Posted on 05/23/2006 11:11:37 AM PDT by pissant
The world is full of bad songs and horrific singer-songwriters. Just tune in to any radio station, be it country, top 40, "classic rock", or alternative and you are bound to have your ears offended in short order.
But there is NOTHING more irritating than hearing some lunatic, left-winger try to elevate the pop song into some kind of overt, intellectual commentary on the evils of America or the glory of being a hippie. Sure, some artists managed to cut a decent song. I still like the Mommas and the Poppas "California Dreaming", for example. But the whole genre wreaks to high heaven.
The List:
7. We are the World -- Various Artists. An utterly hideous attempt to feed starving Biafrins. If these idiots would have just given the money it took to assemble, to produce, and advertise this turd and donated it to the charity, it would have saved us alot of misery.
6. White Bird -- It's a Beautiful Day. Sappiness, your name is White Bird. Don't even know what the song is about exactly. I turn the station too fast.
5. Sky Pilot -- Eric Burden and the Animals. While I generally liked this band, this song is unlistenable, and unintelligible.
4. What's Goin On -- Marvin Gaye. In my estimation, this was the beginning of the downfall for a talented Motown star. It was apparent that he had no clue of "what's goin on".
3. Big Yellow Taxi -- Joni Mitchell. I liked Joni's early, breezy brand of folk pop. Her album Blue is still likable. The problem is not the tune here, it's the insipid lyrics. Uhg.
2. Eve of Destruction -- Barry McGuire. Complete idiocy. Apparently influenced Algore and John Kerry. Apparently that was a long "eve" he was carterwauling about.
1. Imagine -- John Lennon. This was proof to me that Paul McCartney was the real talent in the Beatles.
Additions welcome.
How you could put that in and not The Hammer Song by Peter, paul and Mary is beyond me.
If I had a hammer...
I'd beat your effing head in...
All over this land...
Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson
American Idiot--Green Day
Worst protest song ever? How about "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs, or anything ever warbled by Joan Baez.
Born in the USA--Bruce Springsteen
Fight the Power--Chuck D/Public Enemy
I hate what's going on. The Hammer song I sung in grade school, so it gets a pass. LOL
I never heard either. Too new I guess for ol pissant.
No way "What's Goin' On?" belongs on a worst list.
Meanwhile you missed "In the year 2525 . . . if man is still alive . . ."
What? No Dixie Chix? "Not Ready to Make Nice"...oh that doesn't count, does it....
Uhg. You are the 2nd person to support that dirge.
Now those qualify. Bruce has a special place in hell, in my book.
It beats Shatner's Lucy in the SKy with Diamonds.
Apparently you can. LOL
"Signs! Signs! Everywhere a sign!
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this don't do that, don't believe in signs..."
Or Black is Black, I want my baby back. For the umpteenth time, What's Going On sucks!
It hasn't been and won't be a "hit". LOL
I have had the good fortune of being spared both!!
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