History Horrible / Music

* The '''100% Silk 2016 West Coast Tour''' met with disaster two shows in, at the Ghost Ship in Oakland, California. The venue, a repurposed warehouse, had never obtained permits and never been formally inspected--It was more-or-less {{MacGyver|ing}}ed into a live-work space for artists. The owner had pretty much foregone any form of fire safety, and the building had, in several aspects, fallen deep into neglect and clutter. The stage proper was on the makeshift second floor, accessible solely through a single jerry-rigged wooden staircase; event staff had barricaded the other to keep party-crashers at bay. All of this meant that when a fire broke out on the first floor, many of the concertgoers didn't realize it until it was already beyond any hope of control, and that by the time the blaze had reached the stage, escape was near impossible. In the end, the entire building went up in smoke, killing over half the performers and more than thirty others. Many of the attendees were also local musicians of some notes, and their deaths were devastating to the Bay Area indie rock and electronic music scenes. Golden Donna, the organizer and would-be main event, cancelled the entire tour. The incident cast doubt on the fate of artists' collectives countrywide, triggered citywide action regarding live-work spaces and fire safety, and jeopardized underground music shows throughout the region for months on end.

* The '''100% Silk 2016 West Coast Tour''' met with disaster two shows in, at the Ghost Ship in Oakland, California. The venue, a repurposed warehouse, had never obtained permits and never been formally inspected--It was more-or-less {{MacGyver|ing}}ed into a live-work space for artists. The owner had pretty much foregone any form of fire safety, and the building had, in several aspects, fallen deep into neglect and clutter. The stage proper was on the makeshift second floor, accessible solely through a single jerry-rigged wooden staircase; event staff had barricaded the other to keep party-crashers at bay. All of this meant that when a fire broke out on the first floor, many of the concertgoers didn't realize it until it was already beyond any hope of control, and that by the time the blaze had reached the stage, escape was near impossible. In the end, the entire building went up in smoke, killing over half the performers and more than thirty others. Golden Donna, the organizer and would-be main event, cancelled the entire tour. The incident cast doubt on the fate of artists' collectives countrywide, triggered citywide action regarding live-work spaces and fire safety, and jeopardized underground music shows throughout the region for months on end.
* The '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert Altamont Free Concert]]''', AKA "Woodstock West." Music/TheRollingStones booked and headlined this show, which featured many of the big rock bands of '60s counterculture America... as well as four deaths, countless injuries, massive property damage, and an attempt on Music/MickJagger's life. Among the worse decisions: co-organizers Music/TheGratefulDead paid members of Hell's Angels $500 USD worth of cold beer to stand guard--this resulted in, among other things, countless fights with the audience, a disastrous Music/JeffersonAirplane set (they knocked singer-guitarist Marty Balin out mid-show), and one of the aforementioned deaths (18-year-old Meredith Hunter, who approached the stage with a revolver while high as a kite and was stabbed by Hell's Angel Alan Passaro).[[note]] The other three deaths were accidental: two hit-and-run road accidents and a drowning in an irrigation canal.[[/note]] The Dead cancelled their performance mid-concert and fled out of fear. In contrast to the "peace and love" atmosphere of Woodstock, Altamont came to symbolize the death of TheSixties.

At one point, the committee decided to cancel the 2017 festival to perfect a 2018 one, then went back on the idea. By mid-April, it was reported that many artists were not paid, and the event had failed to acquire a complete lineup. Blink-182, the first weekend's headlining band, pulled out last-minute--they couldn't do an ideal show under the Fest's conditions. Word soon broke out that the stage was actually within walking distance of a chain hotel. Attendees took a chartered flight to Exuma International Airport, and were greeted with a half-built, understaffed "impromptu beach party." After a long performance by a local band, staff announced that the festival was postponed and the attendees would be sent back ASAP.\\

* '''[[https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/09/13/ambitious-rhode-island-music-fest-ends-chaos/8haudXCj8N05mbm0G63mtI/story.html?p1=Article_Recommended_ReadMore_Pos1 The Newport Contemporary Music Series]]''', organized by 25-year-old Paul Van Anglen, was an ambitious Rhode Island music festival featuring over a hundred professional musicians from various well-known backgrounds. Three concerts were completed before it crumbled "amid charges of broken promises, rank amateurism, and an estimated $120,000 in unpaid orchestra musicians fees, plus tens of thousands more for unpaid soloists and other costs."

** The large concert venue for one of the festivals could not be secured, resulting in moving the location to a high school auditorium.

*** She did more of the same during Super Bowl XLV. This time, she ''changed the melody to show off her pipes and botched some of the lyrics.'' [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]]; through the whole thing, she sounded either gratingly off-key or borderline asthmatic. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj5NPNe3jNU Here, have a listen.]]
** Music/QueenLatifah also performed an R&B [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKEpPAaLbh4 rendition]] of the National Anthem on the first NFL game of the 2012 season, adding "spiritual" flavor and repeating the final line over and over. Doesn't help that while performing, she wore a Giants jersey with [[CriticalResearchFailure Peyton Manning's number instead of Eli's.]]

** The 2004 performance by Music/JanetJackson and Music/JustinTimberlake at Super Bowl XXXVIII went down in history for all the wrong reasons, with Timberlake accidentally ripping off a piece of Jackson's top and exposing her bare breast (albeit adorned with a nipple shield) for half a second. The concert ended immediately at that moment, with Jackson's two-decade-spanning career [[CreatorKiller destroyed by the incident]] (though Timberlake's soon recovered), and it sparked both a backlash over indecency in the media and a counter-backlash over censorship and prudishness in American culture. The NFL played it safe after the incident, implementing a [[LiveButDelayed five-second delay]] for the show after and enlisting classic rock musicians to perform from 2005 through 2010; only in 2011 did they bring another modern pop act to perform. And speaking of...

** The next album in line, 1996's '''''Stars and Stripes Vol. 1''''', fared no better. Released on the Nashville division of obscure independent label River North Records, it was conceived by that label's owner Joe Thomas, who also produced it with a then-recently rejoined Brian Wilson (although it seems that [[ExecutiveMeddling Wilson had little actual say in the final product]]). The album relegated the Beach Boys to backing vocalists on re-recordings of some of their biggest hits, with the lead vocals taken by a mostly-unimpressive cast of country acts (the only really big name on it was Music/WillieNelson, who wasn't even doing much of anything for the most of the 90s anyway). However, it couldn't even stick to ''that'' premise, as Music/{{Eagles}} bassist Timothy B. Schmit, CCM singer Kathy Troccoli, and Al Jardine's son Matt were also featured on it. The Beach Boys didn't even contribute instrumentally, as nearly every note was played by either Thomas or a Nashville-based session musician. While the lead single (Troccoli's take on "I Can Hear Music") made some noise on the AC charts, three more tracks were tested at country radio ("Don't Worry Baby" with Lorrie Morgan, "Little Deuce Coupe" with James House, and "Long Tall Texan" with Doug Supernaw) to no success, with each only spending a single week at the very bottom of the Hot Country Songs charts (although to be fair, none of River North's original content was that much more successful, and neither Supernaw nor House was signed to a major label at the time). Critics thrashed the album for lifeless production and weak singing from nearly all involved. ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' wrote that it was an "awful legacy" and "tired", it received a "D" from ''Entertainment Weekly'' and 1.5 stars from Allmusic, and it has a [[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_beach_boys/stars_and_stripes__vol__1/ 1.67]] out of 5 on Rate Your Music. The album completely bombed commercially, reaching #101 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and failing to crack the Top Country Albums charts. Many even pointed out that the album didn't make sense conceptually, as the Beach Boys were never a major influence on CountryMusic (indeed, the three cuts above are the only time that the Boys ever entered the country music charts). [[AbortedArc No second volume was ever released]], but a version of "In My Room" with Tammy Wynette originally recorded for it later appeared on the 1998 compilation ''Tammy Wynette Remembered''. [[FranchiseKiller The failure of this album killed off any chance of another proper Beach Boys album]] until 2012's ''That's Why God Made the Radio''.

%%* A general rule: Youtube will usually have the worst of the bunch:

* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nczzdUzDmEw "I'm Horny"]]''' by Gionny Scandal and Maite. Maite's English is appalling. When she sings "I'm horny horny" it sounds like "I'm Ernie Ernie" instead, adding a pinch of {{Narm}} to wash down all the suck. According to several translations, the Italian lyrics are just as bad:

* Kim Kardashian's single '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHp7sq1Tzn0 "Jam (Turn It Up)"]]''', which was badly received by both critics and the public. It's monotonous and lifeless to the point of [[LyricalDissonance sounding almost depressing]], and unfortunately not even AutoTune can save Kim's voice, as at times she still sounds slightly off-key. She has since viewed the song as an OldShame, [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/kim-kardashian-regret_n_5674990.html and even admitted she isn't a good enough singer to pull it off]]. WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow bashes the song and video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85kKC1luiA here]]

* The 2017 Grammys had a lot of memorable moments, from stage mics not working, to a stunning Prince tribute. But one moment that was memorable for the completely ''wrong'' reasons was an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQVNsTnku5c inexplicable mash-up]] of Music/KelseaBallerini's "Peter Pan" and Music/LukasGraham's "7 Years", performed by Graham and Ballerini themselves. Both artists looked awkward, extremely uncomfortable together with absolutely zero chemistry whatsoever, but that's not even the worst part: the performance itself was absolutely ''abysmal''. For one, both songs have different time signatures on their own, requiring Ballerini to have to butcher the tempo of her own song just for it to fit. Neither song seemed to mesh well together thematically or stylistically, and both had extremely differing stage presences; Ballerini's more reserved approach contrasted greatly with Graham's bombastic singing and vocal noodling, even singing ''way outside his range'' at one point just to show off his pipes ''on a song that didn't even warrant it''. Its presence in Best/Worst of the Grammys is either in the "Worst" or "weirdest" section, and fans of either artist didn't react more kindly either.

** The next album in line, 1996's '''''Stars and Stripes Vol. 1''''', fared no better. Released on the Nashville division of obscure independent label River North Records, it was conceived by that label's owner Joe Thomas, who also produced it with a then-recently rejoined Brian Wilson (although it seems that [[ExecutiveMeddling Wilson had little actual say in the final product]]). The album relegated the Beach Boys to backing vocalists on re-recordings of some of their biggest hits, with the lead vocals taken by a mostly-unimpressive cast of country acts (the only really big name on it was Music/WillieNelson, who wasn't even doing much of anything at the time). However, it couldn't even stick to ''that'' premise, as Music/{{Eagles}} bassist Timothy B. Schmit, CCM singer Kathy Troccoli, and Al Jardine's son Matt also provided lead vocals. The Beach Boys didn't even contribute instrumentally, as nearly every note was played by either Thomas or a Nashville-based session musician (the only exceptions being Junior Brown, who accompanied himself on his "[[BizarreInstrument guit-steel]]"[[note]]a combined electric guitar and lap steel guitar[[/note]] and Willie Nelson's longtime harmonica player Mickey Raphael). The album was thrashed by critics as having lifeless production and weak singing from nearly all involved. ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' wrote that it was an "awful legacy" and "tired". [[http://www.allmusic.com/album/stars-and-stripes-vol-1-mw0000648961 Allmusic]] gave it 1.5 stars out of 5, saying the production had a "canned" feel and that the album was "an unmitigated disaster and an outright embarrassment for all involved", ''Entertainment Weekly'' [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293856,00.html gave it]] a "D", and ''People'' [[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20142483,00.html said]] that it was "hard to imagine a worse idea". It has a [[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_beach_boys/stars_and_stripes__vol__1/ 1.67]] out of 5 on Rate Your Music. The album completely bombed commercially, reaching #101 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and failing to crack the Top Country Albums charts. While the lead single (Troccoli's take on "I Can Hear Music") made some noise on the AC charts, three more tracks were tested at country radio ("Don't Worry Baby" with Lorrie Morgan, "Little Deuce Coupe" with James House, and "Long Tall Texan" with Doug Supernaw) to no success, with each only spending a single week at the very bottom of the Hot Country Songs charts (although to be fair, none of River North's original content was that much more successful). [[AbortedArc No second volume was ever released]], but a version of "In My Room" with Tammy Wynette originally recorded for it later appeared on the 1998 compilation ''Tammy Wynette Remembered''. Many pointed out that the mere concept of the album made no sense, as the Beach Boys were not a significant influence on the country music genre (indeed, the three tracks mentioned above were the only time the Boys ever made the country music charts). [[FranchiseKiller The failure of this album killed off any chance of another proper Beach Boys album]] until 2012's ''That's Why God Made the Radio''.

** The next album in line, 1996's '''''Stars and Stripes Vol. 1''''', fared no better. It featured the Boys providing nothing but backing vocals to a mostly-unimpressive cast of country acts (the only really big name on it was Music/WillieNelson, who wasn't even doing much of anything at the time) and even couldn't stick to that -- also contributing were Music/{{Eagles}} bassist Timothy B. Schmit, CCM singer Kathy Troccoli, and Al Jardine's son Matt. The Beach Boys didn't even contribute instrumentally, as all of the music was played by session musicians or by RecordProducer Joe Thomas, who also owned the label that released the album. The album was thrashed by critics as having lifeless production and weak singing from nearly all involved. ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' wrote that it was an "awful legacy" and "tired". [[http://www.allmusic.com/album/stars-and-stripes-vol-1-mw0000648961 Allmusic]] gave it 1.5 stars out of 5, saying the production had a "canned" feel and that the album was "an unmitigated disaster and an outright embarrassment for all involved", ''Entertainment Weekly'' [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293856,00.html gave it]] a "D", and ''People'' [[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20142483,00.html said]] that it was "hard to imagine a worse idea". It has a [[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_beach_boys/stars_and_stripes__vol__1/ 1.67]] out of 5 on Rate Your Music. The album completely bombed, reaching #101 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The re-recording of "I Can Hear Music" featuring Kathy Troccoli made some noise on the AC charts, and three more tracks were tested at country radio ("Don't Worry Baby" with Lorrie Morgan, "Little Deuce Coupe" with James House, and "Long Tall Texan" with Doug Supernaw), but each only spent a single week at the bottom of the Hot Country Songs charts.
[[AbortedArc No second volume was ever released]], but a version of "In My Room" with Tammy Wynette originally recorded for that later appeared on the 1998 compilation ''Tammy Wynette Remembered''. As with ''Summer in Paradise'', the label closed not long after the album's release, but was at least re-issued in 2008. Many pointed out that the mere concept of the album made no sense, as the Beach Boys were not a significant influence on the country music genre (indeed, the three tracks mentioned above were the only time the Boys ever made the country music charts). [[FranchiseKiller The failure of this album killed off any chance of another proper Beach Boys album]] until 2012's ''That's Why God Made the Radio''.

** The next album in line, 1996's '''''Stars and Stripes Vol. 1''''', fared no better. It was released on the obscure River North Records label, featuring them (with a recently-rejoined Brian Wilson, also serving as producer albeit with limited input) doing remakes of their hits with a mostly lukewarm batch of CountryMusic singers (and for some reason, Music/{{Eagles}} member Timothy B. Schmit and CCM singer Cathy Troccoli). The album was thrashed by critics as having lifeless production and weak singing from nearly all involved. ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' wrote that it was an "awful legacy" and "tired". [[http://www.allmusic.com/album/stars-and-stripes-vol-1-mw0000648961 Allmusic]] gave it 1.5 stars out of 5, saying the production had a "canned" feel and that the album was "an unmitigated disaster and an outright embarrassment for all involved", ''Entertainment Weekly'' [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293856,00.html gave it]] a "D", and ''People'' [[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20142483,00.html said]] that it was "hard to imagine a worse idea". It has a [[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_beach_boys/stars_and_stripes__vol__1/ 1.67]] out of 5 on Rate Your Music. [[AbortedArc No second volume was ever released]], but a version of "In My Room" with Tammy Wynette originally recorded for that later appeared on the 1998 compilation ''Tammy Wynette Remembered''. As with ''Summer in Paradise'', the label (River North) closed not long after the album's release, but unlike that album, it was at least re-issued in 2008. [[FranchiseKiller The failure of this album killed off any chance of another proper Beach Boys album]] until 2012's ''That's Why God Made the Radio''.

* Rosegun Vibe's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gso_36c2MPg cover]] of Music/{{Deftones}}' "My Own Summer (Shove It)". The instrumentation is fine, if tuned lower than the original, which would have been fine, if the singer wasn't horrendously off-key. And as for the iconic [[CarefulWithThatAx shrieks]]] of the original, they've been replaced by [[DullSurprise some of the most utterly dull and lifeless... "yells"]] this side of [[VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead House of the Dead 2]].

*** On the topic of bad Iron Maiden covers from video games, [[VideoGame/GuitarHero GH2]] on UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} has the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma3bNNnOLnU cover of "The Trooper"]], where the guitars are in severe miscommunication with each other and all the fun feel of the Maiden tune has been sucked out, making it sound almost depressing. And the singer sounds like he has a severe vowel pronouncing problem in addition to sounding like he has peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth.
** The cover of "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors on that game, which is so off-tune that it makes the song ''harder to play''.
** ''VideoGame/RockBand'', which was made by Harmonix, who made the first two main games and ''Rocks The 80s'', has some covers in its setlist. Some of them sound just like the real thing, but there some awful covers too. The cover of Music/{{Rush}}'s songs "Tom Sawyer" (in the first game), "Limelight", and "Working Man" (both of which are downloadable) all sound like they were sung by a woman with peanut butter stuck to the roof of her mouth. [[note]]The cover of YYZ in the ''Guitar Hero 2'' is listenable since it's an instrumental.[[/note]] Thankfully, all of these songs were replaced with original versions ("Working Man" with a Vault Version with a different solo).
** On the subject of rhythm games, 99% of ''VideoGame/RockRevolution''[='=]s setlist is composed of covers, most of which are awful. For instance, in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrCotG6E1M their cover]] of Music/SystemOfADown's "Chop Suey", the guitar is messed up, and the lead vocals sound ''nothing'' like Serj's distinctively Armenian voice.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ8qRR9N-Pc The Worst Metal Cover Band In Existence]]. They cover very short snippets of a variety of famous metal songs, ''very'' badly; almost unwatchable due to its horrendous quality.
** That they're performing in an elementary school gym isn't really the problem. To begin with, neither of the singers can really sing, and for some very strange reason ''they don't even have a lead guitar player''. They only have a bass guitar & drum set. The "breakdown" sounds even ''more'' anemic than usual. And it's like nobody told these guys that metalheads mosh in the audience, not ''onstage''. It's definitely a very [[TotallyRadical ham-fisted attempt to get the kids interested in what they have to say]] (allegedly, this was an [[DrugsAreBad anti-drug]] demonstration).

* '''869''' were/was an Italian [[IAmTheBand band/singer]] (it's still unknown which it was) active from 1999 to 2003, founded by one Paolo Bartoli. Being tied with popular comedy metal band Prophilax (he was their sound engineer and webmaster), he "founded" his own band, and released few albums with songs that mimicked their trademark gross-out sexual humour, but failed hard. He sang over MIDI files of random songs (including ''cartoon theme songs'') in a horrid off-key and off-tempo voice, sometimes with random pitch-shifting. The songs were overfilled with gratuitous blasphemy, cursing, vulgar sex slang, and often don't even stay on the same ''topic'' [[note]]for example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e9Xu1Kgh7A this song]] is apparently about an angry customer being ripped off at a sex shop, and somehow swerves into a string of insults to ThePope[[/note]]. Most of his works are lost along with his website, but some songs [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes can still be found on YouTube]]. Even non-English speakers would find [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7c2ynTh5Q these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI-QbX0_WSE examples]] awful.

* 90's British reggae star Finley Quaye's unforgivably awful performance at the Convent Club in Woodchester. [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/finley-quaye-kicked-stage-after-6058057 So bad, it gained the attention of the British press.]] Finley stood with his back to the crowd, refusing to look straight at them, and did nothing but lifelessly play a single three-chord progression on a badly-tuned guitar for half an hour straight, with occasional bouts of half-baked noodling that did nothing to break up the monotony. Meanwhile his backing band droned on, even more repetitively than him. The concert ended with the promoter, already very impatient after the TroubledProduction Quaye had turned the show into (and his numerous contract violations), sending the entire band off for "polluting [the] venue with bullshit," apologizing to the crowd directly, and refunding all tickets.

* '''Girls With Attitude''' were a group of session singers from Cambridge, Canada, who consisted of [[CreepyChild preteen girls who sounded like they're on the verge of dying]] singing/talking about preteen life, compiled with poor electronic instrumentation. They could have been a modern version of The Shaggs if they had any of the charm. Their most known song from their only album, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDeiUG_H3co Don't Judge Me]], just shows this - The lyrics are mundane at best and {{Padding}} at worst (the chorus is literally them introducing themselves), the "singers" sound uninterested, and they are backed by a bored-sounding wah-wah synth so off-key and off-tempo that it sounds like it's from an entirely different song.

* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Sb14dyaUc Lisa Gail Allred]]''', a country "singer" from Texas who hilariously boasts that she sounds like Music/ShaniaTwain and Music/FaithHill, and not like Kim Kelly's mom on ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks''. If you're brave enough, listen to Allred [[http://www.reverbnation.com/lisagailallred slaughter her way through LeAnn Rimes's "Blue"]], Martina [=McBride's=] "A Broken Wing"[[note]]which should only be tackled by someone with an impressive range and lung capacity[[/note]], and Terri Clark's "You're Easy on the Eyes" — or as it's misspelled here, "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Your Easy on the Eyes]]".

* The infamous '''[=JustinRPG=]''' is notable for [[NauseaFuel several]] [[{{Squick}} other]] [[DaydreamBeliever things]], and one of those is his music. First of all, like 869 mentioned above, he sings over MIDI songs he found off the internet, and terribly too. His voice is really slurred and he has the tendency to pronounce words in an odd way ([[MemeticMutation Lubby Chudder anyone?]]). It's worth something when you're so bad you become a Music/SiIvaGunner meme. Along with the person himself, his songs has become a huge source of SnarkBait in recent years.
** His most infamous song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPyhlybViJw I Love Reshiram]], is a chore to get through. It features [[SarcasmMode awe inspiring lyrics such as]] "Love, it doesn't matter if one is a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokemon]] and the other is human [[InsaneTrollLogic as long as you love each other]]." Along with that, it features one glaring CriticalResearchFailure. '''Reshiram can't be any gender. Let alone female.''' So how would he marry it? Not to mention, this goes on for '''five minutes.''' And the parts where he just goes "Love" [[BrokenRecord over and over again]] takes up about ''several minutes of that time.''

At one point, the committee decided to outright cancel the 2017 festival in favor of working to perfect a 2018 one; they later went back on this idea completely. By mid-April, it was reported that there were issues with artists not being paid, and that the event had failed to acquire a complete lineup. Blink-182, the first weekend's headlining band, pulled out last-minute--they couldn't do an ideal show under the Fest's conditions. Word soon broke out that the stage was actually within walking distance of a chain hotel. Attendees took a chartered flight to Exuma International Airport, and were greeted with a half-built, understaffed "impromptu beach party." After a long performance by a local band, staff announced that the festival was postponed and the attendees would be sent back ASAP.\\
As it turned out, the "modern, eco-friendly, geodesic domes" were in fact FEMA disaster relief tents with dirt floors and portable toilets, and the catered dinner was open-faced cheese sandwiches and undressed salad, in Styrofoam containers. There was no access to water, but alcohol was free. And yet, things still went downhill--people who went had a good chance of having their luggage wrecked or stolen by baggage crew, if they themselves weren't roughed up by the security first. At least one tent got ''lit on fire''. And in the meantime, all the flights in and out of Exuma were cancelled or stalled, leaving people stranded at the airport, without food or water, for hours on end.\\
The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism went so far as to issue a statement distancing itself from the event. The ''Washington Post'' has a pretty entertaining article on the unfolding lunacy [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/04/28/the-complete-and-utter-disaster-that-was-fyre-festival-played-out-on-social-media-for-all-to-see/?utm_term=.29514362e8d0 here,]] and this ''New York Magazine'' [[http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html article]] offers an insider's viewpoint (which was possible because the organizers ''neglected to make the insider sign a non-disclosure agreement''). Korey Coleman and Martin Thomas talked about it on [[WebOriginal/DoubleToasted their show]] [[https://youtu.be/Iyd1YnEk_EM here]]. Online commenters are comparing the chaos to ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'', ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', and even [[Horrible/{{Other}} DashCon]], complete with memetic ballpit images, with Ja Rule's only response being a note posted on Twitter that said "it was NOT A SCAM" and "this is NOT MY FAULT". As a result, the organizers are the subject of ''eight'' lawsuits, one seeking more than $100 million in damages, and the festival is under investigation by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and ''the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'' for possible fraud. Internet Historian has an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPg5ftCMv8 in-depth look at the festival]] and how it all went so catastrophically wrong.

* The infamous '''[=JustinRPG=]''' is notable for [[NauseaFuel several]] [[{{Squick}} other]] [[DaydreamBeliever things]], and one of those is his music. First of all, he sings over ''MIDI songs he found off the internet'', and terribly too. His voice is really slurred and he has the tendency to pronounce words in an odd way ([[MemeticMutation Lubby Chudder anyone?]]). It's worth something when you're so bad you become a Music/SiIvaGunner meme. Along with the person himself, his songs has become a huge source of SnarkBait in recent years.

* '''"I'm Horny"''' by Gionny Scandal and Maite. Maite's English is appalling. When she sings "I'm horny horny" it sounds like "I'm Ernie Ernie" instead, adding a pinch of {{Narm}} to wash down all the suck. According to several translations, the Italian lyrics are just as bad:

** His most infamous song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPyhlybViJw I Love Reshiram]], is a chore to get through. It features [[SarcasmMode awe inspiring lyrics such as]] "Love, it doesn't matter if one is a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokemon]] and the other is human [[InsaneTrollLogic as long as you love each other]]." Along with that, it features one glaring CriticalResearchFailure. '''Reshiram can't be any gender. Let alone female.''' So how would he marry it?

The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism went so far as to issue a statement distancing itself from the event. The ''Washington Post'' has a pretty entertaining article on the unfolding lunacy [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/04/28/the-complete-and-utter-disaster-that-was-fyre-festival-played-out-on-social-media-for-all-to-see/?utm_term=.29514362e8d0 here,]] and this ''New York Magazine'' [[http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html article]] offers an insider's viewpoint. Korey Coleman and Martin Thomas talked about it on [[WebOriginal/DoubleToasted their show]] [[https://youtu.be/Iyd1YnEk_EM here]]. Online commenters are comparing the chaos to ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'', ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', and even [[Horrible/{{Other}} DashCon]], complete with memetic ballpit images, with Ja Rule's only response being a note posted on Twitter that said "it was NOT A SCAM" and "this is NOT MY FAULT". As a result, the organizers are the subject of ''eight'' lawsuits, one seeking more than $100 million in damages, and the festival is under investigation by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and ''the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'' for possible fraud. Internet Historian has an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPg5ftCMv8 in-depth look at the festival]] and how it all went so catastrophically wrong.

** The next album in line, 1996's '''''Stars and Stripes Vol. 1''''', fared no better. It was released on the obscure River North Records label, featuring them (with a recently-rejoined Brian Wilson, also serving as producer) doing remakes of their hits with a mostly lukewarm batch of CountryMusic singers (and for some reason, Music/{{Eagles}} member Timothy B. Schmit and CCM singer Cathy Troccoli). The album was thrashed by critics as having lifeless production and weak singing from nearly all involved. ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' wrote that it was an "awful legacy" and "tired". [[http://www.allmusic.com/album/stars-and-stripes-vol-1-mw0000648961 Allmusic]] gave it 1.5 stars out of 5, saying the production had a "canned" feel and that the album was "an unmitigated disaster and an outright embarrassment for all involved", ''Entertainment Weekly'' [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293856,00.html gave it]] a "D", and ''People'' [[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20142483,00.html said]] that it was "hard to imagine a worse idea". It has a [[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_beach_boys/stars_and_stripes__vol__1/ 1.67]] out of 5 on Rate Your Music. [[AbortedArc No second volume was ever released]], but a version of "In My Room" with Tammy Wynette originally recorded for that later appeared on the 1998 compilation ''Tammy Wynette Remembered''. As with ''Summer in Paradise'', the label (River North) closed not long after the album's release, but unlike that album, it was at least re-issued in 2008. [[FranchiseKiller The failure of this album killed off any chance of another proper Beach Boys album]] until 2012's ''That's Why God Made the Radio''.

** CONELRAD did an [[http://www.conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/sh_boom.php?platter=25 interview]] with ex-Goldwater Ken Crook (for whom the album is a major OldShame) which revealed a lot about the back-story of the album. The album was originally recorded under the name "Folk Songs to Bug the New Frontier" and contained several direct references to [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]] -- that original version was produced by, of all people, songwriter [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Loudermilk John D. Loudermilk]]. He did not participate, however, in the recording of the final album, which had the Kennedy references written out following his assassination. For what it's worth, the group did a promotional tour of Republican gatherings with some success, with their act having improved since the recording session.

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsbj0OoeNo Video Games]]", their most infamous work and one of the few that is not a cover, has [[SarcasmMode awe-inspiring]] lyrics about how video games are awesome and "everything else is really lame". Despite being satire, it manages to fail at that for not being funny at all. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71tnuZOhdM Here's a video satirizing how horrible it is.]] WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow also looked at the video [[http://youtu.be/bHnBi91NiQo here]]. It may have been the reason why [[spoiler:the world went to crap at the end of the video.]]

* Porn star Riley Reid released a short rap song called '''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72GTz6dHcF0 8 Ball Shawty]]"''' in order to demonstrate her multifaceted "[[TemptingFate talent]]". [[CaptainObvious It...did not work]]. It features such ''[[SarcasmMode incredible]]'' lyricism as "[[RefugeInAudacity Pink pussy make that dick have a heart attack]]" and "Spit stringin' from my mouth, let you fuck my face[[note]]''this doesn't rhyme with the previous line, or'' '''''[[LyricalShoehorn even fit to the beat]]'''''.[[/note]] / Good nutritious nut / On deck n***a, eat me out n***a". The song's entire last third basically consists of Reid, a white woman, using the N-word over and over again. The beat also samples Reid's own moans from her, ahem, "cinematic masterpieces". {{Cr1tikal}} did a video about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44XtW4GmgqY here]].

** If you thought ''Cold Lake'' was awful, be sure [[SchmuckBait to check their 2002 demo]] '''''Prototype'''''. Here, Celtic Frost attempted to experiment with electronica, industrial rock and hip hop and sound nothing like Celtic Frost at all. Starting with a butchering of [[Music/TheBeatles "Helter Skelter"]], going through songs that feature barely comprehensible vocals and finishing with hilariously terrible "Hip Hop Jugend", which sounds like Music/{{Rammstein}} attempting to create a rap song and failing miserably, this obscure demo makes ''Cold Lake'' sound like a masterpiece.

** CONELRAD did an [[http://www.conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/sh_boom.php?platter=25 interview]] with ex-Goldwater Ken Crook (for whom the album is a major OldShame) which revealed a lot about the back-story of the album. The album was originally recorded under the name "Folk Songs to Bug the New Frontier" and contained several direct references to [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]] -- that original version was produced by, of all people, songwriter [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Loudermilk John D. Loudermilk]]! He did not participate, however, in the recording of the final album, which had the Kennedy references written out following his assassination. For what it's worth, the group did a promotional tour of Republican gatherings with some success, with their act having improved since the recording session.

* '''RATT''', an American 80's Metal Band, has an album of demo-recordings on Spotify, which is practically unlistenable. It features several of their big classics, except the guitars are consistently off-beat, out of tune, poorly mixed, overly saturated and generally incredibly sloppy. Many early live-recordings of the band reveal that this is how they actually sounded when playing LIVE!

* Music/{{Cryptopsy}}'s 2008 album '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_wCYF4BCM The Unspoken King]].''''' Within a month of its release, there were 15 reviews on Metal Archives with an average rating of ''eight percent''. A botched GenreAdultery (TechnicalDeathMetal to {{Deathcore}}) got them accused of JumpingTheShark, but it had several other problems: the production was bad, the songwriting trite, Lord Worm was ''replaced,'' and the clean sections were ''damningly'' off-key. When confronted about the album and its quality, the band totally handled it in the worst way possible. They threw fits, telling other people they weren't "getting" the message behind it, and tried to avoid people who wanted to ask them about the album.

** And even then, most of them are not anime songs - songs from ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series and ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series are in the group, too!

** That they're performing in an elementary school gym isn't really the problem. To begin with, neither of the singers can really sing, and for some very strange reason ''they don't even have a lead guitar player''. They only have a bass guitar & drum set. The "breakdown" sounds even ''more'' anemic than usual. And did nobody tell these guys that metalheads mosh in the audience, not ''onstage''? It's definitely a very [[TotallyRadical ham-fisted attempt to get the kids interested in what they have to say]] (allegedly, this was an [[DrugsAreBad anti-drug]] demonstration).

* Whether you love Music/BillyIdol's ''Cyberpunk'' or hate it, there's no contesting: the cover of [[Music/VelvetUnderground The Velvet Underground]]'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMFs-5FlWk "Heroin"]] is absolutely horrid. All the qualities that made the original beloved, from its heartfelt, intense instrumentation to its soulful delivery, have been stripped away completely, leaving a techno ClicheStorm, with obnoxious samples and a chorus yanked from a Music/PattiSmith song, neither of which make sense in context nor even exist to any end beyond existing.

* [[http://www.we7.com/song/Jump5/Ive-Got-The-Music-In-Me?m=0 Jump5's woeful attempt to cover "I've Got the Music in Me"]], popularized by Kiki Dee et al. — [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWdhqv-LFV4 Here's Kiki's version (the good one)]]... and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgmc6xgqP48 here's Jump5's awful abortion.]]

* The Turkish dub of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' usually leaves the songs undubbed. However, when "Jail Break" aired, [[https://youtu.be/lE_A77uBMGE they tried to dub "Stronger Than You"]]. Anything that could have gone wrong did go wrong; the translation itself is questionable,[[note]]"English is hard to translate to Turkish!" is not an excuse if the Japanese dub translated the song, avoided lines like "I am the love kid," and made it sound listenable.[[/note]] it is frequently and painfully inconsistent from the get-go, the singer is so monotone, you wonder if they tried and failed to turn it into a rap, and for the final nail in the coffin, the laziness of the show's dubbing seeps into the song.[[note]]In most languages, when Garnet warns the other Crystal Gems that the ship is falling, the singing continues in the background. In Turkish, the singing stops as Garnet goes into the control room; they couldn't be assed to use two layers, let alone two attempts.[[/note]] This cover should have been shattered and replaced with English, baby!

* Katie Price and Peter Andre's shameless butchering of "A Whole New World" from ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. Though the entire album this was released on was critically panned, it has an occasional fan here and there. This particular cover, however, is loathed by even fans of the album. The keyboards almost fail to keep up with the original's tempo, Peter oversings worse than you can imagine, and Price can't pronounce her words right. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8na2dOnfCs Enjoy!]]

** This is an example of artists being {{troll}}s. They cover the song, knowing full well it's WAAAY out of their style, [[ItAmusedMe just for laughs]], just to troll '''a paying audience'''.

* The '''100% Silk 2016 West Coast Tour''' met with disaster two shows in, at the Ghost Ship in Oakland, California. The venue, a repurposed warehouse, had never obtained permits and never been formally inspected--It was more-or-less {{MacGyver|ing}}ed into a live-work space for artists. The owner had pretty much foregone any form of fire safety, and the building had, in several aspects, fallen deep into neglect and clutter. The stage proper was on the makeshift second floor, accessible solely through a single jerry-rigged wooden staircase; event staff had barricaded the other to keep party-crashers at bay. All of this meant that when a fire broke out on the first floor, many of the concertgoers didn't realize it until it was already beyond any hope of control, and that by the time the blaze had reached the stage, escape was damn near impossible. In the end, the entire building went up in smoke, killing over half the performers and more than thirty others. Golden Donna, the organizer and would-be main event, cancelled the entire tour. The incident cast doubt on the fate of artists' collectives countrywide, triggered citywide action regarding live-work spaces and fire safety, and jeopardized underground music shows throughout the region for months on end.

* Internet personality [[FamousForBeingFamous and...um...]] '''Jacob Sartorius''' decided to go into music after his Vine and Musical.ly career had ascended to nearly improbable heights. Already a contentious personality on the internet for his perceived arrogant, douchey personality, the resulting single, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvxRsDpXPGo Sweatshirt]]" managed to draw the ire of nearly everyone on the internet who wasn't part of his fanbase. To be fair, the backing track is competent, but would be better served on someone who, you know, could actually sing, not someone whose fame comes from ''lip-syncing''. It managed to get enough dislikes on Website/YouTube that the comment bar had to be disabled within a week, and it received a total of 0.5/5 stars on [=AllMusic.com=]. Critic Victor Andersen tore it apart [[https://alienationmentale.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/jacob-sartorius-sweatshirt-commentary/ here]], and [=YouTuber=] [=WinkyFace=]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJoAkeceG_Q review]] shows that even many kids Jacob's age hate it. His second single "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yXm88fCa4 Hit or Miss]]" is not a bit better. The lyric video is parked in the top 50 most disliked videos on Youtube, and even though his vocals are layered with obnoxious AutoTune, his lack of singing ability is still obviously apparent, and he even attempts to ''[[PissTakeRap rap]]'' in the middle of the song. The music video, which features 13-year-old Jacob seducing girls who look to be at least in high school, is too cringeworthy to even be laughable, and [=TheMusicalHype=]'s review suggests that "even four minutes of this is too long". Jacob is clearly shaping up to be the late 2010s' Music/JustinBieber; however, the key difference between them is that while Bieber is certainly a very polarizing artist, he has enough of a following not to qualify as Horrible.

* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/user/RasputinsVision Rasputin's Vision]]''', a band who gained some notoriety on Website/YouTube for their godawful covers of various professional wrestling themes, most of which can be seen on [[http://www.youtube.com/user/WorstWrestlingThemes this]] channel. Their non-wrestling song covers aren't much better, either. Their guitar work is sloppy, their vocals are lazy, every member struggles to stay on the beat and often goes out of sync with the rest of the band, and they frequently screw up the lyrics to the songs they're covering. Their cover of Music/LedZeppelin's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFB3jISAh88 Immigrant Song]] exemplifies all of this perfectly.

** After his ''Pokémon Go'' song got was poked at by people such as WebOriginal/{{Pyrocynical}} and [=LeafyIsHere=], he released a diss track dedicated to them. Said diss track is nothing more than a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV-ijcP6vDM lazy diss track]] towards them and about as eloquent as an episode of ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'', consisting mainly of calling them, along with [=RiceGum=] and Keemstar of [=DramaAlert=] "cancer" and "retards"...just because they didn't like his music. It's made even worse by the fact that the latter two [[CriticalResearchFailure hadn't made]] ''[[CriticalResearchFailure any]]'' videos about Misha before he released the track or even seemed to know who he was at all, and even though the four [=YouTubers=] mentioned enough are [[BrokenBase very contentious in the internet community]], [[DontShootTheMessage even their detractors thought his song was poorly done]].

* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKiBzcBTjU Thrash Queen]]''', easily the worst possible start for all-girl thrash with one of the most god-awful heavy metal albums under their belt. Strangely, their label ''still'' attempted to cash in on their name with a bunch of session musicians; the quality's ''[[SoBadItsGood slightly]]'' [[SoBadItsGood better]].

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc This band]] horribly butchers "[[Music/{{Europe}} The Final Countdown]]". The keyboardist has the completely wrong sound on his synth and misses several notes, completely ruining the song's most iconic part, and the singer has absolutely no energy or passion ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITKWhfpgHpE&nohtml5=False You know you have a bad cover, when the original singer criticizes you!]]).

** Oh god, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XW9IcijGqA Alexis Normand's performance]] at the 2013 Memorial Cup. She forgot the anthem's lyrics after the third line, after which she just started making up noises that sound like words. Her bungling of the lyrics got so embarrassing that ''the Canadian crowd had to step in and finish the song for her''. This is made even worse given that the side from Portland, Oregon that had over ten Americans in their lineup. Normand eventually apologized on Twitter, saying that she wished she spent more time learning the lyrics.
** How about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCYcFpjbOY Madison Rising]], "America's [[InformedAbility Most Patriotic Rock Band]]"? It has a Naval vet wrapping himself in an American flag, and the song arranged InTheStyleOf Music/{{Creed}}. They've performed it elsewhere, but its most infamous performance was at the NASCAR Nationwide Series' [=DRIVE4COPD=] 300 at Daytona in 2014; you could see the drivers had "What the fuck I am listening to?" looks written on their faces.

** Kim Zolciak's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xClozVzbQDs Google Me]]". '''KillItWithFire!'''

* Music/{{Hole}}'s June 2010 show at Washington DC's 9:30 Club. Let's forget for a moment that it started nearly an hour late and that Courtney's voice certainly wasn't at its best; the three-hour train wreck had a godawful setlist interspersed with roughly an hour's worth of aimless gasbagging. Multiple covers were played, all of them butchered. The songs that were theirs were only faintly remembered, with several bars worth of lines frequently skipped. The intervals between numbers were longer than they should have been, and she had an assistant who was recording the set via [=iPhone=]. She put much more thought into performing to it than the audience, to the point where she rudely lashed out at a crowd member who found the assistant distracting. By the end, well over half the audience (and most of the band) had left, the crowd swearing and clutching their tickets in disgust.

* Music/MilliVanilli's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff08y_AXXzE MTV performance at Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT.]] There was already suspicion that neither Robert Pilatus nor Fabrice Morvan, who ostensibly comprised the group, made any of its music. This practically confirmed it. The track the two were lip-syncing to [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch skipped mid-chorus]]. They spent a while trying to pass it off as deliberate before giving up and fleeing the stage. Worse, the whole concert was ''televised!'' It was the beginning of the end for Rob and Fab's careers, and it really didn't help that their producer fessed up soon afterwards. Morvan, Pilatus, and Milli Vanilli's label faced nearly thirty separate fraud lawsuits soon after. The band became the only act in history to have a Grammy withdrawn. Soon after, Arista Records dropped the group and deleted the master of their first album. Their attempts to carry on without Morvan and Pilatus required a total rebranding in order to so much as get an international release.

* There have been some truly memorable impromptu live performances, such as the Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert and Music/{{U2}}'s mimicry of it for their "Where the Streets Have No Name" video. However, LA small-time RapRock band Imperial Stars' 2010 performance of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL5S5_16t8E Traffic Jam 101]]" was not one of them. This band (whose original song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsfeqw8Wzw4 is already godawful]]) thought they would win fame, fortune and attention to homeless children by setting up and performing ''[[WhatAnIdiot right on 3 lanes of Los Angeles' busy 101 freeway]]''. Instead they "won" the wrath of the city's drivers as well as jail time and several viral videos of their "performance" on [=YouTube=]. It gained [[ColbertBump even more infamy]] after it was heavily mocked by comedian Creator/JoeRogan during his 2012 performance at The Tabernacle.

* Not exactly a "remix," but if you've ever tried to look for a dubstep remix of "[[Music/TheVillagePeople YMCA]]" on YouTube, then there's a good chance you have seen [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPVt-v8LIJc this video]]. It's just a kid recording himself saying, "DUBSTEP! Wah wah wah wah wah waaah, wah waaah!" to the tune of the song. At some points in the video, he whispers his made-up lyrics, and tries to hold back his laughter. While it may be pretty humorous at first, he manages to record for over [[Main/OverlyLongGag FIVE MINUTES]].

* The decision about whether to build a new Islamic center near what was once the World Trade Center ("Ground Zero") is one of heated debate (which, of course, is [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment best left to another website]]). However, it did inspire some god-awful songs from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQBrTROj2w either]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mywb_ZfwEzI side]] of the issue.

* Regardless of how you feel about Music/SouljaBoy, it's hard to deny how utterly terrible his song '''"Anime"''' is. He discusses the subject with all the thought ([[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer and research]]) of a pothead pacing through a comics store, it closes with the audio equivalent of LeaveTheCameraRunning, and it sounds like it was recorded in his bathroom. But hey, don't take ''our'' word for it — ask [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SigTe4p3caU Y Ruler of Time]] about it (with guest cameos by Michael "Skitch" Schiciano and WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows).

* '''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YdPucCkZU She's Mad]]"''' by independent rapper [=PtheG=]. Put on [=YouTube=] in mid-2009, and eventually brought to the attention of Website/{{Fark}} under the headline "Worst. AutoTune. Ever," the song briefly brought [=PtheG=] a lot of attention based on the utter discord of the song. The music already defies melody, but the garbled autotune makes it virtually unlistenable. But you gotta love those shades.

** 3x12 originally had Music/{{Muse}}'s cover of "Feeling Good". In its place came an absolutely pathetic knockoff with the same riffs and some dweeb trying and failing ''hilariously'' to sound like Matt Bellamy while whining some angsty lyrics.

** As a result of one of the game's [[GameBreakingBug many glitches]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMOorKpIKM the music in the third level of "Lollipops"]] is straight up NightmareFuel. Supposedly it was meant to the play the music from the first level, but it somehow turned it into this. It even changes if you move around and do stuff (results can also vary depending on your emulator). One of the comments said that it sounded like [[VideoGame/EarthBound Giygas]] raping an UsefulNotes/Atari2600!

** The music from said hack can stoop even lower than this. One of the songs (which is supposed to be the peaceful Cascade Capers theme from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'') did not utilize the correct samples, making the music [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0QBsFm4oDI pure ear rape]]. It even managed to change the pitch of the sound effects into the level!

* ''Videogame/RType III'' for the GBA is pure PortingDisaster on all fronts, and that includes the BGM. Most SNES games that were ported to the GBA tend to have botched music because of the different sound chips between the two systems, but in this situation the developers lost the original source code and they redid it from scratch. Shockingly, how they the recreated music (with the GBA soundchip in mind) has to be heard to be believed. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L-WSAIseZY Here's the original Force Select music]], and [[http://youtu.be/4PmhQ_uOFrs?t=24s here's the GBA version.]] If you haven't started crying yet, compare the theme for the first stage: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoGRjih0xcA SNES]] and [[http://youtu.be/4PmhQ_uOFrs?t=57s GBA]]. Hell, compare it to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELv3NI51dOU C64 version]] from ''R-Type'', which was made in 1988!

* ''Sherlock Holmes: Hakushaku Reijou Yuukai Jiken'' took the music to the extreme by trying to make it as high-pitched as possible. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESgyK1pTbjg Painful!]]

* ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors III'' — "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_-QUJskVKk Thief's Guild]]". Creator/DavidWise, what happened? The track starts out fine but, 50 seconds in, devolves into random notes. It's pretty jarring, considering how good the rest of the game's soundtrack is.

* If you can [[IncrediblyLamePun Believe It]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8xoTBZrzko the German theme]] (which is sung with English lyrics) to ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' may be even worse than the examples listed already, if not the worst anime theme period! It starts promising with the Third Hokage narrating about the Nine-Tail Fox's attack, before turning into a bad rap song. The vocals are off-key, the main singer sounds drunk and bored, and the lyrics are incoherent with a use of PainfulRhyme. They tried rhyming "cool" (to describe Sasuke) with "beautiful" (to describe Sakura).

* The now taken down AOL Radio's '''"100 Worst Songs Ever"''' list by classic rock fan Matthew Wilkening (who has went onto making a news site regarding classic rock musicians), which can be found [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707152046/http://www.aolradioblog.com/2010/09/11/worst-songs/?icid=main archived here]]. The list seems to have been sloppily made with a single, lousy purpose in mind - to show the creator's obsessive hatred of pop music, and is filled with {{Padding}}. Each song's passage about it is completely uninformative and non-descriptive as to why the song is terrible (e.g. the whole piece on "This is Why I'm Hot" by MIMS is "First off, he repeats 'This is why I'm hot' too much. Second, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment he repeats 'This is why I'm hot' too much]]"), and the author [[BiasSteamroller sometimes completely lets his preferences for classic rock musicians and distate for pop music in general slide through in certain passages]]. It doesn't help that list is larded with several songs that are totally questionable, such as novelty songs he takes too seriously, songs the author misunderstands (he [[CriticalResearchFailure totally misinterprets the story in "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree"]] -- it's about a prisoner returning home, not a soldier!), several number-one hit songs (such as the theme tune to ''Series/{{Friends}}''), and finally, the song at the top of the list is [[Series/JerseyShore DJ Pauly D's]] "(It's Time to) Beat Dat Beat", indicating how rushed the list is. The author also tries to, and completely fails at, cracking jokes in the paragraphs (with the worst one being a tastelessly sexist TakeThat at Helen Reddy's "''I Am Woman''").

** Chris Funk of Music/TheDecemberists appeared on ''Series/TheColbertReport''… OK, so far so good… "hosted by Creator/StephenColbert, ''star'' of the NBC ''dramedy'' ''Series/TheOfficeUS''"… Uh, guys… wrong "[[Creator/SteveCarell Steve]]". They were on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' at the same time at one point which, without fact checking, [[OneSteveLimit might have been the problem]].
*** Also… dramedy? ''The Office'' has no more dramatic moments than any other sitcom.