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."