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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4yzYKIiV9Y COME AND HAVE A TASTE!!! A RARE VINTAGE!!! ALL THE FINEST WINES!!! IMPROVE WITH AGE!!!]
* "We've got freedom of religion... I understand...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQBrTROj2w BUT GROUND ZERO IS ONE LOCATION WHERE A MOSQUE SHOULDN'T STAND!"]
* ''[[Thumbelina]]'s'' razzie award-winning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3p3kOIlBrM "Marry the Mole"] is hilarious [[So Unfunny It's Funny|for the]] [[So Bad It's Good|wrong reason]]. Unlike [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)/Music|its respective comedy numbers]], however, this one has its own [[Narm Charm]]: the lyrics sounds like Ms. Field Mouse is making it up along as she goes, while she herself [[Cloudcuckoolander|falls off her rocker]] during her song (wearing a pincushion as a dress is not normal behavior), and her [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] about marrying for money. Some fans wonder [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|why this even got a razzie in the first place]].
* Ladies and gentlemen, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhbpeL-8sY please rise for the national anthem of the United States, as sung by Roseanne Barr].
* [[American Idol|William Hung]]. He massacred "She Bangs," but did it so charmingly that he got a major-label album out of it. (He may have outsold Taylor Hicks.)
** Another [[American Idol]] auditioner wrote and sang the classic "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCqcd8IlNlo I am your brother, your best friend forever...]" A first-class [[Ear Worm]], that. There are a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdor4mTynNw couple] of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnUZ9CSMM7U remixes] of it.
** Recently, there was General Larry Platt's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8uzqNi4sA "Pants On The Ground"]. Somehow, this turns it into [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]]'s B-side to "Rainmaker" is an intentionally bad song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFa-7vMrTM8 "More Tea Vicar?"] The song is a satire on mainstream crap ([[Fun Withwith Acronyms|noticed]] [[MTV|the initials]]?), and it's done so in the most tongue-in-cheek way possible. Bruce sings about leather underwear and a dog named Reginald, he raps half the song and shouts out things like "YO BITCH!!!!" and "LICK MY BONE!!!". Then to top it all off, Bruce can be heard singing "Jive Talkin'" by The [[Bee Gees]] in a hilarious sounding falsetto.
** The "Wildest Dreams" B-side [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEi76jtsuIQ "Pass the Jam"] kinda counts.
{{quote| Next up I'll scream<br />
I will<br />
''[[Metal Scream|<he screams>]]''<br />
I warned you }}
* Before William Hung, a nice middle-aged lady named [[Giftedly Bad|Elva Miller]] parlayed her off-key warble and whistling (!) of pop hits like Downtown into ''four albums'' during the middle 1960s. [[The Other Wiki]] discusses her [[wikipedia:Mrs. Elva Miller|here.]]
* This song was used to try and teach kids how to speak French [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnyoiUjzhHg "La Le"]. It fails badly as it just made them fall over laughing from the awful lyrics, the bad animation and the sexual overtones.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7kKedoduA Im Gettin Money, Aye!]
* Also before William Hung, there was Wild Man Fischer, who sang (bad) songs to passers-by on the Sunset Strip in L.A. for a few years. (That was his source of income since due to his mental illness(es) he couldn't maintain a job.) He was finally given a chance to record an album when discovered by Frank Zappa in 1968.
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* The entire discography of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXb6bjCCtuY Average Homeboy]'' rapper, Denny "Blazin'" Hazen. It's hilariously incompetent "rapping" to a generic keyboard rhythm.
* Bangs. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmJbJs-9ST0 He wants to take you to the mooooovies!]
** Take U To Da Movies*. [http://www.facebook.com/people/Ur-Boy-Bangs/100000107686374 Check him out] on [[Face BookFacebook]].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBPtzrSHTKw Come to his hotel. He'll treat you well. Let him give it to you, girl. Till you say "oh yeah."]
* Yasha Swag's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_egfpIOTpgk "Go Go Go"]. It takes autotuning and ridiculous lyrics to far beyond even Jenna Rose's levels. The video's horrible too, but that's another story.
* Ja Rule's rapping is pretty good. His singing on the other hand... not so much. Not that his horrid singing is a bad thing though, as it provides great unintentional comedy in gems such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOwOQCMYtM "Mesmerize"] and [http://youtu.be/yl0DqKHj-Fc?t=59s "I'm Real."]
* [[wikipedia:Florence Foster Jenkins|Florence Foster Jenkins]]. Listen to her sing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM6qntPpyZ0 the "Queen of the Night" aria] from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart's]] ''[[The Magic Flute (Theatre)|The Magic Flute]]''. For best results, bring some musicologists and some classical musicians for extra fun (if they don't know about her already, she's pretty infamous).
** In case you don't have a musicologist or classical musician available, here's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ufeyarJxNQ Lucia Popp's rendition] for comparison.
* Some of the karaoke ending songs in ''[[Lucky Star]]'', as expected from traditional karaoke, are hilariously awful. The most popular of these include Konata screaming through [[Dragonball Z]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_cqg6JcwfI\] and Konata trying to sing the English ''[[Monkey Magic]]'' [http://youtube.com/watch?v=anijDDn0oz0 opening] despite not knowing English.
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* If you were to take every stereotypical problem associated with amateur, self-made musicians, mix them all together, and crank the mix [[Up to Eleven]], the result would be Jan Terri, an aged, overweight, and often downright mean-looking woman, singing in a chain-smoker-esque voice to background music that often sounds like a badly synthesized midi, and then making ridiculously amateur music videos to them. Try this! Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE2l6CPna4M her most famous video] with the sound muted, and see how hard it is to remember such an unremarkable home-movie was supposed to be the music video to a love song! The worst part is that she's good enough at songwriting that her music will never leave your head.
* [[The Shaggs]] were four sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire, who were forced to become a band by their father, who was told by his mother that his children would form a popular music group. He forced them to practice every day, perform at local events, and record an album, despite the girls not even having rudimentary knowledge of music theory or how to play their instruments. The result is odd, hackneyed melodies, uneven time signatures, and instruments/vocals that are blatantly out of tune. Despite all of this, as their obscure LP "Philosophy of the World" achieved recognition among collectors, the band was praised for their raw, intuitive composition style and lyrical honesty. "Philosophy of the World" was lauded as a work of art brut, and was later reissued, followed by a compilation album, Shaggs' Own Thing, in 1982. RCA Victor released Philosophy of the World (with the original cover art and track sequence) on CD in 1999, whereupon it was hailed as something of an avant-garde cult classic. The Wall Street Journal reviewed the CD on the day it was released, and The New Yorker subsequently ran a lengthy profile of the Shaggs, authored by Susan Orlean. The Shaggs are now seen as a groundbreaking outsider music group, receiving praise from mainstream artists such as [[Nirvana|Kurt Cobain]] and [[Frank Zappa]]. You can read more at [[That Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:The Shaggs|here]], and hear their music, such as it is, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slCII93TYgM here].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120125223431/http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/2003/273.shtml Joe Aufricht's "Mockery and Perversion"].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922164609/http://www.artsjournal.com/quickstudy/2008/04/yo_yo.html "The Most Unwanted Song" by David Soldier], intentionally written to combine the genres and topics that people in a focus group most disliked. It is indeed incoherent and, in places, just plain atonal. It's also hilarious, involving such things as ''a soprano rapping about cowboys''.
{{quote| "HEY, EVERYONE, IT'S LABOR DAY!"}}
** "Do all your shopping... AT WALMART!"
** "The Most Wanted Song," on the other hand, meant to be exactly what the focus group wanted, is insipid and unlistenable (but has a nice guitar solo).
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** For that matter, the entire musical output of Adam "Tay Zonday" Bahner draws a certain fascination.
*** ** I move away from the mic to breathe in
* The [[Eurovision Song Contest]] since about two years after they introduced a phone-in voting system.
** 2008's Irish entry was a turkey puppet called Dustin, who was a mainstay of Irish children's TV for 20 years at that point(originally a vulture, but it got retconned shortly after his introduction) singing a [[So Bad It's Good]] song about how the Eurovision has become [[So Bad It's Good]] (or possibly horrible). This is a few post-modernisms too many for a lot of people, who think the song is simply and shallowly crap. Thus, it didn't get past the semi-finals.
** The 2009 contest actually suffered because of this: most of the acts were too good to be so bad they were good but not good enough to be actually good.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvApMFVq4mI The original Belarusian entry for 2011,] containing such gems as "Byelorussia, USSR time...you're my passion, do it old-fashioned", was so hilariously terrible that the Belarusian broadcaster felt the need to change the lyrics... which made it go from so-bad-it's-good to plain bad.
** This was also many people's view of the Eurovision Song Contest for decades ''before'' the introduction of the phone-in system.
* [http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000570.php This version] of "Oh Holy Night". For some people, it might fall into [[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible]]; but anyone with a robust sense of humour split their sides laughing while listening to it.
* No Use For a Name's asinine and earnest anti-war ballad "In Fields of Agony (Everybody Dies!)" You can find this gem on ''Rock Against Bush Vol 2.'' It is complete with bongos and oh so clever sound clips of Rumsfeld and George W. Bush.
* Sondra Prill's music. A notable example of one of her cover songs is of Janet Jackson's [http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFrmFhXkr0 "Nasty"]. Unlike the original, Sondra's version is more off-key, and she seems to yell most of the time.
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** Extra credit and [[Dragonball Z|>9000]] karma points to Peter Schickele for promoting appreciation of legitimate classical music through PDQ Bach. Tens of thousands of classical music lovers had their first exposure to classical music through PDQ Bach. And let's remember ''Oedipus Tex''. All of his music is intentionally that bad, and is always hilarious.
* "MacArthur Park." As performed both as an emo ballad by Richard Harris ''and'' as a disco dance remix by Donna Summer. The chorus is meant to be symbolic of a lost love; that only cements it ''more'' firmly in this category:
{{quote| Macarthur Park is melting in the dark<br />
All the sweet green icing flowing down.<br />
Someone left the cake out in the rain<br />
I don't think that I can take it<br />
'Cause it took so long to bake it<br />
And I'll never have that recipe again...[[Narm|oh]] ''[[Narm|NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]]!'' }}
** Humourist Dave Barry - whose Bad Song Survey had ranked this song No.1 - commented that a lot of fans had since written to inform him that he didn't get it; that "the cake was a Metaphor. To which I reply, OK, but it's a really ''stupid'' metaphor."
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** Or from his first full album, "Rubber Band."
*** From the same album, We Are Hungry Men.
* Former Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone's out-of-print solo debut (under the name Dee Dee King) ''Standing In The Spotlight''. While there are songs that are more typically Ramones-esque, most tracks prominently feature him ''rapping'' in a tone of voice that has been memorably compared to [http://www.markprindle.com/ramone.htm#standing "a cartoon moose"] and [[Boastful Rap|making memorable boasts like]] "I'm the cut-creator, the master of rap\ when I walk down the street, homeboys tip their hat". What might be the weirdest moment on a fairly bizarre album is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojs1Pld10q0 a hip-hop update of 60's dance craze "Mashed Potato Time" featuring back-up vocals from] [[Blondie (Musicband)|Debbie Harry]]. While it's actually an outtake, there's also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV7wP76wx4c a silly but adorable rap written from the point of view of his pet cat]. The Ramones themselves ''did'' evidently like "The Crusher" enough to later record a slightly less hip-hop-influenced version without Dee Dee though.
* There's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 this video]. {{spoiler|[[Rickroll|Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...]]}}
* While [[James Bond]] songs are usually made of [[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome]], Lulu's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK75xQR19jE The Man With the Golden Gun]" is so over-the-top, campy, and ridiculous, it loops around from stupid right back to enjoyable. The [[Narm|hilarious]], barely-[[Double Entendre]] lyrics help, too.
* Most of Chicago's earliest music is truly good on its own; but Terry Kath's "An Hour in the Shower" suite, in which he laments not having the right kind of Spam with him while he's travelling, qualifies.
* "Hey baby wake up from your asleep. We have arrived onto the future and the whole world has become...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvIq_tUwRxo ELECTRONIK. SUPERSONIK.]"
** As the "I hope you enjoyed this flight as much as you enjoyed our accent" line implies, it's a [[Stealth Parody]]. It was made to promote the book ''Molvania: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry'', which is a mock travel guide for a [[Ruritania]]-style fictional country. So it's still so bad it's good, just [[Stylistic Suck|intentionally so]].
* A band called Complete wants to take us on a trip to a magical land, called...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukjnrXTTvPY "HOOGIE BOOOGGIIEE LA-HA-HA-HAND"]
** If you want to get to a magical land without your limbs being ripped off and eaten, [[Super Mario Brothers|for the love of Peach]], NEVER FOLLOW THE BASSIST!
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* Anything made by Microsoft Songsmith - particularly the original Songsmith ad, now a Youtube classic.
** Is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E this] it?
* The inimitable "[[Shine Onon Me]]". Ordinarily, it would simply be an outrageously 80's love song that just happened to be released in 2008. But the music video, which steals scenes from every fantasy movie, video game, and book cover ever made, is truly a beautiful travesty which must be seen to be believed. Unfortunately, the two sequel videos promised have failed to materialize.
** That is the most nonsensically awesome video ''ever''.
* [http://www.terminal-boredom.com/rewards16.html Afterbirth's] "Mr. Lewis". While the rest of their lone self-released EP is closer to [[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible]], this one song is perversely melodic in a [[X Meets Y|The Shaggs meet hardcore punk]] sort of way. It also features a guitar solo nicked from "Mary Had A Little Lamb", as well as the hilarious [[Painful Rhyme]] "I wish you'd keel over and die/burn in hell, you faggot french fry".
* The ''[[Blue Dragon]]'' song "Eternity". Singer from Deep Purple + the guy who does the music for the [[Final Fantasy]] series should equal epic win. Instead, we get [[So Bad It's Good]].
* Mc Miker G and DJ Sven's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LtYaCm5njY Holiday Rap], a cheesy but incredibly catchy European 80's pop-rap hit. What really brings it into so-bad-it's-good territory is the lyrics: [[Painful Rhyme|"I'm the number one rapper, yo my name is Sven/ I can rap more raps than a superman can"]]. And next time you hear Madonna's "Holiday" (which it prominently samples), expect to end up with ''both'' songs in your head simultaneously. Also hilarious is the the fact that the artist's names are displayed onscreen at the two minute mark, and then promptly contradicted when "MC Miker G" immediately calls himself both "Sven" ''and'' "Miker G" within the next fifteen seconds.
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* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=p9qYXbN3kyw Everyooooone is Jesus, everyone!]
* The music video for Korpiklaani's "Wooden Pints." TO explain, the very first thing in it is the fiddle player kicking open the door of an outhouse and stepping out of it to play with no emotion what-so-ever, there is one member of the band who hits his single drum with a ridiculous amount of intensity, despite being completely inaudible, a scene with the band sitting at a table eating chicken and beer, followed by them jumping over the table and wrestling, among other ridiculousness. Given that it's Korkiplaani, it's likely that it was supposed to be ridiculous; it's not like any of their stuff is particularly serious. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIc4VHxU7iM But judge for yourself.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J65j2GNzw Mark Gormley]. The glasses, the moustache, the bad green screen and the random posture changes are so hilariously jarring that everything he does becomes a surreal masterpiece.
* The cancelled [[Rhythm Game]] ''Neon FM'' was going to have a song called [https://web.archive.org/web/20100220011522/http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=129544376 "Girlz Buttz"]. It is about exactly what you think it's about.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLYuW0JG9w ooooh you touch my TRA LA LA!]
** My ding ding dong?
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* Plethitude's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBTWYcWsqZg New York Surprise], which managed to get a slight bit of memetic mutation going on, at least in the Boston area. It's on the borderline of being just plain bad, but the angst ridden lyrics that have no particular meter or rhyme scheme, the "harmonies" in the chorus, and the fact that the drummer is lagging behind everyone else throughout the entire song make it at least hilariously awful.
* Tommy Seebach's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFGzGfym-7Y disco cover of Apache], especially with the music video.
* [[Judas Priest (Music)|Judas Priest]]'s "Breaking the Law" is a rock classic, due to actually being considered a good song by a great many people. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psTUiQzNoxw The video], however? You'll be laughing at how cheesy and ridiculous it is, even for the 80s, in less than a minute.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr6rChjsWgs Locked In] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhY9GOhFwN4 Turbo Lover] also qualify.
* The Skatt Bros. song "Life at the Outpost" doesn't fall overwhelmingly into this category, but its [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34sqrLWF_tQ music video], a deliberate and outrageous parody of those by the Village People, certainly does.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsbj0OoeNo JUS WANNA PLAY VIDEO GAMES]
** The info claims it won a Grammy. The official Grammy [https://web.archive.org/web/20130114203653/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards site] does not list the band or the song as a winner.
* Rapper Lil B is possibly the king of this trope [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6Mf4yTm7A when][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHPumshGgA it][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5gKerbnLE comes][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tklYWVV-xY to] [[Hip Hop]], though this may be a case of [[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible]] if its not intentional.
** He's released serious songs that sound nothing like his other output. He's got big name fans such as Lupe Fiasco and Wiz Khalifa. Some people even call him hip hop's Andy Kaufman. Lil B makes [[So Bad It's Good]] an art form. And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=corY-FZAZog it is indeed deliberate.]
* El Chombo's song, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20101029005834/http://www.spike.com/video/chacarron-macarron/2706377 Chacarron Macarron]," barely deserves to be called a song because it has very few real notes; it is mostly just bizarre chanting to a drumbeat, especially its ridiculous sounding "ualuealuealeuale" chorus. It has become infamous on the Internet for being such terrible music, largely thanks to [[YTMND]].
* Keith Moon, the drummer for [[The Who]], released exactly one album, called Two Sides of the Moon, and it consisted largely of crooning covers of Beach Boys and Beatles songs, and one song where Keith Moon and Ringo Starr were just telling corny old vaudeville jokes back and forth over some music. Bless his heart, he wasn't any good at singing, but he was just so enthusiastic and just so obviously enjoying himself that it's infectious.
* ''[[Initial D]]'' includes a song called "Speed Car," the cheesiest ode to ''Initial D'' around:
{{quote| Speed Car, Speed Car <br />
It's a team of Project D they're winning <br />
Speed Car, Speed Car <br />
And Takumi is the king of racing <br />
Speed Car, Speed Car <br />
AE86 is coming <br />
Speed Car, Speed Car <br />
And he's gonna be the oooooonnnnnnnneeeee...SPEED CAR! }}
** Most Eurobeat falls into this. The combination of cheesy [[Engrish|broken English]] lyrics and hyperactive electronica makes it all the more endearing.
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* The Barenaked Ladies' song "Shopping" is ''meant'' to be a bland, insipid paean to consumerism; it was inspired by then-President George Bush's advice to Americans worried about the economy, war etc. 'When the going gets rough/Just shop with somebody tough...'. Given the number of fans who [[Isn't It Ironic?|missed that point]], however, the band has since conceded they probably took the gag too far.
** Which may explain why their live performances of the song involved a shopping-cart ballet on the 'La-la-la-la-la-la-la' bridge... yes, using ''actual shopping carts.'' Probably stolen from Wal-Mart.
* [[MTV]] Brazil's TV show ''Piores Clipes do Mundo'' ("[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|The Worst Videos In The World]]") had many music video and/or song examples showcased (the hilarious [[Accentuate the Negative|analysis]] could also be listed, but most people here don't speak Portuguese):
** Supla's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6T9Ll8ojGk Green Hair]" (considered the show's all-time classic)
** [[Journey (Musicband)|Journey]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxOyGK1pMk Separate Ways]"
** [[Dokken]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsetV8o7qjI Breaking the Chains]"
** [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dzSEenqc3w Holy Smoke]"
** Londonbeat's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-suQWFOfg I've Been Thinking About You]"
** Jordy's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IiLZ0dvDWU Dur Dur D'etre Bebe]"
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* Steve Miller's 1984 album [[wikipedia:Italian X Rays|Italian X-Rays]] - it sounds like Miller discovered keyboards and mountains of high quality cocaine, right around the same time. Quality.
** BONGO BONGO!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTan0-QINk0 Battalion 88] is an extremely obscure band featuring Belarusian neo-Nazis making black metal/techno songs about [[Warhammer 40 K,000|the Space Marines]]. If that weren't odd enough, there's also completely jarring viking metal vocals with the otherwise normal black metal vocals, sci-fi sound effects, and broken English lyrics about ancient battle spirits and racial hoo-ha. It goes together about as well as you think it would. But the concept is just so strange that one can't help but love it.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58 PUT A DONK ON IT!]
* The song "Money in the Bank" by Lil' Scrappy
** Consider the "musician's" [[The Scrappy|name]]...
* The official music videos of the Italian metal band Rhapsody of Fire (former Rhapsody) definitely count, at least the older ones. They are usually made of 20% shots of the band playing their instruments and 80% liquid [[Special Effects Failure]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBOHgvnXw0g See for yourselves.]
** You'd think after getting signed to a major metal label, their videos would look a bit more professional. Nope. Their latest video, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HEL5z4Iv8c "Sea Of Fate"], somehow manages to make a simple performance video absolutely ridiculous, with piles of unnecessary zooming. They still can't seem to afford (or just find) a cameraman who didn't ''just'' discover zoom.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA5GkLM5C7M I Want You to Love Me Tender] qualifies.
* John Ascroft's "Let the Eagle Soar," if for no other reason than the fact that it has inspired some of the best jokes on [[The Daily Show]] and [[The Colbert Report]]. To this day, I can not hear it without laughing.
* Even if it borders on So Bad it's Horrible, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfgHWtafAMc this] should qualify. Open with caution: there is some serious musical rape, in there.
* What happens when you combine the worst elements of Crunk and Screamo, add lyrics involving [[IKEA Erotica]] and falling in love with girls you met on [[My SpaceMyspace]], and top it all off with a dress code that puts one in mind of Metrosexual hipsters? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNXb5roCBUY B][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoLUc6cqAOU r][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0 o][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbGfa067wBU k][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0Z90lKMOs e][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr1JfQyEIZs NCYDE]!
* Canadian rapper Chuggo released an album that was actually reviewed positively--but most people know of him from his camp single, "Aw, C'Mon"--Commonly known as "AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! COME ON, [[Mondegreen|FUCK A GUY]]!" (Actually it's "fucking guy")--along with its suitably outrageous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPeHk4WMWpY music video]. The sheer mix of rather simplistic rhymes (Ladies come to see me, because they can't fuck! You'll never sell a record, because your rap sucks!), gratuitous use of any and all debauched tropes relating to rap music (It seems like it might be a diss track, only Chuggo seemingly forgot to explain whom he's dissing at any point the whole song), the video's low-budget quality and sometimes questionable choices of its visuals (A skull? You sure you weren't trying for a heavy metal band, Chuggo?) and its occasional use of elements that don't seem to belong anywhere in rap music, (I put mayonnaise on all my food!) earns it this trope so hard, it's nearly impossible to believe it wasn't an intentional joke.
* Knuckles' stage themes in ''[[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure 2]]''. Somebody at SEGA decided that they get a rapper to do the music for Knuckles' stages. Hilarity and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] ensued. This is a game about talking animals protecting the world from an egg man and a [[Freud Was Right|space lizard with a cannon rammed up its ass]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qygha1T2AYw Here's an example.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfMYkgtcFn0 And another.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsXFrUvMFk Prit Stiiiik!] DRUM SOLO!
* The video for David Hasselhoff's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8 Hooked On a Feeling].
* [[Wesley Willis]]. His music consists of ramblings spoken over the basic rhythms of his keyboard, the song name shout-sung about eight times in the "chorus", random fill-ins standing in for solos, and the classic ending "Rock over London, rock on Chicago" and a tag line coming from a commercial ad. This is all awesome.
* Black metal pioneers ''[[Venom (Musicband)|Venom]]''. While you can't deny their impact on the genre, their technical prowess is lacking, especially on the early albums (like ''Welcome to Hell''). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE--ehEUg5I The title track] helps show this off nicely, with cardboard drums and comical lyrics, as do songs like "The Witching Hour".
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PizGV-zKi44 The smell of flowers... DEATH! Your pretty face... DEATH!!!"]
* Five words: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvKbNSOVJO8 Disco Ballad] [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|of Sweeney Todd]].
* The song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXJKOhpxME Girlfriend]'' by Kabbage Boy, the [[Nu Metal-metal]] band that Eddie Riggs initially roadies for in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'', was synthesized specifically to exemplify all the worst things that have ever happened to [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]]. The result was a success but the tune itself is sorta catchy, for all the wrong reasons.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs1CA5hFdd4 Japanese pop culture in a nutshell.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyyzboAXzFk I feeeeeel Fantastic! Hey Hey Hey!]
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** I smoke good weed bitch! I'm from Mutha Fuckin Canada Shit!
** In case you where wondering why he keeps repeating 613 over and over agian, 613 is the Ottawa region's Area code. So he put his ''friken area code'' in his song!?
** When you realise he's not actually wearing a top hat, it's even funnier.
* ''Austrian Death Machine'' is a side project of ''As I Lay Dying'' vocalist Tim Lambesis. It consists of a lot of Bay-area thrash metal which essentially all sounds identical, and Lambesis doing a lot of indecipherable metal growling. What makes it good is 2 things: all their songs are based on Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, and "Ahhnold" is the second vocalist. This results in some completely ridiculous tracks with hilarious lyrics commentating the movie in question, and the "Ahhnold" vocalist being a massively overblown caricature of the actor himself.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd6NZf1YK5A Sometimes, people make a war, don't know what it'sa for...]
* Seven words: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPrBE7oWpA "Go club get drunk you stupid shit."]
* What no [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJV5LdC2kc "Love Juice?"]
* The work of [http://normand1.ytmnd.com Normand L'Amour] certainly qualifies, with the "lyrics" being apparently random syllables or a single word being repeated over and over, and the background "music" being [[Buffy-Speak|melody-less]] midi noise. One of his album was nominated for the "Best Humoristic album" category at one of the ADISQ Gala.
* ''Die Antwoord'' is a weird South African hip-hop group which might be deliberately bad, but a lot of people seem to enjoy it unironically. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77YBmtd2Rw this] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3f4xU_FfQ this] for example of their creative output.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg_NtOFMwEY STAY. WITH. ME. TONIGHT.]
* A certain video game track qualifies here. It doesn't fit on the Video Game page because the game itself is squarely in [[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible]] territory, but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5mXnHyg9w this track]...[[HSQ|well]]...yeah.
** From the [[YouTube]] comments:
{{quote| ''"Oh my god. I now have the most glorious mental image of a paintball fight taking place in a barnyard with Frosty the Snowman systematically violating all the animals with akimbo electric banjos, and all of this is in a Benny Hill-style fast-forwarded scene with several dancing hillbillies and a single Mariachi in the background. I am sincerely disappointed that I cannot convey this image through this text box. It's fucking fantastic. Probably make a great mural."''}}
* "Why Must I Cry?" Many songs are so bad they're good, but Reh Dogg managed to go above and beyond by trying to write a sad song, only for it to come out as side-splittingly hilarious. Barring that the lyrics are repetitive and lame, and the fact that Reh Dogg enunciates them about on par with [[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mWW6kRITEY the music video]'s constant close-up shots of Reh Dogg's face, displaying perhaps the worst teeth ever in a music video, finishes robbing the song of any remaining ability to be taken seriously.
* The output of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra where the only requirement for joining was that you want to play your instrument.
** The orchestra was founded in 1970 as an experiment by Gavin Bryars, who was convinced that, as long as you hit all the right notes in a song, you would communicate that song properly; hitting several ''other'' notes in the general vicinity would not impact the audience's comprehension. For a thorough test, he allowed anyone to join the Sinfonia on any instrument they desired, regardless of such piddling matters as musical training, prior experience, or talent. His "orchestra"'s performances proved his hypothesis correct: if you search them on [[YouTube]], the songs they play are (mostly) recognizable. And [[Crowning Moment of Funny|side-splittingly funny]].
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNzFlmOV_MA This AC/DC Cover]. The band seems to know it, too!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9VzEulip9Q "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"] by Trace Adkins. "Got it goin' on/Like Donkey Kong/And oo-wee, shut my mouth, slap your grandma!"
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em5iWYVwYoI Microsoft Sam sings] [["Weird Al" Yankovic|"White and Nerdy"]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3oHpup-pk Montgomery, it's just like, it's like a mini-mall!]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LWV_2DV-ss Come On Back] by FUSBI.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhv6gipA3dc B4-4] and their song [[I Want To Have Intercourse With You|Get Down]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkHUhHt1zTA Thrash Queen's second album], actually an [[In Name Only]] recording made illicitly by a German record label using their name. The band themselves, and their debut album, are much worse.
* [[R Kelly|R. Kelly]]'s epic "Hip Hopera," ''[[Trapped in Thethe Closet]]'', can be considered as RENT with a dripping faucet serving as the musical score. Each episode is the same melody and the sheer ridiculousness as more affairs are uncovered and more characters threaten each other with violence with R. Kelly dubbing everyone. "...And I pull out my gun, and say I'm gonna shoot someone. "And I count to THREE, and she looks at ME!" It all escalates to sheer madness with the introduction of {{spoiler|the midget, whose name is BIG MAN for obvious reasons}}. To say the least, the song has became somewhat of a meme, and inspired countless parodies, like most notably, [[Weird Al|Weird Al's]] "Trapped in the Drive Thru."
** Despite its questionable writing, sophistication, and repetitive melody, some people are still eagerly awaiting the predictable finale. {{spoiler|Oh NO! Now we all have AIDS!.. AIDS!... AIDS!...}}
* Deathcore band Waking the Cadaver is just so over-the-top with how bad its taste in lyrics is, combined with absolutely illegible vocals.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029224856/http://www.shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com/ My horse is amazing] (warning, NSFW)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk This performance] turned an obscure dance-pop song by an unknown Romanian group into a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]], a hit, and a piece of 2000s pop culture.
* [[William Shatner]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdBlZzuadLQ should] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKbt3wRsZYw never] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5_K_pUKEJY sing.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I Ever.]
** [[Futurama|How did he do a spoken word version of]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmYQfFWEiYo a rap song?] [[Futurama|He found a way.]]
* If you think Shatner is bad, take a listen any time Shaquille O'Neal tries to rap. His single "I Know I Got Skillz", between Shaq's terrible singing, various [[Product Placement|product plugs]], and completely ridiculous lyrics, it is just so [[So Bad It's Good|Narmtacular]].
{{quote| I got a hand that'll rock ya cradle,<br />
cream you like cheese, spread you on my bagel,<br />
my Ford Explorer boomin' with the clumped-up funk,<br />
all you jealous punks can't stop my dunks,<br />
they're brand new like Heavy,<br />
built like Chevy, Impala,<br />
but Shaq's a smooth balla,<br />
(yeah, but what about rhymin?)<br />
I can hold my own,<br />
knick-knack Shaq-attack, give a dog a bone }}
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFZkKV-CR5E Just watch the music video if you're not convinced.]
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* [[Drowning Pool|(whispering) Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor...]] Probably wouldn't be here if [[AMV|AMVs]] hadn't run it into the ground.
** The same thing can be said about almost every song by [[Linkin Park]], especially "Crawling".
{{quote| CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIN, THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEEEEEEEEEAL. }}
** Interestingly, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RHa3s0sv44 demo] (Under Attack) doesn't have the [[Narm Charm]] of the final version. It sounds a lot more like someone just having a mental breakdown.
* Not the music itself, but Manilla Road's [http://www.truemetal.org/manillaroad/ "official" website] looks for all the world like it was designed by a middle schooler. No idea if it's real or not, but it's pretty hilarious either way.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_1ZZAaD94 RISE LIKE A DRAGON, PUNCH A WOMAN.]
* Back in the European Song Contest area: Lordi, as sort of GWAR light. And they won, too. What's more, the video to their winning entry "Hard Rock Hallelujah" prominently features a Twisted Sister T-shirt - another strong contender for the SBIG award.
* The vocals of the metal band ''Deicide'' would easily pass as a parody of death metal vocals.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08YWwOJBr0o ever seen a homeless man rap?]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Oj0-splZw Gimme that Christian side hug!]
** [[Author Tract|Democratic shift in the congress uh-oh! Democratic shift in the congress uh-oh!]]
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* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001M17/ Mickey Unrapped.] Disney characters rapping along with rap stars of the early 90s, with songs such as "Ice Ice Mickey", "Whatta Mouse", "Whoomp (There It Went)" plus the cover's depiction of Mickey looking gangsta equals hilarity. Don't believe me? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0saAKsYNi6w Hear for yourself.]
* The ''[[DJMAX]]'' series brings us "Para Q" by Forte Escape. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnO0VxZLeeE WRA WRAAA WRAAAAAAAAAAA!]
** From ''DJMAX Technika 2'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8W8VBFdOUk Xlasher] by [[Ridge Racer|Shinji]] [[Tetris the Grand Master|Hosoe]], an 80's style song with [[Narm Charm|hilarious]] [[Engrish]] [http://www.djmaxcrew.com/community/techBoardRead.asp?idx=417&page=1 lyrics]{{Dead link}}. This song is REAL FACT, REAL ADVANTAGE!
{{quote| Stomp! Step! Slash! To hell with it!<br />
Stomp! Step! Slash! Drop dead! }}
* ''[[S 4S4 League]]'' brings us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3RWvzqGw2E "Super Sonic"], which is a good song. Then comes the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoC53gj4uL4 Mr. Funky Remix].
{{quote| "GO LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S SUPASO GO LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S SUPASO GO LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S SUPASO"<br />
[[Broken Record|"SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC"]] }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3KgHPFZeI This little music video] from [[Slayer (Music)|Slayer]]. May overlap with [[Narm]].
** If you want some ridiculous music videos involving metal bands, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5NSvtWirS4 click this video], then search for full versions of these music videos. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWMb7EC8gBo Ancient's video,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee0yDlLhzXg Trollech's video,] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWr1NM-KNv4 Arckanum's video] are some of the primary ones where the music videos are so bad, it's good.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs My humps, my humps, my humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuq6HgKgEFQ The "clean" version of Purple Pills.] Seriously, when you take a song about drugs by Eminem and try to make it radio-friendly, the end result is so mind numbingly stupid you can't help but laugh.
** Dirty Lyrics:
{{quote| ''"I take a couple uppers, I down a couple downers, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow purple pills. I've been to mushroom mountain, once or twice but who's counting, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow purple pills.''}}
** Clean Lyrics:
{{quote| ''"I've been so many places, I've seen so many faces, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow purple '''hills'''. I've climbed the highest mountain, once or twice but who's counting, but nothing compares to thes blue and yellow purple '''hills'''.''}}
** It just gets worse from there. Also a lot of the lyrics they keep are just as offensive in the clean version, like
{{quote| ''I can't describe the vibe I get when I drive by six people and five I hit.''}}
** Even the clean lyrics have a definite [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?]] feel. So [[Drugs Are Bad]], but killing people with your car is just fine.
* From ''[[Beatmania IIDX]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W_jtEPgcYI Do it!! Do it!!]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru5bX2kWkUU Don't do it!!]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuLe-AQFwxE This] is what happens when you get Soulja Boy to make a song about anime while stoned.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=lhC0cKqHFOs This much-viewed Youtube video] of a 'black metal' band called Detsorgsekalf, with a song called 'From The Blood Of A Thousand Virgins Rises Chevy Chase'. While likely not played entirely straight, even as a parody it almost reaches [[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible]] levels, saved only by blips of decent instrumentation, a computer drumming, and the, uh, [[All Men Are Perverts|rather fetching victim.]].
* The origins of Y. Bhekhirst are shrouded in mystery, but his only musical release, ''Hot in the Airport'' is infamous for its simplistic production values and mangled [[Engrish]] lyrics, sung in a thick, incomprehensible accent, and often slipping into whatever Bhekhirst's native language is supposed to be. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exTMCq0cnLs The title track] already sets the bar quite high.
* Charlene's [[Narm|Narmtastic]] "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhQWND9jKDA Never Been To Me]"
{{quote| Hey, you know what Paradise is? It's a lie, a fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to be. But you know what Truth is? It's little baby you're holding, and it's that man you fought with this morning -- the same one you're going to make Love with tonight! ''That's Truth! That's Love!''}}
** The even more [[Narm|Narmilicious]] follow up single, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a1hvwLJ9Jk Used to Be]," which somehow managed to rein in none other than [[Stevie Wonder]] (!!!) as a duet partner.
* David Geddes' "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGLAH3Ojf20 Run, Joey, Run]" -- A [[Teenage Death Songs|Teenage Death Song]], made especially memorable by the whiny heroine's chorus, the lead's overwrought delivery, and the [[Squick|Squicky]] implications of her father's over-reaction to their relationship.
* Macho Man [[Randy Savage]]'s rap album. Particularly "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7jTAGliyY Be A Man]".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xii0qozYzsM The Cornel Hurd Band] is an intentional example of this. They purposefully make their music repetitive and boring, and the lyrics they write sound like a deconstruction of [[Country Music]].
* The music video of [[Billy Squier]]'s ''Rock Me Tonite.'' The song itself isn't bad (in fact, it was his highest charting single), but the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZvl2aqIyNg hysterical video] fits well here. Squier claims it ruined his career.
* An [[Image Song]] for ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'' gives us, said in [[Gratuitous English|Engrish]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZyoSjTPfw "Do you know Oyashiro-sama? Yes, Hinamizawa. I kill you you kill me, no Hinamizawa"]. It [[Makes Sense in Context]] and is probably very intentional. Neither of the singers are exactly cool, it's set in [[The Eighties]], and it's making fun of a mystery-murder series.
* Lucia Pamela's album ''Into Outer Space With Lucia Pamela''. Sounding like someone's boozy great aunt doing an impersonation of [[Ethel Merman]], she brays through thirteen songs (which seem to contain the same three backing tracks repeated over and over), each with a spoken word introduction, about a fanciful trip to the moon.
* Notorious in prog-rock circles is ''At King,'' the 1985 debut album by the Swiss neo-progressive band Deyss. Reportedly, the sword-fight effects were created by clinking butter knives together!
* Anyone who attended the 2010 National Scout Jamboree got to hear [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlIE9cF4j0s this] song at the closing ceremony.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUbFw1-TfdM This song] (at 2:20) originally from the also [[So Bad It's Good|So Bad, It's Good]] video game [[Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (Visual Novel)|Plumbers Don't Wear Ties]], but just hearing how "you're the star" just because you pursued to go after Jane is just... well. How [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] would react to this if he ended up pursuing after Jane instead of just not going after her?
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9QpOfhAPXs I'm on a couch]. To quote a youtube comment "this fails so hard it wins".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9VOffWCrM Lords of the Crimson Alliance]: All of the absurdities of 80s heavy metal, rolled into one package of pure hilarity!
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7zFFmk80w4 I had a dream when I was in high school, I attended the Punk Rock Academy I had a dream when I was in high school That at the Punk Rock Academy no one made fun of me]
** Atom And His Package intentionally based his career on this trope.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWb_1d_1vFs I GOT DAT DRINK IN MAH CUP I GOT DAT DRINK IN MAH CUP]
* Pittsburgh Slim. With hits such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di2lx_CMANw Girls Kiss Girls.] If you can't click the link, just know that it's a white guy rapping about lesbians. Nothing else is needed.
* [[Black Metal]] band Silencer is the definition of "so bad it's good" because of the vocalist's bizarre banshee wail that's been likened to a cat being raped. Some people love it, but others find it so over the top and ludicrous that it saves the music from being downright terrible to laughably endearing. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF8n3xnJVkQ Only you can decide for yourself.]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBwK5vV880 IT'S JUST SO COLD IN DA D]
* Ever wondered what "[[Sex Pistols|Anarchy in the UK]]" would sound like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76t5wYcIfA4 recorded by a French-Chinese band who speak no English]?
{{quote| ''AIIIII AM AN AIIIIIINAIKIIIIIII AIIIIIIIII AIII AII AIIIIIII AEEEEE''}}
* The one, the only, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uknDkAw-tU Indian Condom Song].
* "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead Or Alive. Forever remembered thanks to [[Shock Site|Meatspin]], but catch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo the video]. Such enthusiasm.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKLymvwD2U I whip my hair back and forth,] [[Hair Flip|I whip my hair]] [[Ear Worm|back]] [[Memetic Mutation|and]] [[Broken Record|forth]]...
* [[Motorhead (Music)|Lemmy Kilmister]] has a horribly gravelly singing voice, but Motörhead just wouldn't be Motörhead without it.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-TMhRdNTzM My friends are! My heroes] [[Narm|I'm a hero when I'm with my friends!]]
* The Replacements' live album ''The Shit Hits The Fans'' was released because the band ''themselves'' thought it was [[So Bad It's Good]]: Towards the end of a concert, their soundman caught a bootlegger and confiscated his tape, then gave it to the band. They found their own drunken, sloppy performance (mainly consisting of unrehearsed cover songs) funny enough to put it out as a limited edition official release.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o "I just had seeeeex, and I'll never go back/to my not-having-sex ways of the past"] Considering this is [[The Lonely Island]], most of their songs are a very intentional version of this.
* There's also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1LMiStluic this] song by a heavy metal band comprised of middle-aged men. The song itself isn't that bad, but the lyrics are full of cheese, and the video itself must have had an incredibly low-budget with half of it looking like it was animated using MS paint. There's also the title of the song, "Zombie Bitches Kickin' People's Ass". Yeah.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVGhLWit68c I MET HIM AT THE CAAANDYYY STOOORRE!!!!]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmJ9Fq1cfo I washy my haaaand... ova ando ova!]
* [[Punk Rock]] invoked this trope deliberately in reaction to the overly technical [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] and [[Progressive Rock]] popular in [[The Seventies]].
* [[Rebecca Black (Music)|Rebecca Black]]'s "[[Friday (Musicsong)|Friday]]" was so incredibly bad that it became an overnight [[YouTube]] sensation, meeting worldwide acclaim for its lack of quality, effort, or artistic value.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI My hand is a DOLPHIN!]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unDB3y1jW1U SPECTACULAR] by Kiely Williams. An Ex Cheetah Girl. This troper found the song under the section of Music: So Bad It's Horrible, but upon listening, found that it wasn't "So Bad It's Horrible", or even "So Bad It's Good", but rather So Horribly Bad It's SPECTACULAR. No really. Watch the video, and read the lyrics. Mind. Blown.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131210081800/http://abigailgarnett.tumblr.com/ The Recess Monkey's cover of Gone So Long.]
* [http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player/-/pgpv/videoplayer/0/f3ab603a-154e-11dd-8ea8-a3d2ac25b65b This "Jump" music video]{{Dead link}} from Sesame Street is quite laughable, well it was the 90s....
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozqfOzqMvlQ Yummy yummy yummy, I got love in my tummy and I feel like lovin' you!]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1urq4Vb0XM Fog on the Tyne] by Gazza and Lindisfarne. It's one of the most infamous entries in the "actual band and non-musician celebrity collaboration" category. Features Paul Gascoigne's [[British Accents|Geordie rapping]]; reached number two in Britain when it was released. What else is there to be said?
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bztQNlOVHs PIG POWER IN DA HOUSE!] Even the Nostalgia Critic loved it!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7FFjUpVLg The moon. Beautiful.] [[Large Ham|OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]] [[Big Yes|YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH]]!
* "[http://www.last.fm/music/Chronic+Chronicler/_/Book+Of+Death Book Of Death]", a song by a rock band called Chronic Chronicler. {{spoiler|10 seconds in, a heavily-accented women starts singing/screaming/vomiting "BOOK OF DEATH! BOOK OF DEATH!" into what sounds like a laptop microphone.}}
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h0IpjnByfs LADY! CAN YOU FORGIVE ME FOR ALL I'VE DONE TO YOUUUUUUUUU]!"
* Michael Angelo Batio is widely considered ''the'' greatest guitarist of all time. His band in the eighties, however, was as [[Hair Metal]] as [[Hair Metal]] gets, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDZAYBfKrg in all the worst ways.] Michael even takes it [[Up to Eleven]] with the Quad-neck guitar.
* The [[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Guns N' Roses]] song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MCm67MpF3Y Oh My God] for the ''[[End of Days (Film)|End of Days]]'' soundtrack qualifies. It was the first song produced by the band with singer Axl Rose in several years and it definitely showed.
* In Germany, a short-timed, facebook-driven craze around the Rapper [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCfm-vWuQRk Money Boy] was mostly fueled by this trope. Just look at how many dislikes the video has.
* The hilariously bad song, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7REzsk2is Going To The Mall] by the School Gyrlz is worth a mention.
* Around the time ''[[Mortal Kombat (Filmfilm)|Mortal Kombat]]'' came out, The Immortals released ''Mortal Kombat: The Album'', an album of songs themed around the characters of the first game. That's a pretty cheesy concept in and of itself, but some of the songs are even better. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0h1DCFlOM Kano's] is bordering on [[Award Bait Song]], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swJd6BiQEnc Liu Kang's] deserves mention for using [[Calling Your Attacks]] and [[Funny Bruce Lee Noises]] ''as lyrics''. The songs themselves aren't so bad, but it's the lyrics that make this album so hilarious.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKTw50Uf8M Galo Sengen]. Just.... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKTw50Uf8M Galo Sengen]
** [[Broken Record|"GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!]] [[Ear Worm|WOO-HOO!"]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyJPJJiPxp8 This cover] of "[[Dream Theater (Music)|Innocence Faded]]" with a singer who can barely enunciate the lyrics. It's still hilarious, though.
* Cotton Eyed Joe, as covered by Rednex, was both a charts topper and a ratings bomb, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddgyg_5FF_0 for a great reason] (though some would argue [[So Cool Its Awesome]]). [[Ear Worm|'Fit hadn't been fo' Cotton Eyed Joe, I'd been married 'long time ago]].
* One wonders why [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MUVNuD3MiU this kid's] hip-hop career never took off.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68 Toby Keith's song "Red Solo Cup"] Toby Keith must be taking the Ark Music Factory approach of making songs so bad, yet so catchy. Silly lyrics, slurred singing, an awesome music video. This song has all the makings of this trope! [[Ear Worm|Warning: This WILL get stuck in your head]]
* The clean version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIa-E8hqiKY "Sexting"] by Blood On The Dance Floor. It's an extremely sexual song, so it sounds hard to understand how it can be censored
{{quote| ''I wanna [[Sound Effect Bleep|*quack*]] you hard, I want to feel you deep, I wanna rock your body, I want to taste your sweet. I wanna *squeak* you hard..'' }}
* Any parody by ''[[Rucka Rucka Ali]]'' manages to be this.
* Italian self-made rapper Trucebaldazzi, who in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRiWSmGz5E8 epic video] is lashing out his rage against... a middle school. Complete with [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]].
* The 'Alphabet Rap' from 80's TV show Quantum Leap, as performed by actor Dean Stockwell [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4jrgMBN460\]. What make this even more hilarious is that the lyrics in this release have been sanitised into a slightly more positive message to teach kids. In the original show, Stockwell's lyrics began "You're a looney-tune in a big white room.." Which he freestyled to, yes, an imprisoned mental patient.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1WSPAvT7qE Drinkenstein]. [[Sylvester Stallone]] singing. Seriously.
* Perhaps the best-known song in John Trubee's catalogue is one he never sang. "Peace And Love," better known as "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vFFewvHwEY&feature=related Blind Man's Penis]" was done by a local song poem company on his behalf. Musically speaking, it's a deadpan country ballad which plays all the clichés completely straight. The lyrics are a baffling heap of abject nonsense, containing such lines as "Warts loved my nipples because they're pink/Vomit on me, baby, yeah yeah yeah" deadpanned as though they were age-old aphorisms.
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* Steve Bent's [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/09/mp3_download_di.html "Going To Spain"]: Before [[The Fall]] did a [[Cover Version]], it was best known for being one of the more memorable songs on a compilation called ''The World's Worst Record''. However it's oddly catchy, and the cheesy arrangement and inane lyrics make it sort of charming.
* Here's this... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWCvzduYZg rather interesting video involving some breakdancing] [[Unfortunate Implications|dedicated to 9/11]] with this overall weird song.
* [http://www.blender.com/2010/12/worst-amateur-covers-all-time/ These covers]{{Dead link}} border between hilariously bad and awfully bad (particularly the Russian guy singing "Let It Be").
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8 Jesus Is a Friend of Mine] by Sonseed is so stupid that everyone loves it.
* The music video for [http://www.youtu.be/XOibIxl3dLo the Satan of Hell]{{Dead link}} by the Black Satans. The music itself is [[Grindcore]]-like metal, only longer, but the video... set in the snowy woods it features tiki torch headbanging, snowballs, tree humping and evil peek-a-boo. And the choreographed dance at around the 1:55 mark. It will make you laugh, if anything.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WH8mHJnhM This] instrumental cover of "My Heart Will Go On". The guy's recorder-playing is horribly off-key, and the video includes him hugging a vase of flowers while crying and ripping his shirt open at the song's climax. Intentional? Most likely, but it's still awesomely hilarious.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT1e3aj7irU Gay Boyfriend] by the Hazzards was noticed by MTV for being really, really stupid. People love it, though. The dance remix of this song, however, is too good to belong here.
* Once upon a time, some guy in Japan thought it'd be [[This Is Going to Be Huge|awesome]] (or [[Troll|hilarious]]) if he got [[Rie Tanaka|Japan's]] [[YukoYūko GotoGotō|most]] [[Mai Kadowaki|famous]] [[Haruna Ikezawa|voice]] [[Kaori Shimizu|actresses]] and had them record a punk album. In [[Gratuitous English|English.]] Because of this [[Sarcasm Mode|brilliant]] idea, we are treated to things like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzD76g4BlQA&feature=relmfu this.] [[Narm|Yeah...]]
* La Tigresa del Oriente, a Peruvian folk singer of dubious vocal qualities, who became [[Memetic Mutation|memetically famous]] with her song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5UcgTuvCmU Nuevo Amanecer]" in 2006. Saint patron of [[Age-Inappropriate Dress]]ing, being a septuagenarian lady wearing full-body feline-printed leotards that even [[Lady Gaga]] would find tacky and more makeup than [[Mae West]] in ''Sextette'' (and for similar reasons). You cannot stop snickering when listening to her songs. And yet she has a fandom that follows her, half in [[Bile Fascination]], half in [[Narm Charm|genuine endearment on her antics]].
* Delfín Quishpe, otherwise an standard Ecuadorian folkloric singer, jumped to fame in 2007 with the [[Narm]]tacular "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOoL8yFP350 Torres Gemelas]", a terrible song about how the singer lost his beloved on the 9/11 terrorist attack at the World Trade center, compounded with a video clip full of terrible greenscreen showing him in front of old World Trade Center footage.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jDHRW6fngg I Want to be Ninja] (or as pronounced by the singer, [[Memetic Mutation|IIIIIIII WANT TO BE NEENJA]]). Jennifer Murphy's [[Large Ham|hamminess]], [[Crosses The Line Twice|hilariously offensive accent]], and [[Ear Worm|catchy lyrics]] make for a stupid, yet genuinely entertaining and charming experience.
 
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