How many in your music collection?

beetsnotbeats

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:10 PM UTC #

Finally, someone posted the list so you don't have to buy the filthy rag.

From 98Rock via DCRTV :

Blender Magazine's 50 Worst Songs of All Time

1. STARSHIP - "We Built This City"
2. BILLY RAY CYRUS - "Achy Breaky Heart"
3. WANG CHUNG - "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
4. LIMP BIZKIT - "Rollin'"
5. VANILLA ICE - "Ice Ice Baby"
6. HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS - "Heart of Rock 'n Roll"
7. BOBBY MCFERRIN - "Don't Worry Be Happy"
8. EDDIE MURPHY - "Party All The Time"
9. MADONNA - "American Life"
10. MCCARTNEY/WONDER - "Ebony & Ivory"
11. CLAY AIKEN - "Invisible"
12. BEACH BOYS - "Kokomo"
13. GENESIS - "Illegal Alien"
14. BETTE MIDLER - "From A Distance"
15. REMBRANDTS - "I'll Be There For You"
16. 4 NON BLONDES - "What's Up"
17. HAMMER - "Pumps And A Bump"
18. CHICAGO - "You're The Inspiration"
19. MR. MISTER - "Broken Wings'
20. LIONEL RICHIE - "Dancing On the Ceiling"
21. SPIN DOCTORS - "Two Princes"
22. TOBY KEITH - "Courtesy Of the Red White and Blue (The Angry American)"
23. COREY HART - "Sunglasses At Night"
24. FIVE FOR FIGHTING - "Superman (It's Not Easy)"
25. P.DIDDY/FAITH EVANS/112 - "I'll Be Missing You"
26. THE DOORS - "The End"
27. EUROPE - "The Final Countdown"
28. JOHN MAYER - "Your Body Is A Wonderland"
29. DEEP BLUE SOMETHING - "Breakfast At Tiffany's"
30. WHITNEY HOUSTON - "The Greatest Love Of All"
31. CRASH TEST DUMMIES - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
32. WILL SMITH - "Will 2K"
33. AQUA - "Barbie Girl"
34. DAN FOGELBERG - "Longer"
35. R.E.M. - "Shiny Happy People"
36. MASTER P./SILKK/MYSTIKAL - "Make 'Em Say Uhh!"
37. GERARDO - "Rico Suave"
38. REDNEX - "Cotton Eye Joe"
39. RICKY MARTIN - "She Bangs"
40. COLOR ME BADD - "I Wanna Sex You Up"
41. BILLY JOEL - 'We Didn't Start The Fire"
42. SIMON & GARFUNKEL - "The Sounds Of Silence"
43. UNCLE KRACKER - "Follow Me"
44. MEAT LOAF - "I'd Do Anything For Love But I Won't Do That"
45. JA RULE/ASHANTI - "Mesmerize"
46. NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK - "Hangin' Tough"
47. BRYAN ADAMS - "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You"
48. THE BEATLES - "Ob La Di Ob La Da"
49. RIGHT SAID FRED - "I'm Too Sexy"
50. CELINE DION - "My Heart Will Go On"

mankie

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:11 PM UTC #

All of the REM catalogue, but honorable mentions

Stand
End of the World
Losing my religion

Other songs that make my ears bleed and/or give me migraines.

Smells like teen spirit, Nirvana
That, "I wanna fuck you like an animal" one by NIN
Sweet child oh mine, GNR

Many more but that will do for now.

ggw

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:12 PM UTC #

I have three.

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
26. THE DOORS - "The End"
42. SIMON & GARFUNKEL - "The Sounds Of Silence"
48. THE BEATLES - "Ob La Di Ob La Da"

grotty

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:20 PM UTC #

I'll have to rescind my proclamation after seeing the complete list.

I actually do have a couple.

Notably:

Shiny Happy People

Maybe the worst decision by any band…ever.
Tarnished their reputation for me - Ruins what is otherwise a fairly solid record - the 4 tunes immediately following Shiny Happy People are some of my fav REM:
7. Belong
8. Half a World Away
9. Texarkana
10. Country Feedback
11. Me in Honey

Too bad I never pull the record out for fear of hearing the B52's pop up.

Aaaah - the power of shitty music.

skeeter

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:21 PM UTC #

5 here:

7. BOBBY MCFERRIN - "Don't Worry Be Happy"
26. THE DOORS - "The End"
35. R.E.M. - "Shiny Happy People"
42. SIMON & GARFUNKEL - "The Sounds Of Silence"
48. THE BEATLES - "Ob La Di Ob La Da"

ggw

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:24 PM UTC #

How did "Who Let the Dogs Out?" escape the wrath?

skeeter

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:25 PM UTC #

Originally posted by grotty:
Shiny Happy People

Maybe the worst decision by any band…ever.

Personally, I find "Radio Song" to be much more annoying. REM and KRS-One just don't mix well at all. At it's worst, "SHP" is just a little too cutesy. "Radio Song" is just absolutely horrible.

grotty

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:31 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Skeeter:

Originally posted by grotty:
Shiny Happy People

Maybe the worst decision by any band…ever.

Personally, I find "Radio Song" to be much more annoying. REM and KRS-One just don't mix well at all. At it's worst, "SHP" is just a little too cutesy. "Radio Song" is just absolutely horrible.

How about they just re-master that cd & eliminate them both? Just pretend it never happened…

mankie

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 03:41 PM UTC #

Originally posted by grotty:

How about they just eliminate them ? Just pretend REM never happened…
AMEN!

skeeter

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 04:04 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Bollocks:

Originally posted by grotty:

How about they just eliminate them ? Just pretend REM never happened…
AMEN!
Fine by me.

grotty

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 04:12 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Bollocks:

Originally posted by grotty:

How about they just eliminate them ? Just pretend REM never happened…
AMEN!
Next you'll be wanting to rid us of Nirvana, G&R, & NIN.

All we'd be left with is a weird little Mankie utopia featuring 24/7 Pogues/Beautiful South/& Waterboys.

Worse than XM for me! :D

mankie

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 04:14 PM UTC #

Originally posted by grotty:

Originally posted by Bollocks:

Originally posted by grotty:

How about they just eliminate them ? Just pretend REM never happened…
AMEN!
Next you'll be wanting to rid us of Nirvana, G&R, & NIN.

All we'd be left with is a weird little Mankie utopia featuring 24/7 Pogues/Beautiful South/& Waterboys.

Worse than XM for me! :D
Well Courtney already eliminated Nirvana,
GNR eliminated themselves
NIN can stay…I just don't like that song.

keithstg

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 04:57 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:

Originally posted by keithstg:
Another thing we agree on (shudder). Great book and movie. V.entertaining.
I thought that the movie didn't really do the book justice. For instance, where was the scene with the chocolate dipped urinal cake?

But I am a huge Wilhelm Dafoe fan!

Good point, that is a classic. The frantic call to his lawyer was in there though, and is a keeper. Following the book up in 90 minute form was going to be tough, but I think that Mary Harron did a good job.

vansmack

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 21, 2004 at 07:26 PM UTC #

It's official. I have the worst collection of music.

3. WANG CHUNG - "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" (on a compilation of 80's tunes)
5. VANILLA ICE - "Ice Ice Baby" (don't even knock it - you all know you liked it)
6. HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS - "Heart of Rock 'n Roll" (on cassette)
12. BEACH BOYS - "Kokomo" (on a greatest hits, but I skip it every time - heard Jason Scwartz say some funny things about it on Kimmel though) 21. SPIN DOCTORS - "Two Princes" (still listen to the album on occasion)
24. FIVE FOR FIGHTING - "Superman (It's Not Easy)" (on one of the 9/11 tribute albums I own)
26. THE DOORS - "The End" (this song has no business on this list)
28. JOHN MAYER - "Your Body Is A Wonderland" (guilty pleasure…me and smackette's song awwwww)
29. DEEP BLUE SOMETHING - "Breakfast At Tiffany's" (I enjoy the chord progression)
31. CRASH TEST DUMMIES - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" (great album, not the best song on the album though)
35. R.E.M. - "Shiny Happy People" (ridiculous choice considering I have yet to see a single acoustic hairband song on this list)
39. RICKY MARTIN - "She Bangs" (does the William Hung version count?)
41. BILLY JOEL - 'We Didn't Start The Fire" (can still sing it all the wat through without the music…I was really sharp in those days - not drinking much yet)
42. SIMON & GARFUNKEL - "The Sounds Of Silence" (see #26)
48. THE BEATLES - "Ob La Di Ob La Da" (seriously, see #26 and #35)
49. RIGHT SAID FRED - "I'm Too Sexy" (got to listen to something before I go out - just kidding, I don't have this one)

J'Mal

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 22, 2004 at 05:31 PM UTC #

6. HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS - "Heart of Rock 'n Roll"

A classic.

13. GENESIS - "Illegal Alien"

Weak song, great frikin' album.

26. THE DOORS - "The End"

OH come on!! how can you NOT have this album??

27. EUROPE - "The Final Countdown"

Don't have it, but I saw them open up for Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour back in the day… man they sucked.

35. R.E.M. - "Shiny Happy People"

Not the greatest REM album, but OK. The only truly bad REM album was Monster. Some of the rest… ahhh man, if you don't get Fables or Murmur or Chronic Town, you're retarded.

42. SIMON & GARFUNKEL - "The Sounds Of Silence"

Try 50 GREATEST songs.

48. THE BEATLES - "Ob La Di Ob La Da"

How can you NOT have the White Album????

skeeter

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 22, 2004 at 05:41 PM UTC #

Originally posted by vansmack:
12. BEACH BOYS - "Kokomo" (on a greatest hits, but I skip it every time - heard Jason Scwartz say some funny things about it on Kimmel though)

oops. I forgot about that Beach Boys greatest hits thing we got a few months ago. Bumps me up to 6 from the list.

Medusa

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 22, 2004 at 06:36 PM UTC #

I have the Wang Chung and Right Said Fred tracks - and what might be worse, is that I actually like them. :)

P.S. Anyone from this board catch Wang Chung's live show at Jaxx back in summer 2000? It was great! I lose points for saying that, I know!

Cheers

DJ Medusa.

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 22, 2004 at 06:42 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Medusa:
I have the Wang Chung and Right Said Fred tracks - and what might be worse, is that I actually like them. :)

P.S. Anyone from this board catch Wang Chung's live show at Jaxx back in summer 2000? It was great! I lose points for saying that, I know!

Cheers

DJ Medusa.

There's nothing wrong with either. BTW, Right Said Fred had a couple of more hits in Europe, besides Too Sexy.

Rhett Miller

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 22, 2004 at 07:01 PM UTC #

I am sorry to report that NONE of these songs are on any of my 500+ cd's.

bags

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Re: How many in your music collection? April 22, 2004 at 07:31 PM UTC #

Originally posted by grotty:

Too bad I never pull the record out for fear of hearing the B52's pop up.

grotty, grotty, grotty. The only endearing aspect of that song is the lovely and amazing Kate Pierson. Not the B-52s, the *best* B-52. She even makes Iggy Pop shine…"Candy" is one of my favorite songs.