat impressed. So nostalgia is one thing. Maybe we miss the past because we were young then and everything seemed possible But after nearly fifty years, I certainly no longer seek out their songs.

MacArthur Park: Jimmy Webb wrote it about an ex-girlfriend who worked across the street. So he wrote it in a mood of "peak break-up blues." Everybody has gone through that, and it's a relatively popular song trope. Webb's version is not the best of those. But once it was recorded, we're stuck in his fleeting emotions forever.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Springsteen’s “Blinded by the Light”

Lyrics wise it’s got to be one of the worst of all time! What the fuck is he talking about?

Sure it’s got some of the most misunderstood lyrics ever, but even looking them up doesn’t help much.

“Set up like a douche in the middle of the night”



Blinded by the Light

Springsteen messed up sometimes, like with this one. It's mostly about clever rhyming and not much else. I don't think he has used this in his shows for years, if ever.

 

[Mastered_again]

MacArthur Park: Jimmy Webb wrote it about an ex-girlfriend who worked across the street. So he wrote it in a mood of "peak break-up blues." Everybody has gone through that, and it's a relatively popular song trope. Webb's version is not the best of those. But once it was recorded, we're stuck in his fleeting emotions foforever.

Muddy Waters said it better (and popularized by the Allman Brothers)

"But someday baby, you won't trouble poor me anymore"

 

[gunhilltrain]

Muddy Waters said it better (and popularized by the Allman Brothers)

"But someday baby, you won't trouble poor me anymore"

What song are we talking about here? Muddy Waters had a song called "Walking in the Park." It doesn't seem to have that lyric in it. What did The Allman Brothers do?

 

[Mastered_again]

What song are we talking about here? Muddy Waters had a song called "Walking in the Park." It doesn't seem to have that lyric in it. What did The Allman Brothers do?

The song title is Trouble No More.
One version by the Allmans is on Live st the Fillmore East (also one of the greatest live albums evah)