I am sorry, sir. That honor may go to I’ll Be There for You by Bon Jovi. Not only did he steal the chords from Purple Rain, but there’s this: “When you get drunk, I’ll be the wine.” I rest my case.
Odd and shocking how many times it's been covered. I thought it came out in the '70s, and — researching — it did, but it also came out in nearly every decade after. Even Charlene covered Charlene's version.
Mike and the mechanics, kinda lame but not terrible if I recall correctly… Looked it up, “All I need is a miracle” wasn’t a good song, but I wouldn’t get up and change the station the way I would for “broken wings” or “kyrie”.
Listen to “Spanish Train” by same artist as Lady in Red - Chris Deburgh. He redeems himself - listen to words very closely and entire song and you’ll get it. Everyone does
“TROUBLE IN THE SUEZ!” as Bill Burr would say. Lawd that song was shit and is still shit today. Could have been renamed “Stuff That Happened Over A Period Of Time”.
I Wanna Rock N Roll All Night. I know it's from the 70s, but it was still playing on 80s radio (still is) and has the most hatefully shit ending to a song, ever. The song itself is awful, but that repetitive coda still makes me 🤬. On our playlist at work and every day, I have to utter my contempt.
I'm going with "Wake me up before you go go," but here are the official winners from Rolling Stone. The winner is mentioned several times in the replies.
Bad list. It's like they just decided to hate songs that were popular. "Puttin' on the Ritz" is the only weak one. A good tune for the first half. Falls apart in the second because the instrumental part isn't good. Plus, the synth beat is too sparse.
If you listen to the symphony part without words, St. Elmo’s Fire was the most beautiful, most artistically made score of decades. Absofuckinglutly beautiful.
Rock Me Amadeus is awesome. A wonderfully cheeky tune by Falco. I like his original version of Der Kommissar better but Rock Me Amadeus is still great.
After thinking about it for awhile, I begrudgingly agree. We Built This City is often named the worst 80s song, but it also sort of slaps. (You can find yourself singing along w/o realizing it.) But SEF has no redeeming qualities. Like, I even love a heavy 80s synth, but the synth is just *bad* here
At least you could dance to it...UB40's Red Red Wine is nails on a chaulkboard with an awkward tempo.
Hurts me to say about a Neil Diamond song. He does a better, less whiney version.
It's funny because in Canada "zoomers" are boomers who think they're somehow defying aging conventions by doing shit like buying cool spectacles and wearing bikinis.
I'm just waiting for you to get to the 2010s so I can nominate Mr. Knowitall by Kelly Clarkson for worst song of all time. Woman's World by Katy Perry is a close second saved by the fact that the video with the sound off is fantastic.
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We also played "Kyrie"
Imagine the 💥 as Phil’s head and you & my sister are pummeling him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjg3T_M_zr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqMZ6XqMfc
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-10-worst-songs-of-the-1980s-20488/10-rick-astley-never-gonna-give-you-up-21947/
Every other song on the list is really good.
It went #1! And it was in German!
tryna think of the worst one but I think they might've all been bangers cuz these lists I googled are fked
maybe the replies will find one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25oXWFIQJJM
The genre of medley songs (prominent early in the decade) are truly bad, for example.
Hurts me to say about a Neil Diamond song. He does a better, less whiney version.
I suggest Ah! Leah! by Donnie Iris.
Like this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVjgY427qW8
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Nuke that shit.
https://youtu.be/hsaj7T7iUlU?si=xNkMdYmcUoIHdMNp
Should've told her you were sorry (sorry)
Could have said you were wrong
But no you couldn't do that, no, no
You had to prove you were strong
Gotta blame it on something (gotta blame it on something)
Gotta blame it on something
Song by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes ‧ 1987