Blender's top 10 worst songs in the history of music!
04-19-04, 09:22 PM
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Originally posted by El-Kabong
10) Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
09) American Life - Madonna
08) Party All the time - Eddie Murphy
07) Dont Worry, Be Happy - Bobby Mc Farren
06) The Heart of Rock and Roll - Huey Lewis
05) Ice Ice Baby - Vanillla Ice
03) Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
10) Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
09) American Life - Madonna
08) Party All the time - Eddie Murphy
07) Dont Worry, Be Happy - Bobby Mc Farren
06) The Heart of Rock and Roll - Huey Lewis
05) Ice Ice Baby - Vanillla Ice
03) Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
04-19-04, 10:19 PM
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Their criteria for songs to pick from is just totally arbitrary:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-04-18-worst-songs_x.htm
'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.
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.
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
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."
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.
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.
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
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."
04-20-04, 11:50 AM
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Re: Re: Blender's top 10 worst songs in the history of music!
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I don't know what their problem is with Huey Lewis.
I don't know what their problem is with Huey Lewis.
04-20-04, 12:13 PM
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isn't that the song that copied the ghost buster theme?
isn't that the song that copied the ghost buster theme?
but no that song would be "I Want a New Drug" and it was the other way around, Ray Parker, Jr was sued for copying that song.
04-20-04, 01:04 PM
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I agree, they missed a lot of dribble recorded in the 60's and 70's. Some terrible songs during the 80's and 90's:
What was that god-awful screeching song that went "Oh baby you got what I ne-e-e-ed, but you say he's just a friend, you say he's just a friend." Uggghh.
Two words - "Afternoon Delight"
No self-respecting "bad list" would be complete without some of the soothing sounds of Simply Red, Coldplay, Michael Bolton, etc.
What was that god-awful screeching song that went "Oh baby you got what I ne-e-e-ed, but you say he's just a friend, you say he's just a friend." Uggghh.
Two words - "Afternoon Delight"
No self-respecting "bad list" would be complete without some of the soothing sounds of Simply Red, Coldplay, Michael Bolton, etc.
04-20-04, 01:10 PM
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Originally posted by TexasGuy
What was that god-awful screeching song that went "Oh baby you got what I ne-e-e-ed, but you say he's just a friend, you say he's just a friend." Uggghh.
What was that god-awful screeching song that went "Oh baby you got what I ne-e-e-ed, but you say he's just a friend, you say he's just a friend." Uggghh.
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Originally posted by mtucker
It's also hard to believe that "We Built This City" came from the same band who gave us "White Rabbit", or am I wrong on this fact? They changed their name so many times.
It's also hard to believe that "We Built This City" came from the same band who gave us "White Rabbit", or am I wrong on this fact? They changed their name so many times.
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04-20-04, 07:33 PM
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...p-160749c.html
The tracks of their jeers
Magazine's editors target 50 terrible tunes
By LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
A lot of the songs you've listened to, danced to, sung along to - and liked - over the past 30 years just plain stink, if you believe Blender magazine.
Remember Celine Dion's _titanic hit from the movie of the same name, "My Heart Will Go On"? Well, deep-six it.
Ever sing a bit of "I'm Too Sexy" in front of the mirror? Shame on you.
Did you dig Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"? Sorry. It's not so hot _either.
All three tunes and 47 others are among "The 50 Worst Songs of All Time," declares Blender in its May issue.
Even the Beatles and the Beach Boys get slammed.
The Fab Four's "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" - designated the 48th worst song - sounds like "the desperately chirpy songs Cockneys used to sing to keep their spirits up while the Luftwaffe rained death on them during the Blitz," Blender says.
The Beach Boys' 1988 hit "Kokomo" is dismissed as "a gloopy mess of faux-Caribbean music" that "would have driven Brian Wilson totally nuts had he not been totally nuts already."
But Scott Shannon, one of the country's most influential programmers and morning show co-host at WPLJ-FM, says Blender is all mixed-up.
"This list came from too-hip-for-the-room people trying to tell us what to like, what's cool and what's not," said Shannon.
"It just doesn't make any sense to me. Most of the songs on this list were hits, so somebody liked them along the way. "I mean how can anybody say 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' is horrible?"
Shannon said some of the tunes on the Worst 50 list "were definitely overplayed," like the No. 1 worst, Starship's "We Built this City," and No. 50, Dion's "Titanic" ballad.
"But it looks like the magazine confused overplayed with bad," he said.
Did Blender get any of them right?
Sure did. If Bobby McFerrin's 1988 "Don't Worry, Be Happy" came on the radio, Shannon said he would shut it off.
Blender's 10 worst songs
1. "We Built This City," Starship. "Sexless and corporate, it sounds less like a song than something built in a lab by a team of record company executives."
2. "Achy Breaky Heart," Billy Ray Cyrus. "It was trite. It was inane, it was big in trailer parks and it was thoroughly enjoyed by the obese."
3. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," Wang Chung. "If this song was a party, you'd lock yourself in the bathroom and cry."
4. "Rollin'" Limp Bizkit. "The song is meaningless and embarrassing in equal measure."
5. "Ice Ice Baby," Vanilla Ice. "Mindless white rap for mindless white people."
6. "The Heart of Rock & Roll," Huey Lewis and the News. "A craven attempt to curry favor from drunken arena crowds trained to roar on cue."
7. "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin. "Oh great, a bumper sticker set to music."
8. "Party All the Time," Eddie Murphy. "Beverly Hills cop commits felony pop."
9. "American Life," Madonna. "Hands down, the most embarrassing rap ever recorded."
10. "Ebony and Ivory," Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. They "want the races to get along as peacefully as the white and black keys on a piano ... [but] the white keys didn't enslave the black keys for hundreds of years."
Originally published on April 19, 2004
The tracks of their jeers
Magazine's editors target 50 terrible tunes
By LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
A lot of the songs you've listened to, danced to, sung along to - and liked - over the past 30 years just plain stink, if you believe Blender magazine.
Remember Celine Dion's _titanic hit from the movie of the same name, "My Heart Will Go On"? Well, deep-six it.
Ever sing a bit of "I'm Too Sexy" in front of the mirror? Shame on you.
Did you dig Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"? Sorry. It's not so hot _either.
All three tunes and 47 others are among "The 50 Worst Songs of All Time," declares Blender in its May issue.
Even the Beatles and the Beach Boys get slammed.
The Fab Four's "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" - designated the 48th worst song - sounds like "the desperately chirpy songs Cockneys used to sing to keep their spirits up while the Luftwaffe rained death on them during the Blitz," Blender says.
The Beach Boys' 1988 hit "Kokomo" is dismissed as "a gloopy mess of faux-Caribbean music" that "would have driven Brian Wilson totally nuts had he not been totally nuts already."
But Scott Shannon, one of the country's most influential programmers and morning show co-host at WPLJ-FM, says Blender is all mixed-up.
"This list came from too-hip-for-the-room people trying to tell us what to like, what's cool and what's not," said Shannon.
"It just doesn't make any sense to me. Most of the songs on this list were hits, so somebody liked them along the way. "I mean how can anybody say 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' is horrible?"
Shannon said some of the tunes on the Worst 50 list "were definitely overplayed," like the No. 1 worst, Starship's "We Built this City," and No. 50, Dion's "Titanic" ballad.
"But it looks like the magazine confused overplayed with bad," he said.
Did Blender get any of them right?
Sure did. If Bobby McFerrin's 1988 "Don't Worry, Be Happy" came on the radio, Shannon said he would shut it off.
Blender's 10 worst songs
1. "We Built This City," Starship. "Sexless and corporate, it sounds less like a song than something built in a lab by a team of record company executives."
2. "Achy Breaky Heart," Billy Ray Cyrus. "It was trite. It was inane, it was big in trailer parks and it was thoroughly enjoyed by the obese."
3. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," Wang Chung. "If this song was a party, you'd lock yourself in the bathroom and cry."
4. "Rollin'" Limp Bizkit. "The song is meaningless and embarrassing in equal measure."
5. "Ice Ice Baby," Vanilla Ice. "Mindless white rap for mindless white people."
6. "The Heart of Rock & Roll," Huey Lewis and the News. "A craven attempt to curry favor from drunken arena crowds trained to roar on cue."
7. "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin. "Oh great, a bumper sticker set to music."
8. "Party All the Time," Eddie Murphy. "Beverly Hills cop commits felony pop."
9. "American Life," Madonna. "Hands down, the most embarrassing rap ever recorded."
10. "Ebony and Ivory," Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. They "want the races to get along as peacefully as the white and black keys on a piano ... [but] the white keys didn't enslave the black keys for hundreds of years."
Originally published on April 19, 2004
04-21-04, 08:01 AM
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From CNN.com:
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.
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.
04-21-04, 10:47 AM
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are they on crack?
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)
those are great songs
can anyone find all 50 songs.
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)
those are great songs
can anyone find all 50 songs.
04-21-04, 11:04 AM
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I agree totally with you. "We Didn't Start the Fire" is great, and "Sounds of Silence" is one of my favorite songs of all time. No way is it one of the 40 worst songs ever. That's just preposterous.
They must be communists or aligned with Saddam b/c "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" is a pretty intense song. When it was released, and played during 4th of July, in the midst of all that was going on, there is NO WAY it is one of the 20 worst songs.
I can easily name 50 worse songs than the 3 I mention above, starting with any release by Color Me Badd. It is quite obvious they are picking songs to get people (like me) pissed off.
But then again, it's "Blender" magazine. Never heard of it.
They must be communists or aligned with Saddam b/c "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" is a pretty intense song. When it was released, and played during 4th of July, in the midst of all that was going on, there is NO WAY it is one of the 20 worst songs.
I can easily name 50 worse songs than the 3 I mention above, starting with any release by Color Me Badd. It is quite obvious they are picking songs to get people (like me) pissed off.
But then again, it's "Blender" magazine. Never heard of it.
04-21-04, 11:18 AM
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"Heart of Rock and Roll" ?!? I love that song! Those people are fools.
I could take or leave the rest. None that I really love, none that I really hate.
Out of curiousity, I'd like to see the full list of 50 so I can bitch some more.
I could take or leave the rest. None that I really love, none that I really hate.
Out of curiousity, I'd like to see the full list of 50 so I can bitch some more.
04-21-04, 11:56 AM
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Why is "Cop Killer" not in there? And also I must once again reiterate that Color Me Badd could conceivably be the worst songs 2-5 (#1 should be that horrendous Eddie Murphy song no doubt about it).
Why am I so mad?? lol
Why am I so mad?? lol
04-21-04, 01:56 PM
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found this in another article
"It's the freshman-poetry meaningfulness that got our goat," said editor Craig Marks of The Sounds of Silence. "With self-important lyrics like, 'Hear my words that I might teach you,' it's almost a parody of pretentious '60s folk-rock."
"It's the freshman-poetry meaningfulness that got our goat," said editor Craig Marks of The Sounds of Silence. "With self-important lyrics like, 'Hear my words that I might teach you,' it's almost a parody of pretentious '60s folk-rock."
04-21-04, 03:10 PM
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Originally posted by Shannon Nutt
Three words:
Pac Man Fever
Now why the hell wasn't that in the top ten?!
Wasn't this piece of trash #1 for a few weeks in the 80's?
Three words:
Pac Man Fever
Now why the hell wasn't that in the top ten?!
Wasn't this piece of trash #1 for a few weeks in the 80's?
such novelties as Macarena and Who Let the Dogs Out, which by design are cheesy, were nixed.
04-21-04, 03:41 PM
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WHAT?!?! I LOVE Party All The Time!!! It's awesome. We Built This City ain't bad either. Madonna is pretty awful though. But I like MC Hammer, so what do I know?
I for one can't stand those crappy dance/techno songs. Shit like - "Barbie Girl", "Blue", "Wanna Be My Lover", "We Like To Party", and "This is a Song for the Lonely". Ugh.
I for one can't stand those crappy dance/techno songs. Shit like - "Barbie Girl", "Blue", "Wanna Be My Lover", "We Like To Party", and "This is a Song for the Lonely". Ugh.