Awesomely bad Broadway songs- Page 4

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:15pm

tobias, I love Assassins, I just think that Unworthy Of Your Love, while it is an interesting song, doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know about those characters. All the other songs in the musical show us a line of reasoning we hadn't thought of. We knew "Squeaky" Fromme and John Hinckley, Jr. thought that they were pleasing the people they loved. The song doesn't make me feel anything for those assassins, unlike the other songs.

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:52pm

Well, if we are talking bad lyrics... All of Chess, even though I love it .

[geekgirl06]

Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:58pm

Okay, I love this thread, but some of these songs are my favorites! "Make Them Hear You" is one of my fav songs from Ragtime. Anyway, here is my list:

"Something Just Broke" from Assassins - this song definitely needed to stay out of the show. The transition from JFK's assassination to the finale in the off-broadway production is a great moment and this song ruined that!

"When the Sun Goes Down in the South" from Big River - awful, awful song and really has no point imo

Most of Cats and PotO - ugh! However I'll admit some songs such as Memory (though highly overrated) and Think of Me are bearable.

"Toledo Surprise" from Drowsy Chaperone - They definitely could have done a better job. This song annoys me to no end.

"Grant Avenue" and "Fan Tan Fannie" from Flower Drum Song

"I Landed on Him" from Floyd Collins - A good song for the purpose it serves, but could easily be cut and is painful to listen to.

"Cooties" from Hairspray

"Welcome to Kanagawa" and "Please Hello" from Pacific Overtures - sure, they're important, but that doesn't stop them from being terrible songs.

"The Crime of the Century" from Ragtime - omg, this song makes me want to shoot myself

"Knights of the Round Table" from Spamalot - this was a bad song in the movie and making it longer does not help its case!

"Magic Foot" from Spelling Bee - okay, this song makes me upset with the outcome of the bee. If he's going to win every time at least give him a better song!

"My White Knight" from The Music Man - What better way to characterize a leading lady than by giving her a god-awful, boring song

"The Riddle" from The Scarlet Pimpernel - I'm not going to lie, I actually like this song. But the lyrics are so incredibly cheesy I have to put it on the list.

"Move That Thang" from The Wedding Singer - okay, so the rapping granny thing was cute for the movie but that doesn't prevent the entire number from being absolutely terrible!

"Something Bad" and "Wonderful" from Wicked

And the all time awesomely bad song on Broadway is...

"Chow Down" from The Lion King - and how did this musical win over Ragtime? Oh yeah, Shadowland...

[TechEverlasting]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 11:15am

"The Crime of the Century" from Ragtime - omg, this song makes me want to shoot myself"

I'm surprised no one wants to join me in my disdain for "Make Them Hear You". I seem to remember some critics complaining about it. "Crime of the Century" feels very much in character for Evelyn Nesbit, and "Coalhouse Demands" is really more a piece of exposition than a song. "Make Them Hear You" just doesn't seem to fit Coalhouse's character as it has been developed in the show. It's so sweet and effeminate, as if Coalhouse suddenly becomes Edie Gorme just as Ragtime reaches its climax.

No doubt, Lion King has some stinkers. "Morning Report" and "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" are hardly the first tunes I call up when I reach for my ipod. Don't forget that Ragtime did win best score that year.

Updated On: 11/24/06 at 11:15 AM

[philcrosby]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 2:09pm

most of WICKED

[Annas_Priest]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 5:54pm

All of Tommy
Excluding Pinball Wizard.

It was Just Awefull...
Also, Everything ALW but Jesus Christ Superstar
He is Very Much Over Raited

Most of Miss Saigon

and

ACL

[punk ballerina]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 5:58pm

"Chow Down" I agree is an awesomely bad broadway song. I liked The Lion King a lot, but when I heard that song, I giggled a little because it was that bad.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 8:57pm

Mostly anything from Chu Chem

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:02pm

Oh, Lordy, except for the song, You Are The Light, the West End flop, Metropolis, has many beautifully terrible songs.

Most of Lestat except for Right Before My Eyes, Welcome to the New World, and Sail Me Away.

[LuvUrBatBoy]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 11:27pm

I always skip past Ah Paris! and Rain on the Rooftop in Follies. They're cute but cant compare to the other powerful songs from that show.

[jasonf]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:58am

There are a few songs in Metropolis I like! Some of it is awful...like that Futura dance music, but I can name a half dozen songs or so I really like in it...

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:55am

"Toot Sweets" - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

"How Lovely to be a woman" - Bye Bye Birdie

"A Friend to me" - Whorehouse Tour

"The Money Song (Sitting Pretty)" - Cabaret

The Odd Potato (ALL of it!)

"Marry the Man Today" - Guys and Dolls (I like the song but after "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat"...well...that's a song that's really hard to follow. And they pick this?)

"A Bushel And A Peck" - Guys and Dolls

"Hush-a-bye Mountain" - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

and I really just don't like Hair.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:56am

"Toot Sweets" - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

"How Lovely to be a woman" - Bye Bye Birdie

"A Friend to me" - Whorehouse Tour

"The Money Song (Sitting Pretty)" - Cabaret

The Odd Potato (ALL of it!)

"Marry the Man Today" - Guys and Dolls (I like the song but after "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat"...well...that's a song that's really hard to follow. And they pick this?)

"A Bushel And A Peck" - Guys and Dolls

"Hush-a-bye Mountain" - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

and I really just don't like Hair.

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:07am

"Heaven Help My Heart" from Chess.

Isn't that just straight-up bad, though? I tend to think of "awesomely bad" as songs that truly are awful, but you enjoy them in spite of that fact. Something like The Arbiter's Song from Chess is awesomely bad, I think. Some of the "cheeiser" songs from that musical (The Arbiter's Song, One Night in Bangkok, etc.) at least have the excuse that they were probably written as cheesy songs. Heaven Help My Heart is so earnest, and doesn't even have the excuse of being able to laugh at itself, so to speak. Updated On: 11/25/06 at 02:07 AM

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:45am

How I Know You- Aida, while I understands that importance of the whole Mereb knowing who Aida is does he really need a song to tell it...I don't know

Something Bad...wicked

Beauty and the Beast- I just hate No Matter What I think it was like o we need a song here, i don't know I skip it 90 percent of the time

[alliez92092]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 7:33pm

Completely agreed on No Matter What. I also can't stand Human Again, but I understand why it's there.

And I honestly don't like the majority of the score to Spamalot.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 7:41pm

Definitely "I Want More" from Lestat
and "Don't Waste the Moon" from Carrie

AWESOME and pretty bad.

[Hank]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 7:58pm

Pass the Football, from Wonderful Town

I loved this show, and Betty Comden, rest her soul, but they knew nothing about football.

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 9:59pm

"Love Sneaks In" from DRS. It just seems really out of place compared to the rest of the show.

"How I Know You" from Aida. I don't like the lyrics in this song, they're kind of redundant and predictable.

"I Should Tell You" in RENT. I don't think this song is really bad, but it's definitely the weakest compared with the other duets and is my least favorite.

[The_Jackal2]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 12:05am

I couldn't think of what I would say. Then I saw Shipoopi. That has to be my number one awesomely bad Broadway song. No competition.

[Mattay015]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 12:13am

"Move That Thang" From The Wedding Singer.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 4:36pm

Not exactly a broadway song,

Know that song played at the beginning of "Broadway Beat" (the broadwayworld.com TV thingy)?

well, it's horrible!

(only the song... the show itself is pretty cool. please don't erase my post...)

[roquat]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 4:56pm

"That's How Young I Feel" from MAME--completely disposable second-act production number that Angela Lansbury herself hated.

"Dirty Old Man" and "That'll Show Him" from FORUM--a great show, but those have to be the dullest, most one-joke songs Sondheim ever wrote.

"Radames' Letter" from AIDA. Talk about wanting to shoot yourself...

Every song in FOOTLOOSE that wasn't in the movie, especially that awful rap number and the Reverend's eleven o'clock monstrosity--I blocked out the titles.

"On My Own" and "I Dreamed a Dream" from LES MIZ--yeah, go ahead and scream at me, MIZ fanatics! Both these ballads are so whiny and repetitive I positively beg for those characters to die.

All of STARMITES--how the hell did that ever get on, anyway?

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 5:25pm

I agree with Something Just Broke from Assasins, just because I feel that it doesn't fit in with the rest of the score. I personally love the song, and I think it is a beautiful song, but it doesn't sound like the rest of Assasins. It sound more like something from Passion than anything from Assasins to me.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 11/26/06 at 6:04pm

I like "Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime, but I don't think it's the best song in the show by any means.

Anyway...

"No Time At All" from Pippin. It's cute at first I suppose but it lasts like five minutes and you're like "Okay I GET IT."

"Dancing Through Life" from Wicked - I like the parts with the other people, but Fiyero's part at the beginning is just... omg.

"Madman" from Blood Brothers - It tries so hard but it just ends up being ridiculous instead of, well, scary and exciting.

"Morning Report" from The Lion King

I agree with "Move That Thang" from The Wedding Singer and would also like to add "Single."

Aida - "Another Pyramid" - I get the exposition but seriously it's an awful song.

"The Crimson Kiss" from Lestat - fortunately Carolee Carmello made it at least listenable.