Ten Worst Songs of 2010

[Mike Cleaver]

Oh I do know (and so do recording industry professionals, yes there still are some left) what Awfultune is.
It's designed to let anyone be a singer or instrumentalist by correcting all their off pitch goofs and covering up the fact they have no real talent or skills at playing an instrument.
We got along fine without it until a decade ago when it first showed up.
It sounds like crap, as does most digitally compromised audio.
You obviously never have heard good sound.
A child of the digital crap generation.

[radiofan]

Maybe I missed it, but that absolute piece of crap "Believe" or whatever it was called from The Olympics should have been #1 on the worst tunes list.

It was bad enough that CTV played it constantly, even worse when radio picked up on it and played it non stop!

[Mike Cleaver]

Ah but it was Crapcon and counted towards that government mandated crap quotient that's been dragging down radio for years.
If you're mandated to play 30, 40 or whatever per cent Canadian, almost anything recorded will eventually get played, no matter how bad it is.

[Buckley]

Also with Awfultune to the max.

Hey Mike, its Autotune and to be honest, I don't think you know what it is.

Adam... you do come off as a misogynistic racist..... I didn't want to lol a couple times because of my PC sensibilities (but I did). Pearl necklace bit? loved it.

Welcome to the personality of "A Dose of Buckley" You don't want to laugh... but everyone does eventually (or just gets really angry and writes a barely-english mini rant on my YouTube comments).

As for this year's rock... I considered Kings of Leon's "Radioactive" or a couple of their other songs (probably would have been #11 or #12 if I'd done a top 20 list, see my channel for the "Musical Autopsy" about the Kings of Leon). Weezer is intentionally fun and campy, you look at a song like "If you're wondering if I want you to (I want you to)", it's a fairly inoffensive (to the senses) song, a clear throwback to a more fun time but with a bit of an edgy spin on it. Escape the Fate sucks but all numetal (or new metal in general) sucks (aside from "System of a Down" or the relatively unknown "The Sword", a good metal band hasn't come out since the early 90's)... and it doesn't chart. With the exception of #10 on my list, all of those songs cracked the top 10 (or at least the top 40). A line has to be sort of drawn somewhere, I mean you know how many local indie bands released music this year too? I tried to keep it within the top 40 genre.

[ThisIsNotCBC]

I don't know if this'll really hit the demographic of most of the members on this board, but regardless... I released my "Ten Worst Songs of 2010" video this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE0HTC89VPQ

Please note: it's a tad vulgar, definitely NSFW or for watching around the kiddies.

Well, I'm definitely not surprised that Justin "I'm 16 and I STILL sound like I'm 12" Bieber made the list.

Oh I do know (and so do recording industry professionals, yes there still are some left) what Awfultune is.
It's designed to let anyone be a singer or instrumentalist by correcting all their off pitch goofs and covering up the fact they have no real talent or skills at playing an instrument.
We got along fine without it until a decade ago when it first showed up.
It sounds like crap, as does most digitally compromised audio.
You obviously never have heard good sound.
A child of the digital crap generation.

So that explains how Lady Weirdo...er, Gaga got to be so successful!

[Destro]

ahhhhhhh, the Sword is so good right!

[Buckley]

ahhhhhhh, the Sword is so good right!

I heard them for the first time when I first got Satellite radio (probably about 4 or 5 years ago now, ditched it a year ago because my drive to work is now 4 minutes long and I don't get reception in my apartment), and was blown away. Their lyrics are not quite my thing (I could do without all these metal bands being started by groups who clearly grew up playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons), but the music is top tier stuff, vocals are fairly clear/audible opposed to all the screaming/grunting bands that keep coming out and giving metal a bad name in the mainstream, they're clearly very capable musicians rather than just playing as fast as they can hoping no one will notice they don't know what they're doing... yep, I'm a fan.

[Dan Sys]

I'm generally a proud Canadian, but I'm pretty god damn embarrassed on the world stage when it comes to having to claim people like Justin Bieber or Celine Dion are one of us.

Cracker summed up the situation pretty good back in 1992. We need a another folk singer like we need another hole in the head, but we do need another Frank Sinatra.......damn, I'm still waiting for that new Frank Sinatra to emerge 18 years later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TybFyhlwdvU

[Neumann Sennheiser]

Cracker summed up the situation pretty good back in 1992. We need a another folk singer like we need another hole in the head.

Someone else once said (can't remember who): "If I Had a Hammer...there'd be a lot more folksingers with head-wounds".

[Buckley]

I'm generally a proud Canadian, but I'm pretty god damn embarrassed on the world stage when it comes to having to claim people like Justin Bieber or Celine Dion are one of us.

Cracker summed up the situation pretty good back in 1992. We need a another folk singer like we need another hole in the head, but we do need another Frank Sinatra.......damn, I'm still waiting for that new Frank Sinatra to emerge 18 years later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TybFyhlwdvU

Michael Buble not doin' it for you? That "I Just Haven't Met You Yet" song would have made a list in 2009 of terrible songs for sure.