This section is devoted entirely to the worst songs of all time. Well, maybe not the all-time worst written songs or worst performances of all time. Perhaps "Really irritating songs that used to be popular songs" would be a better title. These are songs that, admit it or not, that we all knew and mostly liked when they first came out. These are songs that make us cringe when we hear them now in front of loved ones. What were we thinking?

     We're not talking about music genres here. Parents/Adults have been whining about what the "kids" were listening to since the 1920's. That nasty Charleston stuff that evolved into that Sinful Swinging, that enabled Elvis to gyrate, leading to Tina Turner showing some leg, Jim Morrison performing nude, Ozzie biting live bats,  the Sex Pistols urinating on stage, James Brown singing about his "Sex Machine", and Eminem flipping the world "the bird" at the 2000 Grammys.

     Don't tell us "all rap is not music". You sound like your mom talking about those long-haired, unkempt bad boys in "The Beatles", or her mom harping about Elvis. Or those teachers who banned swing dancing at the school dances during World War II.

     People like Pat Boone tried to make R & B rock-n-roll acceptable to the masses, yet, for all his pop music success, his greatest achievement was the fathering of his daughter, Debbie Boone, who went on to record the most successful bad song of all time, "You Light Up My Life", lasting 10 weeks at Billboard's number one, and over 20 weeks in the Top 40 in 1977. She won the Grammy for best new artist as well. She never charted again, which is just fine for those of us who heard it, on average, a hundred thousand times that Summer of '77.