Simviation Forum - 'Built This City' Tops Worst Songs List

Apr 21^st, 2004 at 10:25am

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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.

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Reply #1 - Apr 21^st, 2004 at 3:39pm

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There are quite a few truely terrible bits of so-called music that should be on that list, not naming any artists in particular;
The Spice Girls
Wham
Bros
Lawnmower Death (I actually like them because they are so rubbish!)
Bad News (see my Bad News thread, funny but terrible Grin

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Most "Folk" musicians
Nearly all Country 'n Western singers! Except Dolly Parton and Shania Twain who can both actually sing, and some Tammy Wynette songs...
Anyone involved in the soundtrack to a Benji movie.
Any of John Lennons solo albums Tongue

Or worse anything involving Yoko Ono Lips Sealed

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Reply #2 - Apr 22^nd, 2004 at 5:06pm

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Aqua. Nuff said. Grin

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Reply #3 - Apr 24^th, 2004 at 12:41pm

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rock and roll magazine can screw the hell off!
simon and garfunkel?they are awsome!Billy Joel?that song encompasses 100 years of history in it!The beatles? you gotta be kiddin me!

if they want to get in the worst songs go to the pothead, acid sniffing, cant play guitar for shit bands of the 80s!what about the monkeys?they sucked too. what about kenny G(not rock but he pisses me off!)

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Reply #4 - Apr 24^th, 2004 at 12:43pm

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i read more of the list and im even more mad
some deserve the position, but there are alot of undeserving people there

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing" -Ben Franklin&&&&"Man must rise above the Earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." - Socrates&&&&" Flying is a religion. A religion that asymilates all who get a taste of it." - Me&&&&"Make the most out of yourself, for that is all there is of you"- Ralf Waldo Emerson&&

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Reply #5 - Apr 24^th, 2004 at 2:03pm

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Oh come on man its just a bit of fun Wink

Yuo have to admit that not all the Beatle's stuff was good

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Reply #6 - Apr 24^th, 2004 at 6:59pm

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I have to agree, Simon and Garfunkle, The Beatles???
Some definately don't deserve to be on this list!!
Come on the Beatles help define what Rock and Roll is! Might as well put Elvis on this list!

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Reply #7 - Apr 27^th, 2004 at 7:00pm

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hey and ozzy, folk music? who? S&G were folk, dylan was folk. both are excellent musicians.

what magasine is this?made by people who like the rock that is wannabe rock

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Reply #8 - Apr 28^th, 2004 at 4:42pm

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What about John Denver? Roll Eyes

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