Worst song ever!

[Bombardier]

LOVE or hate them you can't get these stinkers out of your head.

Blender magazine has rated We Built This City as the worst single ever constructed in its list "The 50 Worst Songs Ever".

The magazine said the Starship song earned the accolade because it inspired "the most virulent feelings of outrage".

To make the list, each pungent ditty had to be a hit.

Entry was based on unintentionally poor songwriting.

Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's maudlin duet Ebony and Ivory also featured, as did R.E.M's Shiny, Happy People and John Mayer's Your Body is a Wonderland.

But the inclusion most likely to spark calls of blasphemy is the listing of the Simon and Garfunkel ballad The Sounds of Silence.

"It's the poetry meaningfulness that got our goat," said Blender editor Craig Marks. "With self-important lyrics like, 'Hear my words that I might teach you', it's almost a parody of pretentious '60s folk rock."

Few outside the boot-scooting fraternity would contest the listing of the Billy Ray Cyrus atrocity Achy Breaky Heart at No. 2.

Fallen star Vanilla Ice made it in with perennial dance-floor filler Ice Ice Baby, as did good-times theme song Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin.

Eddie Murphy's ill-advised foray into music, with the 1985 tragedy Party All the Time, was evidence actors other than J-Lo should not sing. It ranked No. 8.

http://entertainment.news.com.au/common/st...255Enbv,00.html

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Bombardier's note: I'd have to respectfully disagree with some of the list of songs voted as being the "worst". I actually liked We Built This City, Sound of Silence, Don't Worry, Be Happy, and others too.

[DudeAsInCool]

I liked John Mayer's My Body is a Wonderland, and Simon and Garfunkle's Sounds of Silence. Whoever put these songs on a worst ever list, needs their ears examined.

That said, Acy Breaky Heart and Ice Baby Ice would definitely be on my worst list...yuck...

[jipper]

surely the worst songs ever wouldnt be songs that are in the charts...and especially ones that bought have bought and have got to a high position in the charts.

Ice Ice Baby, made it to number one...at the time is was everyones favourte tune.

[Umma]

the worst song ever has to be

I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor

[Bombardier]

Achy Breaky Heart also was a song that climbed to the top of the charts.

Sure it got annoying after hearing it 500 times, but it was popular enough to be played that many times in the first place.

[jipper]

exactly, the most annoying song to me atm is

eamon - **** it (i dont want you back)

[liesabath]

most worst song ever to me is: George McCrae - Rock Your Baby. This is giving me the creeps :( :wha':

[Cerebral_Assassin]

Some of these I totally disagree with........

Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" (No. 22)

Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence" (No. 42)

I haven't seen the whole list, yeah....some were stinkers but some are good tunage.

[Cerebral_Assassin]

I wonder if "Popcorn" by Hot Butter is on that list somewhere....that piece just annoys the total sh*t outta me.

[Shawn]

the worst song ever has to be

I Will Survive  by Gloria Gaynor

Sacrilege! :bigsmile:

That's a great song and a TV and movie favourite. It might be over-used, but that's not her fault.

The worst song ever was "Why" by good old Yoko, but I even like that. I'm a sucker for corn.

[desdemona]

ic the beatles made the list, ob la di, ob la da, lol oh well, life goes on!

[nate]

so is that a carte blanche to go out, find those musicians , crack their heads open and eat the gooey stuff inside?

in that case, i'll start with toby keith, because i want to start small

this is really just a list of overplayed, overrated songs--musicians trying to say something through a song, but then only managing to say "we are trying to rock" or "we aren't really this lame"

[Kooperman]

I wanted to nominate the entire Black Oak Arkansas catalog.....I think I will!

[Umma]

the worst song ever has to be

I Will Survive  by Gloria Gaynor

Sacrilege! :bigsmile:

That's a great song and a TV and movie favourite. It might be over-used, but that's not her fault.

The worst song ever was "Why" by good old Yoko, but I even like that. I'm a sucker for corn.

Ach Shawn... you've just shattered my illusion of you as the perfect man

[liesabath]

Worsiest worst worst song is... Kraftwerk - Autobahn :poop:

[joeyz]

How about anything ever written by Meatloaf!

[desdemona]

kooper, but, but, Black Oak Arkansas did a mean "Jim Dandee to the ressssscue!"

[Kooperman]

Des, it seemed like Black Oak was the opening act for every concert I went to in the early to mid 70's. I quickly grew to dispise the golliwog croaks of Jim Dandy.

[rainbowdemon]

Just about all of the late 70's disco fad!

[DudeAsInCool]

When the disco craze happened, I switched to fusion--herbie hancock, etc. I remember having a meeting to work at a film company that had a music division that released Donna Summers, etc. The head of the company, who later ran Sony, was playing the latest hit when I walked in his door. I think he thought this would impress me that he was 'with it', but I knew immediately that this was not the place for me. Imagine trying to do work and having to listen to that junk all day, and seeing your boss prancin around to that crap and saying 'this is hot'

[Shawn]

Ach Shawn... you've just shattered my illusion of you as the perfect man

:read this:

I have to show the better half that. I knew I was a commodity. :D

[Kooperman]

I knew I was a commodity. :D

...so are pork bellies and soy beans...

[rainbowdemon]

Koop, you just compared a Jewish guy to pork bellies?

[nate]

Koop, you just compared a Jewish guy to pork bellies?

aren't pork bellies live pigs?

nothing unkosher about live pigs (unless you are having unclean fantasies about them)

[Kooperman]

nothing unkosher about live pigs (unless you are having unclean fantasies about them)

Now we get into Yoda territory....