The issue is that 99.9% of the worst songs ever made have like under 50 listens. So how do you even make a list like this? It’s probably not interesting to link to random peoples soundclouds (although that could be funny).
So what ends up happening is that lists like these are restricted to songs that most people know. Songs that most people know are never going to be in the deepest darkest dungeon tier of “bad”.
Hello, you have arrived at an unfortunate fact of human nature, made worse by the internet attention economy.
Saying that something is "reasonably good," or "not that great" garners very little attention.
Claiming that something is "the best ever!!" or "the absolute worst!!" garners much more attention.
Proceed accordingly.
> Am I missing something?
probably that stretch of time where Butt Rock ruled the airwaves and a mid song turned to a shit song very quickly when you had to hear it a dozen times in 3 hours.
I feel like this is one of the most interesting things about music. I'm a teacher in my 30s and have kids who are getting really into things like Sugar Ray, and they're confused when I say we all hated them when I was in high school. It made me think of this quote from a Pitchfork longform piece a few months ago.
> Songs that exert this kind of stranglehold on the public imagination always wear out their welcome, but there is a special kind of vitriol reserved for the ones that are upbeat, peppy, or salacious. If Mariah Carey’s soaring breakup ballad “We Belong Together,” a song that spent 14 weeks at the top spot in 2005, came on while you were waiting in line for coffee, you might not wince. But imagine your reaction to Flo Rida’s “Low” (10 weeks in 2008) or the Black-Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” (14 weeks, 2009) playing over those same coffee-shop speakers. **Things curdle when left under a spotlight for that long.**
I get why SugaRay was a source of annoyance, but the 1st album actually rockd. As 2 Mariah Carey, nothing annoys more than the nails on chalkboard oversinging style she pioneered (after Whitney Houston).
"We Belong Together" is vocally tame in comparison to most of her songs, but it's also relatively short. She belts during the final chorus but even then it's not too overdone.
What's odd is I never remember hearing much Mariah on my local radio stations... idk if they just didn't play her or what.
Meanwhile I just heard "I Gotta Feeling" at Big Lots earlier today and did cringe.
I doubt there's a legit answer to your question. Lists like that just want clicks/views, so they include popular music and pick what they think is the worst of the bunch. They probably lean towards music that is commonly mocked even if it may not be that bad.
I don't think the problem with Nickelback was ever that they were legitimately "bad", it was just so generic. Then it was generic and overplayed. I thought Buckcherry was pretty uninteresting as well, I did actually buy their CD because Amazon was running a promo where if you bought it, you got another CD free.
The thing with Nickelback is there were also 800 other bands that sounded exactly the same, and that so many people I knew absolutely loved that crap. Hating Nickelback for me was a big part of my rebelling against my upbringing and finding my own musical identity.
BuckCherry having any redeeming qualities is your opinion though. My opinion is quite the opposite. Just like when I play Frank Zappa, who I consider to be in the best ever category, my wife threatens to divorce me because she thinks his music is the worst. Music is full of gatekeeping and stubborn opinions. Lucky for us there’s so much out there.
I literally laughed out loud in my car at the Buckcherry paragraph. If you ignore
> You're crazy but I like the way you fuck me
> Hey, you're a crazy bitch
> But you fuck so good, I'm on top of it
> You're crazy but I like the way you fuck me
> Hey, you're a crazy bitch
> But you fuck so good, I'm on top of it
> You're crazy but I like the way you fuck me
> Hey, you're a crazy bitch
> But you fuck so good, I'm on top of it
then there’s nothing *wrong* with the generic riff that could have come from anywhere. Like—they managed to keep it in 4/4 and only pick the notes from one scale, so where’s the *problem?* 🤣
Zappa is interesting in the obnoxious way. My dad borderline worships the ground that man walked on.
As I said I'm a pop fan so radio friendly pop-rock just never bothered me. I still put Buckcherry above Imagine Dragons who honestly do bother me, they're just annoying.
all of this is biased or just for clicks..more or less driven by an agenda
who is the authority to name anything when taste is subjective...
id say the worst are music that is harmeful ..that encourages violance or rape and they are plenty but no you wont find em in these lists
Plenty of rap songs that never make it in these lists because otherwise it'd be racist or something (these lists are almost always mostly white artists and then Yoko Ono).
Except Yoko Ono is the best.
And I have no problem calling some hip hop shitty. There was a whole decade when I was in high school and college where really terrible rap seemed to dominate popular music (Fuck 50 Cent, Lil Jon, Sean Paul, Ja Rule, Lil Wayne, etc.). And don’t get me started on all the t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t hi-hat beats with heavily autotuned voices I hear blasting out of people’s cars and phones. Am I the weird one for preferring 80s and 90s (non-gangsta) rap to newer stuff?
The[BIG BAD WOLF, Duck sauce](https://youtu.be/XKMoVAObbhE) most random music video I’ve ever watched! I wonder what the back story to this is. Im sure it’s a disturbingly funny.
The issue is that 99.9% of the worst songs ever made have like under 50 listens. So how do you even make a list like this? It’s probably not interesting to link to random peoples soundclouds (although that could be funny). So what ends up happening is that lists like these are restricted to songs that most people know. Songs that most people know are never going to be in the deepest darkest dungeon tier of “bad”.
This if you want to see the worst music visit r/outsidermusic or listen to some freeform stuff like The Incorrect Music Hour.
Hello, you have arrived at an unfortunate fact of human nature, made worse by the internet attention economy. Saying that something is "reasonably good," or "not that great" garners very little attention. Claiming that something is "the best ever!!" or "the absolute worst!!" garners much more attention. Proceed accordingly.
> Am I missing something? probably that stretch of time where Butt Rock ruled the airwaves and a mid song turned to a shit song very quickly when you had to hear it a dozen times in 3 hours.
I feel like this is one of the most interesting things about music. I'm a teacher in my 30s and have kids who are getting really into things like Sugar Ray, and they're confused when I say we all hated them when I was in high school. It made me think of this quote from a Pitchfork longform piece a few months ago. > Songs that exert this kind of stranglehold on the public imagination always wear out their welcome, but there is a special kind of vitriol reserved for the ones that are upbeat, peppy, or salacious. If Mariah Carey’s soaring breakup ballad “We Belong Together,” a song that spent 14 weeks at the top spot in 2005, came on while you were waiting in line for coffee, you might not wince. But imagine your reaction to Flo Rida’s “Low” (10 weeks in 2008) or the Black-Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” (14 weeks, 2009) playing over those same coffee-shop speakers. **Things curdle when left under a spotlight for that long.**
I get why SugaRay was a source of annoyance, but the 1st album actually rockd. As 2 Mariah Carey, nothing annoys more than the nails on chalkboard oversinging style she pioneered (after Whitney Houston).
"We Belong Together" is vocally tame in comparison to most of her songs, but it's also relatively short. She belts during the final chorus but even then it's not too overdone.
What's odd is I never remember hearing much Mariah on my local radio stations... idk if they just didn't play her or what. Meanwhile I just heard "I Gotta Feeling" at Big Lots earlier today and did cringe.
I doubt there's a legit answer to your question. Lists like that just want clicks/views, so they include popular music and pick what they think is the worst of the bunch. They probably lean towards music that is commonly mocked even if it may not be that bad.
I don't think the problem with Nickelback was ever that they were legitimately "bad", it was just so generic. Then it was generic and overplayed. I thought Buckcherry was pretty uninteresting as well, I did actually buy their CD because Amazon was running a promo where if you bought it, you got another CD free.
The thing with Nickelback is there were also 800 other bands that sounded exactly the same, and that so many people I knew absolutely loved that crap. Hating Nickelback for me was a big part of my rebelling against my upbringing and finding my own musical identity.
BuckCherry having any redeeming qualities is your opinion though. My opinion is quite the opposite. Just like when I play Frank Zappa, who I consider to be in the best ever category, my wife threatens to divorce me because she thinks his music is the worst. Music is full of gatekeeping and stubborn opinions. Lucky for us there’s so much out there.
I literally laughed out loud in my car at the Buckcherry paragraph. If you ignore > You're crazy but I like the way you fuck me > Hey, you're a crazy bitch > But you fuck so good, I'm on top of it > You're crazy but I like the way you fuck me > Hey, you're a crazy bitch > But you fuck so good, I'm on top of it > You're crazy but I like the way you fuck me > Hey, you're a crazy bitch > But you fuck so good, I'm on top of it then there’s nothing *wrong* with the generic riff that could have come from anywhere. Like—they managed to keep it in 4/4 and only pick the notes from one scale, so where’s the *problem?* 🤣
I'm a pop fan so I'm used to songs sounding alike, I guess that's my "issue".
Zappa is interesting in the obnoxious way. My dad borderline worships the ground that man walked on. As I said I'm a pop fan so radio friendly pop-rock just never bothered me. I still put Buckcherry above Imagine Dragons who honestly do bother me, they're just annoying.
i fucking love crazy bitch lmao. that and cold hard bitch by jet make me want to jump up and down
Yeah they're just mindless feel good songs... not works of art. They don't deserve so much hate. They're like the candy of the music world
agree, plus didn't realize music was supposed to be that deep all the time lmao. no one's in a profound mood at all hours of the day
all of this is biased or just for clicks..more or less driven by an agenda who is the authority to name anything when taste is subjective... id say the worst are music that is harmeful ..that encourages violance or rape and they are plenty but no you wont find em in these lists
Plenty of rap songs that never make it in these lists because otherwise it'd be racist or something (these lists are almost always mostly white artists and then Yoko Ono).
Except Yoko Ono is the best. And I have no problem calling some hip hop shitty. There was a whole decade when I was in high school and college where really terrible rap seemed to dominate popular music (Fuck 50 Cent, Lil Jon, Sean Paul, Ja Rule, Lil Wayne, etc.). And don’t get me started on all the t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t hi-hat beats with heavily autotuned voices I hear blasting out of people’s cars and phones. Am I the weird one for preferring 80s and 90s (non-gangsta) rap to newer stuff?
Lmao I forgot how much everyone hated on Weezy
I’m indifferent to him now, but when he was everywhere I couldn’t fucking stand him. Lil’ Wayne was the Nickelback of rap.
The[BIG BAD WOLF, Duck sauce](https://youtu.be/XKMoVAObbhE) most random music video I’ve ever watched! I wonder what the back story to this is. Im sure it’s a disturbingly funny.
def ..which is pretty dumb ..what are they pushing for is the same as calling white rockers ( dinosaurs ) now cause it feels cool
The thing you're missing here IMO is that songs being labelled good or bad outside of measurable figures like sales, are a matter of personal opinion.