Worst songs you've ever heard?

boxedjoy

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I've always found something inherently inauthentic, offputting and repellent in the aesthetic of groups like the Prodigy, Pendulum and Chase & Status. The best way I've come to think of it is they camouflage what is essentially rock music in the sonic signifers of hardcore and jungle. It's repulsive.
The thoroughline from The Prodigy to Pendulum to "Spongebob" to Korn doing a dubstep album. You can't really hear this stuff context-free when you know what it gave birth to.
 

boxedjoy

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the "she doesn't know who i am" lyrics speaks to a peculiarly american traumatising high school politics. all cliques and social hierarchies that don't exist in the rest of the world. unless that's all just made up for films?
The same universe as "Kiss Me" - USA adolescence, where teens wear designer clothes and live in three-bedroom houses and have sincere conversations about feelings over soft-rock. TV fantasy, aspirational yet vague enough for projection.
 

boxedjoy

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I adore this one. It's kinda meta for me because I've had so much fun dancing to it in clubs with pals and each time I hear it I really do think about the music sounds better with [present company]. I mean it's really obvious and schmaltzy but that's the point isn't it.

Also when The Chart Show ended (and it was the best show ever) this song didn't have a music video made so they played a montage of their old graphics and when I hear this I think of the show as well. And music did sound better with The Chart Show because without cable TV it was the only place I really got to see music videos which are much better than fake performances on TOTP.
 

boxedjoy

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Why does it feel so good?
Always thought this was the key - the way she just surrenders to disco and all its pleasures - dancing, music, sexuality, intoxication in every and any sense. If this ain't love... It's some kind of ecstasy anyway.
 

boxedjoy

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Imagine the awkward banter between the 'MC' and 'schoolgirl dancers' between takes. Gave me a cringe rash.
Daz Sampson had previous too - his rap cover of Kung Fu Fighting is one of the most shameless things I've ever heard, it takes The KLF manual and does to Carl Douglas what N-Trance did to The Bee Gees.
 
it’s the worst song in existence. Fake joy in every way. It’s hyper glam isn’t it. Total surface. A glittering curving chrome transhuman songoid. barbaric and soulless
 

luka

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it’s the worst song in existence. Fake joy in every way. It’s hyper glam isn’t it. Total surface. A glittering curving chrome transhuman songoid. barbaric and soulless
Told you. Protestant Puritan. Anti-joy orange order bigot.
 
there was that period around late 90s where the charts went all funky space travel yeah sexy aliens and glitter. Celebrate cmon!
 

martin

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Music Sounds Better Than You in 'Worst Songs'...wtf? I feel like K-Punk did when everyone on Dissensus supported Preston, Chantelle and Barrymore vs George Galloway / Pete Burns.

This thread shouldn't be about stuff you kinda dislike, or don't like 'cos of connotations...we're here to observe the rotting carcass. The lowest of the low. And this is totally rotten:

 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
B Adams lugged some slurry wagons round, the sound of viagra packs popping. Some doss cunt would inevitable put it on in the pub, which was a direct shortcut to getting stabbed outside after

 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket

Can only picture this being the soundtrack to those fresh meat esque flatshares where people would leave their socks on the couch before sex and I'd have the misfortune of having to chuck them in the washing basket, what being visually impaired and unable to avoid them when taking a seat.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
A lot of people say "there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure!" but I do feel guilty for liking "Latch".

It is "objectively" repulsive.

Please take this into consideration when you're scourging me with pokers, third.
 
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