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List of music considered the worst

10 points by tintinnabula 11y ago

InclinedPlane 11y ago
If you want to listen to The Shaggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY Also, someone figured out all of the least generally desirable aspects of songs and made a song featuring those, calling it The Most Unwanted Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08
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marincounty 11y ago
Take Elvis out off the list. I've haven't seen one artist with his talent, nor generosity? I'm waiting? I sometimes think with the music/charisma formula so exposed; I will never see another Elvis again? Disagree--listen to Kentucky Rain?
- loco5niner 11y ago
  > The album was a recording of an Elvis Presley concert that contained almost no actual music, consisting only of banter and jokes from between numbers
guard-of-terra 11y ago
This is very stupid. Music is open-ended, like stratosphere. For all purposes, there's infinite amount of music composed and recorded. How much would you bet that anything listed in this article hits top-10,000 of worst music of all time by that scale? I'm annoyed to no end when people assume music (literature, cinema) to be a value 3-pack of Coca Cola, Sprite and Fanta.
- xlm1717 11y ago
  It does have criteria for listing. >A piece of music needs to have been notable, popular, or memorable to be deemed the "worst ever", or it would be unlikely to top all-time public polls a few years after it was released. That whittles down the infinite amount of music composed and recorded to a manageable list from which the worst songs can be found.
antod 11y ago
While the 70s produced nearly half of the worst albums list, they only produced one entry in the 17 or so worst songs. I wholehearted agree that "We built this city" deserves its place on the list :)
xlm1717 11y ago
What I found striking was how much I could agree with the list of music considered the worst, but following the footer link to the list of songs considered the best I disagree with 90% of the songs on that list.

10 points by tintinnabula 11y ago

If you want to listen to The Shaggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY Also, someone figured out all of the least generally desirable aspects of songs and made a song featuring those, calling it The Most Unwanted Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08

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marincounty 11y ago

Take Elvis out off the list. I've haven't seen one artist with his talent, nor generosity? I'm waiting? I sometimes think with the music/charisma formula so exposed; I will never see another Elvis again? Disagree--listen to Kentucky Rain?

loco5niner 11y ago
> The album was a recording of an Elvis Presley concert that contained almost no actual music, consisting only of banter and jokes from between numbers

guard-of-terra 11y ago

This is very stupid. Music is open-ended, like stratosphere. For all purposes, there's infinite amount of music composed and recorded. How much would you bet that anything listed in this article hits top-10,000 of worst music of all time by that scale? I'm annoyed to no end when people assume music (literature, cinema) to be a value 3-pack of Coca Cola, Sprite and Fanta.

xlm1717 11y ago
It does have criteria for listing. >A piece of music needs to have been notable, popular, or memorable to be deemed the "worst ever", or it would be unlikely to top all-time public polls a few years after it was released. That whittles down the infinite amount of music composed and recorded to a manageable list from which the worst songs can be found.

antod 11y ago

While the 70s produced nearly half of the worst albums list, they only produced one entry in the 17 or so worst songs. I wholehearted agree that "We built this city" deserves its place on the list :)

xlm1717 11y ago

What I found striking was how much I could agree with the list of music considered the worst, but following the footer link to the list of songs considered the best I disagree with 90% of the songs on that list.