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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | no one had a comment on this yet? |
| Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:56:50 -0700 (PDT) |
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~~~~~~~~too bad. i grew up with this song. and i liked
it. oh well. i know i certainly am not the most
distinguished taste on this list.. BY FAR.
lol. lovin' the 80s...
jocelyn, who realized whilst listening to her digital
cable's music channel: "the 80's", that these are in
fact the 'oldies' of my generation. 80-84 is 20 years
old, and with every year forward, i gain another
'oldie' year. weird.
story from yahoo news below:
We Built This City is the single worst single ever
constructed, according to Blender's ranking of reeking
tunes.
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
(news - web sites).'s Shiny Happy People and John
Mayer (news)'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."
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