The Worst Songs In Rock History
Submitted by jblack on Fri, 02/15/2002 - 09:46
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- In no particular order. to me, they are all equally worthless.
- Cats In The Cradle Harry Chapin
- Welcome To The Jungle Guns n' Roses
- Sweet Home Alabama and Tuesday's Gone Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Just The Way You Are Billy Joel
- Great Balls Of Fire Jerry Lee Lewis
- Maniac Michael Sembello
- Xanadu Olivia Newton John
- Waterfalls TLC
- Unforgiven Metallica
- Cherry Pie Warrant
- Pour Some Sugar On Me Def Leppard
- You Give Love A Bad Name Bon Jovi
- Here I Go Again Whitesnake
Author Comments:
This list will continue to grow as I think of more wretched tunes. God help us all...
Warrant's Cherrie Pie may have been the single worst thing ever recorded. Good to see you've got it here.
I have just one suggestion:
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
Pretty much anything by Aerosmith after Janie's Got A Gun sucks the big one. Aerosmith, who has some of the most horrific songs in history, also-have some of the greatest. They are an enigma to me. from...say, '73 to '80, they ruled. The albums they released had masterpiece after masterpiece. They confuse me.
Interesting comment. I do believe that Pump, which contained Janie's Got a Gun, is the last great album they've produced, but I do think a few songs between there and here have been fairly good. Heck, I rather enjoy Jaded, much more than I enjoyed the album, Just Push Play, it came off of.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Isn't Aerosmith's Angel even worse? If fact, hasn't just about every Aerosmith ballad since 1989 been pretty dreadful? Possible exception: Cryin'.
But only possible.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Cryin' may be the best worst one, you know what I'm saying.
Granted some of those songs might be dreadful, but how can you possibly include "Welcome to the Jungle", "The Unforgiven", and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" on this list? Just because a song might be overplayed does not necessarily make it a bad one. "Welcome to the Jungle" is the first track off of arguably the greatest rock album in history, "The Unforgiven" has great lyrics and an awesome solo, and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" contains such a amazing opening hook and guitar lick that its cheesy chorus can be overlooked. You don't know what you're talking about when it comes to these three songs.
With all due respect, Guns n' Roses Appetite For Destruction is horrendous.
"Welcome to the Jungle" was when a lot of us finally realized Axel's voice was "whiny and grating" instead of just "different".
And I confess that I love every whiny and grating moment of it. In fact, Appetite for Destruction is perhaps the best hair metal / hard rock album of the mid to late 80s, in this poor man's book!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Good list that could probably include 1000 more songs, but including Jerry Lee's "Great Balls of Fire" is sacrilegious, man. (Unless you're female, don't know that "Balls" has more than one meaning, or haven't hit puberty yet.) ;)
I have to agree with Mr. Bangs. Though not a huge fan of Metal hair band pop music myself Appetite is a pretty strong album, still listenable 15 years later.
I also would remove Lynrd Skynyrd,Jerry lee Lewis and The Def leppard tune from the list. Of course it isn't my list.
I cant bring myself to remove Lynyrd Skynyrd. Possibly the worst band of all time. Guns n' Roses is another band where I cant see the love. But thats what really makes Listology great to me, opinions, and I love all of them.
lol. Yeah, Skynyrd has some god-awful stuff, for sure.
Peter Gabriel – Games Without Frontiers-I don’t know if there’s any song that can make me change the radio station faster than this one. If I don’t, I’m doomed to have that hideous female voice chanting “jeux sans frontiers” over and over in my head for the next six months.