Popular songs from the past that we hate (soundtrack, singer, bands)

[Slowpoke_TX]

Originally Posted by augiedogie

Quiet is underrated and most music overrated. Maybe that's another thread? Popular songs that we hate from the past. Like my all time worst, "American Pie"

Augiedogie suggested it, so I made it happen.

Post the title and artist of songs from the past that make you cringe when they are played.


I'll start with just a few (although I could name dozens off the top of my head):

"Livin' La Vida Loca" - Ricky Martin

"Macarena" - Los del Rio

"Mrs. Steven Rudy" - Mark McGuinn

"Summer Nights" - Grease soundtrack

"Me & Bobby McGee" - Janis Joplin

anything by The Cranberries, Taylor Swift, boy bands, or grunge

[Black Jade Stingray]

Ashamed to admit I actually like this tune. Was popular the same time INXS and U2 was huge.

Unlike those others, sounds like the singer had a clothespin clamped to his nuts. lol

Good chords/progression, beat and song structure though.


Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals - YouTube

[Black Jade Stingray]

They actually had two numbers that were big.



Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives me Crazy - YouTube

[jtur88]

I'd have to go with this absolutely infantile POS, "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer. This thing drove me nuts, it must have been played every hour for a year,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW8ecqu0Iw

[Slowpoke_TX]

Originally Posted by jtur88

I'd have to go with this absolutely infantile POS, "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer. This thing drove me nuts, it must have been played every hour for a year,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW8ecqu0Iw

That was bad. I cut it off after the second line.



Black Jade Stingray: I remember those two songs (I actually kinda liked them back when they were singles). The vocalist had a lousy falsetto.

[Black Jade Stingray]

Originally Posted by Slowpoke_TX

That was bad. I cut it off after the second line.



Black Jade Stingray: I remember those two songs (I actually kinda liked them back when they were singles). The vocalist had a lousy falsetto.

Coming from a rocker and bluser I actually do too. The songs are good and they are catchy. Just something "off" or not right about the singer.

[mkpunk]

""Last Christmas" by anyone
"Macarena" by Los del Rio
"She Bangs" by Ricky Martin
any Abba song
any Taylor Swift song from her second album or later (besides "You Belong With Me")

[averysgore]

Dave Barry did two columns, and then a whole book, on a Bad Song Survey.

First column:

http://www.e-reading.co.uk/chapter.p...g_This_Up.html

Second column, in which the survey winner is announced: Macarthur Park

And The Winner Is ... - Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up

Personally, I hate with white hot venom "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone." And "Love Shack."

[TotallyTam]

Cringe-worthy songs for me are: The Pina Colada Song, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Muskrat Love, Afternoon Delight, any Monkees song, any song by Herman's Hermits, any song by Aaron Neville, and my all-time most cringe producing, assault to the ear is....wait for it....Achey Breaky Heart. Uuuugh!

[PanTerra]

Maybe it was the video that made it so bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrvQ0Yyw_XQ