The worst song from a musical you've ever heard- Page 4

[Cages or Wings]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:35am

Personally I think Over the Moon is annoying unless experienced live. It's a "performance piece" more than a song. I personally believe "Contact" is meant to have deep symbolic meaning, but that symbolism feels a little forced as it is placed in the show. That said I do thoroughly enjoy the song and buy the forced symbolism, but that may be because I agree with what it stands for (at least in my own interpretation). Again it is better when experienced live. Plus I do love the contrast between contact and the eulogies that follow.

Superlover (along with a great deal of the score) from brooklyn is terrible.

[roquat]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:00am

The stupid rap song they added to "Footloose", along with "Learning to be Silent" ("I'm...becoming a mime.????!!!!) and all the Reverend's songs. "I Confess" steals part of its melody from "Rainbow Connection" and is far inferior to it.

I also have to say "Happy Talk" from "South Pacific". It sounds like something written to be delivered by Barney the

[roquat]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:01am

The stupid rap song they added to the last scene of "Footloose", along with "Learning to be Silent" ("I'm...becoming a mime." ????!!!!) and all the Reverend's songs. "I Confess" steals part of its melody from "Rainbow Connection" and is far inferior to it.

I also have to say "Happy Talk" from "South Pacific". It sounds like something written to be delivered by Barney the Purple Dinosaur.

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:20am

The end of "Raven" from Brooklyn.

There are other Broadway songs that I don't like much, but that part where she's all, "EEEEeeeEEEEeEEEEEEEeeEEEEeeeEEEE" changing pitches and what not, it's just horrible.

[zoran912]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:27am

It's that show's "Dreamgirls" shout-out.

[UglyBug]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:48am

"Even though PARADE is probably one of my favorite shows and scores of all time....sometimes the song "The Picture Show" gets on my nerves. It is cute and all...but I am from the south and I think the accents are a bit overexaggerated and unrealistic. "

Lol that's what I thought to, also being from the South. I like Parade but some of the accents are questionable. (Some don't really sound southern to me.)

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:50am

Speaking of Brooklyn--I always hear "Street Singer" and that annoys me..it's like gospel-ee and it sounds like their doing a "sing off". Who can ruin their voice before the end of the song?

[Urban]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 4:32am

"Over the Moon" - RENT

[QHDramaQueen]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 5:06am

I think I am the only person that hates "Memory" from CATS.

[scooter38432]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 6:31am

THANK YOU, ELIZABETH...
I thought I was the only one completely horrified by anyone hating anything from WEST SIDE STORY or CAROUSEL.

How old is the average person on these boards? I feel ancient and I'm not yet 40. When asked for the worst song from a musical, most people come up with LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and WICKED? WICKED certainly has a few clinkers, but in the history of musical theater, there are much better targets...

Here are a few (and I could go on and on)...
"Music of the Night" from ALW's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
"Who Could Ever Have Dreamed Up You?" from Yeston's PHANTOM.
"The Miller's Son" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
"One Night in Bangkok" from CHESS
Any selection from SEUSSICAL
Any selection from CHILDREN OF EDEN
Any selection from SUNSET BLVD

Updated On: 6/26/05 at 06:31 AM

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 8:11am

The rap song from FOOTLOOSE is called "Dancing Is Not a Crime". Maybe so but that song sure is. He's some sample lyrics (Heaven help me, I actually own the CD!):

So dancing doesn't always make you do the nasties
Look at the book of Ecclesiastes

H didn't like math or geography
But check this out: He loved choreography!

So he would dance
Every time he had the chance
Whatever the season or circumstance
He found a reason to throw a party in his pants
And he would dance!

No wonder this was one of the few shows in Broadway history to run over 500 performances and STILL not get nominated for a Best Musical Tony!

[wickedbway]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:36am

"Nothing Really Happened" from Is There Life After High School
and ANYTHING from The Music Man...
but mostly "Pick a little talk a little" ... or whatever such nonsense. That show DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!

[JakeB]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:48am

Some of the best musical songs are from Wicked.

But sadly some of the worst - Dancing Through Life is unbearable.

[lamentingenvelope]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:59am

Dancing Through Life is awful... it goes on forever.

Regarding the T.S. Eliot/Andrew Lloyd Webber/Mr. Mistoffelees thing... T.S. Eliot wrote that poem to entertain very young children, not for Andrew Lloyd Webber to turn into one of the most annoying songs ever written.

Uhm... let's see. Has anyone mentioned 'Happy Talk' yet? It's especially dreadful with the little talking fingers choreography that no high school musical director can seem to avoid. 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair' also gets on my nerves.

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:41am

I know it was a while back, but the worst song for me is Clambake from Carousel - such a pretty score -- and then a song about eating seafood. Ugh.

I'm surprised so many people don't like Dancing Through Life - it's one of my favorites from Wicked

[mollyllom]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:15pm

everything from the Music Man. I hate that show so much.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:37pm

Don't just say you HATE a song or even a whole show... tell us why you think it is so terrible.

A song that you hate because it gets stuck in your head seems to indicate that the song is what people call "memorable" or "hummable." Some songs have been done to death ("Memory", "Tomorrow", etc) but these were considered great songs when they were introduced and they do not become bad songs simply through overexposure. You may have grown tired of hearing them, but that has nothing to do with their quality as songs.

I suspect a lot of people are getting tired of WICKED based on the sheer number of copies that are popping up in used CD stores these days.

[DreamFlyer22]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:57pm

Urgh. "Clambake"... I think it literally made me crawl out of my skin. Trite and TERRIBLE. Too bad also, because it means if I want to see "If I Loved You" and "Soliloquy" performed live, I have to sit through THAT STUPID CLAM SONG.

[DivaBrigader]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 5:17pm

"Shipoopi" - "The Music Man" (I think this one takes the cake for me)
"Amazing" - "Little Women"
"Dancing Through Life" - "Wicked"
"Masquerade" - "Phantom of the Opera" (absolutely neverending)

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 5:37pm

I don't really understand the backlash against "A Real Nice Clambake." The lyrics are full of colloquialisms perfect for the New England setting and the music is a gentle Rodgers waltz. Plot wise it doesn’t do much more than establish a mood (much like "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'") but the mood is the calm in the middle of the storm. I would not call it the best song in the score of CAROUSEL but it certainly does not belong on the same lists as "Dancing Through Life", "Masquerade", "Nobody Throw Those Bull", "Paris Makes Me Horny", "I Just Can't Keep it Down" among the worst song from a musical.

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 7:55pm

I don't like A Real Nice Clambake for a couple of reasons. First, plain and simple, I don't like the melody. It grates on my nerves every time I hear it. Second, the lyrics are the most ridiculously over-the-top exaggerations -- FOR FOOD! Who describes their food as "fit for an angel's choir?" On top of that, they're rhapsodizing about a feast they JUST ate (or 'et, if you go by the lyrics). Now, I don't know about you, but if I just ate a big ass meal of lobsters and clams and crabs etc. I would NOT be in a mood to sing a song about how great the meal was -- I would be full and ready to sleep! As for the argument about setting mood - why use lyrics so ridiculous when the absolutely brilliant Carousel Waltz sets up the mood perfectly at the top of the show without so much as a word sung? Clambake is a far way away from that...

Now, someone PLEASE tell me what is so awful about Dancing Through Life -- especially when you compare it to drek like Something Bad!??

Jason

[yarn769fink034]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 8:41pm

I don't know about you, but if I just ate a big ass meal of lobsters and clams and crabs etc. I would NOT be in a mood to sing a song about how great the meal was

JasonF that cracked me up,now I am singing "This was some real nice sweet and sour chicken"

[BabyJohn]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 8:57pm

SEUSSICAL! It's so terribly annoying...
"Oh the thinks you can think" is a drag

"Something Bad" is pretty bad too.

"Dancing through life" scares me...

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:09pm

i hate most of La Cage i can only listen to We are What We Are and I Am What I Am

[Phantomerik15]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:18pm

wonderful from Wicked.