What are some of the worst songs you've ever heard?

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I'm making a cd of really bad songs for a friend. What are some of the worst songs you've ever heard? Here are some of the worst I've ever heard and why, in no particular order.

MacArthur Park (The Lettermen-or anyone else gay enough to record this song)
At first you hear it and it seems like just another sappy, boring song. But then you listen to the lyrics and you're like "WHAT?!!?" Her'e's some of the exact lyrics.  "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."

They're Red Hot
(Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Red Hot Chili Peppers are cool and all but this song is awful! I don't think anyone should try to cover Robert Johnson unless your name's Eric Clapton.

Rockin All Over The World (Staus Quo)
You'll definitley hate one of you're one of those people those people that really listen to the words. This one is right up there with She's So Cold by the Rolling Stones. Kind of catchy but the lyrics are horrible.

Chocolate Rain (Tay Zonday)
This supposed to be the best songs on youtube or something but it's by far the worst song I've ever heard. It has the most annoying rhythm with the keyboard that just plays over and over and over. The guy can't sing and the lyrics are really weird. Some people say "duh, chocolate rain! It's about slavery!" but I don't think anyone really knows for sure.

Any rap or hip song in the main stream right now. I could start naming some, but they're all horrible.

Lollipop (The Chordettes)
Really annoying song from the 50s.

I Like Bread and Butter (The New Beats)
Another pointless oldie that's really annoying.

You're Beautiful (James Blunt)
This song isn't that bad, till it gets to the chorus. Then I have to leave the room.

Brass In Pocket (The Pretenders)
This song isn't really annoying or anything, it's just a boring song with bad lyrics, The lyrics are something like "I'm special, so special. I need attention. Give it to me" Sometimes you can get away with awful lyrics like those if you have a catchy rythym but Brass in Pocket has none of that. How is this song supposed to make you feel? "Special?" It really doesn't do anything for me, it's just blah.

Who Are You & I Can't Explain (The Who)
I hate the Who. There I said it.

Macarena (Los Del Rio)
Worst song of the 90s for sure. I don't care what the charts say.

All Summer Long (Kid Rock)
I wouldn't hate this song so much if I didn't have to listen to it all summer long. Here in Michigan, this song would play on the radio countless times every day. You could change the station, but then it would start playing on that one 10 minutes later.

Please Mr. Postman (The Marvelletes)
another annoying oldie

I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Panic at the Disco)
I'm Just a Kid (Simple Plan)
Sugar We're Going Down Swingin (Fall Out Boy)

I don't know what you call that annoying accent that all these punk rock bands use today, but they all use it and I hate it.

Surfin Bird (that song on Family Guy where Peter wouldn't stop playing the record)
It's pretty bad, definitely one of the worst songs I've ever heard.

Roxanne (The Police)
Something about that weird, high voice just bothers me. The Who uses almost the exact same voice.

Anything by System of a Down.

trai · Accepted Answer

I really laughed when I read this.  I'm inclined to agree, though I don't mind The Who, and I like "All Summer Long."  I don't listen to commercial radio, though, so I'm not sick of it.  :)  I also like System of a Down, but I won't shoot you.  :)

Anyway, here are some more really awful songs that you probably won't like, either:  :)

“Muskrat Love” Captain & Tennille
“Who Let the Dogs Out” Baha Men
"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" Lobo

Songs with animal themes are only suitable for children.

"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" Ohio Express
"The Thong Song" Sisqo
"Brand New Key" Melanie
"Mmm ... Bop” Hanson

Pretty sure these lyrics were written by children. 

“She Bangs” Ricky Martin
“Boom, Boom, Boom (Let’s Go Back to my Room)” Outhere Brothers
"I Wanna Sex You Up" Color Me Badd
"Rico Suave'' Gerardo 

Nobody cares.  Plus, if you have to tell people how hot you are, or how much you're getting, you're not!

"My Ding-A-Ling" Chuck Berry
"My Humps" Black Eyed Peas
"The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" The Cheeky Girls

Singing about your body parts should be illegal.  :)

"She Bop" Cyndi Lauper
"I Touch Myself" Divinyls

Ditto songs about masturbation.  You've got to be kidding me.

"Barbie Girl" Aqua
"Hot Child in the City" Hagfish

Pretty sure these bands are going to hell.

Oh, and the song that's like nails on a chalkboard:

"Precious and Few" Climaxx

It just makes me gag.  :)

BTW, the worst Britney Spears song is definitely "Lucky."  The answer to the question, "How pretentious can one person be?"  What?  We're supposed to feel sorry for her?  Sheesh.

Anonymous · Answer

By someone I don't care for in the first place: "Man I Feel Like a Woman" by Shania Twain. Irritating beyond belief. By someone whose music I generally love: "African Man" by Iggy Pop. I don't know *WHAT* the hell he was on when he wrote that song, but it's embarrassingly bad, especially compared to the other songs on the "New Values" album, many of which are excellent IMHO.

Rotten · Answer

We listen to the same radio station every day at work, and we always say these are the songs we'd erase from the f#cking planet:

Counting Crows- Big Yellow Taxi
Rolling Stones- Come to Your Emotional Rescue
Come on Eileen  (We work with a lady named Eileen, and it just makes me picture a dude um...doing what the title says.)
Finger 11- Paralyzer  (didn't mind it at first, but for the 19 thousandth time, it's getting old)

Will · Answer

Here's my top 10:
"The Distance" by Cake
"Psychosocial" by Slipknot
"We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister
"Stir It Up" by Bob Marley
"Hold the Line" by Toto
"Raining Blood" by Slayer
"Hitchin' A Ride" by Green Day 
All songs by Queens of the Stone Age
A lot of songs that came out after the year 2010

fan4life · Answer

Most Rihanna, Britney Spears, Chris Brown songs could go on the CD because they are pretty terrible.

Anonymous · Answer

HaHa, I love Brass In Pocket, but it doesn't make me feel "special" actually it kinda does the opposite for me, it makes me feel gloomy.
Anyway how about I Want Action by Poison or Talk dirty to Me. Macarena was a good pick too. How about Mambo #5? That's Amore by Dean Martin.

Anonymous · Answer

Sylvia's Mother - Don't know who does it but if it's not the worst song ever written it's pretty damn close.
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) Don't know who does this one either but see note above
Any rap song ever written

Anonymous · Answer

Anything by Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Hinder, Three Days Grace..........seriously I cannot tell the difference between a lot of these new bands. It's like they are clones.

Kelly H · Answer

Hampster dance, Blue (da ba dee) -by Eiffel 65, they are just so repetitive and have no lyrics.

adored1 · Answer

wow....i want to kill myself when i hear : All I wanna do is bang bang bang, by Paper Planes. probably the WORST this to happen to music!

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