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{{quote|''"Jimmy Webb is a genius. He's crafted this incredible record, and decided to put a man who can't sing at the front of it...[[Narm Charm|and it's all the better for it!]]"''|'''Sean Rowley''', on Richard Harris and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amzJDSsC2IA MacArthur Park]''}}
 
The good, the bad, and the [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] songs that we all know and love to hate/laugh at.
 
'''Troper General's Warning:''' The songs on this list may contain excessive levels of [[Narm]] and/or [[Lyrical Dissonance]]. [[Ear Worm|May require heavy surgery to excise from one's mind.]]
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* Hellsongs. They are huge in the metal community for being so bad it's good. They record indie covers of metal classics, often resulting in results [[Narm|Narmy]] so bad you CAN'T hate them. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8JgkhsEjzg Try listening] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyO-5lDnigY without laughing] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dci91kHvJWA your ass off].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJobWZKLsUk This] hilariously bad cover of Alejandro by Lady Gaga. The most unsubtle [[Ho Yay]] one could see yet, ill placed harmonies, lispy singing voices, and an unenthusiastic female singer, complete with cheesy slowed camera frame rates in an attempt to look sexy (except failing rather hilariously so). It should be [[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad Its Horrible]], but it's so bad it's actually impossible to hate.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWHhTnUSv-g This]
* [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 ItsIt's Funny|for the]] [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|wrong reason]]. Unlike [[So Bad ItsIt'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 ItsIt'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.)
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*** ** 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 ItsIt's Good]] song about how the Eurovision has become [[So Bad ItsIt'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.
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** 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!
* "No Way," By Raed. Imagine a man singing lame, barely-rhyming lyrics that don't match the music or even the ''beat'', imagine music that just seems to make itself up as it goes, imagine the instrumentals barely sound like music...and you will get something a ''fraction'' as bad as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me0nsP_s7Rs this mess of a song].
** Most of his other output is just as bad, if not worse; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddwmcnLJYks "You Gotta Love This City Babbe"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN09THSNo_k&feature=relmfu "I No She Wants Me Back"] (sic for both titles) being among the most infamous. Depending on your opinion, these songs are either hilariously bad or [[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad Its Horrible]].
* 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?
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** 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 Its 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 ItsIt'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.
** This troper remembers (but is sure he must be mistaken and would appreciate some kind of video evidence) an interview with the offending parties on the BBC's [[Terry Wogan|''Wogan'']] chat show wherein one of them announced that they were "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|putting the C back into rap music]]." So it may have been ''deliberate''.
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** The info claims it won a Grammy. The official Grammy [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 Its 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 ItsIt's Good]] an art form. And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=corY-FZAZog it is indeed deliberate.]
* El Chombo's song, "[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.
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* Not actually an example, but, this trope is the entire subject of the [[Frank Zappa]] song "Cheepnis".
* [http://www.i-mockery.com/bad-albums/ This] I-Mockery.com page is devoted to this trope. It even lets you listen to some of them.
* 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 On 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):
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* 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.]
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* [[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 ItsIt's Good|Narmtacular]].
{{quote| I got a hand that'll rock ya cradle,<br />
cream you like cheese, spread you on my bagel,<br />
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** 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 On 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!!]
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* 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 ItsIt'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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* [[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 ItsIt'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=CXerF6crDRs We like pizza,] in the mornin', we like pizza everyday..
* Scottish rapper [http://soundcloud.com/mcswell-1/ MC Swell], whose "music" largely consists of him swearing over copyrighted beats. Typical lyrical themes include beating people to death with cheese sandwiches and other trials faced by your average rural street hooligan.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW6e2tDIWW4 This guy] can't sing in the slightest, but he has such heart that the entire performance becomes [[Narm Charm]]. It's apparent that even he knows he flubbed it when he stops the last verse with [[AuthorsAuthor's Saving Throw|"That's all I'm doing."]]
* This song by Nicki Manaj: YOU A STUPID HOE, YOU A YOU A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6j4f8cHBIM STUPID HOE]
* 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.
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