Have you ever gone onto Youtube looking for one reason and ended up looking at something entirely different. Let's say you wanted to learn how to cook a grilled cheese sandwich only to wind up watching angry cats hissing for an hour. I can't even remember where I started today, but I've been looking at videos of terrible musicians and they're all brilliant in their own horrible, ear-piercing way. I figured I ought to share a few of the best of the worst with you.

The Final Countdown

Who doesn't love The Final Countdown? It's a cheesy eighties singalong that gets stuck in your head and won't let go. These guys look like their practicing for a concert, but I can't imagine that anyone would have hired them. The stage must have been left their for someone else and they sneaked on to see what it feels like to be a talented band that gets work.

Their keyboard is apparently a five dollar Casio set to organ and the keyboardist must have just gotten back from his first lesson with the old lady who play the piano at his church. You might not think that it could get worse, but then the singer comes in proves you so very, very wrong. He doesn't really sing the song, he just lets the words tumble from him in a monotone whine. At the very least he could have had some fun with it, but he looks completely disinterested and paces back and forth over the same three feet of stage. It's The Final fuckin' Countdown, have some fun with it. Of course it's not all bad, skip to 2:00 for a killer drum fill and face melting solo.

Are You Afraid of Death?

I wanted to give these guys a chance because it's obvious that they're putting themselves out there in front of their High School classmates and they're getting a lot of shit, but they're really quite bad. They are a perfect example of that age when you actually think you can be artistic and unique and anything you do can blow people's perceptions and change the world and they channel that into horrid noise, poor musicianship, and a sad attempt a performance art.

Alcoholicaust from Nanonucleonic Cyborg Summoning

This video is a little odd, because these two guys are obviously very talented, impressively so. They've got expensive instruments, they're well practiced, and I'm sure they spent a lot of money making this tape. It's just that raw talent is only half of being a musician. Their music is cold technicality at its worst, there's no soul to it. You can play a million notes a second, but it doesn't mean shit if your music has no heart.

Too Much Bruhd

I can't even imagine what possessed this guy to record a song, but it's hilarious and I applaud him for it. The song goes on and on and it keeps getting funnier as it goes on. From it's mysterious beginning to his haunting wails of "Pwease help me! Pwease hold my hand!" My favorite part is that he has this Glen Danzig thing going on with his voice that keeps popping up. Also, what's up with the chick in the backround, she doesn't look like shes disgusted, excited, or sleeping. In fact, it looks like shes asleep, which impressive considering the metric ton of pure metal that is being thrust upon her.

Miss Douglas County

This one is brutal to watch. This is a video of an Arizona beauty pageant in the mid nineties. This charming young woman from Arizona came up with the brilliant idea of showing off her talent on the trumpet to a medley of Star Wars songs. Unfortunately something horrible happened and she's completely off key with the recorded track. She's a trooper though and follows through with the routine instead of running off stage. It's just terrible because every time she puts the trumpet up to her mouth you know exactly what's going to come out.