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Give it Your Worst
Spurred on by the recent release of Blender Magazine's Worst 50 Songs of All Time (#1 is We Built This City), conversation in our lab sprung up about what really is the worst song of all time. On this site I've discussed my dislike for a lot of bad popular songs like Sk8r Boi or, more recently, Fortune Faded, but these are way too new to be the "worst of all time".
Dave Barry offers a few suggestions in his Book of Bad Songs, which I highly recommend, but he focuses more on bad lyrics than bad overall musical experience. Some he mentions are Macarthur Park, a 7 and a half minute long song that features a man screaming in agony over a cake that melts in the rain, and a song I've never heard called Timmy in My Tummy, which seems to have no information on the internet but according to Dave Barry contains the line "I've got Timmy in my tummy".
Does anyone else have some good nominees (and no, you're not allowed to use my songs, it has to be an actual musician who wrote or performed a real song)?
For another funny read, this site attempts to rank the worst album covers of all time. Good stuff.
EDIT: Even more great album covers are here. Don't let your parents talk about the "good old days" of music ever again...
Comments
Chris, to put Timmy in My Tummy in the proper perspective you must include the line before "I've got Timmy in My Tummy." That line is "Yummy, yummy, yummy."
Posted by: david at April 22, 2004 3:12 PM
David, EWWWWW!
And as for the list of worst album covers...I e-mailed some people at work that link and we were laughing for about an hour about it. Our favorite: Devastating Dave the Turntable Slave (that girl turning 16 one was also very funny).
Posted by: Rachel at April 22, 2004 6:55 PM
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