Worst song ever?

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Sailor_Kenshin said:
Imagine there’s no Lennon… 😃
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Probably not the best thing to say, considering that’s probably what his killer was thinking…

But yeah, I think someone should do a parody of some of Lennon’s post-Beatles songs one of these days.
 
I was and still am a huge Beatles fan. John was a screwball, but a brilliant screwball who couldn’t keep his foot out of his mouth. I wish he’d channeled his energies and brilliance in better directions. I still miss the Beatles…
 
The album cover is hysterical, will check out the website.

I had Meet the Beatles; it was my first album ever, paid $2.99 for it at Kresge’s with babysitting money…
 
FickleFreckled said:
There’s a line in the Phil Collins song ‘That’s All’ that I misunderstood for years. The line was “Livin’ with you’s just-a puttin’ me through it all-a the time.” I thought he was singing “Livin’ with you’s just a pretty mean phooey all-a the time.” Well, I actually went into a record store to buy the album, couldn’t remember the title of the song and so I asked the sales guy for the album with the song that had “Livin with you is a pretty mean phooey…” He did finally get up off the floor and stopped laughing hysterically. Still, I think the line’s pretty appropos for lots of situations!
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I remember calling the local DJ (back in the days when there were actually DJs at the local station rather than the same programming on all the stations) and asking him to play “Knights in White Armour”. “Er, it’s ‘Nights in White Satin’.” “Satin? What kind of protection is that for a Knight???” I’m sure he was peeing his pants laughing at the other end of the line.😃
 
CTA1967 said:
One of my local radio stations is doing “The Beatles A to Z”, playing all 200+ Beatles songs in aphabetical order.

I wonder what “The Beatitudes A to Z” would sound like.

“For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the Son”… :whistle:
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*Here comes the Son, here comes the Son
and I say it’s all right

Son, sun, Son, here He comes…
Son, sun, Son, here He comes…
Sun, sun, Son, here He comes…
Son, sun, Son, here He comes…
Son, sun, Son, here He comes…

Little darling, I feel that sin is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been clear
Here comes the Son, here comes the Son,
and I say it’s all right
It’s all right*
 
patrick457 said:
*Here comes the Son, here comes the Son
and I say it’s all right

Son, sun, Son, here He comes…
Son, sun, Son, here He comes…
Sun, sun, Son, here He comes…
Son, sun, Son, here He comes…
Son, sun, Son, here He comes…

Little darling, I feel that sin is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been clear
Here comes the Son, here comes the Son,
and I say it’s all right
It’s all right*
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Actually, I remember the comic strip Baby Blues did something like that, except in that case the “son” was baby Hammie.
 
FickleFreckled said:
There’s a line in the Phil Collins song ‘That’s All’ that I misunderstood for years. The line was “Livin’ with you’s just-a puttin’ me through it all-a the time.” I thought he was singing “Livin’ with you’s just a pretty mean phooey all-a the time.” Well, I actually went into a record store to buy the album, couldn’t remember the title of the song and so I asked the sales guy for the album with the song that had “Livin with you is a pretty mean phooey…” He did finally get up off the floor and stopped laughing hysterically. Still, I think the line’s pretty appropos for lots of situations!
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‘That’s all’ is actually a Genesis song. But it sure sounds like one Phil Collins would make… probably because he wrote it before his solo career. The album it’s on doesn’t actually have a title, but Genesis fans tend to call it either “Mama” or “Pieces” or “Genesis”. So you’d probably have difficulty finding it if the store guy didn’t know such. I’m such a Genesis nerd.
 
But it was Phil Collins singing, right? It was back in the '80’s and I’m lucky to remember breakfast this morning…completely forgot about Genesis (sorry…)
 
What about “The Pina Colada Song”? Juvenile, schmaltzy, and as nauseating as the drink for which it is named!
 
Sugabee43 said:
What about “The Pina Colada Song”? Juvenile, schmaltzy, and as nauseating as the drink for which it is named!
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I happen to like the Pina Colada song, but I know I’d be a little miffed if I found out it was my girlfriend/wife writing to the personals, as I’m sure she would be if I were answering one.

I hate, haTE, HATE that song by Panic! at the Disco that seems to be about someone leaving someone else at the altar, and Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani. Oh that song makes my skin crawl.

Most “popular” music now is really really bad, so I tend to stick with the older stuff. I used to listen to a lot of rap music, but now it’s so bad that Tupac and Biggie are probably spinning in their respective graves.
 
Worst song ever is “Mr. Bojangles.” (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, I think.) For years I had to change the station whenever it came on the radio. Even now, on rare occasions, it becomes necessary.
 
I agree with most of the songs listed here so far, especially Copacabana
and
Having my baby

Don’t remember seeing these so forgive me if I list them again:

Midnight at the Oasis

Loving You (Minne Riperton’s shrieking at the end reminds me of a classic episode of All in Family – when Edith (Jean Stapleton) sings Indian Love Call (aka When I’m Calling You) during a power outage. My reaction to the high notes in Loving You is the same as Mike Stivic’s (Rob Reiner’s))

Not sure of the title but its opening line starts “Help me, I think I’m fallin’, I love again…” sung by a very monotone singer to a light jazz melody.

Torn between Two Lovers (again, very monotonous) – I think it’s by Jessie Coulter

True Colors (not so much the song as when it is sung by Cyndi Lauper. Does the woman hit a correct note even once during this song?)

Aaliyah – long and monotonous

Come to my window – A song about stalking IMHO

And, in the church music category, my daughter’s parochial school has a Holy, Holy, Holy that just about drives me through the wall:

Holy Holy Holy
(echo Holy, Holy, Holy)
Lord God of Power and Might)
(echo Lord God of Power and Might)
Heaven, Heaven and Earth
(echo Heaven, Heaven and Earth)
Are full of your glory
(Are full of your Glory)
Sing! Hosanna
Sing! Hosanna
Sing! Hosanna
Sing! Hosanna
Sing Alleluia
Sing Alleluia
Blessed Blessed is He
(echo Blessed, Blessed is He)
Who Comes in the Name of the Lord
(echo Who Comes in the Name of the Lord)
Sing! Hosanna
Sing! Hosanna
Sing! Hosanna
Sing! Hosanna
Sing! Hosanna
Sing! Hosanna
Sing Alleluia
Sing Alleluia

The accompaniment is a music-box style piano arrangement.
Pardon me for saying it but while I do understand that the Holy Holy Holy is to give glory to God this one just drags on and on and when the kids are particularly bored it shows. (Of course, they always sing it when Mass is running long or when I have to get somewhere right after Mass.)

A previous thread mentioned the other Holy Holy Holy I loathe:
Holly, Holly Holly Loo-oo-yah!
My family read that transcription in this forum and were ROFL. Now we can’t look at each other when our parish does that one.

This is a fun thread. It made my day.
 
Omygosh, yes - Midnight at the Oasis. That’s close to the top in my book and I’d (mercifully) forgotten it.

Also, add California Dreamin’ by the M&P’s; it’s just slightly enough off-key it makes my vocal chords ache trying to get them back up where they should be.
 
Laura_B said:
And, in the church music category, my daughter’s parochial school has a Holy, Holy, Holy that just about drives me through the wall:
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OH MY! The kids used to sing that at Family Mass accompanied by a guitar strummer who suddenly went punk at the “sing hosanna…” reminiscent of The Vandals doing “So Long, Farewell”
 
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