I was reading Andrew Careaga’s blog today, and he was taking a meme about music. One of the questions was “most annoying song in the world”. His was Terry Jack’s “Season’s in the Sun”, “After the Lovin” by Englebert Humperdink and “Escape (the Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes. It brought to mind the most annoying songs ever for me. There are a few…”Boot Scootin’ Boogie” by Brooks and Dunn, “Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer” by Elmo and Patsy. (sense a theme… *country*) and, ahem…HEY MACARENA!
I think the worst song for me would be a two-fer. The Dolly Parton/Whiney Houston bifecta of “I Will Always Love You”. The original came out my senior year of high school. From Dolly’s movie “Best Little Whorehouse In Tejas”. Every day for two months at 9 am during drafting class, that song came on the radio. You could physically feel the life get sucked out of the room. I even heard the drafting teacher mutter “oh god” a couple of times. We had a sing-along with it one day and the Latin teacher came in from across the hall wondering what the wailing was about. Whiney’s version is just as bad.
Every time I hear either version of this song, a little part of me dies.
Yeah, there are a lot of stinky tunes out there. You’ve listed several of them. The Dolly-Whitney duet is certainly a contender for “Worst Duet Ever,” as well as worst song. Another horrid duet was the Barbra Streisand-Neil Diamond abortion, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers.” (Sorry if the mere mention recalls that ditty from your memory banks, but I’m just paying you back for the Dolly-Whitney thing.
AC