Worst...
 

I did my diligence and googled MB for prior threads, none that I found were what I want to discuss in this thread, I found worst lyrics, wost rock song by an otherwise good band, so on. I just wanna know what everyone thinks is the utter dreck of music, for *whatever* reason.

Also, with a thread like this, there needs to be a rule. If someone hates something you like, no flamethrowing. It's their opinion, just deal, put on your big boy/girl panties and post whatever *you* hate. Fair enough?

My first pick is easy. Worst cover song, worst video, worst medley, worst shoehorning in your talentless mullet-sporting boyfriend, worst MILFey prancing around in your underwear, Worst Nietzsche reference, worst tone in a piano introduction, on and on, you name it I hate it.

This song is pretty epic, even the video is epic in a cliché way, you're wrong

Well...

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^Petey no likey^

Maybe not the worst song ever (Tiny Tims' Tiptoe comes to mind), but it really irritated me when one of the sound engineers for a company I worked for would use this for testing a 30,000 watt sound system.


Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO] - YouTube

^ I made it almost 30 seconds into that...

Any worst list would have to include this woman for me. And WTF is the deal with the gesticulation at 3:30???




I said it twelve years ago and I'll say it again today. I'd rather shove a burning wolverine up my butt than let Celine Dion give me $200.

I'm going to throw the first real punch and say that I hate Lana Del Rey. Her music is boring, her lyrics are embarrassing, and to make her all the worse, she has the whiniest, duck-faciest, poutiest singing voice I've ever heard. I just can't.

I thought I threw a couple pretty solid punches.

I don't care for LDR either.

I knew someone was going to question that. I guess it's because I know there are people here who love her, so I said it knowing who was going to be annoyed by it, heh.

I'm not sure how bands like this and Brokencyde are still putting out music. Who is actually buying their music and enjoying it?

You forgot to mention that they savaged "Free bird" for this piece of dren too! :yikes:

I completely agree with this! Her an Ellie Goulding are God awful.

dude return of the mac....are you kidding me thats a great song


dj hit the nail on the head. blood on the dancefloor/brokencyde is the worst

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Absolute least favorite '80's rock song. Worst. Lyrics. Ever.

is it just me or did they just take Rainbow's "All night long", speed it up a little and use the riff? And yes, they're awful lyrics. Something even an East German power metal band would baulk at writing! I'm serious...

I will get up and dance to "Return of the Mack."

I can't post videos yet, but luckily someone posted it already: "Freaxx" by BrokeNCYDE.

This song is infuriatingly catchy. Especially the beginning. Having this stuck in my head makes me hate everything.

Ghastly. I agree. Whining into the apocalypse.

I'll see your Sammy and raise you a Firehouse:


''Don't Treat Me Bad'' - FIREHOUSE HQ - YouTube

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Motorin' Smee

I like Heart, but come on! The lyric is beyond awful. Not every single line has to rhyme with the next one you know! And this was written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange! Yeah... think he'd know better wouldn't you?

I knew the music critic at the Oregonian (Portland's daily newspaper), he said of Heart "they couldn't make it as the rebirth of Led Zeppelin, so they became the rebirth of Jefferson Starship, and I respect them about as much as a pigeon respects a statue..."

Harsh, but certainly true in the mid-late 80's. I do kinda like some of their early stuff, and they covered "The Battle of Evermore" beautifully as Lovemongers, but....yeah


You mean Mr. Shania Twain? No, I don't think he does. Aside from producing "Highway To Hell" I can't think of anything positive to say about J"M"L

In fairness most of the Heart material I have is from the 80s and is quite good (Bad Animals, Heart, Brigade etc) but that song sucks a big one.

As for JML, surely you're not forgetting Def Leppard and the Cars?
"Heartbeat city" not one of the greatest ever produced pop/rock albums of that era?

I've noticed the Final Countdown popping up quite a bit and whilst I recognize its a terrible song, I actually do quite like it.

John 'Mutt' Lange well I can't believe he's getting mentioned, as a producer he's something of a perfectionist which I guess would put some people off and I guess he got involved with the likes of Shania Twain and Nickelback as well, but he's worked with Def Leppard, Foreigner, the Cars and the Boomtown Rats and these were mostly good to very good albums.

Pyromania was epic.

..and so was Heartbeat City.

That's what I said. But have you listened to the lyric of "All I want to do is make love to you?" Jesus! Even the two sections of the TITLE rhyme! I mean, come on JML! Bit of originality here, huh? :rolleyes:

haha! Some truly terrible stuff here!

Even though I was only 10 at the time, I could work out that these guys were just embarrassing. As an adult, what bugs me is the way they are using a not serious presentation to promote a not funny song; clear proof that two wrongs don´t make a right.

By default alone,the drummer -and the dog- are the only ones to retain any semblance of dignity in this clip;

War is stupid, and people are stupid. Please tell me something I don't know!
This whole song is stupid, including a melody that sounds like it was whipped up in the studio that matched something that sounds like a sideways re-write of the start of "It's a Miracle" with a couple of more chords. Looking on the good side, the vocals show some emotion, but that's about all I can say.

Possibly the worst protest song of The 80's...maybe. Overproduced, with an annoying "Great Gig in the Sky" rip in the mid part, and promoted with an expensive video which backfires in it's aims by making war look very attractive and designed by a fashion company, this contains some of the worst lyrics ever. Being the single that wrecked Culture Club's string of well chosen singles and the one that hurt their credibility (Their first two albums had some strong Pop), this is clearly the moment New Pop had to die.

I hear you on that, although that's a work of heart-felt (OUCH!) MOR solid genius compared to what I call the worst 80's Commercial Reinvention to happen. True, Jefferson Starship was already getting to the worthless point, but this was where everything went totally wrong.

I present to you the neon nightmare of Starship's big US #1 of 1985 and the reason why I still site that year as one of the worst. Robotic, clunky, and seriously representative of a decade gone wrong outside of Billy Squire's "Rock Me Tonight". The only good thing about it was the stupid Boom-WHACK-boom-boom-WHACK me and my friend made fun of (the attack of the 80's Treble-Beat)...although that possibly was the thing that turned it into a mega hit as well.

I heard "We Built This City" on the radio again just the other day and I love that song as much now as when I first heard it back in 1985 and I love the Knee Deep in the Hoopla album as well;)

I will certainly not dismiss anyone for liking it. The beat was very 80's, the anthem quality was BIG (fist waving level 11!), Grace and Micky's voices blended very well, and it does have that Baseball Stadium quality to it. I can understand others liking it for a lot of the right reasons. Maybe I should have chose "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", the theme to Mannequin that was just as cheesy and without that crowd pleasing attitude, but "We Built This City" was something I chose on memory and gut reaction.

Me and my friend also made fun of other songs that went Boom WHACK boom boom WHACK in The 80's like one I kind of like myself, George Harrison's version of "I Got My Mind Set On You", which had a nice laid back quality that fitted his singing even if it was not one of his true highlights that was without the robotic edge and clumsy video that made me single out Starship's hit.

The choice is all of a personal one - it kind of hurt to see a once-idealistic band with a line up only featuring of one from their 60's lineups (Grace Slick) go into MTV style mechanisms (in fact Les Garland was on it!) at a perfect time when I was finally going out in the world and finding that the Pop Culture of that time was really going down with a style that was not all that attractive to me. True, there were already years of Jefferson Starship that slightly were worrying (especially when it got to Freedom at Point Zero), but it was the tip of the iceberg.

Just your run of the mill 80s Metal. Not the worst, but pretty bad imo... it's a crappy crap song.

Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a far better choice for 'worst' as the song is the perfect example of a commercial effort that doesn't have any songcraft to it. For the record the Knee Deep in the Hoopla album was by and large the only really good thing that Jefferson Starship and Starship put out, which was a real pity really considering the talent on offer there.

Come to think of it, at lest there was a fake rebellion in "We Built..." (co-composed via Bernie Taupin) which was a 100 score in the annoying 80's Pop sweepstakes.
Out of that Post-Kantner era, Love Among the Cannibals (I think that was actually Post-Slick!) certainly screamed Cut Out from day one of it's release.

To those with the morbid curiosity wanting to find out what we're discussing here, this is the video in all of it's anti-glory - the band looking like an anonymous 80's musicians dancing around sets made up to look perfect for the Mannequin film it was hyping and Grace and Mickey jumping around synching to the song - better dress sense, but not as amusing to look at. There's no soul to be found here, and I even wonder of Grace was hiding her real feelings during the video shoot. It's more like a corporate anthem that sounds like any "we will succeed" presentation of the day instead of being an actual song. This was co-written by 80's songwriter star Dianne Warren just to give you a warning.

To think that a decade before this, the name Jefferson was connected to the word Airplane and without any fears of any future line up of them turning out songs more befitting of Jem and the Holograms.

Yep Grace Slick had left before that album and to be fair by that time Jefferson Starship/Starship and certainly gone past their sell by date. In fact the glory years of AOR had long gone, despite the fact that mediocre artists like Richard Marx were still making it viable.

Ah no no no! What about "Sara"? Love that song. And "Nothing's gonna stop us now". Go on, sue me... :shycouch: :ar_15s:

So another Starship fan:laughing:

Now Jefferson Starship/Starship were something of an enigma, because by and large their worst material of which they've garnered their bad name, is their most overly commercial stuff such as the two you've mentioned above, But hidden away on their albums are some really good deeper sounding material of which the second is quite haunting. Both tracks are from completely different eras of the band but both hark back to their classic Jefferson Airplane days in very different ways.

Nope...I'm not going to laugh on that level either (you know I have a LOT of guilty pleasures).

Actually, I will have something nice (if not positive) to say about "Sara". That song seriously captured what I call Delorian Pop, something I can call after the infamous John Delorian - the slick 80's answer to the 50's Cadillac cruising music but the Yuppie version instead of the Rock and Roll Rebel. Driving that car with your date, after hitting the neon-filled nightclub, drinking the wine coolers, and going to your well kept home or apartment. No mess here, just shiny chrome and well-produced sounds (no distortion). Pure Early CD era music, with the Grace and Micky (more focus on Mickey) team possibly at their best - which is not saying much in my world, but at least for the FM Stereos everywhere.

I don't like that song, but it did capture a feeling that was not as annoying as either "We Built..." or "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now."