Jefferson Starship song rated "Worst Ever"

[KurtNYC]

'We Built This City' ranks as the worst record ever

Starship's 1985 anthem, the runaway No. 1 stinker, "seems to inspire the most virulent feelings of outrage," editor Craig Marks says. "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."

Also sealing the song's fate were Starship's steep fall from grace as the admired Jefferson Airplane and "the sheer dumbness of the lyrics," Marks says.

The rest of the list:

1. We Built This City, Starship 1985
2. Achy Breaky Heart, Billy Ray Cyrus 1992
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight, Wang Chung 1986
4. Rollin', Limpbizkit 2000
5. Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice 1990
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll, Huey Lewis & The News 1984
7. Don't Worry, Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin 1988
8. Party All the Time, Eddie Murphy 1985
9. American Life, Madonna 2003
10. Ebony and Ivory, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder 1982

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-04-18-worst-songs_x.htm

[kick-ass-bob]

I'd really have to say

Achy Breaky Heart was worse.

:puke:

[LSdemocrat]

10. That song was truly terrible

[hippiechick]

1. I must say, I gotta agree with USAToday.

:wow:

[Left Brain]

2. Huh. Not for me.

I guess "worst" is in the ear of the beholder, eh?

[donheld]

9. Exactly, Each to their own

I find it maddening when certain people want tell us which music we are allowed to like.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. Yep, all those songs suck

I hear Wang Chung ALL THE TIME in public places. It's part of every Muzak mix it seems. I HATED that song when it came out!

[KurtNYC]

6. Eww, I have heard the muzak version too

About the only song on that list that I might pardon is "Don't Worry Be Happy" It was horribly over-played but props to McFerrin for complaining when Bush Sr. stole the tune for their ill-fated re-election bid.

[lateo]

4. Ebony and Ivory?

Wasn't that Michael Jackson?

[KurtNYC]

7. That was the dreaded "Say Say Say"

McCartney and MJ.

[4_Legs_Good]

21. And "The Girl is Mine"

Though all three songs are okay in my book...

david

[Lady Freedom]

5. 'We Built This City' by Jefferson Starship

IS AWESOME!!!! Those who say it's bad is just not with it man!:hippie:

[KitchenWitch]

17. How was "We Built this City" worse than "Ice Ice Baby"

[Lady Freedom]

22. "Ice Ice Baby"" is my second fav rap song

My first is "Take it from me parents just don't understand!" by Fresh Prince and D.J Jazzy Jeff!

[Beer Snob-50]

8. don't know the limpbizkit or Madonna songs

but gotta agree with the rest of them. i would probably add "another one bites the dust" by queen in there also. oh and "jack and dianne" by john cougar.

[Atlas Mugged]

11. No arguments here!

The first time I saw the video I was slack-jawed with horror. What bothered me the most (even more than the boogeying President Lincoln) was Grace Slick's patented non-blinking, steely eyed stare into the camera - as if she was completely SERIOUS about the "message".

[Zebulon]

12. Re: Jefferson Starship song rated "Worst Ever"

Have to agree with them here. If there is a worse song, I can't think of it.

[jackster]

13. and just where the hell is "Disco Duck"

unless that little ditty is in the top two then I have little faith in any list!

[SmileyBoy]

14. I definitely agree.

My mom would listen to the light-rock station when I was a preschooler, and that song had just come out. so they would play it alot. And I was literally SCARED of that song. I'd yell, cry and scream at my mother to change the station.

Hated it then, and I hate it now.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. I gotta agree! I knew it even before I clicked the link.

Such a sad, sad, sad fall that group from their heyday as musicians as Jefferson Airplane, to their eventual corporate whoredom and lack of inspiration and integrity of Starship.

Really, really sad.

[General Zod]

16. Ouch! That song brings me pain, pain I tell you!

Corporate rock at it's most soulless....

[egoprofit]

18. it's such bullshit, seriously...

if these songs were so "bad" why were they on the radio? who cares?? these artists made a VERY NICE living from this!!!

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Um...why were they on the radio? Because radio is corporate...

and plays pretty much what the record labels want them to promote (commercial radio, anyway)...and, as H.L. Mencken said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

[SmileyBoy]

20. Exactly. It doesn't matter what the quality of the song is.

Corporate radio has turned music into a commodity, and nothing more.