The worst song from a musical you've ever heard- Page 5

[Phantomerik15]

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

wonderful from Wicked.

[felineofavenueb]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:23pm

Come to think of it, all of Cats except for "Memory"; I just can't understand how you can take T.S. Eliot and suck all the meaning out of it.

I agree with whoever said "Masquerade" in that it drags on for eons.

I vote for "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" from 42nd Street becuase though the lyrics are vaguely amusing, the melody is so repetitive and obnoxious that I just can't stand to it. I also hate "Keep Young and Beautiful" and am very glad that it was added for the revival and is thus not in the licensable version of this show (which I just did).

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:58pm

My problem with the "Clambake" song is that it is obvious filler for the start of the second act. An obvious excuse for an ensemble number for the beginning of the act.

And yes, I have always wondered why on EARTH would you be singing a song about the food you ate?! "Remember those red-hot lobsters"?! YOU JUST ATE THEM! How can you be nostalgic about something that happend about only an hour ago?!

[Desperado]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:32am

I dislike a lot of the ensemble songs from Wicked...Dancing Through Life and One Short Day especially. I really don't enjoy listening to Thank Goodness, either.

...I think I may get a lot of flack for this, but I don't like Enchantment Passing Through or Written In The Stars from Aida either. Elaborate Lives is...okay.

[zoran912]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:35am

To each his own. I'm personally not a fan of the "AHAHAHAHAHAH" stuff at the beginning of "Chrysanthamum(sp?) Tea."

Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:11am

"I liked I Confess from Footloose (listening to it now!)
I say Little Lamb from Gypsy."
OUCH! i played louise in gypsy and singing "little lamb" was one of my favorite parts.
and i also did footloose, and i now cringe at any song.
but the worst musical songs are pretty much anything from Brooklyn. i will have to think about the other songs i tried to erase from my memory.

[zoran912]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 3:17am

I heard some horrid stuff from "Children's Letters To God." Very banal.

[jam_man]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 3:51am

I'm trying my best not to die from all of the Music Man bashing, as I LOVE it. However, one song that always gets on my nerves in "Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little." It works great in context and I think the fact that the annoyance is, I believe, intentional, as it shows how annoying the ladies' gossiping is, but the song always gets under my skin.

Also, I HATE "One Short Day," or basically any choral singing from Wicked. It's like Steven Schwartz wrote the choral music in Wicked specifically to drive a pair of scissors in my ear drums.

And speaking of Schwartz, I can't stand "We Beseech Thee," though it's not his fault - the cast wrote that song, not him. Of course, maybe I hate it just because when I did Godspell, the two people who had the solo in it couldn't sing a note - one being one of the director's son.

Also, most of Grease annoys me, too!

And someone doesn't like "The Miller's Son?" I know, I know, to each his own, but still? Sorry, my opinions get the best of me, a lot.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:00am

I agree with whoever said 'The Rap' from Starlight Express - it's embarrassing in the theatre, and just as bad on CD. It seems to have gone through many different versions, and none of them are any good!

The (pretty interchangable) songs sung by the refugees in Notre Dame de Paris

'There is nothing like a dame' - I'm really sorry, I'm not a huge fan of South Pacific as a whole, but this song just annoys the hell out of me for no reason at all.

[morebroadwayplease]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:25am

"Good Morning Baltimore" - Hairspray

It's sooo hard to decide this -- it's all good! .......well, except for Good Morning Baltimore ^^

[Thespianchick87]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:50am

Anything from THE WOMAN IN WHITE

[atiram]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 6:51am

I hate the whole musical cats, but especially "memory" of it.
I don't know why i hate it so much, but perhaps because we sang it so often in the music lessons in school.

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:01am

"Happy Talk" of South Pacific. I sit in the theatre and want to shoot Bloody Mary (which is my favorite character in that show.) It seems impossible for any director not to do the whole hand things imitating mouths....gross.

[Sporkie]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:06am

I hate Over the Moon-I know it's intended to look ironic, but it sounds terrible. Oh, and not to offend anyone, but I really hate the Phantom Movie, and Gerard Butler's voice.

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:07am

For me, the true barometer of a really awful B-way song is when I can't bring myself to sing along with a song on satellite radio in the car.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:45am

That damn "Di-dot-dot" song from TITANIC!!! I think it's really called "The Night Is Alive/The Proposal." The first time I went the entire audience burst into laughter. I think that entire score is pretty bad though.

[Justice]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:51am

Every song from Dracula

[nelliecollins]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:14pm

I've posted a couple already, but I'd like to add:

"Fun" and "It's Time" from Big: The Musical (even though i think there are some lovely things in that show)
"To Keep My Love Alive" from A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
pretty much everything from Meredith Wilson's Here's Love, especially the "Big Ca-lown Baloons" song. eek.

[keggss23]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:33pm

Here are mine:

"Heart" - Damn Yankees
"June is Busting out All Over" - Carousel
"One Night in Bangkok" - Chess
and the entire Brooklyn score

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:45pm

Jam_man, Stephen Schwartz did indeed write "We Beseech Thee." And have you heard Jeff Mylett sing it on the OCR? Check it out.

How about "The Elephant Song" from 70, Girls, 70? "Where does an elephant gooo-oooo-ooo-oooo?"

Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:47pm

Shipoopie from Music Man
Fede Fede from Into the Light

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:48pm

Not sure enough people saw "Thou Shalt Not" because "Tugboat" was the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen/heard...AND it was ENDLESS! I think Norbert deserved a Tony for getting through that song every night...

"Out for Blood" from Carrie, of course...it's almost good cause it's so bad

I think alot of the songs mentioned are what we are sick of, not necessarily the "worst song." I know that I never have to hear anything from Oklahoma again....yet I can watch/listen to Sound of Music forever...not sure why this is...I think it is Julie Andrews

[jam_man]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:13pm

ShbrtAlley, I'm quite certain, actually, that the original cast of Godspell wrote "We Beseech Thee," and Schwartz liked it so much that he included it in the score. At least one of the songs in Godspell was written like that, and if anyone knows for sure that it was another song, let me know. But I'm pretty sure it says that even in the notes of the script that is was "We Beseech Thee."

Also, the recording I have of Godspell isn't too good on that track either, the early '90s London studio recording, I believe - don't remember.

[Eliza0114]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:33pm

anything from Joseph...can you guys tell I hate that show??

[Tom1071]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:39pm

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