Eight Really Bad Songs

[beccabear67]

Remember those ads in the backs of music magazines that offered to set your poetry to music? It was a profitable enough sideline for small studios and affiliated musicians for a couple of decades, but whatever became of the records made and dutifully sent off to the breathlessly waiting rubes, er I mean, budding songsmiths? Well, from out of the closets, basements and attics their greatness hath trickled down to us... to now snicker, er I mean, marvel over! Courtesy of WFMU, Pat Moriarty and Andrew Crowley, here are Eight Really Bad Songs! No, these are really bad, even worse than stuff I've written... well, maybe not worse than the Toilet Bowl Song (don't ask), but pretty excruciating listening overall. We'll just credit the lot to good old Anonymus to protect innocent family members who have probably already suffered enough. You can likely still find these tracks at the WFMU blog, but I've thoughtfully spared you the task by packing eight of the worst for your entertainment here...

1. When You're In Love
2. Space
3. Octopus Woman (Please Let Me Go)
4. (Everybody's Doing The) Peanut Duck
5. I Really Care
6. God Bless You Senior Citizens
7. Keep Those Hopes Up
8. Untitled (The Locket Song)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/a32vph

password to open = goodlordchoke

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These and many others have been the basis of a recent collection of new recordings made by Pat, Andrew and friends (Boss Martians, Buzzy Linhart, Howlin' Houndog) which you can find more information about below (get 'em while you still can)...

http://patmoriarity.blogspot.com/2010/09/tribute-to-bad-lyrics.html

 

[depravedskippy66]

Tom Ardolino, drummer of NRBQ, had a hand in compiling several CDs worth of those so called "song poems" back in the '90s. Much of the material was just stunning in its strangeness and Rodd Keith, who vocalized many of the selections on the CDs in question, has become something of a superstar of incredibly strange music.

 

[Perkeo]

I don't think that "The Peanut Duck" song belongs here, if it's the version by Marsha Gee, AFAIK that's not a song poem record, though it's definitely "unique" :rolleyes:...I actually like it a lot though!

 

[Frantic]

I don't think that "The Peanut Duck" song belongs here, if it's the version by Marsha Gee, AFAIK that's not a song poem record, though it's definitely "unique" :rolleyes:...I actually like it a lot though!

I agree...PEANUT DUCK does not belong there and is one of my fave 6ts N-Soul tracks. Genius

 

[beccabear67]

I tried to do the peanut duck dance as described in the song and either I'm even more uncoordinated than I thought or it's just an extremely bad dance. I've never managed to do the Seattle duck either though...

Whoever wrote the song seemed to run out of words, along the lines of the Little Star doo-wop song that way. The people who chose these songs seemed more about bad lyrics, but the singers and musicians are often very good making the lyrics come across dopier than they might otherwise have seemed.

 

[M.T. Wallet]

Remember those ads in the backs of music magazines that offered to set your poetry to music?

Rodd Keith (or whatever his real name is) was a genius at it
http://www.tvbc.tv/roar/MP3/17.mp3
I'm looking for one of his 7" featuring an amazing white soul tune called "you & I"

there are great comps out there, like this one