O/T - worst songs of all time

[WATFORD zero]

Tainted Love - soft cell

 

[Dropkick Turnip]

Loving You by Minnie Ripperton. Makes my flesh crawl whenever I hear it

 

[Brovion]

Well there's certainly been a load of complete dross listed on here, I'm finding it very hard to argue against any of it; Coldplay, Chilli peppers, Queen, etc. Good call on 'Imagine' Dandyman, if there's one thing I hate it's millionaires singing about the virtues of poverty. And it IS a dirge.

I really can't think of anything esle that hasn't been listed, well apart from all modern "R 'n' B" which is in fact Granny Music and NOT R 'n' B as per last week's discussion.

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

Mr Blobby Christmas No. 1.
Hanson – Mmm Bop.

 

[Juan Albion]

Genesis - Mama

"I can't see you mama
but I can hardly wait
ooh to touch and to feel you mama
oh I just can't keep away
in the heat and the steam of the city
oh its got me running and I just can't brake
so say you'll help me mama
cos its getting so hard"

Sick mutha, that Phil Collins...

 

[Wienergull]

Wasn't there another Phil Collins atrocity - can't remember the title - dripping with compassion for the dispossessed when he was threatening to become a tax exile if Labour got back in?

Other pet hates and turgid ballads all:

Bridge over troubled water (shame cos normally Paul Simon is a good songwriter)

Long and winding road

Everything I do (good call, Tinx)

Afters, it was John Miles who did "Music". You're right, it's another one for the hate list. And wasn't there a 70s song called "Pina colada" by Rupert Holmes? Truly appalling.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you
And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime'

From the officia BandAid single lyrics.

Doubt there's ever been any more disgusting lyrics anywhere ever. Phew thank Christ it's happening miles away in Africa, and not in Faversham , Kent aye?

Says it all really. Never trust anybody who claims to be either a former member of the Boomtown Rats or anybody else who claims to be called 'Midge' (yeah, Vienna means jackschit to none of us either, you wanker - plus it was a truly madly deeply schit record and may it haunt you forever)

Trust nobody aye?

 

[Lush]

When ever this comes up my vote always goes to Sheryl Crow "Every Day Is A Whining Road."

Dancing Queen by ABBA runs it a close second though.

 

[Fran Hagarty]

Careless Whisper, Jesus to a Child or anything by George Michael
Also, anything by Robbie Williams

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Mama was written in 20 minutes.it is a classic.don't slag our Phil now.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Wienergull - It was called Another Day in Paradise, made worse by the fact he wrote it in his second home in LA.

Nickelback - How you remind me is truly dreadful.
Rpobbie Williams, Mel C, that God awful David Sneddon song from earlier on this year.
Jennifer Lopez's Jenny from the block that has the line about it being hard work writing out cheques all day. An over rated nonentity of the highest order.
Westlife and Boyzone and all those other limp wristed drama school boys pretending to be street.
Anything by Genesis, Queen, Elton John.

The list is endless.

 

[Wilko]

Agree with Bryan Adams - Everything I do

14 weeks at number one - painful !

 

[Digmut]

R&B and the like - music for the pikeys

 

[smudge]

Glad all over, Dave Clark 5.......you know why.

 

[Wez]

Rock DJ (R Williams)
Meat loaf
That Chumbawunba track(awful)
Nobody does it better, the worst bond track ever
ebaneeezer good(mr c wat a twat!)

 

[DTES]

There quite simply isn't, and never will be, a worse song than "500 Miles", by those Iain Dowie lookalike twins. Makes me so angry every time I hear it.

 

[Guinness Boy]

If there's a worse song than 'There's no-one quite like Grandma' by the St Winifrids School Choir, featuring that stupid bint with a lithp trying to get the sympathy vote, then I've never heard it.

Other very strong contenders are that Frog Song by McCartney,

You're right about the Grandma song.

However the Frog Song provided the best moment of comedy at school that I ever had.

Scene: An art class - my mate Chris starts singing the Frog Song at top volume.

Teacher: Chris if you sing that one more time I'll make you write out the words 100 times

Chris: OK then, how do you spell *the frog noise*?

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I'm suprised no-one has mentioned starsailor yet. Listening to them makes me want to commit suicide or acts of extreme violence towards that inbred, whining **** of a lead singer. Daddy was an alcoholic? Thank god for the good souls? f*** OFF!!!!!

 

[JEM]

Nearly everything in the charts

 

[Dunkstar]

Anything country or by Christina Uglylera