Favorite Artist / Worst Song

[sammy]

Who is your favorite Singer/Band?

And, in your opinion, what is their absolutely worst song and why?

I'm thoroughly intrigued to hear what folks say...

[zartan]

Belle and Sebastian- Chickfactor

[Edison]

If we're talking all-time favorites, I'd have to go with The Beatles.
There are a couple of weak tunes from the earlier days that are pretty forgettable, but no really bad songs.
So, I'll focus on another all-time favorite;

Go-to band: Led Zeppelin
Worst song: "All of My Love" A weak, soppy, and over-produced toss-away that still manages to get way too much airplay. Lamest song in their catalog.



"It's over, Jimmy."

Ooo, too many to list ...

Pearl Jam: Daughter (so boring), Better Man (over-produced to the point of self-parody ... probably the reason they got rid of Dave Abbruzzese), or anything recorded after 1998's Yield.
Sunny Day Real Estate: Every Shining Time You Arrive (goes on and on ... plus, a drum loop on a Sunny Day album?? WTF), or Television (preachy, possibly the most over-produced song on an over-produced album)
Blind Melon: No Rain ... awful, just awful, and that's the one everybody knows ...

So many more ...

[ritty]

The Police - Mother. It's on Synchronicity and was written by Andy Summers in some bizarre experiment. It's got a middle-eastern screeching sound and vocals that are kind of yelled at you. It's a terrible song.

U2 - Numb. From the Zooropa album. Yeah, I like it when Edge just plays guitar and let's Bono sing.

[POPS]

Barenaked Ladies -- One Week. super fuckin sell out of a great canadian sound, just to get over with American 13 year olds.

Birchmaster Stadium, Home of the Robbie-
POPS

[Fooomfh]

Tom Petty. Worst song is probably off of 1999's Echo (which is three songs too long, I think), and it's About To Give Out. If that album were 12 songs it would be better than Wildflowers. I said it.

Tom Petty song I really don't want to hear in concert anymore: It's Good To Be King.

[Saff]

Surprise Surprise Bob Dylan - I'll go with All Along The Watchtower off of "John Wesley Harding" Not because it is a bad song, but it is the best example of Dylan's writing not being brought to its full potential. Jimmy Hendrix just twisted the same words into something Dylan never could.

Incidently, also on "John Wesley Harding" is the song The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest which is where Judas Priest got its name.

[JPanic]

Originally Posted by ritty

The Police - Mother. It's on Synchronicity and was written by Andy Summers in some bizarre experiment. It's got a middle-eastern screeching sound and vocals that are kind of yelled at you. It's a terrible song.

Agreed. That is a horrible song, along with "Miss Gradenko". That album answered my question, "Why doesn't Sting let Stewart and Andy write some of the songs?"

[Mr. Keith]

Off the top of my head, I can only think of Gwen Stefani's the horrible, horrible, pep-rally-bait song that is "Hollaback Girl". It doesn't even try to make sense, and I would imagine Ms. Stefani would twist around trying to explain what it means like George Bush answering questions about Iraq. Not that I'm a big fan of hers when she was in No Doubt.

Also, Dave Matthews Band's "Crash Into Me" has always seemed so tedious to me, and I have three of their albums.