Top 5 "Most Hated" songs

....between good songs that just got played to death and songs that were just plain bad.

I was ready to drown whoever was singing about Bobby Joe McAllister.

Diana

somebody else. It's not a good song to sit through when you're expecting a different kind of music, though puzzling out all the references was fun once it became a hit.

I also saw the Doobie Brothers open up for Marc Bolan and get booed off the stage, and 10CC open up for Steeleye Span (I can hear the baffled cries already), and although I was eager to see 10CC who's album I had bought as an import, they were no where near as interesting live as Steeleye who were voted one of the 3 best rock acts on tour by Melody Maker that year. They were astonishing to see live back in 1975 (the rhyme was an accident). Still 10CC's next album was truly wonderful (Soundtrack with I'm not in Love on it).

Hard to quarrel with the Number 1 worst song though. How that ever became a hit is a monument to bad taste, sort of the Las Vegas of bad songs, which is appropriate when you consider where Paul Anka makes most of his money.

Rob

I could live without ever hearing it again.

Polls like this are bound to be unsatisfying. Musical taste is highly personal anyway. Somewhere, somebody must love "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

.....would not qualify as a "bad song" if you like the song but don't like his version of it. That's why Whitney Houston's destruction of "I Will Always Love You" didn't qualify. In order to make the list, the song itself has to be awful.

P.S. I like Sid's "My Way" and so did Martin Scorcese, who used it over the end credits in "Goodfellas."

A good song can always be butchered. Bad songs just ARE.

I always hated Joan Baez's horrible sanitized version of "Salt of the Earth". She clearly did not get it. But then, I hate everything by her anyway. I know a guy who thinks her version is an improvement!!