What's the worst song of all time?

[VonErich Lives]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/21/music.worst.songs.ap/index.html

What's the worst song of all time?
For Blender, it's 'We Built This City'
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Posted: 8:42 AM EDT (1242 GMT)


NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 said.

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, among others.

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 says, "This is not me," when the magazine reminds her of the tune. "Now you're an actor. It's the same as Meryl Streep playing Joan of Arc."

Rounding out the top 10: "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; and "Ebony and Ivory," Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.

Other songs on the list: 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 & Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence" (No. 42); The Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (No. 48); and Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" (No. 50).

Blender and VH1's TV special "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs ... Ever" airs May 12.



The kicker is... I like that song... then again I like a lot of 80's crap... I think part of why it sticks out is there was a local (pre-mtv) music channel "V66" and they had a version of that song but w/ local boston clips mixed in.

[El Capitano Gatisto]

Black Eyed Peas - Where is the love?

Cher - that one from a few years ago where her voiced was all electronically enhanced, If You Believe in Love or something.

Anything by Madonna in the last ten years.

[loopydate]

How the f</>uck does "Sounds of Silence" make a worst songs list? And "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da?" WTF?

[OssMan]

Eamon- F</>uck it (Don't want you back)
Eamon- Get Off My Dick
And every other song by Eamon.
AND..
J Kwon- Tips

[Ricky]

Black Eyed Peas - Where is the love?Yeah seriously Black Eyes Peas make the most annoying songs ever.

[asphyXy]

<font color=969696>That list is bullshit. There are millions of songs worse than those.

Worst song ever: Dimmu Borgir - Puritania</font>

[Funky Fly]

How the f</>uck does "Sounds of Silence" make a worst songs list? And "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da?" WTF?
Yeah, no shit. None of those assholes would have jobs if not for the Beatles.

[sadio8]

lol what the ****? Why is Hammer on there :@!

[natureboycv]

<font color=8307ff><b>Yeah I didn't really agree with the list.</font></b>

[packt up]

lol I love Ob-la-di-ob-la-da :$

I would put forward "lullaby" by Mel B - only heard it once in HMV but god it was awful :(

Though I did hate that Cher one ECG mentioned - Believe

[samichna]

Blender is kinda messed up. It's funny, yeah, but I dunno, I don't really respect their musical taste all that much.

[mitch_h]

I want "Party all the Time" by Eddie Murphy played at my funeral.

[Watson]

"Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker Ugh....Like fingernails on a chalkboard.

[Bazooka]

Anything by Michael Bolton

[The Outlaw]

That list deserves to be burnt

[Funky Fly]

Blender is the biggest piece of crap ever when it comes to music.

[Kane Knight]

Sounds like they're mostly just pissing on the 80s.


I won't say that these are my favorite songs, or that I even like a lot of them, but let's not pretend they're the worst songs ever. There's plenty of shit out there, and it sounds more like they've got an axe to grind with overplayed songs than they actually care about how bad the content is.

[Kane Knight]

That list deserves to be <s>burnt</s> shot

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

LFO single from a while ago

[PorkSoda]

No One Knows by Queens Of The Stone Age.
I Believe In A Thing Called Love by The Darkness.
about 97 percent of the stuff on TRL or MTV, such as P. Diddy and all those rap and pop type stuff, havent watched in a while and dont plan to.

[da_king]

<font color="#ccffcc">
probably something by yoko ono.

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[SuperSlim]

Brittney Spears anyone?

[The Ravishing One]

LFO single from a while ago

:n:

[The Ravishing One]

Agrees with SuperSlim

[bobfinger]

No One Knows by Queens Of The Stone Age.


Bwahhhhh!!!???!!!

[RGWhat316]

LB "Rollin" is on that list, WTF? Thats a cool song. Though I would have to rank "My heart will go on" higher than #50, I can't stand that song. And would "She Bangs" be the Ricky Martin or William Hung version :D

[Wondermouse]

Any incarnation of MacArthur Park.

These aren't the worst songs ever. These are just some songs that'll get publicity for the mag, so people will buy it to see how horribly wrong the list is.

[KillerWolf]

some techno hip hop bullshit i heard on the radio. dunno what its called, but the bitch just kept sayin' "im knock knock knockin-knock knock knockin-knockin on back of your door.

[DaveWadding]

WTF, that list sucks shit.

I like like half the song they listed there...

Built This City
Achy Breaky Heart
and
We Didn't Start the Fire

ESPECIALLY

and what the **** is this trash on Paul and the Beatles shit?

I want some of the drugs these guys were on...

[Gertner]

Don't be dissin techno.

[Mikey]

I heard The End by The Doors is on this list if this is true :foc: :foc: :foc:

[BlackRavyyn]

LFO single from a while ago

<font color=seagreen><i>I think the song you're thinking of is "Summertime Girls" Muchmusic did a show called "One Hit Wonders"</i></font>

[Blue Demon]

Hey ya-Outkast

[Dazz]

Yeah I'm gunna agree with Assman here.

Eamon - Fu</>ck it, that song is toss.

[Champion of Europa]

How did Don't Worry Be Happy Now make it on that list?

That's like the coolest song EVER.

[BlackRavyyn]

Yeah I'm gunna agree with Assman here.

Eamon - Fu</>ck it, that song is toss.

<font color=seagreen><i>And the rap done by some girl Frankie, in response to that song - is that much worse.

I do agree with some of the songs on the list but the Beatles mentions? The hell? :foc:</i></font>

[The Dub]

We Didn't Start The Fire was a cool song when it was out. I wouldn't say that Built This City was the worst song ever. How could a song that promotes racial harmony(Ebony and Ivory) be one of the worst songs ever? Was the people who made this list racist? What about B2K? They suck pretty bad. Overall, I've heard worse than what was on this list.

[The Dub]

Suga Suga by Baby Bash is a terrible song. Why didn't it make the list?

[TheNamelessOne]

This sounds like one of those Kerrang lists. Except in Kerrang, Nirvana top every one.

[The Outlaw]

LFO single from a while ago

LMAO

Reminds me, I won an autographed poster/cd from them

I think it was them anyway

[el fregadero]

Outlaw, you fairy.

Also, that Eddie Murphy song is the goods. Gonna go d/l it here soon.

[DaveWadding]

http://www.blender.com/articles/article_786.html

50 CÉLINE DION “My Heart Will Go On” 1998
49 RIGHT SAID FRED “I’m Too Sexy” 1992
48 THE BEATLES “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” 1968
47 BRYAN ADAMS “The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You” 1996
46 NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK “Hangin’ Tough” 1989
45 JA RULE FEAT. ASHANTI “Mesmerize” 2002
44 MEAT LOAF “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” 1993
43 UNCLE KRACKER “Follow Me” 2000
42 SIMON & GARFUNKEL “The Sounds of Silence” 1965
41 BILLY JOEL “We Didn’t Start the Fire” 1989
40 COLOR ME BADD “I Wanna Sex You Up” 1991


See what Blender has to say about its Top 40 worst songs ever — including Ricky Martin, Mr. Mister, John Mayer, Bette Midler and more — in the May 2004 issue, on newsstands now!

[Krow]

"The Beatles proved conclusively that there were two things they could not do: play reggae and feign enjoyment. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” was a ska track recorded at a point during the White Album sessions when the Beatles would happily have beaten one another to death if only they had had some clubs on hand. As a result, this sounds less like reggae than the desperately chirpy songs Cockneys used to sing to keep their spirits up while the Luftwaffe rained death on them during the Blitz."

:rofl: