Worst Song of 2005

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I loathed Warning, but I'm curious as to why decent well-mannered folks have just said it's good.

It's punchy and fun. Musically it reminds me a lot of the first Weezer album. The lyrics are insipid but I enjoy it as background or when a song pops up randomly; it's an ideal shuffle-your-iTunes-library album, I think. Like you I'd never buy anything of theirs, but I like having some for free.

[Anorak 0]

Warning is the only good album Green Day ever released.

 

Wrong....and wrong.

[MDH257 0]

My Humps is horrible.

 

I've was a not big No Doubt fan. I could stand to listen to most of their songs on the radio without turning the station (which for me is saying a lot), but I always assumed that Gwen was carring the guys. Well, since Love, Angel, Music, Baby came out my respect for the other guys has gone up a thousand percent. Cool is the first single I've heard from that album that I can stand to listen to. What You Waiting For, If I Was a Rich Girl, and Hollaback Girl are some of the worst crap I've ever heard.

[Anorak 0]

I thought 'What You Waiting For' was quite catchy but i agree the other singles were irritating.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I just think it's funny that one of the icons of modern ska, Gwen Stefani, recorded a pop album because she "wanted to make music you could dance to." Because nobody can dance to ska, of course.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

But No Doubt hasn't had anything to do with ska for years. Coming off their most recent album, which was very dancey, it didn't seem like that big a leap.

[Henry Spencer 0]

What You Waiting For and Hollaback Girl are both awesome. Fuck you guys.

[Annabelle 0]

What You Waiting For and Hollaback Girl are both awesome. Fuck you guys.

 

he's right. hollaback girl grew me on me. but the former was fucking great from the first second i heard it. cool is pretty fab as well.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

I don't hate any of the Gwen Stefani singles I've heard. Better than No effing Doubt.

[JJ Johnson 0]

I find the lack of "Shake That Laffy Taffy" in this thread disturbing. For crying out loud, the beat sounds like something out of an NES puzzle game, and that's the best part of the song.

[Vyce 0]

I've was a not big No Doubt fan. I could stand to listen to most of their songs on the radio without turning the station (which for me is saying a lot), but I always assumed that Gwen was carring the guys. Well, since Love, Angel, Music, Baby came out my respect for the other guys has gone up a thousand percent. Cool is the first single I've heard from that album that I can stand to listen to. What You Waiting For, If I Was a Rich Girl, and Hollaback Girl are some of the worst crap I've ever heard.

 

Ironically, "Cool" is the song I like least of all of the singles off that album. Although it's still fine, because it has an 80s vibe to it, which is okay with me.

 

BTW, going back a few posts......has Green Day ever been punk? Yeah, I know, they're supposed to be punk, but I've never bought them as legitimate. This isn't the fucking Dead Kennedy's we're talking about.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I don't hate any of the Gwen Stefani singles I've heard. Better than No effing Doubt.

Sorry, but "Hollaback Girl" doesn't TOUCH "Trapped In A Box."

[ZGangsta 0]

Anyone who decides to come into a discussion about 'worst song of the year' and declares that it is 'Any song by insert-popular-modern-rock-band-here' is a douchebag.

 

And besides could anything have been worse than 'My Humps,' anything?

[Gary Floyd 0]

I actually think "Don't Funk With My Heart" is worse than "My Humps". Both are massive amounts of suck though. However, nothing this year is as bad as "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"

[Guest Hadley]

Cant we all agree that Green Day's best album is Insomniac and leave it at that?

[Henry Spencer 0]

I actually think "Don't Funk With My Heart" is worse than "My Humps".

 

Where Is The Love is worse than either of them.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Anyone who decides to come into a discussion about 'worst song of the year' and declares that it is 'Any song by insert-popular-modern-rock-band-here' is a douchebag.

 

And besides could anything have been worse than 'My Humps,' anything?

Because the White Stripes have recorded the same fucking song over and over and over again, beyond the ridiculous AC/DC levels of redundancy, and they get praised for it. I could record the same exact bullshit over and over, but I wouldn't get praised for it. Hell, half of my band's songs sound alike aside from two parts of a riff here and there, so why aren't we topping the charts? Oh, I forgot: our drummer isn't some robotic piece of shit sister of an overrated indie fuckhead that doesn't know what the sun actually looks like.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Anyone who decides to come into a discussion about 'worst song of the year' and declares that it is 'Any song by insert-popular-modern-rock-band-here' is a douchebag.

 

And besides could anything have been worse than 'My Humps,' anything?

Because the White Stripes have recorded the same fucking song over and over and over again, beyond the ridiculous AC/DC levels of redundancy, and they get praised for it. I could record the same exact bullshit over and over, but I wouldn't get praised for it. Hell, half of my band's songs sound alike aside from two parts of a riff here and there, so why aren't we topping the charts? Oh, I forgot: our drummer isn't some robotic piece of shit sister of an overrated indie fuckhead that doesn't know what the sun actually looks like.

I'm not sure I see that. I've heard little of the latest album, but the only time they've ever really rehashed a song to my knowledge was on Elephant's "There's No Home For You Here," which was a clear (inferior) take on "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground." And the former wasn't even a single.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I find the lack of "Shake That Laffy Taffy" in this thread disturbing. For crying out loud, the beat sounds like something out of an NES puzzle game, and that's the best part of the song.

You know, I thought the exact same way the first few times I heard it. But it grew on me, as much as it pains me to say. The backbeat still sucks, but it's got a nice, deep bass during the hook and some of the wordplay's relatively clever. My girlfriend still makes sure to note how embarrassed she is whenever I insist we keep it on the radio.

[SuperJerk 0]

Y2Jerk, aren't you a high school teacher? I never met a high school teacher without a shitty taste in music, so I'm gonna assume the same for you.

 

Wow. Way to invent a correlation between two totally unrelated things.

 

Yes, once a month all the high school teachers get together in the teachers' lounge and talk about how we all like the same music. You're exactly right.

 

Idiot.

[The Czech Republic 0]

our drummer isn't some robotic piece of shit sister of an overrated indie fuckhead that doesn't know what the sun actually looks like.

ex-wife, actually

 

But yeah right on, White Stripes never did it for me. I don't see the appeal.

[SuperJerk 0]

Why do people like the White Stripes? Because the White Stripes don't sound like Nickleback or Green Day, nor do they want to.

[Anorak 0]

White Stripes released my 'favourite single by a band I don't like' this year with that neat Doorbell song.

[Guest RadioBurning]

I find the lack of "Shake That Laffy Taffy" in this thread disturbing. For crying out loud, the beat sounds like something out of an NES puzzle game, and that's the best part of the song.

 

I had no idea what you were talking about until the other day, when some guy was "tired of this shit" on the radio and switched it to "Shake that Laffy Taffy". And now I too shall nominate it.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I actually think "Don't Funk With My Heart" is worse than "My Humps". Both are massive amounts of suck though. However, nothing this year is as bad as "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"

2 things:

 

1 - at work, I have to listen to regular radio (not allowed to hook up my XM receiver and probably couldnt get a signal anyway)..I found it laughable that the station we were listening too drop the audio of the word "Phunk" everytime in "Don't Phunk With My Heart"...If you are going to have to do that so many times, I dont know why they'd even bother playing the song anyway..makes no sense...all in the name of "100% family friendly radio"..

 

2 - the only things my mother wanted for Christmas were the Trace Adkins CD with Hony Tonk Badonkadonk on it and a ticket to his concert here in February. I dont listen to country music, I had never heard the song prior to her playing it on Christmas day, but after doing a google search of the lyrics (and a subsequent search for what the hell badonkadonk means, Im amazed that:

 

A) A near 60 year old woman likes this song..if it didn't clearly reference women's nice asses in the song, I'd swear she probably wouldn't know what Badonkadonk means.

B) Theres a country music song with "ebonics" in it..I guess were nearing a point of country/rap music maybe? ugh..The West Texas Rednecks would probably have a seizure at the thought..lol

C) Country music stations here would play this song given what its about because "family friendly radio" is huge in this area (hence the Phunk edits)...

D) I've not seen the video, but I've heard its..something else..

 

Im gonna go with anything by Coldplay..Speed of Sound specifically because XM plays the hell out of it..although not as much as of late thankfullly.

[MDH257 0]

I actually think "Don't Funk With My Heart" is worse than "My Humps". Both are massive amounts of suck though. However, nothing this year is as bad as "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"

2 things:

 

1 - at work, I have to listen to regular radio (not allowed to hook up my XM receiver and probably couldnt get a signal anyway)..I found it laughable that the station we were listening too drop the audio of the word "Phunk" everytime in "Don't Phunk With My Heart"...If you are going to have to do that so many times, I dont know why they'd even bother playing the song anyway..makes no sense...all in the name of "100% family friendly radio"..

 

Hell, the local radio here just played "Don't Mess With My Heart", the cleaner version they willingly recorded.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I thought "Phunk" was the cleaner version. So there's a dirty version, an inneuendo-laced version and a clean version. Lord.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

As JJ and Radio said, I too nominate Laffy Taffy to be THE worst song of 2005. As for Gwen Stefani, while I can see the hate for Holliback, Luxurious is fucking terrible and I'm sure Biggie is rolling around in his grave right now.

[Art Sandusky 0]

What You Waiting For and Hollaback Girl are both awesome. Fuck you guys.

 

he's right. hollaback girl grew me on me. but the former was fucking great from the first second i heard it. cool is pretty fab as well.

I agree wholeheartedly with this. Songs not mentioned in this post are ass, however.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Anybody who watched the Dick Clark New Years Eve thing: What the hell was that song by Pussycat Girls or whatever their name is? That had to be the most conceited fucking song I've ever heard. Not as bad as Honkey Tonk Badonkadonk, but pretty close.