Worst song(s) you've ever heard 2.0

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Basically any popular artist right now. It’s like music has gotten to the point where even two year olds could make it.

Any new Miley Cyrus song is pretty bad…

Rap is ruined, too. I’m not a fan of the club music but that seems it’s all they play on the radio.
 
michaelArc said:
I’d rather be dragged across a giant cheese grater than listen to the song for any length of time.

Everything about the song is super annoying 😖
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Hm, I guess I like Dolores’s voice. As far as the song’s lyrics go, it does seem to be pretty preachy, like all songs about ‘the Troubles,’ whatever it is the song is actually trying to say, I don’t know.
 
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tomarin said:
No Curt Kobain, no point, right, @Joe_5859 ?
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😜 I actually remember the day Kurt Cobain died. I was spending the night at my cousin’s house and my aunt (the youngest of my mom’s sisters and the one who actually listened to such music) walked in and announced to me and my cousins that Kurt Cobain just killed himself.

At the time, though, I kind of resented the grunge bands replacing the glam bands that I liked in terms of popularity. 😄 Back in '93 was when the local rock station transitioned from one owner and name to another, with an increase in the grunge. I liked some if at first, but after hearing so much Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots, it grated on me. It’s also when I got my first CD player, so I simply opted to choose my own music to listen to. Haven’t looked back. 😁
 
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tomarin:
No Curt Kobain, no point, right, @Joe_5859 ?
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😜 I actually remember the day Kurt Cobain died. I was spending the night at my cousin’s house and my aunt (the youngest of my mom’s sisters and the one who actually listened to such music) walked in and announced to me and my cousins that Kurt Cobain just killed himself.

At the time, though, I kind of resented the grunge bands replacing the glam bands that I liked in terms of popularity. 😄 Back in '93 was when the local rock station transitioned from one owner and name to another, with an increase in the grunge. I liked some if at first, but after hearing so much Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots, it grated on me. It’s also when I got my first CD player, so I simply opted to choose my own music to listen to. Haven’t looked back. 😁
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I also remember where I was when the news broke: in a cab (or maybe a friend’s rental car) traveling down Skinker Street in St. Louis. The news came over the radio of the car and it seemed like time stopped.

Normally I’m twenty or thirty years behind in appreciating musical trends so it’s kind of odd that I actually liked Nirvana at the time of the Grunge explosion. I’ve also never been much of a ‘hard rock’ afficionado, leaning more to the pop side, preferring acts like David Bowie over Led Zeppelin and the like. Still I don’t mind a little hard rock now and then. And now I know there’s always a ‘back to basics’ ‘rock revival’ waiting around the corner when things get too pop-oriented and/or experimental, so it seems normal that Grunge would be born.
 
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pianistclare said:
I guess everyone has forgotten the abysmal “MacArther’s Parl” and the horrid “Muskrat Love”.

ewwwwwww

both sooooooo creepy. 😒
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Thank you Clare!! I wrote a piece for a creative writing/comedy class once on the Ten Worst Songs in the History of Rock n’ Roll. And # 1 (drum roll please) was Muskrat Love. Tony Tenille should be strangled with he own vocal chords for singing that abomination.

By the way, others were, The Candy Man by Sammy Davis (the national anthem for pedophiles everywhere), You’re having my Baby by Paul Anka (need insulin if you listen to it), the aforementioned, MacArthur Park (what happens if you try to record a record after five too many hits on the doobie), and Hey Jude, by the Beatles. (actually a good song until they ruined in the end by letting a hundred chimpanzees hopped up on PCP loose in the studio.)
Anyway, thanks for the memory.
 
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There were some Nirvana songs I liked, but at the time I kind of viewed them as supplanters. 😜 One of the bands I was getting into at the time was the Galactic Cowboys—a more straight, slightly progressive, hard rock/metal band with Beatle-esque harmony vocals. Both they and Nirvana were signed to DGC records and both released albums in 1991. The hearsay I heard painted the story as the record label basically looking at the two, tossing a coin, and then deciding to give Nirvana all the publicity and promotion as the “next big thing in rock”. So teenage me would think wistfully of what might have been. There but for the flip of a coin go the Galactic Cowboys. 😄 Of course, considering what fame did to Cobain, the Galactic Cowboys should consider themselves blessed. It always made me think, though, of how easy it is for a couple of music executives to really steer the direction of popular music.
 
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tomarin:
I don’t know if it’s the worst, but ‘Afternoon Delight’ (A-a-afternoon delight!) is pretty bad.
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Yes that is pretty bad, and so is another stinker called My Ding-a–ling.

Who has the air freshener?
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Milt; if you think “My Ding-a-Ling” by Chuck Berry is bad, don’t ever listen to anything by Two Live Crew. The late Sam Kinison did a comedy bit about rap music and he cited two of their songs on their albums. (espicall Nasty as We Want to Be) I cannot and will never even list the names of them on a Catholic forum, but they are songs from hell.
Shalom
 
I sang that song as a kid too 🙂 It was the theme song to her TV show and my mother sang it so I sang it. I had no idea what Que sera, sera meant.
 
I remember a couple of other “risque” 70s hits, one called “The Telephone Man” that used the “ding-a-ling” concept, which I used to sing around the house at about age 12 having zero idea what it meant other than a man came to put in a phone and the girl thought he was cute or something.

And another called “Third Rate Romance” which was two people going to a motel to do something illicit.

Both of which pale in comparison to the average rap song of today, or even many of the non-rap dance songs.
 
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Joe_5859 said:
There were some Nirvana songs I liked, but at the time I kind of viewed them as supplanters
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“Smells Like Teen Spirit” is a song I can truly say I couldn’t stand and still can’t. I did like some other songs of Nirvana’s later on, but I simply could not understand why the fuss over this stupid band singing dirgey stuff about high school. I was too old for it and all the other songs of that era where teens whined about their dysfunctional home lives.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I remember a couple of other “risque” 70s hits, one called “The Telephone Man” that used the “ding-a-ling” concept, which I used to sing around the house at about age 12 having zero idea what it meant other than a man came to put in a phone and the girl thought he was cute or something.

And another called “Third Rate Romance” which was two people going to a motel to do something illicit.

Both of which pale in comparison to the average rap song of today, or even many of the non-rap dance songs.
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A couple more risque songs you might remember:
I Think We’re Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondelles
Chevy Van - don’t remember the artist
And how about the adultery songs of the 70’s? Things like “Me and Mrs. Jones”, Most anything by Barry White, and the unforgettable (though I don’t remember the artist), “It’s Sad to Belong to Someone Else, When the Right One Comes Along.” They all came out within a short period of time. And they stunk.
 
joeybaggz said:
The Candy Man by Sammy Davis
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If you think this is bad, you ought to check out a song called “Sweet Gingerbread Man” which was a bit of a bubblegum hit in the 70s, covered by the Mike Curb Congregation and even by the Muppets which had gingerbread men singing it. A couple years ago I determined it was originally from the soundtrack of “The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart” and the context in which it was used in that film (which I don’t recommend Catholics watching if they are concerned about morality in films, btw) was about as far removed from cute singing cookies on a kids’ show as you can get.
 
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There must have been a lot of people having affairs in the 70s.

I remember a column for the Catholic Universe Bulletin at that time where some young priest would analyze the lyrics to a particular song every week and discuss the morality or lack thereof within. It was actually a pretty good column. Usually the lyrics were printed out. I remember Skynyrd’s “Saturday Nite Special” being one of the songs he picked to analyze. I also remember a song called “Love Won’t Let Me Wait” which he considered too lousy/ immoral to even print the lyrics.
 
In Ireland, “the Troubles” refer to the conflict between the North and South
 
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