100 Worst Records

[angelophile]

Just remembered the TV show I watched on New Years Day of the Top 100 Worst Records of All Time (Which is an oxymoron no doubt.) Was quite amusing, voted for by the great British public. I'll post the Top 10 here just to see people's opinions. if you want to see the full list look here.

1. The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) - The Cheeky Girls
2. The Millennium Prayer - Cliff Richard
3. Agadoo - Black Lace
4. Candle In The Wind 1997 - Elton John
5. Fast Food Song - The Fast Food Rockers
6. Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby
7. Because We Want To - Billie
8. Barbie Girl - Aqua
9. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
10. Jenny From The Block - Jennifer Lopez

I suspect a few of those on there people in the US won't have heard of. Of the remainder, hey, there's songs that shouldn't be on the list. Sure they're -bad- but in a good way. Agadoo is the classic dad's disco song, play it at a wedding and you're guaranteed to get everyone up and dancing, and everyone'll know the actions too. There's a difference between horribly cheesy pop that -knows- it's bad and stuff done with sincerity in my opinion.

Barbie Girl falls under the 'knowingly crap' category, as do most of the other songs there. I guess the ones that really stand out in their awfulness for me are Achy Breaky Heart, (sung by a man with a mullet for god's sake There weren't even fashionable when that song came out. At least 80s rockers can be excused). Millenium Prayer is horribly sincere and I guess how awful you think it is depends on how offened you are by the idea of an overt christian releasing a song that's the Lord's Prayer put to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. It's actually slightly less horrible than it sounds).

The two that utterly utterly deserve to be on there are Candle in the Wind 97 which is the biggest selling and most utterly sickening song of all time. Not only didn't Elton have the decensy to actually write a new song about his 'great friend' Diana, but he released a song from a frickin' funeral as a single. Seriously, it was a horribly cynical cash in. Diana media whore would no doubt have approved.

Jenny from the Block is almost worse. I -loath- the song with a passion. There's something so disgustingly hypocritical about Jennifer Lopez releasing a song on how she hasn't changed one bit since she's become successful, with an accompanying video of her and Ben Afleck covorting on a yacht in the Carribean, wearing jewellry of the same vakue as some African nation's nation debt. I feel physically ill every time I hear the song. She might as well have tattooed her bank balance on her forehead.

The lyrics are particularly sickening. You can just imagine her going to a school reunion.

"Hey, Lisa, how are you."

"Hey, I'm fine, I'm a single mom living on benefits in a seedy appartment, with a part time job in the laudromat. How about you Jenny?"

"Well I'm a multimillionaire model turned actress turned singer with a big arse with a large personal fortune, I'm dating Ben Affleck and currently wearing a million dollars worth of gaudy diamonds."

"Wow Jenny, you haven't changed a bit."

**** off I think is the only resonse to Miss Lopez.