What's Your Favorite Artist's Worst Song...& why?

And to broaden this a little -- it doesn't necessarily have to be solely your favorite artist....it could even be artists you passingly appreciate. For example, while I've never considered myself a true fan of Madonna, I feel quite confident in my assertion that "Crazy for You" from the soundtrack to "VisionQuest" is the worst, most trite, most deplorably banal single she ever released......even worse than anything off EROTICA.

"No how matter how....?"

Sorry, I'm an idiot. You get the point I was driving at, though, I'm sure.

For some reason Momus's "Don't Stop the Night" off "Don't Stop the Night" always seemed particularly lame. I think because unlike most Momus songs I don't find it about anything ... or nothing I relate to or understood anyway.

But now I guess I'd have to choose some monstrosity from his "grunge" period on Vodka Jellies.

In terms of my favorites, I'd have to say Killing Joke have dropped the ball a few times, but never as eggregiously as on OUTSIDE THE GATE from 1988, best painfully typified by the audio trial that is "America," rife with cheesy synths, crap 80's production and the worst lyrics of their entire career. A close second would be the extended mix of "Stay One Jump Ahead," which features a truly ham-fisted "rap". Were it not for Geordie Walker's nimble riffage, this particular song would be their worst evah!

Not only does Andy Summer' gawdawful "Mother" anchor SYNCHRONICITY from achieving the heights it aspired to, but it roundly wins as the Police's recorded career low-point, if you ask me.....with "Born in the 50's" sprinting stealthily just behind it.

Oh, there's plenty of early MBV that should taken out and shot. There's a reason it's all out of print!

I'm a Ben Folds Five obsessive. I mean, totally. I'd like ol' Helmethead's faeces off the floor most of them time... but even that doesn't mean that I'm going to sit down and listen to "For Those Of Y'all That Wear Fanny Packs". I mean, fine, have a laugh in the studio by all means. Just don't force the thing onto a CD for the torture of any bugger stupid enough to buy it.

And "Hospital Song" is shit as well.

I've had tons of trouble trying to pick the worst Velvet Underground song in the past, and I think I came up with "Train Coming Round the Bend" mostly probaly because it's sandwiched between "I Found a Reason" and "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" I would be interested in what other people think is thier worst song.

I was about to name my most hated Neil Young song - and then realized I couldn't stop at just one.... but he has enough bonus points that the crap is easily forgotten.

Ooh. Not sure I have a favourite band as such, but from the ones I'd say have a claim on that let's go for ballboy. Their weak points do seem to make them all the more lovable... but One Sailor Was Waving is shit.

Dylan's "Sweetheart Like You" demands reinvestigation.

If you can ever see the video, please check it out. Esp. the 'fake' band...

Lyrics

well it's not like Cat Power is my favorite all time artist but "The Colors and the Kids" gets skipped, every time. A lot of people seem to like that song in particular.

R.E.M. used to be my favorite band, and I can't find a single song on their last 3 LPs that I like. Or can even tolerate!

Sean carruthers played me one of the early MBV recs. I haven't still recovered from the first on the alb he played. Its incredible that this is the band that would make loveelss (minus dave conway of course).

I am forever thankful Mr. Conway went off to write vampire novels or whatever it was.

I've been obsessing over Radio Birdman lately, but whenever I listen to that Sub Pop "Essential* Radio Birdman" comp I skip over "Snake" without fail - it sounds completely drained of all the power and emotion that fueled all their other great songs and the Van Morrison ripoff chorus gets on my nerves.

*and how can it be "essential" without "455 SD" anyways?

"Fillmore jive" is just a terrible track to finish an otherwise great album with. Awful. Ugh, I cant stand it. Theres some filler on "Wowee Zowee" but it's tolerable enough. "Folk jam" and "Platforom blues" dont do anything for me either.

"Thankyou For The Music" I can deal with - it has a couple of lovely melodic turns - but "I Have A Dream" can fuck right off, and doesn't even have the excuse of being written for a musical. ABBA are not a band you often imagine are taking the piss out of you but when the children's choir comes in I have to wonder.

For a very long time "Work Is A Four Letter Word" was the only Smiths' song I'd never heard. I had opportunities, but I suppose I was saving it up, so to speak, keeping one song back for a rainy day. Then along came file-sharing and the temptation was too great. My mistake.

NB "Crazy For You" is lovely.

I'm obsessive almost to the point of illness regarding The Fall but I absolutely hate "L.A." Why?

Everything seems to go wrong in it at once, the sequencers are completely weedy and weak, the lyrics are really pissy and monosylablic and that skriky yank whine ratting over the top (not to mention "over the top") to the extent that it just doesn't seem right to me, It's all wrong. Something about it is just totally un Falllike and I can't really explain better than that, it's just wrong, especially in the context of the album, which is one of the better Fall albums of the 80's.

I actually avoid putting on the album because of that track.

"Sy Borg" is not Frank Zappa's worst song. That honor belongs to either "Jumbo Go Away" (OK musically, but lyrics about slapping around a fat, smelly groupy) or "Briefcase Boogie" (songs about fucking a briefcase should be more interesting). Come to think of it, a goodly portion of Thing Fish (from whence "Briefcase Boogie" came) is pointless.

Though Eno's No Pussyfooting is supposedly "important" and "historical," it's about as easy to sit through as Metal Machine Music.

I like "Work is a four letter word"! I think it's a cover version. I dont know who it's by originally though.

I don't really have a permanent favorite band, but lately it's been the Replacements, and "Dose of Thunder" is just terrible, as is "Black Diamond."

My favorite band used to be the Beatles, and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is McCartney at his smarmy faux-witty worst.

Soul Coughing's "Janine" always irritated me, and I only just figured out why: the song basically consists of two people singing (neither of whom can sing at all well) two different songs; and the two songs don't mesh.

Then there's the Afghan Whigs' "Faded," a song that simply screams at you to hoist up a lighter. At first I wrote off its arena-rock posturing as "ironic," but even if it's wearing its buttrockishness ironically it's still buttrockist.

"Black Diamond" is a cover -- from Kiss' first album, so you shouldn't hold it against the Replacements.

''I am forever thankful Mr. Conway went off to write vampire novels or whatever it was.''

i'd like to know his opinion on the band's celebrated stuff. Take some time off ILM/E and track him down Ned!

i wanna be your boyfriend off the ramones always pisses me off. i know its all ironic and intentionally trite, but that doesn't stop it being a really weak song

Poison should not really have recorded Sexual Thing. Horrible song.

"Work Is A Four Letter Word" was originally by 60s ginger Scouse gobshite Cilla Black.

"Work Is A Four Letter Word"

Oh come on! Certainly that god-awful cover of "Golden Lights" is FAR worse than this.

Take some time off ILM/E and track him down Ned!

Perhaps appropriately, Google turns this up as the first search result.

In an ideal world, Poison wouldn't have recorded *ANY* song.

Something about "Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll" off Generation Terrorists makes me want to beat the shit out of the lot of them, even Richie.

another vote for I have a dream....it's a disaster, and you hear it in EVERY supermarket here EVERY day...it's like bathing into a sea of outdated yoghurt

I like the Ramones' "..Boyfriend" a whole lot. it's cute. and earnest- sounding, to me at least. the same kind of feeling that I get from modern 'the box'-style pop songs..

worst songs by artists I like: Dylan's most aggressively Christian stuff (not that all of it is bad; 'every grain of sand' is a great song, and it's not like he ever stopped being Christian, is it?), and I don't like the new Spiritualized album because the arrangements and bad singing drown out anything approaching a "hook" and sometimes indeed a "tune" in an attempt at grandiosity..

I absolutely adore The Cure, but who told them that "Mint Car" was a good idea???? Likewise, "Face-Up" by New Order is absolutely unforgivable and "Domino Dancing" actually made me hate Pet Shop Boys for years.

"miniature sun" by XTC for that godawful keyboard sound that sounds like bad dinner jazz. and almost all of "groovy decay/ gravy decoy/ whatever robyn's renaming it in the hope that someone might forget how CRAP it is and forgive it". awful album....