The worst pop song ever

1-2-3 Red Light

 

Just think of this classic the next time you hear it.

 

Sweet Caroline is not even the worst Neil Diamond song

 

Eight pages of sports writers and no one's mentioned this song? I swear, it gives me 'Nam like flashbacks to covering Little League a decade ago...

 

I like that one. Mostly because of the Chuck Berry reference , which is way cooler than all the baseball player shout-outs.

 

This was a particularly bad summer for tripe on the radio.

 

"Signs"

 

When Fogerty pulled out that bat guitar at a concert, my wife looked over at me and mouthed the words, “I’m sorry.” She knows my hatred of the song is deep and personal.

 

Topping my list is Supertramp’s “When I Was Young.”

I hate all Supertramp songs. This is just the worst.

 

I think "Little Willy" by The Sweet gets a bad rap. It's not a bad melody, taking the lyrics out of the equation. Lots worse crap on AM radio in the spring of 1973, I'm sure.

 

There is definitely men of a certain age vibe going on this thread so I’m breaking out something modern.

For awhile, she and Katy Perry seemed to be in a race to make the most annoying sounds on a song…but the “oh awoah oh” is still the worst.

 

I’ll throw the Cranberries into the mix, with that godfuckingawful yodeling Dolores O’Riordan loved to do:

I don’t want to speak ill of the dead, but she ruined this song. It has been covered several times since by less annoying bands, and it actually turns into a half-decent song.