Worst Songs

[Dark Spectre]

Anyone heard the ending theme to the anime movie, Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade (1999)?  The lyrics are total gibberish but it conveys a somber tone.  One of my old favorites.

 

[Count Chocula]

And speaking of Mamma Mia!, Lay All Your Love on Me. One of the lines is "I'm not possessive, it isn't nice. You've heard me say that smoking is my only vice." First of all, if someone told me smoking is their only vice, I'd tell them to either stop lying to me or to stop lying to themselves. But let's say smoking was indeed their only vice. That's a pretty big fuckin' vice, enough to get me to say "Well, good luck with that."

 

I must say I thought this thread would die after like 2 or 3 posts.

Edited June 3, 2025 by chocula

[Dark Spectre]

Same tune with different lyrics.  The original tune by Eiffel 65 was barely coherent while the latter is more straightforward.  And despite all of that, I still like the original better.

[Count Chocula]

1 hour ago, Revenant Ghost said:

Same tune with different lyrics.  The original tune by Eiffel 65 was barely coherent while the latter is more straightforward.  And despite all of that, I still like the original better.

"Latter" takes itself way too seriously, whereas "Eiffel 65" is just a goofy song. Kind of like Beat It vs. Eat it.

[Jyratx]

On 6/2/2025 at 7:26 PM, RedHeadAngel said:

I fully agree. There are songs that don’t make sense, but are enjoyable. On the other hand, there are songs that make sense but aren’t good.

But it can still count. A song that doesn't make sense can be hated as much as a song that makes sense can be beloved, and vice versa.

 

And speaking of a song that makes sense and that I fukkin' hate... Heaven is a Place On Earth by Belinda Carlisle. I hate it for two reasons: 1) the fact that I hear it at least five times every workday and I'm sick of hearing it, and 2) it's dead wrong. Heaven being on the charnel house called Earth? The planet where death consumes life, thus creating new life from death to be further consumed? No. Hell might be on Earth, Hell might even be Earth, but not Heaven. Never that. 

 

In terms of favorability for me, Heaven is a Place on Earth < We Are the Devil (which is an actually good song, and worth a listen if you're a metalhead).

Edited June 4, 2025 by Jyratx

[RedHeadAngel]

1 hour ago, Jyratx said:

But it can still count. A song that doesn't make sense can be hated as much as a song that makes sense can be beloved, and vice versa.

That's pretty much the point I was trying to make. Also, a song that doesn't make sense could start off hated but then become loved, like Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

1 hour ago, Jyratx said:

Heaven is a Place On Earth by Belinda Carlisle.

Ugh. I have an aunt who loves that stupid ass song.

[RedHeadAngel]

Love Story by Taylor Swift is another song that pisses me off. Mainly because the song continued the trend of misrepresenting the story of Romeo and Juliet. Do people not understand that the story is more of a tragedy than a romance? Also, the song is just another cliché, schmaltzy, teenage love track.

 

I will give Swift this, though. Her newer stuff is OK, in my opinion. Not something I would listen to on my own time, but still.

[Dark Spectre]

4 hours ago, chocula said:

"Latter" takes itself way too seriously, whereas "Eiffel 65" is just a goofy song. Kind of like Beat It vs. Eat it.

Ah, "Weird" Al Yankovic and his parodies.  Classic.

"Weird" Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise

Edited June 4, 2025 by Revenant Ghost

[Count Chocula]

2 hours ago, Jyratx said:

But it can still count. A song that doesn't make sense can be hated as much as a song that makes sense can be beloved, and vice versa.

 

And speaking of a song that makes sense and that I fukkin' hate... Heaven is a Place On Earth by Belinda Carlisle. I hate it for two reasons: 1) the fact that I hear it at least five times every workday and I'm sick of hearing it, and 2) it's dead wrong. Heaven being on the charnel house called Earth? The planet where death consumes life, thus creating new life from death to be further consumed? No. Hell might be on Earth, Hell might even be Earth, but not Heaven. Never that. 

 

In terms of favorability for me, Heaven is a Place on Earth < We Are the Devil (which is an actually good song, and worth a listen if you're a metalhead).

I think of Heaven is a Place on Earth as a song which has a bunch of lines that rhyme thrown together, regardless of what they mean, then set to a less than stellar tune.

 

Speaking of a song that I think is just a bunch of words thrown together. American Pie. But scads of people thinks it's awesome. Tagging the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper as "the day the music died" sounds pretty pretentious, although I'm sure Don McLean meant it on a personal level.

[Jyratx]

18 hours ago, RedHeadAngel said:

Love Story by Taylor Swift is another song that pisses me off. Mainly because the song continued the trend of misrepresenting the story of Romeo and Juliet. Do people not understand that the story is more of a tragedy than a romance? Also, the song is just another cliché, schmaltzy, teenage love track.

 

I will give Swift this, though. Her newer stuff is OK, in my opinion. Not something I would listen to on my own time, but still.

Basically anything by Taylor Swift is a hard pass for me. Not my genre, and Swift's not my human trainwreck.

[Count Chocula]

3 minutes ago, Jyratx said:

Basically anything by Taylor Swift is a hard pass for me. Not my genre, and Swift's not my human trainwreck.

Safe to say that as a general rule any art produced for the sake of making money is going to suffer. It's tagged as a "hipster cliche" thing to say "I liked his early stuff." But I say there's something to it because there's a good chance "his early stuff" was made because that's the art he wanted to make for its own sake. Then he became successful and started to make art for the primary purpose of making money. There are a lot of generalizations in all that, to be  sure. And if there's one thing I hate, it's people who always over-generalize all the time.

[Jyratx]

23 minutes ago, chocula said:

Safe to say that as a general rule any art produced for the sake of making money is going to suffer. It's tagged as a "hipster cliche" thing to say "I liked his early stuff." But I say there's something to it because there's a good chance "his early stuff" was made because that's the art he wanted to make for its own sake. Then he became successful and started to make art for the primary purpose of making money. There are a lot of generalizations in all that, to be  sure. And if there's one thing I hate, it's people who always over-generalize all the time.

It can be a generalization; it can also be a simplification. Most likely its just an assumption that gets attached to either. Unless we're one of those creepazoids that might suffer a coronary if we don't get this months issue of [insert paparazzi media here], we don't know what's going on in the lives and minds of these people. Most of us probably have a million better things to concern ourselves with. In any case, I don't really care. I was never into her music, and she's been having... romantic problems since before my pre-pubescent days. 

Edited June 4, 2025 by Jyratx

[Count Chocula]

On 6/4/2025 at 3:35 PM, Jyratx said:

It can be a generalization; it can also be a simplification. Most likely its just an assumption

It is all three of those. I can't comment on her music directly because I have never knowingly heard a song of hers.

 

Another song I like, but with WTF lyrics, The Partridge Family's I Think I Love You. "Screaming out the words I dread 'I think I love you!'" So the person is saying they dread falling in love with the target of the song. But they can't help themselves, I guess.

Edited June 11, 2025 by chocula
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[RedHeadAngel]

Here's a song that makes my blood boil.

 

Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband

[Count Chocula]

Here's two based not on the lyrics but on the musicality. Vanessa Williams' rendition of Colors of the Wind over the end credits of Pocahontas and Michael Bolton's of Go the Distance over the end credits of Hercules. I kinda like the renditions of both songs as they are sung by the characters during the story, but these two, ugh. They are co-poster children for "overwrought." Listening to both of them, but especially Williams, the thought that springs to my mind is "Just sing the fuckin' song, will you?"

Edited June 11, 2025 by chocula
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[Count Chocula]

Help Me Rhonda. Another song with fucked up lyrics and a fucked up theme. "Help me, Rhonda, yeah, get her out of my heart." In other words, "I want you to be my emotional support so I can forget about the woman who dumped me or cheated on my or whatever it was she did, not because I care all that much about you."

[Glennwood Road Ent.]

Found one of those cussing songs from the white flash drive at my workplace:

 

Chief Keef: Save That ****

 

https://youtu.be/OzuhBFsrB0A

 

Contains strong language 

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Young Chop on the beat

She say she love me, whatever that is (I don't know)

BandKamp

Do me a favor, save that shit (Bitch)

 

She say she love me, whatever that is (I don't know)

Do me a favor, save that shit (Bitch)

Like bad kids, bitch, we reckless (Yeah)

Ball hard, stunt like Texas (Bang, bang)

He say he know Sosa, he be lacking (Nah)

Do me a favor, save that shit (Bitch)

You fuck niggas better stay packing (Bang, bang)

A lot of extended clips, no acting (Bang, bang)

 

She say she know Sosa, he be flexing

Pull up, windows down, smell refreshing

Good loud pack, smell like cat piss

Hanging out the roof, young and reckless

Rocking in my Rock jeans

Campaign Sosa, every nigga following

I ain't with the arguing

My niggas come, click clack, no arguing

She say she love me, whatever that is

We see a opp, shit get hectic

A lot of extended clips, no acting

No sex, bitch, I only want the neck, bitch

 

She say she love me, whatever that is (I don't know)

Do me a favor, save that shit (Bitch)

Like bad kids, bitch, we reckless (Yeah)

Ball hard, stunt like Texas (Bang, bang)

He say he know Sosa, he be lacking (Nah)

Do me a favor, save that shit (Bitch)

You fuck niggas better stay packing (Bang, bang)

A lot of extended clips, no acting (Bang, bang)

 

[Gartek]

Lady (Hear Me Tonight) from Modjo (2001).

I don't put a link in because I don't want to advertise this crap. If you don't know it, you're fine. It's about 4-minutes of a song that's only about 50 seconds long. 

 

When I first heard the song on the radio over 20 years ago, I thought it had nice harmonies and a nice groove. The singer was OK - I found this song interesting and thought it had potential. 

But then after 50 seconds, when the verse was over, it repeated itself over and over again - lyrics and music, just with instruments faded in and out or by applying different filters, no change in dynamics, no change in harmonies, no change in melody, no change in instrumentation. 

 

When it was over three minutes later It already bored me. But then it went on heavy rotation on the air and was repeated every 3 hours. I still turn off the radio when this piece comes up. 

[Count Chocula]

2 hours ago, Gartek said:

Lady (Hear Me Tonight) from Modjo (2001).

 

When it was over three minutes later It already bored me. But then it went on heavy rotation on the air and was repeated every 3 hours. I still turn off the radio when this piece comes up. 

Years ago I saw a local standup comedian make a joke about the song George Harrison popularized, Got My Mind Set on You. The comedian sang to the tune of the song the lyrics "This song is just three words long, this song is just three words long." Not entirely Harrison's fault, I guess, since he didn't write it.

[Glennwood Road Ent.]

 

 

Twice: Takedown from Netflix Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One of the lyrics contains demonic crap in it from the film. Hope these singers better go directly to church immediately for committing wicked evil and sinful bullcrap. 

 

And 

 

 

2 Chainz remixed version contained in his 3rd verse saying:

 

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[2 Chainz:]

When I climb on top, I say I'm into you

A lot of chickens in the coupe; cock-a-doodle-doo

I fucked the secretary, fuck the interview

If I was in the NBA, I'd hoop in Gucci tennis shoes

Chopper spray like antihistamines

Triple beam, Versace swag on creatine

When I left the lot, I spent a half a milli

When I pulled up to your spot, I had a half a ceiling

Got your bitch with me, trying to suck up

I don't trust my chauffeur, so shut the fuck up

Uh, the new chopper hold a hundred rounds

When I park on the curb, the grill look like Bobby Brown

 

 

[Count Chocula]

While looking for a link to Sweet's Fox on the Run for the "What song is stuck in your head?" topic, I came across this cover version.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvXmtkl4Nmk

 

Whoever posted the vid, as you can see if you choose to click on it, entitled it "Watch The Regrettes’ ferocious take on 'Fox On The Run'." That's either an extraordinarily facetious use of the word "ferocious" or the person's level of delusion is on par with that of people who sincerely believe Bigfoot is real and the Moon landings are not.

[Gartek]

On 6/20/2025 at 10:17 AM, chocula said:

Years ago I saw a local standup comedian make a joke about the song George Harrison popularized, Got My Mind Set on You. The comedian sang to the tune of the song the lyrics "This song is just three words long, this song is just three words long." Not entirely Harrison's fault, I guess, since he didn't write it.

Well, then he took that idea from Weird Al Yankovic who did a parody on that song in 1988 (George Harrison's version is from 1987). 

But he counted (almost) right when he sang "This song's just six words long".  

[Count Chocula]

4 hours ago, Gartek said:

Well, then he took that idea from Weird Al Yankovic who did a parody on that song in 1988 (George Harrison's version is from 1987). 

But he counted (almost) right when he sang "This song's just six words long".  

I suppose he did.

[Glennwood Road Ent.]

D-Boy: Fat *****

 

 

[Count Chocula]

1 hour ago, Glennwood Road Ent. said:

D-Boy: Fat *****

If we're gonna add some rap, let's add Fuck Tha Police.