Well, Well, Well wrote:this thread is for your least favorite song take that "Jackson park express is the best song ever" stuff somewhere else OMG.
So back on topic, I think my least favorite is
My Own Eyes. The music does nothing for me, I can't make out a lot of the lyrics, and I don't feel like studying the liner notes just to find out if there's a minor chuckle or two stuck in there. From what I could hear, it seemed like one of those "stream of random non-sequiturs" songs that are basically fillers (and that certainly don't require the amazing talents of WAY; many of us could come up with randomly "weird" lyrics).
In fact, I'm realizing about myself that when the music is boring, it's hard for me to like the song even if it's funny.
Handy is a double-whammy for me, since the source tune is awful and the three (?) jokes the lyrics seem to offer are pretty weak. Remember when people were sharing the
Fancy video before we knew what
Handy would be, and a bunch of folks said that before it was even halfway through they shut it off, or muted it and just ogled the girls? Weak source material. "Screw dat, screw dat" just wasn't enough to make me care. But as boring as
Handy is, at least I can hear the lyrics!
I've been in Al's corner since the early 80s, love his work, and respect him a lot; he's absolutely a genius and a great person. But I am puzzled by his (rare) misses like
My Own Eyes where it's basically just a mushy mess. If the source material is this murky (no idea whether that's true, not interested in finding out), maybe there was a better parody subject somewhere else?
I'm hoping that this new era of releasing singles instead of conventional albums is going to free him up, and eliminate the pressure to write "fillers" like
MOE just to reach the 12 songs needed to fill the disc.
I do fully realize that some other fans probably love My Own Eyes and would be heartbroken to not have it, in much the same way that I love Sports Song despite all the unlove. But the OP asked, so here's my subjective answer.