![]() ![]() Oh, I’m sure that it still provides money to them to this day but wow, this is bad. We ended the 90’s with this piece of crap. While I recognise the fact that Snow sold a lot of albums and in some ways was a very important milestone for Canadian Hip-Hop… this song is terrible from top to bottom. While I was never a huge fan of her later work, it was a lot better than this Paula Abdul wannabe stuff. This is an ear worm and a bad one at that.īefore she regained her last name, Alanis Morrissette was a dance queen of sorts. I imagine it’s supposed to be about someone who’s upset about being called a drug dealer… but said dealer admits to being a drug dealer in the song. I hate to keep picking on Chris Sheppard but the lyrical content of this song only sort of makes sense. I almost feel bad including this because I really like a lot of Crash Test Dummies work and I know this was an attempt to expand their musical vocabulary but quite frankly it sounds like Brad Roberts’ son was asking him questions one day and Brad decided to write it down verbatim into a crappy song. ![]() This is just bad.Ħ) Crash Test Dummies – “Keep A Lid On Things” ![]() Some may point to their first single, Skidrow as being worse due to its rap rock slant but at least there they were trying something different. When I first heard these guys, I really thought it was a joke put out by producer Dave Ogilvie. Take the Red Hot Chilli Peppers recipe of funk punk rock, take away the spark they had, downgrade it to pg and you have this turd of a song. #SLIK TOXIK FULL#Who the hell thought this a good idea? Chris Sheppard, I hope it was a dump truck full of money. This act of sports and techno mashing has been featured on a previous list but it is so bad that it gets a slot on this one. URGHĩ) Don Cherry & Chris Sheppard – “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Techno“ This came from their album Doin’ the Nasty. It’s just a shame that it came out of Toronto. This pretty music sums up bad music of the late 80’s early 90’s. I knew that a person lacked musical taste in high school when they used the chorus to this. Made up of members of The Philosopher Kings, this duo did dance pop music that was generally catchy and generally horrible. But somehow all of the good cancelled each other out into this dreck. It’s a shame because this band had a lot of talent in it. This Hamilton based band tried their best Extreme “More Than Words” impression on this track and just failed in so many ways. Young kids with a song so sugary that it will give you diabetes if you listen repeatedly.ġ3) Sven Gali – “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” Is…is that a Spice Girl singing with him? SCREW YOU, BRYAN ADAMS! While not a horrible song, it isn’t a great one either and it just makes me incredibly angry and I felt it needed to be mentioned. Back to the Reckless / Waking Up The Neighbors days! Sweet! Wait. Oh my god, he’s gone back to the days when he was good. #SLIK TOXIK TV#I’m laying around, watching tv and flipping channels when I see Bryan Adams… wearing a jean jacket and a white t-shirt and jeans. And surprisingly when I asked around, I got a lot of people mentioning The Tragically Hip’s Killer Whale Tank version of “New Orleans is Sinking” but since it only seems to be this version that got mentioned, I can’t use it.ġ5) Bryan Adams / Mel C – “When You’re Gone” The level of suckage is pretty high so we’ll just say they are far and beyond this list. Let’s be honest, if I started with them, I’d never finish with them. ![]() SPECIAL MENTIONS: You will notice an absence of Celine Dion and Shania Twain on this list. So let’s look at it, shall we? The 15 Worst Canadian Songs Of The 90’s! It’s amazing how you block out but there was a lot of bad. The Tea Party, I Mother Earth, The Barenaked Ladies, Big Sugar, there was a ton of a good music from right here in Canada.īut with the good comes the bad. It was a time where we had a huge amount of CanCon on the radio and a good portion of it was amazing. You see boys and girls, I hit high school during the 90’s. I know my Dad does it to the certain extent and I find every once and a while I lapse into the same idea. When you get older, the years of your youth seem to be the golden years of music. Maybe it’s the heat, but special correspondent Brent Chittenden has been having some bad 90s flashbacks. ![]()
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