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What are The Absolute Most Worstest Songs Ever in your opinion?

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CheddarIsNotTheOnlyCheese · 09/02/2019 20:15

Midnight at The Oasis by The Brand New Heavies. Bland.
Anything by M People. Uber Bland.
Man! I Feel Like A Woman by Shania Twain. I Work in a club and anytime we have a do with older women as the guests this has them racing to the dance floor. A lot of flesh gets released. Grin

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Arnoldillo · 10/02/2019 01:42

Ikr? Mind, I suppose if you're marrying the bloke who sang it, you do sort of know what you're getting. It does take it to another level of bellendery though.

sagradafamiliar · 10/02/2019 01:42

Here's hoping the father-in-law thought he was singing enthusiastically about sandals and not his daughter's undercrackers...

sushisuperstar · 10/02/2019 01:48

Uptown funk
That one that was really, really popular by Ariana Grande
Anything sung by ed Sheeran

Fudgecakes · 10/02/2019 01:52

Sagrada....haha....that made me laugh 😁....I'll have to imagine him singing about the footwear rather than the undies next time I'm unfortunate enough to hear it! Bet I'll still hate it though!!

CandidCat · 10/02/2019 02:00

Wow...the page 1 people really hate my taste in music.Blush

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 10/02/2019 02:05

Happy--Pharell Williams
Hey Mona--(,Henry from Neighbours)
Shine - Take That.
Get right. (Jennifer Lopez, I think)

ShortandSweet96 · 10/02/2019 02:12

Any nicki minaj song. By god she is just fucking annoying. I'm 22 so at the age I'm meant to love her and cardi b, but of they fell off a yatch and was eaten by a sea animal I might clap.

Rockbird · 10/02/2019 02:16

Can't believe people hate Kate Bush and Bohemian Rhapsody Shock

My hates are:
Golden Fucking Brown. Dreary and creepy as fuck.
Hotel California. Creepy as fuck.
That Major Tom one. Usually love Bowie but that frightens the fuck out of me.
Apache, the Shadows. Shoot me now.
Anything by the Beatles. Total crap.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 10/02/2019 02:17

Anything by Genesis or Phil Collins. Cannot stand the bastard’s whiny voice.

There is a song I REALLY hate but as I switch over the radio as soon as I hear the opening bars, I can’t remember what it is called or who sings it. Not very helpful.

Oh and I love the Beautiful South.

crummyusername · 10/02/2019 02:39

All the cover versions of Hallelujah especially the one by that Alexandra woman. Overwrought twaddle.

Graphista · 10/02/2019 05:53

Any covers of wham! Or George Michael tracks. I adored him and his best works are absolute classics - and you should NEVER EVER mess with a classic!

I'm noticing quite a few being mentioned are covers too.

Anything by Michael Jackson. Radio stations don't play Gary glitter or rolf harrison any more so I don't see why this should be inflicted on us either.

Anything by Beyoncé - all crap all sound the same

Anything by cliff Richard - aside from all the other reasons he sounds so NASAL and false! Like he's putting a weird voice on! Even his speaking voice I've lived all over uk and heard hundreds of uk accents - I've NEVER heard whatever the fuck accent he's supposed to have is!

"The Scientist by Coldplay, it’s sooo bloooody dreary!" Make that anything by Coldplay. So bloody depressing - even their "upbeat" songs are! How?! I have a particular hatred of "fix you" which was a hit around when I split from ex and was feeling broken and this just made me feel worse!

Marian Carey - without you - falls under the "don't mess with a classic" rule. Also not keen on her as a singer, technically brilliant but lacks warmth somehow and yet I like the woman herself.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" 😱 wash your mouth out! How can you hate this?! And there's 2 of you?!

"Believe Cher" agreed, she has a fab voice she never needed this abomination to be out there.

I do think a fair few that are being mentioned are perfectly OK even good tracks but have been ruined for many by being overplayed. For me the following are in that category where initially I loved them but I ended up hearing them SO MUCH it put me off at least for a while :

Whitney - I will always love you
Oasis - wonderwall
Bryan Adams - everything I do...
Enya - Orinoco flow
James - sit down
Snow patrol - chasing cars
Yazz - the only way is up (not helped by new labours appropriation)
Peter cetera - glory of love
Dexys midnight runners - come on Eileen
Manic street preachers - design for life
King of Rock n Roll - Prefab Sprout
Real Gone Kid - Deacon Blue
American Pie – Don McLean

Then there's the just plain dire, especially (but not ltd to) the grim, paedo, abuse excusing crap:

Jealous guy - don't care who sings it fucking awful dv minimising song
My Sharona
Does your mother know - Abba
Brotherhood of man - save all your kisses
Gilbert o'sullivan - claire
Tie a yellow ribbon
Run to you - Bryan Adams
All I wanna do is make love to you
In the summertime...
When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook
A little bit more - also dr hook dr creepy rapist
Chumbawumba - tub thumping
Lady In Red - or indeed any Chris de burgh track
Let's hear it for the boy (from footloose)
Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison

"Any song created after 1987..." Haha, if it weren't for George I'd probably agree. 2 words for you

Absolute 80's

"Mull of Kintyre
I can suffer anything else but this..........." Is it the bagpipes?

"lego movie - catchy song" did you see Chris on Graham Norton?

www.popsugar.co.uk/entertainment/Chris-Pratt-Sings-Everything-Awesome-Andy-Dwyer-Video-45758534

"Titanium" really? It's one of my favourites. Awesome username fellow Scot?

"Evanescence, ‘Wake me up in time’ or something! So ott and whiny." Bring me to life? I love that song.

"I have a personal hatred for those "end of the school disco" songs" I SHOULD hate these as I was never once asked to dance (not cool or pretty enough) but actually I love them. You mean tracks like:

Bonnie Tyler - total eclipse of the heart
Madonna - crazy for you
Joe cocker & Jennifer warnes up where we belong
Eric Clapton - wonderful tonight
Foreigner - waiting for a girl like you
Chicago - hard to say I'm sorry
Paul Weller - you do something to me
Fat Larrys band - zoom
Foreigner - I wanna know what love is
Spandau ballet - true

???

I love an 80's ballad.

I also quite like those cheesy novelty songs but especially the ones with their own moves like pretty much all Agadoo songs, tight fit, jive bunny, macarena... All those ones but I take them in the spirit they're intended which is goofy fun.

"I just called to say I love you by Stevie Wonder. Stevie is a bone-fide musical genius whose 70s albums are timeless masterpieces. It is a small tragedy that this ghastly twee abomination of a song is the work for which he is best known in the Uk
I know! Superstitious! What an awesome track!"

Not sure I agree that's what most U.K. Stevie fans think of. Certainly I think of

Superstitious
Gangsters paradise
As (George even should've known better on the "don't mess with a classic" rule)
Loves in need of love today
Don't you worry bout a thing
Uptight (everything's alright)

Deathraystare · 10/02/2019 06:59

Loveshack

WHAT????!!!! You are out of line there!!! One of my all time faves! Love the B52's.

insancerre · 10/02/2019 07:04

Bohemian rhapsody is the absolute worst song ever written

Anything by Michael Jackson
Madonna
Queen
Kylie Minogue

MysteriesOfTheOrganism · 10/02/2019 07:24

Anything by Queen.
Anything by Abba.

But absolute top spot goes to 'Honey' by Bobby Goldsboro - a veritable fatberg of mawkishness. Pass the sick-bag.

MrsBudd · 10/02/2019 07:27

Wet wet wet
Love is all around

Babybird
You're gorgeous

Hate both of these!!!!

WaterBird · 10/02/2019 07:34

"Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men
"I Bet My Life" by Imagine Dragons
And pretty much anything by Maroon 5

SubparOwl · 10/02/2019 07:38

I don't wanna close my eyyyyyyyyyes....

WaterBird · 10/02/2019 07:38

@Rockbird (how funny our user names are quite similar)
I like the tune of "Bohemian Rhapsoddy" but find the lyrics quite sad, about the idea of wishing never to be born.

SubparOwl · 10/02/2019 07:41

And yy to The Beautiful South.

Awrite · 10/02/2019 07:42

Love Shack by the B52s.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 10/02/2019 07:50

No one wants to hear Paul Heaton's whiny voice when they're fucking! Not even Mrs Paul Heaton.
Brilliant!

MorvaanReed · 10/02/2019 07:53

If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me - Dr Hook. Puketastic chat up line dross that got slurred/quoted at you when the slow tunes came on at Discos.

IsabelleSE19 · 10/02/2019 08:16

MrsBudd yes to Babybird! That made me remember another one too - Girl Like You by Edwyn Collins. Goes in the 'overplayed' category along with Breakfast at Tiffany's.

AngelOfDeathNix · 10/02/2019 08:50

I detest Come on Eileen, my brother in law requested it at our wedding and I told the DJ to switch it off! I have a hatred for the song!

Blurred lines by Robin Thicke - awful song on so many levels.

Catsandbootsandbootsandcats · 10/02/2019 09:25

This is a thread of all my favourite songs!

There's really not much I don't like, I'll sing along to anything and everything, even if it is a bit shit.

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