Worst ever act to chart?

RocknRollDave

WTF?! The Wombles records were great pop tunes! Wombling Merry Christmas is, and I say this with a total lack of irony and sarcasm, one of my favourite Christmas songs of all time.

If that is the worst you can find, then you seriously need to dig deeper!


As someone who grew up in an era when it was commonplace for football teams to put out records when they got to a major cup final and/ or got knocked out of the World Cup embarrassingly early, surely amongst those is the worst record to chart? It's one thing when Liverpool get a major name band to do the backing track and guide them whilst they sing (terribly) over the top, it's another when a (then) Second Division team gets lucky and has a good cup run, and the bloke from the local pub writes a sub-Lindisfarne ditty for them to holler along to....

TheMarlin

Rox

@axisus  the Wombles were bloody brilliant.

You have made yourself some powerful enemies, my friend.  Don't walk on Wimbledon Common alone, they'll recycle you into pasties.

Sporky

mike_l said:

I raise

Not even in the same circle of hell.

kaypeejay

Rox said:

@axisus  the Wombles were bloody brilliant.

You have made yourself some powerful enemies, my friend.  Don't walk on Wimbledon Common alone, they'll recycle you into pasties.

Just ignore him Rox, he obviously has no soul.

RobDavies

Sporky said:

mike_l said:

I raise

Not even in the same circle of hell.

You are right. 

Thing is, I could always 'forgive' Vanilla for their musical atrocity because they looked like a bunch of sorts who you could probably have a nice time with after a few bevvies and a kebab on the way home. 
However, without the visuals, it's truly, truly horrible. 

RobDavies

...and if you think Vanilla and Las Ketchup are worse than this, then you need committing.  

proggy

I'd like to nominate 'Diamond Lights' by Hoddle and Waddle. What a pair of embarrassing twats.

Oh, and that Kevin Keegan song too. What an embarrassing twat.

rlw

Esther and Abi Ofarim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JZ4aLBjzFI

scrumhalf

Any number of ballad singers that used to befoul the screens in the 60s and early 70s would be worthy winners of that award.

And let us not forget pretty much any act whose name included the word "featuring".

Bellycaster

Jedward

richardhomer

Gary Glitter?

DiscoStu

Saw this on an old totp recently.  Who actually bought this and listened to it?

HAL9000

Tellytubbies say 'Eh Oh' - Tellytubbies
Cotton-Eyed Joe - RedNex

No one mentioned Mull of Kintyre yet?

Nikko

The Beatles

Fretwired

This on the grounds that he is a talented musician and should have known better.

RocknRollDave

Oh Superman was a load of cack too, whilst we're at it.

RandallFlagg

axisus said:

As a kid I HATED the Wombles with a passion! Has there ever been a worse act in the charts?

(I'm sure they're miming as well ...)

I'm not having that! Chris Spedding was the guitarist. The Wombles songs were good pop and they are a national treasure.

How much litter have you and your family picked up? They offer a huge public service. Wimbledon Common would be a shithole if it wasn't for The Wombles.

jpfamps

Black Lace.

CabbageCat

Probably something done by footballers. Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" maybe.