Bad/ironically bad music on Youtube

[Clownbaby]

I love finding horrible music videos on YouTube

I like ones where the song is sort of alright but there's something very wrong and awkward about the person performing. Like this one

Naomi Elizabeth- God Sent Me Here To Rock You

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=epRMpS5lk2I

The song isn't bad, but there's something off about it. She nearly got it right. Her Twitter bio says "I compose and perform music, even though I largely hate music. It's difficult to explain."

[Fisher Goes Berserk]

Robert Popper is the king of finding this kind of stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dbU2f90OAw

[Clownbaby]

^ beautiful

[Fisher Goes Berserk]

I really hope Maxine found happiness.

I would like to hear her collaborate with Mark Gormley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J65j2GNzw

[riotinlagos]

Here are some of my faves that should keep you busy for a while -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGxoOUu04_8&index=2&t=1s&list=PLRwpXXVwEb6JpxWkgxObVbKdLd4Xf0rSy

[Clownbaby]

Here are some of my faves that should keep you busy for a while -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGxoOUu04_8&index=2&t=1s&list=PLRwpXXVwEb6JpxWkgxObVbKdLd4Xf0rSy

Oh my god she is great. The voice, the random cutting to a computer screen, the shit costumes, dancing in front of an ugly construction fence

[non capisco]

Robert Popper is the king of finding this kind of stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dbU2f90OAw

I firmly believe Kamasi Washington ripped this tune off recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtW1S5EbHgU

[Fisher Goes Berserk]

I firmly believe Kamasi Washington ripped this tune off recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtW1S5EbHgU

Wow, didn't he just. I love KW but all things considered I think Maxine is more entertaining.

[Shaky]

This fairly inexplicable little beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI

[Fisher Goes Berserk]

This fairly inexplicable little beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI

Oddly lovely.

I liked her Christmas single, too. What is wrong with me?

http://digg.com/video/ai-christmas-carol

[Twed]

I am a genuine, non-ironic fan of buffcorrell. He exudes enthusiasm and truth and honesty and is beautiful and I love him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nghw7RkryFY

[Clownbaby]

This fairly inexplicable little beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI

Classic right there.

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

Here's another classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktLRiWXfqg


Apparently Detroit is very cold in the winter, so cold that this had to be made.

[Avril Lavigne]

Riotinlagos linked to quite a few of my favourites in that playlist, here are some others that folks may not have heard before:

BJ Snowden - In Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qvNk52mXiU

BJ The Messenger - Crackhead
https://youtu.be/qAwQkOTJUZw

Vennu Malesh - It's My Life What Ever I Wanna Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJa2kwoZ2a4

Tanese Grey - Sexy
https://youtu.be/tfLN7Dn88M4

John Daker - Christ The Lord is Risen / That's Amore
https://youtu.be/8PVal8Fy7CM

Eli Porter's Freestyle
https://youtu.be/tKKxPtP6XjQ?t=1m53s

RK11111111111 - Pink Fractal
https://youtu.be/_5bQ3YlxrUo

badideajeans1 - Stoke City
https://youtu.be/VaOZLDutYb4

Fred Spencer - Trash Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJp0hFY0RM

Julie - Eyes of a Stranger
https://youtu.be/1PsRiGIMr6o

Dean Milan - Do It Like a Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuvzbTwqDnM

[Clownbaby]

Riotinlagos linked to quite a few of my favourites in that playlist, here are some others that folks may not have heard before:

BJ Snowden - In Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qvNk52mXiU

BJ The Messenger - Crackhead
https://youtu.be/qAwQkOTJUZw

Vennu Malesh - It's My Life What Ever I Wanna Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJa2kwoZ2a4

Tanese Grey - Sexy
https://youtu.be/tfLN7Dn88M4

John Daker - Christ The Lord is Risen / That's Amore
https://youtu.be/8PVal8Fy7CM

Eli Porter's Freestyle
https://youtu.be/tKKxPtP6XjQ?t=1m53s

RK11111111111 - Pink Fractal
https://youtu.be/_5bQ3YlxrUo

badideajeans1 - Stoke City
https://youtu.be/VaOZLDutYb4

Fred Spencer - Trash Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJp0hFY0RM

Julie - Eyes of a Stranger
https://youtu.be/1PsRiGIMr6o

Dean Milan - Do It Like a Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuvzbTwqDnM

Aww yes ma boi Vennu Malesh

Good list here

[Fisher Goes Berserk]

Just catching up on everything in this thread. You people are my heroes.

Clownbaby, I can't thank you enough for introducing me to Naomi Elizabeth. I'm genuinely a bit obsessed with her now. She's only the band Lady Gaga could have been.

BJ Snowden is totally charming.

Loving the playlist shared by riotinlagos. I've just noticed that I have the top YT comment on one of the videos. I think perhaps I spend too much time watching stuff like this.

Ah, fuck it. Thoughts:

'The Hurt' - my favourite of the whole thing. What is he doing with his face?!
'One Wife' - outside art of Daniel Johnston's calibre
'Ye Canna Beat an Egg' - am I cursed now?
'Down To Heavenly' - isn't that Norbert Grupe?
'Monkeys for Uncles' - they're talking shit, but I can't help begrudgingly admire the sheer effort involved
'Let's Go to the Prom' - I fully expect to see this guy on the news having driven a van into a crowd of teenage girls
'Take Me Home Tonight' - DVD extra from a US remake of OF&H

Some more:

About 15 years ago this woman had a whole Sky channel devoted to her. It was basically this video over and over again, along with remixes and interviews and terrible 'performances' in shopping centres and what have you. IIRC she had a rich boyfriend who set it up for her. The whole thing was a beautiful mélange of mediocrity and desperation and having more money than taste, and I still think about it almost daily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8P3VHhmEB0

Gary McKinnon is best known for perpetuating a massive military hack, but did you know he also made this piece of sub-Beloved ambient pop? He also made the video. What can it all mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOY0kWQaqc

He gets his talent from his mum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kei3WXuR6ok

And finally D4nny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRldLdllZ8

[PaulTMA]

DANCE WITH ME by Magic Bus
"Enchanting track with haunting lyrics found on a 1993 Royal Bank Of Scotland cassette featuring demos of bands recorded at Edinburgh's Jewel And Esk Valley College.  Little is known about the composer, the inlay card features no tracklisting or artist credits, though a brief introduction is given at the start of the cassette - although it doesn't appear to be consistent with the actual running order."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dN4YWfHh8

AS LONG AS YOU KNOW WHERE IT WILL LEAD

[jobotic]

Crystal Hayes must be being ironic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg5OuouAXcI

She reminds of my neighbour that I have a secret crush on.

[Clownbaby]

Just catching up on everything in this thread. You people are my heroes.

Clownbaby, I can't thank you enough for introducing me to Naomi Elizabeth. I'm genuinely a bit obsessed with her now. She's only the band Lady Gaga could have been.

I know right? There's so little information about her and that just makes her more interesting. And it seems like she's accidentally managed to be more creative than Gaga. It's proper eerie uncanny valley music, possibly by accident, possibly not, we'll probably never know

[Clownbaby]

Also I was wondering where I recognised Tanese Grey. Tim and Eric, Gettin' it Dunn

John Daker is a bit heartbreaking, he looks like he's detached himself from the situation completely and is silently pleading for it to be over. Bill Burr turned me on to that clip

[Clownbaby]

The Shaggs - Philosophy of the world

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxPsXPCR5MU

[Fisher Goes Berserk]

I love The Shaggs!

I always felt like this one had been written with the melody back to front:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cs1BIlglzI

[chveik]

The great Wesley Willis:

Suck a Caribou's Ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTbGydPYTkE

I Whooped Superman's Ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7GchZsTVew

Lucia Pamela - Walking on the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qACGIfJIirA

Elli & Jacno - Main dans la main
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gszkB7Ly-k

Leona Anderson - Habanera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78YpG3070XY

Eilert Pilarm - In the Ghetto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5yz7yugOi4

[Phil_A]

I firmly believe Kamasi Washington ripped this tune off recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtW1S5EbHgU

Isn't the Maxine Swaby one a rip-off of There Must Be An Angel(Playing With My Heart)?

I'm slightly obsessed with Pardon Me now, I've never heard anyone sing in quite such a bizarrely distant, affectless way without doing it deliberately.

Oddly, there's a different version on youtube which sounds like it's been re-recorded in a proper studio, and she might've had some vocal coaching or something. It's not quite the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fILWWPd2FgU

[Fisher Goes Berserk]

Oddly, there's a different version on youtube which sounds like it's been re-recorded in a proper studio, and she might've had some vocal coaching or something. It's not quite the same.

Wow, and it's nowhere near as endearing as the original. It's not going to stop me from singing 'Pardon Me' every time I burp.

Had a minor obsession with this guy about 15 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUeMB9qPXm8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2xt5YRwDDU

No video, but this song by Jacques Villeneuve really is something. Any song that starts 'hey ladies of my life' is alright by me, and 'never in or out from the front door' is the icing on the cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yHGEDldZ2w

[Phil_A]

This has been showcased on CaB very recently, but I think we could all do with basking in the sweaty glow of GYM by Dave Neurotic once again. BUSTIN' WEIIIGHTS, WIV MY MAAAAATES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5o1SCETBRc

[Avril Lavigne]

Also I was wondering where I recognised Tanese Grey. Tim and Eric, Gettin' it Dunn

Yea I always loved her interactions with Richard Dunn, I wish there had been more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMl6fz2Emgg

I don't know if anyone else has posted 'Black Out - Video Games' yet but since I forgot to put it in my original list, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsbj0OoeNo

[non capisco]

This has been showcased on CaB very recently, but I think we could all do with basking in the sweaty glow of GYM by Dave Neurotic once again. BUSTIN' WEIIIGHTS, WIV MY MAAAAATES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5o1SCETBRc

Ahh you beat me to it. They're a brilliant trio. If you were watching the first bloke for the first time and I was to tell you "The next one's even worse and the third one is even worse than the first two" you'd never believe me.

"When I go to the gym I am loving it, yes? With aching muscles it...is the best." That delivery wrecks me every time. God bless you, The Duffinator.

[Clownbaby]

This has been showcased on CaB very recently, but I think we could all do with basking in the sweaty glow of GYM by Dave Neurotic once again. BUSTIN' WEIIIGHTS, WIV MY MAAAAATES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5o1SCETBRc

That was fabulous.

[riotinlagos]

This has been showcased on CaB very recently, but I think we could all do with basking in the sweaty glow of GYM by Dave Neurotic once again. BUSTIN' WEIIIGHTS, WIV MY MAAAAATES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5o1SCETBRc

Pleasantly surprised to see this still up, albeit unlisted, as he's purged most of his Youtube vids (including another favourite Wifey Ting, but the audio is still up here - https://www.reverbnation.com/daveneurotic/song/11172784-wifey-ting). 

The Duffinator was the best of the bunch anyway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrYPDs9Uu0