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13 April 2006

Worst moment in recorded music history?

post by: drjimmy11 at: 19:18 | 22 comments

oh so many contenders, but Limp Bizkit's cover of "behind Blue Eyes," particularly the verse wherein F. Durst disdains Townshend's lyrics and starts to make up his own.

posted by drjimmy11 13 April | 19:19

Fred Durst singing "wish you where here" in the 911 stageshow, changing the lyrics and looking soulfully into the camera "we're soooooo glaaad you aree HEEERE".

posted by signal 13 April | 19:30

that made me vomit a little in my mouth

posted by ethylene 13 April | 19:42

I'll put it up there because its inevitable: "My Humps".

posted by tetsuo 13 April | 19:44

Guns & Roses' cover of Knocking on Heaven's Door, when Axl Rose sings: "Knawck knawck knawckin' on heaven's dough-ooo-oh-ooo-oh". Shudder. And I don't even really like the original.

posted by timefactor 13 April | 19:50

The post-9/11 all-star sing-along version of 'What's Going On.' (Oddly, Fred Durst was involved in that one too.)

Kenny G releasing a Natalie-Cole-style grave-robbing duet with Louis Armstrong.

posted by box 13 April | 19:51

Martha My Dear: the song that made it no longer possible to deny that Maccers was a complete and utter tosser. Fuck you and fuck your dog too.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 13 April | 20:48

Oh, open the Wings floodgates:
"Silly Little Love Songs"? omfg, rip my ears off with vice grips and feed them to a squealing piglet.

posted by rumple 13 April | 20:56

Live and Let Die.

So die already.

posted by arse_hat 13 April | 21:25

I like Live and Let Die.

Er, anyway: That Black Eyed Peas song. You know which one I mean.

posted by kosher_jenny 13 April | 21:35

Live and Let Die. Specifically, the line "In this everchanging world in which we live in".

posted by matthewr 13 April | 22:23

Oh, we're just talking songs? Not like "fucking hell - Cobain's gone", or earlier, "fucking hell, John Lennon's gone."...

Okay, worst ear damage ever:
- AMERICAN FUCKING IDOL.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 13 April | 22:34

Interesting that you mention Live and Let Die...

posted by AlexReynolds 13 April | 22:42

Good stuff, AlexReynolds. Phil Collins gets off lightly at 14, though.

posted by matthewr 13 April | 23:08

I never thought I would utter these words but AlexReynolds, I could kiss you!

posted by arse_hat 13 April | 23:19

Bobby McFerrin's 1988 dual Grammy award-winning song: 'Don't Worry Be Happy.'

Aaarrgghh.

posted by ericb 13 April | 23:25

That poofy, overwrought, overblown fluff that Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharat did together a few years ago. Both have their moments (bad yins, I mean) on their own. Together, it was the equivalent of having Mariah Carey and Patti LaBelle singing a duet...I get angry just thinking about it!

I own some bad records (EZO anybody?) But Painted from Memory is the only one I'd happily smash with a hammer.

posted by black8 13 April | 23:46

What was that album Garth Brooks did? The one where he wore a wig and fake beard and pretended to be a "rocker?" That has to rank right up there.

posted by jrossi4r 13 April | 23:56

"My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion.

posted by sisterhavana 14 April | 08:57

Blind Melon's "No Rain"

posted by Hugh Janus 14 April | 09:15

OOGA CHOCKA
OOGA CHOCKA
OOGA OOGA OOGA CHOCKA
OOGA CHOCKA
OOGA CHOCKA
OOGA OOGA OOGA CHOCKA

posted by ROU Xenophobe 14 April | 10:25

Glenn Frey's "You Belong to the City": especially the smoldering sax solo.

(Someone should start a new thread wholly dedicated to the worst/most ill-advised saxophone solos in 1980s rock/r&b/pop.)

posted by gigawhat? 14 April | 11:10

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