'Built This City' Tops Worst Songs List The Honolulu Advertiser
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.
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).
Most crappy music is around the same approximate level of suckitude, so it's difficult to come up with a definitive "Worst Song Ever".
Everything done by The Killers, Florence and the Machine or Nicki Minaj is enough to make me leave the room though. Or half the albums that Pimpalicious has picked for his OC avatar.
Most crappy music is around the same approximate level of suckitude, so it's difficult to come up with a definitive "Worst Song Ever".
Everything done by The Killers, Florence and the Machine or Nicki Minaj is enough to make me leave the room though. Or half the albums that Pimpalicious has picked for his OC avatar.
I kinda like "Heart of Rock 'n' Roll," but in fairness A) there's nothing wrong with it from an instrumental standpoint, and B) most Bay Aryans have a soft spot for Huey Lewis. Hell, I could introduce you to him, if you wanted. He's a local character back home.
I kinda like "Heart of Rock 'n' Roll," but in fairness A) there's nothing wrong with it from an instrumental standpoint, and B) most Bay Aryans have a soft spot for Huey Lewis. Hell, I could introduce you to him, if you wanted. He's a local character back home.
Most crappy music is around the same approximate level of suckitude, so it's difficult to come up with a definitive "Worst Song Ever".
This is true.
Everything done by...Florence and the Machine...is enough to make me leave the room though.
Ridiculous. Florence and the Machine are fantastic.
Jason: Most crappy music is around the same approximate level of suckitude, so it's difficult to come up with a definitive "Worst Song Ever".
This is true.
Everything done by...Florence and the Machine...is enough to make me leave the room though.
Ridiculous. Florence and the Machine are fantastic.
"We Built This City" is probably the worst song ever, but only because the noise they come out with today doesn't count as actual music in my book. If nobody's playing an instrument and nobody's actually singing, it's not music. A child playing Mario Paint could churn out something more coherent than the electronic crap they play on the Top 40 stations.
"We Built This City" is probably the worst song ever, but only because the noise they come out with today doesn't count as actual music in my book. If nobody's playing an instrument and nobody's actually singing, it's not music. A child playing Mario Paint could churn out something more coherent than the electronic crap they play on the Top 40 stations.
Everything done by The Killers
True story... a guy I was dating told me that when he heard "Mr. Brightside" he thought of me, so he made it his ringtone for me.
I hadn't heard the song, so I listened to it.
WTF? I understood the song, but I had no idea what the hell that meant about our relationship.
If I wanted weird, complex messages in my relationships, I'd date a girl.
Jason: Everything done by The Killers
True story... a guy I was dating told me that when he heard "Mr. Brightside" he thought of me, so he made it his ringtone for me.
I hadn't heard the song, so I listened to it.
WTF? I understood the song, but I had no idea what the hell that meant about our relationship.
If I wanted weird, complex messages in my relationships, I'd date a girl.
I have to say, "Call me Maybe" is the most overplayed song that I've ever heard. It's not even that great to begin with and then constantly playing it kills it more.
And coincidentally since this is a political site, Obama came out and said he liked it and everyone made a big (positive) deal out of it. Not that it matters, but it just proves the point of how idiotic it is.
I have to say, "Call me Maybe" is the most overplayed song that I've ever heard. It's not even that great to begin with and then constantly playing it kills it more.
And coincidentally since this is a political site, Obama came out and said he liked it and everyone made a big (positive) deal out of it. Not that it matters, but it just proves the point of how idiotic it is.
I have to disagree with this article, "Ob-la-Di, Ob-La-Da" by the Beatles I think was actually a pretty good song. Is my favorite by them?, No. But it's certainly not near the worst.
I have to disagree with this article, "Ob-la-Di, Ob-La-Da" by the Beatles I think was actually a pretty good song. Is my favorite by them?, No. But it's certainly not near the worst.
All popular music is overplayed, regardless of its quality. Even Stairway to Heaven is overplayed.
There's a reason why bands like Radiohead are considered to be revolutionary and nothing like anything before them; because most of their fans have probably heard no more than around 200 artists throughout their entire lives. When the same rotation of popular artists bleed through one another, anything that deviates from the norm even slightly while achieving commercial success is going to become overplayed.
All popular music is overplayed, regardless of its quality. Even Stairway to Heaven is overplayed.
There's a reason why bands like Radiohead are considered to be revolutionary and nothing like anything before them; because most of their fans have probably heard no more than around 200 artists throughout their entire lives. When the same rotation of popular artists bleed through one another, anything that deviates from the norm even slightly while achieving commercial success is going to become overplayed.
"We Built This City" is probably the worst song ever, but only because the noise they come out with today doesn't count as actual music in my book. If nobody's playing an instrument and nobody's actually singing, it's not music. A child playing Mario Paint could churn out something more coherent than the electronic crap they play on the Top 40 stations.
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Bob: "We Built This City" is probably the worst song ever, but only because the noise they come out with today doesn't count as actual music in my book. If nobody's playing an instrument and nobody's actually singing, it's not music. A child playing Mario Paint could churn out something more coherent than the electronic crap they play on the Top 40 stations.
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