Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

It all started one fine day back in the 1990's, when Florida-based columnist Dave Barry made a flippant remark about the insipidity of Neil Diamond ballads. His faithful readers deluged Barry with mail, some supportive, others suggesting strongly that there were MUCH worse radio hits than the likes......more

Many of my family members are in the same age bracket as Dave Barry and get annoyed by many of the same songs. So this is a fun book to read aloud from, because a) Barry includes enough lyrics to get the awful songs stuck in your head for days and b) he can put together the most hilarious sentences:......more

This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. As Barry says, "song badness" is apparently a topic that people care about a lot. And how can we not? In a world where Neil Diamond has made a living confessing his innermost feelings to a cruelly unresponsive chair, it is our pleasure, nay, our duty......more

Too too funny! My husband and I both read this book and then went back and re-read and laughed over so many of the funniest parts. It's a short book, not a huge time committment, but hysterically funny if you are familiar at all with the songs. Some of the funniest parts are from his "bad song survey......more

I learned that I am not the only person fascinated with terrible lyrics. Do it to my one more time. Muscrat love. I sincerely hope that if I am ever in a coma, someone will read this out loud to me because it will still make me laugh.......more