History SoBadItsGood / Music

** He also seems to have a strange hate-boner for the Getty family for alleged connections towards ThoseWackyNazis, to the point where he even hates the modern Getty Museum.

* Every music video from UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} and UsefulNotes/TheOtherwoods that manages to reach MemeticMutation status internationally, combining the Indian tendency for musicals, [[WidgetSeries 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]]".

* * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1WSPAvT7qE "Drinkenstein"]], from the also So Bad It's Good film ''Film/{{Rhinestone}}''. Creator/SylvesterStallone is a man of many talents, but singing definitely isn't one of them. It doesn't help that he's ''badly'' outmatched vocally by [[Music/DollyParton his co-star]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1WSPAvT7qE Drinkenstein]]. Creator/SylvesterStallone singing.

* Farrah Abraham's 2012 album ''Music/MyTeenageDreamEnded'' is a fascinating potential case for the concept of "so bad, it's '''[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible art]]'''". While fancying itself as a straightforward, sharp and trendy pop album, the music is bizarrely and haphazardly assembled ([[http://www.thefader.com/2017/11/21/farrah-abraham-album-producer-interview the conception of which is an odd story itself]]), with messy production aping off {{dubstep}}, bizarre, {{Narm}}-y lyrics, and Farrah's voice being absolutely plastered in unfocused autotune. However, in a manner similar to Music/TheShaggs (listed below), the album has since gained some genuine critical attention years later for being ''such'' an out-there attempt at making sincere, meaningful pop music (much of the lyrical content was written by Farrah about [[Series/TeenMom her own, well-publicized]] and [[DarkAndTroubledPast genuinely troubled personal history]]), earning it online appreciation as a unique piece of accidentally avant-garde OutsiderMusic. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XemtXy7aAWA Take a sneak peek here.]]

* [[http://www.ubu.com/sound/blonk.html Jaap Blonk,]] the best possible answer to "[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Has postmodern academia gone too far?]]" He specializes in dramatic readings of dadaist sound poetry--what this essentially amounts to is him making every mouth-sound concievable (and some inconcievable) with hyper-Shatnerian gusto. Even straightforward pieces seem to go off on the strangest of tangents, growing progressively more and more ridiculous as Blonk himself grows increasingly immersed. Also of note is his rather baffling [[http://www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/scores.html scores for his own work]] and his ridiculously theatrical live performances.

* Here's this... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWCvzduYZg rather interesting video involving some breakdancing]] [[UnfortunateImplications dedicated to 9/11]] with this overall weird song.

* The [[UpdatedRerelease Dual Shock]] version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' has its soundtrack redone. While most of the songs aren't as good as the original, the "Mansion Basement" theme was infamously replaced with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJYvCHm3Ov4 a comically awful track]] that sounds like several things other than scary ambience. It sounds like a choir of geese trying to make a tune, a monumentally hacked off adult from ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'', and even a car revving its engine with a pair of out-of-tune trumpets stuffed in the exhaust pipes before it sounds like what it's actually supposed to be. When credited composer Mamoru Samuragochi, believed to be the Japanese [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] as he claimed to be deaf, was exposed as a fraud whose so-called work, including this soundtrack, was largely ghostwritten, it predictably resulted in jokes that this particular song was the only one he had written himself. The song has gained [[MemeticMutation memetic infamy]] as the soundtrack to NightmareRetardant, with WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay famously comparing it to "clowns farting in the basement". One person [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oByTUQjCFg recreated the song using a different sample]] which not only sounds decent and fitting with the rest of the game, but supports the theory that the trumpet sample was triggered by accident and Samuragochi never alerted anyone to the mistake because he knew it would blow his cover.

* Creator/HJonBenjamin's ''Well, I Should Have...'' is a deliberate case: The central joke is that it's a piano jazz album by a comedian/voice actor who can't play piano and doesn't like jazz music - to set the tone, there's an opening skit where Benjamin tries and fails to make a DealWithTheDevil in exchange for musical talent. He recorded the album with professional jazz musicians for added contrast, and it can be hilarious to hear an otherwise well-composed jazz instrumental completely fall apart every time the pianist takes a solo.

* ''Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler'' the debut album by deathcore band Music/WakingTheCadaver. Between the completely indecipherable vocals and the lyrics that try to be scary but instead come across as juvenile, it's impossible to listen to it without bursting into laughter. Their later albums show significant improvement, but the band has yet to live down this album.

* 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..."

* 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 farting 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 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 given wildly inappropriate sounds - 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 mention goes to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oyweqZ7WM rendition]] of the iconic music from [=E1M1=], with the raw electric guitar sounds of the original tune completely butchered into what sounds like fart sounds rendered on a 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]]

* The [[UpdatedRerelease Dual Shock]] version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' has its soundtrack redone. While most of the songs aren't as good as the original, the "Mansion Basement" theme was infamously replaced with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJYvCHm3Ov4 a comically awful track]] that sounds like somebody randomly banging the white keys on a cheap Casio (or midi controller) set to "horn." When credited composer Mamoru Samuragochi, believed to be the Japanese [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] as he claimed to be deaf, was exposed as a fraud whose so-called work, including this soundtrack, was largely ghostwritten, it predictably resulted in jokes that this particular song was the only one he had written himself. The song has gained [[MemeticMutation memetic infamy]] as the soundtrack to NightmareRetardant, with WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay famously comparing it to "clowns farting in the basement". One person [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oByTUQjCFg recreated the song using a different sample]] which not only sounds decent and fitting with the rest of the game, but supports the theory that the horn sample wasn't planned or was used by accident and Samuragochi never alerted anyone to the mistake because he knew it would blow his cover.

** It helps that the instrumentals behind the goofy rapping is actually pretty good. Especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6i9dhtX4Ns Dive into the Mellow.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Oj0-splZw Gimme that Christian side hug!]]
** [[AuthorTract Democratic shift in the congress uh-oh! Democratic shift in the congress uh-oh!]]
** Congratulations! [[StealthParody You've both just been side-hugged.]]

** In fact, most of Reh Dogg's videos are too silly and poorly done to ever be taken seriously. He attempts to be a "conservative-minded rapper" and make music that relates to other people's problems only comes across as self-indulgent whining and over-the-top phrases for Donald Trump and the Republican Party and blaming Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama for being born black (or a "Blackened Asain Man" as he describes himself) and being unable to get a job has only caused more damage to his reputation to the point where most of his Website/YouTube videos have disabled commenting. His article on [[http://rap.wikia.com/wiki/Reh_Dogg Rap Wiki]] is basically one big "Reason You Suck" speech towards him.

* Deathcore band Music/WakingTheCadaver is just so over-the-top with how bad its taste in lyrics is, combined with absolutely illegible vocals.

* 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 given wildly inappropriate sounds - 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 mention goes to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oyweqZ7WM rendition]] of the iconic music from [=E1M1=], with the raw electric guitar sounds of the original tune completely butchered into what sounds like fart sounds rendered on a Yamaha [=DX7=].

* This is how most EDM fans feel about [[SensoryAbuse extratone]].

* A majority of Main/OutsiderMusic with some of their entries even being listed up above.

** Even the clean lyrics have a definite WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs feel. So DrugsAreBad, but drive-by shootings are just fine.

* The soundtrack to 2003 film ''Biker Boyz'' includes {{Music/Metallica}} and Ja Rule collaborating on the song "We Did It Again", which is almost as unlikely a pairing as Metallica and Lou Reed 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).

* The [[UpdatedRerelease Dual Shock]] version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' has its soundtrack redone. While most of the songs aren't as good as the original, the "Mansion Basement" theme was infamously replaced with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJYvCHm3Ov4 a comically awful track]] that sounds like somebody randomly banging the white keys on a cheap Casio (or midi controller) set to "horn." When credited composer Mamoru Samuragochi, believed to be the Japanese [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] as he claimed to be deaf, was exposed as a fraud whose so-called work, including this soundtrack, was largely ghostwritten, it predictably resulted in jokes that this particular song was the only one he had written himself. The song has gained [[MemeticMutation memetic infamy]] as the soundtrack to NightmareRetardant, with WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay famously comparing it to "clowns farting in the basement". One person [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oByTUQjCFg recreated the song using a different sample]] which not only sounds decent and fitting with the rest of the game, but supports the theory that the horn sample wasn't planned or was used by accident.

* [=PtheG=]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YdPucCkZU "She's Mad"]] although [[PoesLaw it's hard to tell if it's this]] or StylisticSuck due to the author's SmallNameBigEgo years even after the video was released.

* "[[http://www.last.fm/music/Chronic+Chronicler/_/Book+Of+Death Book Of Death]]", a song by a metal band called Chronic Chronicler. [[spoiler:10 seconds in, a heavily-accented women starts singing/screaming/vomiting "BOOK OF DEATH! BOOK OF DEATH!" into what sounds like a laptop microphone.]]

* Sarah Brand's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN7kgEw954 "Red Dress"]] went viral for being fascinatingly bad thanks to its weirdly incompetent songwriting choices and vocals that make it feel really off. It's like an [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]]for music. Similarly, the music video is full of awkward cuts.

* As of 2022, many memes have been made about the absolutely nonsensical lyrics to "[[https://youtu.be/6plVf2T6AOo Burning Men's Soul]]" from ''Anime/PersonaTrinitySoul'' is. The origins of the lyrics are actually from a sample disc, specifically [[https://youtu.be/8f_VmSoZ7Z4 Masterbits Climax 6 - Rhapsody]]. This does not stop the sheer hilarity of the mismatched instrumental and the awful lyrics.

* Farrah Abraham's 2012 album ''Music/MyTeenageDreamEnded'' is a fascinating potential case for the concept of "so bad, it's '''[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible art]]'''". While fancying itself as a straightforward, sharp and trendy pop album, the music is bizarrely and haphazardly assembled ([[http://www.thefader.com/2017/11/21/farrah-abraham-album-producer-interview the conception of which is an odd story itself]]), with messy production aping off {{dubstep}}, bizarre, {{Narm}}-y lyrics, and Farrah's voice being absolutely plastered in unfocused autotune. However, in a manner similar to Music/TheShaggs (listed below), the album has since gained some genuine critical attention years later for being ''such'' an out-there attempt [[DoingItForTheArt at making sincere, meaningful pop music]] (much of the lyrical content was written by Farrah about [[Series/TeenMom her own, well-publicized]] and [[DarkAndTroubledPast genuinely troubled personal history]]), earning it online appreciation as a unique piece of accidentally avant-garde OutsiderMusic. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XemtXy7aAWA Take a sneak peek here.]]

** Most of his other output, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I52SWfrLvHo "I no she wants me back"]] (Sic) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csvlw7FUxpM "NO MORE TEARS TO CRY"]], is just as bad, if not worse. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZhrUiILfys "YOU GOTTA LOVE THIS CITY BABE"]] especially stands out, as Raed has re-released it twice now; the latest version featuring some hilariously inept auto-tuning at random points in the song.

** You'd think after getting signed to a major metal label, their videos would look a bit more professional. Nope. Their latest video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HEL5z4Iv8c "Sea Of Fate"]], somehow manages to make a simple performance video absolutely ridiculous, with piles of unnecessary zooming. They still can't seem to afford (or just find) a cameraman who didn't ''just'' discover zoom.
** Heck, even some of their more professionally made ones like 'Unholy Warcry' and 'Magic of the Wizards Dream' are ridiculously melodramatic and feature some rather cheap looking greenscreen shots (Though none as bad as the aforementioned 'Rain of a Thousand Flames'). But their latest music video, 'Dark Wings of Steel' is fine, which arguably makes it more forgettable than the bad ones!

* The hilariously inept music of Chris "Chris-Chan" Chandler, the creator of ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''. Terrible lyrics shouted in an off-key monotone, and often out of sync, over random pop songs, without much care for the meter of the original. She rarely even bothered to get karaoke versions, let alone anything resembling a proper studio setup--songs were often recorded with the mic of a cheap camera, while the original played on her TV. Her most notable works and moments include:
** A [[https://youtu.be/D7XrVgM5E6Y straight cover]] of Bonnie Tyler's "Music/HoldingOutForAHero", complete with a {{Narm}}y video where a bored-looking Chris plays simple note patterns on a ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' guitar in sections of the song that don't even feature a guitar. It also has a poor take on TheCoverChangesTheGender.
** [[https://youtu.be/0tCrBvkTVZA "So Need a Cute Girl"]] uses [[Music/BackstreetBoys "I Want It That Way"]] for a drawn-out pity party about being single that gives up on meter partway through the bridge. [[OldShame Not even Chris herself stands behind this one anymore.]]
** In 2021, she came back with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTZSvMKvxfc cover]] of [[Music/VelvetUnderground "I'll Be Your Mirror",]] in a keyless falsetto (despite Music/{{Nico}}'s trademark tenor) that misses the melody entirely, with rewrites that [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning change the meaning to its exact opposite]], played dead-straight, though at least she found an instrumental version this time.
** Other highlights include a [[https://youtu.be/GVYnHAVmyDo rewritten]] [[Music/MeatLoaf "Paradise by the]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Dashboard Light"]] in which the two voices sound identical, a [[Anime/SonicX "Sonic Drive"]] [[https://youtu.be/Uu3PIOavUhY rework]] about ''Sonichu'' wherein the original is clearer than her vocals, and [[https://youtu.be/vk0XHBYR6DM a total butchery]] of [[Music/RickyMartin "La Copa de la Vida"]] based on a beyond-juvenile understanding of the [[GratuitousSpanish Spanish language]] (and history.)