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Post by livelikedying111 on Aug 14, 2011 11:46:24 GMT -5
I can't believe that crap (Laffy Taffy) kicked Don't Forget About Us from the top! that's GameBoy music and it's not even cool...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 12:27:16 GMT -5
The fact that most people on here are choosing songs from the last 5 years says a lot about their knowledge of music before their generation.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Aug 14, 2011 13:18:31 GMT -5
I forgot about this: NO.EXACTLY. Drag,wtf.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Aug 14, 2011 13:18:53 GMT -5
That "Ding A Ling" song might take the cake.
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Post by Minor Scratch on Aug 14, 2011 14:52:48 GMT -5
The fact that most people on here are choosing songs from the last 5 years says a lot about their knowledge of music before their generation. The 2005 digital single implementation to the Billboard Hot 100 might be currently the best way to evaluate the #1 song in the country, but the change has also bred some of the worst #1s as well. I would say the #1s prior to 2000 were mostly of better quality compared to the #1s of the past decade.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 15:08:15 GMT -5
Most of the people choosing the "worst #1 ever" are likely picking their least favorite #1 from those in the past decade plus those here and there that have endured from before then. There were plenty of really bad #1s in every decade. The further you go back, the less the average person here knows though. Being that the older #1s that are more likely to be remembered are those that have endured for one reason or another, some really bad and forgettable #1s aren't even being considered.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 17:18:29 GMT -5
I thought "Teenage Dream" was one of the best #1's of 2010.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 18:05:05 GMT -5
The Lemon Pipers - "Green Tambourine"
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Aug 14, 2011 19:10:13 GMT -5
It's an opinion thread. Why would people choose songs that they don't even know. Of course people know more about music in their own lifetime than what came before? I bet people who were alive for the music in the 60s know little about music from the 20s.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 19:52:39 GMT -5
The thread says "Worst #1" not "your least favorite #1," so if people are deciding what the worst #1 in the history of the Hot 100 is they should at least know them all. If you asked someone "What's the worst Beatles hit," and they said "Well I only know Hey Jude and Let It Be and I like Hey Jude less so I vote for that," I think people would find that a lot more ridiculous, but it's the same thing. How can you say what's the worst when you have such a limited knowledge of what you're determining?
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Aug 14, 2011 22:39:59 GMT -5
The forum is Your Opinion.
If someone only knows of two Beatles songs, they have no business saying that one of them is the worst one. But I suppose the same applies here. With that conclusion, this topic has no business being open because I seriously doubt anyone on this board is familiar with every Hot 100 #1 single and thus can't actually answer the question. However, that's also a silly thing to say because no one would be expected to be familiar with every single one. So people are going to answer with what they are familiar with. The title "Worst #1 Ever", therefore, is assumed to be taken with a grain of salt and actually means "worst #1 of all the #1s you're familiar with."
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Aug 14, 2011 23:50:59 GMT -5
I could probably pick more "bad" #1s from the last 10 years or so, but I don't think that means my knowledge of music is bad or ignorant by any means. Most of my listening to music from before I was born (or when I was too young to listen to "real" music) came in the form of general life experience and loving/exploring the various movements and major artists that I missed out on while being...not alive yet. I never thought HEY I need to listen to all of the songs that hit #1 ever!!!!!! when educating myself on past music. I have been inspired by jazzy though-maybe I DO need to hear every single last #1 song I wonder how long it would take me especially if I wanted to rank them loosely? I also wonder how many new artists I may discover. That being said, picking the worst or best would be difficult for me even if it was narrowed down to a specific decade. There are always a load of songs I love and a load of songs I hate or would never choose to listen to them. There is never one that stands out to me for some reason as the epitome of bad or good.
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Post by dbhmr on Aug 15, 2011 0:43:15 GMT -5
The thread says "Worst #1" not "your least favorite #1," so if people are deciding what the worst #1 in the history of the Hot 100 is they should at least know them all. If you asked someone "What's the worst Beatles hit," and they said "Well I only know Hey Jude and Let It Be and I like Hey Jude less so I vote for that," I think people would find that a lot more ridiculous, but it's the same thing. How can you say what's the worst when you have such a limited knowledge of what you're determining? That's sort of a lopsided example--what's the threshold for being educated enough to weigh in on this poll or the hypothetical Beatles poll? 100%? Is anyone really expected to know every Hot 100 #1? Or is someone's opinion seemingly more valid if they choose a s**tty song from 1976 rather than 2006, whether or not they've actually heard every #1? I get what you're saying, but the idea that the requirement to post an opinion about this seems like a better argument for there not to be a thread about this, or for the thread to simply state which #1 is your least favorite--not say people aren't picking good enough bad #1 songs.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 0:57:52 GMT -5
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Aug 15, 2011 1:12:58 GMT -5
Thanks for the hads up Xiivi. Maybe I will make it my dorky music project for the next month or so.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 12:53:00 GMT -5
Forgot about "Freak Me" by Silk, "let me lick you up and down til you say stop" My least favorite #1s from the 90s would be those 2 Will Smith songs, all those Puff Daddy songs, Bump N Grind, Mmm Bop, Justify My Love, Prince's Cream, and then my birth year has Kris Kross, Sir Mix-a-Lot and Right Said Fred
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 13:19:54 GMT -5
I think the issue is more that a huge amount of threads in this section essentially boil down to "name your favourite/least favourite Hot 100 #1 of the past five years". We don't need another twenty people agreeing that "Crank That" is a bad song. Obviously there are very few people who have heard every Hot 100 #1 ever, but it would have been nice if people who at least have some idea of music before 2007 could stick to this thread and people who want to name novelty rap hits and troll could make another one. And I'm not going to lie, I do find it pretty sad that we have a forum full of people who are willing to dedicate hours to listening to one artist's demos and obscure album tracks over and over but aren't willing to at least vaguely educate themselves on the history of popular music. It's much more enjoyable to discuss ANYTHING with somebody who knows what they're talking about. As far as actually listening to every Hot 100 #1 ever, seeing people say they've heard them all made me want to listen to all of them too. It sounds like great fun. Most people on this forum have probably heard more of them than they would think, and Austin is currently working through a series of polls of each year's #1s. Maybe dedicate half an hour a day to listening to the ones you haven't heard in the year he's currently on instead of listening to In The Zone again and by the end we'll all have found a few new songs we love. Or we can just keep on with the "Teenage Dream LOL" posts, whatever floats your boat. The Lemon Pipers - "Green Tambourine" /end See this one really confuses me. I love it, but no matter what you think of it you've got to admit it's a catchy, well produced fusion of psychedelic and bubblegum music. I don't really see what could be offensively bad about it. Do tell!
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Post by Adonis the DemiGod! on Aug 15, 2011 13:23:01 GMT -5
Please obviously no one could've heard every #1 song. It's based on the worst #1 songs they've heard duh!!! Do we really need to go "well you need to have heard every #1 song to have an opinion"? Really? That's ridiculous and not practical. The thread assumes that a bad #1 is according to what #1 songs you have heard. If you haven't heard the song then it can't be the worst #1 song in your opinion because you have no opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 13:41:01 GMT -5
There are posters in this thread who have already said they've heard every #1. There's only a thousand of them and I'm betting most people have heard around half without even trying. Most posters here have a lot more than a thousand scrobbles on their last.fms. I don't see why listening to a thousand songs seems like some out of the question achievement.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 13:49:14 GMT -5
let's say an average song is 3:50 (50s and 60s are usually shorter than today's songs, so that'd bring the average down a bit), that's about 17 songs an hour, and would take about 58 hours to listen to them all back to back. Which is about 2 and a half days without break. However, I listened to the 10-15 sec snippets of all the number ones at MGoddard84's youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/MGoddard84
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 13:54:22 GMT -5
If I were to listen to all 1000 #1s after eachother, I don't think I'd really be able to pick my least favourite. I would need at least 2 or 3 listens, which would already be a month or two without listening to anything else, that is, assuming I listen to the full songs and not just the choruses.
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Post by Au$tin on Aug 15, 2011 13:56:39 GMT -5
Oh my God. That went #1?
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Post by Au$tin on Aug 15, 2011 14:03:04 GMT -5
Oh... I think I have to change my opinion from "Crank That" to "I'm Too Sexy."
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Aug 15, 2011 14:32:56 GMT -5
Oh... I think I have to change my opinion from "Crank That" to "I'm Too Sexy." Agreed.
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Post by hitseeker. on Aug 15, 2011 17:51:37 GMT -5
There are posters in this thread who have already said they've heard every #1. There's only a thousand of them and I'm betting most people have heard around half without even trying. Most posters here have a lot more than a thousand scrobbles on their last.fms. I don't see why listening to a thousand songs seems like some out of the question achievement. This is giving me the idea of actually trying to listen to all of the Hot100 #1's. Even if I don't get to pick my least favorite out of all of them, at least I'll broaden my musical knowledge and discover some other arists and their songs. Since I'm on summer break right now, I'll probably do that
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Post by Lockheart on Aug 15, 2011 19:08:48 GMT -5
Mariah Carey - I Don't Wanna Cry - inferior to the other 3 songs and one of my least fave Mariah song ever Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It Los Del Rio - Macarena Destiny's Child - Bills,Bills,Bills
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Post by renfield75 on Aug 15, 2011 19:16:58 GMT -5
I have heard every #1 (I got the bug up my butt to get them all about a decade ago, and I started watching the charts in 1990 so I've had plenty of time to listen to them). Of course that doesn't make my opinion better than someone else's, just coming from a different place.
I look at it as more to consider than just "songs you don't like." I think "Crank That" and "Laffy Taffy" are definitely up there are far as bad number ones go, but I don' think they're the worst. I would say Larry Verne's "Mr. Custer" from 1960 and "My Ding-A-Ling" by Chuck Berry are about the rock bottom. They are poorly written novelty songs, they are poorly produced (listen to the mouth-made arrow sound effects in Mr. Custer), and even though it was meant as a gimmick the spoken vocals on Mr. Custer are amateurish and weak. "My Ding-A-Ling" is a crude live novelty from one of rock's founding fathers, and it's an embarrassment that it is his biggest hit. "Crank That" and "Laffy Taffy" are pretty horrible, but at least the production and beats are professional and solid. "Disco Duck" has that painful duck impression but the music itself is well-produced and, as an instrumental, works pretty well as a disco track. "I'm Too Sexy" is cartoonish but again, the music is well-produced (with those kinds of acts the music HAS to be well-produced), and the melody is catchy and memorable. I figure it gets a few points for that, even if the song is annoying. The same for songs like "Baby Got Back" and "Informer."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 19:29:42 GMT -5
Ok, I've found some pretty bad ones form the 70's aside from Disco Duck and You're Having My Baby In Order: Knock Three Times- Dawn One Bad Apple- The Osmonds Want Ads- The Honey Cone The Candy Man- Sammy Davis Jr My Ding-a-Ling- Chuck Berry (how is this even a hit) Touch Me in the Morning- Diana Ross We're An American Band- Grand Funk Keep on truckin- Eddie Kendricks The Streak- Ray Stevens Billy Don't Be a Hero- Bo Donaldson Rock the Boat- Hues Corporation (it's just so cheesy) Kung Fu Fighting- Carl Douglas Thank God I'm a Country Boy- John Denver Rhinestone Cowboy- Glenn Campbell Convoy- CW McCall Afternoon Delight- Starland Vocal Band (the birds chirping doesn't help) Car Wash- Rose Royce Blinded By the Light- Manfred Mann Three Times a Lady- The Commodores Boogie Oogie Oogie- A Taste of Honey Knock on Wood- Amii Stewart (just something about this song irks me) and of course the final #1 of the decade- the Pina Colada Song- Rupert Holmes
and those are just the songs I know
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Post by Au$tin on Aug 15, 2011 19:31:05 GMT -5
Ok, I've found some pretty bad ones form the 70's aside from Disco Duck and You're Having My Baby In Order: We're An American Band- Grand Funk Kung Fu Fighting- Carl Douglas Thank God I'm a Country Boy- John Denver Convoy- CW McCall Car Wash- Rose Royce and of course the final #1 of the decade- the Pina Colada Song- Rupert Holmes How dare you! >:( Those songs are amazing!
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