So Bad It's Horrible/Music: Difference between revisions

 

No, we're not making fun of the songs you sing while you're in the shower. However, if you sang any of ''these'' songs in the shower, then ''the shower'' [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|would make fun of you]]. Just remember that the difference between music and noise is often purely subjective (even moreso here). Besides, calling music like this noise is [[Insult to Rocks|an insult to all noises.]]

# If you heard it on the radio, however briefly, the odds are very good that it is ''not'' horrible.

# It isn't horrible music just because [[Todd in the Shadows]] and/or any other [[Caustic Critic]] reviewed it. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it. (Though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review.)

 

== Albums ==

** "Too Hot" is the one song off of either album that gets any respect whatsoever, mainly because it sounds very loosely like something that could've come off of ''[[New Sound Album|Jagged]] [[Surprisingly Improved Sequel|Little]] [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Pill]]''. That said, even that song still has its share of people who absolutely hate its guts.

* [[Boston (band)|Boston]] were unfortunately never able to recapture the success of their self titled debut, however "''Don't Look Back''", "''Third Stage''" and "''Walk On''" have their fans. The majority, on the other hand, didn't like the darker style those albums took, so they released "''Corporate America''" in 2002, an attempt to mix the first album's style with some new elements, which is considered by even hardcore fans of the previous three albums to be a major disaster. All the songs are rushed, there are no inspiring riffs or solos or vocal melodies, the vocals are annoying and the lyrics are foolish propaganda. However, the album utterly tops itself when one reads the little "message" in the liner notes where Tom embarrasses himself (and the band) with his political agenda, providing links to environmental organizations and PETA. The album flopped and marked the downfall of the band, who haven't released another album since then, and since has ran out of print.

* [[Discharge]] are one of the most critically acclaimed [[Hardcore Punk]] bands from [[The Eighties]], but ''Grave New World'', their last album before their first breakup is considered to be a total disaster. The band had been leaning towards [[Heavy Metal]] for a while, but they went fully metal on this album (even incorporating [[Hair Metal]] elements), and they just couldn't master it. The instrumentation was messy, lead singer Cal Morris' newer high-pitched vocal style sounded stupid, the lyrics were uninspired, and the production quality was too squeaky-clean for a band of their type. They regained their brilliance with their return in 1991, but this album is often brought up in conversation between [[Discharge]] fans as a disgrace.

* ''Having Fun With Elvis On Stage'' is often considered one of the worst albums of all time. "But," you say, "[[Elvis Presley]] was a great singer and conversationalist, plus he cracked some good jokes! How can an Elvis album be here?!" Imagine an Elvis concert ''without'' said music, interesting monologues, and all the jokes that make sense. What remains is this album, a solid 35 minutes of Elvis just.....talking, with all context removed so you have no clue what he's talking about. It was a ploy by his manager to make money off him by releasing an album RCA had no rights to. Elvis was infuriated and ''humiliated'' by the album's release. One of the only positive things that can be said about it is that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDMfwKlCFzs the album has an interesting history behind it.]

* [[Emerson Lake and Palmer]] is seen as a joke in the modern age, which is sad if you're a [[Progressive Rock]] fan; but the album ''Love Beach'' is hated even by fans of the band. The album was recorded after the band had crossed the [[Despair Event Horizon]] because of their [[Hatedom]] — they were legally required to record one more album to finish their record contract. The album itself is based on disco music, the only genre hated by punks more than [[Progressive Rock]]. The album is seen by punks as an example of the corrupt studio system and by prog fans for helping to wreck the popularity of progressive rock, since it came out near when [[Deader Than Disco]] started to apply to disco. Even ''the band'' has expressed their hatred of the album.

* Waking The Cadaver's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cl5AZzvFus Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler]''. ''Beyond Cops. Beyond God'' was [[So Okay It's Average]], but this was both their [http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=177125 lowest point] and a horrendous first impression. Everyone was overly repetitive, obnoxious, or both, except for the bass, who opted to play below the threshold of human hearing. The singer sounded like a pig in mid-castration, which worsened the immature, appalling lyrics by making them incomprehensible. The opening samples were clichéd, The band could not keep time, channeled all their focus into pointless brutality, and padded the album by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y6eLBPESMI recording themselves get stoned.]

** ''Entertainment Weekly'', since about 2006, usually lists a recommended song or two from an album when doing a review, since these days you can buy any song separately. They had "None" listed for this one.

* What happens when you try to make a [[The Beach Boys|Beach Boys]] album ''without'' Brian Wilson? You get ''Summer in Paradise'', in which Mike Love embarrasses himself and the rest of the band for 12 excruciating tracks. The album's atrocities include "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Summer of Love]]", in which Mike Love comes across like [[Ephebophile|a creepy old man lecherously pining after teenage girls]], and a horrible version of the classic Dennis Wilson ballad "Forever" sung by John Stamos. Yes, ''[[Full House|that]]'' John Stamos. This is one of only two Beach Boys albums that has never been reissued (the other album being ''Still Cruisin'''). It sold fewer than 10,000 copies, and it is rumored to have sold less than a hundred copies on its release date. The album's US distributor, Navarre, went bankrupt not long after this album's release.

* [[Joe Pesci]]'s ''Vincent La Guardia Gambini Sings Just for You'' is often considered the worst comedy album ever released. After the success of ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'', he tried to cash in by writing an album based off of the titular character. First off, it shows him trying to sing in genres that are '''REALLY''' out of his league (including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4et8Dt6rco gangsta rap]), making it hard to incite laughter out of its badness. Then, the jokes fall flat. The character was funny when the lines were written by someone else, but in the hands of Pesci they come off as just plain vulgar and immature.

** Keep in mind that the gangsta rap attempt is probably [[So Bad It's Good]], but that's the only song on the album that's listenable, albeit in a goofy sort of way. It's weird that he started out as a bar singer before he started acting and '''this''' is what he gives us.

 

 

== Covers ==

* [[Apple]] and iTunes have been releasing covers of popular anime songs in conjunction with Anisong. There are 45 albums so far, and only three of them have gotten higher than 3 stars on iTunes.

** And even then, most of them are not anime songs - songs from [[Super Sentai]] series and [[Kamen Rider]] series are in the group, too! [[They Just Didn't Care]], indeed.

** Some key examples from the other 40 — Lost Sunrise, who covered "[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|Precious Time Glory Days]]" all sound congested, Kanno Yutaka and Mu-Ray provide a [[Dull Surprise|spiritless]] version of "[[One Piece|Brand New World]]", and Aya's generic techno version of "[[Haruhi Suzumiya|Koi no Mikuru Tensetsu]][[You Make Me Sic|(sic)]]" could possibly be forgiven, could she sing to save her life.

* Most of the cover songs from ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' range from okay to good, but there are two covers from ''[[Guitar Hero]] 2'' that are Horrible — [[Lamb of God]]'s "Laid to Rest" and [[Rage Against the Machine]]'s "Killing in the Name ".

** In "Laid to Rest", the singer couldn't do Randy Blythe's strange growl/scream vocals, but he tried his best; this ended up making the cover unlistenable.

** Luckily, the originals of all three songs are present in ''[[Guitar Hero]]: Smash Hits'', which kind of remedied the horror of the cover versions.

** The cover of "Police Truck" by [[Dead Kennedys]] in ''Rocks the '80s'' is censored so much that it ruins the song, destroys its original meaning, and gives it more [[Painful Rhyme|painful rhymes]] than the original. For instance, the word "ass" is changed to "butt" in the line "Pull down your dress/It's a kick in the ass".

** The cover of "[[Nirvana|Heart Shaped Box]]", in which the singer attempts to mimic Kurt Cobain's grungy voice, which, you guessed it, makes it unlistenable. To its credit, the solo is extended, and it sounds cool. Shame it wasn't in the original.

** ''[[Rock Band]]'', which was made by Harmonix, who made the first three main games and ''Rocks The 80s'', has some covers in its setlist. Some of them sound just like the real thing, but there some awful covers too. The cover of [[Rush]]'s songs "Tom Sawyer" (in the first game), "Limelight", and "Working Man" (both of which are downloadable) all sound like they were sung by a woman with peanut butter stuck to the roof of her mouth. The cover of YYZ in the ''Guitar Hero 2'' is listenable since it's an instrumental. Thankfully, all of these songs were replaced with original versions ("Working Man" with a Vault Version with a different solo).

* ''Barnyard Beatles'' is an album of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]' greatest hits with the vocals barked by dogs (yes, like in those Christmas albums) and the instrumentals done through samplings of cats, sheep, and chickens. The only thing that can make "I Am The Walrus" suck is hearing it sound like a gang of serial animal rapists invading the county fair.

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wvfexq8gldse~T2 The Countdown Singers], an anonymous band of musicians from Quebec who perform sound-alike covers of popular tunes. They exist only as [[Schmuck Bait]] for people who think they're getting a good deal by getting 20 different songs on the same disc. These cover artists are basically personality-free jingle singers trying to sound like the original artist against a backing of drum machines and keyboards. Allmusic has given this series 1-2 stars with remarkable consistency, and the ones that have text reviews give an even better taste of how sucky the covers are:

* This "remix" of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'s'' "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHOvUVhWFi0&feature=related Equestria Girls]". It's identical to the actual song, but with an instrumental of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uYt3hEmAtE Cutie Mark Crusaders theme] playing under it - little to no attempt is made to ensure the two harmonize or even have the same tempo.

* [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] did a cover of I Found Out by John Lennon for the tribute album Working Class Hero in 1996. The whole band sound completely bored on it and the production is much worse than their usual output. It is the only song they have contributed to a compilation that was not released elsewhere, and the band quickly disowned it.

** The answer to this is [[Hijacked by Jesus]] gone corporate: Jump5 was just an attempt to make [[Totally Radical|"hip" music]] for Christian listeners, and the lyrics for the song are [[Alternate Aesop Interpretation|able to be interpreted in such a way]] as to fit a modern Christian worldview.

* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Revisited]] album contains some kickass remixes of the movie's original soundtrack.... except for Jack's Obsession, which was covered by [[Sparklehorse]] (by no means a bad band... usually). Not only does it not match the mood of the album AT ALL, but the singer sounds tone deaf as well. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6nbDHEwzc Listen at your own risk.]

* Ex-gay porn actor Colton Ford did a shamelessly awful cover of Lithium by [[Nirvana]] in 2009. He transformed a tongue in cheek humorous tune into an emotionless, almost borderline depressing dance tune. He strains his vocals to the point where one would get alcohol poisoning from a drinking game that involved taking a shot every time he strains his vocals, and the electric guitar in the chorus can barely keep up with the already butchered tempo. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4WuA0up3NU Approach with caution].

* If there ever was a fast way to take a classic hard rock song and [[Ruined FOREVER|ruin it forever]], letting a diva famous for her soothing ballads perform a cover version of it would be one of the most efficient methods to do so. Case in point: Celine Dion covered [[ACDC]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niTEkP-6eo You Shook Me All Night Long]". With Anastacia, to boot. Just the thought, let alone sight, of Celine trying to act like she's in any way credible as a rock singer should already be shameful enough.

** And once you've seen that, wash it down with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtuGMHWAf0 Shania Twain] version.

* [http://www.youtube.com/user/RasputinsVision Rasputins Vision], a band who gained some notoriety on [[YouTube]] for their godawful covers of various professional wrestling themes, most of which can be seen on [http://www.youtube.com/user/WorstWrestlingThemes this] channel. Their non-wrestling song covers aren't much better, either.

 

 

== Musicians ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Sb14dyaUc Lisa Gail Allred], a country "singer" from Texas who hilariously boasts that she sounds like [[Shania Twain]] and [[Faith Hill]], and not like a frog with strep throat. If you're brave enough, listen to Allred [http://www.reverbnation.com/lisagailallred slaughter her way through Patsy Cline's "Blue"] and another song called "Your Easy On The Eyes".<ref>Note the misspelled "Your"</ref>

* [http://www.facebook.com/BlackOutKids Black Out Band] was [[Little Boy Blue Note|a band of preteens]] who didn't seem to understand how to make music. They don't seem to care about the sound or the quality. They have expensive guitars and equipment most garage bands would love to own (courtesy of their loaded parents, all blatant [[Stage Mom]]s), but can't play. The singer is off-key and sounds completely wasted despite being around twelve years old.

* Enmity, an American [[Death Metal]] / [[Grindcore]] band that sought to push the already extreme genres to their logical [[Department of Redundancy Department|extreme]]. They sacrifice all genuine musicianship for brutality and speed. To most, it sounds like the aural equivalent of shitting out a chainsaw, To the rest, it just sounds like a broken lawnmower, but to everyone, less than five of their tracks ''don't'' sound exactly like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfYdjmyE0zs this.]

** Believe it or not, [[Sincerity Mode|there's vocals in there]]! But you have to listen really well (or look at the comments) to realise it. [[Memetic Mutation|Quoted For Truth]]:

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70cLwxuGJ74 Girls With Attitude.] [[Creepy Child|Preteen girls who sound like they're on the verge of dying]] singing/talking about preteen life, backed by a bored-sounding synth so off-key and off-tempo that it sounds like it's from an entirely different song. They could be a modern version of The Shaggs if they had any of the charm.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE2l6CPna4M Jan Terri.] Her music will make you want to run screaming into traffic. She's tonedeaf as hell, her lyrics are like that of a 12-year-old girl, her music videos are boring as hell, and she just doesn't realize just how untalented she is. The best thing to happen to her was [[Marilyn Manson]] feeling sorry for her and letting her open for one of his gigs. Besides that, she's usually forgotten... well, except the occasional person on the internet that makes fun of her videos.

* Melbourne-based "Rapper" [http://www.youtube.com/user/RAE2THEMOTHERFUCKEND R.A.E.D.] has drawn scorn from an enormous amount of people, many of whom argue that his output doesn't even qualify as music. Why? Because it consists of cheap, pre-programmed beats that often seem to change direction abruptly and for no reason, over which R.A.E.D. spouts a nearly incoherent mess of lyrics that seem to be improvised on the spot and stumbled over to catch up to the background music, and display no consistent rhyme scheme, if there's any at all. This, combined with his occasional rebuttals of critical comments, in posts consisting of a virtually indecipherable medley of expletives and bizarre colloquialisms, has led some to believe he may be insane, and the worst part of all is that they're not even the only reasons—in 2001 he called in a bomb threat to a casino.

* [http://www.myspace.com/savagerocksyou Savage], a solo artist who tries to display himself as a "band", is probably the worst thing to ever come out of 80s [[Hair Metal]]. He hires session musicians to record the boring background music and then sings incredibly off-key, making the music even more unbearable. To make matters worse, his "band" pictures are literally pictures of famous bands where he photoshopped his own face onto another band member's head. He often reviews his own self-produced albums and puts names of famous musicians down in place of the name.

* Daniel Smith is to bassoonists what Florence Foster Jenkins is to singers... Only minus the [[So Bad It's Good]] quality. His own website contains rave review quotes, but don't let that fool you. Many think they're fake or they're for projects that he only played a minor role in. He's notorious for his lack of real tone. He may play the correct notes, but he lacks so much rhythm and articulation that he's very likely to send even the most energetic person to sleep. He also has at least one positive review on his Amazon.com albums that give a suspicious 5-star rating in the comparison of 1 or 2 star reviews of everyone else. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0WCx1IcE4 Here's a nice little sample of his Jazz work.] His classical work is somehow even '''worse'''.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKiBzcBTjU Thrash Queen], easily the worst possible start for all-girl thrash with one of the most god-awful heavy metal albums under their belt. Strangely, their label ''still'' attempted to cash in on their name with a bunch of session musicians; the quality's [[So Bad It's Good|better]].

 

== Performances ==

* Garage bands are always terrible until proven otherwise, but there are few who manage to rupture the space-time continuum with their awfulness. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc This band] is one of the few. Watch at your own risk.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jg5pjvwjw These guys] might even be worse.

** You know you're bad when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITKWhfpgHpE the lead singer of the band you're covering criticises you!]

* "The Star-Spangled Banner" is widely considered one of the most difficult national anthems to sing. There are two reasons why: the song's tune was adapted from that of a ''drinking song'' and the lyrics came from a poem that wasn't meant to be sung. It's often a miracle when the singer ''doesn't'' find a way to mangle it. However, there are some that have utterly failed in their performances of it:

** [[Christina Aguilera]] has proven—twice—that the US National Anthem just isn't her bag:

*** She did more of the same during Super Bowl XLV. This time, she ''changed the melody to show off her pipes and botched some of the lyrics.'' [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]]; through the whole thing, she sounded either gratingly off-key or borderline asthmatic. Watch the train wreck of a performance [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB61wXKROtw here.]

** John Michael Montgomery's 2005 Atlanta NASCAR Nextel Cup race performance. He was suffering from acoustic neuroma (an inner-ear nerve condition) at the time, which meant that not only was he off-key, he was perpetually off-balance. He didn't even remove his hat. Many fans thought that he was drunk.

* After Harry Caray passed away, the Cubs started using guest celebrities to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the Seventh-Inning Stretch at Wrigley Field. Quite a few have been extremely bad — Mike Ditka's version was probably the first to gain infamy for its awfulness; Jeff Gordon, Tony Romo, and Denise Richards have also turned in horrendous renditions. Even being a professional musician doesn't guarantee you'll do a good version — [[Ozzy Osbourne]]'s performance is one of the worst of the lot.

* The [[wikipedia:Altamont Free Concert|Altamont Free Concert]], dubbed "Woodstock West", was headlined and organized by [[The Rolling Stones]] and featured many of the big rock bands of '60s counterculture America, but, well... let's just cut to the chase and say that four people ''died'', one of whom had to be stabbed by security<ref>All of whom were ''Hell's Angels''</ref> to keep him from shooting Mick Jagger. Said security also knocked out [[Jefferson Airplane|Marty Balin]] during his band's set. [[The Grateful Dead]], who co-organized the concert and appointed the security, ''fled the concert out of fear''. In contrast to the "peace and love" atmosphere of Woodstock, Altamont came to symbolize the death of [[The Sixties]].

* [[Ashlee Simpson]]'s performances on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' on the season 30 episode hosted by Jude Law <ref>Ashlee would later perform on the season 31 episode hosted by Jon Heder, a.k.a ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]],'' without incident</ref> and at the [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6791368/ Orange Bowl] in 2004, revealed the ugly truth about her lip-synching. It's painful to listen to those performances. They're the most notoriously terrible live performances of the decade, especially the ''SNL'' one. On SNL, she starts doing an awkward hoe-down and then leaves the stage while the band plays and the show cuts to commercial.

* The 1952 Broadway musical revue ''Two's Company'' starred [[Bette Davis]], who made her entrance singing "just turn me loose on Broadway as a musical comedy star" despite her demonstrated lack of singing and dancing skills. Though the show was a flop it left behind an original cast album, and the tracks featuring Bette Davis are often painful to listen to.

* [[Britney Spears]]' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39CNHc-U6sM performance] at the 2007 [[MTV]] Music Video Awards. She's lip-synching (she always did that), and this time it's obvious. Her dancing is terribly choreographed — she moves as if she has crippling arthritis. It might have been better if she had foregone the dancing and sung for real. Her costume was absolutely unflattering.

* [[Creed]]'s December '02 concert in Chicago. Scott Stapp had downed a bottle of whiskey beforehand. It reacted strongly with the medication he was already taking for a throat infection, dooming the show to failure. He mumbled along to five or so songs, then decided to take a nap. When he realized he hadn't performed a full set, he showed up again, and continued singing—completely independent of the band—before passing out onstage. Unsurprisingly, it was a key contributor to their 2003 break-up and got the band in a lot of legal trouble.

** Also related to the ''Real Housewives'' — "Don't Be Tardy For The Party".

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xClozVzbQDs Google Me]". '''[[Kill It with Fire]]!'''

* [[William Shatner]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWOmHUvKBw covering Harry Chapin's "Taxi"] on ''The Dinah Shore Show'' circa 1973 (yes, that's a timecode). Even by ''his'' standards, it's awful.

* [[wikipedia:Woodstock 1999|Woodstock 1999]] ranks next to the Altamont disaster (see above) as one of the most notorious mass live events in America, and disgraced its namesake by going completely against [[Woodstock|its spirit]]. One can't fault the lineup for what happened—the event featured most of the popular rock artists and singer-songwriters of [[The Nineties]], and their sets ranged from good to great. However, it was horrendously planned—it was staged in an outdoor venue with over 100-degree heat; outside food and drink was forbidden (made worse by the [[Money, Dear Boy|blatant price gouging]]); toilet facilities were insufficient and [[Squick|broke in little time]]; environmental issues plagued the show (it was held at a closed-down Air Force base which was ''officially determined to contain hazardous materials''), and through [[Your Mileage May Vary|debated means]] (some blame Fred Durst of [[Limp Bizkit]], noting his angry speech to the crowd and [[Tempting Fate|his band's performance of "Break Stuff"]], while others blame [[Kid Rock]]'s set), the crowd grew violent and spun out of control. By the end, there was mass arson, bonfires, burglary, looting, ATM and property destruction, and allegations of gang-rape. [[Red Hot Chili Peppers|Anthony Kiedis]] compared it to ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. [[MTV]] evacuated its entire crew from the premises for fear of their safety, and the New York State Police had to be called in to clean up the mess. The parties involved wound up learning the hard way [[Franchise Killer|what they're most likely never doing again]].

 

== Songs ==

* The decision about whether to build a new Islamic center near what was once the World Trade Center ("Ground Zero") is one of heated debate, and inspired some god-awful songs from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQBrTROj2w either] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mywb_ZfwEzI side] of the issue.

* A general rule: Youtube will usually have the worst of the bunch:

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dJonNLu6U This girl.] That is, unless the video is a joke.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB1KJbAh1XU This strapping young songstress.]

* ''"This song is bad. Not [[So Bad It's Good]], and not [[Michael Jackson]] 'Bad'. Just plain bad."'' That's ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' regarding the ill-conceived 1985 charity single "[http://io9.com/5473162/doctor-in-distress--the-worst-charity-single-of-all-time-and-space Doctor In Distress]". You can practically hear the show's last remaining scrap of dignity being wrenched away.

* Heidi Montag strikes again, this time with her single "Higher". [http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Heidi_Montag_s__Higher_.aspx This] is [[Heroic BSOD|what happens]] when [[The Agony Booth]] gets exposed to it.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQrrlJm5bQ This Italian song titled "I'm Horny".] The female singer's English is appalling. When she sings "I'm horny horny" it sounds like "I'm Ernie Ernie" instead, adding a pinch of [[Narm]] to wash down all the suck. (get it?) According to several translations, the Italian lyrics are just as bad:

* "[[The Kersal Massive]]" — the song begins "Got on the bus wi' ma' daysavah / smoked a reefa in da cornah", before decaying into a rhythmless [[Cluster F-Bomb]] and a caustic (or not) [[Take That]] against the town of Levenshulme, not to mention the rather pointless [[Garfunkel]] "Ginger Joe", whose only contribution to the song is "yeah man, yeah man".

** In 2010, a few brave Englishmen doing a televised countdown of the Top 50 Viral Videos tracked down the aforementioned "Ginger Joe" and asked him a few questions about the video. Turns out it was an entry for a competition of some kind and [[Everybody Must Get Stoned|they were all as high as a kite]] while making it.

* Jenna Rose's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DwT_2QQU64 "My Jeans"]. She sings about this pair of jeans she wants and that apparently every celebrity wears, throwing in anecdotes about her "swag" and how Celebrities "wore those jeans just like me". Her voice is so [[Auto-Tune]]d that it's enough to make you wonder if she even sang on it, with the beat often overpowering her voice. In addition, there's the [[A Wild Rapper Appears|token rap]] in the middle.

* Brian Wilson's (yes, the one from [[The Beach Boys]]) song "Smart Girls", released only as a radio promo, in which Brian ''raps'' over samples from many of his earlier hits. The results are...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0SnpN_O00 sad.]

* Though a lot of Jakalope's music would end up [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|on the other end of the scale]], many of their fans agreed that "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2w4BdFpUf0 Witness]" just wasn't up to that standard.

* What happens when [[Lea Michele]] is possessed by [[Nicki Minaj]], who in turn is possessed by a middle-aged crack whore? You get Shira's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QPR3vHoDvE Pound On My Muffin]", an amazing trainwreck of a song that is about as sexy as [[Nausea Fuel|your grandma's autopsy]]. To top it all off, there isn't a single [[What Happened to the Mouse?|muffin]] to be found in the video.

 

== Soundtracks ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsT2FiajyLQ Pirated] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSIS1u4F0ME video] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBKW0kDHIQ games] are keen on horrible video game music.

* ''Action52'' has several. "Crazy Shuf(f)le" is one of the most prominent, but also notable are "And They Came/Beeps N' Blips" and "Operation Moon".

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2S2_kLodIc main theme] of ''Adventures of Rad Gravity''. There are no words, except perhaps [[The Scream|AAAAAARRRRRGH!]].

* The title music for the [[ZX Spectrum]] game ''Automania'' is probably one of the most cacophonous video game soundtracks ever made. [[Schmuck Bait|Here it is:]] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Iw48KyJz8 (by the way, it's the improved 128K version, in the 48K version only the tune you hear in the title screen was played, incessantly, for the entire game.)

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZOiIjRZmmk Do It!! Do It!!]" by Ryutaro Nakahara (known for speedy happy hardcore) under the pseudonym Kraken. Definitely one of the worst songs ever to come to ''[[Beatmania IIDX]]''. Fortunately, the album version is ''much'' better.

* From ''Dian Shi Ma Li'' — [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1mAPISOzw PUSH START TO RICH].

* The ''[[DJMAX]]'' series brings us "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnO0VxZLeeE Para Q]", universally loathed by fans. To add insult to injury, on ''DJMAX Technika'''s Core Sound course, it's one of the three songs you ''have'' to pick if you want an optimal score. Thankfully, the song was one of a few to be cut from ''Technika 2''.

* Along with the cover tracks mentioned above, the ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' series has had its share of bad original music. When the franchise was still in Harmonix's hands, the developers would create the games' bonus track lists by scouring the company's ranks for talents who wanted their bands' music in the game, since nearly everyone in the company is a musician on the side. Thanks to [[Sturgeon's Law]], this means that the bonus track lists are laden with both hits (like the Freezepop songs) and misses. The most notorious misses are the bonus tracks "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BOMnIK8Kuk Red Lottery]" and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1VIpxCL4Lc Yes We Can]" (both from ''Guitar Hero II''), songs that are not only repetitive, monotonous, and boring to play but also painful to listen to, so much so that you would rather mute the TV and listen to the clacking of your guitar controller.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzBdpO-whM Visions] from ''Rock Band 2'' is just as annoying to listen to as it is [[That One Level|to play]].

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzMdR6i9vXE I Spy Challenger]'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. It's probably the worst non-glitchy music. It lacks all originality, has virtually no melody, and loops over and over until your brains explode. Worse are the annoying sound effects, which verge on ear rape.

* Too many themes from educational ''Mario'' games fall straight into this. Seriously, listen to the music from ''Mario Teaches Typing'' or ''Mario's Early Years''. It's torture on the ears. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQbxoOxxNiE "Mario Teaches Typing" music (with extremely annoying typing sounds)] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMGDXM7OV8 "Mario's Early Years" music.] The latter should also be under [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad Its Horrible]] voice acting...

* An example that likely would've gone unheard of in this day and age had it not been for [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJAh0SlTS8 this] piece of "music" from the NES port of ''Winter Games''.

* ''[[Where's Waldo|The Great Waldo Search]]'' for the NES may be [[Surprisingly Improved Sequel|an improvement]] over its predecessor, ''Where's Waldo'', but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Whaqp8RdA its background music is atrocious]. ''Where's Waldo'', [[So Bad It's Horrible/Video Games|as terrible as it was in its own right]], at least had the benefit of having [[The Elder Scrolls|Julian LeFay]] as its composer.

 

* While it is debatable which version of "[[Dragon Ball Kai|Dragon Soul]]" is better (between [[Sean Schemmel]] and [[Vic Mignogna]], and sometimes [[Subbing vs. Dubbing|Takayoshi Tanimoto]]), hardly anyone would argue that they're at least better than the version sung by [[Justin Cook]]. [[Superlative Dubbing|He's a brilliant voice actor]] but a mediocre singer, and seems to be doing a bad impersonation of [[The Wallflowers|Jakob Dylan]].

 

 

== Other ==

** Each song's passage about it is even less informative and descriptive (For example, the whole piece on "This Is Why I'm Hot" by MIMS is, "First off, he repeats 'This is why I'm hot' too much. Second, [[Department of Redundancy Department|he repeats 'This is why I'm hot' too much]].");

** The list, in addition to [[Sarcasm Mode|Blender's old favorites]] mentioned below, is larded with:

*** ...and ridiculous novelty songs ("The Fast Food Song", "Disco Duck", "Convoy", "The Macarena") culled just for the sake of padding;

** The author completely [[Bias Steamroller|lets his preferences for Queen, Rick James, Stevie Wonder and Joan Jett shine through]] in certain passages;

** What they like makes little sense, also. They called ''Wichita Lineman'' the best song ever, which most of Jimmy Webb's fans wouldn't exactly call his best, and listed ''[[Britney Spears|Baby One More Time]]'' in the top 10 of The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born.

** Even when they recruited [[VH-1]] to help out with their lists, it still didn't help matters much: Their "50 Most Awesomely Bad Metal Songs" list included ''Three Little Pigs'' by Green Jelly (a ''parody'' that ''states it's a parody at the end'') and ''[[Insane Clown Posse|Tilt-A-Whirl]]'', which isn't even in the right ''genre'' of music.

** ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' was named one of the 50 Worst Things To Happen To Music (because it influenced progressive rock and concept albums), along with "[[Unfortunate Implications|non-fake lesbians]]". [[Sarcasm Mode|Way to play it classy, guys.]]

** A [[Something Awful]] [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/music-magazines.php review of music magazines] picked up an indie magazine just to avoid reviewing ''Blender''. Make of that what you want.

*** Also, NIN plays ''industrial'' rock, not indie rock. [[I Am the Band|Moreover, it's not a they]].

 

* The stars of ''[[Miami Vice]]'' both bombed horribly when they attempted solo music careers, and their music videos were no exception:

** Don Johnson's "Heartbeat" was originally part of an hour-long HBO special. Focusing on a cameraman (Johnson) who goes to South America to document civil warfare, the special still doesn't make much sense, as each segment of the special was backed by a song from Johnson's album. Taken by itself, "Heartbeat" is a confusing mess of random images and scenes, along with Johnson painfully overacting every lyric. There's a reason why this special has never been released, and "Heartbeat" is the triggerpoint. When MTV did a "worst videos ever" special ("25 Lame") in 1999, this was the video that "topped" the list.

** "Just The Way I Planned It" by Philip Michael Thomas premiered on the VHS release of his seminal film "Death Drug", and by all accounts it's still hard to decide which one's worse. "Just The Way I Planned It" featured an inexplicable concept (PMT stands on top of a pyramid and dances like a robot while getting groped by backup dancers), cheap special effects (even for the 80's) and lyrics that didn't match the video in any way, shape or form. It should be noted that Thomas' CD (of the same name) was released at the zenith of ''Vice'''s popularity, and it ''still'' flopped.

* Jenna Rose's "O.M.G" was a considerable step up from "My Jeans." The video, however, is utterly reprehensible, given her age. From the opening crawl "Starring Jenna Rose as the Teen Boom-Boom Doll," you know what it's going to be from the start—three lengthy, unsettling minutes of 12-year-old Jenna being portrayed as sex symbol. On top of that is the apathetic acting (the lipsync hardly tries to be convincing, and the backup dancers appear at points to really not want to be there) and a lighting technician who has no idea what he's doing.

* [[Eddie Murphy]] and [[Michael Jackson]]'s 1993 collaboration "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK-psc7CJi8&p=EE0957A674DABA48&playnext=1&index=3 Whatzupwitu]" made its way to the number three position on the MTV "25 Lame" list. Jackson had not yet been tainted by career-destroying scandal when this arrived, and Murphy had managed a pop hit with "Party All the Time" in [[The Eighties]], yet this ''still'' wasn't a hit. It's been compared to [[David Bowie]] and Mick Jagger's "Dancing in the Street" video due to its copious amounts of [[Homoerotic Subtext]], but while that was [[So Bad It's Good]] (at worst), this just pairs a bland song with visuals that aren't even unintentionally amusing or warped.