i think all songs on this list will be agreeably terrible
― burrhurt (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it's sad cuz whiney is banned
he will be happy that you started this though, kshighway
― burrhurt (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Whiney was banned? Wtf, we need him back immediately.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Whiney fine, but he's been insufferably ornery lately. Some time away may do him good.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
wow "Control Myself" is a really thoughtful choice
― een, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
kshighway, give him one of your other user names ; )
― velko, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
:-)
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i totally knew that was whiney about a sentence into that
― idyll of october 2009 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
[Special thanks to Jordan Sargent and [NAME REDACTED] from [LOL FAMOUS WEB SITE] for helping us put together this list
lol wat
― idyll of october 2009 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
where's dom passantino when you really need him?
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
was thinking the exact same thing
― idyll of october 2009 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"control myself"? this list is not off to a good start. :(
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
it was me & arianna huffington
― burrhurt (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway, jeezus. i'd never actually heard brokencyde. now i know why i feel icky when i watch emotwink porn.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Hope Whiney comes back soon, but in the meantime I'm sure we'll all be following this.
― RIP Whiney G. Weingarten has been banned permanently. 51 suggest ba (kshighway1), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ahahahahaha wat
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I said I hope Whiney comes back soon, but in the meantime many of us will be reading whatever he writes for this Idolator series.
― RIP Whiney G. Weingarten has been banned permanently. 51 suggest ba (kshighway1), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i think your crush on Whiney is cute.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:13 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
^This... BrokeNCYDE OTM, though.
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha i didn't know that whiney wrote for idolator
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"control myself" is a great song, actually surprised it was deemed beyond the pale
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
any list that starts with brokenCYDE is gonna be a good one, for sure. A bold move immediately excluding 'My Humps', I'm pretty sure that we (okay, I) can only find it fun and funny now after years of being overexposed and acclimatised, forgetting how mindblowingly awful it first felt.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link
how many songs do brokenCYDE have?
― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Out of curiosity, did anyone here who likes "Control Myself" actually read the reasons *why* Maura didn't like the song?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I just did -- her criticism might hold more water if the production was as boilerplate as the lyrics.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
she lickedoffher lipgloss
Okay I'm not gonna lie, I love this song but I do see why someone would not like it, given it's an oddly-muted club banger that is completely anonymous and personality-free coming from a couple of the biggest personalities in the music industry.
All I can really say is zuh-zuh-zuh-zuh-zuh
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
It's an 8.0. It could never be a 9.0 or a 9.5 or a 10.0. Though it could be a 6.5 or a 7.5. But it's better than a 6.0, definitely.
― sw00ds, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I will admit that I was shocked to discover a few months ago that I had put it on my (108-track) Best of 2006 mix, but that's just because I'd completely forgotten about it.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm glad Jordan helped w/ this, Whiney kept asking me for suggestions but i was like, sitting at home with a newborn baby, and did not have enough hate to spare
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
the "Control Myself" blurb forgot to mention the 3 most pathetic things about the song:
1) that Fergie was their first choice for the hook and they got J.Lo after she said no2) that LL was purposely recycling his "Going Back To Cali" flow for old school points3) that the Clipse actually got all butthurt and accused LL of biting because they had their own song with the whole ancient "zuh-zuh-zuh" thing on it around the same time
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
god i wish i could still comment on Idolator, some stupid error message keeps coming up no matter what browser i'm on for the past 6 months anytime i try to comment
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:45 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
Why you hate the babby? :(
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
48 is up
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXf0yIRcdnI
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
We loved the Iraq war? Or The Moldy Peaches?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
#48 just made me a Whiney FAN 4 LYFE
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the Moldy Peaches were the equivalent of a seventh-grader from gifted class screeching “Cheese monkey!” at bullies until they were too sad and confused to give him the beating he so clearly deserved.
clearly this is whiny speaking from experience right?
― brrrmuda triangle (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
what the fuck is that song
also lol at the ad hominem attack
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I am going to be so entertained at Dan's reactions to all these horrible songs yet to be unearthed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
it's kind of nice to know that my wholly unfair prejudgment of The Moldy Peaches was absolutely 100% accurate
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
by pdfreeman at 2:22 pm
@Christopher R. Weingarten: Millionaires are the new Runaways, grandpa.
^Phil OTM
― Turbohongro (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
as tom ewing said on twitter, "who's got the crack?" is 47 places too low on this list. what a vile song.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm hoping that Ashlee Simpson, The Goo Goo Dolls, and Smashmouth didn't make the Worst of the 00's list, since they're all listed on the barfing iPod.
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
(Ashlee for not having any songs that are anywhere in the vicinity of the 50 worst of the decade, other two because any badness worth anything happened before the decade started.)
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
*~~ashlee's wondrous~~*
― access flap (omar little), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
also cuz "all star" is a dope song
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
and who cares about any other SM songs
Ey, all I'm saying is that there have been some REALLY awful songs this decade.
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I know no SM song exists that's worse than Bree Bree.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
call it 33 and a turd
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney, i literally clapped my hands while giggling to that entry. i think 'board-shorted' might be my new favorite term.
― And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:52 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^____________^
― deej, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
A serious thank-you to Whiney and Maura for all the work they put into this. I loved reading/listening to it.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, it was a lot of fun to read. Thank you both.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Likewise!! It is great stuff.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean you knew that already. What I meant was that I loved it.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I will add my thanks. This was a fun read and a fun thread, too. I will miss this.
FWIW I never liked "Big Yellow Taxi" that much. Don't it always seem to go that most "political" pop music doesn't really ask the listener to take any responsibility for the situations they declaim?
(")They(") suck(s).
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I will miss this.
esp since it signals the end of idolator as well.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
You mean you don't want to read vapid blurbs about Jessica Simpson's ear candling?
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I already miss Idolator a lot. I asked upthread where I could get writing of this calibre on a daily basis and nobody answered with anything that met this requirement. Personal blogs are cool and all but there are some things that are truly improved with more than one person involved.
also I will miss this thread, one of the few I haven't killed with my "charming" personality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXXnEC_37w
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the new ID♥LATOR logo is hilarious in how it's like the polar opposite of nick denton's original gossip/snark/humiliation vision of 05
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
(fuck you, Ned!)
Ah ya punk. :-D Nah, I'm currently on vacation and also slightly under the weather so I'm glad someone else stepped up, I'm only just now reading all this.
Echoing everyone's thanks for this whole thing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
aw, you guys are so sweet
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
whens the poll??? good job, whiney and maura dot com.
― bnw, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
You're the parking lot, motherfucker. You drove your shitty steamroller over something everyone loved so you could pander your sensitive pussyhound whine to people waiting in line at the Carl's Jr.
<3 <3 <3 x 1000
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
thx whiney and maura. i imagine this was like the musical version of sailing up the river in apocalypse now.
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks for following along all this time, everybody! i just reread this whole thread and it was like tripping back through the last eight weeks. which, whew.
― maura, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know, the original vision was pretty hilarious too.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.i-mockery.com/blabber/pics/otter-pops-armageddon.gif
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
You're the parking lot, motherfucker. You drove your shitty steamroller over something everyone loved so you could pander your sensitive pussyhound whine to people waiting in line at the Carl's Jr.<3 <3 <3 x 1000
agreed. and i love joni mitchell, but "big yellow taxi" was always a little too cutesy for me.
― The Détourn of the Depressed (get bent), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
love it. thanks for everything you guys.
i think my personal favorite was blue october.
― kaygee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
can't find the Alan Partridge clip where he talks about 'Big Yellow Taxi' :(
― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I never even noticed this thread!reiterating my plea for a 2cd set from whiney
― If COMETS had horoscope they would have the SUN conjunct URANUS (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously it was an awesome and well-researched list but the abject shittiness of each entry crowded out any room for zingers.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like there is no room for zingers right now, sure.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
The list doesn't really have that problem, though.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
A heh.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"Ass Like That" was on the first draft of the list.Da doing doing doyyyyyng― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Da doing doing doyyyyyng
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
No "FACK"?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
still think that the chipmunk song is a little too good for this list
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
and for this world imo
― aun™ (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ha!
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
so i have a question
did u guys actually actively research, finding bad songs that were new to you, or just organize the list from your collective traumatized memories?
― j/k and the fa™an (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
both!
― sunn o_O))) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 December 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
ha jump rope sucks so bad
― forks©lovetofu (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 December 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
The 2010 edition kicked in a few days back:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/columns/f2k10/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 December 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17a989_worst-cover-songs-of-all-time-snl-11-16-13_people#from=embediframe
― maura, Sunday, 17 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
WHERE CAN I READ THIS?!?!? It appears to have disappeared from the internet entirely. Even the Internet Archive Wayback Machine is giving me a page of a 404 error.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 11 May 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
:,(
― maura, Thursday, 11 May 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
We pitched it as a book, everyone blew it
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 May 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
if only we'd called it f2k me please
― maura, Thursday, 11 May 2017 10:53 (six years ago) link
Can't believe yall just let all this great writing just disappear forever. Backup your work ffs. Does anybody even have a complete list?
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 11 May 2017 10:55 (six years ago) link
why don't you step off
― maura, Thursday, 11 May 2017 10:57 (six years ago) link
and maybe educate yourself about how online content works. sheesh man
it looks like its here? https://www.google.com.au/search?q=f2k+village+voice&safe=off
― just sayin, Thursday, 11 May 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
Yay! Thank you!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/?s=f2k
― maura, Thursday, 18 May 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link