Disgruntled of Belfast

[altariel]

Via the BBC website, we learn that Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da has been voted the worst song ever in an online poll.

Allister of Belfast notes: "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da isn't even the worst Beatles song. It isn't even the worst song on the White album."

Dan of Essex points out: "I saw an album by William Shatner in a record shop yesterday and track one was a cover of Common People by Pulp. Until Jim Davidson covers Ghost Town, this has to go down as the greatest travesty in the history of pop music."

But don't you somehow want to hear it?

Comments

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

I've heard Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. I've heard Shatner's version of common people. If forced to choose one to hear again, I'd rather listen to Shatner.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

How about if Shatner covered Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da?

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

Obviously, the folks that voted in that poll had somehow been lucky enough to never hear Yoko Ono. :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*snort!*

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

I like Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I certainly think it's better than Gazza's Fog on the Tyne.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I adore Shatner's version of Common People. I think Ob-La-Di is ace. God, there are so many bad songs about, why choose two with their tongues in their cheeks. What about Celine frickin' Dion. My heart will drone on.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Or Achey Breaky Heart. Or Everything I Do, I Do For You.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Eh, no. The worst song ever is Never Been to Me by Charlene. If you've never heard it, get down on your knees and thank everybody.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hell, I think I've got it stuck in my head now.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

But don't you somehow want to hear it?

It's fabulous. And the equally fabulous communicator had a link to it at one point:

http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/common_people.mov

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry, you were talking about the Jim Davidson. Oh well, I'll leave the link to the Shatner there. It deserves to be heard.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I remember that Dave Barry (an American humor columnist) held an informal poll for the Absolute Worst Song Ever. The winner was "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris, which I've never heard--but right up there is "Horse with No Name" by Dewey Bunnell, which I suspect is actually a form of malignant brain cancer.

Oh, yeah, and I have it on faramir_boromir's authority that Steven Segal has begun to torture the innocent blues. Gah.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

"MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris, which I've never heard

There's a clip linked from here if you're desperate.


"Horse with No Name" by Dewey Bunnell, which I suspect is actually a form of malignant brain cancer.

*snort!* That suits for Fog on the Tyne, referenced extensively in this thread.


Steven Segal has begun to torture the innocent blues

If there aren't laws against this kind of thing, there should be.

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

I can think of far worse songs than 'Ob-La-Di...' at least it has a narrative of sorts and a decent tune.

How about:

"Save Your Love" by Rene and Renata
"Shattupa your face" by Joe Dolche
"The Smurf Song" By Father Abraham and the Smurfs

But none of those come close to that Babycakes thing last summer, which was funny for about five minutes. Still, one man's meat etc...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, those three are particularly grim!

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I'll second the "Smurf Song". There are some childhood memories (traumas?) that simply have to be repressed.

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

Speaking of interesting covers of songs...

Our local NPR station is doing its annual fund drive, and so they've pulled out all of the nifty recordings.

Last night, while driving home from work at 9 o'clock, I heard Flight of the Bumblebee... as played on an electric power drill.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Flight of the Bumblebee... as played on an electric power drill.

Was it any good?

[mgkellner.livejournal.com]

I like ob-la-de, ob-la-da. I have heard far worse, including the entire collection of Rap/Hip-Hop/Gangsta Rap, and so related acts.

Several nominees.

In the Year 2525 - Zagger Evans

Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary

I'm Henery the Eighth - Herman's Hermits

In the Ghetto - Elvis

Lifetime Acheivement Awards

Tom Jones

Wayne Newton

Janet Jackson

Captain & Teniele

ABBA

Ace of Base

Sinead O Connor

There are more, but they now exist only as repressed memories.

mk

[altariel.livejournal.com]

ABBA

Take that back, sir.

[mgkellner.livejournal.com]

Ohh! Everyone forgot, "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins", by Leonard Nemoy.

There are also a number of innane Christmas songs which remind one why it is inadvisable to listen to the radio with a loaded pistol readily at hand.

mk

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ohh! Everyone forgot, "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins", by Leonard Nemoy.

Oh god yes, I think we may have been forgetting that for a reason.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see you're sharing the pain again.

And no-one's mentioned Agadoo yet, or anything else by Black Lace. Or even the theme song from Enterprise. [holds sick bucket at the ready]

[temeres.livejournal.com]

And no-one's mentioned Agadoo yet

Nor Clive Dunn's 'Grandad', nor St Winifred Girls' School Choir, nor the Ramblers, nor anything by a First Division football club.

I also have particularly unfond memories of 'Torn Between Two Lovers' (Mary McGregor), 'Mississippi' (Pussycat), 'Terry' (Twinkle), anything by Brotherhood of Man, and almost everything by Cliff Richard (but especially 'Saviours Day').

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

What worse than 'Mull of Kintyre'? Even the line "flickering embers grow higher and higher" fails to redeem it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I now have that effin' song stuck in my head.

need to sing about stately dress... in state-ly dress... in state-ly... Mu-u-u-u-ll of Kintyre!

Awgh!

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Have you see the chamber of horrors that was VH1'a Worst Number Ones List? (Say Eee-Oh!)

Can I also nominate 'Hats off to Larry' by Del Shannon?
Once I had a pretty girl
Her name it doesn't matter
She went away with another guy
Now he won't even look at-er

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think they definitely got the right one: "Millennium Prayer, which put the Lord's Prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne".

But I have to defend Barbie Girl, not just for the marvellous: "Life in plastic, it's fantastic", but because they got sued by Mattel and Mattel lost.