Run for Your Life! It’s the 50 Worst Songs Ever!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The only one I truly disagree with is THE BEATLES "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" .

I love that song!!

Now Acky Breaky Heart? That one belongs on the dung heap of music.

As does Phil Collins entire back catalog.

Phil and Sting should be shot for pretending to be lyricists. Give the job to a monkey.

I was a big fan of Genesis...saw them in '82. Both Sting and Phil Collins are both very talented musicians...who somehow managed to write some of the most mundane lyrics full of cliches. They both have had some great songs which make the bad songs even painfully worse.

The only one I truly disagree with is THE BEATLES “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” .

I love that song!!

Now Acky Breaky Heart? That one belongs on the dung heap of music.

As does Phil Collins entire back catalog.

Phil and Sting should be shot for pretending to be lyricists. Give the job to a monkey.

Have you seen American Pyscho?

Patrick Bateman has this whole speech lined up about the artistic genius of Phil Collins, "which only came into its own once he left Genesis".

I've got to see that movie again. There's a lot of social commentary going on with his character.

I have to return some videotapes...

I met Brett Easton Ellis at a book signing a couple of years ago. Several people commented that he looked extremely high.

[Jenn! 918]

Good song........HILARIOUS COVER! I can't believe I've never seen this before. I think this would be really good with some LSD.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock — #1

They rhyme girl with world, apricot with gavotte—and that’s when they rhyme at all. Meet pop’s metaphor-twisting, mysticism-spouting, Hallmark-card–quoting bards of banality.

01 • STING

Mountainous pomposity, cloying spirituality, ham-handed metaphors: He can do it all.

It didn’t have to turn out this way. In the Police, Sting wore ripped T-shirts and wrote catchy new-wave songs about hookers. Sure, he name-dropped Nabokov in “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” but he balanced it with the awesomely post-lingual “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.” But once publications labeled him “The Thinking Woman’s Sex Symbol,” a low-watt lightbulb popped on in his head, illuminating the way toward a self-serious future. Sting would go on to rip off Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, St. Augustine’s Confessions … even Shakespeare.

After the Police split, Sting pursued a second career liberating soccer moms from their “soul cages.” Jazz musicians were involved. A lute was purchased. Volvo bumper stickers were quoted (“If you love someone, set them free”). Surveying the Cold War, he found the West “conditioned to respond to all the threats/In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets.” His rage at Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was so heated, he castigated the scoundrel in Spanish. Holy frijoles, was Sting mad!

These searing insights befit a sociopolitical seer “cursed with X-ray vision”—and capable of doing folkloric parables about seventh sons and mystical fisherman and taking us on journeys from the battlefields of World War I to the ancient kingdoms of “the high Sahara.” But does Sting care? He doth not. He’s the King of Pain, kids. And no pain, no gain.

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2886

Edited October 13, 2007 by Mister Fancypants

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Good song........HILARIOUS COVER! I can't believe I've never seen this before. I think this would be really good with some LSD.

Have you seen his Rocket Man 'interpretation?'

His version of Mr Tambourine Man is much better.

It's worth it for the scream at the end.

[Fandango 1,439]

i'm surprised "born to be alive" isn't on this list - a song from the mid 70's i think it was.

omG I that song!!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile....let's discuss the video, lolz

[Jenn! 918]

ROFLMFAO! I can't believe I didn't know about these gems. I live for this type of stuff.

jingle....jangle....morning hahahahaha

[Fandango 1,439]

I need to clarify....i loveD that song. Past tense, lol

[GaryC 7]

I'll add "Man, I feel like a woman", "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under" and "Down to my last cigarette" to this list!

Yeah, but the video more than made up for it!

[pedroh 21]

Everybody Wang-chung tonight!!! (omg video is kinda trippy, and bad)

Rico Suave!! ftw! (probly it was bad cuz people couldn't understand half of it lol) and in the 90's all the wannabe latinos wanted to dress like gerardo, LOL

oh this is classic.. I dunno why it wasn't mentioned (a song about masturbation, wow)

and just a few people remember a spanish group called Locomia, that's probly the worse of the worse... EVER

and agree red,white and blue by keith is one of the worst songs ever

[caybee 21]

"MacArthur Park":

Someone left the cake out in the rain.

I don't think I can take it

'cause it took so long to bake it

and I'll never have that recipe again.

I remember a disco version with some awful primal scream at the beginning. The stuff of nightmares.

And then there's this:

Boohoo.

[Fandango 1,439]

"MacArthur Park":

Someone left the cake out in the rain.

I don't think I can take it

'cause it took so long to bake it

and I'll never have that recipe again.

I remember a disco version with some awful primal scream at the beginning. The stuff of nightmares.

Donna Summers, right?

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Pedroh....u shoulda been in Miami during Gerardo's days

[rclouse 0]

No list of Worst Songs Evar is complete without some "Afternoon Delight".

[caybee 21]

"MacArthur Park":

Someone left the cake out in the rain.

I don't think I can take it

'cause it took so long to bake it

and I'll never have that recipe again.

I remember a disco version with some awful primal scream at the beginning. The stuff of nightmares.

Donna Summers, right?

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Pedroh....u shoulda been in Miami during Gerardo's days

I think so, but I couldn't find the version I remember.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

No list of Worst Songs Evar is complete without some "Afternoon Delight".

Hey now, that's Ron Burgundy's favorite song.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Rico Suave!! ftw! (probly it was bad cuz people couldn't understand half of it lol) and in the 90's all the wannabe latinos wanted to dress like gerardo, LOL

LOL ...he was like a gay man's fantasy of a latino.

...it is so true that 'video killed the radio star.' Once MTV came to be, it didn't matter if you sucked as long as made a cool video and could look sexy.