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Eric Carmen sings "All By Myself" (not that you asked ).
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My recent contender for First Place Worst is California Girls, hands down.
At my late '11 temp job, one of my co-workers played it on her phone several times daily. It made me so crazy that one morning (after a particularly hellish load of work), she switched it on for the second time that day and I started singing a bunch of random babble featuring phrases like "Poopy Doopy Scoopy" and "J.F.C. This Song [censored]-ing sucks oh oh oh!" at the top of my lungs, while I was hacking up old cardboard with a box-cutter and wishing that the cardboard was everyone involved in the existence of the song.
In all likelihood, I would never have dared try this in a standard office/retail environment, but in the warehouse it was safe enough. The brass was the equivalent of an entire city block away and couldn't hear me.
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I love Fish Heads. Did you know that half of the duo responsible for that was Billy Mumy?
My own nomination for worst song ever is Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band (although Paul Anka's Having My Baby gives it a run for its money).
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The Christmas Shoe song about the kid singing about buying his mom shoes because she is going to die any second.
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The most freakin depressing Christmas song ever. I like all kinds of Christmas music, but not this song. It just annoys me and makes me.
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^^Hmmm... we may have a winner.
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By the way, before California Girls came along, my long-standing Champion of Awful was Spandau Ballet's True. It combines so much of what I hated about the Eighties: Lyrics that sounded like an inept translation from another language, vocals so simultaneously oily and plastic that they made me borderline homicidal, and an incredibly stale, faux-sensitive arrangement. Thank Dog all the yahoos involved appeared happy to pocket their big fat checks after one hit and exit show biz forever.
Honorable mention:
"Lies" by the Thompson Twins. "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" by Culture Club "'65 Love Affair" by Paul Davis "Touch Me" by Samantha Fox" "Sunglasses At Night" by Corey Hart
I think all of these could double as ipecac in the event of accidental poison consumption.
Most of the Eighties was truly musical purgatory for me.
One runner-up from an earlier age: Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back. Choppy construction, terrible vocal delivery, really painful lyrics... If I ever meet those guys in the afterlife I'm gonna' seriously kick them in the shins.
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH:
SHORT PEOPLE by Randy Newman.
Ironically, Newman penned "I Think It's Going To Rain Today," which I think might be one of the best songs ever in the English language. Irma Thomas' version is amazing.
Newman himself seemed perplexed by S.P.'s success.
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It's hilarious, but it's not as vicious as the song deserved. I love Weird Al, but he's too good-natured to twist the knife into the REALLY BAD songs. Plus, Turd Cobain loved Weird Al's parody, so that defeated the purpose.
Seriously, I think "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is an abomination. If it hadn't been sold as Something Earth-Shaking/Important/Subversive I could merely dismiss it as a lame song, but the accolades it got and continues to get make me sick.
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