November’s Hi-Fi Friday / My Music Monday theme is “The Worst Song From Your Favourite Artists.” I picked the theme. And Blobby was all in agreement. Because we all hate to love, or love to hate, a good train wreck. You know, like Nickelback!

“Worst” is relative. What I might dislike, I’m sure someone out there must like. Someone at the record label must have since it hit the album.

And I’m late on this one. Partly because of being overly busy at the studio, and partly because this challenge may have been more difficult than I anticipated. I’ve gone through the entire discography of several bands I love, and some of them don’t seem to have a bad song (to me): Hootie & The Blowfish, Information Society, CAKE, Matchbox 20, Jimmy Buffett, “Weird Al” Yankovic.

What’s a guy to do?

I guess start looking through my library for other artists.

Which landed me on Big & Rich. Who I still am a fan of. But they just have a certain… niche.

But this is one of those “what were you thinking to put this on an album” moments? I understand covers. As you’ve seen, I love me some covers. But this one. Ouch. Even for Big & Rich seems a little… drunk.

It’s not executed horrifically, for Big & Rich. And I know they’re just pandering to their country audience. But it feels like they just called this one in. (Worse than I am with this post!)

I give you Big & Rich’s cover of “You Shook Me All Night Long”:

November’s Hi-Fi Friday / My Music Monday theme is “The Worst Song From Your Favourite Artists.” I picked the theme. And Blobby was all in agreement. Because we all hate to love, or love to hate, a good train wreck. You know, like Madonna in the later years. Okay, I kid. All her decades!

“Worst” is relative. What I might dislike, I’m sure someone out there must like. Someone at the record label must have since it hit the album.

Another one of my all-time favorite bands: INXS. And just like The B-52’s last week, if there’s something INXS has done, I more than likely own it.

Again, I’m going to keep my selection to songs released on U.S. studio albums. Of which there are 12-ish. 10 of which I’ll actually consider here, as #11—Swing—was with a replacement lead singer after Michael Hutchence died. And then there was the last album they put out, which was a retelling of their old hits as sung by other artists, which I already wrote about a few years ago.

There are many bands that when you hear a song, it has a distinctive “sound” of that band. Pretty much all of INXS’ work has that distinctive sound. To me. Except for one song. It doesn’t feel or sound like INXS, even though the liner notes have it listed as being written by INXS. Every time I hear it I think it’s U2. It has that U2 feel for some reason. And I can’t say I’m a fan of U2 for the most part.

The song is “I’m Just a Man”, from INXS’ 1997 album Elegantly Wasted.

November’s Hi-Fi Friday / My Music Monday theme is “The Worst Song From Your Favourite Artists.” I picked it. And Blobby was all in agreement. Because we all hate to love, or love to hate, a good train wreck. You know, like Whitney in the later years. Okay, I kid. Like all her years!

Worst is very relative. What I might dislike, I’m sure someone out there must like. Someone at the record label must have since it hit the album.

I’m going to start with my first favorite band. And probably my longest favorite band at that: The B-52’s.

If there’s something The B-52’s have done, I probably own it. Well, at least as far as audio goes.

So, I’m going to keep my selection to songs released on studio albums. Of which there are 8. Some purists don’t count one of the albums—Good Stuff—as Cindy isn’t present on it, but I still enjoy that one so it gets included. And one—Mesopotamia—is an extended play mini-album. Normally I wouldn’t count that one, but since the band still plays a song from it in concert, I’m including it. Which is good, because that’s where the one song that I just loathe from The B-52’s resides. In fact, it’s the only song in my collection from The B-52’s to have less than 3 stars: it gets only 1!

And I totally blame David Byrne for it. Because he produced it. Even listening to the song all I hear is him. (Can you tell I might never have been a big fan of The Talking Heads or David Byrne?)

I give you “Deep Sleep”:

*shudder*

I think what drives me nuts the most about the song is the weird screeching guitar bits. And the fact I feel like I’m in some hippy horror movie. Or bad 80s porn. There’s really not much difference if you think about it. The whole song just… hurts.