Horrible songs of the 90s
Stereo MCs - Get Yourself Connected.
Gives me a headache every time I hear it.
Cynical poseur-rave.
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Stereo MCs - Get Yourself Connected.
Gives me a headache every time I hear it.
Cynical poseur-rave.
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You're wrong.
Cheers.
I think it's a good song.
It's weird as I'd rarely get bored listening to even the obvious dance anthems of '92
i.e. Ebenezer Goode, Rhythm is a Dancer
But it just strikes me as too "try-hard." I'm not sure why. I think there was some terrible mobile phone ad loosely based on that as well which always puts me off liking a group.
See also: The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
I'm pretty sure it was the theme for some Motorola advert or summat.
I believe it was Carphone Warehouse.
I believe it was Vodafone
And that it came out in 2000
this is/was/will forever be fucking atrocious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIcMolthnX0
Cocaine is a terrible thing
Only in real life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8g__x6ExM8
Cocaine is a helluva drug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR_rzF8ofw
oops
someone's was listening to Aphex Twin and Linkin Park a bit too much.
...
You don't even like the pan flute in it?
Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait and Where Have All the Cowboys Gone
RICKY MARTIN
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
a shit ton of Creed
Green Day - Time of Your Life
this is only a peedrop in the ocean of horrible 90s songs
What are you talking about?! Time Of Your Life is amazing!
that's what I hear
but every time it comes on all I can think about is the awful schmaltzy commercials they used it for
I can't remember it being in a commercial for anything apart from Where the Heart Is/Peak Practice
One of those "schmaltzy" dramas.
As a kid I used to think Peak Practice and Twin Peaks were the same thing.
Crash Test Dummies, horrible?
GET TO FUCK
This thread brings back a lot of bittersweet childhood memories
When I heard they'd had a hit, I thought they meant THESE "crash test dummies", in toy form.
http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/crash_dummies_group.png
had no idea there would be so ... many of you
Come on now
Like you can resist dancing everytime to Livin' La Vida Loca
SHE'S INTO SUPERSTITIONS - BLACK CATS AND VOODOO DOLLS
It's just great pop.
DING DING DING
JUST GOOD POP MUSIC
;)
It's alright, but it's no Matt Bianco - Don't Blame It on That Girl ;)
Flutes can go suck a bag of dead ballboy dicks
Apart from on Wherever Whenever. Camp genius.
I goddamn love Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
so whatever, man.
I'm gonna go with this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihoNRc8GDQ
Yep, we have our winner
No.
Pretty ordinary stuff but great use of the Cornish accent in pop. You don't hear that much.
Why do you think that is?
They're too obsessed with certain genres
Like 70s pastyches and sconer rock
(sorry)
(so, so sorry)
Is that Vernon Kaye in drag?
except he forgot to change his clothes.
4 Non Blondes - What's Up?
God, I hate this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFy1luxL0A&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BtBKTIiPQenL2S52quBMCu
awful, awful stuff
No.
I will defend this song to the hilt.
It's raw but well-produced, it's slow-burning, it's great. Perhaps you bedwetters are just scared of strong female vocals with proper emotions. Or it's because of Linda Perry's connections with Pink..
Obviously He-Man would later make it even better with his hi-NRG take on proceedings.
its fuckin awful
Haha
I'm amused at What's Up's boundless capacity to offend people. Unlike, say, a record like Charles and Eddie - Would I Lie To You which splits everyone down the middle.
so much this
worst song of any decade
It's probably 5,000 times less good than, say, Motorcycle Emptiness
But 20,000 times better than She's So Lovely
Quite annoying I must say
I can see why it might annoy the crap out of people
I don't get why it receives so much undiluted hatred. Maybe there were so many good proper guitar bands with proper tunes back then, that anything with the slightest gimmick - i.e. that "Pray for REVOLUTION!" shriek got instantly shot down in flames?
did you write this song
They are probably lyrics I would have written at 16.
Thank God automatik is the only major DISer who's heard about The Cutthroat Razors. The greatest band who never were.
Not having it, not having you.
It's a fucking great song. Move along, people.
Gosh, I gotta say I dig it too
Love that whole 4 Non Blondes record. Morphine & Chocolate is unbelievably awesome.
good vocals on this, quite like it. awt,iy.
I'll just leave this here:
http://heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com/
blimey
i quite like that song
reminds me of some stuff in the past.
C & C Music Factory
http://youtu.be/LaTGrV58wec
Wet Wet Wet
http://youtu.be/u5VmJZyvqy8
Don't mind C&C, but the less said about Love is All Around
and it being number 1 all summer the better.
Tom Ewing's just coming up to that on his brilliant Popular blog. (Last number 1 was Status Quo - Come on You Reds!) It'll be a particularly interesting retrospective, I'd just started taping the charts in 1994 and that nearly killed my interest in music - and life - stone dead. I blame it for making me quit the Scouts, but more - much more on that later.
please god no
Everybody Hates MPBH
Coming to Sky Atlantic in 2014
Train - Drops of Jupiter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc
The songs okay until that ridiculous line about fried chicken that has no right there
Shit song, no doubt.
But pretty sure it came out in the early 00s
February 2001 apparently
Once wrote a lyric attacking that band that went "Pressure cooker, it's the time of slags, not sweet soul sisters." Didn't know whether I was being a genius or a sexist dunderhead.
That youtube video says 1998
Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
A song made by cunts for the sole enjoyment of cunts.
But it's very catchy
I don't care about the background of this band.
?! It's a band of veteran anarchist punks doing an Oasis/Irish drinking song pastiche
"Backgrounds" doesn't really come into it
not this
Uh-Oh, We're In Trouble by Shampoo
Surely so atrociously bad that I won't bring myself to find a youtube link. That shit needs to stay buried. Forever.
naw
Fine record.
The albums were good too.
KLF - What Time Is Love
It might have been cutting-edge at the time, but to these ears it sounds like the first thing you'd make on the Dance eJay demo.
YOU MAY NOT CRITICISE THE KLF
i am serious
They were great
But I reckon if I met Bill
Drummond down the pub
He would be a right fanny gobbler
I posted this in another thread of a bad songs recently
but it's still true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGwB-f1xfxM
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33SjUj4J5BU
:')
enjoyed these, ta.
Catch look exactly like teenage versions of Deerhunter
Uncanny.
'What if I told you i'd found a band...
who were a cross between Ash and Sleeper?' said Catch's A&R man once, one imagines.
That Counting Crows one
Also the one where the girl is a bee in the video. Also I Touch Myself, Anything from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Informer by Snow. No Doubt, LoveFool by Cardigans.
Blind Melon - No Rain (The Bee Girl Video)
Great song.
Yeah, Stereo MCs are fucking reprehensible
The only thing that makes my skin crawl more than that song is No Rain by Blind Melon. Fuck me sideways, I hate that song. It's a 'swandive arms-outstretched at the radio just to make it STOP' kind of song.
Blind Melon = Mr Van Driessen from Beavis and Butthead
Love shack
..
That was 1989
And is amazing.
*Roam is amazing
OH MERCURY
POURING THROUGH EVERY DEGREE
SHOOTING DOWN THOSE DIRTY AND DUSTY TRAILS
Love Shack is my least favourite song ever!
Followed by Brown Eyed fucking Girl
Love Shack makes my skin crawl
It's the bloke pretending to have Tourette's at the start that's a bit distasteful.
Thing is, I listened to some B-52's (the obscure stuff, not the Flintstones soundtrack with the worst pun on a band name ever), and was genuinely impressed. I thought they were like.. the Pixies for children or something.
they were miles more innovative than the pixies tho
Probably were
The Pixies split far too early and since 1993 it's been an increasingly desperate attempt to recapture the momentum.
Every time I hear Love Shack I actually, literally want to cut my ears off to make it stop
That's what happens when you work in Marks and Spencers coffee bar with it on a fucking loop for months and months and months
You don't dare criticise Van the Man on these boards sunshine.
Brown Eyed Girl's just another of his many, many perfect songs.
I don't mind Brown Eyed Girl (even though my ex thought it was the worst song of all time. Which is harsh)
But the problem I have with it is that it disguises everyone's perception of Van Morrison. Makes everyone assume that he's a one-hit wonder good pub singer, rather than the utter genius who made things like Astral Weeks, Moondance, Tupelo Honey and Veedon Fleece.
I quite enjoy giving hard-nosed Van Morrison sceptics a copy of 'It's Too Late to Stop Now' and asking them about it afterwards. All but one has come tound to loving him...
not having this
nobody hates on the b-52s. i think people dislike it because it's been associated with so much shit over the years.
Didn't they have the same problem as Dexys?
I.e. One huge novelty hit making the rest of the band's output difficult to take seriously.
i think you might be right :(
cum on ilene
that was the punchline to some joke I forgot
Extreme - more than words
Can probably lump 'Get the funk out' in with this one too. Terrible band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dfmDONvDbaw#t=40s
Ha. There was some terrible cock rock even at the height of grunge
Like early 90s Def Leppard.
I hated the way they worked it (no dignity)
You youngsters don't know nothing
nearly all the songs listed here are good. Except for the few that aren't.
i cant remember the original question but is the answer
That one by Cher when shes half robot and going on about life after death, or something?
That's called Believe
Bad songs
Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
Boyz II Men - End Of The Road
D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better
Fugees - Killing Me Softly (Personal taste on this, I know a lot of people probably like it, but I think it's atrocious)
R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly
TLC - No Scrubs
thanks
I thought id blocked that shit out.
Boyz II Men? I loved them.
Each to their own. It's in my Top 5 worst songs ever.
It's hardly worth hating
It's just a bit.. wet and over-sentimental. But what did you expect from a bunch of (probably) wet and over-sentimental blokes?
TLC - No Scrubs
WTF??!
Sorry if I offended you, but I think it's a piece of crap!
NO WAY
Are you fucking high?
No Scrubs is fucking PERFECT. An absolute gem of the whole damn decade. I'm embarrassed that I accidentally This'd your allegation of it being a piece of crap.
Not to me it ain't Mate. But each to their own.
I could have chosen any of TLC's singles. Waterfall is just as bad. Boring, bland and banal music. New Jack Swing, R&B or whatever genre it gets categorised in, just leaves me cold.
Give me En Vogue any day.
En Vogue the R&B group?
yeah, they're good
Yep the R&B Group
Modern R&B is not my thing at all, but I do like a bit of En Vogue.
My Lovin' was a tune. Loved Free Your Mind too.
Incredible song.
It's utter shit
but narcissistic gold-digging misandry was big in the 90s.
I don't think you understand what any of those words mean.
I totally used them correctly in a sentence though, right?
I heard some grownups use them on the telly the other night.
I thought you misspelt "misanthropy" in the most bizarre fashion
And next on BBC1.. Hetty Waind Investigates.
It used to really annoy me that they had to define what a scrub was in so much detail at the start of the song.
It sounds like they're just making colloquialisms up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e5EEP5MWTs
Now go get your fuckin' shinebox
cannot argue with d:ream
2 Princes by The Spin Doctors
Does me head right in.
just go ahead now
i think they're touring that album in the next week or two
i might go (i'm not going)
I think I can now tolerate/enjoy everything I hated at the time (even Cosmic Girl!)
except Chumbawamba, 'Just the One' by the Levellers and all singles released by The Beautiful South in the period 1994-1998.
Levellers...!
Yes, cracking good case of shitness:
One Way - Irony of festival favourite tune, sung by c***s
Hope Street - crusty version of Parklife LOLZ
Belarus - The worst song Neds Atomic Dustbin didn't do
I absolutely hated this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE
You Get What You Give is a good song
This pretty much is up top on my list
of the greatest songs ever written
love it until the coda listing all those 90s celebs
makes me cringe every time, esp the "we'll kick your ass in" line
Vanilla - No Way No Way
Allegedly part of a record industry bet...
this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgg_gi7AAI
Anything off of the first Radiohead album
</trollin>
It has not aged well.
I have a soft spot for it, mostly because it sounds like What's Up with much weaker vocals.
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33SjUj4J5BU
Anybody who tries to defend this is a troll for life.
Can't forget Dive In
not as bad as Bingo, tbh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9OzRoWINAc
Oh, you fucker!
I'd managed to forget about that for the best part of 15 years. Cheers! ;-)
So bad, it killed Princess Diana...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGj5uHX0wlo
Are You Jimmy Ray?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sErYBI6YxPg
...just why?
I adored it then
and adore it now.
Me too
One of the best one-hit wonders of the 90s.
He wasn't a one-hit wonder
He just attained perfection with his first song and then ascended.
not sure if this is horrible or not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_-Qtz70_z4
Back up guys.
I just won this thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UHcRrCWlI
#2 in English strikers who never fulfilled their true potential..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebR5V4G5GQ
I had this on vinyl!
That's a great joke
They weren't THAT bad really. It's just a bit tragic really - they were like people wandering around the side of the M25 seven years after the party had ended. Like Japanese POW ravers.
That was meant to be about M People
But I'm sure someone can draw a tenuous link between this and Andy Cole.
Is that Wes Brown driving?
thats not even the worst Space song
ANGELS! ANGELS! KICK ASS ANGLES!
i even have a soft spot for them
this is the worst song of the 90's
when the vocals come in, see if you can resist from stopping it. you won't be able to because it's fucking horrendous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG16jv-itYw
brilliant
all i can see is the Bo Selecta sketch of her vomiting while singing this
The correct answer is - 3 Lions by Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds
http://www.muzu.tv/baddielskinnerlightningseeds/three-lions-footballs-coming-home-music-video/550146/
What do you mean 'we need a break from the old routine'?
Oh yeah, you know what I mean...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDLsPwrOOhA
its routine, not Oveltine?!?!?!?!?!
Shat.
Anything by M People
Heather with the Horrid Honk
Dancin' In The Moonlight was released in 2000
but it should probably count as the worst song of the 90s just because it's that bad.
What's Dracula's favourite band?
Mmm...People. I can't believe I've been reminded of their existence. Argggh.
I sit and wait...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luwAMFcc2f8
Nah, its ace.
Absolutely everything about this song is horrible:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUKq7DLo6Ko
only just in the 90s, but still:
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnOy6HEf7HU