Monday, November 5, 2007

The Worst Song In The World?


You probably caught the "Worst Songs Of All Time" list that ran in Blender a year or so ago; it was good for a laugh, if wildly skewed towards newer (9 songs released after 2000?) songs that weren't so much gawdawful-for-the-ages as they were currently-mildly-annoying (i.e., Madonna's "American Life").
Their choice for number one: Starship's "We Built This City" is indefensible, but I can't help but wonder if Blender's editors would have changed their votes if they had been reminded of Timmy T's saccharine 1990 "One More Try." I vaguely remember the song from when it was originally released -- I used to listen to Casey Kasem's Top 40 Countdown every Sunday morning back in those days, and Wikipedia says the song hit #1 on the Billboard 200 in March 1991 -- but had been living a Timmy T-free life until I was rudely reminded of the song while in the supermarket this past Friday. I originally misattributed the song to Dino (remember "Romeo"? Dude held the microphone upside-down in the video? [YouTube]), but went home and googled the insipid chorus --

One more try, I didn't know how much I loved you
One more try, let me put my arms around you
Living all these lonely nights without you
Oh baby can we give it one more try

-- and found that Timmy T was the one to blame for the song. If you don't remember the song, imagine those lyrics being sung in a fey, thin British voice backed by a tinny synthesizer, possibly a MIDI file, and you're beginning to get the level of craptacularness that this song achieves. My words can't do it justice. Here's the video (please note T's record label):




I only fear that someone, somewhere, tried to woo his ex-girlfriend back with this song. I pity both partners.

3 comments:

Carl said...

Timmy T looks like a shitty Matt Helm knockoff.

Steve Haag said...

Matt Helm never begged a woman to take him back.

Steve Haag said...

And somehow Timmy doesn't make the cut here:

http://listverse.com/music/top-10-worst-artists-in-music/