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mjscarousal said:

You do realize that I don't care? Prince was a butthole in the 80's and that takes nothing away from his genius. Regardless whether you think the song is corny or not its a classic and iconic. The song gets played today so your opinion has no bearing when people obviously like the song and it still influences 30 years later

You have to admit is indeed a little corny, Heal The World is much better.

Honestly, after you insisted "Suck on my balls" were interesting lyrics compared to quality lyrics its hard for me to take your music opinions seriously. The song is not corny. It's a classic and ICONIC for what it represents (complicated and complex domestic and international social welfare disparities) and the hope that if we love and work together we can change that.

'We are the World' is obviously garbage.

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The list is funny in that they must have felt obligated to have a Beatles' song just for reknown, so they picked 'Hey Jude', which is genius.

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Otherwise, not a bad list, although, as someone said, 'The Joker' isn't particularly bad either.

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Really, none of these lists are complete without mention of '(You're) Having my Baby' by Paul Anka.

the funny thing is....most of the songs on that list are better than most of the crap you hear on the radio nowadays

SoulAlive said:

the funny thing is....most of the songs on that list are better than most of the crap you hear on the radio nowadays

BOOM, end thread.

PurpleJedi said:

These are the 20 worst songs of all time, according to our readers

New York Post 11/04/2016

Starship: “We Built This City”

USA for Africa: “We Are the World”

The charitable intentions couldn’t hide what a stinker of a song it was. Prince knew it and, despite huge criticism at the time, wisely refused to take part.

Barenaked Ladies: “One Week”

Bobby McFerrin: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

Terry Jacks: “Seasons in the Sun”

Berlin: “Take My Breath Away”

Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots: “Disco Duck”

Steve Miller Band: “The Joker”

Baha Men: “Who Let the Dogs Out”

Piko-Taro: “PPAP”

The Hues Corporation: “Rock the Boat”

Eddie Murphy: “Party All the Time”

Nena: “99 Luftballons”

The Beatles: “Hey Jude”

Bryan Adams: “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”

Men Without Hats: “The Safety Dance”

Los del Río: “Macarena”

Billy Ray Cyrus: “Achy Breaky Heart”

Europe: “The Final Countdown”

Desiigner: “Panda”

Original post HERE

I have to agree with "We Built This City." It's horrible, and when it came out it was played so much I almost went into a homicidal rage. And I can agree with a couple of other songs being total crap. But the rest of them either were just fun party songs or were just played way too much on the radio and MTV. Theyt left out some truly awful songs.









Forget the fact that these guys didn't actually sing this song to begin with. If you listen to the lyrics, it's about a guy who pisses off his girlfriend so much that she leaves him, and instead of facing up to his own failings, he blames it on the rain.





This makes my list if only because it encourages statutory rape of a minor. I know this came out in 1980, but if anyone tried to sing something like this today, the cops would be busting down the door really quick.

728huey said:

This makes my list if only because it encourages statutory rape of a minor. I know this came out in 1980, but if anyone tried to sing something like this today, the cops would be busting down the door really quick.

What's the difference in this song and all of the oldies tunes & old blues songs about "sweet sixteen" or The Beatles I Saw Her Standing There? "She was just 17 and you know what I mean...". Is it because there's a music video, or because it came out in 1980 instead of the 1950s or 1960s?

MickyDolenz said:

728huey said:

This makes my list if only because it encourages statutory rape of a minor. I know this came out in 1980, but if anyone tried to sing something like this today, the cops would be busting down the door really quick.

What's the difference in this song and all of the oldies tunes & old blues songs about "sweet sixteen" or The Beatles I Saw Her Standing There? "She was just 17 and you know what I mean...". Is it because there's a music video, or because it came out in 1980 instead of the 1950s or 1960s?

The difference is that the singers back then were still teenagers themselves when they sang those lyrics, albeit maybe 19 years old. Benny Mardones was already approaching age 30 when that song was released, and the first lyric was "Leave her alone, they said." Winger did release "Seventeen", which was about seeing some super hot yet underaged girl and trying to hit on her, only to be told by her that she was only 17, which they knew was off limits.

728huey said:

The difference is that the singers back then were still teenagers themselves when they sang those lyrics, albeit maybe 19 years old. Benny Mardones was already approaching age 30 when that song was released, and the first lyric was "Leave her alone, they said." Winger did release "Seventeen", which was about seeing some super hot yet underaged girl and trying to hit on her, only to be told by her that she was only 17, which they knew was off limits.

Many of the singers who sang 'sweet sixteen' songs were over 19, especially the blues ones. Not many teen blues singers back then. The Beatles were all over 20 when that song was recorded. Also later on in the 1990s Bell Biv DeVoe released Do Me which has "Backstage underage adolescent, How ya doing? Fine, she replied. I sighed, I like to do the wild thing. Action took place..." They were over 19 too.

mjscarousal said:

Oh God, the wife and I were watching TV the other night (I live in Tokyo) and that

Piko-Taro: “PPAP”

song came on -- a live performance at that! We both started laughing, it was horrendous. It made headlines in Japan when Justin Bieber said he liked the song.

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Actually, if you read the NY Post article carefully, it says "Post readers also gave us their own nominations for worst songs of all time, and here are some of the biggest offenders." It doesn't say anywhere that these are the top-20.

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So, it seems like this list is just random songs chosen by the Post from undisclosed numbers of reader-nominations. Not the actual Top-20.

NorthC said:

purplethunder3121 said:

The Joker and Hey, Jude don't belong on this list.

Neither does 99 Luftballons. The only song in German that ever was a hit in the US! Stop being so nationalistic, NY Post readers!

I don´t think so. Off the top of my head, I would say that at least two or three Rammstein songs were hits, too ( I can´t stand them ).

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This list is a joke though. Not that I really like the songs on it but to say that these are the worst songs when there are dozens and dozens of songs that are much worse is ridiculous.

mjscarousal said:

214 said:

You have to admit is indeed a little corny, Heal The World is much better.

Honestly, after you insisted "Suck on my balls" were interesting lyrics compared to quality lyrics its hard for me to take your music opinions seriously. The song is not corny. It's a classic and ICONIC for what it represents (complicated and complex domestic and international social welfare disparities) and the hope that if we love and work together we can change that.

What are you talkn about,i don't even know that song.

I like Starship, we are the world and Disco duck (Guilty Pleasures)

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Some of those songs belong there, especially

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Achy Breaky Heart - Aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!

Bryan Adams: “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” - Aaarrrgggghhhhh!!!

Los del Río: “Macarena - Hideous fad song

Steve Miller Band: “The Joker” - Boring redneck crap

Baha Men: “Who Let the Dogs Out” - Just dumb

Bobby McFerrin - no comment, one hit wonder shit

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Never heard Panda or PPAP.

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Some of the songs I would add are

1. Ice Ice Baby by Spunilla Ice

2. Teach me how to dougie - Kelly swag district

3. Watch me Naynay - Silento

4. All shit hop dance songs like Wheelchair stuntin, the bernie, stanky legg

5. Any little wayne

6. Any other shit hop

7. Anything by Kesha, Nicky Minaj, Katie Perry, Gaga,

8. Vengaboys - we like to party

9. Crazy Frog - Axel F

10. Friday - Rebecca Black (Was 13 at time, but drank a lot of milk products obviously)

11. Informer - Snow

12. Any death/black/trash metal

13. Any Black eyed peas

14. Any Disney Pop or boyband/girlband

15. Baby - Justin Bieber and anyother JB song.

Adorecream said:

I like Starship, we are the world and Disco duck (Guilty Pleasures)

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Some of those songs belong there, especially

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Achy Breaky Heart - Aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!

Bryan Adams: “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” - Aaarrrgggghhhhh!!!

Los del Río: “Macarena - Hideous fad song

Steve Miller Band: “The Joker” - Boring redneck crap

Baha Men: “Who Let the Dogs Out” - Just dumb

Bobby McFerrin - no comment, one hit wonder shit

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Never heard Panda or PPAP.

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Some of the songs I would add are

1. Ice Ice Baby by Spunilla Ice

2. Teach me how to dougie - Kelly swag district

3. Watch me Naynay - Silento

4. All shit hop dance songs like Wheelchair stuntin, the bernie, stanky legg

5. Any little wayne

6. Any other shit hop

7. Anything by Kesha, Nicky Minaj, Katie Perry, Gaga,

8. Vengaboys - we like to party

9. Crazy Frog - Axel F

10. Friday - Rebecca Black (Was 13 at time, but drank a lot of milk products obviously)

11. Informer - Snow

12. Any death/black/trash metal

13. Any Black eyed peas

14. Any Disney Pop or boyband/girlband

15. Baby - Justin Bieber and anyother JB song.

Hey Justin Bieber has got some good songs like Love Yourself.

Hey Justin Bieber has got some good songs like Love Yourself.

No he hasn't and I am sure anyone over 21 will agree with me. His music is formulaic machine pumped, boy band, autotune machine pumped shit. It has no redeeming musical value and is designed to give this tattoo festooned piece of shit more time in the public eye.

Adorecream said:

Hey Justin Bieber has got some good songs like Love Yourself.

No he hasn't and I am sure anyone over 21 will agree with me. His music is formulaic machine pumped, boy band, autotune machine pumped shit. It has no redeeming musical value and is designed to give this tattoo festooned piece of shit more time in the public eye.

Even Donny Osmond as a kid could do better.

We are the World 25 for Haiti belongs on the list of 20 worst songs ever. The original is a wonderful, melodic masterpiece with many great voices and everyone who hates it should be slapped.

Really, folks? The New York Puke is a sensationalist tabloid. Their pieces are unworthy of serious analysis.

SoulAlive said:

the thing with "Disco Duck" is....it's a parody,a joke....it's not meant to be taken seriously.In 1976,Rick Dees noticed that everything was suddenly becoming "disco",so he wrote a fun song about it.To say that it is one of the worst songs ever....they clearly don't get the joke

I think they get the joke. It made the list because the song went all the way to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. Otherwise, they probably wouldn't have even remembered it.

ThePanther said:

'We are the World' is obviously garbage.

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The list is funny in that they must have felt obligated to have a Beatles' song just for reknown, so they picked 'Hey Jude', which is genius.

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Otherwise, not a bad list, although, as someone said, 'The Joker' isn't particularly bad either.

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Really, none of these lists are complete without mention of '(You're) Having my Baby' by Paul Anka.

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It was a readers' poll, not something the Post staff picked.

Tis list should be retitled songs that we remeber to be annoying because they were either overplayed or cheesy. Let it be really thats a great song te first time or the 800 time.

Hudson said:

Not really a bad song, just inbelievably dated. People listened to some really corny music in the pre Beatles days. This was a massive hit back in 1963 and Yiddish Schmaltz like this was seen as hip.

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The song was even sent up on Family Guy in the surfin bird episode - the copy of the song has an overcoat and speaks in a Sherman type voice "It's not my fault you don't play me any more, some Jews still get a kick out of Hellomuddah, hello faddah, oy its hot out today"

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1963 threw up some pretty wretchable songs worse than this like

Sukiyaki by some Jap dude

Domina neek a neek or whatever its called by some French speaking nun

that Sailor Boy song in German.

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The Beatles were the Panacea that you Americans needed!

Adorecream said:

Sukiyaki by some Jap dude

The Beatles were the Panacea that you Americans needed!

MickyDolenz said:

Adorecream said:

Sukiyaki by some Jap dude

The Beatles were the Panacea that you Americans needed!

You could agree to agree to disagree instead of being an asshole.

So it's dumb to have an opinion, especially as the Beatles obliterated America in Early 1964 so that by April the Top 5 positions on the chart was all Beatles songs and Hold your hand sold some 15 million copies.

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But yes that is that dumb. I consider people voting for Donald Trump dumb.

Ok Archie Bunker, since when is calling someone a "Jap dude" an opinion, when that person has a name (Kyu Sakamoto). But that's to be expected from the site bigot who always says black people have ghetto names and big lips.

MickyDolenz said:

Ok Archie Bunker, since when is calling someone a "Jap dude" an opinion, when that person has a name (Kyu Sakamoto). But that's to be expected from the site bigot who always says black people have ghetto names and big lips.

Did not know his name, sorry I am not a fountain of 1960s one hit wonder knowledge like you.

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You obviously have an obsession with some of my earlier comments, who are you? Of course I am leading a campaign for the org to introduce a block users post feature to block detetstable trash like you.

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Also I am surprised Sukiyaki hit, given that the atrocities of WW2 were merely 17 years earlier, the Japanese went from wanting to rule the world into making nerdy unlistenable pop. The song was a complete novelty hit anyway, Sakamoto never ever troubled the charts again.

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Site bigot, that is a new one, seen more bigotted and homophobic rubbish here from other people myself and not all are white. But my guess is that you believe only whites can be racist.

PatrickS77 said:

dancerella said:

I seriously can't understand how We built this city is the worst song of all time.

Yes. Me too. I mean, it's not the greatest song. But it certainly isn't the worst. It's a fun song and back in the day when it was strong on the charts, nobody said it's the worst song ever.

laurarichardson said:

We are the world is total crap. Wendy even confirmed that Prince thought the song sucked.

You're just biased against MJ. The song is great. Everybody who doesn't agree is a loser. Plain and simple. There, I said it.

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Bias or not, that song is a 12" sub of a shit sandwich.

RicoN said:

PatrickS77 said:

You're just biased against MJ. The song is great. Everybody who doesn't agree is a loser. Plain and simple. There, I said it.

[Edited 11/5/16 20:44pm]

Bias or not, that song is a 12" sub of a shit sandwich.

Oh, look... another biased, threatened, jealous and petty little Prince fan. Anything to shit on MJ. Like I said before, I take it you're a loser.