STOP!!!
I said I wasn’t gonna look at the list so I didn’t have the songs going through my head, and you all keep NAMING them and they are doing so anyway…
“..Looks like muskrat LOOO OOO OOO OOO OOOVE”
(of course we changed that to “river rats” for the opposing high school in the area!) 
How about “Don’t Worry Be Happy”???
Missy
And well it should. 
I wish I hadn’t gone on to read Dave Barry’s list, which reminded me of the truly horrifying Yummy Yummy Yummy (I Got Love In My Tummy); why that piece of dreck is not on the main list, but Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is, mystifies me.
That’s democracy for you.
Why don’t we make a concerted effort to get something like ‘Yesterday’ or ‘Satisfaction’ on the list? You know; just decide in advance what it’s to be, block vote, lobby our friends family and neighbours. Or we could puzzle everybody by voting for the Kesh Jig.
I am completely baffled that “Here’s to all the girls I’ve loved before” by Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias isn’t at the top of the list. Flumoxed. Flabbergasted. Gobsmacked. Dumbstruck (well, not quite). In other words: I just don’t get it.
That song is a clear winner: Worst melody, worst arrangment, worst lyric, worst singing, and there is a live version of it. And not only is it bad, it is really offensive: esthetically and morally. I mean, there are two aging guys sitting around talking about the babes they’ve banged. And they get money for that. And screaming female fans, with tears in their eyes, wishing they’d been one of all the girls they’ve loved before. Shudder. Blech. Yuk. Iphlghh. I’ve gotta go wash my hands. wrrrrgs.
Willie Nelson: To all the girls I’ve loved before - featuring Julio Iglesias
To all the girls I’ve loved before
Who travelled in and out my door
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I’ve loved beforeTo all the girls I once caressed
And may I say I’ve held the best
For helping me to grow
I owe a lot I know
To all the girls I’ve loved beforeThe winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me awayTo all the girls who shared my life
Who now are someone else’s wives
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I’ve loved beforeTo all the girls who cared for me
Who filled my nights with ecstasy
They live within my heart
I’ll always be a part
Of all the girls I’ve loved beforeThe winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me awayTo all the girls we’ve loved before
Who travelled in and out our doors
We’re glad they came along
We dedicate this song
To all the girls we’ve loved beforeTo all the girls we’ve loved before
Who travelled in and out our doors
We’re glad they came along
We dedicate this song
To all the girls we’ve loved before
The winds of change are always blowing?!? And people complain about 2525 (did you ever see the tv clip of that? Wow.)
i’ve long thought “Say you say me” was one of the lamest songs i’ve ever heard… i suspect Lionel Richie wrote it in all of five minutes…
Say you, say me; say it for always
That’s the way it should be
Say you, say me; say it together
NaturallyI had a dream I had an awesome dream
People in the park playing games in the dark
And what they played was a masquerade
And from behind of walls of doubt a voice was crying outSay you, say me… (chorus)
i’ve also got to give a shout out to “Sylvia’s Mother”… though maybe Shel Silverstein’s lyric wasn’t so much the problem as that terribly overwrought vocal by Dr Hook…
and the aaaaaahperator says fohty… cents… moh… foh the next… three… minutes…
then of course, we won’t even go into “Daddy Please Don’t”… 
No Macarena. I know its a dance but the song was really monotonous.
Although I guess it might be disqualified because its somehow slightly, stupidly cute, the “Da Da Da” song.
There’s another sucky McCartney song. SOmething about “Brother John”. I once was hypmatized by that song whilst shopping in a home improvement store. I couldn’t figure out if they had put in subliminal messages to “buy not steal” or whether it was just the song. I suspect the latter. Waitaminit, was 'We’re so sorry, Uncle Albert" on that list?
How about the whole “soulful” duet thing? It was started by that song that goes: “Sometimes when we touch, I want to hold you so much” or similar.
Oh yeah, and that Eddie Money song. It had an augmented chord and it ripped off the words to Que Sera, Sera. It started with "Baby Hold On to me, the future is ours to see (sound familiar?) That SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED!
One of those ABBA songs too, mebbe Dancing Queen?
Holly Holy by Neil Diamond. Have You Never Been Mellow AND Torn Between Two Lovers by Olivia NewtonJohn.
Really depressing how easy it is to remember BAD music. I keep thinkin of more. Fourth edit.
ComicsRus rocks, btw.
I heard a Bob and Tom once where one of them kept interjecting the little muskrat purr from the above song. I think it was while Hayward Banks was singing “99 Dead Baboons” and “Fry up an Eagle”. What a hoot.
Since http://www.popculturemadness.com is a viewer participation site, we should all go over there and put in our ideas of what should and shouldn’t be there. Check out the “misunderstood lyrics” page. It could use some more stuff. After all, we are an opinionated bunch.
I think since Comicsrus was kind enough to come over here and explain the site to us, someone ought to send him/her a whistle. I would but I only have a Burke and Copeland left.
Scroll 1/2-way down. Click on the album “Music to Suffer by”. Not the worst music, just the worst interpretations.
Fly wrote:
“…I heard a Bob and Tom…”
Now WHY am I not surprised you are a Bob and Tom fan???
SHANIQUA!
Missy
I am surprised that ‘pina colada’ song by Rupert Holmes didn’t make the list… my skin crawls every time I hear it.
I refuse to look at the list. Like others, I don’t want the tunes resurecting in my poor brain.
Tops on my personal list would have to be-
The Last Kiss
Don’t know if it’s on the list, but it definately should be.
Oh go on. Take a peek. It is Lent after all. 
You know you want to … the penance comes later.
I’m giving up the list for Lent.
“Smile A Little Smile For Me” -depressoid toxic sweetness like a glazed doughnut swallowed whole with a nutrasweet chaser (but better than William Shatner singing)
A dark horse unknown: A 45 rpm single of Herb Alpert singing “White Christmas” -won at the Detroit auto show in 1969 in a shooting match using ping pong ball pistols. The record itself was only suitable for a target and was soon destroyed by a fusillade of basement BBs fired by disgusted teens. HA’s trumpet was catchy but his singing, umm… well.. not the stuff of which dreams are made, mine at any rate.
Come on…The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? No way, great stuff.
(ps..no, I didn’t read the other comments before I posted.)
To each their own.
I liked it a very long time ago but now…
x 56 = 
Cheers,
David
P.S. As I commented to “Worst Songs”…
This song takes all cakes for the repetitions it makes
Not one of our musical treasures.
Gordon must’ve been lazy or his mind was too hazy
To write more than 4 bloody measures.
It was good of him then to honor those men
But he could have been far more creative
It was borderline verse but the melody far worse
His muse must’ve been vegetative
I grew up in Duluth Minnesota, and I remember watching the Edmund Fizgerald leaving the Twin Ports. The ship was kind of a celebrity on the Great Lakes being the largest ore carrier in service at that time. When the news came that it had sunk the entire city of Duluth was struck dumb.
Then Gordon Lightfoot wrote his homage to the ship and her crew, and for the first three months the tune was on everyone’s lips. But eventually, it got to be that all of the radio stations really overplayed the song… I mean, you couldn’t go from one station to another without hearing it… again and again. Eventually we started calling it the “Wreck of the Gordon Lightfoot”. 
I think it is a mighty song, but I also could live the rest of my life without ever hearing it again.
Simple tunes for simple minds like mine I guess. I’ve heard the same criticism of Lloyd Webber too. And yet…there I am liking it. I’m sure it helps that I didn’t grow up near the Great Lakes, and was therefore not unduly inundated.
But surely almost anyone could find a worse song for the list.
… Melanie’s “I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates” comes to mind.