Awesomely bad Broadway songs — Page 4

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.

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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...

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most of WICKED

"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.

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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.

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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...

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"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.

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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

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

AWESOME and pretty bad.

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"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.

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"Move That Thang" From The Wedding Singer.

"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?

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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.

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