1. 'Tum To Tehre Pardesi' – Altaf Raja

Even thinking about this song makes one want to cringe. Altaf Raja's 'Tum To Tehre Pardesi' is possibly one of the worst songs to have ever been released. Featuring bad vocals and bad lyrics and a video that drove one up the wall, it somehow received unexplainably huge amounts of airplay. Perhaps it was because it sounded like a throwback to bad '80s music or had an overdose of 'cheap' quotient to it - it remains to be the most annoying song ever!

While Yuvvraaj was insipid, tacky and reeked of bad acting and a silly plotline, the music was even worse. One can't fathom what exactly was going through the minds of recent Oscar winners A.R.Rahman and Gulzar - the men behind the Yuvvraaj soundtrack - when they penned these songs, but the soundtrack would have shocked the Oscar jury had they ever heard it. Notable among the annoying songs in Yuvvraaj was 'Shano Shano', a song that features such literary lyrics such as 'andar andar, beech samandar, dubki khaye tu' and whose theme appeared to be imploring 'Shano' to 'get awwn tha floor!' For a while the mystery of who exactly Shano was remained unsolved, but a trailer for the film revealed that said Shano was actually Zayed Khan's character in Yuvvraaj. But back to the song: while one can't help but being hooked onto the chorus (guilty pleasure), the song's meaningless and idiotic lyrics and the wailing lines thrown into the middle such as 'pyaaaaaala pyaaaaaaala... meh ka pyaaaaaaaaala' make 'Shano Shano' a prime candidate for the most annoying song to have been released in 2008.

3. 'Ghoom Tana' – Salman Ahmed

'Ghoom Tana' was a great song by Junoon.
Ali's vocals - fantastic.
All the makings of a hit? Yes.
And then came Salman Ahmed. The man who proved on the Deewar album that Junoon's heyday had come to an end, decided to re-release 'Ghoom Tana', except it featured his own vocals. And while Salman is an accomplished and feted guitarist, singing is just not his cup of tea. So much so that when the out of tune, wailing version of 'Ghoom Tana' was released one couldn't help but wonder why no one had stopped Salman from releasing this awful, awful version.

4. 'Kaho Na Kaho' – OST: Murder

'Kaho Na Kaho' would have been better off had no one actually 'kaho-ed' the song. The mix between Arabic and English just didn't work, because there's a lot better fusion music out there in these two languages than 'Kaho Na Kaho'. It was such a terribly bad Indian film song that it served as a befitting soundtrack to the equally bad ripoff that the film Murder was.

With this horrendous cover of Junoon's hit 'Dosti', Atif Aslam not only made ears bleed, but put one off the idea of ever wanting to hear the original song again. What Mr Aslam was thinking when he decided to force this song on an unsuspecting public is beyond comprehension, but one does hope that he never repeats this mistake again. Atif's screechy vocals couldn't even match up to the song, and perhaps that's why such beloved songs should never be covered: they can never match upto the original. Though Atif proved that far from matching Ali Azmat's vocals on 'Dosti', he could only prove the old adage true: 'old is gold!'