Worst song in your collection?
Posted by: Solid Air on 31 March 2014
I had an interesting thought about what was the single worst song I own. After much soul searching and listening to various awful albums I plumped for Tom Waits singing 'I'll Take New York' from Frank's Wild Years. I love Tom, but this is virtually unlistenable.
Hmm, I don't like that one either - great rest of the album though :-)
Come On Eileen by Poxy's Midnight Tossers on a compilation. I can't even skip it as it's on vinyl.
steve
The worst I got is Tony Conrad *Outside the dream syndicate* IF you want people to go home just put it on
Surely it must be Revolution No.9. The Beatles White Album is a classic but I reckon most people skip this track.
Anything from Trout Mask Replica probably, as if the ridiculous title wasn't clue enough?
Worst song in your collection?
it might well be Radiohead 'Creep'
What an impossible question. Which of over 20,000 pieces is the worst. The very worst? Just too hard.
What an impossible question. Which of over 20,000 pieces is the worst. The very worst? Just too hard.
OK, I'll bite.
America's 'Muskrat Love'..... Tender, melodic, harmonious and just plain wrong.
G
Any of the Yoko Ono tracks on the shared Lennon albums. Take your pick really ....
My worst, well it's more of a moment, a word actually on the Radiohead track - Subterranean Homesick Alien. When he sings "beautiful" in the line, "Take me on board their beautiful ship" it sounds like it's been cut and pasted from the film Oliver.
Radiohead (again): The morning bell... standout dreadful on an excellent Kid A. Then they go and stick an even more caterwaul(ly) version on the follow-up Amnesiac. What a clanger!
Some of the cuts listed above make my list as well, but I'll throw "New Kid In Town" by the Eagles in the mix...
Almost anything from the Smashing Pumpkins. I refuse to go listening in my collection for the worst... life is too short.
The SBT random through up Rudolph the red nosed reindeer an instrumental version by Wings from Back to the Egg.
SJB
I bought a belly dancing cd while on holiday in Marrakesh.
Thought it was a good idea at the time.....
"Dogs of War" by the Gilmour-led Pink Floyd. What a... er, dog. Or, more accurately, what a complete and utter dog turd.
C'mon Kevin, it's got to be better than "Bike" or "The Gnome".
While technically it's not part of my collection, my wife has taken the liberty to place her own U2 cd on my cd shelving. I don't have the will to play that cd to determine which song is worst, nor do I really care to know.
U2 isn't the worst for me; just one of the the most overrated.
Like Nigel, I found it too difficult.
Then I thought, it could be easier if I was helped by a great love as contrasting background, so I discovered that the worst song in my collection can only come from the group I love most, and it has to be Let it be.
The worst song in my collection, don't kwow about that but if we go to the Beatles it might be (since Revolution nr. 9 has already been taken) this
(some could say though that this is brilliant)
Like Nigel, I found it too difficult.
Then I thought, it could be easier if I was helped by a great love as contrasting background, so I discovered that the worst song in my collection can only come from the group I love most, and it has to be Let it be.
If I were to take the same approach, it would have to be 'Golden Lights' the worst song by the best band ever.
Basically anything written by George was kind of lame, excluding his plagiarims, and the other 40% of beatles songs are kind of less than inspiring!
Gentle Giant "The Queen" - their arrangement of the National Anthem. Truly dreadful.