What do you think is the most stupid song ever?

[CTyankee]

I nominate "Walk the Dinosaur."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. If this list doesn't include {Redacted}, I'm resigning from DU. NT

[Maninacan]

2. Stupid yes!

I always liked it, never knew there was a video.

[bamagal62]

3. Muskrat Love

[Whyisthisstillclose]

7. Great minds think alike.....

[Chasstev365]

9. Beat me to it!

[hlthe2b]

21. There are actually muskrats in the lake at the park I walk before dawn each morning...

They seem to have an amazing way of surviving winter along with the zillions of Canadian geese and ducks, and I always get a smile when I hear their distinctive "splash" by the shore.

And... I loved the band, AMERICA. That said, I admit that was not their finest moment. LOL

[Maninacan]

59. Willis Alan Ramsey

This song is also on what i think is a great album!

[electric_blue68]

100. First one that popped up for me. 😄

[Whyisthisstillclose]

4. Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight and Muskrat Love

come immediately to mind, but there's are lots of contenders.....

[Bobstandard]

10. Wait!

That song has Lonny Donnegan rapping the immortal and ineffable lyric “if tin whistles are made of tin, what do they make foghorns out of?” “Boom. Boom!”

[Whyisthisstillclose]

17. True! Maybe I have been too harsh in my assessment??

It was the first dance song at my wedding...

[GCG]

5. My vote is for

Good Morning Starshine sung by Oliver.

The chorus: "Glibby gloop gloopy, Nibby Nabby Noopy, La La La Lo Lo. Sabba Sibby Sabba, Nooby abba Nabba Le Le Lo Lo. Tooby ooby walla, nooby abba nabba, Early mornin' singin' song."

[unblock]

13. I'm partial to the Beverly D'Angelo version from the movie hair

She was my babysitter growing up (before she was famous obviously) so I may be biased.

It's a silly song but fun happy upbeat and fits the musical/movie. Many song from musicals can sound odd when they become hits out of context.

[lastlib]

6. Loggins & Messina doing "Danny's Song."

Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time" is a close second, followed by every song Leo effin' Sayer ever did.

[ABC123Easy]

49. How is Billy Joels stupid?

I can see someone not liking it (I love it but to each their own) but being stupid? Just curious

[lastlib]

63. That chorus just sucks.

It's hideous, my 2cts.

[ABC123Easy]

66. Your opinion is as valid as mine

[Chasstev365]

8. Da Da Da - Trio 1982

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[TrunKated]

32. I always thought that was a variation...

On the Yeah, yeah, yeah, stuff of the 60s. Like the Beatles song, She Loves You.

[Croney]

11. She's Under My Thumb.

...comes to mind.

[Haggard Celine]

12. Kid Rock -- Bawitaba

[Whyisthisstillclose]

19. But Skid Rock has redeemed himself since then with his sartorial splendor and astute political insights

[ABC123Easy]

50. Hell yes

This perfectly fits "stupid"

[Sneederbunk]

14. Surfin' Bird

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[Safe as Milk]

15. "Don't worry. Be Happy." n/t

[Grim Chieftain]

16. "My Mommy Said I Should Put Beans in My Ears"

By The Serendipity Singers - 1964. Even as a child this song made me cringe.

[The Roux Comes First]

53. This Was Just About When We Trucked My Sister to the ER to Have a Date Pit Extracted from Her Nose!

[Grim Chieftain]

55. Good grief!

I hope she came through it okay. She'd have done better to put beans in her ears, they're smaller.

[rhiannon55]

64. When he was five, my brother Steve pushed a popcorn kernel deep in his ear

He ended up with hearing loss in that ear.

[Grim Chieftain]

68. Oh, that's so awful!

Poor kiddo.

[3catwoman3]

77. When doing a checkup on a 5 yr old little boy, I found...

...a piece pencil lead in one of his ear canals. He denied any knowledge of how it got in there.

[fargone]

94. Pete Seeger did a version of this with a verse...

About Mrs. Jay's little son, Elbe.
I think Elbe Jay has beans in his ears.

[electric_blue68]

101. Omg, never heard of this! 😄

[Emile]

18. Blake Sheldon "Boys around here"

Chew Tobacco, Chew Tobacco, Chew Tobacco, Spit

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[IA8IT]

20. Toni Basil's "Mickey" There, secret's out.... my guilty pleasure!!

[hlthe2b]

22. 'Brand New Key'- Melanie (Should at least ve on the list... the Roller Skate Song.. supposedly)

That one makes my teeth grind.. Uggh.

[Norrrm]

33. Is this one any better?

[Easterncedar]

39. I like both versions!

[hlthe2b]

42. Oh, hon... Let me find all recordings for you to listen to 24/7 from now on!

Please tell me you are kidding.

[Easterncedar]

45. Overplayed on the radio, when that was all we had, sure

I think Melanie's song was cute. That's all. I am not smoking dope and putting it on repeat on the record player like I did Pink Floyd.

[hlthe2b]

48. Well, Pink Floyd, I definitely "get.."

But, not enough pot in the world for that Melanie song to resonate.

[hlthe2b]

41. Oh, gawd...

I am going to send a voodoo curse your way for that! (kidding, just kidding). But OMG that is awful.

[Norrrm]

43. I think they would be proud to hear you say that.

[Iggo]

117. LOL...that one ain't about roller skates.

[hlthe2b]

118. Yeah, I know, but it is the song/singer that is the constant irritant especially the first

200,000 times it is played. At that point, the "wink wink, don't tell" meaning is pretty much lost.

[Iggo]

119. Truth. I can listen to it once, then I'm good for another twenty years.

[johnp3907]

23. Bush Was Right

By The Right Brothers.
It’s totally wrong.

[cloudbase]

24. MacArthur Park

Telephone Man

[hlthe2b]

44. I actually like MacArthur Park--both versions

But, I'm a sucker for a good orchestral backing and an actor who surprises us by singing (or speaking, in the case of William Shatner) and as for the other, Donna Summer was the Queen of disco! She was near "perfect!" LOL

[LogDog75]

25. You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone

Hated it in the 70s and still hate it today.

[Dawson Leery]

26. Agree.

[UpInArms]

27. Petula Clark - Don't Sleep in the Subway

Don't sleep in the subway?
Don't stand in the pouring rain?

Who was she dating?

[Rastapopoulos]

28. "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka

[Easterncedar]

38. Loathe that one!

Along with If I were a carpenter

[hlthe2b]

46. Yeah... That one was cringe-worthy...

[vanlassie]

92. Found it.

Horrible. 🤮

[Norrrm]

29. After 5000 times, Grandma got run over by a reindeer. It stopped being cute at 5001.

[viva la]

30. Sugar Sugar

[bamagal62]

61. When I was 7, my dad brought

Home a horse named Sugar. I would sit in the tire swing and sing her that song.

[viva la]

120. Oh, that's sweet.

Now I like the song better.

[bamagal62]

122. ❤️❤️❤️

[3catwoman3]

80. That dumb song was the Song Of The Year in 1969, the year I finished...

...high school.

The songs for 1968 and 1970 were Hey Jude and Bridge Over Troubled Water.

What the hell was wrong with peoples' musical taste in 1969?

[underpants]

106. It's basically an artificial song too. No band just studio musicians

I’d guess there was some sort of cartoon version where the Archie’s cast were playing it but I don’t know.

[viva la]

121. And that was the year of Woodstock!

[Norrrm]

31. When the four girls are walking, I find Dinosaur to be worthy of a Grammy. I have an eye for good music.

[TrunKated]

34. I would put almost all country and 70s disco below that.

[FullySupportDems]

35. That Proud to be an American slop one hit wonder

Sorry, I can't go with There ain't no doubt, and the worse Where at least I know I'm free... just no. Ever since it came out.

[gay texan]

36. Fucking Lee Greewood

"Im proud to be an american"

Pure bullshit

[kimbutgar]

51. i absolutely hate that song

and want to scream when I hear it!

[underpants]

109. Try having to listen to it EVERY SINGLE DAY

They started playing that after Taps at final formation when I was in the Army in the early 90’s

The first day we were looking to the NCO’s “What do we do?” Attention? Parade rest? They said stand at ease.
The second day we were ALL like “What IS this crap?” Even the country music guys hated it. They’d never heard of Lee Greenwood. One of the older guys (Louisiana) said he remembered it from the YEARS AGO when it was released and that he and his buddies hated it then.

The third day we were told we could leave since we’d been dismissed. We got looks for walking around while other units were still in formation. Well, at least we got to chow first.

[gay texan]

114. I know what its like, trust me.

The country station in the Ozarks played it three times a fucking day. For years

[underpants]

115. 😆😆😆

[underpants]

110. Every. Single. Day.

They started playing that after Taps at final formation when I was in the Army in the early 90’s

The first day we were looking to the NCO’s “What do we do?” Attention? Parade rest? They said stand at ease.

The second day we were ALL like “What IS this crap?” Even the country music guys hated it. They’d never heard of Lee Greenwood. One of the older guys (Louisiana) said he remembered it from the YEARS AGO when it was released and that he and his buddies hated it then.

The third day we were told we could leave since we’d been dismissed. We got looks for walking around while other units were still in formation. Well, at least we got to chow first.

[littlemissmartypants]

123. I'm just waiting for him to make it the new national anthem. ...

And I'm glad you got to chow first. ❤️

[Easterncedar]

37. Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy

[3catwoman3]

82. I knew this one was going to show up.

[Easterncedar]

84. I was surprised I was the only one

Did everyone else develop traumatic amnesia over it?

[3catwoman3]

90. Maybe. I certainly wish I had never heard it.

I'd have been embarrassed to have written it, and even more embarrassed to have sung it.

[Mystery To Me]

40. Escape

Pina Colada Song

[ABC123Easy]

47. I'd pick ANY song in the Beiber catalog.

Beiber's "music" is just trash. Given time and pro tools, a chimpanzee could create Beibers "music"

[SheltieLover]

52. MacArthur Park

[CTyankee]

54. Yeah, I never could understand "someone left the cake out in the rain..."

[SheltieLover]

58. That line got me too, & it was waaaay too long.

[skypilot]

71. And why won't they ever...

...have the recipe again? Did that get left out in the rain as well?

[SheltieLover]

81. Lol likeky so!

[padfun]

76. One time I took a hit of 4 way windowpane and it sounded right

But then, lots of things were changing colors and shapes Including cakes in the rain.

[displacedvermoter]

56. The Night Chicago Died

Billy Don't Be a Hero, a close second!

[subterranean]

67. The same band (Paper Lace) was responsible for both of those songs.

The version of Billy Don't be a Hero that became a No. 1 hit in the U.S. was a cover of Paper Lace's original, which was a hit in the UK.

[displacedvermoter]

116. Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, the

people who brought both of the Paper Lace songs to America, also did a viciously bad version of Paul Simon's Kodachrome on American Bandstand. They even mumbled over the line about "the crap I learned in highschool", apparently touring with Osmond Brothers means you both suck musically, and are prudes as well.

[The Blue Flower]

57. I've Got Tears in My Ears from Laying in Bed, Crying Over You

My number two dumbest is: I'm Ambivalent Over You (from the 40s or 50s), but yes, a real title.

[jmbar2]

60. Something Stupid - Frank and Nancy Sinatra

Can't forget this one

[PittBlue]

62. I shot the sheriff.

I hate that song.

[johnp3907]

70. Hatin' on Marley?

😮

[PittBlue]

73. Nope...

Just that song.

[ABC123Easy]

65. So....

Are we picking songs that are stupid or just ones we hate?

[MustLoveBeagles]

69. My Ding a Ling

😝

[Ilikepurple]

85. I Was disappointed I had to scroll this far for this one. Nt

[debm55]

72. You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone.

[Maninacan]

74. I need a Hero

Bonnie Tyler is great . Really liked her song in Metropolis movie. But Hero is just a mish-mash of instruments. Like a bad Sax solo.

[bobalew]

75. I had too much to dream last night

by the Electric Prunes ....
No kidding, real song, real band ...

[justaprogressive]

112. and a great song...

You should listen to "Mass in F Minor", their next album.

[oberle]

78. Hang on Sloopy Sloopy Hang On

I don't know who wrote it but I first heard it in 1965. I thought it said Hang On Stupid.

[justaprogressive]

111. Rick Derringers first band: The McCoys

Before he joined Edgar Winter.

[Ritabert]

79. Escape (the Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes

The music's okay but the lyrics are not

[LisaM]

83. Piano Man.

God, I hate that song.

[underpants]

103. Billy Joel said he was shocked it was a hit on Howard Stern

I’d never realized it but it’s a limerick set to a waltz.
He said it’s one of the worst songs for an instrumental piano bar setting because it’s completely repetitive which most people don’t realize without the lyrics being sung.

[The Madcap]

86. Disco Duck.

Also:

Muskrat Love
Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road
You're Having my Baby

So many others....ugh.

[CrispyQ]

87. Put the lime in the coconut & drink it all up.

Silly, but I love it! 💚

[blm]

96. One of the greatest songs of all time.

😆😆😆😆

[Groundhawg]

89. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v8kB0KUR8PiY

[marble falls]

91. Put silver wings on my son's chest ..............

[WestMichRad]

93. Good gawd, no one has yet mentioned

Ding Dong the witch is dead?

I have a special loathing of this one… it’s a vile, senseless earworm.

[Coventina]

95. Sussudio

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[underpants]

105. The insufferable Phil Collins was just printing money back then

Everything he released became a hit so he just kept putting out crap like that. Hated that song too.

[Totally Tunsie]

97. Save two votes for...

Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang.

and

One eyed, one horned flying purple people eater

[Mad_Dem_X]

98. My Humps

Not posting the video!

[Pachamama]

102. I actually kind of liked that song...

….check it out!!!

[RainCaster]

99. "I write the songs" by Barely Man at All

[whathehell]

104. ....While there are many to choose from

this, at minimum is a close contender.

[Zambero]

107. Disco Duck

A reflexive radio station changer.

[MiHale]

108. Do-Wacka-Do by Roger Miller...

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[justaprogressive]

113. Irving Berlin wrote this turkey: Easter Parade

any song that has to use "ROTOGRAVURE" to rhyme!