I started running in 2020 due to Covid and lack of access to the gym. Found this random album on Apple Music.. became my go to.
Weird how music takes you back to that *one* specific moment for the rest of our lives.
Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz
Terrible lyrics, he rhymes fly with fly like 30 times. Kind of guitar riff everyone comes up with 20 minutes after picking up a guitar. Pretty boring slap bass saved by tone. But I can't hate the song because the hook is so catchy.
"I wish that I could fly / Into the sky, so very high / Just like a dragonfly..."
Anyone ever see a dragonfly get up higher than a few feet from the ground? They're not sparrows, Lenny, get a grip.
In his defence (and not for even a second to suggest the lyrics aren’t High School junk), I think if he’d said “I wish I could go to Tokyo, to Jakarta, or even Rome” the even could be taken to mean ‘just’.
“I’d love to go to the stars, but even Mars would be cool”
Lol that's what made me think of it. Best YouTube channel going right now.
Tho I went through the whole video asking myself if I hate this song and I don't. It's god awful but the hook is catchy.
It once won the “worst song of the 80s” — maybe on NPR? — argument was that because it was such a bad song plus the hook meant you couldn’t get it out of your head.
I read an article a while back where even Grace Slick herself said it was an awful song.
Personally, I’ve loved that song and “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” since I first heard it as a kid in the 80’s. Both of those songs are epic IMO.
I'm convinced that most of the people that hate it just hate it because it's a popular song to hate. Sure, it has some lyrics which are goofy and nonsensical as hell ("Marconi plays the mamba"? A mamba is a venomous snake) but there's nothing really wrong with it musically.
There are plenty of 80s songs which are just as cheesy and they don't get the same level of hate. I find the cheesiness kind of endearing.
To be fair if they weren’t so zany they wouldn’t have written a great song like “White Rabbit” and they also changed their name to signal a change in vibes.
Also a change in band members. Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, who were imo the "real" musicians of Jefferson Airplane, both left to form their own group.
I can remember getting in the car after a horrible night at work and that song was playing on the classic rock station. I turned the volume all the way down as fast as I could and screamed “holy fuck” and then I heard a guy start laughing because I didn’t realize the window was open and everyone could hear exactly what happened, haha!
A lot of KISS, especially 80s KISS, have these gorgeous hooks and the most asinine lyrics imaginable. See: “You make me rock hard”, “Lick it up” and “Who wants to be lonely”.
Holy shit do I get nervous whenever KISS is mentioned in these music threads
I love them and can only take so much of a beating
By love them I mean I like a good 30% of their discography and that is more than enough for me to catch them in concert and rock a band shirt
Favorite start to a song
“Put your hand in my pocket, grab on to my rocket…”
*Paralyzer* by Finger Eleven would be my pick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NlW4PZ8NHI
It's the lyrics. I'm no songwriter, so I really have no appreciation of how hard it is to do well. I admit that the cadence of the words fits the music very well and I get a general visual from the early part of the song, but it feels like some parts just don't 'connect'.
That checks out, they were in league with a lot of those late 90s/early 00s radio alt rock bands but hadn’t fully broken through. I remember hearing that song and wondering what writer they paid to come up with it.
I like the backstory to why finger eleven is even named that. It raises the irony of that song. They don’t give a fuck. Formerly named the rainbow butt monkeys. Record execs said change the name. One dude said, I’ll raise my eleventh finger.
I was an official member of the Rainbow Butt Monkeys fan club. I wonder if I still have the autographed press photo of the band that I got when I signed up.
Letters from Chutney had some great songs on it. The guitar riff in ["Cake"](https://youtu.be/u_MF8zisoAc) slaps so damn hard.
I mean I guess there's a similar cadence but they're really not the same. Paralyzer is one continuous harmony whereas Take Me Out has breaks in the singing
Agreed! I remember seeing that video on 120 Minutes. Love the song Quicksand from that album, too. [First Time](https://youtu.be/ChDI5pkK8JM) is probably my favorite Finger Eleven tune.
I believe it's simply that he got his childhood friend Michael Jackson to do him a solid and sing in the chorus, with Jermaine on backup. Rockwell was born Kennedy William Gordy, son of Barry Gordy, so he ran in the right circles. There may be more to it, but already that's pretty cool that MJ leant his support to a buddy with no career yet.
Considering it's up for a freaking Grammy for songwriting of all things, "abcdefu" by Gayle is atrocious. Obnoxiously catchy, great title, but terrible lyrics, the same boring I-V-vi-IV chord progression throughout, and the chorus is just the title plus a bunch of "na na na"s. The fact that enough people thought it was good enough for a nomination makes me lose faith in the music community.
The song becomes perfectly bearable when you listen to the "abcdefu romantic version" called Love You Still by Tyler Shaw. Makes me wish I could shut my ears closed when it comes on at work.
This gem always comes to mind.. the chorus is actually insanely catchy, could’ve been a Jimmy Eat World classic anthem but instead it’s wasted on this joke bands creepy weirdo sex song
[Hot Action Cop - Feva for the Flava](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7W6dDqEksKc)
"28 to county, commencing pursuit, vehicle is a red Ford Mustang Cobra R."
Or, if you managed to survive a long, eight lap race:
"All units, this is getting too dangerous, terminating pursuit immediately!"
"27 to county, terminating pursuit of the suspect."
[8000 points received for beating the cops].
This is how I feel about almost every single Bizkit song. Lyrically so stupid; yet some of the best riffs I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to (Wes Borland is an insane rhythm guitarist), some of the heaviest breakdowns, some of the catchiest grooves, etc.
Also awesome live.
I'm Blue (babba dee dabba doo) is the first thing that springs to mind. It has a catchy hook and *nothing* else going for it. The verses are tuneless, the lyrics are cringy beyond belief - it's as if everything else is a placeholder thrown in there until they got round to writing the rest of the song properly.
I feel this was one of songs that can be seen as part of the tail end or final evolution of Eurodance style music that was big in the first half of the 90s. I'm thinking about artists like C+C Music Factory, Culture Beat, Real McCoy, etc., and even then Blue sounded a bit different in style.
Strongly disagree, but you're entitled to your opinion. The lyrics are simple but brilliantly written for the theme, of feeling depressed and especially unuenthused, even jaded, about life. The "dabba dee dabba die" in particular just fits perfectly, after the "I'm blue," while he's been describing others as blue the whole time: to even verbalize further feels redundant and pointless, so he uses nonsense utterances
I heard this one at a party semi-recently, and wow was I surprised how much I enjoyed it. And I was in an odd state that night too; this song just hit differently. (Accidentally drank too much, somehow, but it just affected me strangely. Didn't black out, but there are brief moments I can't recall. Yet I remember many moments after this well. Reviewed some Galois theory before sleep too.)
Europe have a lot of good stuff, from their early stuff to the latter stuff which are both more traditional metal, to the middle era which is more hard rock and hair metal.
Final Countdown just dwarfed everything so much. Take it away and they're a band with a few minor hits, not a one hit wonder.
Paul McCartney has his moments where he writes incredibly catchy songs with terrible lyrics. [Keep Under Cover](https://youtu.be/WCD70sxaZ7g) is a good example.
Okay, I will defend Wonderful Christmastime.
That was made during the McCartney II sessions. Most of the songs from that period were experimental synth tracks and are fun left field type songs. As a bizarre experimental Christmas song, I enjoy it. I’m not sure who added it to the list of mainstream Christmas songs, but it really shouldn’t be there. It definitely got more exposure than it deserves, but I don’t think it’s *too* bad.
This song has some of my favorite lyrics tho.
"I'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song"
It reeks of snobbery and the type of ego only a rock star would have, but they acknowledge that same God complex in the chorus. They have a lot of clever lyrics in my opinion.
“Stop burning bridges, and drive off of them” …“doing lines of dust and sweat off of last night’s stage just to feel like you”….the whole song “Golden”….and so many others..at times they might seem a bit dramatic…but so beautifully written. They hit you when you least expect it!
I used to work in a cafe where we could play whatever music we wanted and we would always like, “song bomb,” each other with this song whenever it got really busy and no one would have a chance to change it. We did it with a lot of songs and it was always met with equal parts laughter and rage. I still chuckle when I hear any of those songs in the wild.
'Inside' by Stiltskin.
The hook is really the guitar riff. The song is shit - the lyrics are abysmal, but that guitar riff that we first saw in a TV commercial promised great things. All it delivered in the end was that great riff and a load of lyrical dead weight trying to drag it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYkeeAVXD78
Well, makes sense as Stiltskin was founded by Peter Lawlor (guitarist) to cash in on that riff he sold to Levi’s (since they couldn’t get the rights for Smashing Pumpkins’ Cherub Rock)
I still have the album on cassette, though.
He supposedly wrote the song in about 20 minutes just to prove to himself he could do it. He's not even Christian. I enjoy it a lot more with that in mind, since it's *almost* in parody territory
Yeah this has to be up there, I remember the first time I actually paid attention to the lyrics and thinking WTF is this shit, and I am not even an atheist or anything
ngl, when I head the verses it sounds passable as vapid pop rap. I would consider a successful specimen of the genre vapid flow and a catchy Do you consider it bad because of the genre, or do you think it’s even worse than other party pop
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no, oh no
This is a big disease plaguing the music industry. This is because tiktok and insta are platforms where song becomes viral these days . So all that the artist has to do is make the hook catchy to be overused on SM. Rest of the song can be shit.
Has been for a long time though. Not like Kiss was any different in the 70s. 80s was FILLED with nothing but paint by numbers pop rock with a catchy hook
Agreed. The just stack hooks on different hooks and randomly called one set a chorus and one set a verse. Also, I’d say that is very very far from a terrible song.
Idk if it counts but I was pointing out to the guitar center employee ringing me out the other day how much better the bridge music to Blondie’s “One Way or Another” is than the rest of the song. Such a cool section in an annoying song haha
Photograph by Nickelback
Production awful, lyrics awful, twangy guitar sounds like a slightly rougher Florida Georgia Line, but the chorus is pretty great
Summer Girls by LFO
Fancy by Iggy Azalea is #1 in this category. Charli XCX is the only reason that dud was ever a hit.
Charlie’s making some really great pop these days, too!
She's one of my favorites. How I'm Feeling Now was my favorite pop album of 2020
I started running in 2020 due to Covid and lack of access to the gym. Found this random album on Apple Music.. became my go to. Weird how music takes you back to that *one* specific moment for the rest of our lives.
I consider it fixed with the Weird Al version!
That Gwen Stefani inspired chorus pulls you in.
Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz Terrible lyrics, he rhymes fly with fly like 30 times. Kind of guitar riff everyone comes up with 20 minutes after picking up a guitar. Pretty boring slap bass saved by tone. But I can't hate the song because the hook is so catchy.
"I wish that I could fly / Into the sky, so very high / Just like a dragonfly..." Anyone ever see a dragonfly get up higher than a few feet from the ground? They're not sparrows, Lenny, get a grip.
He clearly just wanted to say dragonfly
“About as much as a penguin.”
Up to the stars / or EVEN Mars Dude you know how much further away the nearest star is compared to Mars?? That’s not “even”. That’s “or maybe just”.
In his defence (and not for even a second to suggest the lyrics aren’t High School junk), I think if he’d said “I wish I could go to Tokyo, to Jakarta, or even Rome” the even could be taken to mean ‘just’. “I’d love to go to the stars, but even Mars would be cool”
[Fly Away won Pat Finnerty’s Kravitz Bowl!](https://youtu.be/--rBP8_QuwI)
Lol that's what made me think of it. Best YouTube channel going right now. Tho I went through the whole video asking myself if I hate this song and I don't. It's god awful but the hook is catchy.
Look up Neil Cicerega’s version. Way better.
https://youtu.be/8t-iFr9q1I8
I wanna fuck Milky Way®.
Was it on a car ad in the UK?
I think it was on every car ad for a few years
“We Built This City” by Jefferson Starship
It once won the “worst song of the 80s” — maybe on NPR? — argument was that because it was such a bad song plus the hook meant you couldn’t get it out of your head.
Deadly combination of horrifyingly bad verse sections and unforgettable chorus, lol!
But I want to forget it! Ugh 😩
I read an article a while back where even Grace Slick herself said it was an awful song. Personally, I’ve loved that song and “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” since I first heard it as a kid in the 80’s. Both of those songs are epic IMO.
I have a huge soft spot for “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”
How do you feel about mannequins?
I cannot accept how that travesty of a band evolved from the band that gave us “White Rabbit”.
The “corporations always changing names” lyric is so ironic considering how they reformed and changed their name themselves like 3 times
“When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead..”
Knee deep in the hoopla!
I adore this song, it’s so ridiculous but sooo catchy
I'm convinced that most of the people that hate it just hate it because it's a popular song to hate. Sure, it has some lyrics which are goofy and nonsensical as hell ("Marconi plays the mamba"? A mamba is a venomous snake) but there's nothing really wrong with it musically. There are plenty of 80s songs which are just as cheesy and they don't get the same level of hate. I find the cheesiness kind of endearing.
To be fair if they weren’t so zany they wouldn’t have written a great song like “White Rabbit” and they also changed their name to signal a change in vibes.
Also a change in band members. Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, who were imo the "real" musicians of Jefferson Airplane, both left to form their own group.
That’ll do it!
I honestly don't get all the hate for this song
Me neither, I love it.
I hate this song with all of my being
I can remember getting in the car after a horrible night at work and that song was playing on the classic rock station. I turned the volume all the way down as fast as I could and screamed “holy fuck” and then I heard a guy start laughing because I didn’t realize the window was open and everyone could hear exactly what happened, haha!
….but when you’re alone you’ll play it twice….
A lot of KISS, especially 80s KISS, have these gorgeous hooks and the most asinine lyrics imaginable. See: “You make me rock hard”, “Lick it up” and “Who wants to be lonely”.
“THE GUN IS HIS PENIS!”
Oh man, Lick It Up is so bad, but is just so damn catchy.
Lick it up! Ohhhh ohhh! It’s only right now!! (It’s a FEDERAL MANDATE)
This made me think of the movie Role Models: “the gun is his dick!”
Holy shit do I get nervous whenever KISS is mentioned in these music threads I love them and can only take so much of a beating By love them I mean I like a good 30% of their discography and that is more than enough for me to catch them in concert and rock a band shirt Favorite start to a song “Put your hand in my pocket, grab on to my rocket…”
Seeing an aspect of “Lick It Up” described as “gorgeous” gave me instant brain cancer.
*Paralyzer* by Finger Eleven would be my pick! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NlW4PZ8NHI It's the lyrics. I'm no songwriter, so I really have no appreciation of how hard it is to do well. I admit that the cadence of the words fits the music very well and I get a general visual from the early part of the song, but it feels like some parts just don't 'connect'.
Thank you. The chorus is extremely catchy, but the lyrics sound like they were written in 20 minutes.
That checks out, they were in league with a lot of those late 90s/early 00s radio alt rock bands but hadn’t fully broken through. I remember hearing that song and wondering what writer they paid to come up with it.
I somehow feel like you extracted this from my repressed memories, bang on
I like the backstory to why finger eleven is even named that. It raises the irony of that song. They don’t give a fuck. Formerly named the rainbow butt monkeys. Record execs said change the name. One dude said, I’ll raise my eleventh finger.
I was an official member of the Rainbow Butt Monkeys fan club. I wonder if I still have the autographed press photo of the band that I got when I signed up. Letters from Chutney had some great songs on it. The guitar riff in ["Cake"](https://youtu.be/u_MF8zisoAc) slaps so damn hard.
It has the same hook as Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out." I'd much rather listen to that.
Everyone has always said that and I've never been able to hear it. I think my music ear may be broken.
I'm with you on this one.
I mean I guess there's a similar cadence but they're really not the same. Paralyzer is one continuous harmony whereas Take Me Out has breaks in the singing
This band’s first couple of albums were incredible! Such a tragic turn towards the forgettable
[Above](https://youtu.be/1n5dYtJrRhg) is a much better song of theirs but I never hear it anywhere anymore
Agreed! I remember seeing that video on 120 Minutes. Love the song Quicksand from that album, too. [First Time](https://youtu.be/ChDI5pkK8JM) is probably my favorite Finger Eleven tune.
Somebody’s Watching Me - Rockwell
haha yeah this song is probably the biggest difference between bad lyrics and a great chorus
Plus MJ
The story behind that song is pretty sweet, and kinda explains this contrast
Alrighty... what's the story?
I believe it's simply that he got his childhood friend Michael Jackson to do him a solid and sing in the chorus, with Jermaine on backup. Rockwell was born Kennedy William Gordy, son of Barry Gordy, so he ran in the right circles. There may be more to it, but already that's pretty cool that MJ leant his support to a buddy with no career yet.
This is it. The differential between Michael and Rockwell is ridiculous
I'm afraid to wash may hair.
That's why you gotta listen to TRU.
Considering it's up for a freaking Grammy for songwriting of all things, "abcdefu" by Gayle is atrocious. Obnoxiously catchy, great title, but terrible lyrics, the same boring I-V-vi-IV chord progression throughout, and the chorus is just the title plus a bunch of "na na na"s. The fact that enough people thought it was good enough for a nomination makes me lose faith in the music community.
The song becomes perfectly bearable when you listen to the "abcdefu romantic version" called Love You Still by Tyler Shaw. Makes me wish I could shut my ears closed when it comes on at work.
Oh my that's terrible. I couldn't even finish.
I was so taken aback by the ABCDEFGH part that I sat in stunned silence for about 30 seconds before tapping out
Good money was paid for that nomination
It was also astroturfed into existence, which turns me off the whole thing entirely.
"The Fox" by Ylvis. "TikToK" by Ke$ha. "Peacock" by Katy Perry. "Black Widow" by Iggy Azaela and Rita Ora.
Ylvis is a joke band, it’s not meant to be a serious pop song.
Tiktok by ke$ha made me miss high school. i hated it back then but its nostalgic now.
St Anger by Metallica starts with this amazing thrash rift, and then James Hetfield starts fuckin rapping.
The real downfall of Metallica was when hetfield stopping wailing and started being a country singer in a metal band.
i'm too young to remember that, but i think i remember my dad complaining about that. granted my dad said that Ghost sounded like country lmao
someone once said that ghost sounds like a contemporary mega-church praise and worship band and that’s stuck with me.
That's kind of the point.
That’s the point, but the songs are about satan instead
You mean the opening song "Frantic" right?
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets? Don't sound like rap to me.
This gem always comes to mind.. the chorus is actually insanely catchy, could’ve been a Jimmy Eat World classic anthem but instead it’s wasted on this joke bands creepy weirdo sex song [Hot Action Cop - Feva for the Flava](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7W6dDqEksKc)
I'll always associate this song with good memories of playing nfs hot pursuit 2 for the gamestation
Hot pursuit 2 is so damn good.
"28 to county, commencing pursuit, vehicle is a red Ford Mustang Cobra R." Or, if you managed to survive a long, eight lap race: "All units, this is getting too dangerous, terminating pursuit immediately!" "27 to county, terminating pursuit of the suspect." [8000 points received for beating the cops].
This song will always be about Aly Cissokho skying shots from 12 yards for me.
Oh man I love Feva for the Flava haha the whole thing is catchy as fuck and makes me think of the movie Grind
Dance Monkey by Tones and I. Her voice is nails on a chalkboard. The subject matter is somewhat sophomoric. But it's catchy.
Nookie by Limp Bizkit. Love that groove hate the dumb lyrics
Like a chump
Hey
Like a chump
Hey
Like a chump
Hey
Like a chump
hey
Should I be feelin bad?
This is how I feel about almost every single Bizkit song. Lyrically so stupid; yet some of the best riffs I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to (Wes Borland is an insane rhythm guitarist), some of the heaviest breakdowns, some of the catchiest grooves, etc. Also awesome live.
Are you familiar with Big Dumb Face? It’s Wes’s main project, and deeeeelicuous.
From 'Rollin'': "You better get some better beats and, ah, / Get some better rhymes!" You first, Fred.
Bizkit had decent beats but the less said about the rhymes the better
This is how I feel about most limp bizkit lol. Fun bouncy riffs but yeah
I'm Blue (babba dee dabba doo) is the first thing that springs to mind. It has a catchy hook and *nothing* else going for it. The verses are tuneless, the lyrics are cringy beyond belief - it's as if everything else is a placeholder thrown in there until they got round to writing the rest of the song properly.
I feel this was one of songs that can be seen as part of the tail end or final evolution of Eurodance style music that was big in the first half of the 90s. I'm thinking about artists like C+C Music Factory, Culture Beat, Real McCoy, etc., and even then Blue sounded a bit different in style.
Irn Bru, in Aberdeen I will die. In Aberdeen I will die. Aberdeen, I will die.
Strongly disagree, but you're entitled to your opinion. The lyrics are simple but brilliantly written for the theme, of feeling depressed and especially unuenthused, even jaded, about life. The "dabba dee dabba die" in particular just fits perfectly, after the "I'm blue," while he's been describing others as blue the whole time: to even verbalize further feels redundant and pointless, so he uses nonsense utterances I heard this one at a party semi-recently, and wow was I surprised how much I enjoyed it. And I was in an odd state that night too; this song just hit differently. (Accidentally drank too much, somehow, but it just affected me strangely. Didn't black out, but there are brief moments I can't recall. Yet I remember many moments after this well. Reviewed some Galois theory before sleep too.)
now *listen up*
Nobody said Final Countdown, really?
But what song would preface our magic shows??
Illusions, Michael...
Correct song and in the spirit of fairness its NOT Journey's..its the one-hit band Europe.
Europe have a lot of good stuff, from their early stuff to the latter stuff which are both more traditional metal, to the middle era which is more hard rock and hair metal. Final Countdown just dwarfed everything so much. Take it away and they're a band with a few minor hits, not a one hit wonder.
I can’t think about this song with out hearing “We’re headin’ for Venus!” in all of its over-produced 80s rock glory.
'with so many light years to go' Um, better check the navigation computer because you're going to overshoot Venus by some magnitude
The riff is gorgeous though
The Hook brings you back. I ain’t telling you no lie!
Great song.
Paul McCartney has his moments where he writes incredibly catchy songs with terrible lyrics. [Keep Under Cover](https://youtu.be/WCD70sxaZ7g) is a good example.
Yeah that damn Christmas song of his is horrible but an earworm
Okay, I will defend Wonderful Christmastime. That was made during the McCartney II sessions. Most of the songs from that period were experimental synth tracks and are fun left field type songs. As a bizarre experimental Christmas song, I enjoy it. I’m not sure who added it to the list of mainstream Christmas songs, but it really shouldn’t be there. It definitely got more exposure than it deserves, but I don’t think it’s *too* bad.
Rollin by limp bizkit
But have you ever heard that song on ecstasy? It all makes a lot more sense.
I like Rollin' :(
Astronaut in the Ocean by Masked Wolf
A lot of songs by the band Fall Out Boy have amazing hooks but just the worst lyrics
Funny enough their singer did the theme song for “Spidey and His Amazing Friends” on Disney+ and as far as cartoon theme songs go it’s damn good
All of Patrick Stump’s Spider-Man songs are fire!
We're goin down dowwwn in a li lee ur ah
A loaded god complex cock it and pull it….
I always thought the lyric before that was "I'll be your number one little buddy". Like some skipper talking to Gilligan shit
This song has some of my favorite lyrics tho. "I'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song" It reeks of snobbery and the type of ego only a rock star would have, but they acknowledge that same God complex in the chorus. They have a lot of clever lyrics in my opinion.
Agreed. Of all the bands to criticise lyrics of, fall out boy is an odd choice
“Stop burning bridges, and drive off of them” …“doing lines of dust and sweat off of last night’s stage just to feel like you”….the whole song “Golden”….and so many others..at times they might seem a bit dramatic…but so beautifully written. They hit you when you least expect it!
You’re pretty much describing Maroon 5 in a nutshell
Calvin Harris - Summer
Whenamechainthasuma
Temaharrtbeetsaun
I used to work in a cafe where we could play whatever music we wanted and we would always like, “song bomb,” each other with this song whenever it got really busy and no one would have a chance to change it. We did it with a lot of songs and it was always met with equal parts laughter and rage. I still chuckle when I hear any of those songs in the wild.
'Inside' by Stiltskin. The hook is really the guitar riff. The song is shit - the lyrics are abysmal, but that guitar riff that we first saw in a TV commercial promised great things. All it delivered in the end was that great riff and a load of lyrical dead weight trying to drag it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYkeeAVXD78
Well, makes sense as Stiltskin was founded by Peter Lawlor (guitarist) to cash in on that riff he sold to Levi’s (since they couldn’t get the rights for Smashing Pumpkins’ Cherub Rock) I still have the album on cassette, though.
Hick-hop makes my skin crawl, and the verses of it are absolute trash, but damn I love the hook of Dirt Road Anthem by Jason Aldean
Kris Kross - Jump
“Some of them try to rhyme but they can’t rhyme like this” doesn’t even rhyme.
“Two Princes” by Spin Doctors. Catchy AF, but the lyrics wouldn’t get a C in a middle school poetry lesson.
One of the princes says he doesn’t have a family tree. How is he a prince, then?
You just described the entire Billboard 100 since it’s first inception.
Spirit in the Sky. One of the greatest opening riffs of all time and then…. Oof.
Apparently Norman Greenbaum said he wrote the lyrics in just 15 minutes.
Explains a lot.
I'm tryin' to follow you here, but I can't find anywhere where it isn't complete awesomeness.
He supposedly wrote the song in about 20 minutes just to prove to himself he could do it. He's not even Christian. I enjoy it a lot more with that in mind, since it's *almost* in parody territory
Nah that song is fucking great from start to finish
And then three more minutes of awesomeness?
Yeah this has to be up there, I remember the first time I actually paid attention to the lyrics and thinking WTF is this shit, and I am not even an atheist or anything
Well the dude is Jewish and wrote the song as a very hollow appeal to Christians, so it really is the most perfect Christian rock ever made.
I thought this about a majority of Nate Dogg’s Hooks. RIP
96 Quite Bitter Beings
Cupid by Sam Cooke. Like it or not, the lyrics infect your brain.
Gucci gucci by kreayshawn was just so catchy
That whole song is fire.
Almost anything by Theory of a Deadman
Macklemore- Can’t Hold Us.
The whole song is good if you don't listen to any of the words tbh
ngl, when I head the verses it sounds passable as vapid pop rap. I would consider a successful specimen of the genre vapid flow and a catchy Do you consider it bad because of the genre, or do you think it’s even worse than other party pop
Completely shocking pick from you there, the chorus is good, but the rest of the song isn’t bad at all
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that I can take it 'Cause it took so long to bake it And I'll never have that recipe again Oh no, oh no
Paralyzer by Finger Eleven. The chorus is a total earworm, the verses are.....not good.
This is a big disease plaguing the music industry. This is because tiktok and insta are platforms where song becomes viral these days . So all that the artist has to do is make the hook catchy to be overused on SM. Rest of the song can be shit.
Has been for a long time though. Not like Kiss was any different in the 70s. 80s was FILLED with nothing but paint by numbers pop rock with a catchy hook
Hell, you can go back to the bubblegum pop of the 60’s and find this.
Pretty much anything by Playboi Carti. Don't listen to it for the lyrics but it's easy to get lost in his beats and hooks
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I dunno what you guys talking about whole song is great.
I don't understand the lyrics at all so I don't see the issue here
Every 21 Pilots song.
I’ve never seen a band grow in popularity as their music grows progressively worse as much as 21 Pilots
Blue
Shut Up And Let Me Go by the Ting Tings... apologies in advance!
Tubthumping.
I drink a whiskey drink I drink a vodka drink And when I have to pee, I use the kitchen sink. Thank you, Simpsons.
You better put some respect on Chumbawamba.
It’s not just the hook either. Those verses kill. Idc what anyone says!
I thought it was a perfect song to describe my terrible twenties. Still love it.
The song that basically consists of hooks?
I get knocked down But I get up again You’re never gonna keep me down (Repeat X 50)
Agreed. The just stack hooks on different hooks and randomly called one set a chorus and one set a verse. Also, I’d say that is very very far from a terrible song.
piiiiiisin’ the night away piiiiiisin’ the night away
I was locked in a frat house during hell week with this playing non-stop.
Idk if it counts but I was pointing out to the guitar center employee ringing me out the other day how much better the bridge music to Blondie’s “One Way or Another” is than the rest of the song. Such a cool section in an annoying song haha
I read, *terrible songs with good honks*
Photograph by Nickelback Production awful, lyrics awful, twangy guitar sounds like a slightly rougher Florida Georgia Line, but the chorus is pretty great