Mine switches between this and "Fly Away" by Lenny Kravitz.

Runners up include:
"I Believe I Can Fly" - R Kelly
"Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney

There are many, many others that I just can't think of right now.

You will very rarely ever see me swearing, but this time it is warranted: FUCK OFF. And that goes for the others who chimed in to support you. I'm a huge Rush fan, if you can't tell, and that's by far not even a favorite of mine - I won't even go particularly out of my way to listen to it - but COME ON, are you kidding me? It's like you guys just seek out ways to prove you can be even indier assholes than all of us automatically are or something. You'd pick "Tom Sawyer" over, say, "That's What Friends Are For," or, hell, anything sung by Dionne "TEETH" Warwick (I don't give a damn about the ridiculously overappreciated Burt Bacharach - most of what he wrote is cheesy shit)? Or the aforementioned "True" by Spandau Ballet (a personal worst ever for me)? Or for something current, "My Humps," which is just an atrocity of music?

"Your Body Is A Wonderland" by John Mayer is the worst song I've ever, ever heard.

Have you ever hear the one he did with Elvis Costello? Great record.

I used to love Rush but don't listen to them at all anymore. I agree that Tom Sawyer is not the worst song of all time but how can you argue against someone else's opinion. There's probably a big Santana fan on the board that can't imagine why someone would hate "Smooth" but I sure do.

Hence the "most" in "most of what he wrote is cheesy shit." However, there remains an element of cheesy shit on Painted from Memory, too. I can just tolerate it because of the presence of Elvis, whom I love.


Oh, I can. I defend my own, dammit!


No, that's actually a fact, not an opinion.

You know, this may be the right answer. I want to direct a fire hose at Elton from 5 feet away every time I have the misfortune to hear that awful song.

People seem to be approaching this from a different angle. They seem to be chosing fairly legitimate artists who happened to release a bad song.

If you're looking for straight out, no requirements other than horribleness, the worst song has to be:

The Hampsterdance Song

Any version of "You Can't Hurry Love." And I also love Rush...

I have no problem with Crocodile Rock

i just like the mental picture i have of all this glitter and spangles and wacky glasses washing away into the gutter in a mini-flood.

I'm just happy that there are so many Obnites who've been sheltered from the truly bad.

You're not even trying if you can't come up with a Celine Dion version of "Without You" or Steelheart's "Never Let You Go"

"Poor Some Sugar (On Me)" - Def Leppard

??? Not familiar with this song, and I've got just about everything he's ever done? You thinking of someone else?

Is "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" considered a song? If so, that's my vote.

lemonheads.big gay heart

Now that's not fair. You've apologized for Brian Adams on several occasions.

Yeah, I was wondering, too.

There was the band Camouflage that did the low-rent Depeche Mode bit.

Sweet fucking Jesus that song is horrible.

I know it's a popular choice, but "We Built This City" is seriously the worst ever.

And "Miracles" ain't that far behind. As soon as the sixties ended, this band would've been better off dead

Oh sure, Brian Adams was the sulky, misunderstood kid at the back of my grade 6 science class. He totally didn't mean to set off that hydrogen chloride cocktail in the teach's face. I said it then and I still maintain it now.

Bryan Adams, though? That muffugga is on his own.

We had joy, we had fun, we had Seasons in the Sun.

Uggghh

And don't forget that Richie Family song that was just a medley of disco hits...

It seems like we do this once week, no?

Ladies and gentlemen, I love that Kiss song. And that sappy Spandau Ballet tune (see my Synthpop opus in The Mix forum). And yes, I still can enjoy Tom Sawyer, unironically even.

There's far, far worse than this and y'all know it.


There's the one, the only...


Timmy T.





"One More Try".


When I heard this song in the early 90's I wanted to kill people it's so bad.



That Steelheart song is a close second though...

James Taylor-Fire and Rain
Grateful Dead-Casey Jones
Pearl Jam-Elderly Woman sucking cock behind the bar in a small town

but it became awesome when Dipset made it into a song about selling crack rock.