Songs with the Worst Production
Mar 1, 2018 15:31:33 GMT 10
Post by #Infinity on Mar 1, 2018 15:31:33 GMT 10
We already have plenty of threads based on least favourite songs per decade or country, but which ones bomb specifically because of how badly produced they are? These would be my personal picks:
You may have noticed I ranked this song very high on my hate lists for the 2010s and the UK specifically. No, it's not because the two rappers suck on it; they still sound much more interesting than Post Malone, non-Lisa Lopes Cardi B, and Migos. It's that horrible, god-awful backdrop. It's one of the most draining things I've ever heard in a mainstream pop song. It's like an obnoxious battery-powered house tool started dry-humping an already crappy club song from the turn of the 2010s. It's not only chaotically incoherent, but overpowering and repetitive, causing it to drown out the tolerable vocal tracks. This is a rare case of a song that, coming from an American perspective, I'm glad was popular in the UK but not the US, as opposed to the other way around.
The Timbaland-produced song of the same name for Total in 1997 has one of the hottest beats of its time. This, however, sounds like it's limping at every step of the way. If you can't groove to it at all, how are you supposed to even get invested?
I'm guessing this became a top 20 hit in America because some found its sound grimy, uncut, and authentically street. Sorry, but long, high-pitched wails and radio static don't create any kind of menacing, heavy vibe for me like "N.Y. State of Mind", "Player's Anthem", or "1st of tha Month" do, nor does it groove slickly like "Po Pimp". I don't think there's any other hip hop song from the '90s that makes me want to change tracks as quickly as this.
Female metal groups sure got the short end of the stick back in the '80s. Vixen may have been entirely manufactured, but at least their songs sounded like legit, gloriously bombastic '80s hard rock. As for Thrash Queen, I'm pretty certain any novice to recording can turn out better sound quality that what you hear above.
You may have noticed I ranked this song very high on my hate lists for the 2010s and the UK specifically. No, it's not because the two rappers suck on it; they still sound much more interesting than Post Malone, non-Lisa Lopes Cardi B, and Migos. It's that horrible, god-awful backdrop. It's one of the most draining things I've ever heard in a mainstream pop song. It's like an obnoxious battery-powered house tool started dry-humping an already crappy club song from the turn of the 2010s. It's not only chaotically incoherent, but overpowering and repetitive, causing it to drown out the tolerable vocal tracks. This is a rare case of a song that, coming from an American perspective, I'm glad was popular in the UK but not the US, as opposed to the other way around.
The Timbaland-produced song of the same name for Total in 1997 has one of the hottest beats of its time. This, however, sounds like it's limping at every step of the way. If you can't groove to it at all, how are you supposed to even get invested?
I'm guessing this became a top 20 hit in America because some found its sound grimy, uncut, and authentically street. Sorry, but long, high-pitched wails and radio static don't create any kind of menacing, heavy vibe for me like "N.Y. State of Mind", "Player's Anthem", or "1st of tha Month" do, nor does it groove slickly like "Po Pimp". I don't think there's any other hip hop song from the '90s that makes me want to change tracks as quickly as this.
Female metal groups sure got the short end of the stick back in the '80s. Vixen may have been entirely manufactured, but at least their songs sounded like legit, gloriously bombastic '80s hard rock. As for Thrash Queen, I'm pretty certain any novice to recording can turn out better sound quality that what you hear above.
