The Worst 200 songs of all time megathread

Probably in the minority on this one, as it's regularly talked about as one of their best tracks, but I can't stand Don't look back in anger, it just drones on and on.

 

Pure vomit.

 

I reckon there's two categories to this. There's the clearly rhubarb song which doesn't hide what it is - it knows it's rubbish and its proud. Some already mentioned in this thread - Cheeky Girls, Mr Blobby etc.

Then there's the unintentionally rubbish song - where the artist thinks they've written an all timer, but its just absolute gash. Something like I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing by Aerosmith.

The latter is the biggest offender.

 

Stick a pin somewhere in Coldplay's back catalogue

 

Years ago I worked at Hepworth tailors in Leeds. We had to suffer “Radio Hepworths” which was piped out wherever you went in the huge building. The “DJ” only had a handful of singles and for nearly 6 years I was tortured at least once an hour by Dean Friedman’s Lucky Stars. “And you can thank your lucky storrrs that we’re not as smort as we we’d like to think we orr, did you see Lisa?, yes I saw Lisa etc”
AAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

 

I don't think it's that bad, but it's a very throwaway track from an outstanding album. The fact that everyone remembers Come on Eileen whereas hardly anyone knows that The Celtic Soul Brothers exists is absolutely criminal.

 

Agree with that. Plenty of power ballads fall into that category. Bryan Adams - Everything I Do and Bon Jovi - I'll be There are particularly dreadful examples.

Coldplay, Keane, Muse - the triumvirate of bands who make music for people who don't like music.

 

Owner of an 'Orse n Kaht! .

 

I’ve actually got the vinyl single … worth a small fortune

 

Woman of mine by him is as bad

 

Anything Oasis, absolutely awful.
Anything by The Smiths & Radiohead, depressing dirge.
Arctic Monkeys, awful.

 

Pink Floyd's Another brick in the wall just makes me cringe, those Cockney kids turning an already sheeite song into super sheeite song.

 

The Smiths are truly awful, pinched every penny.

 

Can I stick in this thread - Bohemian Rhapsody. I’ll put my tin hat on!

 

For me a crucial criteria for this is how much the bad song invaded my life. I’m sure there are worse songs that have not been in my wheelhouse. But for their shear ubiquitous in my teenage years I’d go for all those stock, aitkin and waterman songs that dominated the charts for years in the later 80s early 90s. All absolute, formulaic soulless bilge “sung” by a conveyor belt of talentless corporate shills and 2-bit soap stars.
With such a crowded field of tripe it’s not easy to narrow it down, but I’ve plumped for “I’d rather Jack” by the Reynolds Girls. A worthy “winner”.

 

Nights in white satin … it just never seemed to end

 

Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's A Dustman. An attempt to be witty and using the popularity of skiffle to appeal to the audience the crap rhyming lyrics and predictable tune make this another Donegan no-brainer (with the bubble-gum, bedpost garbage he also did). The only partial saving grace for this song is that years later it was resurrected by Barnsley fans, re-interpreted and given better lyrics as a way of ridiculing the football skills of a certain Rotherham Utd striker. The Barnsley fans' version is the one that should have been in the charts.

 

Chuck Berry - My Ding-a-ling. Awful song from one of the early innovators of rock and roll. The fact that this utter kak did so well in the charts says more about the taste of the general public than it does about the song itself. Complete dross.

 

I made the mistake of clicking on that as I've never heard it.
I will never now unhear it.