History SoBadItsGood / Music

* Creator/JakePaul's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSlb1ezRqfA "It's Everyday Bro"]], filled with randomly dissing LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}}, egotistical lyrics, and, of course, the MemeticMutation lyric "England is My City".[[note]]Although, a city called England does exist, in Arkansas though.[[/note]]

* Biz Markie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg "Just A Friend"]] is a perfect example. Markie sings it HollywoodToneDeaf, the music video is ridiculous, the backing track sounds like something you'd hear in music for children, and the lyrics themselves are kind of pathetic... but it's incredibly hard to hate.

* Yet another to prove even former Beatles can have serious but hilarious missteps: ''Temporary Secretary'', from ''Mccartney II''. From the [[WordSaladLyrics bizarre lyrics]] to the [[HellIsThatNoise awful instrumentals and singing]], it's so terrible that it's no wonder it became [[MemeticMutation infamous]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuq6HgKgEFQ The "clean" version of Purple Pills.]] Seriously, when you take a song about drugs by Music/{{Eminem}} and try to make it radio-friendly, the end result is so mind-numbingly stupid you can't help but laugh.
** Dirty Lyrics:
-->''"I take a couple uppers, I down a couple downers, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow purple pills. I've been to mushroom mountain, once or twice but who's counting, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow purple pills.''
** Clean Lyrics:
-->''"I've been so many places, I've seen so many faces, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow purple '''hills'''. I've climbed the highest mountain, once or twice but who's counting, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow purple '''hills'''.''
** It just gets worse from there. Also a lot of the lyrics they keep are just as offensive in the clean version, like
-->''I can't describe the vibe I get when I drive by six people and five I hit.''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKpRFSDkSM "Oh My God"]] by Masta Artisan, aka WebVideo/TheRapCritic. Particularly the beat, which is a mess of atonal string riffs laid on top of a sample of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhgFDo7XPu0 "Shock Impact"]] musical sting... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and no bassline.]]

* Every music video from UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} and UsefulNotes/TheOtherwoods that manages to reach MemeticMutation status internationally, combining the Indian tendency for musicals, [[QuirkyWork weirdness]] and\or [[WorldOfHam bombast]]. Most famous examples are "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOIKb482AoE Kaaluri Vaanil]]"\"[[GagSub Benny Lava]]" and the [[MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody Indian Thriller]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKcevMFUCo Goli Maar]]".

* Actor and martial artist Creator/StevenSeagal also tried his hand at music. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4-zYghodc Strut]]" from ''Songs from the Crystal Cave'', is considered hilariously bad. It's a dancehall reggae song where Seagal sings sings lyrics such as "me want [[IntercourseWithYou the punani]]" and "[[DoubleEntendre I can make you come...]] with me to the ocean, that would be phat" in a faux Jamaican accent.

* GAK, a one-off supergroup consisting of W. Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff [=McKagan=] of Music/GunsNRoses, Music/SebastianBach, and James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett of Music/{{Metallica}}, performed a show at the Hollywood Palladium on November 10, 1990, where they did a hilariously shitty five-song set consisting of "You're Crazy", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Piece of Me", "Hair of the Dog", and "Whiplash", with Bach absolutely fucking up the vocals of the latter and an increasingly annoyed Hetfield showing him how it's done.

*** Y. Bhekhirst is rumored to be Hispanic due to his accent and the fact that the aforementioned song has the lyric "el amor volvió, que contento que me siento" (love came back, how happy I am feeling). Not only is that line sung with proper pronunciation and tonality, he changed the grammar in a way only a native would, because "que contento que me siento" is grammatically incorrect, though accepted in informal speech. There is an [[http://voxish.org/yb.htm entire website]] dedicated to him. Hard copies of his works are hard to find, being released in limited quantities, and he's only well known because of Irwin Chusid, a music historian who used to play his songs at a radio station.

* ''Billiard 2008'', a hack of ''VideoGame/LunarBall'', features a rendition of the source game's soundtrack that is... ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV8RAeGv7_c discordant]]'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFaeqybQZo&lc=UgwqR31JnV94ODmlMzl4AaABAg to say the least]]. The title screen alone caused [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny]] to [[https://youtu.be/-gLP869g8Qs?t=1566 immediately start laughing]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBwK5vV880 IT'S JUST SO COLD IN DA D]]

* There are a bunch of bad rap battles about video games, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ecX-JZJa5U this one in particular]] is a hilarious example. This is a typical rap battle between the sandbox game VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} and the online game community ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}''. It makes poor use of [[ChromaKey chroma keying]], with choppy clips recorded on Skype with Bandicam. Also cue in [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome the muffled voices in some points]] along with {{Narm}}ful lyrics with obligatory misspelling. [[spoiler:Unexpected games like Blockland makes it top notch]]. Obviously, Epic Rap Battles fans won't be amused of this as Roblox isn't really a sandbox game whilst it has to do with the blocks theme.

* Creator/WilliamShatner [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdBlZzuadLQ should]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKbt3wRsZYw never]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5_K_pUKEJY sing.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I Ever.]] Though ironically, Shatner's most infamously So Bad It's Good musical work, ''Music/TheTransformedMan'', actually ''wasn't'' sung, instead being performed spoken-work with the odd bit of SuddenlyShouting.

* Austrian rock band Helmi's Nightmare is the embodiment of OutsiderMusic: The [[IAmTheBand singer]] (Helmi) doesn't know the slightest bit about rhythm, meters, or melody, and neither does he play an instrument. He had gained some notoriety within the German speaking usenet and forumsphere for his incredibly long-winded and absurd threads about problems he encountered with basic everyday tasks long before his band came into existing, and it shows in the music. The lyrics are equally bizarre, covering topics from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5GuZMDstc0 cannibalism]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDYLOHJPYs binge eating]].

* The music for the Sega 32X port of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is what happens when you try to do too little with too little. The 32X doesn't have the same breadth of sound samples as the PC does, so several of the instruments used in the original songs are replaced with wildly inappropriate substitutes -- if they weren't simply omitted outright, as different instruments fight for space on the 32X's limited channels. The drum samples are so weak as to be inaudible under the cacophony of the other instruments, making the faster tracks sound like a rhythm-less mess. As the 32X version was [[ObviousBeta rushed]] to be a launch title for the Platform/SegaMegaDrive expansion, it's likely there wasn't enough time to properly port the music over from the MIDI-derived MUS format used by the game to Sega's hardware. The end results are undeniably terrible, but hilarious. Particular mentions go to the rendition of [[https://youtu.be/wbroOMBYBYU?si=jywnGHuNFULqyykn "The Imp's Song"]], which originally sounded low, rumbling and menacing and now sounds more like a goofy clown honking his nose while a construction worker operates a jackhammer two feet from the microphone, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oyweqZ7WM the music]] from [=E1M1=], with the iconic electric guitar solo now sounding like the composer recorded himself on the toilet after Taco night and sampled it on his Yamaha [=DX7=].[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke For all you non-synth nerds out there]], both the [=DX7=] and the 32X's sound chip use the same [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_modulation_synthesis synthesis method]] to generate their sounds.[[/note]] Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Rip and Tear..."

** The clean version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIa-E8hqiKY "Sexting"]] by Blood On The Dance Floor. It's an extremely sexual song, so it sounds hard to understand how it can be censored

* The music for the Sega 32X port of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is what happens when you try to do too little with too little. The 32X doesn't have the same breadth of sound samples as the PC does, so several of the instruments used in the original songs are replaced with wildly inappropriate substitutes -- if they weren't simply omitted outright, as different instruments fight for space on the 32X's limited channels. The drum samples are so weak as to be inaudible under the cacophony of the other instruments, making the faster tracks sound like a rhythm-less mess. As the 32X version was [[ObviousBeta rushed]] to be a launch title for the UsefulNotes/SegaMegaDrive expansion, it's likely there wasn't enough time to properly port the music over from the MIDI-derived MUS format used by the game to Sega's hardware. The end results are undeniably terrible, but hilarious. Particular mentions go to the rendition of [[https://youtu.be/wbroOMBYBYU?si=jywnGHuNFULqyykn "The Imp's Song"]], which originally sounded low, rumbling and menacing and now sounds more like a goofy clown honking his nose while a construction worker operates a jackhammer two feet from the microphone, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oyweqZ7WM the music]] from [=E1M1=], with the iconic electric guitar solo now sounding like the composer recorded himself on the toilet after Taco night and sampled it on his Yamaha [=DX7=].[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke For all you non-synth nerds out there]], both the [=DX7=] and the 32X's sound chip use the same [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_modulation_synthesis synthesis method]] to generate their sounds.[[/note]] Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Rip and Tear..."

** His other remixes such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYxewglHhk A Philosopher's Cover GOLD: Grabbag (Duke Nukem 3D)]], or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSWv5giIpB0 A Philosopher's Cover GOLD]]: At Doom's Gate (Ultimate Doom)]] are amateurish attempts of trying to remix the original versions of the song; the former being passable and the latter sounding more like an original song.

* KarjamP refers to himself as the "Philosopher of Projected Thought", with the majority of his tracks having descriptions known for being overly verbose. While his original tracks are legitimately good despite their cheap sounding MIDI quality, several of his remixes of other songs fall squarely into this such as:
** Several of his Megalovania remixes such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12bR6rhfMNc Megalovania (Undertale) - A Philosopher's Covers REALITIES]], [[A Philosopher's Cover CELESTIAL: Megalovania (Undertale)]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qvdq68tlOE Megalovania (Undertale; 2nd cover) - A Philosopher's Covers HARMONY]] try to make the theme of a VillainProtagonist fighting against a lazy skeleton with nothing to lose into a legitimately dark piece about casting final judgement upon a VillainProtagonist who is too far gone to turn back.
** His other remixes such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYxewglHhk A Philosopher's Cover GOLD: Grabbag (Duke Nukem 3D)]], or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSWv5giIpB0 A Philosopher's Cover GOLD: At Doom's Gate (Ultimate Doom)]] are amateurish attempts of trying to remix the original versions of the song; the former being passable and the latter sounding more like an original song.

* The soundtrack to 2003 film ''Biker Boyz'' includes {{Music/Metallica}} and Ja Rule collaborating on the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqM3Z3rWlAI We Did It Again]]", which is almost as unlikely a pairing as Metallica and Music/LouReed were. Basically the band sent RecordProducer Swizz Beatz some unfinished ''St. Anger'' instrumentals, which he [[{{sampling}} sampled]] into a RapRock beat for Ja Rule to rap over, with James Hetfield then adding some new sung vocals after the fact: It's as disjointed as you'd think it'd be given the circumstances, but still oddly catchy, with both James and Ja putting in hammy performances. The fact that the hook includes the lyrics "just when you thought it was over / just when you thought it was done" also becomes unintentionally funny, as the song eventually develops a case of EndingFatigue (despite being under 5 minutes long).

** Fred Schneider recorded a CoverVersion for the Dr. Demento tribute album ''Covered in Punk!'', and it fits his campy performance style perfectly - coincidentally the subject matter complements {{Music/TheB52s}}'s own "Quiche Lorraine".

* Steve Bent's [[http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/09/mp3_download_di.html "Going To Spain"]]: Before Music/TheFall did a CoverVersion, it was best known for being one of the more memorable songs on a compilation called ''The World's Worst Record''. However it's oddly catchy, and the cheesy arrangement and inane lyrics make it sort of charming. Unfortunately, The Fall's version changes the last verse; just imagine hearing Mark E. Smith lament "I hate it, yes, I hate the cheese and pickles".

* Former Music/TheRamones bassist Dee Dee Ramone's out-of-print solo debut (under the name Dee Dee King) ''Standing In The Spotlight''. While there are songs that are more typically Ramones-esque, most tracks prominently feature him ''rapping'' in a tone of voice that has been memorably compared to [[http://www.markprindle.com/ramone.htm#standing "a cartoon moose"]] and [[BoastfulRap making memorable boasts like]] "I'm the cut-creator, the master of rap\ when I walk down the street, homeboys tip their hat". What might be the weirdest moment on a fairly bizarre album is a hip-hop update of 60s dance craze "Mashed Potato Time" featuring back-up vocals from [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]] [[note]] The cover seems to have been done entirely for the sake of a StealthPun - the original version is by Dee Dee Sharp[[/note]]. The Ramones themselves ''did'' evidently like one song enough to remake it, though - they recorded a version of "The Crusher" that altered the lyrics, removed the RapRock elements, and featured Dee Dee's replacement CJ Ramone on vocals.

* Gloria Balsam's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8r-yQ8Hs8 "Fluffy"]], a horrendously off-key ballad lamenting a lost dog. The music is a well-performed approximation of fifties {{Girl Group}}s, it's the vocals and {{narm}}ful lyrics that put it in this category. "Gloria Balsam" was the alter-ego of Cynthia Franz, a comedian with connections to the Berkley, California music scene of the eighties, so it was most likely all intentional.

* [="MacArthur Park."=] As performed both as a 60s pop ballad by Creator/RichardHarris ''and'' as a disco dance remix by Music/DonnaSummer. The chorus is meant to be symbolic of a lost love; that only cements it ''more'' firmly in this category[[note]]The original songwriter claims the strange metaphors in the song --cake in the rain included-- are derived from things he personally witnessed in [=MacArthur=] Park, meaning that, yes; it's the musical equivalent of a "you had to be there" joke[[/note]]:

* ''Austrian Death Machine'' is a side project of ''Music/AsILayDying'' vocalist Tim Lambesis. The music itself is standard Bay-area ThrashMetal with Lambesis doing his typical growling vocal style. What makes it good is 2 things: all their songs are based on Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, and "Ahhnold" is the second vocalist. This results in some completely ridiculous tracks with hilarious lyrics commentating the movie in question, and the "Ahhnold" vocalist being a massively overblown caricature of the actor himself.

* Canadian rapper Chuggo released an album that was actually reviewed positively--but most people know of him from his camp single, "Aw, C'Mon"--Commonly known as "AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! COME ON, FUCK A GUY!" (Actually it's "fucking guy")--along with its suitably outrageous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PMGjn_d130 music video]]. The sheer mix of rather simplistic rhymes (Ladies come to see me, because they can't fuck! You'll never sell a record, because your rap sucks!), gratuitous use of any and all debauched tropes relating to rap music (It seems like it might be a diss track, only Chuggo seemingly forgot to explain whom he's dissing at any point the whole song), the video's low-budget quality and sometimes questionable choices of its visuals (a skull? You sure you weren't trying for a heavy metal band, Chuggo?) and its occasional use of elements that don't seem to belong anywhere in rap music (I put mayonnaise on all my food!), earns it this trope so hard, it's nearly impossible to believe it wasn't an intentional joke.