worst song ever? (research--really!)
I'm running a survey to find the worst song in the world, as part of
an ongoing study of people and music.
If you've got a song that you really, really despise, then please tell
me--and the world--about it. The survey is available at:
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/music/
It just takes a few minutes to describe which song you hate, and
why--and think how much better you'll feel once you've vented.
Remember that the more votes that are submitted, the better the
understanding that can be gained about what makes a song truly
loathsome. Do it for science!
Once you've submitted a vote, then you can see other submissions;
be careful, though, it's hard to get some of these vile songs out of your head!
Cheers,
Sally Jo Cunningham
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato
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WORST SONGS EVER. sheesh i can name hundreds
- GENIE IN A BOTTLE: Slutina Slagulera
- HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME: Bitchney Spears
- STRIPPED: Slutina Slagulera
- NAUGHTY GIRL: Bitchonce
- WELCOME TO MY LIFE: Simpleton Ill-Panned
- AMERICAN IDIOT: Greengay
- LEAVE: Jo-hoe
- WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR: Gwen stoopidani
- THAT ONE THAT RIPS OFF STEVIE WONDERS "SUPERSTITION" - STONE DAT BITCH TO DEATH
- ANYTHING by Lindsay Ho-han, Avril Laposer, Hairy Muff, Ashlee Simpleton AKA stoopid poser singers
- CEST LA VIE
- YEAH - User
- ANYTHING By feminem or d-mental age of - 12.
- ANYTHING by the backdoor boys, NSICK, 98 DISEASE
- BOYS OF SUMMER - DJ Slutty and the Ataris - Fuck you fer rippin off don henly, die biatch.
- TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPING INTO THE FUTURE: Hey they ripped off a classic Steve Millar song by making a cRap outta it - punish these fuckers.
All the "Worst Songs Ever" have been made in the last 5 years - seems ironic.
Luci, there are a lot of brilliant pop songs in your list and I know you're picking most of them because the general genre of pop offends you, particularly pop artists who dress in slappa style.
So why not help out this researcher and come up with one song you hate, hate, hate and explain the exact reasons why?
More worryingly, you seem to be a huge misogynist. Did your hand make you sleep on the couch again?
Luci doesn't hate all women - just the dirty slappa preps who shop at Glassons and read Girlfriend and listen to Britney.
Robyn, robyn, robyn - hating pop because the "artists" are "dirty slappa preps" is only just a small fraction of why i utterly and contemptibly hate this sort of genre known as "pop/top 40" or whatever. The bulk of the reason is something i have mentioned countless times over the last 3 years - Pop Requires NO TALENT whatsoever to make, Look at it this way - 98% of top 40 shit that is force fed down our throats 24/7 (including at supermarkets, fast food outlets, gas stns etc etc) doesnt even require the abilityt o play an instrument, thus making pop music Fake as or in my terms "Bodgie". And also those who do play instruments ie. Greenday are exploiting the Punk Genre by using it as a cover for there crappy brand of jock-rock. Its dispicable.
METAL AND ACID ROCK FOR LIFE.
// Pop Requires NO TALENT whatsoever to make
I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. A lot of 'slappa' pop music is incredibly complex, beautifully produced, and has many redeeming musical features.
Much as I hate Britney Spears, for example, Toxic is an absolutely kick-arse song.
And by choosing Boys of Summer and other covers, you're just revealing yourself as disliking the artists, as opposed to the songs. Can Boys of Summer actually be a worse song just because someone else is singing it?
i think american idiot is a great song.
and yes i agree with noziboy, as much as i hate spears and co, pop music takes alot of work,
i think the likes of kelis- milkshakes no any song sung be her is terrible, that mario guy who thinks hes usher his song is crap too.
pharrell that song where he sings really really high, "frontin", Pharrell may be a good producer (some would say) but that song sucks
Snoop Dog- beautiful and drop it likes its hot- sorry snoop both shit songs
Any song off St anger
yes i do kinda like simple plan, but "welcome to my life" comes off as a wah wah wah song
the one hit wonder "When I get you alone" by Thike- i hate that song
most shit music is played on The Edge and ZM, its a hunting ground for songs being play 3 or 4 times a day,
this morning the edge played "shut up" and "Perfect" by Simple Plan in the space of 3 songs i didnt think radio stations ever did that
come on just admit it Luci-Sam . . . you wanna fuck Britney real bad, you want her to give you a private show in her naughty school girls uniform and then another in her red pvc camel toe number . . . oh Britney baby yeah . . . yeah . . . come over to the dark side Lucifer-Sam . . . Britney oh yeah . . .
while in general agreement with your sentiment their noizy, i've got question:
//beautifully produced...
there's alot of words that could've worked well their, tastefully, creatively, wonderfully, masterfully
but i don't hear much of this chart stuff as having 'beautiful' production.
examples?
// there's alot of words that could've worked well
// their, tastefully, creatively, wonderfully, masterfully
// but i don't hear much of this chart stuff as having 'beautiful' production.
you're right actually. feel free to substitute any of those words you've listed there. 'beautiful' was just the adjective that rolled out of the brain at the time. the wrong one, perhaps.
no
you were right
1st time
Excellent choices--yes, it's difficult to norrow it down to one!
For the sake of science, though, could you describe what makes one or two of these songs so loathesome? The description of why people hate particular songs is a big part of the research. It's personally fascinating, too, to see how many different reasons there are for why a song is vile!
Unlike our bigoted friend Lucifer Sam, I actually took the time to complete the form (American Pie by Don McLean). Good luck with the research.
I actually like Don Mcleans American Pie.
same, american pie is a favourite drunken sing along . . . yes I even know all the words :)
come to germany. you wont know where to start!
Are Zed still popular in Germany?
Youd better have a good excuse for posting at that time....Worst song depends on the person really listening but there are some crap ones out there.I hate it when you get those artists that cant sing but try and hit high notes,mostly women singers but at least theyr trying.I REALLY hate those jap or chinese remakes of celine dions titanic, talk about sinking a ship.Fuck.
Udo Lindenberg!
I have a weird amount of German music in my collection. Taking Kraftwerk as a given, others that come to mind are the mighty Jan Jelinek (aka Farben / Gramm / The Exposures), To Rococo Rot, Kreidler, Hausmeister, Tied & Tickled Trio, The Notwist, Console, Tarwater, Mouse On Mars, Vladislav Delay/Luomo (OK he's Finnish, but he lives in Berlin), Thomas Fehlmann, Sun Electric, and finally the fantastic Uwe Schmidt (prob best known as Senor Coconut, or to ambient fans as Atom Heart).
Plus all the techno artists... Maurizio / Basic Channel / Rhythm & Sound, Dettinger, Wolfgang Voigt, Thomas Brinkmann, The Modernist / The Bionaut, Various Artists, Monolake... Ok, I don't listen to much techno, and half of this stuff is very ambient. Never mind.
PS. I did the survey too. My pick was 'From A Distance', although really it's hard for me to choose between that and 'Wind Beneath My Wings'. Particularly with the "flyyyyy flyyyyy" bit in the latter.
I got involved in a project a few years back based on making music you like using samples of a song you hate... trying to make a silk purse I guess, but fun... I found it amazing how much respect I could have for songs I hated when I listened closely to them and started analysing them, but those Bette Middler ones.. Yeesh.
Basic Channel, Jen Jellinek & Rhythm & Sound are fantastic. I'm not so familiar with the others. R&S's production has gotta be some of the best around in music today... Of course I'm speaking from my position of HIGH authority on the matter.
any nation that produces Kraftwerk & Can can't be that shitty. Although they did get David Hasslehof to perform at the falling of the Berlin Wall... of all the people that would have played - why him!!????
Basic Channel & Rhythm & Sound are the same duo (also recorded as Maurizio and Main Street). Their production is ridiculous.
They have released some of the other artists I mentioned on their label Chain Reaction and while distinct they are still in that dub-tech vein. Vladislav Delay, Porter Ricks, Monolake, Various Artists... all recommended. The link below is to their website which has all the different labels they manage, some of which haven't released things in years, some of which have started up relatively recently.
If you want a Kiwi artist on this tip, check out son.sine. He doesn't have the fuzzed out messy sound that comes of (ab)using hardware, but stylistically really similar.
There's also stupid amounts of this kind of sound available for free on the web if you want me to point you to some sites. Same comments as with son.sine - most all of it sounds more shiny and clean than R&S, but there's some real goodies. And shit, it's free!
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// any nation that produces Kraftwerk & Can can't be that shitty. Although they did get David Hasslehof to perform at the falling of the Berlin Wall... of all the people that would have played - why him!!????
because hes a hero in germany! im telling you: they have no taste! i went to cd store today and saw a cheesy david hasslehof cd. i pointed it out to my friend and had a little giggle about it, and she went "... what?".
lemme list some of germanys popular artists at the moment:
-chips
-silbermond
-nu pagani
-dj bobo
-yvonne catterfeld
-sarah connor
-lindsay lohan
-alexander (world idol, anyone?)
-vanilla ninja
-fettes brot
all of those (except the last two) SUCK beyond comparison. download any of that and you'll know what i mean. lucy_spam would die here.
p.s. zed is ded. must've been a one hit wonder.
Hehehe Alexander. He's a maniac, maniac on the floor.
I really hate that song by Thicky - the one that has Betoven in the background. Arrrrraaahhhh hate that bastard. I am not sure why. Perhaps it is because of his stupid video where he is riding around on a bike - soo wanky. Actually the song is wanky aswell. He just seems so smug, as if he is good enough to do a rewrite of a great composer. Hate it. I also hate his name. I mean com'on!! THICKY!!
Hey - that felt good!
Oh, I hate those lager anthems like "Tubthumping". They just seem so stupid. I don't like them because a) they appeal to rugby fans b) the lyrics are stupid "I get knocked down, and get up again and I am a stupid fuck that drunk too much so I will likely fall doewn all over again... blah blah". I hate this particular song even more becasue so many people seem to love it. Its like No Brainer music.
same i hate that song too
i really do despise "Bliss" by Th' Dudes
i dont care if its a NZ song it just annoys me
"why does love do this too me"- i hate that song because Catch 22 ruin it when they play it at the shed, i have hated it ever since i heard them play it,
i hate the shed too duno why maybe its because its a hole orrrrr maybe its because Catch 22 are their resident band
heh - I didn't think there could be any sort of dispute about this: Tub thumping ifs officially the worst song ever made, it is just an irritation from start to finish. And given that Celine Dion exists, that's saying something.
From memory Tubthumping was an attempt by Chumbawumba to raise some funds for a bunch of NGOs. Having knocked away as a happy little anarchosyndicalist collective for over a decade they decided that making cash to give to the right people was more practical than ranting and raving. Good on 'em I say, I think most protest music is preaching to the choir.
Although they stressed they were not trying to belittle drinking practices (of a certain class, I guess is implied) it's pretty sharp satire, anyway. I thought the bits where they appropriate 'Danny Boy' and 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina' were quite funny first time I heard it.
Still, all up bloody annoying and I hope to never hear it again, but I thought I'd give some context just in case people thought it was in some way just a "dumb" drinking anthem.
I guess like 'Bliss' (was originally "piss", as in "sink some piss"...) it's ironic that it's become the dumb drinkers' anthem it is.
Chumbawumba's rendition of 'Jacob's Ladder', incorporating the ol' "not in my name" catchcry is a pretty decent anti-(UK involvement in current)war song. Catchy melody anyway. :)
what was that song about the X files that came out around the same time as tubthumping, some chick with a horrible croaky voice was the singer . . . . god I hated that song?
Was that Catatonia? Something about Mulder & Scully?
Oh yeah, re: Thicke (his dad was Kirk Cameron's dad in Growing Pains, btw) that 'When I Get You Alone' samples 'A Fifth of Beethoven' from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which is a disco appropriation of a fairly obvious bit of Beethoven. I'm pretty fond of that soundtrack, so wasn't too offended. Well, until I saw the video.
I love guitar lead disco licks. Tres Chic. ;)
Also, he's a one-hit wonder wrt to his solo material, but he's been writing for Motown for years and I'm pretty sure had some big hits as writer and producer for them and other pop acts. Ah Motown, you cynical motherfuckers.
Oops, forgot the main thing I was going to say... the weird thing about 'When I Get You Alone' is that there was some other one-not-quite-a-hit wonder who rapped over 'A Fifth of Beethoven' only a year or two earlier. A teenager, maybe called something like A1? Should just google it... have it lumped in with things like Pras's 'Ghetto Superstar'...
'Enjoy Yourself' by A+, and it was 4 years earlier. Oh well. Four years still doesn't seem long enough in pop history for this of recycling. Oh wait, that song dantheman mentioned where Puffy uses the same Enya sample the Fugees used was probably only about 4 year gap. Or not. Mario Wynans? I forget his name. I'm a sucker for those cheddar slow jams.
//Was that Catatonia? Something about Mulder & Scully?
yeah that it . . . . horrible horrible song, but I hated the x-files as well so maybe I'm biased?
does the 'The Fresh Prince of Bell-Air' theme count as a song?
if so . . . worst ever.
That first Catatonia albums is one of my secret favourites. My most hated would have to be "fahz times in tahoe"
Ahaha! :D
More trainspotting, may be common knowledge but I didn't know for years... that series was named after a movie starring Richard Gere, 'The Prince of Bel Air'. I wonder if it was a bigger movie in the States, cos although the Fresh Prince part was presumably a pretty easy reference for the audience, not sure how many would've got the other bit.
/////. Or not. Mario Wynans? I forget his name. I'm a sucker for those cheddar slow jams.
theres that guy
and theres another guy ( but it might be teh same dude im not sure) he sings a song and it goes "baby i just dont get it....... your a dime plus 99 rah rah rah" hes like dancing in front of a mirror total Usher wannabe and the song sucks too
OOOOOO the Nelly song " over and over again" grrrrrrrr i hate that song with a passion it sucks sooooooooo bad.
Here are the lyrics to that Catatonia song, I remember it provided me with hours of entertainment. Her accent was the best bit - "Muldur and Scaaaaaly"
"I'd rather be liberated, I find myself captivated
Stop doing what you . . . Keep doing it too . . .
I'd rather stay bold and lonely, I dream I'm your one and only
Stop doing what you . . . Keep doing it too . . .
Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry
This could be a case for Mulder and Scully
Things are getting strange, now I can't sleep alone
I'd rather be jumping ship, I find myself jumping straight in
Stop doing what you . . . Keep doing it too . . .
Forever be dozy and dim, I wake myself thinking of him
Stop doing what you . . . Keep doing it too . . .
Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry
This could be a case for Mulder and Scully
Things are getting strange, now I can't sleep alone
My bed is made for two and there's nothing I can do
So tell me something I don't know"
Sensational.
I have always refused to paticipate in drunken singalongs of 'The Gambler'
I dont have anything against Kenny, its just that song really gets on my wick, not really sure why
also agree with that chumbawumba tubthumping song as one of the worst ever
yeah i dont know what it is about those song that end up with me hating (sp?) them,
i think its the fact that you hear them at every single party you go to, they get thrashed and just get annoying its why i hate "why does love do this too me" and "slice of heaven" and "bliss" and the likes of those songs
Theres a lot of songs that just get ruined because they get thrashed by drunken arseholes. Songs I have quite enjoyed in the past - 500 Miles, Why Does Love... etc. - have been ruined by being played at the end of the night over and over again.
Im gonna go with a video they played on Flashbacks a week or so back.
Bros - When Will I Be Famous
With stuff like this ruling the radio in the 80's its no wonder people were actually suprised to find out Freddie Mercury was gay.
My 1st thought after seeing this video was to wonder what killed their career 1st; puberty or the failing popularity of tight pants.
While Im not a big fan of top 40 pop music, I'm not of the opinion that pop "artists" are talentless - I can't dance or sing like Britney Spears, and thats a talent that has made her alot of money. Bros however were talentless. Who were these guys playing rentboy for to get this album funded?
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wtf are the bros??? never heard of them.
you're one of the lucky ones Lucifer-Sam . . . (not the bros, just ... 'Bros')
hah, "The Bros". classic.
Man, I used to think bros were so cool. I totally bought it. They even had a member named Luke... I must've been like, four though.
//you're one of the lucky ones Lucifer-Sam . . . (not the bros, just ... 'Bros')
yeh they sound like a gang of homies - wessyde.
yeah but its not pronounced like a kiwi bro it more like ummm . . . brass - Bro-sss - (bro - like brown, not like broken) . . .
my god I am the saddest person ever :(
..as in rhymes with their surname - matt & luke goss. Not exactly homies.
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