History Horrible / Music

[[folder:Musicians]]
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* '''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 that make words hard to understand. 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 UsefulNotes/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.
* '''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''. Her most famous song is "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Sb14dyaUc 3 Second Rule]]", a bizarre dance-country hybrid about telling interested men that they can "only look for 3 seconds". Her voice is flat, nasal, and off-key, the backing vocals sound like someone imiating [=SpongeBob=], and the beat is a limp backing that probably took ten seconds to make in a MIDI program. Many [[https://bbook.com/music/lisa-gail-allreds-3-second-rule-is-the-new-friday/ critics and sites]] compared her unfavorably to "Music/{{Friday}}". Her [[https://www.reverbnation.com/lisagailallred/songs Reverbnation]] page includes music of equally horrid nature, including tone-deaf covers of "Santa Baby", Music/MartinaMcBride's "A Broken Wing" (a song noted as one of the prime examples of IncrediblyLongNote in CountryMusic), and Heidi Newfield's "Johnny & June", along with insipid originals such as "[[http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/7394162/Lisa-Gail-Allred-is-doing-it-again Coffee or Tea]]". She supposedly had equally-wretched covers of [=LeAnn=] Rimes' "Blue" and Terri Clark's "Dirty Girl" and "You're Easy on the Eyes" (which was misspelled "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Your Easy on the Eyes]]") on her Reverbnation page at one point, but they were [[MissingEpisode taken down.]]
* '''Ryan Bane'''. His singing voice is horrible, off-tuned, poorly timed and unable to be on-key even through copious amounts of AutoTune. His songs often contain horrible lyrics, often containing vile sexual content that is simply unsexy as all get out, and lyrics about him being homosexual--but written ridiculously to the point where it will only just induce facepalms from actual gay men. Mirrors of his songs have been taken down several times due to Ryan himself getting them removed and the sexual content.
** "God" (NSFW) is just an example. Not only does the song contain everything listed above (in addition to lyrics that attempt to portray church-related pedophilia as [[CrossesTheLineTwice sexy]]), it's also topped off with a truly horrible music video, depicting Ryan Bane's [[FanDisservice pasty white body]] in what can only be described as awful softcore porn. It contains several delightful moments such as Ryan licking pubic hair off a bible, Ryan dipping a crucifix in his pee, him drooling all over rosary beads, a bizarre moment where the song stops to show Ryan in a bathtub and him getting head, and a stinger where he '''[[JizzedInMyPants ejaculates]] on a children's bible'''. Blasphemous probably wouldn't be the correct word for this, so much as unforgivable would. Fortunately it has been taken down numerous times.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQpZzLt7WaE Prince Charming]] is thankfully much less {{Squick}}y, but it's no less horrible. The whole song is littered with extremely {{Painful Rhyme}}s in the lyrics (one of which involved [[SuspiciouslySpecificTense touching his anus]]) and an extremely repetitive beat and vocal melody that could easily drive one to insanity. The video that was taken down is simply boring, featuring shots of him naked and licking things--at least he doesn't jizz on anything.
* '''[[http://www.facebook.com/BlackOutKids Black Out Band]]''' were [[ChildPopstar a band of preteens]] active from 2005 to 2008. The band members didn't seem to understand how to make music, nor did they seem to actually care about the sound or the quality. They had expensive guitars and equipment most garage bands would love to own (courtesy of their parents, all blatant {{Stage Mom}}s), but couldn't play them professionally. The lead singer, Hunter Watson, often sounded off-key and constipated and/or completely wasted despite being around 10 years old at the time.
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsbj0OoeNo Video Games]]", their most infamous work and one of the few that is not a cover, has horrid 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.]]
** The band also did an awful cover of Music/TheRamones' "Blitzkrieg Bop", which used to be on Website/YouTube along with numerous other covers before their official channel took down ''all their videos'' due to negative comments. Their version replaced the guitar riffs during the chorus with the kids going "yeah yeah".
** According to their website, they've also covered "Louie Louie".
** Their [[http://www.myspace.com/blackoutkids MySpace page]] has their entire catalog (6 songs) available for listening, and they prove that "Video Games" was not intentionally sung poorly.
** Furthermore, the description of "Video Games" on their former site (now a blank domain) claims that their song had won a Grammy. [[BlatantLies The official Grammy site does not list their song as an award winner.]]
** The band's existence is now considered more of a FunnyAneurysmMoment since Hunter Watson [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1237724 died in a car accident]] in 2016 at the age of 20.
* The music of '''Christian and the Hedgehog Boys'''[[note]]yes, the very same Christian Weston Chandler responsible for ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''[[/note]] -- terrible lyrics too atrocious to [[{{Narm}} incite laughter]], shouted off-key over random pop songs. And most of the time he "sings" over actual songs with actual lyrics instead of the instrumental versions of the songs.
** For one example, here is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR1kZnhuM3I So Need a Cute Girl]]", with lyrics about being "stuck as a virgin with rage" (not) sung to the tune of "[[Music/BackstreetBoys I Want It That Way]]". "So Need a Better Voice" is more like it.
** To wit, he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVYnHAVmyDo turned]] Music/MeatLoaf[='s=] "[[AntiLoveSong Paradise by the]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Dashboard Light]]" into seven and a half minutes of pure, unrelenting '''fail'''. The fact that he doesn't realize he isn't differentiating between the male and female voices makes it even ''worse''.[[note]]However, this becomes HilariousInHindsight with Chris's later "Tomgirl" saga, which is documented extensively on his own wiki, the [=CWCki=].[[/note]]
** His most incomprehensible song was "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu3PIOavUhY Sonichu Zip]]", which has him screaming over the lyrics of ''Anime/SonicX''[='s=] "SONIC DRIVE". The song is so fast-paced that you hear more of the original song than the "new" song.
** And for Spanish speakers, there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk0XHBYR6DM La Cocina en La Casa de Casanova]] Not only does this song have the most idiotic lyrics imaginable (over half of it consists of "OLE, OLE, OLE!"), but it also is ''based'' on a fundamental CriticalResearchFailure (Casanova was ''Italian''), and the lyrics, when translated, vary from the stupidly simplistic to the [[BlindIdiotTranslation downright incomprehensible]].
* Internet personality '''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 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.
* '''Music/DavidTanny''' is a notoriously unfunny novelty musician who has spent more than ten years "rapping" monotonously to bad [=MIDI=] tunes in an effort to get his music on the Dr. Demento show, which he is a major fan of. The man was so desperate to get people to like his music, he took one of his earliest albums from ten years ago and re-released it ''with a LaughTrack''.
* '''Franchi$e dBaby'''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnZi-S4gy0g At best]], he encompasses every negative cliche about white rappers plus every negative cliche about party rappers. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xyim3754Q At worst]], he comes off as a less talented (and infinitely less likable) version of Wesley Willis. His beats are at least competent (likely because they were made by someone else), but he clearly doesn't care at all about his rapping (he even says so in a couple of songs). At several points, he stops singing entirely and just pants heavily into the microphone.
** If you dare, check out [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy-65LzXgLpYRuMuWPltmeHj1lDRmeSxt his only released album.]] Highlights include "Spencer Mayo Swag", "Bomb Ass Pussy", and the almost so-bad-it's-good "Boat".
* '''Girls With Attitude''' were a group of session singers from Cambridge, Ontario, 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=OE2l6CPna4M Jan Terri.]]''' Her music will make you want to run screaming into traffic. She's tone-deaf as hell, her lyrics sound like they were written by a 12-year-old girl, her music videos are boring as hell, and she just doesn't realize just how untalented she is. The best thing to happen to her was Music/MarilynManson feeling sorry for her and letting her open for one of his gigs. Besides that, she's usually forgotten... well, except the occasional person on the internet that makes fun of her videos.
** The truTV program ''World's Dumbest'' had lots and lots of fun with her song and music video for "Excuse My Christmas", on an episode of "World's Dumbest Performers". One comment (about a trio of amateurishly-drawn animated "Mexicans" with moustaches and wearing sombreros) stated that said piece of "animation" was too crude to be offensive.
* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oSzgAcgjuE Ostie]]''' is the black metal solo project of a man simply named "Prince Grothmer the Cruel ov Cobaltia" from Toronto. He's been involved in ten album releases since his start in 2012. His albums have received two reviews on Metal-Archives; A 1% and a 2% rating. His 'screams' are quiet rasps into a microphone, mixed louder than anything else on the track. His lyrics are ridiculously over-the-top, with lines such as "You'll be frozen with hate". The backing music is a drum machine and what sounds like a guitar being tuned. To say that people are still unsure [[PoesLaw if he's serious or not]] is an ''understatement'' ; Some people think he's doing it as a joke but his social profiles play it completely straight. One reviewer even said that he hopes Ostie continues on, not because he likes it, but because he wants to see how much worse the music could possibly get.
* UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}}-based "Rapper" '''[[http://www.youtube.com/user/RAE2THEMOTHERFUCKEND R.A.E.D.]]''' has drawn scorn from an enormous amount of people, many of whom argue that his output doesn't even qualify as music. Why? Because it consists of cheap, pre-programmed beats that often seem to change direction abruptly and for no reason, over which R.A.E.D. spouts a nearly incoherent mess of lyrics that seem to be improvised on the spot and stumbled over to catch up to the background music, and display no consistent rhyme scheme, if there's any at all. This, combined with his occasional rebuttals of critical comments, in posts consisting of a virtually indecipherable medley of expletives and bizarre colloquialisms, has led some to believe he may be insane, and the worst part of all is that they're not even the only reasons--in 2001 he called in a bomb threat to a casino.
* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/user/RasputinsVision Rasputin's Vision]]''', a band who gained some notoriety on Website/YouTube for their awful 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.
* The infamous '''[=JustinRPG=]''' is notable for several other 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. 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}} 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.''' 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.''
* '''[[http://www.myspace.com/savagerocksyou Savage]]''' is allegedly an 80s-style HairMetal band. In reality, it's just the soloist and a bunch of session musicians. The background music is boring, which wouldn't be so bad if he himself weren't incredibly off-key and his lyrics weren't absolutely horrid. He produces and mixes the recordings himself, bungling everything from the mic placement to the sound quality to the post-production. Also of note, his promotion--"band" photos are just photographs of famous bands with his picture photoshopped onto one of them, and he attributes his own reviews of his own albums to famous musicians as well.
* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/MishaCZLP/ Mishovy "Misha" šílenosti]]''' is a child singer from the UsefulNotes/CzechRepublic whose songs (if they can even be called that) are horribly sung, obnoxious, and pretentious. He is also known for his inability to take criticism that shows up in many of his songs, which [[ItsAllAboutMe only add up to his]] [[SmallNameBigEgo egotism]]. The latter traits are taken [[UpToEleven to ridiculous heights]] in his diss tracks against his haters. Suspiciously, most his songs have "FOR KIDS" written on them, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids despite him singing about adult themes that would be considerably unacceptable for his likely target audience]] (he often wears an uncensored "FUCK" cap in his videos).
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfc42Pb5RA8 His most infamous song]] is about how much he enjoys ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'', and the lyrics are utterly banal, repetitive, and simplistic to the point that it's hard to defend even though he was only nine years old at the time, and even [[TargetDemographic other kids]] can't even enjoy it. The only good that came from this song is its use as a RunningGag in Music/SiIvaGunner's BaitAndSwitch videos.
** 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 very eloquent, 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]].
** After Misha's diss track was flooded with hate, he came out with another [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSHRLnxNzE diss track]], [[DearNegativeReader this time directed at his haters]]. Much like the song released before it, it features lazily made [[TakeThat Take Thats]] at his haters ("[[BlatantLies You tried to bully me, but now, I make more money than]] [[YourMOM your mother!]]"), as well as Misha declaring himself as the "next Music/JustinBieber" as he proceeds to mock well-known Youtube users such as Creator/FilthyFrank and LetsPlay/JackSepticEye. The diss track comes of as [[{{Narm}} being insipid and plain laughable]]. It doesn't help mentioning that the soppy beat (which consists of none other than a repeated guitar riff alongside a small breakdown in the middle of the song) is nearly non-existent. The video doesn't help, either. It shows Misha going around Prague as a ChickMagnet stealing girls from their boyfriend, all of whom seem to be way older than him. Near the end, Misha does a dance by a fountain with his brother doing a guitar solo, before cutting off to Misha FlippingTheBird to his haters. Akin to the last two tracks mentioned, it ended up putting a sock into Misha's DearNegativeReader songs... for a while.
** Then Misha came back with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg_IIaZth4o&feature=youtu.be an entire rap song sung in Czech]] once again dedicated to his haters. He completely lets his ItsAllAboutMe attitude flow through the song, most of which is him guilt-tripping about how everyone has supposedly bullied him the entire year (but the amount of glamour in the video, including the fact he has ''g-men'' accompanying him and a ''suitcase of money'', would make you think otherwise), all put under a repetitive bass sound. Even in his native language, Misha still sounds off-key and as whiny as ever. The backlash of the song has been so fierce that Misha has had to disable the rating system for said video, although it hasn't stopped the comments section.
** Not even Misha's parody songs are much better. An example is "I'M VEGAN, DEATH TO ALL MEAT EATERS!" - A StrawVegetarian Misha declaring death to all meat eaters (using arguments such as "meat eaters live shorter lives", and for some reason, "pigs are more intelligent than three year old kids"). Once again, the song is filled with repetition, constant [[TitleDrop title drops]], and a rather lousy rock instrumentation that sounds like what someone could piece together in thirty minutes using a generic sound system.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1KwiHd-bQ "Trump Vs. Hillary"]] is marginally better than his other songs on a musical level, but is brought down into this trope with his [[PanderingToTheBase pandering to US viewers]] (they already had their feelings of frustration from the 2016 election validated) and CriticalResearchFailure: not only is Misha too young to run for US president, but he could never qualify because he's a native Czech citizen.
** Despite singing "fuck Donald Trump" in the aforementioned "Trump Vs. Hillary", Misha made another election-themed song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDYFENUNeX8 Donald Trump for President]]", presumably purely for the sake of offending people who dislike Trump. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Even putting its subject matter aside]], the song might very well be Misha's worst to date, as it consists entirely of him yelling the song's title over a generic electronic music loop.
* In 2004, a young lad known only as '''"Shadow of Death"''' sought to shake the metal world through his music as Apocalypse. He is regarded by metalheads everywhere as one of the worst. How bad is he? His most famous demo, ''Upon the Crimson Rivers'', has [[http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=51567 7 reviews]] on Metal Archives, with an average rating of '''3%'''. The production is non-existent, the instrumentation is screwed up in ways previously unimaginable, and he doesn't as much sing as whisper hoarsely. If you're [[BileFascination still interested]], then [[http://www.purevolume.com/apocalypse go over here]] and remember — curiosity killed the cat.
* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKiBzcBTjU Thrash Queen]]''', easily the worst possible start for all-girl thrash with one of the most 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]].
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* 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, including even more independent musicians who all held some degree of sway over the local music and art 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 '''[[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 the wrong chapter of Hell's Angels[[note]]The notoriously violent Oakland branch, rather than the San Francisco one which had staffed many a Dead concert without incident[[/note]] to stand guard, allegedly in $500 USD worth of cold beer. This decision 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 after they saw what happened to their buddy Balin. In contrast to the "peace and love" atmosphere of Woodstock, Altamont came to symbolize the death of TheSixties.
* 2017's '''Fyre Festival''', co-founded by Ja Rule and Billy [=McFarland=], was almost impressive in its own right for how much of an unbridled disaster it was. It was a promotional event for [=McFarland's=] Fyre music booking app. Tickets started at $1200 and went as high as ''$250,000'' for what was promised to be a luxurious 3-day festival with headliners like Music/Blink182, on Great Exuma in UsefulNotes/TheBahamas, which the event advertised as a private island. The event promised accommodations in "modern, eco-friendly, geodesic domes" and gourmet meals from chefs. The event was supposed to be "cashless and cardless," with $1,500 wristbands covering the incidentals. However, since at least mid-March, there were reports circulating about significant problems with the planning.\\
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, especially after their road crew reported to them about how inept the set-up was. 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.\\
The aforementioned "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 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 ''forgot to make them sign a non-disclosure agreement''). Korey Coleman and Martin Thomas talked about it on [[WebOriginal/DoubleToasted their show]] [[https://youtu.be/Iyd1YnEk_EM here]]. The internet compared the mess to ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'', ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', and even [[Horrible/{{Other}} DashCon]], complete with memetic ballpit images, with Ja Rule merely denying accusations of fraud on Twitter. 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.
* If [=TomorrowWorld=] 2015 is the electronic music festival equivalent of Woodstock '99, then the '''2010 edition of Love Parade''' is the equivalent of Altamont. The venue wasn't built to accomodate a full quarter of the projected turnout. In the meantime, there was at most one person on crowd control for every 310 attendants. The end result was that the crowd spun hopelessly out of control, and over 500 people got trampled, 21 of them to death. [[FranchiseKiller The festival was permanently cancelled]] and charges of gross negligence were filed against the organizers, though those were later dropped when the prosecutors couldn't successfully pin said charges on the organizers' behavior.
* '''[[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, most notably Philip Glass. 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."
** Van Anglen missed several payments to his musicians despite consistently promising the checks would go through. At one point, a large donor refused to send in his check at the last moment.
** The large concert venue for one of the festivals could not be secured, resulting in moving the location to a high school auditorium. Said auditorium was fairly small, primarily used for theater performances and most importantly, in a school that [[http://www.newportri.com/newportdailynews/news/page_one/public-is-shown-building-problems-at-rogers-high-school/article_73ddf866-7e71-5e71-ab2c-3c0bd5442498.html was falling apart]]. Needless to say, not the most impressive place to see Philip Glass.
** Van Anglen's deplorable conducting skills were obvious during the rehearsal, prompting the musicians to ignore him entirely and whisper the meter to themselves.
** Tensions over musician compensation and the lack of communication rose to the point where Van Anglen and his concertmaster Shilakowsky began yelling and crying at each other for an hour.
** After finally admitting there weren't any funds left, Van Anglen ultimately apologized for his failure to fulfill his promises to the musicians and was hit with various small-claims suits following the festival's demise.
* '''[=TomorrowWorld=] 2015''' could very well be described as [[https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/how-tomorrowworld-became-an-epic-disaster-of-near-riots-and-looming-lawsuits the electronic music festival equivalent to Woodstock 1999 for similar reasons]]. The event, which was created in 2013 as a sister festival to the Belgian music festival Tomorrowland but held in America, started off swimmingly, but by the second night, bad weather kicked in and things went downhill fast. The festival grounds (a grassy field near the town of Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia) became saturated and muddy, causing a massive backing up of transportation services. Attendees that weren't camping on festival grounds were forced to wait for hours on end, putting up with cold temperatures and a lack of basic necessities like food and water, some growing frustrated enough to just try walking back to town. The final day was no better, with attendees that had left unable to reenter and enjoy the artists lined up to play (who themselves were not happy with how the event's poor planning led to these problems, but tried to make the best out of the situation). At the end of the day, the event's organizer [=ID&T=] Belgium not only had to refund several festival-goers, but have also dealt with a major PR blow that has led to disgruntled attendees stating they never want to return again and curious possible future attendees not wanting to risk next year having the same mishaps. Both electronic music news outlets and business insiders have stated that unless they do some really good damage control, [[FranchiseKiller TomorrowWorld 2015 could very well be the last TomorrowWorld]], and indeed the 2016 festival was cancelled, putting the future of it into question. That said, the festival is planned to return in 2018, so time will tell if they can redeem the name.
* '''"United We Stand: What More Can I Give"''' in Washington, D.C. stands as concrete proof that yes, benefit concerts ''can'' go wrong, even those dedicated to 9/11. Even after delaying the concert for longer than three hours, technical difficulties still pervaded every set, thanks to an inept sound crew -- mics gave off feedback on a regular basis, the visual presentation was loaded with bugs, and in one case, a performer's backing track just plain stopped mid-performance. Several of the sets had to be cut for time last-minute, some were outright omitted, and in several cases, the performer in question never actually showed up. Many performers carelessly used the US flag as a stage prop, often desecrating it as a result (which flew in the face of the show's rather patriotic tone). Music/MichaelJackson, who got top billing, was the organizer, and was meant to end the concert -- he only performed one song, and he lip-synched. To top it all off, this was being filmed for TV (rather than broadcast live), which meant the show was padded out even further by the recording of intros and outros for all the sets. Much of the crowd, including several performers, left well before the grand finale featuring Jackson and the remaining stars. [[http://www.salon.com/2001/10/22/jackson_benefit/ Salon]] and [[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1450229/20011022/story.jhtml MTV]] provide the details.
* '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_1999 Woodstock 1999]]''' ranks next to the Altamont disaster (see above) as one of the most notorious mass live events in America, and disgraced [[Film/{{Woodstock}} its namesake]] by going completely against [[NewAgeRetroHippie its spirit]]. One can't fault the lineup for what happened -- the event featured most of the popular rock artists and singer-songwriters of TheNineties, and their sets even ranged from good to great. However, it was horrendously planned from the get-go, with [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/19-worst-things-about-woodstock-99-20140731 this retrospective]] by ''Rolling Stone'' (which refers to the event as "the day the Nineties died") going into detail on how everything went wrong.
** To start with, environmental issues and terrible scheduling plagued the show. It was staged at the closed-down Griffiss Air Force Base, which was declared a toxic waste site in 1987. This site lacked any natural shade to protect guests from the late-July sun shining on hot tarmac and concrete, and the two main concert stages were a mile and a half apart, necessitating very long walks through exhausting heat. Of course, this caused hundreds of cases of heat exhaustion--and many people didn't even leave the disused hangars containing the Emerging Artists and rave stages. And since the Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony was being held close by that same weekend, accommodations were sparse in the extreme and had been for months prior. Every hotel in the area was booked months in advance. Even ''the artists'' had trouble finding accommodations; [[http://blog.syracuse.com/entertainment/2009/07/a_look_back_at_woodstock_99.html one account]] describes Radio/HowardStern, Music/GeorgeClinton, and Music/AlanisMorissette being turned away from a Quality Inn motel because there were no vacancies. The terrible scheduling extended to the performances. For instance, the lineup on the East Stage one day saw the mellow, introspective alt-rock of Music/CountingCrows, Morissette, and the Music/DaveMatthewsBand followed immediately after by the noisy, loud-mouthed RapMetal of Music/LimpBizkit.
** The organizers strongly discouraged outside food and drink, so many expected to dine at the vendors inside the concert area… only to be met by [[http://web.archive.org/web/20001012225457/http://www.usmusicvault.com/woodstock99.html blatant price gouging]]. On top of the $150 tickets just to get in, bottles of water and soda went for $4, and ten-inch personal pizzas for $12 -- and keep in mind that this was in 1999 dollars. This and the aforementioned heat problems led guests to tear apart the water fountains to access free water, creating mud pits around them. Supermarkets in nearby [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState Rome, New York]] saw long lines and shortages of stock as guests who didn't want to pay concert prices for food and drink picked them apart. Likewise, toilet facilities amounted to port-a-potties that were woefully insufficient for the crowd of 200,000 people (50,000 ''less'' than projected) who showed up and which [[DisgustingPublicToilet broke in little time]]. There were only a hundred showers (fifty each for men and women) that one had to wait in a long line to use, and with no proper drainage for any of them, the waste water flowed straight into the camping area. Garbage cans overflowed as underpaid sanitation workers simply walked away from their jobs. The parking situation was bad enough that there was a three-mile line of cars stretching to the event, some of which had overheated or run out of gas idling and had been abandoned. Some say this alone drove the crowds to riot. John Scher, the event's planner who had lost money organizing the previous Woodstock '94 (itself a TroubledProduction, but not nearly to the same degree), admitted that all of this cost-cutting and price-gouging was done in [[http://ultimateclassicrock.com/woodstock-99-riots/ an attempt to have the event turn a profit]] this time.
** It's up for debate as to just what was the exact spark that set the crowd off, but there are several candidates. Some blame Fred Durst of Music/LimpBizkit, noting his angry speech to the crowd and [[TemptingFate his band's performance of "Break Stuff"]]. Others blame Music/KidRock, who demanded that audience members throw water bottles at the stage. Still others blame the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers, who performed a cover of Music/JimiHendrix's "Fire" (reportedly at the request of Hendrix's sister in his honor) and had handed out free candles for the purpose of a candlelight vigil against gun violence during "Under the Bridge"; those candles wound up being used to set things on fire instead. Finally, some blame Music/InsaneClownPosse, who [[MoneyToThrowAway threw $100 bills into the audience]] that wound up causing fights. The crowd wasn't exactly good prior to this either -- somebody drove a truck through the crowd during Music/FatboySlim's set. The small contingent of state troopers and local police acting as security was overwhelmed, with the extra security guards hired to back them up mostly ditching their jobs just like the sanitation workers did.
** By the end, there was mass arson, bonfires, burglary, looting, ATM and property destruction, and at least eight ''confirmed'' (we do stress that last part) counts of rape. The "Peace Wall" surrounding the event perimeter, a twelve-foot-high, steel-reinforced wooden fence painted with murals commemorating the original Woodstock, was torn down and used as kindling -- an ironically appropriate symbol of what the festival had devolved into. While there were no recorded deaths, six people were injured, and a dozen trailers, a small bus, an art gallery, several vendor booths, and an audio tower had been destroyed. [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Anthony Kiedis]] compared the sight from the stage, with fires stretching to the horizon, to something out of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', and ''The San Francisco Gate'' [[http://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Woodstock-99-The-day-the-music-died-3073934.php referred to it]] as [[Music/DonMcLean "the day the music died"]]. Creator/{{MTV}} evacuated its entire crew from the premises out of fear for their safety (with anchor Kurt Loder describing the scene as looking like an all-out war), and the New York State Police had to be called in to clean up the mess. The parties involved wound up learning the hard way [[FranchiseKiller that they're most likely never doing this again]].
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* Horrible/Musicians

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!!General
* Apple and iTunes have been releasing covers of popular anime songs in conjunction with Anisong. There are 45 albums so far, and only three of them have gotten higher than 3 stars on iTunes.
** And even then, most of them are not anime songs - songs from ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series and ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series are in the group, too.
** Some key examples from the other 40 — Lost Sunrise, who covered "[[Anime/YuGiOhGX Precious Time Glory Days]]" all sound congested, Kanno Yutaka and Mu-Ray provide a [[DullSurprise spiritless]] version of "[[Manga/OnePiece Brand New World]]", and Aya's generic techno version of "[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Koi no Mikuru Tensetsu]][[YouMakeMeSic (sic)]]" could possibly be forgiven, could she sing to save her life.
** There's a collection of songs released in this group focused specifically on the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise. If a song title has "Precure" listed, it's spelled [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "Purecure"]]. Of the most painful of the bunch is Cao's rendition of [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar "Makasete! Splash Star"]] and Mami's rendition of [[Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure "Tomorrow Song ~Ashita no Uta~"]]
* Most of the cover songs from ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' range from okay to good, but there are a few that are horrible:
** In ''GH 2''[='=]s version of Music/LambOfGod's "Laid to Rest", the lead singer couldn't replicate Randy Blythe's strange growl/scream vocals, but he tried his best; this ended up making the cover unlistenable.
** The cover of Music/AvengedSevenfold's "Beast and the Harlot". The vocals are somewhat off-beat, and whoever sang this cover was obviously bored while making it, so he fails to sound anything like M. Shadows. The instrumentation sucks too; the awesome feel of the original is gone.
** The cover of "Police Truck" by Music/DeadKennedys in ''Rocks the '80s'' is censored so much that it ruins the song, destroys its original meaning, and gives it more [[PainfulRhyme painful rhymes]] than the original. For instance, the word "ass" is changed to "butt" in the line "Pull down your dress/It's a kick in the ass".
** The cover of Music/IronMaiden's "Wrathchild" from ''Rocks the 80s'' is worth a mention too. The singer sounds nasal and appears to have asphalt in his voice box in a lame attempt at emulating Di'Anno's rasp, the bass line is messed up, and the solo is almost entirely wrong.
** The UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} version of ''Guitar Hero II'' 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 ''Rocks the 80's'', 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. 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).

!!Specific Examples
* [[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-countdown-singers-mn0000784073 The Countdown Singers]], an anonymous band of musicians from Quebec who perform sound-alike covers of popular tunes. They exist only as SchmuckBait for people who think they're getting a good deal by getting 20 different songs on the same disc. These cover artists are basically personality-free jingle singers trying to sound like the original artist against a backing of drum machines and keyboards. Allmusic has given this series 1-2 stars with remarkable consistency, and the ones that have text reviews give an even better taste of how sucky the covers are:
-->''"[[http://www.allmusic.com/album/forever-80s-mw0000548077 Consumers need to check the fine print]] on the back of these cheap-o compilations or undergo disappointment when they play it. Since all of these tracks can easily be found in their original form on other compilations, steer clear of this!"''
* While the majority of Music/KanyeWest's performance at Glastonbury 2015 got a mixed-to-positive reaction, even its most staunch defenders will not, in any way, defend his shameless butchery of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpG8DUl8nO4 Bohemian Rhapsody]]". He only covers the first two minutes of the song, does it to a ''playback track'' of the original song, skips about 60% of the lyrics and those lyrics he ''does'' sing sound out of tune and like he has problems with his throat. Watch the horror at your own risk.
* Music/KatyPerry's music is generally divisive for most people, but almost nobody will defend this monotone, gimmicky performance of Music/{{Queen}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6THVVihAA Don't Stop Me Now]]" at the [=iHeartRadio=] Music Festival.
* Whether one thinks Music/BillyIdol's ''Cyberpunk'' is good or bad, there's one thing most people agree: 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.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KurY4zhs1yw Salvare98's cover of Kouon Chuu On'iki Test]] is absolutely terrible. The dude is tone deaf, failing at even the easiest parts of the song. And he has an annoying nasally voice that will grate on your ears.
* Music/DuranDuran's horrendous cover of Music/PublicEnemy's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_BgzSDQNk "911 is a Joke"]]. This song came off of a critically panned album titled ''Thank You'' which featured covers of varying quality. This was the one that made even most Duran Duran fans feel embarrassed. The tone and delivery of the vocals don't seem to even try to match the tone of the original (a ProtestSong of the highest order), and they come off as cheesy as a result. To say nothing of the horrendously dated beat, done on an acoustic guitar.
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers did a cover of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfbI82qdOls I Found Out]]" by Music/JohnLennon for the tribute album ''Working Class Hero'' in 1996. The whole band sounds completely bored on it and the production is much worse than their usual output. It is the only song they have contributed to a compilation that was not released elsewhere, and the band quickly disowned it.
* [[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 version.]]
** The answer to this is HijackedByJesus gone corporate: Music/Jump5 was just an attempt to make [[TotallyRadical "hip" music]] for [[TheMoralSubstitute Christian listeners]], and the lyrics for the song are [[AlternateAesopInterpretation able to be interpreted in such a way]] as to fit a modern Christian worldview.
* Music/JesseMcCartney covered Music/PanicAtTheDisco's "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" as part of a radio program...that didn't ask him to cover the song. The cover was so bad that the radio station [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lokS5G5hr20 called Brendon Urie to hear it and could only play the beginning of the song]] due to its complete lack of melody as well as incorrect lyrics and {{Wangst}}.
%%* Courtney Love's off-key, emotionless version of Music/PearlJam's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWTEQMxZIyY "Jeremy"]].
* Ex-gay porn actor Colton Ford did a shamelessly awful cover of "Lithium" by Music/{{Nirvana}} in 2009. He transformed a tongue-in-cheek humorous tune into an emotionless, almost borderline depressing dance tune. If you [[DrinkingGame took a shot every time he strains his vocals]], you'd die from alcohol poisoning, and the electric guitar in the chorus can barely keep up with the already butchered tempo. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4WuA0up3NU Approach with caution]].
* 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 [[CarefulWithThatAxe 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]]''.
* Deathcore band Dr. Acula's cover of Wiz Khalifa's "No Sleep." It takes everything that was fun about the original and kills it. Listen to the abomination [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDaRf26srXU here]].
* Kelly Osbourne's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUb5JihqZZQ cover]] of Music/{{Madonna}}'s ''Papa Don't Preach''. The synth and strings that made the song so iconic are replaced with a pop punk backing with drums that sound like garbage cans, which are also tuned way too high. Furthermore, Kelly's voice is so nasally and cracks every time she hits a high note, throwing in a dash of {{Narm}}. It almost makes you wonder if Madonna herself wrote a response song called "[[Series/ChappellesShow Daughter Don't Sing]]".
* [=Nichole337=] is a Website/YouTube star who is best known for doing tone-deaf covers of pop songs. She does have a genuine fandom, but most reactions to her on the site are negative, and the one video Nichole's detractors will bring up the most is her cover of Music/MileyCyrus's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yswQLTH4KE Party in the USA]]". In most of Nichole's videos she is intelligible and can sing the words at the same speed as the original, but in this video she can't even do ''those''.
* From the 1920s or so we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_48um2jPo8I this version]] of the old standard "The Sidewalks of New York." Notice how the instruments have trouble keeping tempo, staying together, and are all very, ''very'' out of tune...
* The Turkish dub of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' usually leaves the songs undubbed. However, when "Jail Break" aired, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoiQAyz3YqQ 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]]
** Similarly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=224bhQxrrl4 the Hindi version of "Strong in the Real Way"]] seemingly makes no attempt to match the singing with the music and heavily abuses reverb.
* [=ConicTeamTV's=] cover of Music/MichaelJackson's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBjh2TXtcMo Smooth Criminal]]," which speaks for itself. On another level of embarrassment, the "[[TalkingToHimself background singers]]" are supposed to be [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] and company, which is especially sad for those that know that Michael Jackson had huge connections with Sega and that he is rumored to have composed a few songs from ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]''.
* Polish pop duo Blog 27 did a cover of Italian singer Alexia's 1997 Europop hit "Uh La La La". It sounds like an entire bag of cats being strangled, the rhythm of the original completely lost. [[JailBait Seemingly underage]] dancers (the two singers were only thirteen at the time) in their miniskirts [[BareYourMidriff baring their midriffs]] are also hard to watch. Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95m5cdG4x6o Alexia's original]] to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca8Um4KXamU Blog 27's abomination]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8na2dOnfCs 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.
* Music/TheShaggs of course are famous for being a horribly uncoordinated, GiftedlyBad GirlGroup who struggled with their instruments and made this strangely fascinating cacophony of sound. But what happens when they cover someone else? You get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BkUFmjz-Ek this]] very, very, very uncomfortable cover of the Music/{{Carpenters}}' "Yesterday Once More." The Shaggs are maybe the only group in the history of music that sound ''better'' when they're not keeping together.
* If there ever was a fast way to take a classic hard rock song and ruin it forever, letting a diva famous for her soothing ballads perform a cover version of it would be one of the most efficient methods to do so. Case in point: Celine Dion covered Music/{{ACDC}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niTEkP-6eo You Shook Me All Night Long]]". With Anastacia, to boot. Just the thought, let alone sight, of Celine trying to act like she's in any way credible as a rock singer should already be shameful enough.
** And once you've seen that, wash it down with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtuGMHWAf0 Shania Twain]] version.
** This is an example of artists being {{troll}}s. They cover the song, knowing full well it's way out of their style, [[ItAmusedMe just for laughs]] and to troll '''a paying audience'''.
* [=RuPaul=] has released multiple albums with several catchy EarWorm hits ... however, she had the bright idea of letting the drag queens from ''Series/RupaulsDragRace'' cover her music for Seasons 6 and 7, with albums named ''The [=CoverGurlz=]'' and ''The [=CoverGurlz=] 2''. While there is the rare, decently covered song (by queens who can actually sing like Adore Delano and Courtney Act), the rest are usually auto-tuned ''so'' much, with the queens giving such a half-assed performance, that most of the tracks are almost too painful to even sit through.
* While Music/KidzBop is spared from the list due for people who unironically enjoy it, their cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnJlumGolss Feel Good Inc]], is something not even fans can defend. Filled with poor attempts to imitate the unique sound that made Gorilaz good in the first place, obvious fake laughs, and tone-deaf vocals make it unlistenable through out.
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* Only hardcore [[NoExportForYou Canadian]] fans of Music/AlanisMorissette will know about her two early albums, '''''Alanis''''' and '''''Now is the Time''''', but will not defend them. The former is an album of Debbie Gibson/Tiffany knockoffs that were trite even by the standards of early '90s teen pop, with vocals sounding like a very bad Creator/SeanConnery [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBgGiwtaCrU impression]]. The latter is a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tta6hbDVh2M hilariously lame attempt]] to transition into adult contemporary, with contrived and cheesy lyrics that Music/MichaelBolton would laugh at just reading them, and which flopped badly and deservedly. Both albums are out of print and have never been rereleased, and Alanis herself regards this phase of her career as an OldShame, often [[SelfDeprecation making fun of it]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWwd7fwTt8 at concerts]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7afdfBHj4 Have a listen,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enNeARK3_zg&feature=related if you dare.]]\\
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Only two redeeming factors can be mined from these albums:
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1hiGhIUl_Q Too Hot]]" is the only song off of either album that gets any respect whatsoever, mainly because it sounds very loosely like something that could've come off of ''Music/JaggedLittlePill''. That said, even that song still has its share of people who absolutely hate its guts.
** Alanis' early career also served as the inspiration for Robin Sparkles, the uber-Canadian TeenIdol from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' who grew up into the dark, snarky tomboy Robin Scherbatsky, but not before providing the show with several of its [[Funny/HowIMetYourMother most hilarious moments]]. (Her later single, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdEExeQ8D8U "P.S. I Love You"]], is in turn a parody of the DarkerAndEdgier ''Jagged Little Pill''-era Alanis.) The writers originally wanted to bring Alanis herself in for the Robin Sparkles episodes and have her and Robin be a former pop duo in-universe, but it never worked out.
* In 2016, Corey Feldman (yes, the same actor you're thinking of) released a double-album called '''''Angelic 2 The Core: Angelic Funkadelic / Angelic Rockadelic''''' (which will be referred to as "Angelic 2 The Core" from here on out). The album [[DevelopmentHell started out its production in 2006]] (which might explain why some features like [[LimpBizkit Fred Durst]] appear here), but it also tried ([[http://www.cracked.com/article_24236_6-celebrities-who-tried-kickstarter-and-failed-hard.html and actually failed]]) to use [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/elev8or-2-ascension-the-feldfanfam-fundraiser#/ Indiegogo to officially finish its production]] (back when the album was named ''Elev8or 2 Ascension''), and it truly shows. Backed off of a live performance of Go 4 It! (which was supposed to feature Snoop Dogg, but the rapper performing there wasn't him) on a morning talk show of sorts that had... mixed results, to put things lightly there (could also have been mentioned for horrible live performances, but that's a story for another day), Angelic 2 The Core tries to combine the sounds of funk with rock... as well as dubstep, jazz, and dance pop that sometimes sounds like it's from the 1990's, and the end result is just a pure mishmash that ultimately makes it sound confused on what it's trying to do (which doesn't help with the skits that it has also sounding like they're out of order). The guest performers on here (which in addition to Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst and Snoop Dogg also includes influential artists like Jon Carin, Nina Hagen, and Kurupt) don't really help save the songs either, as Corey Feldman on this album has some strange vocal ideas had on songs like We Wanted Change. The few reviews this album received were really negative, and most of the positive reviews it has on Amazon.com are more of a joking matter than anything else. For more information on how it sounds, Anthony Fantano has a 50 minute video on the album in question [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3E0kq9YkjA here.]] He later states it's a worse album than KidCudi's Speeding Bullet 2 Heaven, an album he rated as a 0/10.
* {{Crunkcore}} outfit Music/{{Brokencyde}} and their fans have practically no love for their 2007 release '''''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/garbage-day/brokencyde-freaxxx-bree.php The Broken]]''''', wherein the band attempted [[SeriousBusiness to paint themselves up as serious artists]]. The album was filled with them trying to rap and layered with acoustic guitars, with no hint of partying or fun in the music. The album is now out of print and the band members themselves even regard it as an OldShame, to the point of [[ParodyRetcon doing a complete 180 on their later musical material]].
* Even Music/CelticFrost, legends of BlackMetal, put out a stinker with '''''Cold Lake''''', which not even the most hardcore fans will defend. Much like Discharge below, the album has Celtic Frost try their hand at HairMetal, and fail miserably. The riffs are simple hair metal pap, the song titles and lyrics are foolishly stupid, the vocal work is unintentionally hilarious and the production is too clean for a band like them. [[OldShame Unsurprisingly,]] this is the only album that wasn't remastered and reissued later in their career.
** Their 2002 demo '''''Prototype''''' is even worse. 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.
* Music/{{Boston}} were unfortunately [[ToughActToFollow never able to recapture the success of their self titled debut]]. While ''Don't Look Back'', ''Third Stage'' and ''Walk On'' have their fans, the majority, on the other hand, didn't like the darker style those albums took. So, in 2002, they released '''''Corporate America''''', an attempt to mix the first album's style with some new elements, which is considered by even hardcore fans of the previous three albums to be a major disaster. All the songs are rushed, there are no inspiring riffs or solos or vocal melodies, the vocals are annoying and the lyrics are [[AuthorTract foolish propaganda]]. The album flopped hard, and to this day, the band's reputation has yet to recover.
* Music/{{Switchfoot}}'s massive fanbase has spent years trying to track down early releases made by members of the band. In the late 2000s, a teenage Jon Foreman demo was found titled ''ETC''. While definitely not high-art, it's considered to be charming in its oddity. After relentless research from the fanbase, it was revealed that Switchfoot was first known as '''Chin Up''' and were apparently awful. A demo was released that almost stopped the band's career right in its early days. The very few fans that have heard the tracks recall a band that could barely keep in sync with itself, flat vocals that rivaled the ETC demo, and production that was horrible even for a basic demo. The record company that did eventually sign them only did so on the basis of Foreman's creative lyrics. Other than that, the executives involved called it one of the worst demos they ever had to sit through. Luckily Switchfoot evolved into the band as they are loved today. While the demo remains lost (likely due to the band making sure it never again sees the light of day), it's become a holy grail for the morbidly curious fans.
* Discharge are one of the most critically acclaimed HardcorePunk bands from TheEighties, but '''''Grave New World''''', their last album before their first breakup is considered to be a total disaster. The band had been leaning towards HeavyMetal for a while, but they went fully metal on this album (even incorporating HairMetal elements), and they just couldn't master it. The instrumentation was messy, lead singer Cal Morris' newer high-pitched vocal style sounded stupid, the lyrics were uninspired, and the production quality was too squeaky-clean for a band of their type. They regained their brilliance with their return in 1991, but this album is often brought up in conversation between Discharge fans as a disgrace.
* '''''The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs To Bug The Liberals''''' was the first [[OneBookAuthor (and thankfully the only)]] release by the long-forgotten 1964 conservative folk group The Goldwaters. They were originally formed with the intent to promote the Barry Goldwater presidential campaign (it didn't work) but after they released their first album, they were never heard from again for obvious reasons. They didn't compose their own music, rather they would cover PublicDomain songs but sing their own blatantly pro-conservative/anti-liberal lyrics over them. The "satire" is about as subtle as a hammer to the face and any attempts at "comedy" mostly consist of extremely annoying and [[HolierThanThou condencending]] "jokes" about how liberals are ruining America. The actual music sounds less like folk and more like stereotypical, nigh-unlistenable, banjo-picking redneck music. The album was supposedly recorded live but clearly isn't the case as one would quickly realize that the same annoying laugh tracks and applause tracks are reused over and over. The album supposedly sold 200,000 copies but since the album was released on a very tiny label, didn't chart, didn't get any radio play and fell into obscurity shortly after release, the prospect of the album selling 200,000 seems highly unlikely and probably sold only a few hundred copies at best. WebVideo/OddityArchive [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nUsAVNo0jY&feature=youtu.be&t=12m3s took a brief look at the album.]]
** 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, [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead 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, [[GrowingTheBeard with their act having improved since the recording session.]]
* '''''Music/HavingFunWithElvisOnStage''''' is often considered one of the worst albums of all time. "But," you say, "Music/ElvisPresley was a great singer and conversationalist, plus he cracked some good jokes! How can an Elvis album be that bad?!" Imagine an Elvis concert ''without'' said music, interesting monologues, and all the jokes that make sense. What remains is this album, a solid 35 minutes of Elvis just...talking, with all context removed so you have no clue what he's talking about. It was a ploy by his manager to make money off him by releasing an album Creator/RCARecords had no rights to. Elvis was infuriated and ''humiliated'' by the album's release.
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer is seen as a joke in the modern age, which is sad if you're a ProgressiveRock fan. Regardless, the album '''''Love Beach''''' is the only all-around horrible thing they ever released. The album was recorded after ELP had crossed the DespairEventHorizon because of their hatedom--they were legally required to record one more album to finish their record contract. The album itself is based on disco music and album-oriented rock, and is hated by prog fans for helping to wreck the popularity of progressive rock, since it came out around the time Disco itself was becoming DeaderThanDisco. Even ''the band'' has expressed their hatred of the album.
* '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XojtLXuMRgU Murder in the Recording Studio]]''''' is the only known album by Scottish satire/experimental band Prit Stik. Infamously, this was the lowest-rated album on the now-defunct mp3.com, for good reason: the two singers sound too low-pitched, distorted and strangely auto-tuned, making their vocals hard to hear. The beats of the albums are similarly muffled, yet somehow louder than the actual singing. The instrumentation sounds less "experimental" and more like cats being beaten with sticks. Even the lyrics don't make more sense than random mumbling, meaningless StudioChatter and constant [[SingerNamedrop band name-drops]].
** The most infamous song off this album was "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsXFrUvMFk Prit Stik (1987)]]". Disguised as an unreleased Music/{{Bjork}} demo in her heyday, it opens with the brilliant line "I hate chess pieces because I keep stepping on them" and [[FromBadToWorse only gets worse]]: shrill {{title drop}}s, distorted synth, bizarre drum and guitar "solos" and annoying invocations of EndingFatigue. For years, it was the only proof of the album's existence until someone found it archived on the band's website. There's another version of this song recorded in 1986; it's just as bad, but not as pitch-shifted as the rest of the album.
* Farrah Abraham's album '''''My Teenage Dream Ended'''''. The lyrics and dubstep-esque beats are inanely generic, and her AutoTune voice does nothing but harm the songs. Upon the release of the album closer "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XemtXy7aAWA Finally Getting Up from Rock Bottom]]", pretty much every popular news source that wrote about the song called it "the worst song ever". The album was a massive flop and has a 1.5 (out of 5) rating on [=iTunes=]. [[http://www.thefader.com/2017/11/21/farrah-abraham-album-producer-interview An interview with producer Fredrick M. Cuevas]] revealed some details of how the album came to be so odd - In particular, it turns out Abraham tried to turn original poems without consistent rhyme schemes or meters into song lyrics, requested the heavy abuse of autotune on her voice because she thought it would sound "edgy", and would record her singing while listening to a click track rather than the actual backing music.
* Music/WakingTheCadaver's '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cl5AZzvFus Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler]]'''''. The band's steadily improved since, to the point of even gaining something of a devout fanbase, but this was both their [[http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=177125 lowest point]] and a horrendous first impression. Everyone was overly repetitive, obnoxious, or both, except for the bass, who could not even be heard. The singer sounded like a pig in mid-castration, which worsened the immature, trite, appalling lyrics by making them incomprehensible. The opening samples were clichéd, the band could not keep time, channeled all their focus into pointless brutality, and padded the album by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y6eLBPESMI recording themselves get stoned.]]
* Kevin Federline, aka K-Fed, second husband of pop diva Music/BritneySpears, released a rap album called '''''Playing with Fire''''' in 2006. [[http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/federlinekevin/playingwithfire The album was critically panned]] and currently [[http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/ holds the lowest score in the history of Metacritic with 15 out of 100.]] So what makes it such a disaster? Well, people had hopes leading up to the release thanks to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laynXVsBulg "Popozao"]], which was actually closer to SoBadItsGood and wasn't taken seriously by anyone. Unfortunately, America's Most Hated ''did'' want to be taken seriously, and the album is filled with dull, uncharismatic rhymes about his fame, his marriage to Britney, cannabis and gangsta cliches, and music way too generic to really put any of his posturing over. One review said it best: "Perhaps we were too harsh on Music/VanillaIce." As a footnote, Britney left him within a couple of weeks of the album's release, and Mr. Federline has since fallen into obscurity.
** ''Entertainment Weekly'', since about 2006, usually lists a recommended song or two from an album when doing a review, since these days you can buy any song separately, but were unable to find ''anything'' listenable on ''Playing with Fire''. [[WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow The Music Video Show]] attacked his one and only music video [[http://youtu.be/YfQSiubYULA here.]]
* '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV93Gh1jmuM Poser Holocaust]]''''', by Thrash or Die, has a ''0%'' general rating on Metal Archives. The album suffers from [[MostAnnoyingSound obnoxious vocals]], weak and repetitive ThrashMetal riffs repeated throughout the album, generic party lyrics, low production values, and a generally dated feel. The band later improved slightly but this is a horrid debut.
* '''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.
* What happens when you try to make a [[Music/TheBeachBoys Beach Boys]] album ''without'' Music/BrianWilson? You get '''''Summer in Paradise''''', in which [[TheScrappy Mike Love]] embarrasses himself and the rest of the band for 12 excruciating tracks. The album's atrocities include "[[IncrediblyLamePun Summer of Love]]", in which Mike Love comes across like [[{{Ephebophile}} a creepy old man lecherously pining after teenage girls]], and a horrible version of the classic Dennis Wilson ballad "Forever" sung by John Stamos. Yes, ''[[Series/FullHouse that]]'' John Stamos. This is one of only two Beach Boys albums that has never been reissued (the other album being ''Still Cruisin'''). It sold fewer than 10,000 copies, and it is rumored to have sold less than a hundred copies on its release date. The album's US distributor, Navarre, went bankrupt not long after this album's release.
** The next album in line, 1996's '''''Stars and Stripes Vol. 1''''', fared no better. Although Brian Wilson had rejoined by this point, and was credited as co-producer, he [[ExecutiveMeddling apparently had very little say in the final product]] and it shows. The album, released on a short-lived and obscure independent label owned by RecordProducer Joe Thomas, 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 CountryMusic 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 it also featured Music/{{Eagles}} bassist Timothy B. Schmit, Christian pop singer Kathy Troccoli, and Al Jardine's son Matt. 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 label at the time). Critics tore it apart for lifeless singing and production: ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' called it an "awful legacy"; Allmusic rated it 1.5 out of 5; and ''Entertainment Weekly'' gave it a "D". Fans were no more approving, as the album only went to #101 on the ''Billboard 200'' and did not crack the Top Country Albums charts at all, and its Rate Your Music score is 1.75 out of 5. Many even pointed out that the album didn't make sense conceptually, as the Beach Boys were never a significant influence on country music or vice-versa (indeed, the three cuts above are the only time that they 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''.
* 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 ''terribly'' 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.
* Similar to the Music/{{Cryptopsy}} example above, Music/SuicideSilence's '''self titled release'''. While Suicide Silence themselves were a divisive act, they still were respected, especially with their risky decision to continue the band with Eddie Hermida following [[AuthorExistenceFailure the death of original vocalist Mitch Lucker]]. The self titled has been met with ''very'' negative reviews due to very flimsy GenreAdultery change from {{Deathcore}} to ''{{Nu Metal}}'', even [[http://exclaim.ca/music/article/suicide_silence-suicide_silence one reviewing saying it's "a garage band sloppily covering Korn and Deftones through a microphone they found in a dumpster"]] and Rock Sound saying [[http://www.rocksound.tv/reviews/read/suicide-silence-suicide-silence the band got rid of everything that made them good]]. Hermida's attempts to do clean vocals such as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQgMTuyjATk Doris"]] and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_qNVDOeCag Dying in a Red Room]]" are incredibly botched, and the instrumentation is so messy it makes [[InsultToRocks Limp Bizkit look like Picasso]]. Considering [[Music/BringMeTheHorizon another band]] did all this with better results, it just feels like Suicide Silence [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]].
* '''''Music/VanHalen III'''''. Despite being with successful HairMetal outfit {{Music/Extreme}}, Gary Cherone -- the group's third singer, thus giving the album its title -- sounds like a half-hearted Sammy Hagar. ''Rolling Stone'' gave it two stars out of five and Robert Christgau gave the album a bomb. Fan reception was hardly any better -- there are more people on Amazon who rated it one star out of five (about 40% of all reviews) than any of the others. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen There were plans for another Van Halen album with Cherone]], but this went no further than a few demos. [[OldShame No wonder]] [[CanonDiscontinuity it's been deleted from the band's discography]].

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*** Also, NIN plays ''industrial'' rock, not indie rock. [[IAmTheBand Moreover, it's not a they]].

* 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 note, and their deaths had a devastating effect (both emotionally and musically) on 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.

* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-P85gWS0I "I'm a Slick Rick]]''' by comedian [=Nick Canon=] is his attempt to diss Music/{{Eminem}}, but fails miserably. The song is loaded with out of place references to Music/{{SlickRick}} and ''Cali Swag District'', forced rhyming and lyrics and pathetic excuses for insults that come off as Nick calling Eminem a liar, That's It! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gASsY9x_UAE The song has often called the worst diss track in history, and for a good reason.]]

# It is neither horrible music just because WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows[[note]]Todd, in particular, mostly reviews songs that don't qualify no matter how awful they are[[/note]], WebVideo/TheRapCritic, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it. Once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review.

# It is neither horrible music just because WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, WebVideo/TheRapCritic, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it. Once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review.

* 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 (They had do so because they had success with hiring San Francisco Angels for security at their shows in the past, but the Oakland chapter was a lot more violent and vicious than their mellow SF counterparts). This decision 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 after they saw what happened to their buddy Balin. In contrast to the "peace and love" atmosphere of Woodstock, Altamont came to symbolize the death of TheSixties.

* Kevin Federline, aka K-Fed, second husband of pop diva Music/BritneySpears, released a rap album called '''''Playing with Fire''''' in 2006. [[http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/federlinekevin/playingwithfire The album was critically panned]] and currently [[http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/ holds the lowest score in the history of Metacritic with 15 out of 100.]] So what makes it such a disaster? Well, people had hopes leading up to the release thanks to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laynXVsBulg "Popozao"]], which was actually closer to SoBadItsGood and wasn't taken seriously by anyone. Unfortunately, America's Most Hated ''did'' want to be taken seriously, and the album is filled with dull, uncharismatic rhymes about his fame, his marriage to Britney, cannabis and gangsta cliches, and the music was way too generic to really put any of his posturing over. One review said it best: "Perhaps we were too harsh on Music/VanillaIce." As a footnote, Britney left him within a couple of weeks of the album's release, and Mr. Federline has since fallen into obscurity.

* The DOS adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' stays mostly silent, which is a good thing because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-uKxQohVaQ&t=22s the sound is loud and heavily distorted]]. The developers attempted to rip the movie's soundtrack and adapt it for the PC Speaker, and ended up with a result worse than had they just made music for the sound engine (which in itself can only play screechy 8-bit noises). The audio as-is wouldn't be out of place in a [[SensoryAbuse more obnoxious]] WebAnimation/YoutubePoop. Joel from ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'' witnessed the torture from the sound on this game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlINcoyCDRk here,]] stating that if All Dogs Go To Heaven, he just went to Hell from this experience.

** The next album in line, 1996's '''''Stars and Stripes Vol. 1''''', fared no better. Although Brian Wilson had rejoined by this point, and was credited as co-producer, he [[ExecutiveMeddling apparently had very little say in the final product]] and it shows. The album, released on a short-lived and obscure independent label, 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 a Nashville-based session musician or Joe Thomas, the record producer who owned the label on which the album was released. 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 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. It also reached only #101 on the ''Billboard'' 200, and did not enter the 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''.

* '''[[https://youtu.be/OzsGmdmhDTI Ontroerend Goed's Sirens]]''' sound absolutely nothing like the sirens from Greek Mythology. Rather, their sound seems to be the result of what would happen if a howler monkey gave birth to an ambulance. [[DontExplainTheJoke In other words, they sound like a DIFFERENT kind of siren]].

* 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]]

** [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Fergie]] performed the anthem at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, [[http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/fergie-sings-the-national-anthem-at-the-nba-all-star-game.html and it has to be heard to be believed]]. The most common description was that she sounded like a boozy lounge singer trying to show off her range, while many joked that it was part of a plot to get even the most diehard patriots to take the knee in protest. Draymond Green was trying his hardest not to laugh at the proceedings, while Fergie herself [[http://people.com/music/fergie-apologizes-nba-all-star-national-anthem/ later apologized for it]].

** [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Fergie]] performed the anthem at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, [[http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/fergie-sings-the-national-anthem-at-the-nba-all-star-game.html and it has to be heard to be believed]]. Draymond Green was trying his hardest not to laugh at the proceedings.

* Canada's national anthem, on the other hand, "O Canada", may be easier to sing (especially while sober), but even that doesn't stop someone from gloriously fucking it up.

* The Ex-Girlfriends' '''[[https://youtu.be/0XMy9WeI_fw "We Are The Party"]]''' tries to reach for Black Eyed Peas or LMFAO-level catchiness but fails horribly. Both the beat and lyrics are just awful.

** [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Fergie]] "performed" the anthem at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, [[http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/fergie-sings-the-national-anthem-at-the-nba-all-star-game.html and it has to be heard to believed]]. Draymond Green was trying his hardest not to laugh.

* The English dub of Creator/DingoPictures' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYTjTUZ_w4 Wabuu]]'' (the stand-alone DVD version, not the excerpt that is part of the PS2 multimedia disc ''The Countryside Bears''), apart from Wabuu's theme song at the beginning and end, has an irritating CreepyCircusMusic loop throughout throughout the film on top of the normal music tracks heard in the original German version and other dubs. In one scene it plays ''on top of itself'', and out of sync to boot. Wabuu's theme itself is little better, having the English lyrics played on top of the German ones.

** Alanis' early career aMetal for a while, but they went fully metal on this album (even incorporating HairMetal elements), and they just couldn't master it. The instrumentation was messy, lead singer Cal Morris' newer high-pitched vocal style sounded stupid, the lyrics were uninspired, and the production quality was too squeaky-clean for a band of their type. They regained their brilliance with their return in 1991, but this album is often brought up in conversation between Discharge fans as a disgrace.

** Alanis' early career also served as the inspiration for Robin Sparkles, the uber-Canadian TeenIdol from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' who grew up into the dark, snarky tomboy Robin Scherbatsky, but not before providing the show with several of its [[Funny/HowIMetYourMother most hilarious moments]]. (Her later single, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdEExeQ8D8U "P.S. I Love You"]], is in turn a parody of the DarkerAndEdgier ''Jagged Little Pill''-era Alanis.) The writers originally wanted to bring Alanis herself in for the Robin Sparkles episodes and have her and Robin be a former pop duo in-universe, but it never worked out.
* {{Crunkcore}} outfit Music/{{Brokencyde}} and their fans have practically no love for their 2007 release '''''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/garbage-day/brokencyde-freaxxx-bree.php The Broken]]''''', wherein the band attempted [[SeriousBusiness to paint themselves up as serious artists]]. The album was filled with them trying to rap and layered with acoustic guitars, with no hint of partying or fun in the music. The album is now out of print and the band members themselves even regard it as an OldShame, to the point of [[ParodyRetcon doing a complete 180 on their later musical material]].
* Even Music/CelticFrost, legends of BlackMetal, put out a stinker with '''''Cold Lake''''', which not even the most hardcore fans will defend. Much like Discharge below, the album has Celtic Frost try their hand at HairMetal, and fail miserably. The riffs are simple hair metal pap, the song titles and lyrics are foolishly stupid, the vocal work is unintentionally hilarious and the production is too clean for a band like them. [[OldShame Unsurprisingly,]] this is the only album that wasn't remastered and reissued later in their career.
** Their 2002 demo '''''Prototype''''' is even worse. 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.
* Music/{{Boston}} were unfortunately [[ToughActToFollow never able to recapture the success of their self titled debut]]. While ''Don't Look Back'', ''Third Stage'' and ''Walk On'' have their fans, the majority, on the other hand, didn't like the darker style those albums took. So, in 2002, they released '''''Corporate America''''', an attempt to mix the first album's style with some new elements, which is considered by even hardcore fans of the previous three albums to be a major disaster. All the songs are rushed, there are no inspiring riffs or solos or vocal melodies, the vocals are annoying and the lyrics are [[AuthorTract foolish propaganda]]. The album flopped hard, and to this day, the band's reputation has yet to recover.
* Music/{{Switchfoot}}'s massive fanbase has spent years trying to track down early releases made by members of the band. In the late 2000s, a teenage Jon Foreman demo was found titled ''ETC''. While definitely not high-art, it's considered to be charming in its oddity. After relentless research from the fanbase, it was revealed that Switchfoot was first known as '''Chin Up''' and were apparently awful. A demo was released that almost stopped the band's career right in its early days. The very few fans that have heard the tracks recall a band that could barely keep in sync with itself, flat vocals that rivaled the ETC demo, and production that was horrible even for a basic demo. The record company that did eventually sign them only did so on the basis of Foreman's creative lyrics. Other than that, the executives involved called it one of the worst demos they ever had to sit through. Luckily Switchfoot evolved into the band as they are loved today. While the demo remains lost (likely due to the band making sure it never again sees the light of day), it's become a holy grail for the morbidly curious fans.
* Discharge are one of the most critically acclaimed HardcorePunk bands from TheEighties, but '''''Grave New World''''', their last album before their first breakup is considered to be a total disaster. The band had been leaning towards HeavyMetal for a while, but they went fully metal on this album (even incorporating HairMetal elements), and they just couldn't master it. The instrumentation was messy, lead singer Cal Morris' newer high-pitched vocal style sounded stupid, the lyrics were uninspired, and the production quality was too squeaky-clean for a band of their type. They regained their brilliance with their return in 1991, but this album is often brought up in conversation between Discharge fans as a disgrace.

* Music/AshleeSimpson strikes again, this time with an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2cN3BgPsU utterly dreadful performance]] of her single "La La" at the [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6791368/ Orange Bowl]] on January 4, 2005. Coming just a couple of months after her ''SNL'' disaster (see above), this time she was committed to proving that she could sing live. It backfired badly -- her vocals are so hideously off-key that it's not clear that she's even trying to sing as opposed to just shouting the lyrics. When she's done, ''the entire stadium'' is booing, and a shout of "You suck!" can be heard from the crowd if you have very good ears (provided they hadn't self-destructed from being subjected to three minutes of terrible singing). It stood in sharp contrast to Music/KellyClarkson's performance just before her, which earned plaudits despite being plagued by technical problems. Between her performances on ''SNL'' and at the Orange Bowl, Ashlee's once-promising pop music career [[CreatorKiller imploded in an instant]].

* '''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 that make words hard to understand. 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.

* ''[[CompilationRerelease Sega Smash Pack Volume 1]]'' for the Dreamcast is an infamous PortingDisaster, and that's due to its soundtrack not being emulated properly, which is ironic since it's on a console by Sega themselves. The music in the included Genesis games [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jucChh8Hw8o sounds like a Master System]] at its best and at its worst, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8d89_tmtDY sounds like]] an Atari 2600, while ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' sounded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfkGtyAYqI4 worse than Sonic Genesis GBA]]. This was the main reason why Gamespot gave it a 4 out of 10.

* Jenna Rose's '''"My Jeans"'''. She sings about this pair of jeans she wants and that apparently every celebrity wears, throwing in anecdotes about her "swag" and how celebrities "wore those jeans just like me". Her voice is so {{Autotune}}d that it's enough to make you wonder if she even sang on it, with the beat often overpowering her voice. In addition, there's the [[AWildRapperAppears token rap]] in the middle. [[CoversAlwaysLie The cover of the single]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking doesn't even have Jenna wearing jeans]]. [=JuniorfanReturns=] bashes the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1uFMEL0ds here]].

* The Ex-Girlfriends' '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpztDCJ-ZMk "We Are The Party"]]''' tries to reach for Black Eyed Peas or LMFAO-level catchiness but fails horribly. Both the beat and lyrics are just awful.

* The now taken down AOL Radio's '''"100 Worst Songs Ever"''' list by classic rock fan Matthew Wilkening (who is now the founder and editor for the website Ultimate Classic Rock, which has a much better reputation than this does), 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''").

* 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''").