Dullsville.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:52 (eleven months ago) link
The strings, they sound food
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:53 (eleven months ago) link
They taste like pizza.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:54 (eleven months ago) link
we should do a "don't kill yourself plz" pop song poll
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:55 (eleven months ago) link
a lot of my fav pop songs would fit in that poll.
like "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:57 (eleven months ago) link
Are we talking like, Collective soul - the world I know? Or is it just the video?
That third eye blind one too?
― omar little, Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:58 (eleven months ago) link
what's recent one by khalid or someone? 1 900 suicide?
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:58 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb24RrHIbFk
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:59 (eleven months ago) link
I have a lot of time for latter-day "bad" Can but there really is no worse song in the world than "Can Can"
I could be wrong but Joni Mitchell never really got BAD, as far as I'm concerned, just sometimes.. tedious? Except "Sex Kills", what a goddamn terrible fucking song. I could type a defence of "The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines", but not "Sex Kills"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:01 (eleven months ago) link
I'd call "Dancin' Clown" her nadir.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:06 (eleven months ago) link
...and Lou Reed's "Mama's Got a Lover".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:07 (eleven months ago) link
"Dancin' Clown," "Laughing Gnome"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:08 (eleven months ago) link
I admire the electronic rhythm of "Sex Kills" *shrugs*
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:10 (eleven months ago) link
And that bass
R.E.M.'s worst is "A Month of Saturdays" from their final compilation album, a truly pathetic attempt to turn the clock back to 1980.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:11 (eleven months ago) link
Bowie's worst is his cover of "God Only Knows".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:13 (eleven months ago) link
...but none of these that I've named qualify as "worst songs in history".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:15 (eleven months ago) link
That one does.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:16 (eleven months ago) link
I'll defend you, Halfway.
-Kenny Loggins
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:25 (eleven months ago) link
ctrl-f kokomo― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, May 10, 2023[...]And I don't know whether this is a factor, but the Beach Boys hadn't been "amazing" for at least 15 years beforehand.― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, May 10, 2023
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, May 10, 2023
[...]
And I don't know whether this is a factor, but the Beach Boys hadn't been "amazing" for at least 15 years beforehand.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Yeah but that stuff beforehand is mostly forgotten... whereas Kokomo now sits beside Good Vibrations etc on every BB greatest hits album that gets released.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:41 (eleven months ago) link
That's an interesting question, though - do we think a bad song is worse if it's more successful? I was thinking earlier that if a band released a bad song strictly as a b-side, that would slightly ameliorate my judgement: "they obviously knew this is not good, they hid it away, it's just a joke or provocation", etc.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 May 2023 02:41 (eleven months ago) link
i think the ubiquitous-ness of the song does play a role
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 May 2023 03:39 (eleven months ago) link
For me personally it's the Doors with 'Hello, I Love You'. They have more weak songs for sure, but I'm able to listen to/tolerate/even still enjoy a lot - it's very rare for me to skip a track on a record, but I normally start playing Waiting For The Sun from the second track.
― Valentijn, Thursday, 11 May 2023 06:45 (eleven months ago) link
Don't even get me started on "Turn the Page."
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 May 2023 11:09 (eleven months ago) link
Seconded. It’s the spookiest thing Seger’s ever recorded — said spookiness ramped up exponentially if you’ve ever heard it on AM radio while driving at night.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 May 2023 11:31 (eleven months ago) link
I see someone has already mentioned "Everybody Hurts," which ruined REM for me for decades.― Lily Dale, Wednesday, May 10, 2023 8:43 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinYep. The first few times I heard it on the radio I assumed it was a jokey b-side. Or a parody of something.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 May 2023 11:37 (eleven months ago) link
Iggy Pop - "Shades"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 11 May 2023 11:39 (eleven months ago) link
Iggy Pop - African Man
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Thursday, 11 May 2023 12:04 (eleven months ago) link
I enjoy "Turn the Page", I hate what Metallica did to that song on their awful cover
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 May 2023 13:02 (eleven months ago) link
(xp) It's stupid but I like it
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 May 2023 13:32 (eleven months ago) link
"Turn The Page" is a good example of a song in which the live version so totally slays the studio version that you never hear the latter on the radio. See also: "Free Bird", "I Want You to Want Me", etc.
― henry s, Thursday, 11 May 2023 13:54 (eleven months ago) link
Stairway To Heaven
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:12 (eleven months ago) link
hey the controversial music opinion thread is thatta way
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:18 (eleven months ago) link
― Stoop Crone (Trayce)
Beautiful song. I love the chorus.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:20 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, "Shades" is great. NickB's right about "African Man," though; it almost ruins an otherwise killer album.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:22 (eleven months ago) link
So the thing about "Everybody Hurts," which I do agree basically sucks, is that I don't think it counts for this because I don't think it has the "how did THAT come out of YOU" factor -- e.g. in some ways it is the same KIND of song as e.g. "You Are The Everything," which is great. I don't think it's weird that the band that released "You Are The Everything" also released "Everybody Hurts" -- you take swings, sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss. Now if I thought "Shiny Happy People" were a shit song, that would be a better example, but as it happens "Shiny Happy People" rules.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:23 (eleven months ago) link
I like Everybody Hurtz :(
― Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Wayne Manor (morrisp), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:30 (eleven months ago) link
Same. But I never play it by choice.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:33 (eleven months ago) link
Agreed on Everybody Hurts, it just feels like music for other people (which is of course fine)Stairway To Heaven is bad though, I remember many years ago sitting around smoking weed and someone put it on, just felt like the corniest fucking thing ever recorded.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:43 (eleven months ago) link
The Rain Song >>> Stairway
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:44 (eleven months ago) link
And "Ten Years Gone" is better than both.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:57 (eleven months ago) link
“Ten Years Gone” is pretty much the greatest song evah, so yeah…(I also agree with “Stairway” being one of the reasons that I didn’t get into Led Zeppelin until long after first exposure…)
― Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Wayne Manor (morrisp), Thursday, 11 May 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
Pet Shop Boys 'Winner' is a great example. Only truly abysmal single they did (under their own name)
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 11 May 2023 18:06 (eleven months ago) link
Pet Shop Boys also bear responsibility for "Absolutely Fabulous"
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 May 2023 18:08 (eleven months ago) link
This is how I feel about Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain. Literally all of their other radio songs, and pretty much all of their other output, is at least pretty good. But that one makes me want to run screaming.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 11 May 2023 18:14 (eleven months ago) link
Jay-Z's "Forever Young" needs to be in this convo
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 May 2023 18:18 (eleven months ago) link
Excuse me, "Young Forever"
Jay-Z ft. Rod Stewart
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2023 18:40 (eleven months ago) link
Jay-Z free-styling over "rhythm of my heart" would possibly be world-ending
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 May 2023 18:41 (eleven months ago) link