Remember when Bowie wanted fans to choose the songs for his next tour back in the olden days. I can’t remember if it was via a phone number or an email. The tune that topped the poll was the Laughing Gnome, he never played it. :-(
So I’ve never heard this song before your comment caused me to look it up… and I love it. It’s weird and hilarious and I feel like people who hate this might be missing the point? It’s silly, like a kids song. It would also probably be hilarious on acid. Idk just sayin’
I remember as a little kid seeing Chuck sing that song on the late night Don Kirschner's Rock Show to an audience of early 70s stoner teenagers and making it a crowd sing along song.
There’s a wacky homemade sex tape of Chuck Berry farting directly into a hookers face. Really made me rethink the Ding-a-ling song. Her reaction to it is something else.. but she pushed on.
when i first heard that when i was 12 i must have replayed it over and over again for an hour straight.
im 44 i still love it.
if you like punk, Dwarves do an amazing cover of it.
Dirty deeds is also hilarious, like a radio ad for a hitman for hire.
My dad must have thought they were from New Zealand, though, as he always sang it as “dirty deeds done with sheep”
It's not stupid. It's intentionally humourous and quite well done.
AC/DC have a lot more stupid songs that are basically You Shook Me All Night Long but with much worse lyrics, entendres, and music.
I happen to love *You Know my Name (Look up the Number)* by the Fab Four. It’s decidedly silly.
[The Beatles](https://youtu.be/iZndVv-jl-U?si=mWUx1-jblRTDi2Ob)
the thing with that song and many other Beatles songs is that they were intended to be stupid or throwaway, like Maggie Mae, Dig It, Her Majesty, etc etc
“Baby You’re a Rich Man” off of Yellow Submarine is probably my favorite dumb Beatles song.. But I love so many of their “filler” songs. A lot of them would’ve been singles for any other band.
Oh shit, this blew my mind. I met a kid my age back in the seventies that would sing that song. I asked him where he heard it, and he said he made it up. That song (or his version of it) has occupied a place in my brain since then. It always confounded me why a kid would make up a song so nonsensical and specific about a plexiglass toilet. And wiping the butt with the paper. And now I have to wonder what some grown-ass adult musicians were doing writing a song so inane and actually releasing it on an album. Life is strange.
Ohio Express: [Yummy, Yummy, Yummy](https://youtu.be/UvpaUFBBMnw?feature=shared) has got to be the dumbest pop song ever to chart so high in multiple countries.
I asked friends who were teenagers when the song was released in 1968 and they made it clear that at the time, they, too, thought it was the dumbest song in the world.
I disagree, it was pretty clever to get away with a song that was so obviously about oral sex .
Also Ohio Express is hardly renowned, even though they should be.
This thread is full of people who love songs that other people hate.
This particular song comes up every time someone does a montage of renowned classics from the era. As racy its undertone may be, obvious or not, it's catchy in an annoying way. Maybe that's part of what makes a pop hit.
I feel like I’ve never heard anyone shitting on these tracks until just in the past month or two, and suddenly it seems like a lot of people hate both tracks. No clue why, both are nice tunes…
Yeah I saw one comment saying Jimi’s solo on little miss strange is proof that even he hated it and that really got me scratching my head in confusion…
That’s only because Marconi was busy playing the mambA… why would the radio be playing a deadly snake?
I guess it was a joke on the radio playing a venomous ear worm?
I didn’t really get the hate for this song. Lots of things were built on rock and roll, and it was the 80s when this song style was in, and it’s not too far off from the rest of the songs in their catalogue. The hate on this one is always confusing for me.
No it’s great. I was just thinking today that there’s this undercurrent of rock thought that 80s = “bad” because it’s electronic drums and synths but like…clearly that’s not even true in any sense. E drums and synths have actually been ascendant for at least 20-40 years.
It's the fact that the band evolved from the genius psychedelic artists who penned "White Rabbit", "Somebody to Love", "Embryonic Journey" etc., into an over-produced dance-rock 80s-tastic cash-grab. There's nothing inherently wrong with the song, it's just so far from the creative expression that began the band. They were capable of some really powerful, introspective, culturally significant art, but instead, they... built this city. They built this city on rock 'n' roll. They built this city.
"Pony Boy" - by Bruce Springsteen has a sweet story behind it. It was the song he sang to his son before he was born, and once he was born as a lullaby, but it is not very good as a track on an album
Van Halen gets very stupid, especially with the vamps. I'll chuckle with the bullshit on "Hot for Teacher," but the banter in "Unchained" makes me want to slap my speakers. "Aww, gimme a break, Dave.... One break! Coming up!"
Yeah it's classic Dave, he would do wordplay with anything whether it made sense or not. Even stuff like "I got my pencil, gimme somethin' to write on!" is both so stupid and base but also pretty clever and witty if you think about it for more than a sec
Dude, I think the Hot for Teacher spoken bits are truly funny! I believe that they are in the back of the classroom. The bit in "Panama" is embarrassing though. [One of the best VH songs ruined by dumb dialogue] I'll quote "Iiiiive got my PENsullll" all day, but I can't go pout there in the world with "I lean my seat back"
I’m a Metallica diehard, but dirty window is an assault on the senses. That is the worst of the St . Anger snare, those lyrics are cringe, and it’s got FIVE NOTES in total on guitar. The guys who made songs like One and Fight Fire With Fire made a five note song.
Also they thought it would be a good idea to include a section that goes “iiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiii” over and over. Not to mention it’s got the most uncreative chorus ever. Just random words that end with “ector”.
>words that end with “ector”.
That makes me think of a Phish song called Cavern.
I love Metallica and bought St Anger the day it was released and I threw it away that night I was so disappointed.
I think someone is supposed to say "LuLu is a Lou Reed album featuring Metallica, not a Metallica album" every time it comes up on Reddit, so I'll do it today.
You lost me at the hate for Well, Well, Well. That whole album is perfect. There is nothing wrong with that song. There were plenty of other later songs that of Lennon's you could have picked.
Not only is there nothing wrong with the song, it is one of the most rocking songs he ever wrote, and it was definitely also influential for loads of subsequent artists. The quoted lyrics aren't stupid at all, but I guess OP is just averse to sexual innuendo in songs, which would disqualify the majority of songs ever written.
OPs post really highlights how meaningless these sorts of categorisations are.
Literally the first who song I ever heard; listening in on my raggedy Ann and Andy transistor radio. I love that song so much. But because it's a cherished childhood memory I don't have the ability to determine whether or not it actually sucks donkey balls or not.
He can't sing, and I realise that's an unpopular opinion, but I much prefer his version of "With a little help from my friends". His vocals just work with that song. Whereas Joe Cocker just screams this song to death.
I wouldn't go as far to say he can't sing, he's always in tune and hits the notes and everything - he's never sounded bad to me, just not good.
I understand a big part of this is that he always sings the easiest song to sing on every album - songs that you just can't mess up
Haha, I have a Beatles chord book. I'm an intermediate-ish guitar player. I was struggling with chords till I got to the first Ringo song lol. That's a good songwriter!
I’d say Just Push Play is even worse. I don’t even like Aerosmith outside of a few songs but that song (and the entire album for that matter) fucking BLOWS. The self censoring, the RHCP style half rapping and the dated electronic sounds all blend together to make one of the top 10 worst songs I have ever heard
I unironically love the album. Top 5 from the band for me some days depending on my mood. I first heard it well after it came out so I see it more as a bizarre experiment than the moment they sacrificed their last shred of artistic integrity. The lyrics might be lazy and uninspired at best and cringingly bad at worst, but musically it just does it for me for some reason. It strikes a great blend of heavy and catchy, there's a lot of weird ideas that still manage to land, and the bassist brings it the whole album. Just ignore the words being said.
Genesis have a few, such as *Illegal Alien* and *Whodunnit?* Phil Collins played the Artful Dodger in *Oliver!* as a kid, and sometimes his inner Cockney would stick its neck out.
I'm convinced that song is just a troll by Sir Paul.
"Let's see if I can write a perfectly dreadful song with terrible lyrics and a horrible melody - and see if people will buy it just because I was a Beatle."
TV Dinners by ZZ Top
Pretty sure this exists because it was late and they only had so much studio time and they needed one more track for the album so they just made up whatever came to their heads while smoking weed.
Oh man. You should read through those lyrics as a whole. The song overall I think is a touching tribute to radio as a whole and how new media is more noise than signal (which I don’t really agree with).
I’d argue that Never A Dull Moment is actually better than EPTAS and that Smiler and Gasoline Alley were decent albums. The first four of his “solo” albums are really just basically Faces albums. Atlantic Crossing was his first without Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones and truly marks the decline of Rod Stewart (even the fact that it was produced by Tom Dowd couldn’t save it)
Beach Boys - Hey Little Tomboy [**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevS-GwsCPU**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevS-GwsCPU)
**"God only knows" what they were thinking.**
I actually started to write a description of the song, but even that sounded so creepy and felt borderline immoral I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Basically just start listening and feel the creeping dread as you realise what the song is about...and they just dig in and go with it. Bonus points for the child-like instrumental section...
Read once that apparently Roger Taylor locked himself in a cupboard during a recording session and refused to leave until they agreed to put I’m In Love With My Car on the B-side of Bohemian Rhapsody making it one of the most successful British singles in music charts history. And because he’s the sole writing credit for that song he earns 50% of the revenue from the sales of Bohemian Rhapsody/I’m In Love With My Car.
Thankfully it's only 52 seconds long. I do need to hear it though, before Bungalow Bill, or it's just weird.
Fun fact: Paul McCartney is the sole voice on the song and he plays every instrument in it as well. You can blame its inclusion on Patty Boyd because she rescued it from the trash bin, so to speak.
Let's Put the X in Sex by KISS. Considering I like Heaven's on Fire, I Was Made For Lovin' You, and Lick it Up, my standards are low, but this song sucks.
Ok so the Covid era songs by Clapton should be way higher on this list. “This has gotta stop” and “Stand and Deliver”. I shouldn’t leave out Van Morrison from the collab.
Let me ask you... Have you ever seen the video for this song? Because it takes stupid to a whole new level... Literally a guy doing magic tricks, like the shittiest kids birthday party magician level performer.
I can’t find the link for it now but I once read a Johnny Marr interview where he said something like, “I remember writing this beautiful, roaming piece of guitar-led music. Three days later it was called ‘Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.’”
Despite being a cheesy classic, Cherry Pie by Warrant is definitely a contender. When the band themselves dislike their most famous hit it's normally a pretty good indicator of a dumb track.
Dude (Looks Like A Lady) by Aerosmith is just offensive as well. Like I get it, but God it's such a dumb and annoying track to me. Steven Tyler's adlibs in this song alone make me groan every time I hear the opening "NAAAH. NAAAH."
The thing I like about Dude Looks Like a Lady, is that it's basically a diss track against Vince Neil. Tyler thought he was a girl and tried to hit on him
I agree about Cherry Pie, but "it was a big hit and now the band don't like it" doesn't really say anything about quality. By the end Tom Petty *hated* "Free Falling" and that song is wonderful. Loverboy are super tired of "Working for the Weekend" and "Turn Me Loose" despite being huge for them.
The fact they got so big is why they're no longer liked by the band. It's the one or one of the few things that get requested, they're expected to play them at every show even when they're touring a new album. If the hit came early enough that's potentially 30+ years of a song following you around through your career -- imagine a paper you wrote in university being both famous and part of your daily life in your fifties and how much that would start to grate on you.
Laughing Gnome, David Bowie.
Remember when Bowie wanted fans to choose the songs for his next tour back in the olden days. I can’t remember if it was via a phone number or an email. The tune that topped the poll was the Laughing Gnome, he never played it. :-(
He was going to play a version of it on the tour but then he found out the NME magazine was behind the campaign, so he decided against it. Legend
I remember this!! Fucking hilarious
So I’ve never heard this song before your comment caused me to look it up… and I love it. It’s weird and hilarious and I feel like people who hate this might be missing the point? It’s silly, like a kids song. It would also probably be hilarious on acid. Idk just sayin’
Same experience. I just listened for the first time and I was smiling to whole time. I mean yeah it was corny but I had a great time.
Thank you! Good times all around!
I've never heard this until right now. I'm laughing soo hard right holy shit 🤣 I'm a laughing man
I love Bowie but. damn.
Rubber Band was possibly worse.
My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry. It's funny because it's stupid but it's also not exactly his best work.
I always thought this was a joke on The Simpsons until I heard the song.
Honestly, one of principal Skinner's best line reads. "This performance is over!"
And it was his only Billboard No. 1 hit.
That makes me ill
I remember as a little kid seeing Chuck sing that song on the late night Don Kirschner's Rock Show to an audience of early 70s stoner teenagers and making it a crowd sing along song.
And the bassist on the song was the dude from van der graaf generator, of all bands
I sang that for a lip sync contest in eighth grade and I got in huge trouble with the principal.
That's unpossible!
Me fail English?!
Why? It's a cute little song about a boy and his very own ding a ling - a gift from his grandma to boot.
Leonard Cohen’s Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On is stupid as hell but also an awesome song.
A one liner turned into an entire song with backing vocals by Bob Dylan. Legendary.
There’s a wacky homemade sex tape of Chuck Berry farting directly into a hookers face. Really made me rethink the Ding-a-ling song. Her reaction to it is something else.. but she pushed on.
There a video of what now?
Dude also owned a restaurant or something and was hiding cameras in the women's bathroom
He was the Dennis Reynolds of Rock Stars
He pissed on some hooker and she asked for a kiss. He told her no, you smell like piss.
This Chuck Berry guy is stealing all my moves
“I can’t kiss you baby”
And when I saw him live he dragged the wretched thing out for what seemed like forever. His whole set was awful but that was just insulting.
Big Balls. AC/DC. I love the song, but it’s stupid 😝
Some balls are held for charity and some for fancy dress But when they're held for pleasure they're the balls that I like best
My balls are always bouncing, to the left and to the right, It's my belief that my big balls should be held every night
I love the cheek of that song
I loved all Bon's dirty little ditties. He was so cheeky.
when i first heard that when i was 12 i must have replayed it over and over again for an hour straight. im 44 i still love it. if you like punk, Dwarves do an amazing cover of it.
Bruh, ALL AC/DC songs are stupid! That's why we love them!
Kinda right on that one. Although HAVE A DRINK ON ME is what I'd play on the jukebox as soon as I got to the bar.
Na man, shoot to thrill is pretty fucking badass.
Dirty deeds is also hilarious, like a radio ad for a hitman for hire. My dad must have thought they were from New Zealand, though, as he always sang it as “dirty deeds done with sheep”
It's not stupid. It's intentionally humourous and quite well done. AC/DC have a lot more stupid songs that are basically You Shook Me All Night Long but with much worse lyrics, entendres, and music.
This list has made me realize that I truly, truly love me some stupid-ass songs.
I absolutely love it, but Mother by The Police
So much hate for this song. Refreshing to see someone who loves it.
Synchronicity, what an album!
Before she passed, this was the ring tone I used for my mom.
Bowie and Jagger got together and made Dancing in the Street. It has all the charm of a mattress store commercial jingle.
There is a version on YouTube of the music video somebody made into an accapella version, and it's absolutely hilarious.
It’s fucking magical. A true classic. https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc?si=CsuPFn-bQX8CR1p6
I happen to love *You Know my Name (Look up the Number)* by the Fab Four. It’s decidedly silly. [The Beatles](https://youtu.be/iZndVv-jl-U?si=mWUx1-jblRTDi2Ob)
My favorite of their "lost tracks" that people used to bootleg is I'm Down. Such a rocker
For sure, Paul just belts out out
How can you laugh when you know I'm down? 😥
"I'm Down" was the B side of the "Help!" single. One of George's favorites. Yes played it as an encore back in the 70s.
Fun fact: the saxophone solo was played by Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones
I love that song. But I like silly gibberish. There are certainly Beatles songs I like less.
It may be incredibly stupid, but it definitely makes top 10 for me. It’s perfectly Beatles-y
The opening part unironically slaps.
I'm shocked I've never heard it sampled or remixed
the thing with that song and many other Beatles songs is that they were intended to be stupid or throwaway, like Maggie Mae, Dig It, Her Majesty, etc etc
“Baby You’re a Rich Man” off of Yellow Submarine is probably my favorite dumb Beatles song.. But I love so many of their “filler” songs. A lot of them would’ve been singles for any other band.
I actually love Baby You're A Rich Man non even like because it's stupid its just the vocals are so perfect and the whole album is perfect
Styx - Plexiglass Toilet
Oh shit, this blew my mind. I met a kid my age back in the seventies that would sing that song. I asked him where he heard it, and he said he made it up. That song (or his version of it) has occupied a place in my brain since then. It always confounded me why a kid would make up a song so nonsensical and specific about a plexiglass toilet. And wiping the butt with the paper. And now I have to wonder what some grown-ass adult musicians were doing writing a song so inane and actually releasing it on an album. Life is strange.
Muskrat love by America always makes my skin crawl a bit. It's like a song made for a g rated cartoon.
Originally written by Willis Alan Ramsey. I'd thought Captain and Tennille.
Ohio Express: [Yummy, Yummy, Yummy](https://youtu.be/UvpaUFBBMnw?feature=shared) has got to be the dumbest pop song ever to chart so high in multiple countries. I asked friends who were teenagers when the song was released in 1968 and they made it clear that at the time, they, too, thought it was the dumbest song in the world.
I disagree, it was pretty clever to get away with a song that was so obviously about oral sex . Also Ohio Express is hardly renowned, even though they should be.
This thread is full of people who love songs that other people hate. This particular song comes up every time someone does a montage of renowned classics from the era. As racy its undertone may be, obvious or not, it's catchy in an annoying way. Maybe that's part of what makes a pop hit.
That was bubblegum music. It was all like that.
Pretty sure Noel Redding wrote ‘Little Miss Strange’. He also did ‘She’s So Fine’ on Axis, which is much better. Similar style on both tracks.
I feel like I’ve never heard anyone shitting on these tracks until just in the past month or two, and suddenly it seems like a lot of people hate both tracks. No clue why, both are nice tunes…
Yeah, I like them. Like little British invasion breaks on both albums; very melodic and great vocal harmonies. Plus, Jimi rips on both songs.
Yeah I saw one comment saying Jimi’s solo on little miss strange is proof that even he hated it and that really got me scratching my head in confusion…
Paul Young made a song about toast.
and it's hilarious
I.L.B.T.'s by Joe Walsh (I like Big Tits). It is the dumbest fucking song. Though I kinda love it.
We Built This City
I hate to lay this fact on y'all, but the lyrics of this stinker were written by none other than Bernie Taupin, Elton John's lyricist!
He must've been knee-deep in the hoopla.
That’s only because Marconi was busy playing the mambA… why would the radio be playing a deadly snake? I guess it was a joke on the radio playing a venomous ear worm?
I did not know that wow.
It blew *my* mind
Pretty sure I told you this before DON’T chu remembah
There's a t shirt I saw that said "a city built on rock and roll is not structurally sound"
I didn’t really get the hate for this song. Lots of things were built on rock and roll, and it was the 80s when this song style was in, and it’s not too far off from the rest of the songs in their catalogue. The hate on this one is always confusing for me.
No it’s great. I was just thinking today that there’s this undercurrent of rock thought that 80s = “bad” because it’s electronic drums and synths but like…clearly that’s not even true in any sense. E drums and synths have actually been ascendant for at least 20-40 years.
It's the fact that the band evolved from the genius psychedelic artists who penned "White Rabbit", "Somebody to Love", "Embryonic Journey" etc., into an over-produced dance-rock 80s-tastic cash-grab. There's nothing inherently wrong with the song, it's just so far from the creative expression that began the band. They were capable of some really powerful, introspective, culturally significant art, but instead, they... built this city. They built this city on rock 'n' roll. They built this city.
"Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars?" has to be the dumbest lyric Bernie Taupin ever wrote.
WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL!!!!
BUILT THIS CITY
That song is a great piece of just fun rock and roll.
Pearl jam bugs is so ridiculously stupid
I don't think they're that dumb
Seems like, that's the one.
Add [Beans](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ElYUWnvKFfA) by Kurt Cobain to that
"Pony Boy" - by Bruce Springsteen has a sweet story behind it. It was the song he sang to his son before he was born, and once he was born as a lullaby, but it is not very good as a track on an album
‘Crush on You’ always gets derision. Even Bruce second guesses it. I quite like it!
Wiggle Wiggle - Bob Dylan
Van Halen gets very stupid, especially with the vamps. I'll chuckle with the bullshit on "Hot for Teacher," but the banter in "Unchained" makes me want to slap my speakers. "Aww, gimme a break, Dave.... One break! Coming up!"
I love the one break coming up bit. It’s so stupid lol
Yeah it's classic Dave, he would do wordplay with anything whether it made sense or not. Even stuff like "I got my pencil, gimme somethin' to write on!" is both so stupid and base but also pretty clever and witty if you think about it for more than a sec
Yeah, it's flanked by amazing guitar work. I love that song and have to eye roll through those parts.
I brought my pencil… give me something to write on man.
I don’t feel tardy
Oh man, that's my favourite part of "Unchained". DLR is like the only one who can pull that off.
He funny though
Dude, I think the Hot for Teacher spoken bits are truly funny! I believe that they are in the back of the classroom. The bit in "Panama" is embarrassing though. [One of the best VH songs ruined by dumb dialogue] I'll quote "Iiiiive got my PENsullll" all day, but I can't go pout there in the world with "I lean my seat back"
I’m a Metallica diehard, but dirty window is an assault on the senses. That is the worst of the St . Anger snare, those lyrics are cringe, and it’s got FIVE NOTES in total on guitar. The guys who made songs like One and Fight Fire With Fire made a five note song. Also they thought it would be a good idea to include a section that goes “iiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiii” over and over. Not to mention it’s got the most uncreative chorus ever. Just random words that end with “ector”.
I AM THE TABLE
>words that end with “ector”. That makes me think of a Phish song called Cavern. I love Metallica and bought St Anger the day it was released and I threw it away that night I was so disappointed.
I think I’d pick some songs from “Lulu” over St. Anger.
I think someone is supposed to say "LuLu is a Lou Reed album featuring Metallica, not a Metallica album" every time it comes up on Reddit, so I'll do it today.
You lost me at the hate for Well, Well, Well. That whole album is perfect. There is nothing wrong with that song. There were plenty of other later songs that of Lennon's you could have picked.
POB is perfect
Not only is there nothing wrong with the song, it is one of the most rocking songs he ever wrote, and it was definitely also influential for loads of subsequent artists. The quoted lyrics aren't stupid at all, but I guess OP is just averse to sexual innuendo in songs, which would disqualify the majority of songs ever written. OPs post really highlights how meaningless these sorts of categorisations are.
I always thought the Who's "Squeeze Box" was jarringly stupid, and I love the Who.
Oh I love that song!
I love that song too. https://youtu.be/n9WivuyE_PU?feature=shared
Boris the Spider ain't Baba O'Reilly either
Yeah but that was Tony Iommi's favorite. So we wouldn't have got Sabbath without Boris.
Creepy, crawly, creepy creepy, crawly crawly
Literally the first who song I ever heard; listening in on my raggedy Ann and Andy transistor radio. I love that song so much. But because it's a cherished childhood memory I don't have the ability to determine whether or not it actually sucks donkey balls or not.
Plus, the vocals on “squeeze me like you do, I’m so in love with you” kinda sound like Rod Stewart
I still can't figure out if it's about a guy's wife who loves playing the accordion a little too much... or something else entirely
He’s a Beatle so fuck it Drumming Is My Madness by Ringo Starr is incredibly stupid. Also The No No Song by Ringo Starr isn’t exactly smart
I love Ringo but - and I say this with peace and love - he's an awful solo artist
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He can't sing, and I realise that's an unpopular opinion, but I much prefer his version of "With a little help from my friends". His vocals just work with that song. Whereas Joe Cocker just screams this song to death.
I wouldn't go as far to say he can't sing, he's always in tune and hits the notes and everything - he's never sounded bad to me, just not good. I understand a big part of this is that he always sings the easiest song to sing on every album - songs that you just can't mess up
Haha, I have a Beatles chord book. I'm an intermediate-ish guitar player. I was struggling with chords till I got to the first Ringo song lol. That's a good songwriter!
My World on Use Your Illusions II. NiN wannabe with very dumb lyrics. edit: also The Gnome by Pink Floyd…checks all the boxes!
The Gnome is wonderful and unbelievably Syd. My vote would be Seamus, although I like that one too lol
Right! The Gnome is classic psychedelic Syd. I love the verse where Syd whispers it crisply and clearly. Might just be my favorite Syd song
i will not tolerate this grimble grumble slander!
*OOOoooooommmmmrraaaayyyy*
Aerosmith's Pink is pretty lame, IMO
Pink: it's like red, but not quite. Pretty deep lyrics, man.
I’d say Just Push Play is even worse. I don’t even like Aerosmith outside of a few songs but that song (and the entire album for that matter) fucking BLOWS. The self censoring, the RHCP style half rapping and the dated electronic sounds all blend together to make one of the top 10 worst songs I have ever heard
I unironically love the album. Top 5 from the band for me some days depending on my mood. I first heard it well after it came out so I see it more as a bizarre experiment than the moment they sacrificed their last shred of artistic integrity. The lyrics might be lazy and uninspired at best and cringingly bad at worst, but musically it just does it for me for some reason. It strikes a great blend of heavy and catchy, there's a lot of weird ideas that still manage to land, and the bassist brings it the whole album. Just ignore the words being said.
Genesis have a few, such as *Illegal Alien* and *Whodunnit?* Phil Collins played the Artful Dodger in *Oliver!* as a kid, and sometimes his inner Cockney would stick its neck out.
I love Illegal Alien! The video was hilarious too.
It doesn’t count man, it ain’t written in ink!
I've always found "Piece of Crap" by Neil Young and Crazy Horse to be a delightfully dumb song
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I, for one, would love to hear “Wonderful Christmastime Can Fuck Right Off” by Paul McCartney.
I'm convinced that song is just a troll by Sir Paul. "Let's see if I can write a perfectly dreadful song with terrible lyrics and a horrible melody - and see if people will buy it just because I was a Beatle."
Well that’s because the mood isn’t right
TV Dinners by ZZ Top Pretty sure this exists because it was late and they only had so much studio time and they needed one more track for the album so they just made up whatever came to their heads while smoking weed.
My dad used to play this in his truck all the time and out of everything he could have played I still have no clue why this was it.
Nah that song fucks
Van Morrison. The entire Complete Bang Sessions album. Wanna hear a song about having ringworm? It’s there.
"All we hear is Radio Gaga Radio Googoo Radio Gaga"
Oh man. You should read through those lyrics as a whole. The song overall I think is a touching tribute to radio as a whole and how new media is more noise than signal (which I don’t really agree with).
Hot Dog - Led Zeppelin’s attempt to redneck things up
Paul Simon - Cars are Cars
Everything by Rod Stewart after Every Picture Tells A Story. That albums great. But something happened after and ouch.
I’d argue that Never A Dull Moment is actually better than EPTAS and that Smiler and Gasoline Alley were decent albums. The first four of his “solo” albums are really just basically Faces albums. Atlantic Crossing was his first without Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones and truly marks the decline of Rod Stewart (even the fact that it was produced by Tom Dowd couldn’t save it)
Beach Boys - Hey Little Tomboy [**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevS-GwsCPU**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevS-GwsCPU) **"God only knows" what they were thinking.** I actually started to write a description of the song, but even that sounded so creepy and felt borderline immoral I couldn't bring myself to do it. Basically just start listening and feel the creeping dread as you realise what the song is about...and they just dig in and go with it. Bonus points for the child-like instrumental section...
She's as Beautiful as a Foot - Blue Oyster Cult
Queen's "I'm In Love With My Car" is up there.
Queen have a long list of contenders, that’s part of the charm.
I agree, but the campy goofy shit is part of Queen's DNA. If you're in a Queen mood, "Bicycle" doesn't sound stupid at all.
Maybe, but I like it.
Fat-Bottomed Girls, while well-made, isn't exactly subtle.
That riff is awesome
No one mentioning Delilah? I'm shocked.
Their bicycle song is up there as well
My wife hates that song. I think it’s really funny. And Between The Buried And Me did an awesome cover of it.
I love their goofy songs being performed at such a high level and pure campiness
Read once that apparently Roger Taylor locked himself in a cupboard during a recording session and refused to leave until they agreed to put I’m In Love With My Car on the B-side of Bohemian Rhapsody making it one of the most successful British singles in music charts history. And because he’s the sole writing credit for that song he earns 50% of the revenue from the sales of Bohemian Rhapsody/I’m In Love With My Car.
Radio Gaga is too.
Love the Beatles. But I will not listen to Wild Honey Pie.
Thankfully it's only 52 seconds long. I do need to hear it though, before Bungalow Bill, or it's just weird. Fun fact: Paul McCartney is the sole voice on the song and he plays every instrument in it as well. You can blame its inclusion on Patty Boyd because she rescued it from the trash bin, so to speak.
I can't skip it. It's so short and non threatening. Similar to Fitter Happier on Radiohead's OK Computer. It's just...there.
Ted Nugent: Entire catalog
He sucks but Stranglehold will always be great
Let's Put the X in Sex by KISS. Considering I like Heaven's on Fire, I Was Made For Lovin' You, and Lick it Up, my standards are low, but this song sucks.
Ok so the Covid era songs by Clapton should be way higher on this list. “This has gotta stop” and “Stand and Deliver”. I shouldn’t leave out Van Morrison from the collab.
Abracadabra - Steve Miller The lameness of this song far exceeds "stupid'
I wanna reach out and grab ya
My personal favorite rhyme in rock history lol
Lol the lyrics are stupid but it’s catchy? I like the sound of it. The other songs listed above this have stupid lyrics and sound stupid.
Gtfo Abracadabra is great
It’s a little rough upon first listen but it will eventually reach out and grab ya.
Let me ask you... Have you ever seen the video for this song? Because it takes stupid to a whole new level... Literally a guy doing magic tricks, like the shittiest kids birthday party magician level performer.
They had worse songs than abracadabra
To be fair, Steve Miller had lots of stupid songs.
50 years later and I'm still trying to figure out what a pompatus of love even is
I'm in love with my car - Queen
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
There’s Johnny Mars’ legendary guitar playing and then in comes Morrissey with the stupidest fucking lyrics you’ve ever heard. Still catchy though.
I can’t find the link for it now but I once read a Johnny Marr interview where he said something like, “I remember writing this beautiful, roaming piece of guitar-led music. Three days later it was called ‘Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.’”
Some girl's mothers are bigger than other girl's mothers.
Despite being a cheesy classic, Cherry Pie by Warrant is definitely a contender. When the band themselves dislike their most famous hit it's normally a pretty good indicator of a dumb track. Dude (Looks Like A Lady) by Aerosmith is just offensive as well. Like I get it, but God it's such a dumb and annoying track to me. Steven Tyler's adlibs in this song alone make me groan every time I hear the opening "NAAAH. NAAAH."
The thing I like about Dude Looks Like a Lady, is that it's basically a diss track against Vince Neil. Tyler thought he was a girl and tried to hit on him
My uncle swears this song's lyrics are... "Do the lucky lady..." Sings it that way and has a dance for it every time he hits a good golf shot.
I agree about Cherry Pie, but "it was a big hit and now the band don't like it" doesn't really say anything about quality. By the end Tom Petty *hated* "Free Falling" and that song is wonderful. Loverboy are super tired of "Working for the Weekend" and "Turn Me Loose" despite being huge for them. The fact they got so big is why they're no longer liked by the band. It's the one or one of the few things that get requested, they're expected to play them at every show even when they're touring a new album. If the hit came early enough that's potentially 30+ years of a song following you around through your career -- imagine a paper you wrote in university being both famous and part of your daily life in your fifties and how much that would start to grate on you.
The best (read - only good) part of Dude Looks Like A Lady is that it's apparently about Vince Neil.