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Location: Rocheter, MN | No question about it: it begins and end's with Jefferson Starship's "We Built This City (On Rock and Roll)". I loathe that song with the heat of a thousand suns. |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Seasons In The Sun
I had been familiar with the Kingston Trio's version of this song before Terry Jacks hit with it. The Trio's version is terrific, so naturally Capital buried it on one of their albums.
Jacks' version suffers from a terribly amateurish vocal and a bubble gum arrangement. Why it hit I have no idea, which explains why I'm not a record executive. |
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| America - Horse With No Shame
"There were plants and birds and rocks and things..."
C'mon, didja really run outta nouns?!?! There's nothing else in a desert that's one syllable, like maybe SAND?
Close second: Neil Diamond - I Am I Said
"...to no one there, and no one heard, not even a chair."
Really? You make a pathetic declaration to no one and you expect an answer from furniture?!? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "Oh-blah-di, Oh-blah-da"--- Which only goes to show that even creative people can have a bad day.
But the really bad time came when the Beatles realized that they could record any old piece of crap and it would make the charts! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by g8r:
Really? You make a pathetic declaration to no one and you expect an answer from furniture?!? I was at a "Dead" concert once and saw about 20,000 people doing that.
There went 3 hours of my life that I'll never get back ....... |
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Location: Central Oregon | G-L-O-R-I-A |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Oooo-Ga-Shaka, Oooo-Ga-Shaka... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Since we're starting into wade in lyrics, I present "Wild Thing".
Ala American Bandstand:
I'll give it a ten for beat, a nine for dance and a one for lyrics...  |
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Location: GA USA | 3 votes and it's official... "We Built This City" is the worst song ever. Thanks to all our lovely contestants. |
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Location: Jet City | Capt, I think we have it right. Look what I just read.
From Wikipedia:
In April 2004, the song was awarded "the #1 Most Awesomely Bad Song Ever" by Blender magazine,[1] in conjunction with a VH1 Special of The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever. In order to qualify for the distinction, the songs on the list had to be a popular hit at some point, thus disqualifying many songs that would by general consensus be considered much worse. Blender editor Craig Marks said of the song, "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."[3]
Blender magazine contributor Russ Heller later set a record for listening to "We Built This City" continuously for 24 hours. He was encased in a Plexiglas booth — without earplugs — beginning Friday, October 13, 2006 at 8:00 a.m. at a Best Buy store in New York City.[4]
Paul Kantner who had left the group just prior to the single being recorded called the song "garbage" at the time it was released.
During a January 30, 2008, interview with DC101's Elliot in the Morning, Grace Slick called this song "one of the stupidest songs ever written".[citation needed] |
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Location: NJ | It was comPLETEly formulaic and targeted for airplay on BigCity Rock&Roll radio stations.
Work the theme of "radio" into a song, and you're virtually guaranteed a degree of airplay . . . |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I dunno ... That tune didn't bother me any more than most of "Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship, Airplane" or whatever the flock their name is. |
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Location: GA USA | Go back and read that Reputation column again, Damon. You missed one. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by cliff:
It was comPLETEly formulaic and targeted for airplay on BigCity Rock&Roll radio stations And every formula rock radio station used that in their plugs for... too long!
[They were good when they had Papa John Creach] |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by mrmanley:
No question about it: it begins and end's with Jefferson Starship's "We Built This City (On Rock and Roll)". I loathe that song with the heat of a thousand suns. LOL that's just too funny...
I always thought the line "Marconi played the mambo, I heard it on the radio" was a fun line.
I've gotta say, and maybe I already have, I have a hard time spotting a bad song, especially one that actually charted, people made or are making a living off of, and people buy it.
Now there are lots of songs I don't like, but criticizing someone else's art is just bad form in my world.
Personally, as example, I can't listen to anything by Yoko Ono. I don't get it on any level. I also think she's an evil witch who put a spell on Lennon and ruined the Beatles and I'm not even a fan of the Beatles. But.. I still won't say her "music??" is bad. It's hers, and only she can decide if it's good or bad. I can decide to listen or not. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...anything by Donovan or Creedence... |
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Location: GA USA | Whoops. Otto takes about 5 more hits. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Go back and read that Reputation column again, Damon. You missed one. Very nice! In case anyone's wondering, Wikipedia has a new entry from the Captain...
The song was voted "Worst Song Ever" by the Ovation Fan Club in a poll from June 2008. |
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Location: Pullman, WA | I liked "Dead Skunk", especially the instrumental break " ..alright!, let's stink ...!" Probably because I was a just a crude adolescent Montana boy when I first heard it. There was often a dead skunk in the middle of the road in and around that little town. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I also like "Dead Skunk".
It was a sing-a-long favorite in the car with the kids.
Poor Otto. When you share like that it lets everyone know where your head is at. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I'd like to nominate 'Tie me kangaroo down, Sport' as the worst song.
Oops, sorry Otto. 'nother one! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Jefferson Starship reeked, but Airplane had Jorma Kaukonan, one of my favorite guitarists of all time. Admittedly, he was much better with Hot Tuna, but you can hear glimmers of what was to come on J.Airplanes first album. Remember that little number called "Embryonic Journey"? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | there are just tooooomannnnnnyyyyyyyy..................... |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Poor Otto. When you share like that it lets everyone know where your head is at. It may be even worse when you're railroaded into sharing like he was:
"Otto, you have some great songs. I've gotta get them. Did you bring them? Give me your flash drive. Total Eclipse of the... you've gotta be kidding... Seeya next year!" |
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Location: Central Florida | Wouldn't miss it for the world, Jas!
And for what its worth, I'm not ashamed of anything in the book. Nor should anyone else be. It all means something to somebody. I like Mr Ovation's outlook on it. :cool: Although it is still fun to bash sometimes!
Slipkid, if you guys really do know where my head is at you'd tell me right? I mean... I'd really like to know. :p
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O.T.: Worst song ever.....
