I was curious, so I checked out
Bender's 50 Worst Songs of All Time article- what I saw was more horrible than anything you could possibly imagine. While I do agree with many of their choices, the rest only go to show how much the music industry has declined, so much so that it's at the point where it doesn't even know what good music
is anymore.
#41 is We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel
#26 is The End by The Doors
#1 is We Built This City by Starship
#12 is Kokomo by The Beach Boys
Those 4 pissed me off enough, but these two made me feel like I had just been mugged and left beaten in a dark alley:
#48 is Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by The Beatles (as if I really need to say that)
#42 is The Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
We'll just ignore Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da for now, since
any Beatles song being on a list of the worst songs ever is nothing less than blasphemy. But The Sounds of Silence is one of the most beautiful and thoughtful songs ever written, rivaled, on the whole, only by Simon and Garfunkel's other work. How could it
possibly be one of the worst songs ever? Go to the link if you want to read their pretentious and hypocritical explanations, but I'd warn against it.
How can Blender think they can claim they're the "Ultime Music Magazine" while at the same even
suggesting a Beatles song is bad? It just doesn't make
sense.