Finally, DUers, the worst songs of the 90s?

[CanuckAmok]

Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers.

Sample a bunch of old rock 'n' roll records, throw in some swing samples, stick a cartoon rabbit on the cover, and you've got an instant 'wedding anthem'.

Yeesh...

[theorist]

1. Hmmm...I missed that one.

I'm going to have to go with the Macarena (sp?).

[Nikia]

13. I liked Macarena

I am not sure which was the worst song. I try to forget really bad songs that I don't hear anymore.
Maybe "Oops I Did It Again" by Brittany Spears. That was still 90's, wasn't it?

[coloradodem2005]

2. Macerena or...

...Achey Breakey Heart. Ice Ice Baby

[terrya]

5. "U Can't Touch This"

M.C. Hammer's (and whatever happened to him, again) overplayed remake of "Superfreak". Hammer's video is STILL stuck in my mind...dammit!

:-)

Terry

[NightTrain]

3. Just one problem. "Swing The Mood" is from 1989.

Sorry.... :)

[CanuckAmok]

6. DAMN!

Okay, then I'll go with "Ice Ice Baby" or anything by Taylor Dane.

[NightTrain]

4. Black Velvet

Elvis deserved a much better tribute than this!

[CanuckAmok]

9. You mean the "Allanah Myles" song--it's about Elvis?!

n/t

[jus_the_facts]

7. Smells Like Teen Spirit......and all other songs by Nirvana....

:puke:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. "The Sweater Song" Weezer

I like other songs by Weezer, but that one makes me insane!!!!

[NightTrain]

10. Shania Twain's "You're Still The One."

Not hard to see why one music critic called her "the highest paid lap-dancer in Nashville."

[mvd]

34. One USA Today critic calls her good entertainment

Ken Barnes does. She's not universally panned. Even if she was, I'd still enjoy her. Her last two albums get a B+ from me. The Woman In Me gets an A-. Her first one more like a C+.

My least favorite songs included:

"Higher" - Creed
"Nookie" - Limp Bizkit
"Fire, Water, Burn" - Bloodhound Gang
"Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" - Aerosmith
"I Drive Myself Crazy" - 'N Sync
"Shock Your Mama" - Debbie Gibson

[Cush]

11. Around the World' by Daft Punk

'along with that stupid Fatboy Slim song Praise you. Hell, all techno/dance music.

Oh, and those two songs have horrible vids

[BiggJawn]

12. "Hand in my Pocket" by that screaming Canuck girl...

I actually liked that album...Oh, OK, so it was a rough spot in my highway of life and I got stuck on Alanis for some damn reason....

[Liberal Veteran]

43. No, no, no....Ironic was the worst song.

Because there was very little in her song that was actually ironic.

It's like Ray-ay-ain on yer wed-ding day! - Um, well, that's just a bummer, not really ironic.

[MrSlayer]

14. Way too many to list.

The 90's were mostly horrible musically.

[bubblesby2002]

15. What year was Celine's "my heart will go on"?

Does it qualify? It is horrible.

[Archae]

16. "I Will Always Love You"

Whitney Houston, 1992.

Can ANYONE drag out a phrase longer and louder than she does? :argh:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

26. And then take credit for someone else's song.

God, I hate Whitney Houston.
Duckie

[SOteric]

17. Livin La Vita Loca, Ricky Martin; Tubthumping, Chumbawamba;

MMMBop, Hanson; Butterfly Kisses, Bob Carlisle; How Bizarre, OMC; Colours of the Wind, Vanessa Williams; I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston; I'm Too Sexy, Right Said Fred; Rhythm is a Dancer, Snap; Beauty and the Beast, Peabo Bryson & Celine Dion; Achy-Breaky Heart, Billy Ray Cyrus; You're in Love, Wilson Philips; and a special mention for Michael Bolton - everything; and Boyz II Men, - everything.

[Nikia]

18. I agree with most of them except Tubthumping

I found that song very inspirational. I don't know if I got from it what was intended or not. I haven't really read about that song. For me it represents a deep internal struggle.

[Whitacre D_WI]

22. Agreed on "Butterfly Kisses"

My nomination for worst, though, is "No Rain" by Blind Melon.


I really, really, really, really, really hate that song.

[kmla]

39. Really?

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[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

41. check out how awesome hanson is NOW

www.hanson.net

nothing like mmmbop

[LSdemocrat]

19. Who Will Save Your Soul by Jewel

Most annoying song ever.

[Spirochete]

20. That Whitney Houston song

from that Kevin Costner movie. Bodyguard or something. She drives me up a wall.

[jmags]

21. Anything played on MTV from 7am-2am during the entire

decade qualifies.

I'm going to have to go with the "I like girls that wear Abercrombie and fitch" song. Whoever wrote that should be neutered, then have his penis surgically attached, then neutered again.

[HEyHEY]

23. Brain Chain freedom "abbrasive"

A cruddy little group in Vancouver, the lead singer met a locla DJ at a party once and eventually they played their song on the radio, somehow it became popular......and was on ALL THE TIME for about six months.

I don't think it ever hit the radio anywhere else.

Other than that, I'll say anything by soundgarden..

[Supply Side Jesus]

24. anything by PresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica

Lump....Peaches....:puke: I'm just glad those 15 minutes went real fast.

[Westegg]

38. ...especially Bush's "You Can't Touch This" :)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

25. Anything by Nirvana. I always hated them...

I can't believe you want us to pick JUST ONE...The nineties turned out a bunch of shitty songs.
Duckie

[phillybri]

42. I second that notion...

:kick:

[K8-EEE]

27. THEME FROM TITANIC!!!

ARRGH! Second place: any other Celine Dion.

[K8-EEE]

28. Any And All SPICE GIRLS

Girl Power BAY-BEEE!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

32. Spice Girls, Britney Spears (1999), Mandy Moore

Alanis Morrisette, Billy Ray Cyrus and so many more.

[RandomKoolzip]

29. Any Nine inch Nails song....

God I hate that Reznor fucker. "I'd rather die than give you control!!!" Who's he singing this to, his babysitter? I can't ake that dude seriously. "I hurt myself today so that I could stuill feel." So what? Go away. Immature, infantile bullshit, anti-rock and anti-musical. "I want to fuck you like an animal!!!" Oh, shut up, dude....

[CanuckAmok]

31. Let's not forget the formulaic approach to his self-destruction...

Like how every concert ended with a Who-esque smashing of the instruments, or how Reznor "didn't know" the house he bought on Ciello Drive to use as a recording home was the one in which the Manson Family murders took place...

What a poseur!

And he stole so much from Jim Thirlwell, who continues to record some of the most remarkable music in the world, in relative obscurity.

[dawn]

30. Songs from any of the Pearl Jam copycat bands

I was a British music fan during the 90s. Although I hated the term "Britpop," the music was better than most of what you'd hear from the recycled grunge bands.

I never was a Pearl Jam fan, either, but at least they were somewhat original. I'm talking about bands like Candlebox, etc.

[DS1]

33. anything by the following:

Seven Mary Three
Creed
Whitney Houston
Spice Girls
New Kids on the Block
Backstreet Boys
Otown
NSynch
Britney
Xtina
Chumbawumba
Los Del Rio
Slipknot
Powerman5000
Aliyah
Dave Matthews
Incubus
White Snake
Limp Bizcut
and everything else that pissed me off, but Seven Mary Three in particular.

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. You nailed it! n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

35. Any line dance music

Electric Slide, Macarena, all of them. Yuck.
Also, "Everybody Dance Now" by C&C Music Factory. Yuck.

[Loonman]

37. Guided by Voices entire "career"

Unadulterated pap.

[CanuckAmok]

40. Oh, I agree...

And their fans are so fanatical. I have a friend who considers it his mission in life to convert me to a fan of GBV and Liz Phair.

That will never happen.

I much prefer the Bill Laswell-produced masterpiece on Loonman's sig.

[Liberal Veteran]

44. Achy Breaky Heart....

blah!

[geniph]

45. Man! I Feel Like a Woman, or Mambo #5

I freaking HATE that Shania Twain song. What an irritating piece of shit.

However, for sheer earworm-make-me-gouge-my-eyeballs-out kind of song pain inducement, you can't beat that horrible Mambo #5 thing. GAH!