Worst songs you've ever heard?

[martin]

Imagine the awkward banter between the 'MC' and 'schoolgirl dancers' between takes. Gave me a cringe rash.

 

[martin]

 

[martin]

The nadir:

 

[hucks]

The nadir:

Correct

Also this is a long thread but I assume there are several pages devoted to Electro Swing?

 

[version]

Just the opening makes me want to John Belushi his guitar.

 

[Mr. Tea]

The nadir:

This is basically a shit version of this:



Isn't it?

 

[martin]

This is basically a shit version of this:

Isn't it?

Wow, I was blissfully unaware of that. Yeah, total rip-off. Did WSB actually sanction that or did someone throw it together after he died?

 

[version]

There's another version with Bill Laswell that's much better.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Wow, I was blissfully unaware of that. Yeah, total rip-off. Did WSB actually sanction that or did someone throw it together after he died?

I think he just recorded the spoken-word bit and someone stuck it on a hip-hop instrumental at a later date.

 

[Mr. Tea]

There's another version with Bill Laswell that's much better.

Yes, that is better. I just grabbed the first result on Youtube tbh.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Right, that's it. Game Of Gnomes is cancelled until the heat death of the universe.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Also this is a long thread but I assume there are several pages devoted to Electro Swing?

I think electroswing (as objectively the worst musical genre of all time) sort of goes without saying. And this thread is about individual worst songs, and you'd surely be hard-pressed to identify an individual *worst* electroswing song.

It somehow fits that the visuals for this mix are based on nonce-fodder anime.

 

[hucks]

I think electroswing (as objectively the worst musical genre of all time) sort of goes without saying. And this thread is about individual worst songs, and you'd surely be hard-pressed to identify an individual *worst* electroswing song.

It somehow fits that the visuals for this mix are based on nonce-fodder anime.

You are right, there are no actual, nameable songs in that genre, just endless (5 hour mix!) private school 1920s cosplay 'adulting'

 

[Mr. Tea]

You are right, there are no actual, nameable songs in that genre, just endless (5 hour mix!) private school 1920s cosplay 'adulting'

Put that way, it sounds like Exhibit A in the case against millennials.

 

[Mr. Tea]

First they came for the juggalos, and tbh I was cool with that.
Then they came for the emo kids, and I was like, whatever.
Then they came for the electroswing fans in their home-made steampunk costumes and I said "What the fuck took you guys so long?!"

 

[muser]

 

[muser]

 

[muser]

 

[muser]

 

[luka]

what makes a bad song? it's hard to pinpoint anything musical, as any sonic effect, with the possible exception of the children's choir, can be joyful or terrible. even datedness is not enough, as i see little difference between the worst angsty excesses of the nu-metal stuff mr. tea enjoys and pre-millennial tension.

what makes a really terrible record is the phantom listener it conjures up who actually enjoys listening to simplistic crap, someone with facile emotional needs who is easily satisfied by the least effort - who exists in the mind of the people making the tune or is even created by them - and worst of all, the horror of identifying oneself with this phantom merely by listening.

Important statement in aesthetic philosophy. Merits study and rumination.