Worst song(s) you've ever heard 2.0

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I appreciated it only because it spawned such a great Weird Al parody. 🙂
 
Tell you what TB, I’ll take your word for it.

And by the way, I don’t believe that no on has mentioned a hit rock n’ roll classic (it actually charted in the top 25) about (can you believe it) cannibalism. The song was called “Timothy” and it was done by the Buoys in 1971. Amazing. And the guy who wrote it was Rupert Holmes who then followed it up with the Pina Colada Song" which was all about fidelity in a relationship. Am surprised none of the female posts remembered this one that had to make your day.
 
Nirvana and the Seattle grudge movement were born out of era of glam rock gone sour. Poison, Cinderella, Def Leppard, Warrant, Motley Crue and Guns n roses had worn out and kids were bored.

When Kurt started screaming, no one knew what to think and kids were blown away. They were just raw, genuine and without all the pompous hairspray. It was probably the biggest shift in music in decades prior or perhaps even since then and completely swept a generation.
 
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Has no mentioned “Touch Me in the Morning” by Diana Ross?
Egad.
 
Jeanne_S said:
Brand New Pair Of Roller Skates- Melanie
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Just noticed this one…yes this was another I would sing as a child thinking it was about someone roller skating.

I think after hearing me sing it for about the 100th time my mother said to me, “You know, she’s not really singing about roller skating…”
 
Tis_Bearself said:
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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.
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I was too old for it too but musically it rocked far more than anything else on the scene at the time.
 
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pianistclare said:
Has no mentioned “Touch Me in the Morning” by Diana Ross?
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That one became a favorite joke of my father’s. He thought of “touch” as slang for “ask for some money/ ask for a loan”, as in “I put the touch on him for 5 dollars” so he’d be at dinner saying to my mom, “I have to touch you in the morning for 5 dollars, hahaha” I was annoyed at him because being a tween, I thought it was a really romantic song and he was ruining it.
 
Yes the innocence of youth.😜
Here’s another one that is awful and in the same vein as the roller skate song:
My Dingaling - Chuck Berry😱
 
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kids were bored.
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The point is, it was about the kids. I was in my mid-20s and didn’t really give a hang about somebody who’d been raised by hippies and was singing about high school.
It was the beginning of my “aging out of music” for some years and doing other things.

Grunge was never my thing. I remember seeing Soul Asylum open for Husker Du (or similar era act) and thinking they looked like a bunch of idiots and furthermore I could see that the lead singer was wearing dirty underwear because of the massive holes in his pants and I thought he needed to go get a shower, laundered and the split ends cut from his hair. The next time I saw him he was on the cover of People Magazine dating Winona Ryder.
 
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Yeah I can understand that, but what else was there to listen to back then? It was kinda funny, because most kids in my high school before the Grunge movement took off listened to the Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd. It’s like they completely skipped over the 80’s.

Geez, I had such a crush on Winona Ryder.
 
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Not sure what you’re saying here, Claire. Wasn’t ‘Zombie’ about the conflict in northern Ireland?
 
I like the song. 🙂

But the song I absoluuuuuuuuutely HATE! HATE!! HATE!!! is Twenty Dollars in My Pocket.
 
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what else was there to listen to back then?
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By that point I had been listening exclusively to college and where available “alternative” non-college radio for about 10 years. I discovered it in high school (actually my friend discovered it and turned me on to it because I was extremely sick of AOR format radio which played the same songs over and over). I was a record geek/ music snob/ hipper than thou, what you call it, except my guilty pleasure was that I did like glam rock because the guys were cute and GnR was a good band. There was tons of all different stuff at the low end of the dial to listen to. I realize most teenagers who were glued to the MtV were not going to go hunting for weird new radio stuff in those days though, so I don’t fault them. We all have to realize at some point that we have gotten old and that was about the point that I realized I had aged out of a demographic.
 
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By the way, I don’t believe any Catholic poster her hasn’t mentioned “Only the Good Die Young” by Billy Joel. A real slap at Catholic moral values.
 
Can’t stand Billy Joel’s music in general. I got free tickets to sit in a box at MSG for one of his concerts and I left early. I couldn’t take it.
 
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By the way, I don’t believe any Catholic poster her hasn’t mentioned “Only the Good Die Young” by Billy Joel. A real slap at Catholic moral values.
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When that came out, a group of girls from my all-girls Catholic high school played the record and acted it out at the school talent show. I thought it was about the funniest thing I had ever seen in my life. (I was 15.)
My mother was not amused. She hated that song. She hated Billy Joel forever because of that song. The year before she died (like 35 years later) she was still expressing to me her animosity towards Mr. Joel.

edited to add, I will say he is a heckuva piano player and also, his song “Angry Young Man” reminds me of about half the people on the Internet including at times this forum.
 
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By the way, I don’t believe any Catholic poster her hasn’t mentioned “Only the Good Die Young” by Billy Joel. A real slap at Catholic moral values.
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When that came out, a group of girls from my all-girls Catholic high school played the record and acted it out at the school talent show. I thought it was about the funniest thing I had ever seen in my life. (I was 15.)
My mother was not amused. She hated that song. She hated Billy Joel forever because of that song. The year before she died (like 35 years later) she was still expressing to me her animosity towards Mr. Joel.
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Certainly not my favorite either. After all a guy who’d toss Christie Brinkley under the bus for a year’s supply of the Devil’s Dandruff can’t be all that swift.
Although I did like a rendition of Mr. Joel at the piano with a New York City Fireman;s helmet on the piano and him doing his rendition of “New York State of Mind” right after 9-11. Other than that, I turn the guy off when I hear him on the radio.
 
I liked the song as a young person. “The Catholic girls start much too late…” Is that about going to college or what? I don’t get it.
 
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