The Worst Song Ever

[put_it_away]

Everyone else give up. I have found the worst song ever.

Oddly enough, though, it is combined with the BEST VIDEO EVER.

Vocoder - What happens now?

[Sarah]

There's no way that's the worst.

[put_it_away]

There's no way that's the worst.

Meaning that it is so bad that it is good?

[Sarah]

Nope.  Meaning that there are way worse songs out there (don't ask me to name them, because I always draw blanks at these moments; why then should you pay any mind to what I say? you ask.  I answer, beats me).  This one is mediocre and about thirty years behind the times (unless it was recorded circa 1982), but its badness is unremarkable.

[Stan]

There's no way that's the worst.

Meaning that it is so bad that it is good?

 Seriously? Even Boz Scaggs has written worse stuff than this unremarkable drek.

[Pride of Staten Island]

I'm only a year and half late, but this is definitely the worst song ever:

Everclear - AM Radio

I don't know what I hate most about it. The lazy sample? The nostalgic pandering? The chants of "Yo!" coupled with crunchy post-grunge guitars that are supposed simulate excitement? The fact that Everclear once ostenibly had some kind of punk rock cred? The basketball jersey?

It's the song that Smash Mouth would have rejected for being too lowest common denominator.

In any case, it kind of makes you feel like Art Alexakis meeting his doom on Everest wasn't an entirely bad thing.

[Steve in North Hollywood]

There's no way that's the worst.

Meaning that it is so bad that it is good?

Yes, it was a good try, but that is definitely NOT the worst song ever.  Frankly, that one guy's moustache puts the entire thing closer to the Best Song Ever end of the spectrum.

I still say Mike's offering of "Cowboy Star" by Ambrosia was the winner of Worst Song Ever.  And my opinion matters very little.

[dave from knoxville]

I may have said this earlier on this thread, but "where at least I know I'm free" is the second line to the chorus of the worst song of all time. There's really no point arguing this.

[padthaikai]

Battlecry......Triumph Of The Will...

The general theme is terrible enough, but the jokey atmosphere/recycled 80s metal cliches really make this memorable. Do you think the Nazis would have used snazzy Powerpoint transitions?

[Jason from Huntsville, AL]

Well, if the production values of that video don't convince you of that people who made it are part of the master race, I don't know what will.

I think the moment that sums it all up is at 2:21 in. (Tried to link to it, but the board just posted the whole vid again.)

[Christina]

I'm only a year and half late, but this is definitely the worst song ever:

Everclear - AM Radio

I don't know what I hate most about it.

I'm not even listening to it and I hate it. I think it's the still frame shot that's showing here. I hate it.

[Steve of Bloomington]

Everclear inhabit that special region of horribleness where they are so bland and boring they are somehow worse than bands that are actively bad in the traditional sense. Sort of like Smashmouth, whom somebody else already mentioned.

(is that the proper use of 'whom' Fredericks? Sarah?)

[fonpr]

To whom it may concern,

I always think of whom as a receiver.

Professor Fredericks

[Steve of Bloomington]

They received a mention. Thus, 'whom'. Thanks for you help.

[fonpr]

Thanks for you help.

I try to help whomever I can