We were chatting in the email ring today (the one that spawned this site, as a matter of fact) and one non sequitur led to the next until finally Irony got around to posting a song by Bobby Goldsboro.
Goldsboro’s song “Honey” usually makes every list where people are cataloging the absolute “worst of.”
But Irony asked, “why stop with Honey? You can dive deeper into the Goldsboro discography and unearth some more.”
He remembers watching Carson with his dad when Goldsboro performed this—->
Me, personally, I don’t hate this song. But it was pointed out by someone in the email ring that it’s a pretty childish song for an adult theme. Almost like the guy might be singing about an 11 year-old.
Now the song is ruined.
lol.
What does the gang think?
By the way, there’s another version of this song by Gene Cotton. It’s arguably better.
Post links to what you consider the worst songs.
(Where is Goldsboro now?——>
I’m thinking there’s some womenz here that actually might like this.
https://youtu.be/byQIPdHMpjc
I have a sentimental streak… so, I bought into the song.
I agree BB.
It won’t be on my Spotify, but I listened to it.
Irony pointed out, and he’s spot on. It’s a poor man’s Jim Croce song.
Keeping it in the family
https://youtu.be/XhZnnsTBYA4
Yup, I was watching Carson with my father – it had to be late 1970s – and Goldsboro was on. He performed this song. When he was done, my dad -who is absolutely TONE DEAF – said, “Wow, was that the worst song ever, or what?!”
Little did we know that “We Built This City” and “Mr. Roboto” would come along one day!
And, don’t get me wrong. I can appreciate a good sentimental song. Jim Croce’s “Operator” is great example of how it’s done right.
Wow.
Sexualizing Teddy Bears and various stuffed animals.
If only Gary Puckett thought of that back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE
This is by far the dumbest song. Do they know it’s Christmas? Do they care since most people in Africa are Muslim? Not a lot of snow there either. It’s the worst.
We Built This City…
you’re stealing my thunder.
That’s my pick for the absolute worst song that still gets air play.
The answer to the question of “where is Bobby Goldsboro now” is,
he’s turned into old Asian Freddie Prinze.
1. The song isn’t good for an adult to be singing. It’s like 9 or 12 year old style, tops.
2. I seriously thought he was going to sing that he burned down the zoo.
3. His teeth look like a Klan riot.
All I ever hear is “We built this….” CLICK! (radio gets switched off.)
@MJA HAHAHA! Burning down the zoo at the end would have totally justified the whole thing. Hilarious!
https://youtu.be/Cv6tuzHUuuk?list=RDCv6tuzHUuuk
Why?
I didn’t never ever need to
hear achey-breaky ever again!
In the second video:
1. I didn’t hear it. lol
2. He looks like an Asian Charles Bronson.
3. I see the rioting members came to a peaceful agreement.
You can tell it’s a french horn, you can hear the accent on every note.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LerXcrCRXlg&feature=youtu.be
Thank you music lovers!
This is so funny because recently you guys were ragging on Buffet with his “story” songs. Honestly, I could never stand “Honey”. Just a dumb dumb song IMO.
But I heard another song yesterday on the car radio that I think I like even less than “Honey.”
It’s too bad because the opening bars of the song would be fantastic if they left out every other instrument, most especially the harmonica.
However, the line “tonic and gin” grates on my last nerve. NO ONE says, “tonic and gin.” Why didn’t Joel just rearrange his rhyming? And it’s really not the worst part of the shambles of a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_g7fPjVxvg
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Here’s a contender: In 1952, Slim Whitman made this recording of Indian Love Call. It is hideous.
Try and top this. A belated Happy Birthday Mr. Hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCKXxJRgVgc
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https://youtu.be/joXkFQA9vxw
OK, I believe you.
(Actually the original Journey was a hell of a lot better before they went AM)
In retrospect, I think Bobby was the first basement dwelling soy boy.
I think Bad Brad makes a good point with Walk Like an Egyptian.
I never contemplated the lyrics before, but they are ridiculous.
The song became a success even without anyone in the history of mankind “walking like an Egyptian” except for the very awkward and embarrassed looking people in the video.
I think they thought this would “be a thing.”
It never was, but the song became a hit.
It would be like the Twist being a hit but nobody ever dancing the Twist.
Geeze, Fur! You made me turn off Mozart for THIS? Gaaaahhhhhhhhh
Worst song? One of my unfavorites was by Bread:
Baby I’m-A Want You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHHHAeSBvY
Geoff,
Never heard it.
Never want to hear it again.
I’ll stick with Dizzy.
“Timothy” by the Buoys
Baby I’m a kill you, for PUTTING THAT EAR WORM IN MY HEAD!!
Ah come on. Worst song? You mean you can sit thru all of Butterfly Kisses without tryin to rip your ears off?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwlAdEnT-do
Don’t get me started on the Muzzie call to prayer.
This song is totally gruesome and I don’t think it should have ever been written:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqDu5LBT8_Y
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Claudia
I dunno Claudia. After all bread killed Mama Cass
Muskrat Love
Haha! I’ll admit a guilty pleasure on Walk Like An Egyptian because I love The Bangles – PRE Eternal Flame
“Asian Freddie Prinze.” Hilarious!
@Truckbuddy — haha! I think we were writing at the same time.
Claudia — Thanks A LOT!! Worse song ever!!
*SCREAMS* [throws lit match at Claudia’s link]
AA
God, what did we do? 😀
Fur, let’s change it up and do a “favorites” thing.
(And did you notice I had the good taste not to bring up your birthday? heehee. (whisper) Happy Birthday, Dear Fur Hat!! And many happy returns of the day!)
@AbigailAdams – Quite right. Timothy is in very poor taste.
While we’re at it, I was never a fan of In A Gadda Da Vida either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4
I’m 71 years old so I’ve heard my share of crappy songs and could go on all night but Mrs Galt says it’s bed time and I have to get up early tomorrow to shovel 6 inches of Climate Change off of my driveway.
@AbigalAdams
Hold those calls we have a winner. Forgot about Timothy. Rupert Holmes wrote some pretty awful songs like “Escape” and “Him” but “Timothy” takes the cake.
At least, I THINK that was cake. Tasted a bit like chicken. Hmmmm.
WELL, GOOD! I was grooving on Mozart and then what? A worst song post. I had to defend myself!
But, I guess I’m sorry … that WAS mean!!
*snicker*
Truckbuddy — LOL!! God, why don’t I know?!
This will make you all puke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
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Make sure you watch it till the end.
Did I tell you Happy Birthday Mr.Hat.
Well I WAS going to sleep tonight. But I guess NOT.
Irony — There’s something just plain wrong about a toe-tapping dance tune about cannibalism. Just not right.
1910 Fruitgum Company. All of it.
don’ care much about ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’ (other than it was another tasteless million-seller) … but I was glued to the TV screen every time Suzanna Hoffs rolled her eyes from side to side! …. Rrrrrrrroooooooolllll
Sorry, I gots to go there. I’ll decide whether you live or not. LOL
https://youtu.be/fNFzfwLM72c
Doing good songs now?
Friends of Mr Cario
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__eZAuc2f-Q
All of the Time album by ELO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgxAbVrT3u0
McArthur Park.
Sonata of the Shit Holes.
https://youtu.be/M9BNoNFKCBI?list=RDM9BNoNFKCBI
That group Beto was in.
hated when it was current…..still hate it now….
i’m female, if that counts….
stupid stupid insipidly maudlin song…..
….why are we still paying attention to it??????
hated when it was current…..still hate it now….
i’m female, if that counts….
stupid stupid insipidly maudlin song…..
….why are we still paying attention to it now????
Worst song by TWO prominent and NOTEWORTHY artists in ONE SONG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtiJN6yiik
Boy, some of these song are giving me flash backs, and not good ones. Funny how you can hear a song and it reminds you of the good times in your life no matter how good or bad the song really is.
Back to the worst.
They’re Coming to Take Me Away (which they probably should)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY
Nite all. Don’t stay up too late.
‘You’re Having My Baby’ …. mic drops, walks off
“This is the Town” by Nilsson.
FacileBook is using it in an ad.
Best song ever. I’m an old fxck. And I know these guys are libtards. But this shit blasts loud in my ears on leg day.
https://youtu.be/oYI9AryfhNg
Jim Croce is amazing, this is not.
…it sounds like it ought to be a
the theme song in a kids movie about the zoo and it’s zoo keeper who is apparently a terribly lonely man.
Everything William Shatner sang sucked, “That’s Me Trying”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jze2xTcukc0&index=10&list=PLg5_wcdn25VweI2BHxqLEbIpa-njEqCTt
Aw, c’mon…..you know this is the worst, evah.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA
I made it about 15 seconds
A favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-NsnlPc54
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(I still don’t know all the words, but it doesn’t matter because the music is so good.)
Neil Young with an electric guitar – any song.
Back when I was a kid, there was a stretch of time where every goddamn station was playing this song every 15 minutes and I nearly climbed up on the roof to jump off the second story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0pwJ5PMDg
Don’t know. He was pretty damn good on this one.
https://youtu.be/0O1v_7T6p8U
AA,
“In and around the lake,
Mountains come out of the sky and stand there”
I saw that happen at Jenny Lake in the Tetons. I was camping and when I rose in the morning, the clouds were hanging just inches from the surface of the lake. I could see nothing of the mountains through the clouds, but as my eyes gazed upward, a break in the clouds revealed the peaks. Took my breath away. Then I remembered that line from the song and almost cried. Magical.
TheMule
Just won this shit. I tried to repress it. I won’t sleep tonight.
BB — Geoff C. tells me that Linkin is a great band, but you guys go in for that head-bangin’ stuff. It would give me a migraine. Too disjointed for me. My very favorite musical era is Big Band and Swing. Give me “‘A’ Train” and Glen Miller or give me death! My bestest friend’s (in high school)dad was a big band/swing leader/musician and she and I would go with him on Saturday nights to his gigs. Sometimes she and I would take the stage to sing with them. Loved it!!
How about this gem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68
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A 100 cats in a bag would sound better.
Claudia, Ahhhhh. Now you’re making me cry. Beautiful.
BB — Hey! Cyrus has eyes you can swim in and he’s rockin’ that world class mullet!
Gosh, line dancin’! That was sure a lot of fun!
Currently, the worst song that get consistent airplay right now is 1800-CARS-4-KIDS. Drives me nuts!
AA
I’m a dinosaur. But the young chickadees think it;s cool helping Grandpa figure out how to listen to shit off his I phone. At 62 still the big fish in the little pond. Odds of that lasting long are not good.
Hey Joe6 — Which is worse, 1-800-Cars-4-Kids or “I have a structured settlement but I need cash NOW!!”
(feel free to sing the rest of it.)
Claudia –
Jenny Lake, yes, i know of this place from a few lives ago.
Magical, ephemeral, spiritual
Ben, by Michael Jackson.
.45-70, ditto here. That happened in 1975.
Geoff/Saltine –
I quit. You win! With that last one.
I am not worthy…
Claudia –
1978….then again 1980
AA, Billy was all business in the front and party in the back.
Folks, this is a whole new level of worst. When I assisted Eddie Kramer on a session in the 80’s, he came in with the Shaggs record. The girls are part of recording studio lore.
https://youtu.be/XR9d4ESlpHY
Still Going with the Mule. He’s a sick SOB for res-erecting that shit and destroying three years in therapy. Dude, whats wrong with you? LOL
.45-70, Last visit was 2011. Beautiful as ever.
Just for all of us racists here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Txk6wEbhC0&start_radio=1&list=RD2Txk6wEbhC0&t=52
There are more bad songs than I ever new were out there.
BB — I may just be the very worst person when it comes to knowing contemporary musicians. My presets are ALL conservative talk radio and radio evangelists. I only listen to music in the car when Medved is the only show on. As I say, I’m a big band/swing girl.
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Moonlight Serenade. Ahhhhhh. Heavenly. If you don’t want to dance, you should check your pulse because you’re probably dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TB_8H23EDI
And if you think Glenny was a snooze, listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A
Some range, huh? That cat’s jammin’. Genius.
Chris that was just mean.
Does Pinko jam with them?
Geoff
I figured out Pinkos band. It’s just plain embarrassing. LOL
https://youtu.be/ftOCvwrygCI
Try Psycho by Jack Kittel
Call in next week and ask Pinko about My Pal, Foot Foot.
Here you go. LOL
https://youtu.be/ZcyCQLewj10
Quite honestly, great music for my gen.
Here’s my parting shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSP0e5rXUl8
“Sugar, Sugar” — The Archies
BB — That’s actually a pretty good song.
Flippen a bitch. One of the very best song out of my generation.
https://youtu.be/IReb27tFqMg
Not quite. One of my very favorite songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ULUQgxJ5M
“Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear.”
You can’t touch this
https://youtu.be/Zf53Pg2AkdY
HaHa, gotcha.
Rats! Good band. But thought you were going for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NNYI8VbFyY
I still laugh out loud when I think of Joe Pesci in The Super.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shQXKmxsnCY
Well, I guess we morphed into great songs. Here’s one.
https://youtu.be/Bg1di8sGxWc
AA
Love me some Hammer. Quite a story. He’s now a man of the clothe in Oakland. There’s not many people that didn’t steal from him. I’m thinking he’s the one who came out on top. Michelle still plays his stuff non stop in the Michelle mobile. Happier times I think.
Worst parody of a worst song
Horny as hell, too much to drink
And Brett said he would sell his soul
For just .. a peek .. at pink
Harlot enough to please these two
And Brett said to Mike “I’ll cop a feel
And then there’s some for you
Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh .. Where on Earth was that home
Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh .. God, why dont I know?
One of the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAyVqlZ1h3w
It’s better to burn out than fade away.
Yep. Good night pals.
Van Hagar is PLAGUED with shit tunes! Hell. Where do I begin?
Any artist doing any version of “The Little Drummer Boy”…including the ones where they call the baby “Hey-Zeus”. And ALL modern or traditional Christmas songs performed by pop singers.
It’s that half of the year again…pray for me.
Submitted for your approval:
Ian Whitcomb’s 1965 ripe slice of hell:
“You Turn Me On”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9PjUscNOJM
Toby Miles, I’d never heard Blue Wave before, thanks for the good song. My 5 worst songs ever: Watching Snotty Grow by Bobby Goldsborough, In The Year 2525, One Tin Soldier by Coven, My Dingaling by Chuck Berry and Imagine by John Lennon. There are many others but those are the worst. Some of the best are It’s A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong and Stand By Me by Ben E. King. And I Fall To Pieces by Patsy Cline and her cover of Willie Nelson’s song Crazy.
It’s hard to beat Tiny Tim singing anything. Was that not played on radio in addition to Ed Sullivan? Imagine is horrible, too
Blister in the Sun. Forgot the name of the homo band that did it. Awful awful song.
Imagine by John Lennon
I guess bringing up anything by Yoko is too easy?
I am woman by Helen Reddy
How about a song by John Lennon about Yoko Ono
“Woman” .. I can hardly express
The depth of that song’s awfulness
God, that song damn near made me turn in my Beatles card and secret decoder ring