Bad Music 4: The Search For Suck

So one of the bummers about retirement is not allowing me to indulge you guys on all nine installments of the Bad Music series. However, since the next one is my favorite of the bunch. The others all have their charms. There’s the global beat of Bad Music 7: In Loving Memory of J. Incandenza, the rampant swearing of Bad Music Ocho (the first after I left the movie theater and thus didn’t have to worry about bad language), the personal significance of Bad Music V: The Last Fucking One (succeeded by Bad Music Six: Jason Lives). However, if I only do one more, it rightly should be the one that’s most dear to me, Bad Music 4: The Search For Suck:

It wasn’t always peach with BM4 though. I don’t know if there exists a mix that I (nor anyone, probably) have done more versions of. When it started it was a much different animal. Coming off the heels of Worst Music, which failed to end the series on an appropriately epic note, this one sought to rectify things with one last stupid ta-da. It even had a counterattack to "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)" with Celine Dion’s "It’s All Coming Back To Me", the idea being to fight Steinman with Steinman. It became the mix that never quite worked. This cut you see above has to be at least the 20th revision.

But these days i’m starting to think it’s pretty close, by version 100 it should really start blooming.

Musically, I’ve always thought of it as Bad Music arranged by the members of the Breakfast Club (with access to post-85′ tunes, obviously). Sloppy teenage emotions are all over it, with a healthy helping of sloppy adult ones too.

And just in case you’re wondering, Celine was returned to the series in the true finale Bad Music ∞. But this one should suffice as the finale for now, I should think.

Oh, and for no adequate reason, Grooveshark doesn’t have any Peter Gabriel at all. Here’s what’s supposed to go between Sarah Mclachlan and Billy Joel.