Every "Worst song ever recorded" thread begins and ends with Yellow by Coldplay

Shock the monkey indeed.

perhaps there's something i'm missing....?

exactly

Song was redeemed in whole by its use in South Park (Stan doing a "Lloyd Dobbler" outside of Wendy's bedroom window).

exactly

exactly what?

to be the worst ever you'd imagine it'd have to be worse than "mild".

this sounds like Jimmy webb describing the creative process for this song

That's actually an Ultravox song, though Midge's influence on the band at that time was so significant that it may as well have been a solo effort.

Yellow - Coldplay
Californication - RHCP
Anything by Ronan Keating

Certainly has to be a contender.

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no fukcing way!!!

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"dancing with tears in my eyes" rulz, f3wl.

contemplate "mr writer", "a thousand trees" et bloody c on the tree of woe. the stereophonics pwnz0r worst song threads for EVER.

coldplay = too bland to even compare.

This one doesn't exist?

I can only echo felonius drunk with a

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

although donna summer's version knocks spots off it.

What criteria did you use to pick this song?

I'd imagine that we haven't heard the worst song ever. Although that 'score my goal' thing by DJ Otzi would come somewhere close (and yes, if there are any DJ Otzi lovers out there, I'm willing to defend my decision).

Nah, cuz "Handbags & Gladrags" is a cover of a GREBT 60's Mod Drama song, and the song is far too good for The Stereophonics to be able to turn it into something absolutley vile - they try their best, granted, but clearly the songs that suffer from being *written* by them as well as performed by 'em are much worse off.

Muppet Beaker sings Yellow by Coldplay

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Phyg_uIPQII

That would be "Funky Drummer" by James Brown.

The worst "song" ever recorded, I mean.

I was thinking more about something from either Peter Gabriel of Phil Collins. Both of the former-Genesis frontmen have committed some egregious crimes against the human race.

Shock the monkey indeed.

What fresh insanity is this.

omg I like Yellow and it one of about 3 coldplay songs that I like (given the ones that made it to the radio)
I like trouble.

what I'm surprised about is how many people really like this song
man I love kevin ayers stuff but Caribbean moon, yellow yellow lol

You folks are just being silly, or you've never heard 'Three Times A Lady.'

yeah, what is he counting in that song, exactly?

didn't somebody on ILM discover a Moody Blues track that was pretty much systematically unendurable...?

that being said, I don't suppose any of yous wd know what the worst song ever recorded since all of you seem to (wisely) stay away from the nu-alternative metal stations on the radio, but let me just say:

any song by Coldplay>>>>>>>>>>>Three Days Grace

I've said this before, but... the final five seconds of Stevie Wonder's 'I Just Called To Say I Love You' make it the worst song ever recorded.

Go on - try it. Click to the end of this: and tell me I'm wrong.

ARGH.

It's a good ending, if only because it's implicitly stating "Song is now over"

it's cheesy-funny...thank you 80s!

It was just meant as a 'jingle' in the movie "the woman in red", wasn't it?

I guess if Stevie knew it'd go on to become his biggest hit, he'd have put a bit more into it.

yea...dopey ending or not, there's no way its the worst song ever...

(lol perhaps that ending is the aural equiv to the ellipsis I end my posts with? lol I am ILMs worst poster evah...)

I just heard Yellow while purchasing a baguette. The bendy guitar bits are nice enough that it can't really be "worst song ever recorded".

In my heart of heart's I think I've always known that the worst song ever recorded---which is a true honour, really---is Sarah MacLachlan's "Aida". That song is truly horrendous.

Ugh, the way "Adia"'s chorus hovers around that one note... the way she rhymes "innocent" with "innocent".

It's entirely lacking that campy hippie charm that makes songs like "I Will Not Forget You" compliment the grocery shopping so well.

give me ten radios all playing "Adia" at once over one playing "Yellow"

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

lol

AC = the kind of music which makes me realise just how bearable coldplay, red hot chili peppers etc really are

lex haven't you heard, you're a terrible person if you don't love them

What if you've never heard them?

ignorance is an excuse.

I mean, you can't love what you don't know, right?

Or hate? That's no fun.

Oh, people hate what they don't know all the time, dude.

give me ten radios all playing "Adia" at once over one playing "Yellow"

― J0hn D., Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:16 (6 hours ago)

Ahh, then you shall have both.

Yellow hate is mystifying. It's a perfectly fine song, one of Coldplay's best, though Coldplay are, for the most part, poo. Your body is a fucking wonderland, people. Discover me discovering you.

ew

yellow is pretty wretched, but worst song ever...? for starters, every other song by coldplay is worse than yellow.

^ thas

I went to the Coldplay show. Initially I thought I should add a disclaimer, (like, my boyfriend is a fan), but I don't feel like I need to justify anything, the show was great. J'appuie Coldplay.

Yellow was conspicuously worse than any other song they played that night. The feeling of being in a room with 20,000 people holding their breath was pretty amazing, yes, but what a lousy song. Yellow, The Scientist and Fix You were easily outshone by (context-sympathetic) gems like Politik, Don't Panic and Clocks. And to their credit, most of the songs off Viva La Vida sounded, actually, really lovely.

Coldplay may or may not be a bad band, but I think they catch a lot of shit that should be directed towards All That You Can't Leave Behind.

i didn't mind yellow when it first came out, though it is not really one of their better songs

i prefer 'shiver'

I would virtually nominate every pop ballad ever created. Whats with that tendency to take a painfully slow and dull song and expand it over 5 minutes of annoyinh wailing and orchestral crescendos? Case in point:

Celine Dion - My heart will go on (most of her catalogue might well apply)
Aerosmith - I dont wanna miss a thing

Sarah Mclachlan - Angel

Coincidentally this 3 I mentioned appeared on soundtracks, so perhaps its the hollywood ballads which I despise.

see right now we are ruing the carnage that Hey Jude hath wrought

(?rueing?)

Damn, he wrote a song for you, and this is the thanks he gets.

"Yellow" sucks, but it's not a patch on "My Humps."

Hey, JKP, are you JKP on MG?

Yeah, but don't tell anybody.

Song I hate is "Sugar Shack". That song got a vote on a recent poll. There's a really good band out of Houston called that, and I'm thinking "there's a crazy lil' place up on the tracks, doot doot da do do dooo doodoo, da doodoo doodoo doodoo."

If you remove "Yellow", Parachutes would actually be a damn good album. I am an unabashed pre-X&Y Coldplay fan.

Violet Hill would win worst song ever recorded for me. What a disappointment.