...And the worst single Posted Mon Oct 16 19:29:20 BST 2000 by Justin

Which will doubtless lead someone to cut and paste my best list on to this one. Anyway, here's mine:

1) What's Up by 4 Non Blondes
2) Anything by The Levellers
3) "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba (also officially the worst group in the history of pop)
4) "Angels" by Robbie Williams
5) "Another Day In Paradise" by Phil Collins (an obvious choice, but so foul it deserves to be remembered as such)

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Posted By TJ on Mon Oct 16 19:45:02 BST 2000:

Bob Seeger 'We Got Tonite'

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Posted By Ailie on Mon Oct 16 20:05:21 BST 2000:

Gloria Gaynor - I will Survive

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Posted By TJ on Mon Oct 16 20:09:29 BST 2000:

Good choice Ailie!

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Posted By Chloe on Mon Oct 16 20:24:12 BST 2000:

"I just called to say I love you2 - S Wonder
"Lady in Red" - ugly bloke
"The Power of love" - Jennifer Rush

without discussion!

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Posted By 'Phil' on Mon Oct 16 20:46:03 BST 2000:

"Boom Boom Boom" - The Outhere Brothers
"Candle in the Wind" - Elton John
"Lovefool" - The Cardigans

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Posted By TJ on Mon Oct 16 21:11:20 BST 2000:

I like Lovefool...

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Posted By Justin on Mon Oct 16 21:17:33 BST 2000:

Just like to say thank you Ailie for choosing IWS. Loads of disco records are utterly fantastic, but this one is a horrible piece of rubbish.

What annoys me about Lovefool is not the song itself, but the way that radio listeners choose it as their favourite love song, when it's quite clear (from the title downwards) that this is a highly desperate form of obsession and infatuation. Not love.

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Posted By Ailie on Mon Oct 16 21:19:30 BST 2000:

Happy to have been some help (for once...)
:0)

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Posted By 'boki, not in stilettos and not on the table' on Mon Oct 16 21:29:46 BST 2000:

Totally agree with 'I Will Survive' and let's face it, these days it's virtually inseparable from 'It's Raining Men' and 'Dancing Queen' too. Oh, and The Grease Motherfucking Megamix.

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Posted By TJ on Mon Oct 16 21:33:37 BST 2000:

Nothing to do with bad singles... but boki, I've lsot your mail address... please get in touch!

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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Mon Oct 16 22:55:26 BST 2000:

This thread isn't big enough to contain all the utter dross around at the moment.

But currently, I'm loathing "Kids", "Kernkraft 400", and "Body Groove".

I think the worst singles of all time are those that are deemed to be good because they are popular or sung by established artists, when in fact they are a bag of wank. It's hardly fair having a pop at unknown bands with talent free songs.

I also choose any single associated with Robbie Williams. Or Craig David.

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Posted By 'Nik' on Tue Oct 17 00:17:38 BST 2000:

Simply Red - "Stars"
Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"
4 Non Blondes - "What's Up?" (I know Justin picked that one, but it can't be stressed enough how mind-buggeringly bad it is.)
Lightning Seeds - "Lucky You" (admittedly, this is partly for personal reasons)
Oasis - "Wonderwall"

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Posted By 'paul twist' on Tue Oct 17 00:24:42 BST 2000:

>What annoys me about Lovefool is not the song itself, but the way that radio listeners choose it as their favourite love song, when it's quite clear (from the title downwards) that this is a highly desperate form of obsession and infatuation. Not love.

Same sort of deal with Babybird's You're Gorgeous. It ended up on loads of love song compilations when it's clearly NOT a love song in any way, shape or form.

Stephen Jones is punk rock.

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Posted By 'Janet' on Tue Oct 17 02:48:42 BST 2000:

You people are mad - "Kids" is by Robbie AND Kylie. This is the meeting of two great kitsch icons of our age! How could it be anything but great in itself, especially when you see the video where they're coming close to cross-polinating? Ah well, to each their own...

"Roadhouse Blues" by The Doors shits me blind.

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Posted By 'Georgette' on Tue Oct 17 02:50:39 BST 2000:

> shits me blind.

Didn't Culture Club do this song?

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Posted By TJ on Tue Oct 17 08:32:23 BST 2000:

FR David's 'Words' must also rank highly in this category

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Posted By 'Jon' on Tue Oct 17 09:12:00 BST 2000:

'Dignity' - Deacon Blue

Just ask Justin - he's their biggest fan...

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Posted By 'MM' on Tue Oct 17 10:06:27 BST 2000:


Anything by Steps, just because they're gay icons does not make it good music. Abba did it first and did it better, as most dancing queens will tell you.

Anything by Dafne and Celest (sp? who cares.) Shampoo did it better!? :-)



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Posted By 'Steven' on Tue Oct 17 13:12:56 BST 2000:

'Love Shack' by the B52's..
Anything in the current charts..

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Posted By 'EVIL GAS BOTTLE' on Tue Oct 17 14:20:56 BST 2000:

BAAZ LUREMNMANN- WEIAR SUNSKCREEN

VERWY EVDIL

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Posted By 'Mike J' on Tue Oct 17 14:57:01 BST 2000:

>Anything in the current charts..

Bah! Even the divine chart-topping All Saints? Those harmonies are sounding more like late-80s Cocteaus single-by-single.

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Posted By 'Al' on Tue Oct 17 16:11:30 BST 2000:

Isn't it extraordinary how people always go on and on about how bad the current Top 40 is - go back and look at the Top 40 when 'Virginia Plain' was in it, or 'God Save the Queen', or 'Ask', or anything. At least 60% of the chart at any given time is awful. A further 30-35% is average. Otherwise these 'best of' lists would be even longer than they are which is very long indeed.

So, as Jon would have it, ner.

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Posted By TJ on Tue Oct 17 17:15:54 BST 2000:

Didn't Nele Morrissey release a single once?

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Posted By 'Jon' on Tue Oct 17 17:24:46 BST 2000:

SEUEDEDHEDE!!

IDENTS IDENTS IDENTS

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Posted By 'Emmanuelle' on Tue Oct 17 17:42:47 BST 2000:

Anything under 160bpm by Celine Dion, oops, that's ALL of them then.
Totally agree - Words by FR David - shite!
Saturnight - Whigfield - why oh why No 1??
Any old Chrimbo romper brought out by fucking has-beens or never-weres just to get ugly fuckers easy snogs on the dancefloor - totally evil!

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Posted By 'The Sailor' on Tue Oct 17 18:16:26 BST 2000:

'Anyone Can Fall In Love' by Angie Watts and Queenbloke.

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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Tue Oct 17 19:01:37 BST 2000:

>Isn't it extraordinary how people always go on and on about how bad the current Top 40 is - go back and look at the Top 40 when 'Virginia Plain' was in it, or 'God Save the Queen', or 'Ask', or anything. At least 60% of the chart at any given time is awful. A further 30-35% is average. Otherwise these 'best of' lists would be even longer than they are which is very long indeed.
>
>So, as Jon would have it, ner.

We know, they've always been shite. That's popular music for you. It's just current top 40 is fresher in the mind to want to hate it.

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Posted By 'Janet-who-is-old-but-not-that-old' on Wed Oct 18 15:57:17 BST 2000:

>That's popular music for you. It's just that current top 40 is fresher in the mind to want to hate it.

STEVEN please note!
[I have charts from the 60s I may be forced to quote at you to prove that music today is as good/shit as it's always been.]
It's okay, you didn't miss out on anything.

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