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'We Built This City' Tops Magazine's List Of Worst Songs






NEW YORK -- They may be catchy, and they may have been big hits -- but they're also just plain bad.





Blender's editors came up the top 50 "Worst Songs Of All Time." The magazine ranks supposedly rank cuts by Celine Dion, Meat Loaf, Uncle Kracker, The Beatles, Starship -- even Simon and Garfunkel -- using criteria like bad melodies, wretched performances, not making sense, and pomposity.








Topping the list -- the 1985 hit "We Built This City," by Starship. They call "We Built This City" "the truly horrible sound of a band taking the corporate dollar while sneering at those who take the corporate dollar."








And in second place, Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" is slammed for representing -- quoting the magazine here -- "every prejudice non-believers have about country: It was trite, it was inane, it was big in trailer parks and it was thoroughly enjoyed by the obese."









That was followed by Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight."









"Rollin"' by Limp Bizkit ranks fourth, followed by "Ice Ice Baby."







Rounding out the top 10 worst songs ever are Huey Lewis and the News with "The Heart of Rock-and-Roll," "Don't Worry, Be Happy," Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time," "American Life" and "Ebony and Ivory."








At 22 is Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (THE ANGRY AMERICAN.)"







Blender calls it "a fight anthem so vengeful, it makes 'The Star-Spangled Banner' sound like 'Give Peace a Chance.'"







The issue is on newstands Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles, and a week from Tuesday everyplace else.

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Of the following, which would you say is the worst song and why?

"We Built This City"
"Achy Breaky Heart"
"Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
"Rollin"
"Ice Ice Baby"
"The Heart of Rock-and-Roll"
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
"Party All the Time"
"American Life"
"Ebony and Ivory"

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From that list, "Achy Breaky Heart", hands down. If only played once on the radio, it would just have been a stupid song. But given that it was aired hundreds of millions of times (or did it just seem that many?), it quickly became a vile, distgusting, obnoxious, vomit-inducing "song".

I once heard Britney Spears butcher "I Love Rock N Roll" and thought I was going to crawl out of my skin. That horrid cover version should be on the worst song list.

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Of the following, which would you say is the worst song and why?

"We Built This City"
"Achy Breaky Heart"
"Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
"Rollin"
"Ice Ice Baby"
"The Heart of Rock-and-Roll"
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
"Party All the Time"
"American Life"
"Ebony and Ivory"

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"I've Never Been To Me"; I don't remember who sang the latter, which is probably a blessing!

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