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# When considering music for this list, do some research and see if the album/band has had an important role in the development of something else. For example, Lou Reed's ''Metal Machine Music'', despite being critically panned, helped form [[Noise Rock]] and [[Shoegazing]], along with being considered the [[Ur Example]] of Noise Music. John Lennon and Yoko Ono are also spared, as they are a major influence on the avant-garde.

# 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.)

# 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 ==

* Not even the most hardcore [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian]] fans of [[Alanis Morissette]] will defend her two early albums, ''Alanis'' and ''Now is the Time'', which were released only in Canada and may very well be the real-life inspiration for [[How I Met Your Mother|Robin Sparkles]]. The former is an album of trite Debbie Gibson/Tiffany knockoffs that would have even [[~~Kesha (Music)|~~Kesha]] rolling her eyes, with her vocals sounding like a very bad [[Sean Connery]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBgGiwtaCrU impression]. The latter is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tta6hbDVh2M hilariously lame attempt at Adult Contemporary], with lyrics so contrived and cheesy that [[Michael Bolton]] would laugh just reading them, and which flopped badly and deservedly. Both albums are out of print and have never been rereleased, and Alanis herself regards this phase of her career as an [[Old Shame]], often [[Self-Deprecation|making fun of it]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWwd7fwTt8 at concerts]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7afdfBHj4 Have a listen,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enNeARK3_zg&feature=related if you dare.]

* Not even the most hardcore [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian]] fans of [[Alanis Morissette]] will defend her two early albums, ''Alanis'' and ''Now is the Time'', which were released only in Canada and may very well be the real-life inspiration for [[How I Met Your Mother|Robin Sparkles]]. The former is an album of trite Debbie Gibson/Tiffany knockoffs that would have even [[Kesha]] rolling her eyes, with her vocals sounding like a very bad [[Sean Connery]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBgGiwtaCrU impression]. The latter is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tta6hbDVh2M hilariously lame attempt at Adult Contemporary], with lyrics so contrived and cheesy that [[Michael Bolton]] would laugh just reading them, and which flopped badly and deservedly. Both albums are out of print and have never been rereleased, and Alanis herself regards this phase of her career as an [[Old Shame]], often [[Self-Deprecation|making fun of it]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWwd7fwTt8 at concerts]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7afdfBHj4 Have a listen,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enNeARK3_zg&feature=related if you dare.]

** "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 (~~Music~~)|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.

* [[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.

* Even the few fans of [[Crunkcore]] outfit [[~~Broken~~ ~~CYDE~~]] have practically no love for 2007's ''[http://www.somethingawful.com/garbage-day/brokencyde-freaxxx-bree.php The Broken]'', which attempted [[Serious Business|to paint the group as serious artists]]. The album was filled with Brokencyde trying to rap and layered with acoustic guitars, with no hint of partying or fun in the music. The album is now out of print (natch), but it has a lot of [[Unfortunate Implications]] — namely, that the band is now a [[Parody Retcon]].

* Even the few fans of [[Crunkcore]] outfit [[Broke NCYDE]] have practically no love for 2007's ''[http://www.somethingawful.com/garbage-day/brokencyde-freaxxx-bree.php The Broken]'', which attempted [[Serious Business|to paint the group as serious artists]]. The album was filled with Brokencyde trying to rap and layered with acoustic guitars, with no hint of partying or fun in the music. The album is now out of print (natch), but it has a lot of [[Unfortunate Implications]] — namely, that the band is now a [[Parody Retcon]].

* [[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 (Music)|~~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.

* [[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.

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* Kevin Federline, aka K-Fed, second husband of pop diva [[Britney Spears]], released an album called ''Playing With Fire''. [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/federlinekevin/playingwithfire The album was critically panned] and currently [http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/ holds the lowest score in the history of Metacritic with 15 out of 100.]

** ''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 ~~(Music)~~|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.

* 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.

* After the [[Shoegazing]] fad folded in the mid 90s, many bands made a failed attempt to adapt to [[Britpop]]. Perhaps no other attempt is more pathetic than [[Ride]]. After the release of two acclaimed and popular Shoegazing albums, the band attempted a [[Genre Shift]] with ''Carnival Of Light'' which is [[So Okay It's Average|average]] and has its fans, but their fourth album, ''Tarantula'', proved the band had just lost interest in trying to adapt altogether. Two of the members were feuding for control over songwriting, causing the already stressful conditions of recording the album to become unbearable. ''And it shows'', as the album has boring songs padded with the band's sad attempts to make "popular" music. Had the band attempted to stick with [[Shoegazing]] they may not have sold well, but they definitely would have kept their dignity.

* Cryptopsy's 2008 album ''The Unspoken King.'' Within a month of its release, there were 15 reviews on Metal Archives with an average rating of ''eight percent''. A botched [[Genre Adultery]] ([[Technical Death Metal]] to [[Deathcore]]) got them accused of [[Jumping the Shark]], but if it had other problems: the production was bad, the songwriting trite, Lord Worm was ''replaced,'' and the clean sections were ''damningly'' off-key.

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* [[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 ~~(Light Novel)~~|Koi no Mikuru Tensetsu]][[You Make Me Sic|(sic)]]" could possibly be forgiven, could she sing to save her life.

** 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.

** There's a collection of songs released in this group focused specifically on the ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' franchise. If a song title has "Precure" listed, it's spelled [[Spell My Name ~~With~~ an "S"|"Purecure"]]. Of the most painful of the bunch is Cao's rendition of [[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|"Makasete! Splash Star"]] and Mami's (no, not [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|that one]]) rendition of [[Heartcatch Precure|"Tomorrow Song ~Ashita no Uta~"]]

** There's a collection of songs released in this group focused specifically on the ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' franchise. If a song title has "Precure" listed, it's spelled [[Spell My Name with an "S"|"Purecure"]]. Of the most painful of the bunch is Cao's rendition of [[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|"Makasete! Splash Star"]] and Mami's (no, not [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|that one]]) rendition of [[Heartcatch Precure|"Tomorrow Song ~Ashita no Uta~"]]

* 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 (Music)|~~Lamb of God]]'s "Laid to Rest" and [[~~Rage Against the Machine (Music)|~~Rage Against the Machine]]'s "Killing in the Name ".

* 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.

** In "Killing in the Name", the singer sounds nothing like Zack de la Rocha, and sounds like he's really bored. And because of censorship to avoid the dreaded M rating, the [[Cluster F-Bomb]] at the end of the song was replaced by "You're under con, trol I won't do what you tell me!" (the typo is deliberate) and "UNDER CONTROOOLLLLL!!!!".

** The cover of [[~~Avenged Sevenfold (Music)|~~Avenged Sevenfold]]'s "Beast and the Harlot." The vocals are somewhat off-beat, and whoever sang this cover was obviously bored while making it, so he fails to sound anything like M. Shadows. The instrumentation sucks too; the awesome feel of the original is gone.

** The cover of [[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s "Beast and the Harlot." The vocals are somewhat off-beat, and whoever sang this cover was obviously bored while making it, so he fails to sound anything like M. Shadows. The instrumentation sucks too; the awesome feel of the original is gone.

** 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 (Music)|~~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 "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 [[~~Iron Maiden (Music)|~~Iron Maiden]]'s "Wrathchild" from ''Rocks the 80s'' is worth a mention too. The singer sounds like nasal and lhe has asphalt in his voice box in a lame attempt at emulating Di'Anno's rasp, the bass line is messed up, and the solo is almost entirely wrong.

** The cover of [[Iron Maiden]]'s "Wrathchild" from ''Rocks the 80s'' is worth a mention too. The singer sounds like nasal and lhe has asphalt in his voice box in a lame attempt at emulating Di'Anno's rasp, the bass line is messed up, and the solo is almost entirely wrong.

*** On the topic of bad Iron Maiden covers from video games, [[GH 2]] has the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma3bNNnOLnU cover of The Trooper], where the guitars are in severe miscommunication with each other and all the fun feel of the Maiden tune has been sucked out, making it sound almost depressing. And the singer sounds like he has a severe vowel pronouncing problem in addition to sounding like he has peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FUSG8K7D2s Rock Band cover of Number of the Beast] has almost the same result, except the drums sound like cardboard boxes in addition. At least it sounds a bit livelier, though.

** The cover of "Turning Japanese" on that game, which is so off-tune that it makes the song ''harder to play''.

** The cover of "[[Nirvana ~~(Music)~~|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.

** 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 (Music)|~~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).

** ''[[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).

** Speaking of ''Rock Band'', sometimes Harmonix can't find the master tracks of the songs, so they have to get a re-recording. Some of these are okay, but many of them suck, due to the age of the members. We present to you, the re-recording of Nazareth's "Hair Of The Dog". (I'm putting it here since they're essentially covering themselves.)

** Speaking of rhythm games, 99% of [[Rock Revolution]]'s setlist is comprised of covers. Most of these qualify for this trope. For one example, the cover of System of a Down's "Chop Suey". The guitar is messed up, and vocals sound NOTHING like Serj's distinctively Armenian voice.

* [[~~Duran Duran (Music)|~~Duran Duran]]'s horrendous cover of [[~~Public Enemy (Music)|~~Public Enemy]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_BgzSDQNk "911 Is A Joke"]. Their rapping lacks soul.

* [[Duran Duran]]'s horrendous cover of [[Public Enemy]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_BgzSDQNk "911 Is A Joke"]. Their rapping lacks soul.

* ''Barnyard Beatles'' is an album of [[The Beatles (~~Music~~)|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.

* ''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:

{{quote| "Consumers need to check the fine print on the back of these cheap-o compilations or undergo disappointment when they play it. Since all of these tracks can easily be found in their original form on other compilations, steer clear of this!"}}

* This "remix" of ''[[~~My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|~~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.

* 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 (Music)|~~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.

* [[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.

* [http://www.we7.com/song/Jump5/Ive-Got-The-Music-In-Me?m=0 Jump5's woeful attempt to cover "I've Got the Music in Me"], popularized by Kiki Dee et al. — [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWdhqv-LFV4 Here's Kiki's version (the good one)]... and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgmc6xgqP48 here's Jump5's awful abortion.]

** 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 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.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dQ8qRR9N-Pc The Worst Metal Cover Band In Existence]. They cover very short snippets of a variety of famous metal songs, ''very'' badly; almost unwatchable due to its cringeworthiness.

* [[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 (Music)|~~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].

* 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].

* [[William Shatner]]'s cover of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcPxrjmZ_Dk Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]", voted the worst Beatles cover of all time. Asked what one song he would choose to bring with him if marooned on a deserted island, [[George Clooney]] picked this, saying "If you listen to [this song], you will hollow out your own leg and make a canoe out of it to get off this island."

* Deathcore band Dr. Acula's cover of Wiz Khalifa's "No Sleep." It takes everything that was fun about the original and kills it. Listen to the abomination [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDaRf26srXU here].

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* Kelly Osbourne's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUb5JihqZZQ cover] of [[Madonna]]'s ''Papa Don't Preach''. The synth and strings that made the song so iconic are replaced with a pop punk backing with drums that sound like garbage cans, which are also tuned way too high. Furthermore, Kelly's voice is so nasal and cracks every time she hits a high note, throwing in a dash of [[Narm]]. It almost makes you wonder if Madonna herself wrote a response song called "Daughter Don't Sing".

* ConicTeamTV's cover of [[Michael Jackson]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBjh2TXtcMo Smooth Criminal]," which speaks for itself. [[Fan Dumb|On another level of embarrassment]], the "[[Talking to Himself|background singers]]" are supposed to be [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] and company.

* [[~~Guns N' Roses (Music)|~~Guns N' Roses]] "Sweet Child O' Mine" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpfT-Yhi6Wg as covered by an unnamed Brazilian band.]

* [[Guns N' Roses]] "Sweet Child O' Mine" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpfT-Yhi6Wg as covered by an unnamed Brazilian band.]

* Suicide Silence's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E5y3FeYBzc cover] of "Them Bones" by [[~~Alice in Chains (Music)|~~Alice in Chains]]. Guitars can't follow the time signature change from the original, while the solo is butchered and out-of-tune. And as for the eerie vocal harmonies the original song was built around, they're ruined by what sounds like [[Donald Duck]] being sodomized by a wolverine.

* Suicide Silence's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E5y3FeYBzc cover] of "Them Bones" by [[Alice in Chains]]. Guitars can't follow the time signature change from the original, while the solo is butchered and out-of-tune. And as for the eerie vocal harmonies the original song was built around, they're ruined by what sounds like [[Donald Duck]] being sodomized by a wolverine.

* Nelly Furtado, who is by no means a bad musician, managed to record in 2010 a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0hKk4YHXo wholly unredeemable cover] of the [[~~Rush (Music)|~~Rush]] classic ''Time Stand Still''. The prog-rock instrumentals of the original are replaced with a synth track that sounds like it's coming out of a Super Nintendo, and her vocals are auto-tuned to the point where she sounds like a chipmunk. She sounds like she's trying harder to be René la Taupe than Rush.

* Nelly Furtado, who is by no means a bad musician, managed to record in 2010 a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0hKk4YHXo wholly unredeemable cover] of the [[Rush]] classic ''Time Stand Still''. The prog-rock instrumentals of the original are replaced with a synth track that sounds like it's coming out of a Super Nintendo, and her vocals are auto-tuned to the point where she sounds like a chipmunk. She sounds like she's trying harder to be René la Taupe than Rush.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca8Um4KXamU Blog27's version] of Alexia's 1997 hit, ''Uh la la la'' sounds like an entire bag of cats being strangled. Seemingly underage dancers in their miniskirts [[Bare Your Midriff|baring their midriffs]] is also hard to watch.

* Katie Price and Peter Andre's shameless butchering of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8na2dOnfCs "A Whole New World"] from Aladdin. Though the entire album this was released on was critically panned, it has an occasional fan here and there. This particular cover, however is loathed by even fans of the album. The keyboards almost fail to keep up with the original's tempo, Peter oversings worse than you can imagine, and Price can't pronounce her words right. Enjoy!

* 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 (Music)|~~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.

* 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.

** This is an example of artists being [[troll]]s. They cover the song, knowing full well it's WAAAY out of their style, [[It Amused Me|just for laughs]], just to troll '''a paying audience'''.

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* The Cherry Sisters were a vaudeville act with three lovely singing sisters, a somewhat more homely one who "kept time" on a drum, and absolutely zero talent. People watched them for catharsis during the Gay Nineties; whenever they performed, they had to be surrounded by chicken wire to keep from being hit with projectiles. When they launched a libel case against a newspaper that had published an extremely negative review of their act, the judge ordered them to sing...and then dismissed the case.

** They were hardly the only ones. In vaudeville theaters, a person expected to be allowed to sit through as many acts as they liked, meaning that periodic room-clearing acts had to be used to keep ticket sales up. These acts were some of the cushiest in vaudeville. George Burns felt he was cursed throughout his vaudeville career because he could never come up with anything bad enough to be a room clearer and wasn't famous enough to be a real draw.

* The music of Christian and the Hedgehog Boys<ref>yes, the same Christian who made ''[[~~Sonichu (Webcomic)|~~Sonichu]]''</ref> - terrible lyrics too atrocious to [[Narm|incite laughter]], shouted off-key over pop songs. And he "sings" over actual songs with actual lyrics instead of the instrumental versions of the songs.

* The music of Christian and the Hedgehog Boys<ref>yes, the same Christian who made ''[[Sonichu]]''</ref> - terrible lyrics too atrocious to [[Narm|incite laughter]], shouted off-key over pop songs. And he "sings" over actual songs with actual lyrics instead of the instrumental versions of the songs.

** For one example, here is their rendition of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-51Z5Q8hPbQ So Need A Cute Girl]. More like, So Need A Better Voice.

** To wit, he [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZKC6fY22e8 turned] [[Meat Loaf]]'s "[[Anti-Love Song|Paradise By The]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Dashboard Light]]" into seven and a half minutes of pure, unrelenting '''[[Epic Fail|fail]]'''. The fact that he doesn't realize he isn't differentiating between the male and female voices makes it even ''worse''.

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*** 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 (Music)|~~Ozzy Osbourne]]'s performance is one of the worst of the lot.

* 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 ~~(Music)~~|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]].

* 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]].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ib3l8Wx45M Amanda Brunker's performance at Oxegen 2011]. Listen and shudder as she murders U2's ''With Or Without You''. It isn't helped by the fact that she's not a singer [[Fridge Logic|trying to sing]] [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|at a music festival]].

* [[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.

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* Former ''Real Housewife'' and current [[Attention Whore|fame whore]] Danielle Staub, along with three ''[[Jersey Shore]]''-esque meathead dancers, perform (in the loosest sense possible) the song "Real Close" [http://www.wpix.com/videobeta/7000c099-bee0-4cde-8194-b1430d26260d/News/NJ-Housewife-Danielle-Staub-Performs-LIVE live in front of a trapped morning show audience.]

** 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]]!'''

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

** Another gem from ''Real Housewives'' lady Countess LuAnn — "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEDvlSAMhQU Money Can't Buy You Class]". It can't buy you talent, either.

* Usually, Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai is a very good musician. She has been known to move people to tears. But she also has hearing problems as the result of nerve degeneration. With proper audio feedback, she can correct for this; but in one case, on ''[[Britain's Got Talent ~~(TV)~~|Britains Got Talent]],'' she was not provided with such. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPLWhmH5bDc This] was the result. Czikai would later file a discrimination complaint over the absence of said feedback, but it was dropped, on the grounds that they only apply to job conditions.

* Usually, Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai is a very good musician. She has been known to move people to tears. But she also has hearing problems as the result of nerve degeneration. With proper audio feedback, she can correct for this; but in one case, on ''[[Britain's Got Talent|Britains Got Talent]],'' she was not provided with such. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPLWhmH5bDc This] was the result. Czikai would later file a discrimination complaint over the absence of said feedback, but it was dropped, on the grounds that they only apply to job conditions.

* Heidi Montag's hilariously awful [[Britney Spears]] rip-off performance at the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SUU_R-ld3M 2009 Miss Universe Pageant.] Try not to laugh as she misses dance steps. Judging from her sloppy lipsynching, she doesn't even know the lyrics to her own song. Whatever those backup dancers were paid, it wasn't enough.

* [[Hole]]'s June 2010 show at Washington DC's 9:30 Club. It cemented the reformation's status as a vanity project for Courtney Love, the only original member. Let's forget for a moment that it started nearly an hour late and that Courtney's voice certainly wasn't at its best; the three-hour train wreck had a godawful setlist interspersed with roughly an hour's worth of aimless gasbagging. Multiple covers were played, all of them butchered. The songs that were theirs were only faintly remembered—verses and choruses were skipped on a regular basis. Hell, the encore took forever to start because Love was shagging somebody backstage. And on top of all this, she had an assistant stand on stage and record the whole thing with an iPhone. She put much more thought into performing to it than the audience, even cussing out somebody who said the assistant was distracting. By the end, well over half the audience (and most of the band) had left, the crowd swearing and clutching their tickets in disgust. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/courtney-love-leads-hole-through-disastrous-930-club-concert/2010/12/20/ABUTq5F_blog.html Here's] the Washington Post with a detailed assaulting of it.

* Julio Preciado's performance of the Mexican National Anthem in the 2009 Carribean Series baseball tournament. He sang the whole thing while being (apparently) drunk, since he forgot the lyrics of the anthem in the middle of the whole performance, mixed the rhythm with "The Star-Spangled Banner" at some point, and made up a few lines that are not in the anthem. Needless to say, people got really mad at him to the point that they booed him off the field, and he also earned himself a fine from the Mexican government for the perceived mockery on his performance.

* Another horrible ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' performance: lip-synching would have been much preferable to [[Kanye West]]'s performance of "Love Lockdown" (''without'' [[~~Autotune~~]]) on the season 34 Christmas episode hosted by [[Hugh Laurie]].

* Another horrible ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' performance: lip-synching would have been much preferable to [[Kanye West]]'s performance of "Love Lockdown" (''without'' [[Auto-Tune]]) on the season 34 Christmas episode hosted by [[Hugh Laurie]].

* While a lovely studio singer, [[Lana Del Rey]] has proven that she is definitely ''not'' a good live singer. She performed her viral hit tune "Video Games" on the SNL episode (hosted by [[Daniel Radcliffe]]), and it was painful to watch. She seemed to mumble most of the words and was constantly out of breath, and at times it almost sounded like she didn't even know the words to her own song. The performance has gotten her a bad rap and despite being talented, she recently has become more known for her bad SNL performance. On the next live episode (hosted by Channing Tatum, with musical guest Bon Iver), Kristen Wiig appeared as [[Lana Del Rey]] on Weekend Update to speak out against people criticizing her terrible performance by admitting that, as a singer, she's stiff, distant, and weird ([[Dumbass Has a Point|but also points out that the criticisms of her changing her name to be more marketable and not being experienced enough for ''SNL'' are hypocritical, considering that ''SNL'' has had worse musicians than her and a lot of musicians who have changed their names to appear more marketable]]).

* The notorious [[~~Metallica (Music)|~~Metallica]] bootleg ''Acoustic Metal''. Deemed by the fanbase to be worse than even ''St. Anger'', it was taken from a radio broadcast that none of them had chosen to take seriously. Inappropriate bits of spoken word pretty much ruin "Low Man's Lyric" (which would otherwise be much less hated), songs drag on far too long (don't solo on an acoustic guitar, guys), the tracklisting is miserable (The Four Horsemen is the only notable one) and poorly sequenced (Track 8: Last Caress/Fade To Black. Track 9: Fade To Black (continued)). Not even its guest performers ([[Primus|Les Claypool]], John Popper, Pepper Keenan, [[Alice in Chains ~~(Music)~~|Jerry Cantrell]]) could save it.

* The notorious [[Metallica]] bootleg ''Acoustic Metal''. Deemed by the fanbase to be worse than even ''St. Anger'', it was taken from a radio broadcast that none of them had chosen to take seriously. Inappropriate bits of spoken word pretty much ruin "Low Man's Lyric" (which would otherwise be much less hated), songs drag on far too long (don't solo on an acoustic guitar, guys), the tracklisting is miserable (The Four Horsemen is the only notable one) and poorly sequenced (Track 8: Last Caress/Fade To Black. Track 9: Fade To Black (continued)). Not even its guest performers ([[Primus|Les Claypool]], John Popper, Pepper Keenan, [[Alice in Chains|Jerry Cantrell]]) could save it.

* [[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]].

* There have been some truly memorable impromptu live performances, such as the Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert and [[~~U 2~~]]'s mimicry of it for their "Where the Streets Have No Name" video. However, LA small-time band Imperial Stars' 2010 performance of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL5S5_16t8E Traffic Jam 101]" was not one of them. These idiots thought they would win fame and fortune (and draw attention to homeless children) by setting up and performing ''right on Los Angeles' busy 101 freeway''. Instead they "won" the wrath of the city's drivers as well as jail time.

* There have been some truly memorable impromptu live performances, such as the Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert and [[U2]]'s mimicry of it for their "Where the Streets Have No Name" video. However, LA small-time band Imperial Stars' 2010 performance of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL5S5_16t8E Traffic Jam 101]" was not one of them. These idiots thought they would win fame and fortune (and draw attention to homeless children) by setting up and performing ''right on Los Angeles' busy 101 freeway''. Instead they "won" the wrath of the city's drivers as well as jail time.

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** [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.]

* Regardless of how you feel about [[Soulja Boy]], it's hard to deny how utterly terrible his song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1YEWUt2DE Anime]" is. He discusses the subject with all the thought ([[Cowboy Bebop At His Computer|and research]]) of a pothead pacing through a comics store, it closes with the audio equivalent of [[Leave the Camera Running]], and it sounds like it was recorded in his bathroom. But hey, don't take ''our'' word for it — ask [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/yrt/specials/27559-yrot-anime-by-soulja-boy Y Ruler of Time] about it (with guest cameos by Michael S. and [[Todd in ~~The~~ Shadows]]).

* Regardless of how you feel about [[Soulja Boy]], it's hard to deny how utterly terrible his song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1YEWUt2DE Anime]" is. He discusses the subject with all the thought ([[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer|and research]]) of a pothead pacing through a comics store, it closes with the audio equivalent of [[Leave the Camera Running]], and it sounds like it was recorded in his bathroom. But hey, don't take ''our'' word for it — ask [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/yrt/specials/27559-yrot-anime-by-soulja-boy Y Ruler of Time] about it (with guest cameos by Michael S. and [[Todd in the Shadows]]).

* ''"This song is bad. Not [[So Bad It's Good]], and not [[Michael Jackson]] 'Bad'. Just plain bad."'' That's ''[[~~Doctor Who Magazine (Magazine)|~~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.

* ''"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 (Website)|~~The Agony Booth]] gets exposed to it.

* 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:

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** 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.

* In the 1990s, Komar, Melamid and Dave Soldier carried out a set of polls of the American public: One concerning what people generally liked the most in music, one concerning what they generally hated. From this, they composed two songs. "The Most Unwanted Song" was the better of the two by a long shot.(Details can be found [[So Bad It's Good/Music|here]]) [http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/komar_melamid/KomarMelamid_The-Most-Wanted-Song.mp3 "The Most Wanted Song,"] however, was a simpering, pandering, [[Tastes Like Diabetes|vomitously saccharine]], miserably written, glacial, insipid, and overly repetitive train wreck bearing [[Cliché Storm|cliche after cliche after cliche]] and an off-key guitar solo.

* 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 [[~~Autotune~~]]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.

* 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.

* While Headphoneboy's mashups can range anywhere from simply mediocre to kind of decent, he's got stuff which would make DJ Broken Window ashamed. One example: the breathtakingly awful, beyond just lazy "[http://www.man-likemachines.com/peoplerunincircles.mp3 People Run In Circles.]"

** Other examples to awful and laziness take on mashups - [http://www.man-likemachines.com/sleuthdom18yourtrackingfix.mp3 Your Tracking Fix], [http://www.man-likemachines.com/somethingevil.mp3 Something Evil], [http://www.man-likemachines.com/howcloseisgod.mp3 How Close Is God?] and his so-called "29 minute epic" that is [http://www.man-likemachines.com/timelessechoes.mp3 Time-Travel Epic]. Is this guy a escape mental patient or what?

* Brian Wilson's (yes, the one from [[~~The Beach Boys (Music)|~~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.]

* 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.]

* Ex-Cheetah Girl Kiely Williams tried to reinvent herself as [[Darker and Edgier]] in an apparent attempt to cash in on ''Rated R''-era [[Rihanna]], but instead comes off as the most vapid female on Earth. Here it is: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unDB3y1jW1U Spectacular.]" A touching tribute to binge drinking, unprotected sex with strangers, and date rape. Sample lyrics:

{{quote| "Last I remember I was face down, ass up, clothes off".<ref>(Brings a lump to your throat, doesn't it?)</ref>}}

* 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.

* 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.

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* 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.

* ''Bebe's Kids'' for SNES is already [[So Bad It's Horrible ~~(Darth Wiki)~~/Video Games|an infamously awful game]] with terrible music, but [http://www.gamecrap.com/snes/bebeskids/toostrong.wav the final] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyWK1AEqTI boss theme] is the icing of shit. The same annoying words are repeated constantly to horrible rapping; it is played during an already crappy boss; and worst of all, [[Ear Worm|good luck trying to get it out of your head.]]

* ''Bebe's Kids'' for SNES is already [[So Bad It's Horrible/Video Games|an infamously awful game]] with terrible music, but [http://www.gamecrap.com/snes/bebeskids/toostrong.wav the final] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyWK1AEqTI boss theme] is the icing of shit. The same annoying words are repeated constantly to horrible rapping; it is played during an already crappy boss; and worst of all, [[Ear Worm|good luck trying to get it out of your head.]]

* 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''.

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* 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]].

* The pathetic [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of the [[Indiana Jones ~~(Franchise)~~|"Raiders March"]] in the NES version of ''[[Hydlide]]''. It actually first appeared in the otherwise [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] ''Hydlide II'', and is unfortunately indicative of the quality of music on the [[PC 88]] before later models gave it a sound chip and improved game soundtracks by leaps and bounds.

* The pathetic [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of the [[Indiana Jones|"Raiders March"]] in the NES version of ''[[Hydlide]]''. It actually first appeared in the otherwise [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] ''Hydlide II'', and is unfortunately indicative of the quality of music on the [[PC 88]] before later models gave it a sound chip and improved game soundtracks by leaps and bounds.

* ''[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...

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** If you haven't started crying yet, compare the theme for the first stage: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBOOEBfYsc SNES] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGUayJLq7RE GBA]. Hell, compare it to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vmoj8xzqkk&t=2m10s C64 version] from ''R-Type'', made in 1988!

* One of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] games took the music to the extreme by trying to make it as high-pitched as possible. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESgyK1pTbjg Painful!]

* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' [[Game Mod]] "Hyper X" is notable for being one of the first Sonic hacks to have its entire soundtrack revamped. However, [[Tropes Are Tools|this isn't necessarily a good thing]], as all of the new songs sound like they're either [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwF3IJP1Lc missing audio channels], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dr9gWFmWU using inappropriate instruments], or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBi3xjjKkV4 are simply off-key].

* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' [[Game Mod]] "Hyper X" is notable for being one of the first Sonic hacks to have its entire soundtrack revamped. However, [[Tropes Are Tools|this isn't necessarily a good thing]], as all of the new songs sound like they're either [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwF3IJP1Lc missing audio channels], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dr9gWFmWU using inappropriate instruments], or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBi3xjjKkV4 are simply off-key].

* ''[[Wizards and Warriors]] III'' — "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_-QUJskVKk& Thief's Guild]". [[Donkey Kong Country (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)/Awesome Music|David Wise]], what happened? The track starts out fine but, 50 seconds in, devolves into random notes.

* ''[[Wizards and Warriors]] III'' — "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_-QUJskVKk& Thief's Guild]". [[Donkey Kong Country (video game)/Awesome Music|David Wise]], what happened? The track starts out fine but, 50 seconds in, devolves into random notes.

* Almost the entire soundtrack of the [[Porting Disaster]] known as Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis for the GBA. The melody is still there, but the music quality is horrible. Listen to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYs3PYJj-pw these] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwu2YIdblw4 two] songs if you don't believe us.

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

* 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 ~~(Darth Wiki)~~/Video Games|as terrible as it was in its own right]], at least had the benefit of having [[The Elder Scrolls ~~(Video Game)~~|Julian LeFay]] as its composer.

* ''[[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.

== Anime Theme Songs ==

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** Their "50 Worst Songs" list included songs like ''[[Simon and Garfunkel|The Sound of Silence]]'', ''[[Billy Joel|We Didn't Start The Fire]]'', and most [[egregious]]ly, ''[[Meat Loaf|I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)]]'' on the grounds that it "doesn't make sense".

** 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 ~~(Music)~~|Tilt-A-Whirl]]'', which isn't even in the right ''genre'' of music.

** 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.

*** To make matters worse, every televised "Awesomely Bad" list was adapted for a visual medium by having its entries retooled to focus on the songs' respective ''music videos''.

** Their Worst Artists of All Time list not only includes artists like [[~~The Doors (Music)|~~The Doors]], [[Music/Japan|Japan]] and [[~~Primus (Music)|~~Primus]], it also shows their [[Bias Steamroller|bias]] against progressive rock artists: Rick Wakeman is also listed, and [[Emerson Lake ~~and~~ Palmer ~~(Music)~~|Emerson Lake and Palmer]], Kansas, and Asia are all in the Top 10 of the list.

** Their Worst Artists of All Time list not only includes artists like [[The Doors]], [[Music/Japan|Japan]] and [[Primus]], it also shows their [[Bias Steamroller|bias]] against progressive rock artists: Rick Wakeman is also listed, and [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer|Emerson Lake and Palmer]], Kansas, and Asia are all in the Top 10 of the list.

** ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ~~(Music)~~|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.]]

** ''[[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.

* ''The Encyclopedia of Indie Rock'' is an insult to anyone who has ever written an archive based on artists. It's filled with grammatical errors and awkward wording. Also, it's not uncommon for authors to sometimes get their facts wrong every now and then, but this one has so many glaringly obvious factual errors that it makes you wonder if the book is a parody on encyclopedia books in general. Of the many errors include: