What do YOU like?

[GirlinContempt]

The Top 50 Worst Pop Songs, According to Blender Magazine.
Which ones do you LIKE? Why?

1 "We Built This City ” — Starship
2. "Achy Breaky Heart” — Billy Ray Cyrus
3. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight” — Wang Chung
4. "Rollin'” — Limp Bizkit
5. "Ice Ice Baby” — Vanilla Ice
6. "The Heart of Rock” & Roll — Huey Lewis and the News
7. "Don't Worry, Be Happy” — Bobby McFerrin
8. "Party All the Time” — Eddie Murphy
9. “American Life” — Madonna
10. "Ebony and Ivory” — Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
11. "Invisible” — Clay Aiken
12. "Kokomo” — The Beach Boys
13. "Illegal Alien” — Genesis
14. "From a Distance” — Bette Midler
15 “I'll Be There for You” — The Rembrandts
16. “What's Up?” — 4 Non Blondes
17. “Pumps and a Bump” — Hammer
18. "You're the Inspiration” — Chicago
19. "Broken Wings” — Mr. Mister
20." Dancing on the Ceiling” — Lionel Richie
21. "Two Princes” — Spin Doctors
22. "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” — Toby Keith
23." Sunglasses at Night” — Corey Hart
24. “Superman” — Five for Fighting
25. “I'll Be Missing You” — Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112
26. “The End” — The Doors
27. “The Final Countdown” — Europe
28. “Your Body Is a Wonderland” — John Mayer
29. “Breakfast at Tiffany's” — Deep Blue Something
30. “Greatest Love of All” — Whitney Houston
31. “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” — Crash Test Dummies
32. “Will 2K” — Will Smith
33. “Barbie Girl” — Aqua
34. “Longer” — Dan Fogelberg
35. “Shiny Happy People” — R.E.M.
36. “Make Em Say Uhh!” — Master P featuring Silkk, Fiend, Mia-X and Mystikal
37. “Rico Suave” — Gerardo
38. “Cotton Eyed Joe” — Rednex
39. “She Bangs” — Ricky Martin
40. “I Wanna Sex You Up” — Color Me Badd
41. “We Didn't Start the Fire” — Billy Joel
42. “The Sounds of Silence” — Simon & Garfunkel
43. “Follow Me” — Uncle Kracker
44. “I'll Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)” —Meat Loaf
45. “Mesmerize” — Ja Rule featuring Ashanti
46. “Hangin' Tough” — New Kids on the Block
47. “The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You” — Bryan Adams
48. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” — The Beatles
49. “I'm Too Sexy” — Right Said Fred
50. “My Heart Will Go On” — Celine Dion

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Im too sexy for this post

I am you know! :silly:

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[Failure]

3. “Follow Me” — Uncle Kracker

He managed to keep the integrity of the song, which is more than I can say about most cover tunes. Also "Drift Away" came out really nice.


failure.

[arcane1]

4. damn, I like "what's up"

but as for the rest... merely reading the titles caused those songs to play in my head... need to bang my head against the wall a few times now

:hi:

[GirlinContempt]

9. Hey baby!

:hi:
You aren't on yahoo :P

I like quite a few of those songs... watch out, I'll be playing them for you soon ;)

[arcane1]

32. uh-oh, now I'm scared

:silly:

[GirlinContempt]

36. You should be

:loveya:

[arcane1]

47. good

because I am :silly:

[GirlinContempt]

51. Stop being so cute

[kmla]

14. Me, too.

Does NOT belong on this list.

That's all I gots to say about that.

[arcane1]

42. "I pray every single day..."

"...for a revolution!!!!!"

[woofless]

5. The End-Doors, there's nothing wrong with this song IMO

Sounds of Silence- S&G
Longer-Fogleberg

[Whitacre D_WI]

6. Wow. I don't like any of those.

This is the first "top-50" list I've EVER agreed with!

[GirlinContempt]

12. hah

glad I could find something to meet your... standards :P

[Whitacre D_WI]

24. And trust me, GiC...

...I have VERY low standards.

[bkcc]

7. WOW. That is one brutal list....

That having been said, "Party All The Time" is freakin' genius. Eddie Murphy and Rick James?!?

Good lord, it's so unbelieveably bad that it transcends this mortal plane and passes into the sublime.

The only other 80s pop song that even comes close to matching its kitsch value is "State of Shock" by Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger.

Masterpieces of shit and I love them dearly.

[Commendatori]

8. The only one I can tolerate:

“The Final Countdown” — Europe.

The rest of them just suck. Sorry.

[ZenLefty]

10. The End? Sounds of Silence? Superman?

I can't believe they're on the same list as achy-breaky heart. :eyes:

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. Superman - Five for Fighting

and I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)... and here are my reasons.

Superman: I wrote a novel dealing with Superheroes, and for a time was an avid comics collector. I think their song captures the Superman dichotomy well, plus, it's fun to sing along with as I drive.

I would do...: When I was first dating my wife that song was ALL OVER THE RADIO in the UK. You couldn't use a friggin pay toilet without hearing it. So I associate that song with our burgeoning love that's led to nearly 9 years of marriage.

[GirlinContempt]

13. Thats really sweet

:)

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. why thanks :)

and it's all true too. I still listen to that song every now and then and find myself transported back to Bognor Regis, with her hand in mine, as we watch the seagulls.

[GirlinContempt]

19. No problem :)

I have songs like that too... Not, quite, the same...
You should tell your wife about that song ;)

[BigMcLargehuge]

34. believe me, she knows

;-)

[elfwitch]

16. My list and some of my reasons...

3. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight” — Wang Chung
6. "The Heart of Rock” & Roll — Huey Lewis and the News
15 “I'll Be There for You” — The Rembrandts
21. "Two Princes” — Spin Doctors
23." Sunglasses at Night” — Corey Hart
24. “Superman” — Five for Fighting
26. “The End” — The Doors
29. “Breakfast at Tiffany's” — Deep Blue Something
32. “Will 2K” — Will Smith
33. “Barbie Girl” — Aqua
37. “Rico Suave” — Gerardo
41. “We Didn't Start the Fire” — Billy Joel
42. “The Sounds of Silence” — Simon & Garfunkel
48. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” — The Beatles


I don't think that anything by The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel or Billy Joel belongs on that list.

There are far worse songs than any of those on the list. A few that come to mind: You're Having My Baby, The Night Chicago Died, Afternoon Delight, Muskrat Love... I could go on forever.

[FarmerOak]

17. "Everybody Have Fun," Wang Chung

It's perfectly harmless! It has no pretensions! It's deliciously infectious!

I was NOT big on the whole glam thing back then (the Marines frowned on "glam,") but to this day, I like that song. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it. I give it a 92, Dick.

[Quahog]

54. Lemme tell ya about Wang Chung

Those guys were originally called Huang Chung (the name of a Chinese reed flute), and they put out a record called "Points On A Curve" that was freaking brilliant. I'm thinking you probably remember "Dance Hall Days" ("Take your baby by the wrist / And in her mouth an amathyst"). Huge, overproduced Ultravoxy synth-pop sound, but overall intelligent lyrics and sophisticated song structures. Their sax player ripped. As a music major and life-long "semi-professional" musician, I always thought that record represented some of the best pop music had to offer at the time (1984).

Then "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight" came out and I went, "Damn, they must have really needed more money."

[eyesroll]

18. Wow, I'm going to have a whole medley stuck in my head!

This is a suckatudinous list.

[Angelus]

20. Dang....there's a few I like on that list....

Who doesn't like Wang Chung? Or Rollin'? Or Ice Ice Baby? I'll Be Missing You? Superman? I like those songs. :hangsheadinshame:

[Fenris]

21. "The End" and "Shiny Happy People" shouldn't be on there

"The End" remains one of my favorite Doors songs. And "SHP" is much maligned, but if one understands REM's love of 60s bubble gum pop, it makes perfect sense.

[XNASA]

27. And besides......How is it possible to knock a song that.....

includes Kate Pierson singing on it?

[Fenris]

30. Mmmmmm Kate Pierson

[MichaelHarris]

22. wow

not one single song on that list is one I like. The only thing worse than that list is now I have Dan Fogelberg stuck in my head, thanks for that. :scared:

[GirlinContempt]

26. Meep

Sorry
*sings 'It's a small world afterall' to fix it*
:P

[MichaelHarris]

31. this is the only thing that fixed it

One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Comin' to bring you the Banana Split show
Makin' up a mess of fun, makin' up a mess of fun
Lots of fun for everyone

Tra la la, la la la la
Tra la la, la la la la

Four banana, three banana, two banana, one
All bananas playin' in the bright warm sun.
Flippin' like a pancake, popping like a cork
Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper an' Snork

Two banana, four banana, one banana, three
Swingin' like a bunch on monkeys, hangin' from a tree.
Hey there, ev'rybody, won't you come along and see
How much like Banana Splits ev'ryone can be

Makin up a mess of fun
Makin up a mess of fun
Happiness for ev'ryone
Tra la la, la la la la
Tra la la, la la la la
Tra la la, la la la la

[GirlinContempt]

37. Not the badger song?

[MichaelHarris]

40. mmmmmm

badger, mighty fine eatin', slow roasted over an open fire marinated in red wine with a little tarragon

[GirlinContempt]

41. uh huh

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

[MichaelHarris]

46. hahahahahahhaaa

I had flashbacks of cow turd flippin' looking for mushrooms. Awwww the gold ole days.

[XNASA]

23. "The End" is marginally OK, I guess.

Especially in the scene in "Apocalypse Now!" during the napalm boming.

But for the most part, all of these songs inspire loathing.

[JanMichael]

25. Kokomo..I love the Beach Boys

And the Meat Loaf song too-

[GirlinContempt]

28. Meat Loaf?

Well, to each their own ;)

[FarmerOak]

33. Hey!

Them songs off of "Bat Out Of Hell" are like OPERA, man!

The Loaf RULES!

[GirlinContempt]

39. The ONLY time I liked meatloaf

was in RHPS, and even then, I think it's cause he died very quickly ;)

[FarmerOak]

45. Ooooh, GIC, shame!

Have you ever seen him interviewed? The guy is wicked funny, articulate, SMART... I saw him do a VH1 thing a few years ago that blew me away.

And HEY, you GOTTA give props to ANYBODY from RHPS!

[JanMichael]

43. Sorry

This isn't Michael, this is Stephanie accidentally posting under his name.

I promise you that my husband is never going to get in the car, and play Kokomo.

[Canuckistanian]

57. Meatloaf singing Kokomo would be good

I'd pay to hear that.

[ACK]

29. The End by the Doors

But I disagree with another poster on Shiny Happy People even Michael Stipes hates that song now.

_

[buddhamama]

35. "The Sounds of Silence"

"Shiny Happy People" and "The End".

[Quahog]

56. Those are the three that seem out of place to me

"Shiny Happy People" was a bit of an anomaly for REM, but hey, it's an REM song. "Sounds of Silence" is pretentious and bombastic, but this is true of MUCH of S&G's catalog (don't get me wrong, I love S&G, many of their songs defined that era).

"The End" is just wrong. I'm sorry, but they are wrong. In the first place, it wasn't a "pop" song... that was one of the tracks on the Doors debut that didn't really get much airplay (I remember, I was growing up listening to San Francisco radio at the time, and I'd never heard that cut till my brother bought the record). I can understand someone criticizing it for being sick and twisted, but that doesn't seem to be the criteria for this list (more like, "corny and annoying"). And when Coppola included the cut in the Apocalypse Now soundtrack, it became iconographic as far as I'm concerned.

Pooh!

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[NoPasaran]

44. Where does this "Blender" Magazine

get off listing crappy pop songs?

Have any insipid popstars performed overproduced songs about consumerist kitchen utensils?

Of course, I really can't argue with their taste too much. These may not be the FIFTY WORST popsongs, but they would all fit on a list of the 100 worst.

[dawg]

48. Broken Wings

I like that one.

[GirlinContempt]

50. I like that one too

[Beware the Beast Man]

49. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"

It's not the best Beatle song, but its still doesnt deserve to be one of the worst.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

52. “I'll Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)” —Meat Loaf

[GirlinContempt]

53. Oh no, darlin'! Not you too

[La Lioness Priyanka]

55. yes, me too

:*

[GirlinContempt]

61. noooo nooooo

say it aint so

[Kathleen04]

58. The songs I'll defend:

41. “We Didn't Start the Fire” — Billy Joel
42. “The Sounds of Silence” — Simon & Garfunkel
48. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” — The Beatles

All catchy, good songs. :)

[turiya]

59. The End

my only friend.

[thestatusquo]

60. We didn't start the fire

Billy Joel can do no wrong....