“You never know where you will be assaulted by Hey Soul Sister” very true

Without Ebony and Ivory we wouldn't have Murphy and Piscopo spoofing it on SNL: you are black and I am white/you are blind as a bat and I have sight. Pure gold!

Everybody talks about how great the 60s were for music and then when you go back and see the absolute horrifying depths of the novelty songs from that era, really makes you rethink a lot of things in life.

Can't believe We Built This City didn’t advance. It isn't good cheese, it is massively rank cheese. Seasons in The Sun is a bit like Soul Sister in that you were bludgeoned with it multiple times a day on the radio.

The ones you guys mentioned aren’t even the worst Train lyrics. “ I got dance moves like Patrick Swayze. I'm the left over turkey for the world's mayonnaisey.” Maybe the worst lyrics I’ve ever heard.

"Popcorn" should never have been on here. It is a freaking classic. Yeah, it sounds kinda primitive and rough in 2022, but this was a revolutionary sound in 1972. You can't really hate on something that groundbreaking.

So happy to have March Badness back!

Great list guys! I agree with nearly everything on the list. The only disagreement I have is that “Margaritaville” and Jimmy Buffet in general has no business being on a worst songs list in my opinion. It’s not a perfect song at all, but it’s a fun, inoffensive peace of beach rock.

I was just thinking this morning, "Well, I guess there's no March Badness this year." Woo-hoo! Damnit, I kind of like "Popcorn." It'd be treated like a masterpiece if Kraftwerk or someone hipster-approved had recorded it.

"The only thing that can really beat parrot head culture is pedophile culture." LMAO. I am listening to each of these songs and, so far, holy Jesus some of these are sooooooo bad. I'd rather listen to The Shaggs. They're awful, but at least they're bizarre and interesting.

I can imagine TMBG doing a fun song about the invention of the printing press! What's really funny is that when I look up these songs on KZfaq, I see people commenting how good they are lol

This is the funnest video and concept I’ve seen since I subscribed!

Great show again. Well done guys. Really enjoying the channel.

I take no particular pleasure in once again agreeing with Kramzer. However, it was a real delight to listen to his verbal demolition of Hey Soul Sister. His skewering of the simultaneously pretentious and cynical mentality behind that wretched, affected abomination of a song is 100% accurate. Personally, I despise Train and all who sail in her. They're worse than Passenger, and that's saying something.

Just heard Red Dress. I want to scrub my brain with an ice pick.

I assume Illegal Alien by Genesis is being withheld for a future March Badness.

Michael Jackson - This Girl is Mine - fuck that song

Right and proper KISS is being displayed prominently, in a video about musical badness :-)

Holy crap, the boys just killing it with this year's March Badness crap-taculum spectacular. I am so impressed with every aspect of this, from the song and region selection process to the discussion and your insightful, frequently hilarious takes on all this music. I came for Joe using "Corey Feldman" and "artistic integrity" in the same sentence..... And stayed for all 3 of you talking about the Boston song. I could actually listen to the TLM boys talk about Boston's "Life Love and Hope" for days.. I am equally astonished / mortified / fascinated by that whole album. Excellent job, psyched for Part 2 Tasto 4ever 🏆🎸🎹🔥

Loved this , every bit as cool and funny( “ My Pal Foot Foot” 😂 ) as last year’s legendary Worst LP tournament. Shout out to the Patreons ( Inner Circle and the other tiers) for their amazing contributions ( Dr Bombay😂) 🔥👍

Yeah, that Seasons in the Sun song actually does suck. My childhood nostalgia has been replaced with me holding my nose.

Your funniest vid yet! Thanks for the affirmation: thought I was the only one who couldn't stand Fallon. Has he ever uttered an amusing word?

The most-liked video on KZfaq of The Who's Behind Blue Eyes has 96,000 likes. The most-liked video of Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes has 763,000 likes! That's enough for me to wish Limp Bizkit could win the whole Worst Songs tournament.

Wow what an amazing channel I just discovered definitely changed my opinion on Ebony and Ivory but I can’t wait for the next episodes

I originally thought "My World" had a chance to go far. My choice of what's left would probably be that Beach Boys atrocity, but unbelievably, it's losing. Back up choice would be Dr. Bombay. Kudos to Jens for suggesting it.

Love it! Yall are awesome. Great content.

Love this, guys. Great concept. Enjoyed last year, too.

Winner: we built this city by Jefferson starship.......a 44 time champion. That song actually causes sepsis and strokes.

Hope this becomes likes The Golden Raspberry awards where the " winner " in good humor accepts their 🏆.

All Summer Long is really effing bad!

Bon Jovi = The Worst.

I'm glad you all enjoyed Dr. Bombay! Jason is right, it's a Swedish white guy doing it.

*sways mullet in utter disgust*

Kramzer: “that club song, the Hamster song or whatever..” D-D-DEE DA DEE DE DOH DOH, DEE DA DEE DEE DOH!!

One of my coworkers have Hey Soul Sister on their playlist and my god. It’s awful

If anyone wants another heaping of Scott Stapp after the leftover meat loaf of Creed, check out Jesus Was a Rockstar for what I can only describe as the musical equivalent of The Room.

Wasn’t sure that “bad songs” would match up to 2021’s March badness of the worst albums…..but then you give us “American Reckoning” from Bon Bon Jovi (or whatever the frick his name is) and boy oh boy it’s incredible, in all the worst ways possible. I listened to it twice through You Tube. First time with the official lyric video (and yep, it’s twice as bad when you’re listening to and reading those lines) and second time was a video of just Jon Joe Bovi 🤷‍♂️ with acoustic guitar and yes it takes on yet another level of badness. So once again, bravo TLM. It’s obviously going to get my vote and hopefully will last the distance, although it does have some very stiff competition. Looking forward to Round 2 👍

I usually enjoy pausing these videos and going into Spotify to check out some of the stuff I don’t know or haven’t heard for a while. This is kind of fun in that way but man, I’m glad I had my headphones on for Seven Little Girls! No wonder you closed the door Kram. Just ewww…

Great episode guys!

Puff Daddy I’ll be missing you should have made the bracket that song is a war crime on the level of Henry Kissinger.

I really do not mind Creed, Nickelback and Train. I have always been a sucker for a simple, catchy pop/rock song and feel they get unfairly criticised in the cultural zeitgeist, along with some others like Coldplay. All those other songs though are bad though.

1ST time watching your channel .... Its GREAT.... Keep up the Good Work ~~~ !!!

We 'Danced" to Popcorn in gym class in the late 70's. Outside of Wendy Carlos, it was most people's first exposure to Moog.

We Built This City is the overall # 1 seed for me & I'm going chalk & picking that to romp to a title.

This was fun. I’m kind of intrigued to check out the bad songs, but at the same time, kind of scared.

You should see Donny Osmond in a prank 'Japanese' interview: 'Donny Osmond Ushi'

great show, great concept, fantastic discussion, thx gents

Ballad of the Green Berets really stinks, considering the song and movie dropped during the Vietnam War. Seasons In the Sun has made people cry at a disco.

Great concept. I'm checking out the songs I'm not familiar with on Spotify as we go. Man, some of these tracks are big wtfs. I know March is over, but will there be a bracket type game coming in 2023?

I really hate I Just Called To Say I Love You but not as much as Achy Breaky Heart.

Going on record: this lover of Zeppelin, the Stones, The WHO and Rush does in fact listen to some Creed and Nickelback. No shame.

When my son (now 24) was a kid, he learned a version of "Who Let the Dogs Out" from a kid on his bus. In this version, dogs, cats, and chickens were let out, with the appropriate animal sounds. That version was a lot better than the "real" version.

The worst thing about that Limp Bizkit song by far is the Speak and Spell. The rest isn't really bad, just a regular cover. Face it, Fred can sing.

Also I will agree with Jason... Other than the term "Achy Breaky" it's not that bad of a song... Hokey and trite yes but not abysmal. "Go Away, Little Girl" is a full on assault on the eardrums.

Fun video. At the risk of sounding pedantically unhip, a tip for Kramzer: "vs," since it is short for "versus," is more logically pronounced "versus," not "verse" (a word which, of course, means something else entirely).

Boooyyyzzz…..this completely passed me by……,magnificent broadcasting boooyyyzzz……

A nice stroll down bad memory lane . In terms of atrocities , you came up with some beauties . If you created a box set of all of the songs that you discussed , there would be no need for water boarding , or bamboo under the fingernails . Just play the box set on a loud volume setting , and whoever you were trying to extract information from , would sing like a canary ( something that doesn't happen on any of these songs ) . A job well done , gentlemen !!!

"All For Love" by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Sting belongs here.

Great video again boys.

I finally had to listen to Love, Live, Hope after you guys continuous ragging. Its rather STUNNING that a band like Boston can make an album that sounds like such an amateur production. Sounds more like a second rate Boston sounding band making their first album.

Go Away Little Girl is a Goffin/King song. It was done by Steve Lawrence and Bobby Vee.

I saw the title of this video, rolled my eyes and ALMOST moved right along. I'm so glad I watched. It was extremely enjoyable and entertaining. Lots of laughs. My vote goes to Jimmy Fallon all the way. It's detestable.

Got to check out the 'shreds' version of 'Photograph.' I can't stop laughing every time I hear it.

Y’all need to review Grant Macdonald. Great content

This is great... it sure beats watching the news. Thank you for your great channel/website. There is a song that is not terrible, but it is just weird --- "I Love Onions". Susan Christie, 1967. It's just funny to me over 50 years later. The only song ever written about onions, featuring a kazoo and really goofy backup vocals. She is still active in Chicago's folk scene, I hear. The song "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" is way worse... There you have it, songs about eggplant and onions.

Terry Jacks served as a producer for one session with the Beach Boys when they recorded their initial version of "Seasons in the Sun" in 1971 during the "Surf's Up" sessions: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq6Ch6Sl193OpYE.html When they decided not to put it on the album (over "Student Demonstration Time," mind you), Jacks decided to take it and record his own version two years later in 73. To think there's an alternate universe where that was a #1 hit for the Beach Boys...

Well done guys ..March Badness…. The magic is still there ..TLM for life 👍

Based solely on single listens of each of next round's contestants, my ideal winners for next round would be "Ahab the Arab", "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat", "Rice & Curry", "Ew!", "Hey, Soul Sister", "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue", "Bollywood", and "Summer of Love". Honorable mentions to "Red Dress" and "All Summer Long"; if it weren't for the former being put against lazy racism and the latter against sinister- yet pathetically gutless- pandering, they would have been easy winners😄 The only disagreement I have with this round is despite how hilariously misguided and myopic it is in the deliverance of its message, "Ebony & Ivory" isn't THAT bad. Like one of y'all brought up, it would certainly be a lot worse if it wasn't helmed by two of commercial music's best musicians; like, I could easily just ignore the lyrics and just vibe with those chord changes and modulations if I really wanted to. Personally, I also just deem monotonous jingoism to be worse than clumsy anti-racism (though if I'm being completely honest, I don't find either of those songs to be strong contenders in this tournament, anyways). Other than that, I pretty much agree with- or at least understand- where y'all are coming from! I'm excited to see how March Badness turns out!❤

If you don't like "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson, check out her follow up, "Peter The Meter Reader". A lesser version of her 'hit'.

In Sweden Dr. Bombays song was a huge hit amongst kids! One of those summer-hits that someone made lots of money from. He actually had quite a few songs which all became popular. Sort of a kids version / less talented Weird Al Yankovic!

At the moment "I Can't Dance" by late period, three-man Genesis is my personal top pick. For any lover of the Band's Progressive period this song is cornier than cornjacks with corn syrup on top. Of your selections "Summer of Love" by the Beach Boys is the worst in my estimation.

Bracket busted! My 70s bias had that AM radio standard 'Seasons In The Sun' going to the title game. Jason was spot on...just like 'You Light Up My Life' you couldn't avoid that Terry Jacks single back in the day. Torture. Great vid gents! Most enjoyable...

“We Are Young” and “Pumped Up Kicks” are my two worst ever. Both from 2009ish

I wish I'd been aware of this earlier. I'd nominate "Nuclear Attack" by Greg Lake. "You may never come back from a nuclear attack." Classic. Eat your heart out Bob Dylan.

You have to pronounce A-hab the A-rab like this for it to make sense. It doesn't make it less offensive, but at least you can see what the writer was going for.

I actually laughed out loud listening to Dr Bombay.

Far out! Love your content

"Who Let The Dogs Out" won a Grammy.

20:35 😆 Kinko The Clown, what the hell is that????? Sorry, can’t help myself lol!! I’m actually quite surprised Maroon 5 isn’t in here somewhere. Move Like Jagger?

Kinko the Clown is FUCKING HILARIOUS!!

Well the matchup of Margaritaville and Seven Little Girls was a tough one for me- I couldn’t pick either one. My dad was a Jimmy Buffett van - and ,of course, when ever I hear him my dad comes to mind. Seven Little girls is a strange tale. My mom , my sister and I used to sing it in the car. My Dad’s name is Fred and mine also. I thought for years that my mom made this song up. Years later , long after she passed away at a young age, I heard it on the car radio and I had to pull over. I reached Paul Evans online and told him that this song will be forever linked to my mom . He got a kick out of it. Incidentally, it never dawned on my that this was anything inappropriate. It’s just a song that evokes a great memory- that’s the power of music. Hope it doesn’t win.

You didn’t run across “Run Joey Run,” by David Gettis from 1975? I hate, hate, hated that song for years. Although I did find out about 5 years ago that Gettis said it was supposed to be a spoof of the, “Daddy, don’t kill Johnny, I really love him,” genre from the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. If so, maybe I’ll give him a break. All Summer Long was a great choice.

Great content as always, but no mambo no 5???

Love to see March Badness back! There's a genuiness to Ebony and Ivory that makes me want to defend it even though it is so trite.

Yes, when Seasons in the Sun came out, you could not get away from it. It was played all the time.

I didn't have the chance to vote last year so I'm super excited this year for songs.

I was hoping that "Funky Man" The rap song that was sung by Dee Dee Ramon was on here. Horrible. Was using the name Dee Dee King.

Haha guys, I’m all in!! Curious!!!! 😆

Of the songs I think the Train song is truly bad, bad. Some of the others may not be all that fair to call 'bad'. Because with some it may be relative to an era, and changes in pop culture; others were intended to be a joke; and others like "Ebony' are actually pretty clever. Real nominees should come from someone who ought to know better. Like - are we really expecting anything smarter from Kid Rock, or Bizkit? I have a feeling that Boston song will go far in this bracket. This is always a fun series.

oMg racism and jingoism! Ahhhhhhhhh

I’m surprised Red Solo Cup wasn’t here for Toby Keith (RIP). But at least that song is obviously a joke and doesn’t try to take itself too seriously.

Ray Stevens told me that your channel is beautiful, as well as everything in its own special way.

Was that "Red Dress" song the inspiration for Lana Del Rey's "White Dress"? They kind of sound similar.

"Go Away Little Girl "....was number one single by Steve Lawrence in 1963....you want creepy?...Steve was 28....Seasons in the Sun" was an English translation of a French song made popular by the one and only Charles Aznavour.....Do you remember the death scandal that helped sell this piece of sentimental hogwash ? Bell Records publicity department put out that Terry Jacks was dying of cancer, so to help him and us out "please buy the damn record...."

Worst song ever: Mr. Roboto. The end.

where's 'you're beautiful' by James Blunt?

A friend of mine sent me these links: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zt10iLGrm8DZh6c.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNCSmLl2nMizfXk.html The first of which can be described as an unholy sequel to the Bird Song. The second is a Dutch song about vomiting after drinking too much.

Summer of Mike Love, LOL!

I don’t understand how Kevin Federline’s song PopoZão didn’t make it? It was panned by critics so it was left off his album Playing with Fire. That album is considered the worst of all-time.

I’m with you, Joe, don’t want to see Paul and Stevie “hurt”. I don’t think Ebony and Ivory is a bad song, many are defending it. And it’s losing, yay😁. Now I’m going to celebrate by listening to it on Spotify and watching the awesome music video😎