Absolute worst song of all time, in your opinion only, of course
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For me, it's hard to top Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas. That song makes dead cats caterwaul.
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I like that song 
I can't stand that song. I do however have a soft spot for your worst song. Different strokes. 
so when I decided to read this thread, I said I'd probably not find anything I knew about. But that? Oh yeah, what you said! Horrible effing song. Just horrible. At the first "you" I want to scream, "STOP!!!"
It's so laborious. I get tired just listening to one stanza of that song.
Cher
p.s. and I would also add that "you light up my life" is pretty tame. If somebody told me I lit up their life, I'd yawn.
Is that they best you can do? I light up your life? I would say this songwriter is, urm, not very passionate.
I remember it from when I was a teenager.
Egad. 
It could be used to drive someone insane if played over and over!
when we were kids taking the train into Boston (all by ourselves, first time!) to meet my dad and when the conductor announced the Winchester (MA) stop my brother started singing this song. LOL - my brother was great with impressions and he did this song perfectly 
I'd like to say to Paul Anka, "How do you know it's your baby?" Maybe you should change your lyrics to "a baby."
Whatta' schmuck.
Cher
Loved this song, too! When I was working Top 40 radio, she got the living daylights played out of all of her songs. That being said, she was no Connie Francis!
If it happened to you!
Cher
The original precedes you by 8 years.
-- Mal
At 56, not so much
At least one guy sued Disney and won damages after being trapped in the ride for an extended period and they couldn't or wouldn't get him out and they couldn't or wouldn't turn off the music loop.
I WILL NOT post an audio/video of this song because that just brings terrible flashbacks for me and so many, many others. 
It's a small world, after all.
Though I did prefer this one:
They had a whole string of hits when I was a kid and I liked them a lot. 
so I am not the only one haunted by it
that makes me hate it. I also have an irrational hatred of Bill Paxton. I cannot explain it, it just is
in a message thread titled 'Absolute worst song of all time?'.
After listening to 'The Shaggs' and 'Wing', I'm ready for some *happy time* music before I run an icepick through my ears:
The Sensations, 'Let Me In'. You *can't* sit still when this is playing!
Does this make up for 'The Shaggs'?
That in NJ everyone goes on vacation in August.
Because I would be so embarrassed if my neighbors heard me playing this sh2$# at 1:30 a.m.
Cher
thanks for putting it in my head 
Now I know what threy are playing in Hell. That is just plain wrong.. 
I'm sure there's at least one person who despises classical music. One can judge music on technical skills, but, yes, the vast majority of "musical criticism", even by supposed professionals in publications, is SUBJECTIVE. This thread is just a fun one, for laughs. That song in the OP was a Top 40 hit, so obviously millions of people liked it. I hate it. Life goes on.
Have a lovely summer day, sincerely.
all subjective.
I know lots of people think Bruce Springsteen is some sort of music God, for example.
Only song of his I ever liked was "I'm on fire". The rest of his repertoire stinks, as far as I'm concerned.
There are people who like Norah Jones. I'm like, OMG...please shoot me now!!!
By the same token, lots of people think Nickelback sucks. I like them.
If we all liked the same things, how boring would that be?
I positively LOATHE "Der kranke Mond" ("The Sick Moon" from Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire. If Schonberg's aim is to rouse feelings of mild nausea in the listener, he succeeds brilliantly.
There is no one "worst song," but all of these songs have some characteristics:
a) they take themselves way too seriously.
b) a touch of what they present might be ok, but hey, they don't know when to stop. They don't have enough material, so they stretch what they have out, excrrrrruuuuuuciatingly stretch it out.
c) the writers have no perspective. This is just raw, of-the-moment emotion, usually about something that will have no consequence.
There's probably more, but this is just off the top of my head.
It's not subjective. There is not-worthwhile art and there is worthwhile art. That is why you hear of Shakespeare in 2014 but why you will never know who Miley Cyrus is in 2025.
Cher
I knew you had no taste, steve2470.
To answer your question, though, I think "Ruby Red Dress" tops all contenders. I refuse to even debase this thread by posting a link.
-- Mal
She never freaking grew as an artist. Just the same-old, same-old crap. Who can do this kind of stuff, year-in, year-out?
And here she is, a million f#5$#ing years old and doing the same old crap.
I have no respect.
Cher
and brain surgery after watching it.
Worst one evah. Sappy and egomaniacal at the same time. Admit you blanched when you saw it. I'll bet you didn't even listen. Did you?
No need to listen to it again, that would be masochistic I still dislike KFF more than that. Funny how our individual brains are so different.
They played the top 10 to death
I can only take the oldies station until I hear a repeat or two.
My ears are worn out on a lot of it from the repetition on the radio back in the day.
Good topic. And fun.
I've had those moments. Like with The Lord's Prayer and The Pledge of Allegience.
Cher
but that would be an exception to my criteria for bad music, as stated in my post above because it is about something stupid, like walking like an Egyptian. Truly bad music has to be about something like "Honey" or "Having My Baby."
Walking like an Egyptian is lightweight, where "having my baby" is about a house guest come to stay for 18 years, which is definitely serious sh$@#.
I kind of like this one because it's about something we don't normally think about, whereas this other is about stuff we hear about every single day, ad nauseum.
Cher
any rap song.
would that be about the CB radio? If so, my friend wrote that stupid song!
Chip Davis is his name.
Cher
to do that song. That's how I knew him--I was in advertising at the time.
But I think he just did that for $$, which certainly came his way. Built a fantastic house and he and his wife, my girlfriend, went all over the world searching out things like painted bathroom sinks from Italy. We had a lot of fun with dinners and cookouts at that house. She was the weather forecaster for the ABC affiliate.
His real thing, though, was this group Mannheim Steamroller which puts out an album at Christmas. It always sells very well and then there is also the concert tour. Altogether he launched a very successful career in music and has had a good living.
There is another Chip Davis who I think does some kind of gospel thing, not to be confused with this Chip Davis. In fact, when I knew them they were practicing white witches.
Cher
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Stuff I hated then, maybe now it seems pretty good. I stopped listening to music a long time ago. I couldn't name any current group to save my life.
There are a few songs that traditionally make these lists about which I would not argue. Such as, "My Ding-a-Ling." What was he thinking?
"Night Moves," Bob Seger. Just hate it totally.
Now you've done it. There's this local FM station that says it plays the top hits of the '70s, '80s, '90s, and today. You know the kind. Anyway, their concept of the top songs of the '70s is limited to a playlist of about 20 songs. I mean, if I hear "Don't Fear the Reaper" one more time, I'll start slashing kids myself. And I saw that movie at a drive-in. They really need to get out of that rut.
I love disco. Like anything else, there was dreck, but there was also excellence. You could say that about the big band era.
Abba? I can listen to them, no problem.
Styx? I was listening to the radio years ago. They were going to have a retrospective of Styx's greatest hits. "This won't take long," I though. Wrong. Those marvelous songs went on and on. I was so mistaken. Great group.
It all depends on your time and place. For some reason, I had an earworm of Human League's " Keep Feeling) Fascination." I went to YouTube to watch it. Read the comments. One was to the effect of "Oh, this brings back such warm memories. We used to go the video arcade at the mall. I wish I could get those years back."
And that's the beauty of it. It's what the music brings back that counts. One person's worst song is another's reminder of the best times ever.
Here's one video of Human League, but I don't think it's the one with that comment.
Look at T. Rex. Sometimes just awful; other times, not. To clarify, this is good T. Rex:
Glam? I can't get enough:
That's probably enough by itself to infuriate several posters.
Well, to answer your question, "what was a song you dislike intensely?" the answer is "anything with Autotune." I had to give up "Glee" because everything was Autotuned.
Great thread.
