A least favourite song is rather hard to pin down, since as a general rule if I don’t like something I just down listen to it and I don’t make a point of categorising things I don’t listen to in order to decide which of them I least want to listen to!

However, there is one song that’s sufficiently bad and that I’m familiar enough with to call a least favourite, and it’s this one. I used to work for Cross Rhythms, a Christian community radio station in Stoke-on-Trent, and we usually had the radio on in the office as we worked so I got to hear everything on the playlist. Much of it I liked, some I was indifferent to, and some I really disliked. This fell into the latter category. As to why I dislike it, well, its a combination of the singer’s whiney voice, the laboured spiritual metaphors and – most of all – the utterly banal lyrics.

Unfortunately – or possibly fortunately, depending on your perspective – there’s nothing on Youtube for this song, so you can’t watch it being performed. But the band’s MySpace page (and there’s a blast from the past – going there is like hopping in a time machine) is still active, despite the fact that the band have themselves seemingly become defunct, and the song is on the playlist. The band is GS Megaphone, and the song I’m referring to is the fourth on the playlist, called “Prodigal Dad”. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.

[Edit: Someone has, subsequently, added it to YouTube. So, here you go.]