"We Built This City" voted as the worst single ever

News.Com.AU | April 21, 2004 | Patrick O'Neil

[Charles Martel]

I don't know Styx's lead guitriast's(Tommy something) name, but I saw something on VH-1 about Styx, and the guy spit venom towards DeYoung's way in the nicest midwest manner possible.

Midwest? I guess Tommy Shaw (a native of Mobile, Alabama) has let the "damnyankees" rub off on him. ;-) I believe that Dennis DeYoung went one step too far with the Kilroy tour, integrating a brief stage play into the concert performance. Rock audiences did not think much of that, and worse, his fellow bandmates really resented the play-acting. The album itself was a response to the "Tipper Gore lyrics police" and the push in general for censorship of recordings (hence the deliberate use of backwards-masked messages on that LP). Taken in context, Kilroy really isn't such a bad album.

[TheBigB]

Aw, you're killin' me, MG! I like Bette Davis Eyes and Mickey, too. :^)

I could also put "Africa" by Toto and "Eye in the Sky" by the Alan Parsons Project amongst my faves as well.

[dfwgator]

I had expunged "Lovin You" from my mind completely until you mentioned it. ;)

I liked the version John Stamos' brother did on South Park.

[oyez]

Dr Hook & The Medicine Show, "Sylvia's Mother." Or most anything by Dr. Hook & Co. (gag!)

[Petronski]

Hey, I love the McKenzie Brothers, eh, but I don't remember the song, so like, I can't judge it til I hear it again, ya know?


Wanna beer?

[mabelkitty]

Sam Cooke is my all-time favorite.

[mabelkitty]

Okay, when I was growing up (before I liked Sam Cooke) I loved Duran Duran.


GO AHEAD AND FLAME AWAY!! THAT'S RIGHT! I'M A CLOSET DURANIE!!

[TheBigB]

"When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" is pretty good...

[BlazingArizona]

I think Don Henley's "All she wants to do is dance" stinks. Phil Collins did a puppet video where he used anti-American propoganda and Reagan bashing. He's such scum.

A worse example still is Henley's "End of the Innocence".

[EllaMinnow]

Thanks. I can hear it now in my head "Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go-o-o..."

I'm remembering thousands of bad 70s songs today - but I'm having a hard time remembering any good ones!

[expatguy]

Eddie Murphy - Live

"Boogie in your Butt"

[TheBigB]

I just saw the original DD lineup perform in Atlanta last October. :^)

[Khurkris]

Agree...THE BAND did the original and best version. Hell, when they do that song it sounds like Gospel Music to me.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I'll raise you "Popcorn"... tit-to-tit-to-tip-tip-top..

Yowch! We're even ;)

[SamAdams76]

Nice catch with "Claire" by Gilbert O'Sullivan. I hadn't thought of that song in years.

Other annoying songs from that same period that had child molester potential was "Candy Man" by Sammy Davis Jr. and "Playground In My Mind" by Rupert Holmes.

I guess you could say those songs are on the jukebox at NAMBLA headquarters.

[mabelkitty]

Yes! 300 posts without mention if how horrible it was.

[AgentEcho]

I don't think anyone has mentioned anything by Air Supply. PLEASE tell me this was a oversight by everyone.

[SamAdams76]

Oops. Make that CLINT Holmes that did "Playground In My Mind." Not Rupert Holmes. He's the one who wrote the song about cannibalism.

[fortunecookie]

Is fortunecookie an expert on gay sex suicide films? ;O)

Hey, now, that's not right..

[Finalapproach29er]

"Amedeus" mid 1980's