Worst Songs Ever 2

You didn't think there were only 21 did you? Notice, that I telegraphed that there were 40 in the total list (look at the cover closely). Yesterday was just the warm up, today is the finale. Now this pick will give you the full top 40 of the worst songs ever. Not sure why anyone would purposely try to listen to these more than once, but beauty is in the ear of the beholder they say (Or something like that). I really though I had posted these two a long time ago and someone brought up that I never followed through, so here it is. The thing that's funny is that several of these songs have been on client's Must Play list. Most were years ago, though. 

Worst Songs Ever 2

22 Des'ree - Life

23 Limp Bizkit - Nookie

24 Newsong - The Christmas Shoes

25 Sisqo - Thong Song

26 Hampton The Hampster - The Hampster Dance Song

27 Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) Radio Edit

28 Counting Crows Ft Vanessa Carlton - Big Yellow Taxi

29 Black Eyed Peas - My Humps

30 James Blunt - You're Beautiful

31 Nickelback - Rockstar

32 Artists For Haiti - We Are The World 25 For Haiti

33 Insane Clown Posse - Miracles

34 Justin Bieber & Ludacris - Baby

35 Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger

36 Rebecca Black - Friday

37 Double Take - Hot Problems

38 Alison Gold - Chinese Food

39 Play N Skillz featuring Redfoo, Lil Jon, Enertia McFly - Literally I Can't

40 Jake Paul - It's Everyday Bro

Worst Songs Ever 1

The following songs in this pick have been named by critics, broadcasters, composers, and 
listeners as the "worst ever". Examples of sources include VH1's 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever and Blender magazine's Run for Your Life! It's the 50 Worst Songs Ever!.  They are in release date order. From 1953 to 2017. Some of these songs were commercially successful, some highly catchy ear worms (see the Too Catchy series).  Most DJ's realize that the "Must Play" list and the "Do Not Play" list often overlaps. And yet at least a few of these songs will never make it to the must play list.

Worst Songs Ever 1

01 Harry Kari & His Six Saki Sippers - Yes Sir, That's My Baby

02 Napoleon XIV - !aaah-Ah, Yawa Em Ekat Ot Gnimoc Er'yeht

03 Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

04 Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed

05 Richard Harris - Macarthur Park

06 Paul Anka with Odia Coates - (You're) Having My Baby

07 Paper Lace - Billy, Don't Be A Hero

08 Rick Dees - Disco Duck (Pt. 1)

09 Reginald Bosanquet - Dance With Me

10 The Tweets - Birdie Song

11 Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory

12 Spandau Ballet - True

13 Black Lace - Agadoo

14 Phil Collins - Sussudio

15 Starship - We Built This City

16 Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy

17 Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

18 4 Non Blondes - What's Up

19 Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart

20 Take That - Could It Be Magic

21 Mr. Blobby - Mr Blobby

World Domination 6

I've always built these the same way a good night out actually works — you don't open at full speed and you don't end there either. You find an entry point, let the room warm up, push it somewhere it didn't know it was going, then bring it back down so nobody feels mugged on the way out. This pick does exactly that, and if you listen straight through you'll feel it in your legs before you figure out what's happening. Fifteen tracks, half a dozen languages I can't speak, corners of the map I've never been to, and it all fits together like it was always supposed to. That's the whole point of this World Domination series. That has always been the whole point. One hundred and three tracks in and I'm still not done taking over.

World Domination 6

89 Waqal Studio - Dhaanto Cusub Dirgaax (Jigjiga Dhaanto Party)

90 King Sunny Ade - Ja Funmi (Mr West Remix)

91 Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

92 Tiki Tokkers - Global Groove (Hana Hou)

93 Batuk featuring Lebon, Giovanni Kiyingi & Winnie - Forca Forca

94 Bajofondo Tango Club featuring Ryota Komatsu - Pa' Bailar

95 Shantel - Disko Partizani

96 Manu Dibango - New-Bell (Hard Pulsation)

97 Sergent Garcia - Acabar Mal

98 Sofi Tukker - Drinkee

99 DJ Arafat - Tapis Velo

100 Kinky - Oye Como Va (Extended Mix)

101 Coati Mundi - El Coco Loco (So So Bad)

102 Salome De Bahia - Outro Lugar (Club Mix)

103 Malcolm Mclaren - Soweto

World Domination 5

I’ve spent enough nights at SOB’s in NYC to know that "Sounds of Brazil" was always a convenient misnomer for a much wider, deeper kind of global friction. I’d sit there with those big bottles of Xingu black beer, bracing for the long taxi ride back and the inevitable late-night mess—usually involving me holding back some girl’s hair while she puked in my hotel bathroom. It was a gritty, high-fidelity education in how a relentless beat can occupy a space and the people in it. This latest pick for my ongoing quest for world domination is built on that same infectious, earth-shaking stomp. Just the kind of high-velocity rhythmic authority that doesn't need a translator to take over a room. Turn it up; the occupation has officially entered its next phase.

World Domination 5

75 Dengue Dengue Dengue - Simiolo (Dazed Dog Remix)

76 Konk - Your Life (Party Mix)

77 Talking Heads - I Zimbra (12" Version)

78 Basement Jaxx - Samba Magic

79 MC Fioti with Future, J Balvin, Stefflon Don & Juan Magan - Bum Bum Tam Tam

80 Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa featuring Ami Faku - Abalele

81 Art Of Noise - Yebo! (Mbaqanga)

82 Nicola Cruz - Colibria

83 Tejun Trouble - Bayou Boogie!

84 Chancha Via Circuito featuring Mateo Kingman - Ilalу

85 Bnot Avraham - We Build Together

86 Balkan Beat Box - Hermetico

87 Mungo's Hi Fi featuring Pupajim - Bike Rider

88 Ah Puch & Di Conch Fritters - San Pedro All Day

Swing Swing Swing 3

I'm on a Swing kick aren't I? Three in a row! But they're all good. A couple of big band versions of newer songs, but the bulk are not. But this pick is a combination of traditional swing bands and some of the new vanguard of swing. Get the last two days writeups for more. I'm tired and going to bed. Sorry, no long blurb today. And it's the same cover as before.

Swing Swing Swing 3

42 Benny Goodman - King Porter Stomp

43 Pink Turtle - Walk On the Wild Side

44 Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

45 The Flying Neutrinos - Mr. Zoot Suit

46 Squirrel Nut Zippers - Put A Lid On It

47 The Jive Aces - Bring Me Sunshine

48 Indigo Swing - Swing Lover

49 Louis Prima - Jump, Jive, An' Wail

50 Count Basie & His Orchestra - Jumpin' at the Woodside

51 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Go Daddy-O

52 Vanguard Aces - Rocco's Joint

53 Erskine Hawkins - Tuxedo Junction

54 Big Joe Turner - Boogie Woogie Country Girl

55 Steve Lucky & Rhumba Bums - Jump Back

56 Robin McKelle - Abracadabra

57 Brian Setzer Orchestra - This Cat's On A Hot Tin Roof

58 Louis Jordan - Caldonia

59 Royal Crown Revue - Barflies At The Beach

60 Lionel Hampton - Hamp's Boogie Woogie

61 Nat King Cole And His Trio - Get Your Kicks On Route 66

62 Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Brown Derby Jump

63 Ella Fitzgerald - Undecided

64 Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys - Jumping From 6 To 6

Swing, Swing, Swing 2

Volume two of this pick and the floor is still jumping — same mix of golden era heavyweights and neo-swing acts that proved the whole thing never really went anywhere, it just went underground for a while. I've said it before but there is nothing quite like a good swing tune for reminding your feet what they're supposed to be doing even when the rest of you hasn't had enough coffee. This volume gets a little wilder than the first, leans a little harder into the revival side, and somewhere in the middle there is a brand new track that is either about clean eating and healthy living or absolutely is not, depending on who's asking. Stripping away any pretense, this is just more of what the first one was — music built for a room full of people who want to move and aren't overthinking it. And I know, Happy St Patrick's Day. At least the cover is green...

Swing, Swing, Swing 2

19 Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot

20 Benny Goodman - Stompin' At The Savoy

21 Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump

22 Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers - Oo Poppa Do

23 Lionel Hampton - Flying Home

24 Atomic Fireballs - Spanish Fly

25 The New Morty Show - In The Groove

26 Tommy Dorsey - Opus One

27 Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra - Bill's Bounce

28 Gene Krupa - Bugle Call Rag

29 Duke Ellington - Cotton Tail

30 Anita Hardcok - I Need a Stiff Cocktail Tonight

31 Royal Crown Revue - Hey Pachuco!

32 Maha Mayhem - Whole Lotta Wellness

33 Artie Shaw - Frenesi

34 Harry James - Ciribiribin

35 Crescent City Maulers - Jump, Jive, an' Wail

36 Jimmie Lunceford And His Orchestra - Rhythm Is Our Business

37 Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo

38 Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher

39 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Mr. Pinstripe Suit

40 Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra - We Still Talk the Way Lovers Do

41 Woody Herman - Woodchopper's Ball

Swing Swing Swing

This pick starts with the big band era and doesn't apologize for a second — Goodman, Ellington, Basie, Miller, Sinatra, Prima, all the usual suspects doing what they did better than anyone has since, and then it opens up into some of the deeper cuts that don't get enough daylight. I've been an amateur ballroom dancer for years, emphasis on amateur, and there is nothing quite like a good swing tune for reminding your feet what they're supposed to be doing even when your brain disagrees. The playlist runs from the classic radio names through some of the neo-swing revival acts that proved the whole thing still had a pulse, and stripping away the nostalgia for a second, this music just moves — it's built for a room full of people who want to have a good time and aren't overthinking it.

Swing Swing Swing

01 Les Brown - Leap Frog

02 Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing)

03 Glenn Miller Orchestra - In The Mood

04 Duke Ellington - Take The A Train

05 Dean Martin - Who's Got The Action

06 Andrews Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means Your Grand)

07 Dinah Washington - Christopher Columbus

08 Count Basie Band - Shiny Stockings

09 Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)

10 Dean Martin - Who Was That Lady

11 Louis Jordan - Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (Ma Baby)

12 Louis Prima - Just A Gigolo-Ain't Got Nobody

13 Joe Liggins - The Honeydripper

14 Blue Plate Special - Night Out

15 Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers - Blue Skies

16 Dem Brooklyn Bums - Baseball Bat Boogie

17 Fly-Rite Boys - Rosetta

18 Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums - Jumptown