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| From | Sam Smith <samsmith@colorado.edu> |
| Subject | Re: no one had a comment on this yet? |
| Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:16:34 -0600 |
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I don't know. As bad as "We Built This City" is, I was strolling through
the grocery store this evening and the music disservice they use was
playing "Torn Between Two Lovers." Damned near lost my appetite completely.
It depends on your criteria, I suppose.....
Jocelyn Geboy wrote:
>~~~~~~~~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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Harvesting clunkers that range from The Doors' The End
>to Aqua's Barbie Girl entailed more digging than
>expected.
>
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>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.
>
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>"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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>=====
>my blog is 'this surreal life': www.smussyolay.blogspot.com
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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch,
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing
from your heart.
- John Millington Synge
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