Maybe I'm old, but there are FAR worse songs than any of those listed- besides, those are all too recent.
Here's my nominees:
Spiders and Snakes
Afternoon Delight
and who could ever forget the classic "Muskrat Love"?
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I gotta admit that "Afternoon Delight" is pretty nauseating, especially from that clean-cut family band. Good pick.
"Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro has the cheesiest, sappiest, most ridiculous story and lyrics ever!...
"She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck.
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck."
Please, download it, get the lyrics, and sing along. You won't be disappointed.
"Achy Breaky Heart" is the worst song ever written. It deserves to be bumped up to the top of the list.
No. 1 Worst Ever Song "We Built This City" is at least catchy. "Heart" is just bad.
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I don't know Benjamin. "Achy Breaky" is irritating (and let's not forget that's the man who spawned Hannah Montana), but you may not be old enough to be familiar with that "Honey" song, which is really pretty bad.
Another one that really made me want to wretch, now that I think of it, was "Candyman" by Sammy Davis Jr.
Here's another one that will make you want to lose your lunch- Paul Anka's "Having My Baby".
And who can forget Minnie Ripperton -or as we used to refer to her "Minnie the Ripper" (may she rest in peace)- and that classic, "Loving You"?
I must have been a progressive teen, because I started my list in 1977- wish I had it now.
That list never heard Jane Oliver sing "The Greatest Love of All".
How 'bout "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go". Never understood why Micheal Johns picked that song to sing on Idol?
Have they released Yoko Ono's Greatest Hits yet?
Forgot to add that I'm supporting Carly.
I have to disagree with 'Sounds of Silence.' Maybe it's just me, but I count it as one of the best ballads of all time, right behind Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' :shrug:
And how is 'The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald' not on that list? Or, for a contemporary spin, anything by Fergie? Or 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk', the title of which alone qualifies as one of the worst things ever written using the letters of the English alphabet.
So, so much badness and so, so little time.
MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. No sadder, mor heartwrenching musical experience than...
"MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again.
Oh, no!"
Oh, no, is right!
You have to wonder why anyone would leave perfectly good cake out in the rain.
Beyond all other annoying and/or bad songs lays Ono Yoko, as we not lovingly called her. I have never been sure anything I ever heard by her was actually qualified to be "music" as I knew it. My music- conscious friends concurred. Her "music" reminded me of nails or squeaking chalk on the blackboard.
I'd have to vote for "MacArthur Park" as the worst song that still gets played.
"Honey" is the most obnoxious song of all time. "Muskrat Love" is in a special category of its own.
How could they have missed "Hollaback Girl"?
I loved Donna Summer's live version of MacArthur Park as a kid.
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