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I heard it agine today.
That song....
WILDFIRE.
In case you young types don't know about it...its about a guy, singin' about a horse, who gets loose from his barn ..."Busted down his stall.."actualy, and runs off into a major blizzard.
and...the singer's wife runs off into the storm after him! "She was calling, Wiiild-fire, she was callin..."
I..hate...this...song...

The end of the song, he tells you, his wife and the horse are comming back for him....and they they will all be rideing off into the night....
And every time i hear it , i think  CALL AN EXORCIST, YA MORON!

Its ain't romantic to me!
Stupid horse, stupid wife, stupid suicidal singer!
Sooo....any one else have a hate on for a song...cause the lyrics tell a tale of realy morons people, with access to a songwriter?

Did i mention that i hate this song? Good.

I have the same problem with Marty Robbin's "El Paso." If the guy is stupid enough to get himself shot for a woman he barely knows, fine. But he's dead. QUIT SINGING, YOU ZOMBIE COWBOY FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!!!!!

I perfer the song of lost horses in Cannibal the Musical

Any song in which the same ten or twelve words are repeated over and over and over and over again.  There are literally thousands of offenders, but to my way of thinking it doesn't get any worse than the one that goes:

"Don't break my heart
my achey breaky heart
If you break my heart
my achey breaky heart..."

I don't believe in capital punishment, but they should chain the guy who wrote that song to an old Sherman tank and throw it into the deep end of the ocean.

I do not know the the name of it..but over and over it says "All that she wants is another baby..all that she wants is another baby." over and over again.. That is one annoying song.

Sole Survivor by Asia.  Great song, but if you actually bother to listen to the lyrics, they're so stupid.

When I ran from the hounds of hell
Twist my foot, I nearly fell
I was lucky I was alive
One look back I could have died

{chorus}
I was the sole survivor
Sole survivor
Sole survivor
Solitary fighter

When I saw it I was amazed
One time glory right in my gaze
I saw the sorrow, I saw the joy
Right in the darkness none could destroy

{chorus}

And from the wreckage I will arise
Cast the ashes back in their eyes
See the fire, I will defend
Just keep on burning right to the end

{chorus}

I mean, does that mean a frickin' thing?

Hey, "Sole Survivor" makesmore sense than most of Jon Anderson's lyrics

As a recovering prog-rock fan I have to say, like anyone was listening to Asia for the lyrics.

I'm a fan of Marty Robbins (and lots of old country music) so I like "El Paso". Besides what wrong with singing a song from a dead person's point of view? Now if you want an awful song about a gunfighter try the Lorne Greene (that's right Ben Cartwright and Commander Adama) song about "Ringo". Spoken rather than sung, this was a big country and pop hit in the mid 60s apparently. I

t's about a man who nurses a wounded gunfighter back to health. They part way, the narrator becomes a sheriff, Ringo returns to a life of crime. They eventually meet, the narrator leaves his posse waiting, and confronts Ringo. Ringo shoots the gun from the narrator's hand, sparing his life and returning the good deed done him. He is then shot down by "a dozen guns", no one sheds a tear for Ringo. The legend spreads that the narrator outdrew Ringo, the narrator feels guilt and puts away his guns (but people think it was only the years passing that make him do it. And no one can explain the tarnished star above Ringo name on his grave.

Might make a good plot for a film, since it borrows some touches from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". It's still an awful song.

"Achy Breaky Heart" was written by Don Van Tress, who used to live near where I'm from (he may still for all I know), Northwest Alabama. The local paper's annoying idiot entertainment editor/pathetic movie reviewer used to make a big deal out of this. Van Tress still turns up at conferences with songwriters and music industry professionals that they have locally (celebrating the music heritage of the area and the once mighty "Muscle Shoals Sound", old music fans will know what I'm talking about) I think Cyrus recorded some other songs of his, and Van Tress has played bass on many songs of his according to Google, but the guy is really a one hit wonder as a songwriter.

There's this song called "(Who put) the bomb", I think it's early sixties where it goes something like this:

Darling, bomp bah bah bomp, bah bomp bah bomp bomp
And my honey, rama lama ding dong forever
And when I say, dip da dip da dip da dip
You know I mean it from the bottom of my boogity boogity boogity shoo

There's even a spoken word part that sounds like this.

In that day and era, I guess it was almost a must to used these kind of lyrics. But looking back, it's kind of cheesy isn't it ?

Actually, that song, "Who Put the Bomp," by Barry Mann, is more or less satirizing the be-bop shu-bop style singing of the 50s. It's really quite funny, poking fun both at the music style and the teenyboppers naive enough to take it all seriously. I love that song.

Dave Barry has written a volume:  The Worst Rock and Roll Songs of All Time.  
Really, nothing I say here can add to that --
I lived through the era of 1970's top-40 radio, for God's sake -- not a day went by that you weren't treated to some of the foulest lyrics ever put to paper by man:
Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey".   "Sock it To Me" by some soul singers.  Motown was over over over by the '70's, the soul hits of that era were almost all horrid.
"Rubber Duckie" was a radio hit then.  For adults.  Really.  It was considered a "novelty song", whereas real novelty songs that were actually fun or funny didn't get played.  The Osmonds:  "Go Away Little Girl".  Actually, there were a number of cheery songs about paedophilia and suicide.
I'll be damned if I'll try to reproduce any lyrics here or elsewhere.  I haven't spent 30 years of heavy drinking for nothing . . .
peter johnson/denny crane

Well, you could start with every song Staind and Linkin Park ever wrote.  I was having a discussion about this with a customer in the record store just today.  These damn teen-angst bands (all the members of which are usually in their 30's, for Chrissakes) keep writing the same damn album about how they're depressed because their parents don't understand them and their girlfriends broke up with them because they were whiny annoying emo dweebs who couldn't carry a note.

I heard the first 10 seconds of one of the songs off Otep's new record.  Now, I can't stand that band to begin with because their vocalist is awful, but this song started out with her not singing, not growling, but honest-to-Cthulhu WHINING the words, "I haaaaaaaate myyyyy liiiiiiiiiiife!"

If you feel it necessary to write an album about your parents and girls not understanding you and so your only solace is to cut your wrists sideways and write in your Livejournal, fine.  But please, once you've recorded it and gotten it out of your system, burn the mastertapes, pawn your guitar and recording equipment, and never ever ever think about music ever again.

If all these emo kids' lives are so damn unbearable, why don't they just grow some balls and do the deed so they can stop annoying me.

I've got nothing against those teenage angst bands, but personally I outgrew them a long time ago, and shudder when I look back at that part of my life and taste in music.

But my complaint here is about friggin' pop/R&B music!

No! I will no longer call it music! I've crapped out better songs after downing packets of laxatives than that b***hney Spears and Justin Timberleg! Argh!
(Actually for those interested it went something like *squelch* "Oh dear god!" *long splashing noise followed by heavy breathing*)

Maybe its my lack of respect for 'artists' who don't write their own music or at least make a decent cover of an existing song, but its really beyond a joke now.

When this crap first hit the radio, I thought "Okay, it’s like that reality TV crap, give it a month and people will realise how retarded it is and it will disappear." But nooooo! It got worse, and so did reality TV! Slowly they turned people into thigh-fat zombies who lie on couches until four AM watching Big Brother, hoping to catch a glimpse of the sagging breasts of that *ahem* hot '20' year old and then gasping with shock when they hear about a man caught down the road looking through some girl’s window and say “Those people are sick.”

Heyyy, now that I think about this, it sounds like a good pitch for a new B-movie, one where really bad music and reality TV turns people into zombies who crave low-budget porno!

Ugh! Teen angst bands. The local station I used to enjoy has developed a fondness for Simple Plan. Not only are the lyrics whiny, they're sung in the whiniest, snottiest voice I've ever heard.  Like 'Perfect', a song about a spoiled little suck b***hing at his dad. The whole thing is a load of complaining about how Dad will never be pleased and Dad doesn't understand, and meanwhile the little s**t is doing everything he's accusing his dad of doing - judging people and not seeing the other point of view. Only Dad is older and wiser, and probably right. Geez, I hate that song, and another of their's that has been getting a lot of play around here lately, 'Welcome to My Life'. Basically, that one is just a guy whining about how miserable his life is in general.

I also hate Avril Lavigne's 'Skater Boy'.  It's just such a b***hy, spiteful song at its core. And the whole story is so far-fetched and poorly thought out it's laughable.



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This one I have hated since the first time I ever heard it.  If you bake a cake you should at least still have a recipe for it.   What did they do throw away their cookbook.
MacArthur Park


Written by: Jimmy Webb
Sung by: Richard Harris or Donna Summer, equally silly.

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

[break]

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

[break]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!

Great Song (http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/blow/blindedbythelight.htm)

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Wow.
Glad i could share the pain.

Thanks for the link, Freepster. Ouch.
I'm not the only one who thinks the lyric goes "wrapped up like a dousch", am i?
The more they repeat a line, ad nausem, the less i respect.
Hummm....may explain why Jimmy Buffet don't get played as much. His best songs require ya to "pay too much attention."

Lovers wanna love! Haters wanna Hate! I dont want none of thee above! I wanna p**s on you! Yes I do! Cover u in my do do! Take me too your specal place, close your eyes show me your face! I wanna p**s on it! Yes i do! Smuther you in my poo poo!

The radio station I work at plays "lite" adult contemporary. I noticed a song by Michael McDonald and Patti LaBelle called "On My Own" from the 80s features the line "Now we are talking about getting a divorced and we were never even married."  HUH????

"All That She Wants" by Ace of Base. Thats a bad one all right.

"We Are the World" by Band Aid.

Go suck on a prune, you old Band Aid wankers! Not only was the song a good torture method, but Africans continued to starve while their food rotted on the docks because you distracted everyone from the real problem, namely the dictators who were starving them! Every wanker who puts on a whiny charity concert for no one's good but his own ought to be drowned in a vat of maple syrup as punishment.

Mmmmmm, maple syyyruuuup!

"The night chicago died."....
"Billy, dont be a hero".....
"I am woman "......
all hits in the early seventy's.
Boy the early seventies sucked.

Jimmy Buffet doesn't get played much? Can't speak for other areas, but not where I live. "Margaritaville", "Come Monday", "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes", "Volcano", "Cheeseburger in Paradise", "Pencil Thin Mustache", etc. all still get regular radio play on AC and country stations around here. Even the local classic rock stations still give him a play now and then, but less than they did say five years ago . Basically everything on "Songs You Know By Heart", even "Why Don't We Get Drunk" until Clear Channel bought the rock station, got played until a few years ago when stations seemed to start narrowing their play lists even more. But my favorite stuff of his is the old stuff and not too many of the popular ones or the hits.

Another stupid lyrics tune: "Hey Baby" by No Doubt. I've never believed in the idea that if you have even a touch of ska or reggae in your music you are automatically cool, so I've never been a fan of them. But that thing isn't even a full song, just an annoying hook, a chant ("Hey Baby! Hey Baby! Hey!" and that boys say/girls say crap) pretending to be a chorus, and whatever little bit of lyrics Stephani's mumbling in her Betty Boop with a hangover singing voice that I've never been able to hear clear enough to figure out.

Oh, nemo, you don't know the half of it!!  What astonishes me even more is how these songs that were dreadful then get recycled to death and beyond death on "Oldies" stations.  The only people I've ever met in person who enjoy 70's top 40 radio music are either mentally challenged or have a perverse attraction to them sort of like what we do here with our Ed Wood stuff.
Muskrat Love.
Give it Here
Yummy Yummy
Sugar Sugar
Rockin' Robin
Excuse me, I have to go regurgitate my liver now . . .
peter johnson/denny crane

Dan Hill's "Sometimes When We Touch" makes me want to claw my eyes out.

Wow, is it just me or does all this 70's music talk just make you want to tune into KBilly's super sounds of the 70's? K.B.I.L.L.Y, home of rock!

"I've got a brand new pair of roller skates..." my Melody or Melanie or something.  Another TERRIBLE seventies nightmare.

You know, I think I'd take any of the 70's songs mentioned in this thread over the likes to Mmmm Bop or Whoomp There It Is.

The sad thing, John, is my girlfriend is going to see Hanson in concert either this week or the next.

Now all the little girls who loved them when they were younger are all grown  up!

I'm so, so ashamed.... but at least I don't have to go thankfully.

Pick a song by Linkin Park. Any of them.

Melanie:  The Roller Skate song is what you're referring to.  Yes, it is quite sad, but nowhere near as bad as some of the others it was playing against at the time it came out.
Melanie actually wrote some very good songs -- see if you can find a copy of "Lay Down/Candles in the Rain".  She could really sing, but silly crap is what sold back then.
peter johnson/denny crane

dumb, I know, I've had the Love Boat theme going through my head. Sad but true. Beat that.

Unfortunatly for you I am a fan of such teen-angst bands.  If you actually listen to them, their lyrics are good.  Also, the passion that they put in when singing and the thought that they write these songs for just such people as myself who are going through rough times (Even when we're not going through rough times) maes them more important in ways.  They seem to have the right song for most all moods.

I know that you're not the only person who doesn't like such bands but, I know that that's just something to deal with. Many people have different tastes in music.  But I'm just saying that, if you give them a chance they'll grow on you.

(My friend once tried to re-introduce me to a band that I didn't like and they eventually grew on me.  I now listen to them all the time.  This, I know, can happen with any type of music and any band.  I'm just suggesting you perhaps give them a chance before shuting them down like that.)

Also, it seems that they have balls.  They're brave enough to talk about this.  Some kids wouldnt want to talk about this but these bands bring out things that are really going on that people are scared to talk about.

I actually went to a cocktail bar the other night where the band played the love boat theme.  It was funny as hell because the band were so tacky.  For example the lead singer was wearing an all white suit in which the shirt was unbuttoned quite a lot, wearing a metal drink coaster as a necklace.  It was possibly the funniest thing ever [especially factoring drinking into this!]

HI
I am Zach's friend Lisa...

Love ya!
---LISA

Unfortunatly for you I am a fan of such teen-angst bands.

The only problem is that it's all calculated to sell to people who will be touched by it.

To make it in the music industry, it takes a lot of work and a lot of connections and a lot of going out and playing places you may not really want to play.  The music industry today is too formulated and programmed that the days of someone singing true heartfelt songs and being dicovered for their honesty and insight are gone.  'Teen-angst' bands are only there because someone decided 'hey, someone will fall for this, this will sell'.  Anyone who really had any conviction and depth of emotion like that would not survice long enough or do what was needed to actually become popular in today's music scene.

Dream Theater said it well in Just Let Me Breath (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dream-theater/43351.html)

----------------------
Strike up your best angst ridden posture, whoa
Manufactured anger
Let’s not forget my legacy
All my heroes have failed me
Now they’re dead and buried, yeah

Just close your mind
You can find all you need with your eyes

The big machines will take care of you
Until the fashion fades
And the checks go through
My bankroll’s red
And my face is blue
And still they’ll turn their backs on me for someone new
---------------------

All this and none of you guys has mentioned  "Afternoon Delight" one of the 70's biggest hits.  There was also that  "We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun song" and  "Shannon" about the guy's dead dog.

There was lots of good music in 70's, it  was on FM  where they played album rock.  AM top 40 crap jumped to FM about 1976 or so  and killed the album rock stations.

dean wrote:

>
> I actually went to a cocktail bar the other night where the
> band played the love boat theme.  It was funny as hell because
> the band were so tacky.  For example the lead singer was
> wearing an all white suit in which the shirt was unbuttoned
> quite a lot, wearing a metal drink coaster as a necklace.  It
> was possibly the funniest thing ever [especially factoring
> drinking into this!]

Oh, man...am i the  only one haveing a "Blues Brothers" flashback?
Quando, quando,quandoooooo!

trek_geezer wrote:
> All this and none of you guys has mentioned  "Afternoon
> Delight" one of the 70's biggest hits.  There was also that
> "We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun song" and
> "Shannon" about the guy's dead dog.

Or 'Living Next Door to Alice.' That one is awful. Mind you, I did have a good time at a bar once with that song, about seven or eight years ago. A lone guitar player and singer, who was kind of a joker, would play the song, and each time he sang the line 'living next door to Alice', the whole bar, on the next couple of beats, would shout 'Alice! Who the f**k is Alice!' That was fun.

Still, for sheer sappy 70s melodrama, you can't beat 'Last Game of the Season' about the blind man who always sat in the bleachers while his son played football, and one day, the last day of the season, he didn't show up, because he died. The end.

I'd also like to throw in Hatebreed as being one of the bands with the worst lyrics of all-time. They're not nonsensical party lyrics, they're just repetitive. I swear, Jamey Jasta has told everybody in the band to record the same album over and over again while his vocal chords wither away.

>The sad thing, John, is my girlfriend is going to see Hanson in concert either this
>week or the next.
>
>Now all the little girls who loved them when they were younger are all grown up!

I like what one angry comedian said about them;

"Boys like 'em because they think they're girls. Girls like 'em because they think they're boys. There should be a sign outside their house that says "You must be this tall (holds up hand) to rock"."

Apologies John.
Has anyone mentioned the 'Shatman' (If  you  don't  know  who  I  mean  then  you don't  get  this  in  joke    either :)  )
Haven't heard his albums,but they GOT to be bad
Love his other work though

well the only song I really hate is Lil John and the Eastside Boyz ft Ying Yang Twins Get Low and I hate eminem new video talking about michel jackson I really didn't found it funny when they were talking about him like that give the man a break he had a hard time

I only gave one example above, but I should note that I spent four (wasted) years in country music radio. I don't know if I don't get the culture or that stuff was really stupid.

Give the creep a jail sentence.

What about nerdy Snoop Dog´s even more nerdy "Little Bow-Wow" - if that wasn´t embarrassing, what else?

how about the tokens song THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT has to be the worst song in the history of music recording  thank god that s**t came out in the sixties  because that crap would,nt cut it today

The stupidest lyrics I ever heard was from a german (I think) industrial band that could hardly speak english singing about shaven genetalia.
"Shaven c___s f___ much more horny this I know for long time"

The most stupid song with the worst singing that I have ever heard and made it on  the charts was that:-
"PUSH THE LITTLE DAISY'S AND MAKE THEM COME UP"
or something like that.   I have to wonder how the hell it was recorded & allowed to be aired? Was the singer guy sleeping with an old, deaf record producer or did the record producer have one almighty hangover and miss something?  I would rather run my fingernails down a blackboard...twice, than listen to that poor excuse of a song!

Dude, Scatman John owns your soul.

SKIIII BA BOP BA DO BOP.

Now that I think about it something must be said about how the people who want to censor rap, metal, punk pass over 70's soft pop hit maker Gilbert O'Sullivan two biggest hits, "Alone Again Naturally"  and "Claire."

"Alone Again Naturally" is pretty much step by step instructions on how to commit suicide, but is never mentioned by the critics of rock music.

And then there is "Clair," which at the radio station I work at, we've dubbed it "that child molester song."  Let's face it, nobody else would get away with singing a song about a little girl asking her uncle to marry her. Then there is the little girl's werid giggle at the end of the song.

They had a talent for that in the 70s. Afternoon Delight is probably the most wholesome-sounding song ever written about a nooner.

And I can still remember the shocked looks on my friends' faces when I explained what YMCA was really about. Funny, they didn't get up and dance to it so much after that.

The best is seeing all the drunken jocks whooping it up to YMCA with no clue.

Master Blaster wrote:
> The best is seeing all the drunken jocks whooping it up to YMCA
> with no clue.

Exactly what my friends used to do, except that they weren't jocks. At the time, they were a bunch of tradesmen and truck drivers, which is even funnier. We were at a stag and doe in the early 90s, the song came on, and everybody was out doing the moves. I leaned over to my best friend and said "I guess they don't know it's a song about homosexuality." He asked me to explain, and I did. Not too long after, he's waving me over to where he's talking to a few other guys. "Tell them what you told me." I was just amazed that nobody was the least bit familiar with the village people. The song wasn't nearly as popular with my friends after that. At least, they weren't so eager to dance to it.