Worst Songs Ever!

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from http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id ... 8&set_id=1
New York - Starship may have built this city on rock and roll, but Blender magazine is tearing it down, naming the band's We Built This City as the worst song ever.

Some tunes on the 50 Worst Songs Ever! list were selected for their melodies, others "are wretchedly performed" and "quite a few don't make sense whatsoever", the magazine says.

The list, which appears in the May issue, includes songs by New Kids On The Block, Meat Loaf, The Doors, Lionel Richie, Hammer and The Beach Boys.

Blender describes 1985's We Built This City as "the truly horrible sound of a band taking the corporate dollar while sneering at those who take the corporate dollar".

Starship lead singer Grace Slick said: "This is not me," when the magazine reminded her of the tune.

Rounding out the top 10 are:
Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
Rollin' - Limp Bizkit
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
The Heart Of Rock & Roll - Huey Lewis And The News
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Party All The Time - Eddie Murphy
American Life - Madonna
Ebony And Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder


Other songs on the list include: Toby Keith's
Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (No 22); Whitney Houston's Greatest Love Of All (No 30); Ricky Martin's She Bangs (No 39); Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire (No 41); Simon And Garfunkel's The Sound Of Silence (No 42); The Beatles's Ob-La-Di,
Ob-La-Da (No 48); and Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On (No 50). - Sapa-AP
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no westlife/busted/boyzone?
shaddupa ya face?
birdy song?
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emilystrange wrote:no westlife/busted/boyzone?
shaddupa ya face?
birdy song?
"Shaddupa ya face" kept Ultravox's "Vienna" off number 1 IIRC :urff: :lol:
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yes.. oh the pain... agghh
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no - the darkness Xmas song :eek: don't worry 10 years time it'll be there :evil:
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hallucienate wrote:Simon And Garfunkel's The Sound Of Silence (No 42)
:eek:

But that's a great song!

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paint it black wrote:no - the darkness Xmas song :eek: don't worry 10 years time it'll be there :evil:
please, don't go there. you'll be running away from me in the Valley of Darkness before you know where you are. ;D
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The drum rolls for PIBs comeback....

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Anything by Iron Maiden for me by the way....

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hmmm...i like that billy joel song... :eek:
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anyone who sings about 'feigning joy and surprise at gifts you despise' at xmas gets my vote. spesh if you spend it at the inlaws'.
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ahk..why dont they leave the doors alone..bastards
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not sure who it's by, but that rap song with 'it's a hard knock life' sampled in it! aarrrggghhhh makes me wanna scream!! :evil:
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Anything by M People. :urff:
The singer's voice (Heather Small?) makes me wanna torture myself.
“I got lost in the mirror, wondering what could have been, I couldn’t help but kill her, but I couldn’t kill the dream.”
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Anything by Modern Talking -
and the Ketchup Song
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Worst ever? For sheer, overblown self-indulgent pomposity and all-round twaddle it has to be Late Night, Maudlin Street by Morrissey. The definitive symptom of a man crawling up his own arse.
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Purple Light wrote:Anything by M People. :urff:
The singer's voice (Heather Small?) makes me wanna torture myself.
Aye, she sings just like Rusty Lee talks! :lol:
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many, too many...
Europe - The Final Countdown
Lifted - The Lighthouse Family
anything by Travis, except All I Want To Do Is Rock
Insatiable - Darren Hayes

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Padstar wrote:The drum rolls for PIBs comeback....

Paddy.
now that's not fair :(


i really don't associate with them. i hate them. it doesn't mean i don't respect other's opinions of them. they are dire and along wth daft punk, hold my personal record for resale of an lp/cd . i.e. 15 minutes :roll:
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My quickest return to record shop was 'Holy Money' by Swans.
Bought at 6pm Friday, returned 2:30pm Saturday.
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sisxbeforedawn wrote:not sure who it's by, but that rap song with 'it's a hard knock life' sampled in it! aarrrggghhhh makes me wanna scream!! :evil:
That would be Jay-Z ... He has Beyoncé as a girlfriend so who are we :)
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vicus wrote:Anything by Modern Talking
yes yes yes... last weekend, visiting a friend, I saw them again in TV (it was a German TV program, I guess, and the show was probably something like "trash classics") and I realized again that they were SO awful that it made me laugh ;D
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Cum On Eileen - Dexy's
hate that one with a passion.
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Red Sunsets wrote:Cum On Eileen - Dexy's
hate that one with a passion.
You've got to hand it to her though, she was a game girl.
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$hit song though, Thrash.

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