These songs will go on and oooooooooooooooon!

[heidi]

The Worst Song Ever, according to BLENDER magazine and VH1, is "We Built This City" and for some reason, "My Heart Will Go On" is only at number fifty!

In between are things I like, like Sounds of Silence, We Didn't Start the Fire and, for some reason, Oh Bla-di, Oh Bla-da! And how is Don't Worry, Be Happy *that* much worse than Eddie Murphy's Party All The Time? I ask you!

Comments

[gail-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, babe...I can think of a LOT worse songs than those they listed. Obviously, they have no taste whatsoever. Don't they know EVERYthing performed by the Beatles is the best?

[sternel.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what it says about my musical tastes, but I really like a bunch of the songs (unfairly?!) listed.

Perhaps it should be retitled to "Songs Most Likely To Become Earworms." I think that's a bit more accurate. ^^

[meggitymeg.livejournal.com]

"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da?" I <33333 that song!

When I was four, we found an overgrown orange tabby kitten in a Dumpster; we adopted a tiny little black calico a few weeks later, to keep him company, and named the pair Desmond and Molly. When I was in the first grade, I tried to give them both away to my friend Doug, so that they'd be "Desmond and Molly Jones."

Desmond lived to be 16, until the fall of my junior year of college - and we still have Molly, and one of her daughters, Crystal, who are 19 and 17 respectively. We've had 27 cats over the years - 22 of them descended from Desmond and Molly - but the one I'll always, always remember is my Dezzikitty. *points to icon*

[shelaghc.livejournal.com]

Sounds of Silence? In a *worst* song list?

Who on earth compiled that list? Sounds of Silence, and frankly just about anything that comes out of the mind of Paul Simon, is positively brilliant!

[flyingcarpet.livejournal.com]

*sings*

My girl likes to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time...

[hermorrine.livejournal.com]

I know! I read that and totally did not get it. Now, I'm hardly going to claim that "I Built This City" is some masterpiece, but I can think of MANY worse songs.

[luminousmarble.livejournal.com]

I suppose they simply decided that calling it a list of songs that are so often played, they've lost their charm for some listeners wouldn't have been terribly pressworthy.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you. I had a rush of gratitude the moment I read 'Ebony and Ivory' was on that list. Sappy mother + That song = soul-killing commute.

Icarus

[noblerot.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! I'm ridiculously pleased that Madonna's "American Life" made the list. It's nowhere near one of the worst songs evah, but it's definitely ridiculous enough to earn a bitch-slap.

The Beatles reference, though... am puzzled. Can only imagine that Blender, which prides itself on being snarky, just wanted to poke a sacred cow.

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

Oh, but the punk rock version of "My Heart Will Go On" is so much fun! I never thought I could like that song until I heard the Switchblade Kittens perform it at Nimbus-2003! Celine's version should, of course, be bottled and sold as a sleep-aid.

I think the worst song I ever heard was some semi-rap, semi-hip-hop dance thing that was being blasted through the sound system at FYE. The same phrase was being chanted over and over (not sung) by a woman's voice: "I can see me that ass." Or something like that. Repeated about fiftey MILLION times over a steady loud bass beat. Someone explain to me how someone got paid to record this and why anyone pays money for it?

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I rather like "We Didn't Start the Fire"...

I change lyrics to songs all the time (sing "the Unforgiven" to my cats all the time: "You shed on me/I shed on you/so I dub thee furcovered") and Eddie's song became: "She sits on the potty all the time/potty all the time/potty all the time"...

Yeah, I'm five. Why do you ask?

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Did that complete abortion "Karma Chameleon" by Boy George come anywhere in the list? If not, there is no justice.

[lilypiper.livejournal.com]

I like Sounds of Silence too.

[sbbo.livejournal.com]

I have to say, "We Built This City," is my favourite song.

Though I do understand the comment about songs being played too often and losing their luster.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

We built this city is a GREAT SONG!!!

*weeeeeeps*

[phoenixw.livejournal.com]

I simply cannot accept any rating of Worst Songs Ever that does not place "Having My Baby" at number one.

Sorry BLENDER, VH1.

And I agree about "My Heart Will Go On", FWIW.

[spiritedrinoa.livejournal.com]

Ha, FnX was reading the top ten on the radio this morning.

I was left pondering "Just what DOES 'Everybody Wang-chung tonight' mean?"

[nut-shell.livejournal.com]

An old boyfriend and I used to talk about what songs we thought would play on the jukebox in Hell.

I thought "Billy Don't Be Hero" would be in there. Also, "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer and "Muskrat Love."

Now *those* are some torturous songs.

[shelaghc.livejournal.com]

Gah! Oh thank you. :-P

Now I'll have all three of those songs playing interminably in my head for the next week.....

oooog

[nut-shell.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!
For what it's worth, they're stuck in my head now, too. :)

Can't see it...

[poconell.livejournal.com]

Please tell me Hootie and the Blowfish weren't on there. I mean, there's bad music, and then there's just bad timing.