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All Barry Manilow and Lionel Richie songs.
This week: more likes and dislikes. Tell us the name of the worst pop song of all time.
Insipidness is not enough. A truly awful song incites annoyance, then hatred, ultimately violence. The following make me want to take a crowbar to the radio: "Name Game" by Shirley Ellis, "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka. "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem.
It'd have to be Depeche Mode's "Blasphemous Rumours." If you don't believe me, just listen to the chorus: "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours/but I think that God has a sick sense of humour/And when I die/I expect to find/Him laughing." Oooooh...poor babies!