Just curious what everyone else out there consideres the WORST OF THE WORST.

I have a high tolerance for cheesy pop but some songs are so awful even i can't stand them.

The 70s is one of my favorite eras of music but it also had some of the WORST.

Here's my list. Please drop your turkey bombs here! 

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What's interesting is that it will vary from person to person despite us all being prog fans--   e.g., I can't stand 'All the Young Dudes' but as far as I can tell, many think it's just fine.   Meghan Trainor's 'All About That Bass' is pretty idiotic, Dexy's MRs 'Come on Eileen' I could do without, and even the Fab Four had some real stinkers, among them being my favorite whipping boy :

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Ouch

Just curious as to what others truly hate :)

You bet. That's probably the absolute worst song of all time. Top 2 with "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" by Wayne Newton!!!!!

fwiw I like Drops of Jupiter

And who could forget "My Humps?"

Believe it or not i actually don't hate the Black Eyed Peas but i know that song wrankles many people's musical sensibilities. I like those awful novelty rap songs like "Baby Got Back." 

I'll add the TRAIN song to my list. That is nauseating!

I kind of like really terrible pop music and even the worst 70's pap has some charm or makes me smile (not really nostalgia because i'm not old enough to remember) but whenever I'm exposed to to modern music on the radio I feel physically ill, so there's at least a decade of atrocious pophits I don't know who is by. I'm sure I'd hate Kygo, Drake, The Weeknd or whatever but fortunately I don't know... but here's some annoying songs I do remember:

Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up

Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

Inner Circle - Sweat (la la la la long)

Chumbawamba - Tubthumper

R. Kelly -  I Believe I Can Fly

Vengaboys - We're Going to Ibiza

4 Non Blondes - What's Up

That repetitive something at 0:34... gosh...

I had this one in my head, especially the part at 1:07... It was utterly terrible. 

There is tons of crappy pop music on the radio, and if you are forced to listen to such a station every day and the only musical instruments you hear are some piano and guitar which might have been just computer generated... it is terrible... I am glad I don't work at that place anymore. 

Anything by Train is nauseating.

Baby Got Back is a fun song back when rap had a sense of humor before gangsta took over. 

Yeah, awful song. 

How about Thunder by Imagine Dragons? 

vivoactive wrote: I used to work as an IT in a company in my hometown in 2016. I am mostly a prog and metal fan, in fact I like almost everything, including pop. However, in the office there used to be (and still might be, cause I left the job) a terrible radio with tons of ads. All day long my colleges used to listen to the cr*ppy radio and I remember some stuff from it.

I had a similar experience. The department piped in one of the local Top 40/adult contemporary-type radio stations so all day long I got to listen to that crap. If I ever hear Walking In Memphis again, I'll probably throw up.  

The only saving grace was Christmas time when they played only Christmas music, which I like. 

I don't mind the Chumbawumba tune.

THe Offspring song is much better as Weird Al Yankovic's "Pretty Fly For a Rabbi." 

The rest i either vaguely remember and have deleted from my memory or haven't heard. I'll check them out!

Actually i don't mind Smash Mouth either however that's not their best song for sure.

I don't mind that song. I like the synth funk synthesizer. It also is a cool testimony of our surveillance state. I find it meh but don't  hate it myself :)

OMG! This nauseates me too!

Yeah, i can't stand horrible radio either and it's pretty bad these days. Modern country stations are particularly awful but canned modern pop has reach new lows. I'm sensitive like  you. Sometimes bad songs are fun but often they are insipid soul destroyers!

Ugh. You're so right! It reminds me of the crap they play at movie theaters before the movie. Major crap. Adding it! Thanks for this turkey bomb :P

Takin' Care of Business -- Bachman Turner Overdrive.

Everything in that song occurs on the downbeat of every quarter note - with no variation! Every time it comes on the radio, I'm tempted to stand up and start stomping my feet, in place, like some sort of deranged goose-stepping zombie robot (perhaps powered by a BT Overdrive?)

You have no taste, man!   I noticed many consider his other song "Never Gonna Give You Up" as one of the worst. I agree with you on this one. 

Never heard it. I'll torture myself and check it out 

C'mon folks ... get with it ... 

Tip Toe Through the Tulips ... is coming through your ears!

it's an Euro-disco song, thick French accent these girls have 

Shiploads of crap have been poured out over our heads over the last five decades, but this is a fine example of the worst category indeed.

Roger Waters wrote: "We cower in our shelters with our hands over our ears" - from the album Amused to Death

Hmmm. This makes the Spice Girls sound like Mozart 

"Ghostbusters" often makes worst lists but don't know that one. I have heard that Peaches and Herb song. That is pretty bad. In fact i think i agree enough to add it. 

Peaches & Herb was "Reunited."

OMG! We're on different wavelengths with this one. I actually LOVE this song.

I recently just got the whole album and i LOVE the album too!

In fact Men Without Hats is one of my favorite synth pop bands.

Sorry to hear you don't like S-A-F-E-T-Y safety Dance!!!!

But you can dance if you want to 

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

 

"Jack and Jill" is much worse than Ghostbusters.  At least Ghostbusters had a decent hook, but Jack and Jill had such a bad synth part in it and was just stupid. 

 

And you were right, "Solid" was not by Peaches and Herb, it was "Ashford and Simpson", but you can add "Reunited" to that list too.  Some of these pop bands can sound alike, it's still garbage.

 

The Ohio Express version of this track is pretty bad, but it sounds like Death Metal compared to the original by the 1910 Fruitgum Company which is even worse.

Jeffro wrote: How about Thunder by Imagine Dragons?

 

Horrid!

Another hideous one, by an artist I usually appreciate, comes to my mind:

Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie

Very difficult for me as my brain tends not to make a note of songs it doesn't like, and that is a shedload of songs since my childhood in the 60s.

The first time I remember actively disliking a song on the radio was when I was about 8 years old, lying in hospital in London and I had to endure Bridge Over Troubled Water at least twice a day. I still hate that song.

Then in the early 70s I also remember really disliking hearing early Beatles songs. They were just bloody awful. 

The early and mid-70s disco period spewed up so much crap it is hard to remember any particular horrors.

Then the 80s....oh dear...the 80s...after the last vestiges of solid synth, new romantics, new wave and post-punk hits had died away in about 82 we were subjected to about 7 years of absolute sh*te! Until indie, dance and techno kicked in round 89-90. 

Since the late 90s after Britpop and Indie went stale I simply haven't bothered listening to modern pop or radio pop. 

And since the advent of MySpace, Youtube, Spotify, BGT, AGT, Fame Factory, X factor, Idol and so on, the battle has been well and truly lost in that there are now  far more crappy pop songs sand crappy bands out there than good ones.

 

For actual "unfun" crap, there's "Thong Song" by Sisqo. It always pops in my head when I think of terrible songs that were huge hits in their time. What a piece of trash.

And any song that was popular by Nickelback is bad. I can't actually name a song off the top of my head but in the past, If I've heard a song by them and would ask my friends, "Who is this? It's really bad," the answer would be Nickelback.

Kept hearing their name, from my sons and from others, and then I decided to listen to them..... OMG, what a stinking pile of..... 

Wow...that's simply terrible.

LOL

It occurs to me there are songs that are meant to be nauseating, like 'Gangnam Style', and yet somehow appeal to our darker musical angels.

And, if it counts as a pop song, I would definitely add Hopsin's "Happy Ending." Don't bother looking it up. 

Gawd. That's so irritating i couldn't even finish it! Well done, Dave! It made the list 

Ugh. Jack and Jill really is bad. It's on Raydio's first album with Ray Parker. PUKE

I actually don't mind that song. There are a lot of cheesy pop songs i should hate but i don't and i have no idea why. This is one of them. I guess it's catchy enough and novelty enought that it pleases me on some level. Go figure!

Another one that i can't say i like but don't hate. The video is quite trippy.

Not his finest hour for sure but better than the horrible crap on his forgettable debut album.

I take it you're from Sweden? How do you feel about Abba? Great or hate?

I know i'm crazy but i kinda like "Barbie Girl." It's a case of it's SOOOO bad that it's good for me.

Nickelback is forgettable but somewhat catchy. Don't quite hate them enough for this list but certainly don't listen to them!

Now that's cheesy for sure but i like synthpop and it has a nice synthy beat. Can't hate it but not the finest hour for Italo-disco. Have you heard of ITaly's Datura? I love them.

LOL. Very cheesy for sure! Kinda clever though. Not like anything i've heard actually. I can hear why this would get totally annoying after one listen :P

I think songs that are MEANT to be nauseating are called novelties whereas truly horrible music comes from uninspired crap that someone thought was a good idea! 

This Gangnam Style isn't horrible, just generic bubblegum electro-pop. At least it's dynamically produced :)

Actually "Beth" is much more nauseating! 

We must at least appreciate the 'Tron flutes in this one, don't we?

Gawd, if i was a woman i'd rather let the species go extinct than have his DNA inside me. 

siLLy puPPy wrote: dwill123 wrote: Everyone keeps forgetting this POS, 'I Wanna Rock N Roll All Night' (Kiss). Actually "Beth" is much more nauseating!

IWRnRAN is a great, fun party tune.

Yeah, i don't mind it either. KISS was mediocre but made great pop rock songs with some crap like "The Elder"

"Lady Bump" by Penny McLean aka Gertrude Wirschinger aka Barbra Münzer

Definitely one of the worst....that scream at the end of some of those lines is something that you cannot forget but you wished you could!

me and my curiosity...

I listened to that a bit and obviously it's crap, you're right. 

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Oh, and anything by Moron 5.

I had never hear that one by Train and hope I will never hear it again. That is truly horrid. And I too, am ok with Drops of Jupiter. 

Great suggestions. Almost all of these are cringy worthy. I can tolerate the Genesis song though.

So rock songs are OK as long as they were popular. The kind of pop i'm referring to is that the songs were in the top 40 or at least well known at some point before they (hopefully) got forgotten :P

So anything is fair game as long as it charted at one time. Therefore Scorpions, Van Halen or whatever are perfectly fine suggestions.

And I know it was probably not meant to be a pop song, but it showed up in enough horrible 2000 and zero movies that I think it qualifies. P.O.D.'s "Here comes the boom"