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USA Today's Edna Gunderson has the scoop on Blender Magazine's picks for the Worst Singles Of All Time.

"We Built This City" is the worst single ever constructed, according to Blender's ranking of reeking tunes.

The magazine's list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever," which hits newsstands Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles and April 27 nationwide, distills the lamest popular rock-era records into one sonic landfill.

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.

"Achy Breaky Heart" comes in second, followed by Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," "Rollin' " by Limp Bizkit and by "Ice Ice Baby." Rounding out the top 10 worst songs ever are "The Heart of Rock-and-Roll," "Don't Worry, Be Happy," Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time," "American Life" and "Ebony and Ivory."

Are any of these songs actually worse than Courtney Love's "Mono"? Worse than the Dandy Warhols' "Heroin Is So Passe"? Blind Melon's "No Rain"? Ryan Adams' "So Alive"? I think not.

But who gives a fuck? This worst-singles-ever thing is way too Comic Book Guy. And if Chunklet did the same thing, at least the choices would be something other than universal laughing stocks.

Posted: Tue - April 20, 2004 at 07:38 PM      

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