A commenter on a recent post about Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey” suggested that in the pantheon of the World’s Worst Songs, “the fruit doesn’t hang any lower.” I beg to differ,…
World’s Worst Songs
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There’s a volume of Time-Life’s AM Gold series called Teen Idols of the 70s, which features many of the usual suspects: the Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman, the Osmonds, the Jackson…
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The farther back we go in time, the harder it is to fairly judge what sucks, because tastes and styles change. Complicating matters is the post-modern ironic distance through which…
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In an episode of King of the Hill called “Reborn to Be Wild,” Hank Hill says to a Christian rock singer, “Can’t you see you’re not making Christianity better? You’re…
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Make it stop. In the name of all that’s holy, make it stop.
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There’s something bad happening in Booger Woods, and it’s this song.
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After Carrie Underwood won American Idol in 2005, she wanted to be marketed as a country singer, and she has been fabulously successful: 11 #1 country singles and three more…
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Somebody hose down the singer, and her producer too while you’re at it.
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When I’m playing Abbey Road, I almost always pass them by.
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Clever or pretentious? With Sting, it’s always a valid question.
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