TM875

Okay, while strolling down memory lane a few nights ago, I came across my high school jazz's band old recording tape. One of our 'signature' songs was Maynard Furgeson's version of Jimmy Webb's "MacArthur Park". During one of the rhythm breaks, the rest of the band actually sang the lyrics to it. I had always thought of it as one of my all-time favorite sad love songs, with perhaps the most thoughtful and intelligent lyrics written. I'll admit, it was written in the sixties, so some of the stuff was obviously done on acid (think "Strawberry Fields), but that's not the point.

After doing a search to try to find the lyrics and jog my memory, I came to discover that this song was voted as the #1 Worst Song Ever by Dave Barry and is looked upon by many as an absolutely terrible, terrible piece. I was shocked. What I believed to be the most brilliant and descriptive lyrics ever was generally seen as being stupid and silly. It seems that far too many people just didn't get the whole metaphore thing...

Anyway, list other songs that you personally love, but the rest of society seems to hate. If you want, list possible reasons on why you seem to be the only one to understand what the artist was really trying to say.

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So, last night I couldn't sleep and caught a VH1 rebroadcast of their Top 40 Awesomely Bad Metal Songs...


40. Judas Priest "Turbo Love"
39. Jackyl "The Lumberjack"
38. Grim Reaper "See You In Hell"
37. Iron Maiden "Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter"
36. Creed "Higher"
35. Green Jelly "Three Little Pigs"
34. Ace Frehley "Rock Soldiers"
33. Dio "The Last In Line" .
32. Guns N' Roses "Estranged"
31. Loudness "Crazy Nights"
30. Bulletboys "Smooth Up In Ya"
29. Accept "B___s To The Wall"
28. Slaughter "Up All Night"
27. Trixter "Give It To Me Good"
26. Helix "Rock You"
25. Marilyn Mason "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)"
24. Motley Crue "Without You"
23. Dokken "Breaking The Chains"
22. Van Halen (with Gerry Cherone of Extreme as their 3rd & final lead singer) "Without You"
21. Quiet Riot "Party All Night"
20. Danzig "Mother"
19. Vixen "Edge Of A Broken Heart"
18. Manowar "Blow Your Speakers"
17. The Scorpions "Wind Of Change"
16. Queensryche "Silent Lucitidy"
15. Whitesnake "Here I Go Again"
14. Britny Fox "Girlschool"
13. Insane Clown Posse "Tilt A Whirl"
12. Hear N' Aid "Stars"
11. Autograph "Turn Up The Radio"
10. Limp Bizkit "My Way"
9. Cinderella "Nobody's Fool" Guilty Pleasure song.
8. White Lion "Wait" Disagree
7. Ugly Kid Joe "Everything About You"
6. Stryper "Honestly"
5. Winger "Seventeen"
4. Poison "Unskinny Bop"
3. Kiss "Forever" Ok, so it was co-written by Michael Bolton, but I happen to love this song.
2. Warrant "Cherry Pie"
1. Europe "The Final Countdown"

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VH1 seems to have a real problem with "power ballads". I happen to really like a lot of the songs on the list. But the thing that had me scratcing my head... Creed is metal?

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Glory's Sun

I agree with most of those as not being metal..

and yeah I admit it.. I listen to some of them

and no Creed is NOT metal

I repeat Creed is NOT metal

bryan888

Some hate it, some tolerate it on occasion, but one song that always makes me move and puts a smile on my face is " Turning Japanese ". (can't recall the group's name, tho; making my head hurt to try)

Great beat, great premise, and just an all around great party song, IMO. Gotta love any song about "whippin' the bishop" that reaches the top 10. Most excellent.

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maleficent

The Vapors - -and it's actually been covered by Liz Phair...

/me is so ashamed I had that info at my fingertips

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Melllvar

Now wait a minute! Silent Lucidity is a beautiful song. Of course some may say that it's a rip-off of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb...

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Shpoop

"bandages" by hot hot heat

please, PLEASE, download that song. you will listen, laugh, then swear to never listen again. and then you will find yourself listening again and again.

Coppertop

(#33) The Last In Line is not awesomely bad! Blasphemy!

So I guess you have my answer, then.

Arroe

yeah, I was going to say Whitesnake - "Here I go again".

K-Wise

I don't think that song sounds anything remotely like Comforably Numb other than the fact that Geoff's talk voice sounds similar. Yes awesome song as is The Scorpions - Wind Of Change. I could probably think of worse metal songs than those 2. Especially with most of the crap they play on Headbangers Ball these days.

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miyamotomusashi

I like all of the Braindead Monkeys work here is a list with some lines form some of the songs
Weenie Roast // Come and get em. It happened Elanore and I went down to...
Klonkey Dong
Severe Case Jam
The House on Belmont Hill
Are We Boring?
Turnip Squat Panic
Bergamot Hockey
Obey Monkey
LIVE AT GARDEN CITY
B-Boys, B-Apes
Bergamot Jungle
Lucky Chicken Mambo
Metal Jam Solid
On the Loose
Rubinoff and His Parkinson's
Jeepers
Double Bergamot Action
Nuclear Jam
Smoooooth Kitty
The Braindead Monkeys Theme
BZZZZZZZRZZRRRT
The Monkey Show // Its time to play the music... its time to hallucinate
Under the Pipe
All Your Contra Base
Battle Against Birdo
Forest of Monkeys
Nood Norning
Debiru Hausu
This Sucks the Jam
Why Is This Funny?
Shoooryuken
Leftover Jerk Jam
Beatings (parts 1-10)
We Aren't Devo
Finally Sold Out
Hot Pr0n
Blogger (Oh The Wangs!)
Mistah Peedahson
Totally Awful
Ritualistic Suckage
Shut Up, I'm Tuning My Organ!
Horrible Night to Find a Chord
Mr. Peterson In Hot Pursuit
Brain Always Saves the Day
Hot Jello and Jam
Mad Monkey Kung-Fu
Blue Monkey Shot the Food
Infrequency Jammm
Neon Visions in the Desert
The Plaid Track // ever song i hear or compose turns into terrible song like this
Simian Anime Strike Force
Ape Thirlwell Asstravaganza
Fans Like You
Creeping Banana
Banana and Router
Craptacularly Pooptastic
Blip in Space (Electric Mix)
You Neanderthal Pile o' Crap!
Haunted Palm III
Jam It Up Your Ass
Circus Ditty
Blinky Must Die
Juicy Fruit // Take a sniff pull it out... monkey monkey monkey... the juice will burn a whole write through you... it burns through concrete
Monkey Seed
Peanut Butter
The Last Metroid
976 HHHHHOT
Walrus Calypso
!unusual
Real Butter
My Woman
Australian Fantasy
Chronofinger
Breaking Electric Wind
Plexus and Nexus
Jammy Jam
HOOOORJ
Vinyl Fire
Monkey Mix
Dead Crab
Vampire Wombat
Radioactive Frog
Jammimg
We Win, You Lose!
Carnival
Don't Save This
Cantina (4am)
Jingle Bells
Troll in the Woods
The Duck Song // Ah The Sunny River Far Far Away... Here Ducky Ducky
Fish Tacos
White Trash
Cacophony
The Secret Word
Sesame Street Rant
Beats Me
Visions in the Desert
The Outtake Song
Dvorak Sucks
Bonus Beef

Church

Blue - Eiffel 65

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wolfpack0102

anything Mariah Carey sings...i some how manage to watch all of her music videos but try to tune the music out. Hope this counts for the conversation about bad songs (in this case artist)

Avail

Yeah, what's going on with Creed having a song in a metal song list?

FoolThemAll

I'll do ya one better. I actually greatly enjoyed some of her earlier stuff, right up to Music Box. Still do, to a lesser extent. ('Course, most of Daydream and everything after was shit.)

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Zephyr66

i like all these songs, but i do agree that "bring your daughter" should be on this list, most of the others shouldn't.

The Final Countdown is only on my list because I'm in love with Norther's cover of it.

My pick would probably be Biz Markie's "Just a friend". Terrible, Terrible song, but its so fun to listen to

alarment13

a guilty pleasure of mine is Extreme "More then words"

theguyondacouch

I'm shocked "holy Diver" isn't up there

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LoganSnake

What's wrong with Winds of Change? It's a good song. I saw that show, and I can't believe they put Final Countdown as the worst metal song. It's actually pretty damn good. In fact, I'm going to listen to it right now.

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Glory's Sun

there's nothing wrong with winds of change..cept it's not technically "" a metal song. .. as for Final Countdown..whew.. that song is horrid..and why it ever got classified as metal I have no idea. Man I wish GnR woulda just kicked their asses or something.


as for bad songs I like..well.. umm I don't have any bad songs in my list(s) :P

cataklysm

lean back - fat joe
tip drill - nelly (who would've guessed what a tipdrill is!)

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K-Wise

Ditto...Hero? Loved it. Miss that Mariah actually. She did have one good song on her Butterfly album called "Whenever You Call" my sis had it..I listened to it cause I liked her old stuff. (runs away)

Asta!!

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Stompy

If you're gonna put Creed on a "awesomely bad" song list, you might as well just put "Creed - All Songs"

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Redlemon

This was mentioned in a Fark thread recently, but you need to find the a cappella version of this, just vocals (more voices than the original) plus very simple conga drum accompaniment.

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LoganSnake

What's a tipdrill?

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scott_p_1

For some reason, I have a spot in my heart for bad 80's New Wave and any song where they have a keyboardist who has one of those keyboards that you wear like a guitar (does anybody know what they're called? I really want to get one)

-Ever-

Cranberries' Dreams. Well, of course I wouldn't personally call the song "bad" but I know many people that do

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K-Wise

^ Yeah don't go telling that to too many people k buddy? Yeah pharell produced it but NO! NO! NO!

Asta!!

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Painted

I don't know if it's necessarily a bad song, but I like Don Henley's (Eagles) Boys of Summer.

Glory's Sun

they're called keytars..

and they were noted as being the worst metal invention ever on another VH1 show I think

MSD

Yeah, that.