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Malecoda wrote:

Sonnenburg wrote:I still stand behind Macarthur Park for worst song.

Dunno it. Who's it by? Gotta sound clip?

I have the song (I keep it around to laugh at how bad it is, same as I do for Battlefield Earth), but not a clip. Here's a quick description.

It opens with some snythezier music that sounds like a the music for an old Nintendo game. There's a little subdued horn bit, then the singer begins. He has the timbre of Dylan, but if Dylan was a mediocre opera singer with a slight lisp. He then sings the following with absolute sincerity, as if he were Jack Palance reciting Langston Hughs and every word expressed some inner nuance. Here's what he sings (I swear I am not making this up).

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

Then it sounds just like the theme song to Love Boat, and we enter the refrain, which mere words cannot do justice. Here's the words, which he again sings as if it was perhaps the most profound things ever written by man:

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
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

And then he gives an "Oh noooooooo" that sounds like he actually ejected a testicle from his body.

Then it repeats the same pattern with a second verse. More sane than the previous, but after the refrain Lewis Carrol seems normal.

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

Then the refrain again. After that there's this really long intrumental which sounds just like the music from William Shatner's album between pieces. After a while he gets back into it, backed up by the flowing music the romance music from Top Secret, he sings as if he was standing on the roof of the world seranading mankind in the most over-the-top way I've heard. Flutes join in so that it sounds like Satyr porn music.

Then, just when you think it can't get any worse, it cuts into this upbeat piece that sounds just like those "visit our concession" songs the theater plays after the trailers but before the movie starts. Then it wanders back into the reed for a second before going into gameshow themes and then a bit of the Bionic Man. After that you get the sounds of what I think is Final Fantasy characters defeating a multi-tentacled thing, building up to a crescendo for the return to the refrain. He sings this even more high-pitched than before and takes it to new heights of self-indulgence. It ends with him saying "Oh noooo" so high that it sounds exactly like a soprano's voice.

LOL--who is it? I'm lookin it up as we speak!

Richard Harris.

Huh, I just found "Jimmy Webb" now I'll NEVER KNOW

edit--now I see it's Donna Summer. I take it Jimmy was the author and it's been remade a few times?

Shit. We need a new computer. I want to hear this!

That goddamn Barenaked Ladies song in that car commercial...

"Its been...one week since you looked at me/dropped your arms to the side and said 'I'm sorry'"

It's been...FIVE FUCKING MINUTES SINCE I LAST SAW THAT COMMERCIAL! GOD DAMN IT!

How abt that Kelly Osbourne dribble, Blah blah blah blah. Thank dog for that Osbournes show--watching Kelly lay down a vocal track is pure gold.

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:See the thing that pisses me off the most is that some of the singers actually could sing opera, but they choose to misuse their voice for that God-awful devil music!

Well, when you think of it, rock music these days is a lot like Opera. They both involve people dressing up in outrageous costumes, and yelling lyrics nobody understands. But you don't understand the opera becaus it's in a foreign language.

Macarthur Park? Is that the song about never finding a recipe again or something?

Want to hear something funny? I bought an Elvis CD in Japan from the 1968 Comeback Special. He starts to entertain the audience by joking around and sings that song, he then says something like, "what a stupid song, man."

Here's another vote for Macarthur Park. Not just horribly sung, but so incredibly pretentious. What was anyone connected with this song thinking?

Years ago I saw William Shatner perform the song 'To Dream The Impossible Dream' on some talk show or other. He didn't sing it so much as talk it, complete with favourite method acting moves. That's the worst live performance of a song I've ever seen.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:See the thing that pisses me off the most is that some of the singers actually could sing opera, but they choose to misuse their voice for that God-awful devil music!

Well, when you think of it, rock music these days is a lot like Opera. They both involve people dressing up in outrageous costumes, and yelling lyrics nobody understands. But you don't understand the opera becaus it's in a foreign language.

The CORE DIFFERENCE between opera and ANY popular music involving singing produced today is that opera sounds beautiful and the other music X...doesn't.

Most contemporary rock pisses me off. Seems that all they can do nowadays is play the same three goddamned chords, distorted to the point of being noise, and they scream. Damnit, all they're capable of is screaming because they can't carry a fucking tune.

Most contemporary pop pisses me off. The chicks who don't desperately need singing lessons (*coughcoughBoobneySpearscoughcough*) choose to absolutely waste their voices on worthless pop drivel. (Aguilera, though she is starting the nasty habit of letting her voice get away from her, damnit!) And I like actual instruments in my music.

I mean, the whole "alternative" scene was fresh back in the early to mid 90s. Then it became formulaic crap. As a result, I think most songs put out now are equally annoying.

I still enjoy the Sheer mindblowing acid rock longevity, and decibaledge base (the level at which it was recorded at, so that turning the volume up or down, just increase or decrese the percentage of the volume, 10 being 100 percent) of Iron Butterfly. They can bring Britney to the gunfight, but I can drown thier minds in ownage with just one song.

38 minutes, eight lines of lyrics
with just the following lyrics

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey,
don't you know that I love you?
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby,
don't you know that I'll always be true?

Oh, won't you come with me
and take my hand?

Oh, won't you come with me
and walk this land?

Please take my hand!

-Repeat-

~solos~

-Repeat-
back to top

Of Modern Songs I hate that friggin Ketchup Song

Sea Skimmer wrote:Ever consider asking the radio station to be changed?

In Sydney, all the stations play the same shit. 96.9, 104.1, 106.5, all the FM band is nothing but those fucktard assclowns silverchair.

Frank Hipper wrote:

Sonnenburg wrote:I still stand behind Macarthur Park for worst song.

Amen brother! Testify! WORST. SONG. EVER.

*scratches head*
I can't connect a tune to the name, but it can't be worse than "Last Christmas"...

Vympel wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:Ever consider asking the radio station to be changed?

In Sydney, all the stations play the same shit. 96.9, 104.1, 106.5, all the FM band is nothing but those fucktard assclowns silverchair.

Haha, your countries radio waves suck shit. Invest in a shortwave set, with a three inch antenna mine can pick up broadcasts from southern Siberia and in one case I think Turkey.

You people don't even know what bad music is. Except for Chuck, and he's pretending he doesn't to hide his complacency in spreading it. If we assume that "modern" is within the past fifty years or so - and considering the scale of the horror, sort of like the Holocaust except musical - we definitely have a reasonable contender.

It's called, of course, DISCO!

I mean, for all the horror you've been describing, it would seem quite insignificant in comparison to, say, listening to Disco Duck on Endless Repeat for a couple of hours?

I rest my case.

I'm with Dahak on this one. There is no song more annoying than Last Christmas, if only because one CANNOT obtain retail therapy in December without this bein played at top volume SEVEN THOUSAND TIMES A DAY!

innerbrat wrote:I'm with Dahak on this one. There is no song more annoying than Last Christmas, if only because one CANNOT obtain retail therapy in December without this bein played at top volume SEVEN THOUSAND TIMES A DAY!

It was even inflicted on myself in a cinema, while I waited for TTT, and it was an upbeat version!!
*The horror... The horror...*

Goddamit, why do they think toruring us with christmas songs is going to make us spend money?

Most annoying song??? Now THAT's a hard contest.

As a side note, this is purely subjective. After all, I don't know many people who like the same obscure metal bands as I.

Did I read through this thread right, or did someone already mention that "it's getting hot in here" shit from that damn Nelly pansy and his damn bandaid he wear all the fucking time (I can kinda see how that guy on GXP has it, but on Nelly, it's just stupid).

Goddammit, that song might blow less if it had more than the same fucking line over and over.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:I still enjoy the Sheer mindblowing acid rock longevity, and decibaledge base (the level at which it was recorded at, so that turning the volume up or down, just increase or decrese the percentage of the volume, 10 being 100 percent) of Iron Butterfly. They can bring Britney to the gunfight, but I can drown thier minds in ownage with just one song.

38 minutes, eight lines of lyrics
with just the following lyrics

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey,
don't you know that I love you?
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby,
don't you know that I'll always be true?

Oh, won't you come with me
and take my hand?

Oh, won't you come with me
and walk this land?

Please take my hand!

-Repeat-

~solos~

-Repeat-
back to top

Okay, I grant you it's a crappy song but I love the tune. Although, the organ (yes organ) solo is a little annoying. Love the drum solo though.

As a side, can covers count?? Few things annoy me more than butchered covers.

I'm not saying that there aren't good covers (Edge of Sanity's cover of Blood Of My Enemies ManOwar comes to mind), but there are totally bad covers, such as White Lion's cover of Radar Love and Geri Halliwell's cover of It's Raining Men.