Gaaah

[Draconator]

Every single one of my Rush friends give me grief every time I bring this up. 

 

When I'm listening to Rush on Alexa, and this song comes on, it's an immediate skip.

 

If I'm in the car, I get an alert that Rush is being played, and it's this song, the station I tuned into is immediately off and tuned to another station.

 

It's nails on a chalkboard. 

 

 

[Rockpile233]

Anything Chicago did in the 80s was so awful I don’t understand how they were so popular.

 

https://youtu.be/1A0MPWseJIE?si=V2JDt3ZzzEZlHy1V

 

 

With that said the trash pop country today everyone seems to love tops it.

Edited 13 hours ago by Rockpile233

[ExiledInIllinois]

Try to get this ***** -ing song outta your head.  Your mind will be stuck in 1st gear AutoTune for a week!

 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

16 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

Welcome to the worst Pop-Hits thread.  
 

No rules, just please try to not stick some catchy gawd-awful Paul McCartney song into innocent peoples heads.  If it catches, maybe we'll have some kinda vote to come up with the ghastliest pop song of all time, if not, well maybe a few of us can exorcise some demons. 
 

It goes without saying that for me the most iconic decade of awful music was the 1980's - I don't hate everything 1980's, and actually I love quite a bit of it, but the driving force in the center of the 80's pop-music scene was a relentless choad... that decade was absolutely relentless with terrible music... BUT there's terrible pop songs to be had from producers, performers and cultures far and wide, so please find that one song buried in the craw of your last functioning brain-wave if you dare.  

 

I'd like to nominate Simple Minds for your consideration for worst Pop Song of All Time, with their original, 'All the Things She Said'.

 

It blends a certain, 'I don't care about any of these lyrics, but I suppose they must mean something' with immediate refrain gratification followed up by vapid soothing and a complete smothering into the dust of pointlessness at the end.    Excellent hit material, Simple Minds.
 

 

i really like the “no Paul McCartney” rule because I was just lining up McCartney videos to post, which I think would probably cause the board to crash in disgust. 
 

I will throw this out there. I never understood why people liked this song when it came out. (Do people like it?)

 

 

[LeviF]

If covers are welcome, I submit this:

 

 

Truly awful stuff. 

[4merper4mer]

I Love Cecile by the GoGos sucks.  Awful song.  I guess they deserve some credit for coming out so publicly at a time when that wasn’t so easy……but the song sucks.

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 hour ago, LeviF said:

If covers are welcome, I submit this:

 

 

Truly awful stuff. 

Come on!  You secretly love it, just hate the message! 😆 

 

Nickleback definitely has to make list.

 

I submit:

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by ExiledInIllinois

[LeviF]

12 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Come on!  You secretly love it, just hate the message! 😆 

 

 

DDT was banned in the 70s. 
 

Joni Mitchell wrote the song for teenagers in the 70s. Not sure why Counting Crows wanted to ignore that fact.
 

The rhyming of “swing” and “away” is particularly egregious. Not to mention that if you can hear your screen door swing you need to repair that *****. 

[ChevyVanMiller]

Close the contest, ladies and gentlemen we have a winner.

 

 

[muppy]

worst pop song seriously? which decade should we pick from? Because if we are choosing the music kids listen to these days.there would be too many to mention.

 

I'm clearly a get off my lawn with the stuff they call music these days.

 

My own worst pop song ever is this super annoying song which I cannot stand with a passion. OMG just NO.  I snark your song wall of voodoo u suck.

 

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by muppy

[muppy]

honorable mention to this little ditty. I didn''t buy it then and I certainly don't now.  Her voice on this track is nails on a chalk board. too cutesy. Gaaah inducing  for sure

 

 

 

 

 and in third place this other lil pop star I never could understand the appeal. I guess girls in pigtails do anything  for me. Again the voice Sucks here too  IMO LOL

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by muppy

[US Egg]

12 hours ago, DrW said:

Another example that even the best can produce a stinker (although I do not think it hurt their career): "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da" by you-know-who.

There’s a good version, imo, of that song at the end of this movie, along with quite a few other Beatle songs.

 

 

[Philly McButterpants]

18 hours ago, PastaJoe said:

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street. The saxophone is like nails on a chalkboard. I quickly switch stations whenever it comes on.

Are you nuts?  I LOVE this song - summer of '78 vibes.

[muppy]

23 hours ago, LeviF said:

 

It's bad, but that's not even Starship's worst #1.

 

For me the worst pop hit of all time is this one. You can avoid hearing Starship for the rest of your life pretty easily. Not so with this 90s alt breakthrough:

 

 

It's everything that's bad about 90s music that Nirvana wasn't already involved in.

lmao a snuck in Nirvana diss. I saw it LOL  *giggles** and as far as Linda Perry is concerned this is a female anthem Ill have you know. WTF is going on? Don't you want to know? I DO

 

lol

[LeviF]

Just now, muppy said:

as far as Linda Perry is concerned this is a female anthem Ill have you know.

 

I already think it's bad you don't have to convince me.