Are These The Worst Songs Ever Recorded?
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Listen to the songs here: • Worst Songs
00:00 Intro
00:10 Harry Kari "Yes Sir That's My Baby"
01:24 Free Course
01:52 Brooks and Dunn "Boot Scootin' Boogie"
03:55 Napolean XIV "!aaaH aH ,yawA eM ekaT ot gnimoC er’yehT"
04:52 Kenny G "What A Wonderful World"
06:02 Patrice Wilson Songs
06:56 Insane Clown Posse "Miracles"
07:53 Shakira "Whenever Wherever"
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you obviously haven't heard my music
No, no one has
@@Barnaacle indeed
You beat me to this exact comment
LOLOL Now that's a funny response.
Same
When I got married many years ago I informed the band that they would not be paid if they played any of those stupid line dances like The Chicken Dance, The Hokey Pokey, The Electric Slide and so on. (This was before Boot Scootin' Boogie, which my country band did wind up needing to play far too many times.) Since the band were my personal friends, they agreed, the guests were vaguely disappointed, and I didn't care.
Should have played them all backwards.
I'm Canadian and have until now never heard the Boot Scootin' Boogie, nor heard of the salami ritual that goes with it. I wonder if it's a prairie thing, or if they simply have better taste in Toronto.
@@KarstenJohansson If you were remotely involved in country or pseudo-country at the time line dances were in vogue, it didn't much matter where you were. Boots were being scooted in a boogie fashion. At least in the United States. As for Toronto having better taste, you gave us Rush, so you win that one, hands down. RIP, Neil.
You're a hero
@@KarstenJohansson I am Canadian and know of Boot Scootin Boogie but not the salami thing, it must be a prairie thing
Oh and @underwoodvoice9077, dont give Toronto any credit, a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I first heard "They're coming to take me away" at about 1am back about 1976, when I was 11 or 12. My brother and I would take turns keeping each other awake so we could listen to Dr Demento, always at a low volume because we didn't want our parents to bust us for being up many hours past bedtime.
Thanks for the rabbit hole
My grandpa used to play that song to make me laugh as a kid. Fond memories of it
i have a cassette tape of his show from the early 80s (taped by pressing the two buttons on my Panasonic tape recorder and putting the mic hole next to my AM radio) that song was a hardy perennial along with The Existential Blues, King Tut, and early Weird Al…
Same here, but I never knew about the backwards B side. Amusingly, the backwards version ends with, "And now we're mellow."
Anybody whe says Boot Scootin' Boogie is the worst, regardless of motive, clearly has not heard Achy Breaky Heart. That song has actually made me go out and take a smoke break from my place of work, I don't smoke.
Tobcco, Marijuana, or meth?...cuz there are levels!
@@Bigz568 fentanyl
cotton eye joe was the equivalent down here in the american south...
uh jus dun fin u uhnduhstan
I can confirm. Socials are horrible.....I am also from winnipeg and the reason we all know how to do the line dance to boot scootin boogie is we had to learn it in grade 7 gym class.......I think its one of the reasons I hated country music so much when i was younger
I once shot a video for Patrice Wilson in upstate New York and it was one of the worst experiences of my life.
@@thesnesman5235 I was a freelance videographer back in 2012 and I was contacted by him (via Craigslist lol) to go shoot a music video of these twin girls in a small affluent town. He told me there would be an assistant there when I arrived who would help with lighting, rigging etc. I get there and I text him where is the assistant and he lazily texts back "Oh I didn't tell you? They're not coming". So I get on with it and meet the mom of these two kids and she clearly wants them to be mega famous and they can barely play their instruments or sing. She tells me they already recorded the music (produced like Friday, Chinese Food etc.) which I was not provided with so I had no backing song to use. So I was shooting blind to these kids' wildly varying tempo and mouth movements just hoping I could sync it up later in post. We shot in a library or old book store I think and at one point the electricity went out. Because I had no lighting guy the footage was all super dark. A host of other ridiculous things went on. I didn't get paid for six months and when I did it was pittance, they never used the video in the end.
Please, we're curious for the full story
Please, do tell
@@meowtherainbowx4163 @thesnesman5235 @hatempire Guys, I'm sorry. I spent a while writing a few paragraphs here and hit "Reply" and it disappeared 🤦♂ So here's the short version: He contacted me through craigslist (lol) He said there would be an assistant for lighting/rigging on the day (there wasn't) the mom was a night mare and the two poor kids (twins) couldn't sing a note or play their guitars, he never provided me with the playback so we were shooting to an anomalous tempo and I'm just hoping I can sync it all up in the edit later. Took me six months to get paid and it was pittance when I did. 99% of my interactions with him were by text. They never used the video in the end.
Gonna need that story
As a fellow Winnipegger, he's spot on about wedding socials lol
Oh boy, that is a rather unfortunate name for a person from a city
@@DatMetalBoi75 Don't knock it til you try it.
It's pretty spot on to what living here feels like@@DatMetalBoi75
I've got a copy of "They're Coming To Take Me Away". My uncle had purchased it in the late 60's I first heard it at 5 years old in 1980. And to this day I have to laugh, even just thinking about it. Absolutely hilarious. Side B is very weird.
I know you did the exact same rant about the Boot Scoot'n Boogie in a different video, but it's amazing to hear it again.
BIG BROWN ON THE GROUND BASSET HOUND DO THE POOP SCOOPIN' BOOGIE
William Shatner’s cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is pretty heinous
Understatement of the Century.
Nope...his cover of Tamborine Man was pretty heinous.
The whole “Transformed Man” album is terrible. Don’t forget his spoken-word rendition of “Rocket Man”- 70s era schlock at its worst…
If we're talking about covers, Smashing Pumpkin's 'Once in a Lifetime' sucks ass.
Kind of amazed "Butterfly" by Crazy Town didn't make the list. A sampled riff, a bunch of lyrical filler, a crass pop culture reference, and the word "butterfly" several times. It's genius!
People complain about Ice Ice Baby, but nothing breaks your spirit like hearing "Oh, I love Butterfly!" when you're playing Pretty Little Ditty.
Sad thing is, despite all the points you made about Butterfly... it's probably the best song on that album. Everything else is monumentally worse
Honestly the boot scootin boogie thing with wedding socials sounds like something they'd show on Letter Kenny from the little I've watched of it 😂
Pat Metheny was right - the gym I go to has so many "songs" playing that are samples of really old, good songs from the 1980s and earlier and just havec a heavy beat and some synth mixed in. Yesterday, it was The Temptations' "My Girl" which was basically the vocal track slabbed into some premixed bass/synth garbage.
Oh wow for a second I thought you could see my privated guitar/singing videos...😂
Enjoyable content as always, and a big thank you for the pentatonic mastery class! I'll be using that to get back into guitar (which has been sitting on the shelf for longer than I care to admit)!
*cough cough* thunder by imagine dragons *cough cough*
(to be fair it's not nearly in the same league as some of the stuff on this list {great video!} but still, I despise that song)
I never thought to call Patrice Wilson the "Anti-Max Martin". But hearing it now, I can't think of a better descriptor of his career.
WATER FIRE AIR and DIRT
F*CKING MAGNET HOW DO THEY WORK!?!
WooP WooP
The SNL parody of "Miracles" is hilarious...."Ass-Dan's kids, look just like Ass-Dan, and My two kids look just like Ass-Dan...♫♪"
If you're going at awful lyrics... I think you could dedicate an entire video to the unhinged lyrics in Train songs.
One of the worst bands ever for sure.
Looks at title of the video...
Me: OMG. samurai guitarist has listened to my album!
Don't tell my heart
my achy breaky heart
Dr. Demento played They're Coming... and it was awesome and scary as heck at the same time to a nine-year-old!
A list of The Worst Songs Ever Recorded that doesn't include "My Pal Foot Foot" by The Shaggs is woefully incomplete. I DARE you to go give it a listen Sammy! You've been warned!
Props for not including We Built This City. While not a shining example of great songwriting, it is far from the worst.
Halloween is kinda worse…Foot Foot has charm
I've got a playlist called Terrible where I compile terrible songs. Some choice offerings from the playlist include: "Inside of You" by the Walker Brothers, "The Mayor of Candor Lied " by Harry Chapin, "Melting Pot" by Blue Mink, "Good Enough" by Bobby Brown
oh a connoisseur! have you heard let's get freaky now by brokencyde? Truly the most obnoxious audiovisual experience I've ever had.
You live in Winnipeg?!? That was my favorite city to spend overnight when I was working as a pilot. I loved Stella’s and walking from that corner down balmoral to some bar I can’t remember…(the kings head???) anyway, love your channel!
I have been watching for a few years, and I don't often see a non sponsored and slightly more emotional and funny showing off your personality more. Do more of this!!!
Good lord, these are egregious! Loved the wedding social rant. Also, the coldest cold I've ever felt was near Winnipeg. It was just pain after a while.
Went to a wedding social a couple days ago... spot on... sometimes i want to move out of Winnipeg
Only sometimes?
But, but, but, I hear it's soo lovely this time of winter, luv, from NC, usa....
Could you pay not to go🤨
Respect for putting a few old songs on this list. I know modern music seems to be an easy target for lists like this, but there are quite a few songs from the past I'd gladly never hear again...
Love your descriptions! Cheers.
My Pal Footfoot by the Shaggs. That song will clear a room.
And yet, it's still somehow better than the Millennium Prayer, by Cliff Richard.
Funny, I learned how magnets work just a couple weeks ago
and, that they're basically contagious :)
Woo! I just sigend up for Pentatonic Mastery! Thank you! :D
I really hope Sammy G reads this 😂
@3:17 Boot scooting bogie really makes me think of something that happens in Mexico.
I’ve lived in Mexico for about 11 years and almost every birthday party, wedding or quinceañera (15th birthday celebration for girls) I’ve been to has had people dancing a spanish version of “achy breaky heart”. I say almost because I’ve been to many “Christian weddings” and they don’t really like to dance here, but outside of that… all of them lol
People really enjoy it, and most of them don’t know it’s a cover. 😂
I will say my equivalent to "boot scootin boogie" is the song "5,6,7,8" by steps. For some reason in school we had to dance to that song at least once per month and i dreaded it everytime
Hey do you have any spare cheap guitars around to give one away? Been playing for 10 years but lost my gear a few years ago. I wish i had a guitar again sadly im too broke.
Just to be clear, a “wedding social” is a fundraiser for the upcoming wedding? Is that right?
Yes.
Yes
Thanks for spoiling my day. I've just listened to the playlist and you are right those songs are total pants
5:37 The overlay over the picture of Kenny G makes it look like he has a bizarre painted on beard stubble. It took me awhile to figure out what it was, and even knowing what it is, I can't unsee it.
You need to listen to "little blue man" by Betty Johnson. I thought I hallucinated the song in a fever dream at 3am until a friend of mine also claimed to have Heard it in the middle of the night on the radio and also thought he hallucinated it.
Suerte, (whenever, whenever) original version in spanish is awesome, Shakira was just trying to be who she isn´t, also the way her voice sounds in english is complete dogshit compared to Suerte, hips don´t lie have her completely different being confident on a song composed in english
My only experience with "They're Coming To Take Me Away" is Ralph Garmon singing with various impersonations djuring Kevin Smith's Hollywood Babble-On.
Also Achy Breaky Heart should be #1
I had They’re coming to take me away on a 45 lp. The Bside was They’re coming to take me away backwards.
The Kenny G rendition reminds me of being at the mall first thing in the morning.
LOL It's funny to see that Boot Scootin' Boogie replaced The Chicken Dance. TBF, They are arguably the same caliber of song.
Wow I am quite shocked that my single “under the moon” is not on this list.
Wesley Willis “they threw me out of church” is the best and worst song at the same time
That sounds like a fun experiment: Run song lyrics through Google translate a line at a time from English to another language, back to English, but for each line, pick a different language. Then play a cover with the damaged lyrics.
I was from Kenora Ontario 120 miles from Winnipeg, we called the wedding social a Stag and Doe !!
Someone played 'they're coming to take me away' at a rave once. We were miles in the air at the time and it was kind of awesome
I can tell you the Australian equivalent of the Boot Scootin’ Boogie is the Eagle Rock by Daddy Cool which always gets played at weddings (banned at mine) and the “dance” is everyone drops their pants/trousers and leaves them around their ankles and wobbles their knees around, and no I don’t know why either.
I can confirm this!!
I know exactly where I heard Napoleon. I listen to smart playlists on UA-cam music at work all the time. Meaning I have all the time in the world to listen to unheard music. This was going to come up at some point.
another great thing that came of Kenny G via Pat Methany is Richard Thompson's ditty: "I Agree with Par Metheny" which used to be available on Richard's website.
I worked hard on that slide part and all the chicks always requested it to line dance. As long as I got paid and they had fun. There were songs that sucked to play more than boot scoot.
I don't know what the song title is, but when I heard the lyric, "If you're the next Drew Berry, I want you more. All these other girls wondering what I want you for," I took note of one of the worst songs I ever heard.
😂 that’s fantastic (in an awful way).
Heh, heh... Boot Scootin' Boogie is still in my repertoire, and, yes people still dance to it. Whenever, Wherever is also still in my repertoire but fortunately gets rarely played... It's not among my most hated songs, but if I never did it again, I'd be just fine with that.
Any songs by Journey or Foreigner make me run away.
On Spotify I could find only one song by Harry Kari, ‘Yokohama Mama’. Should be on the list also.
1. KISS - Beth
2. Jimmy Buffet - Cheeseburger in Paradise
3. Was (Not Was) - Walk the Dinosaur
4. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
5. The Who - You Better You Bet
That's my all time bottom 5
If you hate Werewolves of London you'd probably despise All Summer Long by Kid Rock, which is basically a mashup of that and Sweet Home Alabama
@@michaelegan3522I've heard it in passing before, its pretty bad.
I think if you played the top 10 POP SONGS CURRENTLY LISTED ON SPOTIFY they would probably be worse than any song on your list!
That ICP bit was awesome. 😂
Am I trippin’ or did I just see you at the Co-op in St Vital?! 😂
Sammy G, no Worst of List is complete without: Bobby Goldsboro's 1968 gem, Honey. A saccharine sweet, yet hauntingly maudlin piece of absolute tripe. Just thought you'd want to know.
4:05 - I saw Children of Bodom live (2009, during the tour for the album Blooddrunk) and they used this song as an intro 🤣(the original one, not the reversed).
That's absolutely wild and out there 😂
I see your list,and raise you It's a Small World!🤣🤣🤣
There’s also “They’re Coming to Take Me Again” and then the response song from his “wife”, “I’m Happy They Took You Away”
We're not going to talk about any of the following?
- That one album that consists entirely of Elvis Presley stage-banter, stripped of all context and with no actual music on the album
- Metal Machine Music
- Achy Breaky Heart
- Hot Problems
Definitely check out Whitehouse or Hijokaiden if youre interested in hearing something extremely different from ordinary musicsl listeners. Certainly "bad" to most but i love it.
Is Red Dress by Sarah Brand in this video?
It is not, but its a good runner-up
it feels so validating finally hearing someone else not understanding the boot scootin boogie phenomenon
Sammy, I hate to say it but Napolean XIV's !aaaH aH ,yawA eM ekaT ot gnimoC er’yehT is still better than half the songs on the top 40 list. 😝
Look up “ the ding ding dong” horrible. Also I got a brand new pair of roller skates. I can’t think of the worst cause my mind blocked it, till I’m forced to hear it.
Now I understand why people stare at me in public, they think I’m you
That coming to take me away song is skippable on one of Dr. Demento's albums, but the same album has R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders song "Get A Load Of This", amusing ua-cam.com/video/P5CUIgK0paA/v-deo.html
Hi, Sammy! Sorry but I have to disagree with your opinion of They’re Coming to Take Me Away. I love that song! And, just in case you really meant it when you said you don’t get it and have never listened all the way through…the song is actually about a guy losing his mind because his seemingly ungrateful dog has run away.
And he didn’t use any vocal effects to get the strangely warping vibe on his voice, he actually sang it like that!
It possibly says a fair bit about my own mental health that I have loved that song since I was a little kid some 50 years ago.
Ps. Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys did a “retake” of the track on the album “The Last Temptation of Reid” by his band Lard with Al Jorgensen from Ministry…and it’s about 8 minutes long! Get your listening gear round that one 😂
The A-side was kinda creepy but interesting. Sammy was talking about the *B-side* (the song run in reverse) and that was truly unlistenable. ua-cam.com/video/yPj47ip5cRo/v-deo.html
@@retread1083 hi 👋🏻😁
Yeah, I know he was talking about the b-side being unlistenable but he also mentioned that he didn’t like, or hadn’t listened all the way through to the a-side/forward version either
Fellow Canadian here. Can confirm. Wedding socials are terrible.
Look up Letter to a teenage bride by Pierre Coil or Headlights by Driver 67... They could be contenders for the creepiest songs ever that I can't imagine anyone would enjoy listening to.
You should try the Game Rocksmith and see if it is or isnt a good way to have fun playing guitar.
Richard Thompson wrote a song called I Agree with Pat Metheny. "How does he hold that note so long? He must be a genius! WRONG! He just has the mindlessness to do it".
Sammy, my man.... you know, as well as I, that there a literal shyte ton of songs that are upbeat "bops" that lyrically make NO sense or at best are questionable on some sort of "mental health" scale. I am not questioning the inclusion of Shakira here, not at all. I just think that a wider net should be cast when referring to this particular genre (it is, fight me) of music.
EDIT: Autocorrect changed 2 words and ticked me off. I had to change them. I am too lazy to rewrite the entire thing or even copy-paste. So I will deal with the fact it says "edited".
Maybe it didn't make it to your side of the pond but We All Stand Together (otherwise known as the Frog Chorus) has to have been the low point of Paul McCartney's career and The Laughing Gnome played a similar role for David Bowie.
I knew the lyrics to whenever, wherever we’re weird from the beginning; it’s still great.
EDIT: I just listened through the playlist. Some are awful, but most are just meh. They’re fine, even if their representative of something cringy (ICP song) or something that SammyG just personally has bad associations with (boot scoot boogy).
Heeeey! Thank you for the freebie!
Say what you will about Miracles, but if you ever get the chance to see ICP live, absolutely do it. One of the best shows I've ever seen. I've never seen a venue so packed with people, either. Also I would never have expected to get hit by some diet root beer Faygo that far in the back of a room.
I love to see an alike Winnipeger mind 😂
There are lyrics to that Shakira song? I always just turned off the sound and watched the video.
Can't say I blame you... I did the same😂
Hold up ol sammy g... What is this $200 wedding gift?! We dont have that down in the states...
I am shocked to not see Philosophy of the World by the Shaggs on here
Because the worst one is My Pal Foot Foot. :)
You don't expect ol' Sammy G to put Frank Zappa's favourite album on a list of the worst music ever, do you?
that is because it is a masterpiece! only squares adhere to rhythm and tonality.
For a group of sisters forced by their father to record music depite no training or aplitude... it's not the worst.
To clarify: I actually like the Philosophy of the World album. I have even considered buying. Haven't yet but might still.
Honorable mention goes to Brian McFadden's - Just The Way You Are (Drunk at the bar), basically a banjo, techno, dater*pe disasterpiece.
This is not the video we wanted, it was the video we needed.
Obviously, the worst or best of anything is always going to be subjective, but I actually like that Shakira song. "Hips Don't Lie" on the other hand, now that is something that I'd be more inclined to put on a list like this...although I don't think it'd make my top 10 for the worst songs of all time as there is so much worse out there. "I Know My Chicken" by Chibo Mata, "Why?" by Yoko Ono (or pretty much any song by Yoko Ono, although she is a pretty easy target when talking about bad music), "Fancy Like" by Walker Hayes, "Single Ladies" by Beyonce, John Farnahm's cover of The Beatles "Help" where it's played at a snail's pace and he over sings pretty much every note, that Mariah Carey song where she starts doing an impression of a boiling kettle, I can't remember if it was Logan or Jake Paul but one of them released a rap song...yikes, Hulk Hogan's album with The Wrestling Boot Band...the entire album is awful but "Hulkster In Heaven" deserves a special mention, anything by Kid Rock or Ted Nugent, "Beverley Hills" by Weezer (great band, terrible song), "Play That Song" by Train....actually most Train songs, The soundtrack to Mamma Mia (great songs sung by people who can't sing).
Why?
“We give up.”
I was kicked out of a band because I refused to play "Boot Scoot Boogie".
Congratulations
I once tried to refuse to play "Are you gonna be my girl?". Didn't work, had to play it many, many times from then on. Pure torture
God wedding socials sound awful and thanks for the guitar course brother 🤘🏻
Aloha mister guitar slinger can you make a guitar collection video plz
I'm so glad I live in a place where wedding socials and Boot Scootin Boogie are not a thing.
A canadian, having a problem with the boot scoot boogy makes me think of Jim Dickskin (god i hope someone gets this reference)
I once tried to write music for some homemade Vogon Poetry. Everyone who listened to it would either drop what they were drinking, vomit explosively or shit their pants on the spot. The cleaning bill for my rented apartment bankrupted me. I know some foolish reader is gonna want to read some of the lyrics so... here you go. I am truly sorry.
"Oh dreaded Visigoth, from days of ere,
How your snorklerocketus and dorvalingching was oh so bare.
Be frock thy stod with bewildering decay,
As I regurgitate thine metaphorical bitties of your wasting away.
Alas, poor Visigoth, your filth has no rhyme,
Merely slug-like trails of slime,
leading to wine,
served well before it's time.
uhgg.
For some reason, that reminded me of a terrible "parody" of heavy metal that I tried to write after college... it was mostly grunts, gibberish, and F-bombs
I in general hate all wedding songs with dances attached...