REALLY BAD SONGS BY GREAT ARTISTS

[@Chelaxim]

I love it when old rappers go boomer and rant about "music these days" and make the worse music of their lives.

[@playingmusiconmars]

Who does though? Nas didn't put that song on his record

[@JorgeTorres17-2]

Reminds me of when Green Day bashed modern music and proceeded to make the worst album of their career.

[@fuzzmosisr8601]

What one was that? there's been a lot of terrible ones lately🤣

[@user-ti7up7hx2n]

@@playingmusiconmars eminem

[@GenZ_Guitarist]

Basically all artists that topped the charts at one point

[@natas.cancioncitas]

Of course Kanye is a great lyricist, he has this "got a light skin friend looks like michael jackson, got a dark skin friend looks like michael jackson" line that has stuck in my brain forever

[@goner.9989]

The entire verse on his remix of this ain’t a scene it’s a god damn arms race is a classic.

[@brookleduval5445]

English?

[@arjunmenon1796]

​@@brookleduval5445 Among Us Amon Amarth

[@davidclark3588]

“Hot dog music.” “Macy’s music.” We need a tear off calendar filled with Finnisms

[@GonzoCiosain]

"Cartoon parrot music" is the one I'll always remember

[@Meshuggapeth]

Apple commercial music

[@sammerendino2870]

"Djenting in a colored room" is a personal favorite

[@M1nd_Fl4y3r]

Finn discovering the existence of Accidental Racist is an all-timer

[@Remedy462]

I'm not racist, I just like a flag that stood for making slavery permanent!

[@rolandechosmith5526]

Ministry’s bad song sounds like pop today

[@NikoFrederiko.]

Legitimately felt third-hand embarrassment upon Finn seeing the lyrics to that Brad Paisley one.

[@enriquepastor3626]

Gallons of rubbing alcohol is the hidden track of in utero, a random jam in a Brazilian studio placed there to scare/confuse you when it suddenly appears after minutes of silence, same as Endless Nameless

[@zeros9457]

i like gallons it’s so groovy

[@mattzetts6501]

"I always wanted to have a diaper fetish," - finn 2022

[@andrewemerson1613]

over the last few months I've taken a much greater shine to the second channel. for there is a lad just chilling and vapidly noting a love for wrist accessories and apparently sheep, and I'm here for it

[@zakk219]

Putting the Billie Eilish song on here, especially at number one, is kinda hilarious to me. There are so many worse songs that could be put in that spot. The song is solid and it is literally Billie Eilish doing her version of Bond song. It seems like the author of the article just doesn't like her sound and decided that the song was bad because of that.

[@crazydud3380]

Yeah, that was weird. It isn't great, but it certainly isn't bad either. Lists like these usually put something people have heard of at number one, because that controversy gets people talking and generates more clicks. Some random crap nobody cares about at number one would be more accurate, but would not get nearly as much attention. Always look at everything in these lists EXCEPT for number. Just consider 2 to be the true number one.

[@rmv9194]

Yeah, and putting someone with just one album (at the time), is still pretty wierd. Many artist can make a great first album, but not MANY good albums, which would be required to qualify someone as "good".

[@inyourfacestudios101]

It isn't even the worst Bond theme. Die Another Day by Madonna deserves that title, and also a spot on this list.

[@danielfitzgerald2561]

Why did Bono fall of the stage? Because he stood too close to The Edge

[@noiman512]

Every band has bad songs, the list is endless and yet they have picked "why can't this be love", "bad" and "smooth"..

[@xshadowscreamx]

How could Fleetwood macs Rhiannon be there? That was the biggest mystery on the list and Finn skipped over it.

[@Chelaxim]

Friendly reminder that Bad wad supposed to be a duet with Prince, but he shut it down when he learned MJ was going to say "your butt is mine, you're not a man".

[@skyravenscroft6712]

I really appreciate you posting your twitch vids on KZbin , they are my favorite content of yours and living in Germany there is no way I could catch you live on Twitch at a godly hour. Thanks man 💯

[@Zombub]

Yeah I think I watch Finn's 2nd channel now more than PRMBA😂

[@skyravenscroft6712]

@@Zombub The 2nd has become the main😆

[@BatDance666]

I'm just not the type to watch livestreams so I love these vids instead haha

[@Timeticker]

1:30AM - “Join Finn McKenty on Twitch!” I relate to your comment, lol

[@guipontes7526]

So, they had Empire State of Mind on the list? That is one of the quintessential songs of the 2000's, a fucking classic.

[@septemberkidzzz]

I love how you skipped "Rhiannon", because somebody at Spin obviously had a bone to pick here. Fleetwood Mac may have made some average songs, but never less than that, and Rhiannon is a great song. A lot of modern day artist will never write something as good as that.

[@joel6513]

Hey Finn - You should do a video on songs/bands that are only popular due to videogame nostalgia. I have alot of them due to NHL games like "Punk Rock 101" and "That Fire".

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Yep i did one!

[@JoshHoodSucks]

Better question how many ska fans were born out of thps 🤣

[@TikkiNikki]

@Joel, that song is a quintessential Pop Punk song, one you'd expect to pull out of a time machine one day

[@nevermindgaming6848]

Oh yeah @@FinnMckentyPRMBA

[@joel6513]

@@TikkiNikki i didn’t know it was so iconic, i knew it from my early days playing NHL. I like bowling for soup but you don’t hear their name much.

[@LewisOfAranda]

I unironically love RHCP's version of Rollercoaster. 100%.

[@Pezturbator]

Same

[@whatistau]

a cool 90s pop culture cut

[@djcj]

It’s a bop.

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

Bruh it's what got me introduced to the band as a kid and realize white bands made music that pulled from/gave homage to older black bands my parents listened to.

[@SrSacaninha]

Me too. i think it's a pretty good instrumentation.

[@VXNCEKUTHERRIE]

"We don't listen to music about penises on this channel" Also Finn: **Listens to Emmure**

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Ok that’s different!!

[@simongunkel7457]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA How about Venereas "Little Billie John" or the Chats "The Clap"? Zappas "Stick it out"? Half of Bad Religions "Get off"? You could probably make an entire stream on songs about Penises.If you include balls you get the classic Die Kassierer "Mein Schöner Hodensack".

[@scottannis4745]

Could you imagine waiting in line to call your family from jail and ODB starts rapping over the phone..

[@whatistau]

The amount of awful boom bap hip hop instrumentals after mid 90s is just mind boggling

[@edoardopulcini9432]

You mean all those Bling Era beats with caribbean percussions? Totally agree

[@DH-vj2bw]

I think the inclusion of “Bad” is done for dad joke purposes. Get it? It’s a “Bad” song. Van Hagar for life.

[@Squirrelconga]

Who's bad?

[@krisherdown]

I almost feel like Michael Jackson's "Bad" was put on the list as a joke. As in if the article had actually been titled "Really Bad Songs By Great Artists" instead, then that song would work. But the title is "Worst" not "Really Bad" so it lands with a thud. (Because "Whazupwityou" with Eddie Murphy is definitely worse and that's just going off the singles)

[@jtkappy7742]

Sammy Hagar is one of the most talented singers I’ve seen live no questions asked. I saw him in 2019 with my mom and she said he sounds the same as when she saw him with Montrose even though he is in his early seventies.

[@Jencediggity]

“Smooth” by Santana and Rob Thomas being on that list does truly baffle me. Maybe it’s because I don’t mind some “yarl’ing”, but you can’t go wrong when Santana is riffing. Plus RT is one of the best looking men ever during his height. I don’t know. Song still bangs for me. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

[@andrewsharpe7630]

I remember Smooth being a big radio hit when I was a kid. I assumed people liked it.

[@skippy8696]

I had a girlfriend in highschool named after the Fleetwood Mac song Rhiannon, her dad was a huge fan of the band. To this day I can't help but think of her when I hear it. It's not their best song but it's far from their worst...way far from their worst actually.

[@xshadowscreamx]

Im baffled at its inclusion. WHAT ABOUT TUSK? TUSK IS ONE OF THE WORST SONGS OF ALL TIME, IT FUCKING SUCKS IT’S JUST RANDOM MARCHING BAND BULLSHIT LIKE WTF?

[@4oh63]

Did you go to Frenchtown too hahaha? I graduated in 02 from Frenchtown MT and had a classmate named Rhiannon.

[@skippy8696]

@@4oh63 I went to highschool in Melbourne, Australia...it's probably a common name with kids born in the '80s who have parents that grew up on '70s music though.

[@missdebbie8131]

Bono is the human embodiment of "douche waffle". He's so pretentious he would say it as " doo-sh-ay waffl-ey". Him and Sting are brothers from another mother.

[@scottdaniels8129]

South Park pegged him perfectly.

[@michaeldobbs4249]

Hahahhaha

[@missdebbie8131]

@@scottdaniels8129 I haven't seen that yet...awesome.

[@missdebbie8131]

@@michaeldobbs4249 I have detested that ass-clown since the beginning..Everyone "oh Bono sooo humanitarian.." No, he's a major tool. The only thing separating him from Steven Seagall levels of douchery is he doesn't have piss-colored shades. Yet.

[@trevorpockrus9608]

Van Hagar is legit. I feel like you can't compare the two eras. They're like two completely different bands.

[@scottdaniels8129]

I will always prefer the DLR era but you're right. It's like comparing RATM and Audioslave, they're different bands doing different material.

[@jonnyeldritch]

I love how Finn is like "I like sheep" and chat just goes ape shit simping for sheep 😂

[@Djfmdotcom]

03:57 They went by their high school nicknames. U2’s 80s stuff was incredible, and Achtung Baby came out my senior year high school so that album will always be my favorite. Everything they did after 2000 was just…meh

[@hulluporo9067]

Everything they released after Achtung Baby sucked.

[@lisalove991]

Omg I love Michael Jackson’s bad! Lmfao I start playing that when my daughter is acting up in the backseat 😂

[@Anjewbacca]

"You're on pot" "No dad, I just wanted a pepsi!"

[@chancecole437]

No Time to Die being number 1 on here is the most baffling thing I have heard in a long time. That song is absolutely beautiful.

[@victorsjostedt4393]

I was actually giving the list author the benefit of the doubt for including MJ's "Bad" there because I assumed it was for the pun; "all his songs are good but that one is *Bad*". Their #1 pick is so misplaced that I instantly removed the benefit of the doubt for other picks, because picking that song just shows poor judgment.

[@michaelpopowich5095]

It's haunting and fits perfectly for a bond song I just wish the movie was good

[@royboy1984]

I'm glad you passed on George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set On You" because that song RIPS! Might be my first dance song at my wedding, no joke.

[@peterw2880]

Seeing that listed hurt me deeply

[@SpectacularDisaster]

killer song for sure

[@HotStrange]

Yeah that and 50 ways to leave your lover both hurt me.

[@nimhard]

I love that song and I only learned recently that it's a hated song.

[@ryanjacobson2508]

It's super repetitive and the melody is simplistic and boring. If it wasn't made by a former Beatle it would never have been a hit.

[@Landonio]

The instrumentation and production in Bad is actually incredible. There's so much going on in it that you don't notice on a casual listen. MJ was truly a genius.

[@RPJ412]

You lost me at Smooth, gtfoh 😂 all time hit, absolute banger. The Santana disrespect.

[@420slayer3]

I'll still take Michael Jackson's Bad over any U2 song.

[@drbannter]

I’ll take bad over any song from today

[@chrisjulian6871]

He didn't discuss it, but feel the same way about "Rhiannon" as he does about "Julio" by Paul Simon. Kind of baffled

[@real30yearoldboomerhours53]

Because of Do America, Love Rollercoaster always enters my head every time I’m in Vegas. So it has that nostalgic connection because that’s one of my favorite most watched movies.

[@jasons2210]

I love both Hagar and Diamond Dave, but if we're talking vocal talent, give me Hagar every single time over Roth.

[@davidclark3588]

I think most people would agree. DLR was more of a showman, Hagar the better singer (and still a great frontman).

[@dannorris642]

That Kanye tune about drunk girls is basically a cover/parody of Can's Sing Swan Song. Kudos to Kanye for tippin his hat to Can and dabbling in the krautrock world, but that's not really something his audience is going to appreciate. Also, one of the contributors to that list must have an evil parent/step-parent who likes Paul Simon to put to two of his songs on the list. Me and Julio... is great, and I know their contributing staff ain't just gonna go and bag on Steve Gadd's classic drum part to 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. But it sounds to me like they totally did.

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

The carlos santana & rob thomas song is great. Why is that on this list?

[@pakxenon]

Even though it's a mall song nowadays, i still jam to it when it comes on. I think Maria Maria is underplayed.

[@zeitxgeist]

"I always wanted to have a diaper fetish" totally not clipped at all

[@KnivingDispodia]

“REST IN PEACE ROBERT E. LEE” - L.L. Cool J.

[@bigounce562]

Sheep are an underrated animal, but where do they rate? Finn, when you feel like doing it, I think an Animal Tier List would be a nice palate cleanser.

[@garrettscroggs]

I prefer Van Halen with David Lee Roth but I also love Van Hagar. Also, Eddie Van Halen's synth and keyboard work in those later years gets overlooked due to his status as a legendary guitarist.

[@fuzzmosisr8601]

Amen. The Van Hagar stuff is criminally underrated

[@PolkCountyWIProgressive]

With Sympathy era Ministry is like Terry Glaze era Pantera. It is actually pretty good and good in genre, but eclipsed by later work.

[@suprapike]

Love terry glaze pantera

[@Djfmdotcom]

08:37 Hot Summer Nights was the first Van Halen song I learned on guitar

[@Kasino80]

No time to die was a remake of Writings on the wall which was a remake of Skyfall. All three were in the same key and same chord progression. We've not had a good bond song since You Know My Name.

[@sentientcardboarddumpster7900]

For the Jay Z song, I don't think it's fair to count a song that they didn't even officially release.

[@michaelrichardson2391]

When I worked security at some U2 stadium shows back in 2004/2005 ish, every night they played Vertigo TWICE - as the opener and the closer of their Set. They must have thought it was the best song they ever wrote.

[@marcen12]

Back then, it was for them. The song was HUGE back then.

[@JWBDWP2]

Can’t believe Finn didn’t comment on the crack-induced fact that they had Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac on the list.

[@nickdemello1185]

Gallons of rubbing alcohol has been one of my favorite nirvana songs since I was like 15. Had only heard popular nirvana songs until someone put in utero (downloaded from limewire) on my ipod. It was its own track so I was unaware it was a hidden track until today

[@georgitomov5405]

"50 ways to leave your lover"? Come on man, the drum groove on this one is iconic!

[@WeBeFit]

Ministry’s 1st album With Symphony is a guilty pleasure of mine🤷🏼‍♂️ A friend of mine who is in a industrial metal band in the 80s, Lived above a nightclub Ministry would perform at. When Al Jourgensen came into the club the DJ would play a song off the album which reportedly Al hated. So he’d kick in the DJ booth door and break the record. 🤣

[@sitvisjes]

Smooth by Santana is a great song, who can anybody hate that song?

[@JennaBrownMedia]

I loathed U2 as a kid, before I knew anything about Bono. The arrogance bleeds through the audio. It's just very average for me. I feel the same about Coldplay, but I think they're worse for being U2 copycats. Pat Finnerty does an amazing "What makes this song stink" video about Dani California. Must watch. Star on the rise.

[@lukaskonrad463]

“Sheep are an underrated animal” -Finn mckintey 2022

[@bkeinz]

This one for the promo reel: "I respect any artist that deliberately alienates their audience."

[@Middle.Earth.Crisis]

"This is how we do" by Katy Perry ruined my day the first time I heard it. Long time HxC Katy-Kat fan here.

[@elosoguapo8137]

I remember buying and reading a spin magazine or two in the 90’s, but can’t remember anything I ever read in one.

[@ianriise6725]

Yeah someone at Spin was definitely trying to increase the brand's edgy factor by not only including a popular Billie song, but making it #1. If they are indeed trying to reinvent themselves this is a strange place to start. Writing controversial things for the sake of being controversial is kind of the norm in 2022, not innovation. Hopefully Spin gets a little more creative in this transition. Also weird to include that White Stripes song because that's apparently a Japanese bonus track and most of the songs on the list are relatively well known.

[@cincymutt]

Yeah, I've been a fan, but I've never heard that Stripes track before. Maybe obscurity shouldn't matter, but it's a weird deep grab.

[@romancastro_]

50 ways to leave your lovers drum groove is iconic.

[@FluffyEmmy1116]

When you're the king of pop and your worst song is still good...

[@npetrie]

19:00 the melody of Kanye's Drunk and Hot Girls is a sample from a 1970's "Krautrock" band called "CAN." The original song's called "Sing Swan Song." imo it's kinda cool but other than the melody sounds nothing like the Kanye song. I feel like the whole song was just a flex on sampling some deepcut and the fact that one of the lyrics in German kinda sounds like "drunken hot girls."

[@Acemechanicalservices]

Nothing ever enrages me more than when that pre loaded u2 shit starts playing randomly on an iPhone. Every time I get a new phone, inevitably that day comes, and I immediately delete with extreme prejudice.

[@yourkingreturns]

This list is so pretentious lmao, there isn't much on there I'd genuinely call awful, at least once you get towards the bottom, like Billie

[@uriNATE14]

Man I’m so glad I stumbled across your 2nd channel Finn! I’ve always liked ur main channel but you don’t really come across as so sarcastic and hilarious on it. I’ll def be trying to drop into the twitch streams from now on

[@420slayer3]

It's supposed to be titled gallons of rubbing alcohol flowed through the strip and it was not on the original release of In Utero. I like it but I like everything that Nirvana did that sounds like noise.

[@wendypierce5621]

“Aeroplane” is my least favorite Chili Peppers song. It was almost sexy but then they undercut it with a kiddie chorus.

[@WillAlleymouth]

Remember how Michael Jackson spent the 80's convincing people he was bad and 00's that he was good. Weird times.

[@christopherwebb3517]

The Weird Al video for Fat was legendary for the fact that it was nearly a shot for shot spoof of the video for Bad.

[@Djfmdotcom]

18:00 This is AMAZING. This is end-of-the-night smoke-out music.

[@slashismyhommie8182]

Chazz: Okay, lemme ask you a question: who's side did you take in the big David Lee Roth-Van Halen split? Chris Moore: What? Marcus: What kind of question is that? Chazz: Who's side did you take: Halen or Roth? Chris Moore: ...Van Halen Ian: HE'S A COP!

[@adamcvanwinkle]

Took me a minute to remember where this is from… a fucking GREAT movie!

[@slashismyhommie8182]

@@adamcvanwinkle ya, Fin made the comment how he likes the Sammy Hagar years of Van Halen and how he knew it was unpopular and that scene just popped into my head. Ergo Fin's a cop.

[@bboinggbboingg]

Sometimes I get scared you’ll run out of ideas for content someday, but you just come out with more bangers! Love this idea and would like to see more volumes, hope you’re doing well Finn 🤝

[@samuelskillern7365]

Chuck Berry being exposed as a creep has helped his featured song become aged like milk.

[@1mlb704]

Vertigo and Smooth are both jams, fight me

[@amberlinmchugh8115]

Very glad to hear you're helping bring spin back. Missed them

[@NexusLives]

8:03 I see you are a man of culture as well. I love Van "Hagar"

[@maestraalapalestra6027]

My favorite band is Green Day, but I have to admit that I expected their song Nightlife to be in this list😂

[@raymondforbes4295]

I will confess. I absolutely love Smooth. I mean just love it. I have spent hours figuring how to play it and I regret nothing.

[@sitvisjes]

Same, it's a fun song to play on the guitar... Can't go wrong with Carlos!

[@vtrip_]

Fun fact: the MJ Bad music video was directed by Martin Scorsese. Also Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flows down the Strip was omitted from the US release of In Utero. It was the final track on the Japanese import version. Honestly it should have been a hidden track like Endless Nameless. Personally I hate the songs All Apologies and Pennyroyal Tea and I would have liked for Gallons to be there instead.

[@_NoDrinkTheBleach]

I think the genesis of Crush Em was that Mustaine was tired of hearing arena rock staples at Phoenix Coyotes games, and wanted to make a new arena rock song to replace them. And that's the turd he pushed out.

[@Swollen_Goat]

I am not a huge fan of Billie, but I also don't agree. ALL 50 of the other songs deserve the top spot compared to that one. The live version of her playing that is much better too and an amazing performance. Seems to me like some kind of joke, but it's whatever.

[@phaaaze9984]

Seemed like that dude just didn’t like the movie more than anything else

[@Undaglibenglaubengloben]

I like all of Ministry, including the early synth pop.

[@mikethefilth5197]

with sympathy one of my favorite ministry albums

[@TheCivildecay]

Same with NIN. His debut "Pretty hate machine" album is pretty much synthpop but still pretty awesome

[@428mariomario]

“My Ding-a-ling” played at the grocery store I work at the other day

[@BaronLector]

"Crush 'Em" was performed during a WCW Nitro broadcast and used as Goldberg's entrance music for a short while.

[@stubatman3103]

The riff for vertigo i came up with a few years before the song came out gutted when i heard it as was basically the first riff i ever came up with lol

[@randomcharacter6501]

Feels bad man

[@gameboy_colorful7078]

There’s really only so many riffs out there to play. A lot of riffs are similar. There are only so many notes and combinations.

[@KkheBb]

It's funny how music works. Taste in any art is very subjective and IMHO there's no objectiveness in music. For example "U2 - Vertigo" is basically the only song I can listen to from them, I consider their other stuff boring. The song won 3 Grammys in 2005, but that doesn't say much, the funny thing is that 15 years later it's on the "Bad songs" article, made my day :D.

[@TotoDG]

Well, Dee Dee _was_ sort of the brains of the Ramones (mainly as a songwriter, e.g. all but one song of the debut album's B-side). However, he was certainly geared more towards '70s punk than '80s rap.

[@Marco-ke4zs]

21:34 "Sheep is an underated animal" (McKenty, Finn) 🤣

[@lionsatmidnight]

“They call me the edge” Ok “hey man”, it is!

[@Jtitor177]

I loved Gallons of Running Alcohol when I first heard it. I felt like it was the bands middle finger to the record labels and the issues he was having with Geffen not supporting their mix done by Albini.

[@quantumxfluxmd6821]

I had no idea that song was called "love Rollercoaster" and more importantly that is was written by RHCP

[@Samurai_Stoner]

It's actually a cover

[@yo-sefakimbey7009]

They did not write that song

[@julianasalaz5250]

I hated when Apple music gave everyone a free UNWANTED U2 album

[@Djfmdotcom]

19:42 watch the documentary The Electro Wars. People claim his Daft Punk collab Stronger was the song that opened the flood gates for modern EDM. I think Kanye sucks lol

[@BigOwl51]

Here to end the debate: David Lee Roth is a better frontman. Sammy Hagar is a better singer. There it is

[@TikkiNikki]

Bono owns 1/3 of a company who bought in early on Facebook. Those shares were valued at $2 BILLION a couple years back

[@bobathanrex4913]

With regards to MJ, it's like Bad Dudes. Are you a bad enough dude to save the prez?

[@trisha2286]

Spin was trying to be cheeky bout MJ Bad. Its a 'bad' song bc it's called Bad. Ha ha ha