10 WWE Stars With Laughably Bad Music Careers

4. Terry Funk

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How can you criticise Terry Funk?

The man is a bonafide legend who paved and travelled a ludicrously long and seminal path. He was a territorial star, a puro megastar, he contributed greatly to the arguably the best career year in wrestling history (Ric Flair, 1989), and, when his body failed him, he electrocuted that body as a pioneer of the death match genre before uplifting/memorable late career runs in ECW and the WWF. He could wrestle. He could fight. He could f*cking sell. He could talk. And that's all he did during a drastically misjudged musical venture.

He also released a song, at 40 years of age, entitled 'We Hate School'. It is a difficult listen. Released as part of the 'Great Texan' album primarily distributed in Japan, 'We Hate School' is the most legendarily awful of a lot that includes a 'Beat It' ripoff dedicated to Barbara Streisand's nose and a wah-wah porno-tastic ode to Tokyo nightlife entitled 'Roppongi'.

But 'We Hate School' is the one. It's really strange - but not good, pretentious, avant-garde strange. We begin with a jaunty bit of bluegrass over which Terry Funk raps (a true three-word horror story) about "rock n' roll". What?

Funk also threatens to shove a rubber hose up his teacher's nose and then, apropos of nothing, expresses a desire to punch his ex-girlfriend.

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