Readers of Rolling Stone magazine have voted Starship’s “We Built This City” the worst song of the 1980s by a huge margin. The online poll asked readers of the mag to rank the most noxious music of the decade that brought us leg warmers and Sony Walkmans, among other things.
This isn’t the first award for pure awfulness thrown at the song. In 2004, Blender magazine voted it the “Most Awesomely Bad Song of All Time”. It also means that when you’re at practically anyone’s wedding reception and the DJ busts out one of these gems, you can reliably inform him that his song choices are pants. Rolling Stone told you so.
Rolling Stone‘s 10 Worst songs of the 1980s as follows:
1. Starship – “We Built This City”
2. Europe – “The Final Countdown,”
3. Chris de Burgh – “The Lady in Red.”
4. Wham! — “Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go)”
5. Men Without Hats — “The Safety Dance”
6. Falco — “Rock Me Amadeus”
7. Bobby McFerrin — “Don’t Worry Be Happy”
8. Toni Basil — “Mickey”
9. Taco — “Puttin’ On the Ritz”
10. Rick Astley — “Never Gonna Give You Up”
You can check the poll here. Aand to play us out, the worst song of the 1980s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdj9NRzqC4
What are your bad music memories of the 1980s? Let rip in the comments.
[Source: ABC News]
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