Columns Retired Columns & Blogs |
We Are the World - Travesty! "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" - With an axe! "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Please, shoot me!
This week: more likes and dislikes. Tell us the name of the worst pop song of all time.
Some candidates: every song by ABBA, Brrr-It-Nay Spears, Tiny Tim, every rap song I ever heard, Bon Jovi, The Bee Gees (disco and beyond), Elton John (from "Philadelphia Freedom" on), Tom Jones, N'Sync, The Backstreet Boys and the rest of that candy-ass pop music movement. So much garbage, so little time!
Are you kidding. It would be easier to pick the best pop songs of all time. On what grounds are the opinions formed? Recording, artist, lyrics... Im just curious. I think that pretty much anything from Bob Dylan. Anything from N'Sync, Backstreet Boys Christina Agulera, Brittney Spears or Ricky Martin. When was the last time I actually liked a pop song?
I couldn't begin to list the number of POP songs that have lame lyrics coupled with lousey oversynthesized vocalist. Most Modern artist do not seem wholly devoted to their craft. It seems more about producing dumbed down saleable drivel that the most consumers buy, because they don't know better. With all the cuts in arts and music programs kids today aren't taught to be critical listeners like it used to be. Therefore any rap or grunge band with angry and offensive lyrics can lay down a few gutiar licks add a few an synth bass and drum tracks and it will top the charts. Who cares if they can play or sing.
The Logical Song by Supertramp. No explanation needed. And what was the name of that hideous piece of crap about pina coladas and getting caught in the rain? How about "Sailing" by Christopher Cross? Gotta be in the top ten all-time worst. Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love of All" is right up there
When I worked in "Quality Control" at IBM in Boulder . . . I was SO bored doing nothing . . . that a coworker and myself came up with a list of the worst songs in our lives . . . and at the top of the list we find "Shattered" from the Rolling Stones. Was EVERYONE in the 70's to early 80's on drugs?