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Village Voice: The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, What's Yours?

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jooey

The Motorcycle That Wouldn't Slow Down
Oozer3993 said:
It's nice to see that "Like a G6" is not on the list of the 20 Worst Songs of the Year. Calling it a song is giving it
way, way
too much credit. It is not music, it is a random assemblage of horrific noises that make sane people angry, i.e. it brings to mind the Black Eyed Peas.
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you should have this published. on a poster. make that 10 million posters, facing the windows of the low-income housing of the trogs who dare to consider it both "music" and "good".
 
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whitehawk

Banned
jooey said:
you should have this published. on a poster. make that 10 million posters, facing the windows of the low-income housing of the trogs who dare to consider it both "music" and "good".
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Ugh, a lot of my friends like G6 as a party song. It's played multiple times at every party I go to, and it's really annoying.
 
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Nappuccino

Member
Mr Jared said:
I actually completely forgot about this ... FOR A REASON! Time to eject myself off planet Earth. It's been real, yall!
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Sorry for the reminder... but some times its good to know how awful things can be because they make the good music seem that much better.
 
D

Discotheque

Banned
The greatest Lil Jon song was Watchu Gon Do. That will always be a smanger.

wtf Teach me how to scream? WTF is that shit. It's makes the dougie boys look mean as shit.
 
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Sn4ke_911

If I ever post something in Japanese which I don't understand, please BAN me.
thetechkid said:
What is wrong with you?
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So because i don't like a song, something must be wrong with me?

Opinions are different. Deal with it.
 
thetechkid

thetechkid

Member
Sn4ke_911 said:
So because i don't like a song, something must be wrong with me?

Opinions are different. Deal with it.
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I don't have a problem with you not liking the song, but there are much worse songs that can be considered worst song of the year.
 
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Fritz

Member
Anything the Black Eyed Peas released this year (and the years before for that matter). They turned from awesome (Weekends is still one of my all time favourite tracks) to plain euro dancefloor trash. Whats next, happy hardcore?
 
Papa

Papa

Banned
Rocket Scientist said:
Ridiculous list. ITT, people hate on popular stuff because it's popular. High horses and ivory towers for the lose.
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There's always someone like you who will pretend awful things aren't awful.
 
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MattKeil

BIGTIME TV MOGUL #2
Rocket Scientist said:
Ridiculous list. ITT, people hate on popular stuff because it's popular. High horses and ivory towers for the lose.
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Well, it is the Village Voice, after all.
 
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Sn4ke_911

If I ever post something in Japanese which I don't understand, please BAN me.
threenote said:
Exactly. Your opinion sucks.
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You suck for coming in this thread saying something pointless and not telling us your worst songs of 2010.
 
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Covfan

Member
Rocket Scientist said:
Wrong thread buddy : ) The thread about songs you should listen to is that-a-way -->
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I'm going to stand my ground, it's an awful dreadful song with no redeeming features whatsoever *Puts up fists*
 
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Rocket Scientist

Member
matt404au said:
There's always someone like you who will pretend awful things aren't awful.
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Just doing my part. Eventually we all die anyway.
Covfan said:
I'm going to stand my ground, it's an awful dreadful song with no redeeming features whatsoever *Puts up fists*
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Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo :D
 
D

djtiesto

is beloved, despite what anyone might say
Soul Sister is far from the worst song I've ever heard (it still sucks though), but it is played NONSTOP, I'll hear it wherever I go... the radio, in bars, on TV commercials... it's absolutely ridiculous. The local adult contemporary station here, WALK 97.5, plays the song like once every 20 minutes. Agree that Ke$ha and Black Eyed Peas should be on here. That Like A G6 song is so bad it's good though, I love the ridiculous slang in it :lol

Covfan said:
Did the Barbara Streisand song not infect America this year?
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That's a good song :p It's sampled from an old Boney M record... I'm very very hyped to see disco, italo and disco-house making a huge comeback in recent times after the electro dirge of the last 5 years. Armand Van Helden is American but has had most of his success in Europe, I remember hearing "You Don't Know Me" for the first time on Parisian radio while I was over there on a school trip, and falling in love.
 
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Jeff-DSA

Member
I can't agree more with their #1 pick. That song is so terrible I actively avoid it on the stupid ads its on, on the radio, or anywhere else. It's just grating and insultingly bad.

Tom Petty should never make these lists based on all the good will he's accrued over the years, especially when garbage like Kesha managed to avoid it.
 
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HiResDes

Member
Lambtron said:
I assure you, I don't.
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Here's every time I've ever mentioned Lil' B

HiResDes said:
NO fucking way....I don't know who's funnier Soulja Boy or Lil' B....They need to have a rap battle it would be like watching two gorillas engaged in a poop-fight.
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HiResDes said:
Damn didn't know people actually listened to Lil' B albums.
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HiResDes said:
Okay my friend was listening to Red Flame (My friend being me)

And I came across this song called Death Valley and to my dismay it wasn't half bad...Of course I had to throw everything else instantly, but I kept this track and another Ft Cormega (I Killed Hip-Hop). He also mentions Antony & The Johnsons!

...Lil' B listens to Antony & The Johnsons :lol
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HiResDes said:
Umm...Lil'B is about as obscure as Britney Spear's vagina.
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HiResDes said:
Did anyone's mixtape come in laughable bit rates? Like most of the tracks on Red Flame are like 64kbps.
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HiResDes said:
I really do think that somewhere hidden inside Lil' B is a musical genius...I mean just hearing some of his references and the samples he uses and songs like this:


I Killed Hip-Hop

Call it crazy or whatever but I really am starting to think that he is indeed sandbagging when it comes to rap, maybe as some sort of inside joke, or social experiment...I don't know why exactly, maybe just for our entertainment.
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HiResDes said:
My favorite Lil' B song:

Danny Brown Ft. Lil' B - Trippin'
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...Notice the transition, it's basically in chronological order
 
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Hot Coldman

Banned
I'm seriously considering a 300-page fan-fiction about Will-I-Am's arrest, trial at the Hague and eventual execution by bear sodomy, all over Dirty Bit.
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
Earl Cazone said:
oh god. why did they rape loser. wtf
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I just listened to it and it wasn't that bad. They missed the point of Beck being a white guy rapping, but otherwise it was tightly produced and strangely authentic.
 
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Learn2read

Member
While that Tom Petty song is him trying something new that doesn't really work, no freaking way does it deserve to be on this list.
 
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Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
*Sigh*...

Why does gaf hate Soul Sister?

I mean I can see people not liking it, and its not a great song by any means. It's also massively overplayed.

However, the WORST song of the year? In a year with Kesha and various other drivel?
 
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Learn2read

Member
Divvy said:
*Sigh*...

Why does gaf hate Soul Sister?

I mean I can see people not liking it, and its not a great song by any means. It's also massively overplayed.

However, the WORST song of the year? In a year with Kesha and various other drivel?
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I kinda agree, don't like it, obviously not my thing, but it's a competent Adult Pop (is that a category?) song.
 
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AVclub

Junior Member
JeTmAn81 said:
What exactly makes that Train song the worst of the year?
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If you had clicked the link in the OP and actually looked at the article, you might not have needed to post your question. Here...let me get that for your lazy ass...

"Hey, Soul Sister" was the only rock song to land in the Billboard Hot 100's top 10 this year. This is pretty much proof that rock music is dead, right? We're not gonna tell Nickelback to come back because all is forgiven, but this warm washcloth of facepalmy puns and cutey-poo pukulele might be why Captain Beefheart died.

It's pretty much the whitest song to ever have the word "soul" in it, and that includes Death Cab's "Soul Meets Body." There is less soul in the entirety of Train than in the palest single member of Collective Soul. "Hey, Soul Sister" is soul for people who refer to peanut butter and jelly as "soul food." It makes the California Raisins look like the second coming of Sly and the Family Stone. It's so white, Sarah Palin just named it her running mate for 2012.

At its outset, it sounds like that All-American Rejects song that was popular last year. Remember that one? Here, we just Googled it for you. Train, you owe us 20 seconds of our lives back, and we owe All-American Rejects a cut of our vast F2K10 riches.

The chorus is jacked from an even worse place. "Hey Soul Sister" is an orgy where bad ideas trade STDs, and the most syphilitic brain-fart stumbled in drunk from a Smash Mouth show. (For those of you who arrived late, Smash Mouth was a band from the late '90s that was formed when a soul patch met cake frosting. Their wikki-wikki scratching and dorkpie hats did to music what blood-soaked clowns do to the dreams of sleeping children.) Listen to "Hey, Soul Sister" a few times and you'll inevitably be reminded of the "whistling solo" from the Shrek house band's inescapable "All Star." From Smash Mouth, Train picked up an earworm that burrowed into society's asshole, laid 4.7 million iTunes eggs, and gave birth to a grey cloud of banality that covers the Earth.

The lyrics represent the weird hippie fantasies of a yuppie toolbag. Quoth front-nozzle Pat Monahan: "I just wrote on my computer for a while what I saw as a group of beautiful women at Burning Man dancing around the fire. I've never been there before, but that's what I imagined it would be like." Yes, this song is the result of a grown bajillionaire who dresses like a 19-year-old Dane Cook stan sitting pud-handed at his MacBook and writing fan fiction about the fun times hippie girls have at Burning Man. Dude is like five feet and 10 inches of midlife crisis.

How much do you want to bet that the initial rhyme to the word "direction" in the second verse was "erection," and not "Love Connection"? Because, really. Erection.

It makes hashtag rap look poetic. The references to the '80s in "Hey, Soul Sister"--the untrimmed-chest bit, the Mr. Mister and Madonna name-drops, Love Connection--they're all lazier than Garfield in a lasagna coma. Oh, fuck-now they've got us doing it!

The ukulele. The fuck?

It lowered the bar for blowjob references on pop radio. "Your lipstick stains / On the front lobe of my left side brains"? Congratulations, Flo Rida: You just became the front-runner for the National Book Award (Fellatio Division). When the inevitable "keep Train's song out of our precious commercials" movement sprung up, it was called Stop Advertising From Pulling a Train, which is a better sex joke in that it a) makes sense and b) wasn't sung over a ukulele.

The ukulele player looks like Howie Mandel. I mean.

It was the lone pop song to manage cultural ubiquity in a year when that was pretty much impossible. Think about the last time you were stuck in a long line while making a toilet paper run, or were forced to spend time on hold with somebody who assured you that your call was very important, or forgot to DVR Project Runway so you had to sit through all the ad breaks. You probably heard Pat Monahan's weiner warble at some point. That's because "Hey, Soul Sister" is made for those moments when you're forced to do nothing else but listen to it, and it's just catchy enough to rattle around in your head during that downtime's aftermath, disrupting any activities you actually enjoy.

It's never going to die. You thought "Hey, Soul Sister"'s ubiquity on the adult-contemporary charts was enough for it to live on in Walgreens' white-noise perpetuity? Well, there's a country version of the track as well, with the fiddles and vocal harmonies and slide guitar turned all the way up. Somehow the lyrical reference to Madonna is intact -- c'mon, guys, "Loretta" scans just as well, and if you think hard enough you can probably squeeze a reference to "Fist City" in there!

And just think: When your shitty kid marries someone you violently disapprove of 20 years from now, this song -- with its references to blowjobs and songs that were ground into the ground before the kid was a twinkle in your eye -- will serve as the couple's first dance. As you watch your offspring and new in-law twirl around the dance floor, you will reach for a glass of Champagne Loko (President Kid Rock won't try to ban the stuff until he's up for re-election in 2032) and wonder how everything went so, so wrong.
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Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
AVclub said:
If you had clicked the link in the OP and actually looked at the article, you might not have needed to post your question. Here...let me get that for your lazy ass...



:lol
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As white and pointless as the Train song is, that excerpt is just about the worst "white whine" I have read in a while.
 
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Anth0ny

Member
mooooose said:
This song is hilariously bad sober and awesome when drunk. Stop whining.

Same goes for G6 and a ton of other songs. Listen to them sober and you're a tool but if you're out and it's on, let it be your favorite song.
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Exactly. I swear GAF doesn't leave the house. Shots is fucking amazing, the party goes berserk every time it comes on :lol

Songs like Shots, Like a G6, DJ got us falling in love, TEACH ME HOW TO DOUGIE, Rihanna songs... are great at parties. They're at least good for something.

shit like HEY SOUL SISTER or GIRL YOU'RE AMAZING JUST THE WAY YOU ARE are good for nothing. Any time I hear them I just want to stick nails in my ears.

Oh, and just for fun, GAF's most hated songs of 2010 mix :lol
 
CHEEZMO™

CHEEZMO™

Obsidian fan
Nappuccino said:
what?

no "I whip my hair back and forth I whip my hair back and foroth I whip my hair back and forth I whip my hair back and forth I whip my hair back and foroth I whip my hair back and forth I whip my hair back and forth I whip my hair back and foroth I whip my hair back and forth I whip my hair back and forth I whip my hair back and foroth I whip my hair back and forth?"
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Jerk

Banned
That is the first time I have heard that Train song and it does not seem too bad.

Of course I was ignoring most of the words (I almost always ignore the words to songs), but still...
 
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