Top 10 worst songs
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This caught my eye. If you think about it, the below mentioned songs have stupid lyrics. Some more stupid than others.
Do you agree? Do you have songs to add to the list?
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL
1. We Built This City Starship 1985
2. Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus 1992
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 1986
4. Rollin' Limpbizkit 2000
5. Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 1990
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll Huey Lewis & The News 1984
7. Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin 1988
8. Party All the Time Eddie Murphy 1985
9. American Life Madonna 2003
10. Ebony and Ivory Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder 1982
'We Built This City' ranks as the worst record ever
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
We Built This City is the single worst single ever constructed, according to Blender's ranking of reeking tunes.
Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby ranks as the fifth-worst song, according to Blender.
GNS
The magazine's list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever," which hits newsstands Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles and April 27 nationwide, distills the lamest popular rock-era records into one sonic landfill.
Starship's 1985 anthem, the runaway No. 1 stinker, "seems to inspire the most virulent feelings of outrage," editor Craig Marks says. "It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism. It's a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s."
Also sealing the song's fate were Starship's steep fall from grace as the admired Jefferson Airplane and "the sheer dumbness of the lyrics," Marks says.
The May issue, a sequel to the 2003 roundup of history's worst bands, coincides with a Blender/VH1 special, The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever, which airs May 12.
Harvesting clunkers that range from The Doors' The End to Aqua's Barbie Girl entailed more digging than expected.
Each dud had to be a hit to make the hit list. Though Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy got in, such novelties as Macarena and Who Let the Dogs Out, which by design are cheesy, were nixed. The jury also whittled down the bulk of "rotten, excruciatingly bad low-hanging fruit from the '70s," Marks says.
Blender had no qualms about riding herd on sacred cows, inducting The Beatles' Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People and John Mayer's Your Body Is a Wonderland. The entry most likely to peeve fans is Simon & Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence.
"It's the freshman-poetry meaningfulness that got our goat," Marks says. "With self-important lyrics like, 'Hear my words that I might teach you,' it's almost a parody of pretentious '60s folk-rock.
"If Frasier Crane wrote a song, this would be it."
To accommodate coming horrors, the list can't be considered definitive. Noting that Clay Aiken's Invisible landed at No. 11, Marks predicts that "as soon as the American Idol season is finished, there will be a new entry." -
" We Built This City " is frequently played over the radio
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hey this was one of my fav ok?Originally posted by jetta:BOTTOM OF THE BARREL
1. We Built This City Starship 1985 -
yeah.. what the hell happened to the greatness of Jefferson Airplane?
well, there are a few which i would attempt to walk out of an airliner at 30,000ft if it was played...
anything by the crappy Modern Talking would do it...
there are many songs which the singer seems to think that they are the bee's knees and overestimate their own importance... Michael Bolton is one of them.. he's.. just.. irritating
some songs went and became the biggest hits ever.. and was sustained tedium.. like Stevie Wonder's I Just Called.....
and i hate redneck type songs too -
I asked how good was the song, he told me where in the Top 40 it was.
do think about it
Originally posted by InnoHippo:" We Built This City " is frequently played over the radio -
I can think of quite a few songs by Bros
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This is one of my favourites, I admit but if you really listen to the lyrics, it's quite silly really.Originally posted by InnoHippo:" We Built This City " is frequently played over the radio -
You said it! I can't stand anything by Michael Bolton. Soon as I hear him on the radio, I change the station. In my house, we've renamed him, Michael Revolting. Speaking of which, some Whitney Houston songs just grate. The hubster's renamed her, Whitney How-you-stink.Originally posted by the Bear:yeah.. what the hell happened to the greatness of Jefferson Airplane?
well, there are a few which i would attempt to walk out of an airliner at 30,000ft if it was played...
anything by the crappy Modern Talking would do it...
there are many songs which the singer seems to think that they are the bee's knees and overestimate their own importance... Michael Bolton is one of them.. he's.. just.. irritating
some songs went and became the biggest hits ever.. and was sustained tedium.. like Stevie Wonder's I Just Called.....
and i hate redneck type songs too I hate Modern Talking too. -
Eh, I used to love Bros, k?Originally posted by av98m:I can think of quite a few songs by Bros -
to tear into that time, there was a lot of crappy groups..
i think i've a psychological barrier in my head which makes me unable to remember any but i know there were a lot of them
but around that time, there were a lot of damned fine music tooOriginally posted by av98m:I can think of quite a few songs by Bros -
You cannot listen to it using logic and rational arguments. You must read the lyrics like poetry and if you do that, it is brilliant beyond words.Originally posted by jetta:This is one of my favourites, I admit but if you really listen to the lyrics, it's quite silly really. -
i like to listen n swear with no. 4...
haha... ice ice baby.. the lyrics... ok lah...
and hey!!! my doggies like no. 7 lei~Originally posted by jetta:This caught my eye. If you think about it, the below mentioned songs have stupid lyrics. Some more stupid than others. Do you agree? Do you have songs to add to the list?
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL
1. We Built This City Starship 1985
2. Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus 1992
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 1986
4. Rollin' Limpbizkit 2000
5. Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 1990
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll Huey Lewis & The News 1984
7. Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin 1988
8. Party All the Time Eddie Murphy 1985
9. American Life Madonna 2003
10. Ebony and Ivory Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder 1982
'We Built This City' ranks as the worst record ever
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
We Built This City is the single worst single ever constructed, according to Blender's ranking of reeking tunes.
Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby ranks as the fifth-worst song, according to Blender.
GNS
The magazine's list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever," which hits newsstands Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles and April 27 nationwide, distills the lamest popular rock-era records into one sonic landfill.
Starship's 1985 anthem, the runaway No. 1 stinker, "seems to inspire the most virulent feelings of outrage," editor Craig Marks says. "It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism. It's a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s."
Also sealing the song's fate were Starship's steep fall from grace as the admired Jefferson Airplane and "the sheer dumbness of the lyrics," Marks says.
The May issue, a sequel to the 2003 roundup of history's worst bands, coincides with a Blender/VH1 special, The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever, which airs May 12.
Harvesting clunkers that range from The Doors' The End to Aqua's Barbie Girl entailed more digging than expected.
Each dud had to be a hit to make the hit list. Though Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy got in, such novelties as Macarena and Who Let the Dogs Out, which by design are cheesy, were nixed. The jury also whittled down the bulk of "rotten, excruciatingly bad low-hanging fruit from the '70s," Marks says.
Blender had no qualms about riding herd on sacred cows, inducting The Beatles' Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People and John Mayer's Your Body Is a Wonderland. The entry most likely to peeve fans is Simon & Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence.
"It's the freshman-poetry meaningfulness that got our goat," Marks says. "With self-important lyrics like, 'Hear my words that I might teach you,' it's almost a parody of pretentious '60s folk-rock.
"If Frasier Crane wrote a song, this would be it."
To accommodate coming horrors, the list can't be considered definitive. Noting that Clay Aiken's Invisible landed at No. 11, Marks predicts that "as soon as the American Idol season is finished, there will be a new entry." -
read the lyrics.. like bad poetry... and it is bad
really...
i think the years of substance abuse has destroyed the core of Jefferson Airplane..
after listening to Surrealistic Pillow, you wonder how has the mighty fallen...Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:You cannot listen to it using logic and rational arguments. You must read the lyrics like poetry and if you do that, it is brilliant beyond words. -
Quote:Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:You cannot listen to it using logic and rational arguments. You must read the lyrics like poetry and if you do that, it is brilliant beyond words.
Everybody Wang Chung tonight.
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This is an anti-establishment song that is full of sentiments, feelings, romance and fantasy.Originally posted by the Bear:read the lyrics.. like bad poetry... and it is bad
really...
i think the years of substance abuse has destroyed the core of Jefferson Airplane..
after listening to Surrealistic Pillow, you wonder how has the mighty fallen...
It speaks of how "rock n roll" is more real than "ordinary life". How rock n roll songs are real compared to songs like "La Bamba".
It is telling those "middle-class, church going, corporation types holding on to Protestant Ethics" to f-off.
The song is telling them:
"Say you don't know me, or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night"
If you do not agree with them that the city - "the real city" was built on rock n roll, (and you think that they are nonsense) well you can also f-off like the rest of the establishment types...
because:We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
(We built, we built this city)
Built this city (we built, we built this city)
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Originally posted by jetta:Quote:
Everybody Wang Chung tonight.
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it isn't.. looking at their past, that song was a sad parody of what they have become
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national anthem suan mah? got so revolted cos forced to sing last time
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this will be an eternal debate between the youths and the establishment... what is more real?Originally posted by the Bear:it isn't.. looking at their past, that song was a sad parody of what they have become
on the one hand you have they "I am scared of girls that go clubbing" types and on the other hand there are the "what is life without drugs booze and rock n roll...."
The song captures the sentiments brilliantly. -
Who let the dogs out.
I rather listen to Modern Talking for the whole day. Atlantic is calling, SOS for love~ -
uhhh.. are you on drugs?
nevermind..
go listen to Jefferson Airplane..
before they became Jefferson Starship.. and then Starship...
note what the guy wrote about in the first post.. about that song..
go back and listen to Jefferson Airplane.. then think about this sell-out of a song..
and realise what i meant about 'a sad parody'
...
and more aural atrocities... Celine Dion..
actually, Whitney Houston's first 2 singles from her first album were fantastic.. but then, like many with 4-octave voices, she decided to scream instead of sing.. like Mariah Carey did too.. all she does is scream... they need to learn a few lessons from a woman with an amazing range but keeps it in check for the good of the songs: Cyndi LauperOriginally posted by AndrewPKYap:this will be an eternal debate between the youths and the establishment... what is more real?
on the one hand you have they "I am scared of girls that go clubbing" types and on the other hand there are the "what is life without drugs booze and rock n roll...."
The song captures the sentiments brilliantly. -
come on its undertaker's entrance song!Originally posted by jetta:4. Rollin' Limpbizkit 2000
dead man walking.. -
and how does that improve a song which could not deteriorate further?Originally posted by brokenluv:come on its undertaker's entrance song!
dead man walking.. -
hehehe, you are a middle class, church going, clinger to the protestant ethics "type..." (or equivalent, similar type); and tell me I am wrongOriginally posted by the Bear:uhhh.. are you on drugs?
nevermind..
go listen to Jefferson Airplane..
before they became Jefferson Starship.. and then Starship...
note what the guy wrote about in the first post.. about that song..
go back and listen to Jefferson Airplane.. then think about this sell-out of a song..
and realise what i meant about 'a sad parody'
...
and more aural atrocities... Celine Dion..
actually, Whitney Houston's first 2 singles from her first album were fantastic.. but then, like many with 4-octave voices, she decided to scream instead of sing.. like Mariah Carey did too.. all she does is scream... they need to learn a few lessons from a woman with an amazing range but keeps it in check for the good of the songs: Cyndi Lauper -
anything but
you're batting zero today