Rolling Worst Music of 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2K1xQOp4qo

wow, 20 seconds of that was not worth (further) polluting my youtube recommendations

Punchline is: they're Canadians. Somehow ended up in on my Spotify new releases.

I keep trying to convince everyone we're the worst, so this helps my case.

Are the other members of Swollen Members also MAGA now

I keep trying to convince everyone we're the worst, so this helps my case.

I've resisted that rhetorical line for years.

Fuck it, this did me in.

Flashback to two days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIlWElwt0sw

Oh, and does this count as CanCon?

Are the other members of Swollen Members also MAGA now

That's how this ended up as a Spotify rec for me -- after following Madchild and Swollen Members. Hope ti's not giving the too many streams. Almost started a thread of MAGA music, but it would be such a depressing thread.

Obviously this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkvtHwSyM4

An industrial/nu-metal duo covering Hole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7XTLNgK-KQ

http://e.lvme.me/gpg3k75.jpg

a holdover from 2019 technically but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkKkmxGuxM

White Trash is gonna be on a lot of EOY lists for people who read The Turner Diaries

https://youtu.be/rZeJGPJV3fA

Now with a working embed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZeJGPJV3fA

I don't hate that. It's no better or worse than a dozen similar songs I've heard in the last month.

I am definitely rolling with this slice of worst music

i feel like the entire new la roux album belongs in here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egVAW6l_QU8

I can no longer tell the difference between "good" and "bad" pop music.

Just follow my lead—if I like it, it's good ;)

oh good, now we get a year of major label off brand megan trainor signees

saw an advert for a band named winston surfshirt on my way into work. can't listen to music right now but going to assume they belong here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kn0V5mpJe4

That guy is absolved of his crimes by virtue of brevity imo

Pootie Tang 2020.

almost did a spit take when he started rapping, a++++

I really wish I'd had my headphones on quieter before hitting play on that.

http://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/fe8ebf56350c6af3920af84893bdf837/7939005

watching him do the voice unaccompanied is even more unsettling (starting around 2:10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOMzbB4CVc&feature=youtu.be

oh wow i'd just assumed he was using some pitch-shifting effect to get that sound, not doing the world's squeakiest falsetto

tangenttangent was invited to a gig tomorrow

this is one of the bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VUZF2rWSdY

this is another of the bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFqoypXncF4

she intends to decline the offer

I spend some of my lunchtimes cleaning up acoustic (like pre-1925 pre-electric-mic) recordings and they have this narrow band of recorded sound, so you can cut off a lot of surface noise by fading down the high and low ends of the EQ. I could put that same filter over the Hide Your Mother track and it would still sound the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9uWPBDHEKE

That just sounds to me like a variation on pretty much every popular rap single since 2010

i haven't heard them because i don't have the stomach, but i feel like psychedelic nazis Black Magick SS probably belong here

I don't believe for a moment this band has any ties to nsbm, it's merely this year's Uncle Acid + edgelordiness. Music for Discogs speculators. That said, undeniably catchy from the bits I just heard online, not even close to worst music of 2020 imo. Sounds a little like Ghost BC via Bone Awl

lol, ponzi this isn't a "defend the indefensible" thread but your eagerness to immediately cape for some nazi bullshit you had literally never heard of five minutes ago is duly noted

also, lol that you "don't believe they have any ties to nsbm", you know hitler was in a band before burzum, right?

your eagerness to immediately cape for some nazi bullshit you had literally never heard of five minutes ago is duly noted

― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, April 20, 2020 12:07 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I check out everything posted itt and your post's (understandable) lack of a link inspired me go listen. I was expecting terrible music but didn't hear any. It just sounds like boilerplate catchy / crusty bm to me, albeit boilerplate catchy / crusty bm with questionable sleeve art

a quick look into it reveals they've released stuff on multiple actual nsbm labels so lol at the idea that they have no ties to nazism and are just edgelords using nazi imagery (which would still be indefensible)

For my own edification, which of these two labels has ties to usbm?

www.discogs.com/label/1335453-Creep-Purple

www.discogs.com/label/164278-Infinite-Wisdom-Productions

Because these are the only two labels who've released music by this band according to Discogs outside of obvious bootleg labels with this as their only release

obviously I meant nsbm

if you're willing to go look up their music to satisfy your curiosity, i'm sure you can just as easily look up their past affiliations with nazi record labels. i didn't post what i did to open up a discourse.

uh idk i think that "reich of the black sun" cassette on infinite wisdom looks pretty iffy??

I'm sure SS stands for Secret Santa

oh damn black magick ss doesn't have nazi themes in their music.... yet has a big ol' "ss" in their band name.... which means they're fuckin nazis

oh damn black magick ss doesn't have nazi themes in their music.... yet has a big ol' "ss" in their band name.... which means they're fuckin nazis

Yeah, I don't see the problem...

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/EMQAAOSwGC9d1M1j/s-l1600.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/5hBec63qc_Ytvy_nYTZzfJdOYBk=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7058180-1524666854-9454.jpeg.jpg

https://static-1.bitchute.com/live/cover_images/RozwV2Av2Okk/iQH5JNoQHl6o_640x360.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/Black-Magick-SS-Hidden-In-Plain-Sight-/master/978077

they've released vinyl on German nsbm label Darker Than Black and searching reveals a number of the bands on Infinite Wisdom are also nazis (Wolfblood, Baal Gadrial, Reich of the Black Sun). there's probably more but i'm too lazy to look further and it's pretty clear

I can’t get enough of the David Guetta video. I will watch it every time it shows up on the TL. The extended cut with a random Robert Pires appearance? Inject it. pic.twitter.com/b0MaXFWs82

— Luis Paez-Pumar (@lppny) May 31, 2020

uggggggggggggh

thats a good one

Oh god why would you do this to me, why would you do this to anyone.

To promote world peace and brotherhood.

MLK Jr is brought to you by BioSupplies.com
We have a dream.... of proven and safe disinfectant technology at affordable prices for midsize businesses!

i've been thinking about this; can we lock the thread now?

https://img.discogs.com/qsV79i2cDX_hHVdd0tnG6rAXxNQ=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-15091129-1586570975-3448.jpeg.jpg

Danzig - Danzig sings Elvis

crusty bm

Worst genre name 2020

I listened to a few tracks from that Danzig record, and it actually is kind of okay! but i also have a deep affection for Danzig's voice, and do impressions of him all the time lol.

I also want to say that David Guetta appropriating MLK Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech is about as horrifying and disgusting as the literal Nazi shit that was being talked about above it. Even if he was doing it for charity, it's completely despicable and without any redeeming qualities.

i think it's safe to say it is the worst readily available music of 2020 and there's real competition!

very much so. it also goes to show that Guetta doesn't know about the many excellent Detroit techno and Chicago house tracks made by Black people that sample the MLK speech quite effectively. either that or he doesn't care, and both cases are inexcusable.

Now Reese & Santonio? Play this at the next march, please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSDADEO754

at least it's a pretty concise and suitably grotesque encapsulation of the relationship between '''edm''' (aka dance music that white heterosexuals have learned is socially acceptable for them to enjoy) and blackness in general

honestly the industry would do well to move on from that especially unfortunate phase in the marketing of dance music with all due haste. luckily this should not be particularly difficult to do in the united states, since most '''edm''' now struggles tremendously in that market and the small number of success stories are in the 'future-nostalgia' mold which openly takes abundant cues from more inclusive eras in dance music's history. hopefully soon we will all stop being terrorized in restaurants by sedated deep house covers of iconic hits by black artists with whispered anonymous vocals

you speak as if restaurants will exist in a few years

I confess to appropriating “edm” as a broad catchall to save myself from having to painstakingly apply increasingly detailed genre names in my iTunes library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg

I'm probably a bit biased because it was produced by the husband of a former co-worker I intensely dislike, but this is irredeemably awful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3BQmbeXPok

yeah that seems entirely unnecessary

(i will admit to having a short chuckle at all ye bully rooks with your buskin boots)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/06/26/police-sergeant-nashville-song-george-floyd-death/3262874001/

Ah! It's incredible

that is VERY nashville.
for posterity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSf_57R1Og

man the Gorillaz "Song Machine" singles are all terrible huh

I've only listened to Ep. 5, and while I detest the spoken intro and outro which I guess are, like, Gorillaz character development things (?!) which I care 0 about, I thought the song was fine, loved the bridge tbh. I appreciate that Damon has finally learned how to sing high without yelling

this was inspired by the especially farty and rinky-dink sounding Schoolboy Q collab (Q does fine)

Lol that's the one I'm talking about. I agree that it's pretty rinky-dink though and mostly just serves as a frame for Q to do his thing

I think the worst one so far is the one ft. Octavian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhDHJvhqes

Impressive plumbing of even greater depths from Wolfmother here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=chtCbEjhJcE

And, if you truly hate yourself, the logical follow-up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wudomf_vH7Y

knowing there are ppl, seemingly quite a number of ppl, who legit enjoy the music of 645AR make me feel older and less 'in touch' than I ever have before

I watched part of his “Yoga” video and now I like to say “it is what it is, it ain’t what it ain’t” in that cartoon mouse voice, but that’s a far cry from finding the music anything other than horrendous

it's the children that are wrong

i kinda like yoga; that twigs duet is too much

it's the children that are wrong

It's just about being willing to say "This is music for children" and move on with one's life.

Music Has the Right to Children.

I am loath to dismiss anything as "music for children" unless it's, like, explicitly actually for children. but it's definitely one of those (relatively rare, I hope!) times when my brain's instinctive response is to back away slowly in horror muttering "not for us...not for us..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOMzbB4CVc

Brace yourselves for some hypotense-finger-on-the-pulse old man analysis: maybe 645AR is just a novelty act and 'Yoga' is this generation's 'I'm Too Sexy' idk.

wow @ wolfmother

listening now. very bad in a way I did not anticipate, for which I sort of want to give them credit. sad lol @ under 8k views in two months tho

it is almost poignant that not even wolfmother remember what wolfmother sound like

Holy shit

From foreign lands…

Renaud's 'Corona Song', widely deemed to be the worst instance of French music to have come out this year in France (presumably because Guetta's George Floyd tribute doesn't scan as tone-deaf when you know next to nothing about MLK and American racial politics in general):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3J2sDEQ1M

Neo-fascist Polish president Andrzej Duda's attempt at a spoken word/rap single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auuTWR9AZ6g

The Wolfmother sounds like post-Lonerism Tame Impala.

(Yes, this is a troll post.)

honestly that's probably pretty close to what unmastered tame impala demos actually sound like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUzOH3hUZXA

I used to have a campus radio show and I remember playing this guy's music as part of playlist requirements etc, I don't remember it sucking this hard

That person can't sing.

lmao what is this

they really missed a trick when the lyric went "what I'm tripping on time and time again" and didn't have him trip over a series of tree roots and fall on his face

this is like the Eurovision movie meets karaoke night at Shenanigan's

well, old upper miss has had this card up my sleeve for a minute, time to play it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFy4hB8EnVU

I used to have a campus radio show and I remember playing this guy's music as part of playlist requirements etc

oh god I kinda miss being on the radio but I do not miss having to satisfy cancon requirements

With all due respect
We don't know any Black people

James Watts
1 month ago
Finally, rock is back. One of the best rock songs I've heard in years! Great drum intro and awesome guitars. And great vocals is a given.

Finally!

"rock"

It crossed the Styx and lived to tell the tale!

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

But watch out these cognoscenti
Hot dog they sure know plenty

posted this on FB and one of my guitar playing friends says the guitar player on this song is a childhood friend of his, lol.

talk talk
yadda yadda
bow bow
woof woof

D Sicilia
1 month ago
Finally A SONG WITH FACTS....not emotions or opinions JUST FACTS....turn off the Fake news people

no emotions or opinions in my music please

hate it when musicians try to express themselves

the zoom meeting of daily newspaper commenters chorus is particularly disturbing

Fact #1: You're an asshole
Fact #2: Yadda yadda
Fact #3: woof woof

Talk talk
yadda yadda
bow bow
BITCH I'M BUSTING AT EM

ums I came back to this thread to post that comment lol

no emotions or opinions in my music please

Or maniacs in polyester slacks

I love that he used the word "cognoscenti" and immediately followed it with the phrase "hot dog"; it's basically all the ways lyrics can make you facepalm in one couplet

haha I am grateful because I've never actually heard that word spoken aloud in my life so now I know

hot dognoscenti

New board description.

Missing some braggadocio

But watch out, these cognoscenti
Pedal to work, I drive a Bentley
They won't get a sniff of my Horn O' Plenty
I been tickling the ivories since before it was trendy

lol @ the comments acting like this is the balls-to-the-wall hard rock song of the century. some of these people are the same dudes that made fun of DeYoung two decades ago

this is about as hard-hitting as flan

a hot dog wrapped in a lovely flan

i think even the fretboard lost its erection 20 seconds in

on the plus side, it makes "Show Me the Way" look a lot better in comparison.

I didn't think anything could but huh.

If I'm understanding, it's journalists themselves who are the targets of his ire?

he's also rocking a really old school bad toupee like you don't see much anymore

I feel like there's sort of a subgenre of comeback singles by 70s rock guys that feature 'social commentary' over overproduced session-dude rock-by-numbers ('bluesy' riff mandatory) like this, "Get Over It", ELP's "Black Moon" (maybe my favourite of these??), Roger Waters's "What God Wants, p. 1".

Robin Trower's "Keynesian Economic Theory is Bollocks" is my fav

finally listening, the main riff is basically "damaged goods" minus rhythm

I feel like there's sort of a subgenre of comeback singles by 70s rock guys that feature 'social commentary' over overproduced session-dude rock-by-numbers ('bluesy' riff mandatory) like this, "Get Over It", ELP's "Black Moon" (maybe my favourite of these??), Roger Waters's "What God Wants, p. 1".

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, August 6, 2020 1:12 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ForceMaximus84
ForceMaximus84
1 month ago
This goes great with Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry”,

24

was not warned there would be a wall o' gina but for faces

I feel like there's sort of a subgenre of comeback singles by 70s rock guys that feature 'social commentary' over overproduced session-dude rock-by-numbers ('bluesy' riff mandatory) like this, "Get Over It", ELP's "Black Moon" (maybe my favourite of these??), Roger Waters's "What God Wants, p. 1".

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r)

i mean this has been roger waters' entire career since at least 1983, kinda unfair to pigeonhole him with these dillettantes

also, title track of "undercover of the night" to thread

Can I just say that 'Sum Bout U' >>>>> 'With All Due Respect'.

wallogina has always been for faces

Ginas of Meth

gonna sing that to the tune of nomeansno's "madness and death", thanks pom

yw, I'm sure they'd approve.

y'all i'm crying

So I always thought "The Grand Illusion" was about marketing and consumerism but maybe he was just mad at the news the whole time.

the Wedding Singer original broadway cast recording rocks more than this song

The entries itt deserve a poll in December imo.

yikes, this sounds like what i thought styx would sound like in 2020

So I always thought "The Grand Illusion" was about marketing and consumerism but maybe he was just mad at the news the whole time.

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), jeudi 6 août 2020 16:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

briefly thought i was in the armond white thread with this post

I feel like there's sort of a subgenre of comeback singles by 70s rock guys that feature 'social commentary' over overproduced session-dude rock-by-numbers ('bluesy' riff mandatory) like this, "Get Over It", ELP's "Black Moon" (maybe my favourite of these??), Roger Waters's "What God Wants, p. 1".

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, August 6, 2020 1:12 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnsmRl8x14

Our household is a bit perturbed but unable to deny the earworm properties of "With All Due Respect".

Mike N
1 month ago
Ironically, this song has a great Damn Yankees vibe!

I totally forgot that Ted Nugent was in that band. "Coming of Age" also still gets in my head sometimes, though.

"Dirty Laundry" an A+ example of what I was talking about btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttzijna8mgQ

i feel like somebody on this board is going to rep hard for ppcocaine and i have some suspicions as to who it will be.

that's. . . like, alltime worst music.

Pinned by ppcocaine inc
Jayy Sz
1 week ago
Imagine being her dad💀💀💀💀

7.8K

ppcocaine inc
ppcocaine inc
1 week ago
my dad is very proud of my success bitch

5.3K

respect

to be clear, i am in neither the "gasp what happened to morality!" nor the "it's the children who are wrong" camps when critiquing this song; it's just that it happens to sound very bad.

is it me? i had a few sincere laughs

pc music and 100 gecs stans who pretend they're above liking this aren't being honest with themselves

i mean, she's gonna get a 100gecs remix soon enough no doubt

this takes me back to the kind of songs nana used to sing when she was making her rhubarb pies

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/andre-chapelle-nana-mouskouri-the-wedding-of-nana-mouskouri-in-geneva-picture-id163328261?s=594x594

i think ppcocaine sucks but im surprised ulysses doesnt like it... feels like a perfect fit for his novelty rap threads

i can't believe anybody can say ppcocaine without giggling

That ppcocaine (hehehehe) track is somehow worse than Belle Delphine's comeback anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoHZp57O1AY

Sometimes it seems like a good shortcut to success in music these days is just to be really really obnoxious on purpose. Not that obnoxiousness guarantees success, but it seems like it can only help you.

i think you may be confusing obnoxiousness with not wearing clothes

I was also thinking of clothed artists such as Tekashi69 and 645AR. But not wearing clothes probably helps too

Continuing with this thread's recent turn toward "mostly naked girls singing/rapping poorly about sex":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcL8rosOMkA

No tengo tiempo, pero soy la puta del momento

Genius.

Also lol @ that choker.

five guys? their burgers are ok i guess

looks like someone is here to mop up the disaffected eminem fans


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6FmwBPDT-w

ooooof

more than ever do not read the comments

Sign me up to take life advice from the guy with multiple face tattoos.

are those face tattoos or did he just get in a fight with an octopus and lose

damn that one really hits all the notes

the world did not need an alt-right el-p biter with HOG written on his face

/thread

Great, he's Canadian too.

anti abortion line, cool, is he stealth xtian?

dude was a wrestler

a family member texted me this video yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svv1ag7KTvE

oh this isn't in this thread yet. for completion's sake here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89degLrNZM8

Ugh I think I hate the comment section that seems like it’s all paid to comment users more but yeah it’s terrible music.

i was flipping thru channels and a song on the radio so toothless and insipid it made me angry. googled some lyrics, turns out it's harry styles. who i had avoided previously, and whose name is ironic because his music is bereft of any style at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07s5ZYygMg

*and heard

Insipid, Lol

Fine Line is a cracking album

this single ensures i will never give it a chance, it's only fair

“Watermelon Sugar” is good!
It’s also this year’s hit but last year’s song.

consider me on team insipid tbh

I made it 25 seconds into that Surf Mesa thing. The original song was horrible, and this is a horrible update.

I don't find Harry Styles charming or appealing at all, really, but he can at least sing. And that song sounds like the musicians were awake while they recorded it, which is a change of pace from 90% of the current pop I stumble across. They should have gone full retro Philly soul with the arrangement, though, because the parts where there are horns and drums are the best parts by about a thousand miles.

that logic is kind of what allowed charlie puth to happen on ilm though

lol it sounds like the musicians were awake but just barely

it's like walmart's marketing department decided to expand into the music biz all mean tested and water(melon)ed down

i'm still laughing at the edgy white rapper with face tattoos and black contacts who goes by the name of "tom macdonald"

irl lol

there is a weird Xtian/Q Anon vibe to all the comments on Tom MacDonald's videos. All this stuff about how he doesn't curse like the evil industry rappers and how he might be "Suicided" for calling out corporate music and the Illuminati. Then there's this:

2 weeks ago
Why does a self made self respecting man like this reminding me of the outlaws of country like Waylon hank jr and sr Merle haggard and Johnny cash men who didn’t care what record labels thought and sung the songs they wrote and how they felt

Johnny Qash, HanQ Williams Jr., Merle HagQard, and Waylon JenninQs, cheQs out.

A Boy Named Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiD39J2WTQc

The wait is over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04tOyd7XHno

Wait, did nobody post the Ian Brown COVID song here yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHn6KurHE0

outrageously lame, cloaked in pseudo-progressive set-dressing and middle-class true-american posturing but with all the musical bite and cleverness of a graham cracker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPsJFRGleA

Is justin bieber thing to just repeat the title word as a chorus? I don’t really feel in the mood to relisten to his singles but iirc “baby”, “sorry”, “yummy” and now this one have a chorus where he just repeats 2 syllable words 10x times.

Not really hating on those singles - althought yummy and holy are abysmal - but just noticed that thing. Just like Lady Gaga’s thing is to stutter in her choruses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8F7GZnERNU
feels like cheating maybe there's a separate thread for awful corp music

"digitization meets compartmentalization"

“...to the evils of the world”

why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDbNZtGDTFU

That's one for the 'Sincerity' in Music thread.

The Importance of Being Ernest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZj8lrSZHsE

forgot to post this here... like, surprise, 2021 is going to suck too

even worse was the clean radio edit that replaced "bitcheeeees" in the 1st verse w/ "it's liiiiiiit"

omg, lmao

i would enjoy hearing someone yelling "ayo shut the fuck up" at them like the dude in the chappelle sketch yelling at john mayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgIlTyCiVYQ

no one is beating David Guetta's I Have A Dream MEGAMIX but that F2020 is very bad indeed

Might as well put this song in here, which to be fair isn't so much terrible as it is kinda lazy and not really bringing anything new to the table:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ISK1g54Fc

that song that everyone played at the end of bill and ted 3