Bryan Bradfield wrote:Does the badness of a song depend on how many times it is listed in the bottom 100? Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" is at number 14, and at number 17.
It's really number 7.75.
My least favorites aren't on the the list. "Texas When I Die", "Bad Bad Leroy Brown", "My Ding-a-Ling" and basically any song where the chorus is the same melody as the verse.
I've always hated "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" by The Monkees. Maybe it's the chord progression, or the bad lyrics, but I change stations whenever that song comes on.
Gordon Lightfoot is at number 69? I don't care what Lightfoot song you bring up, it cannot make a "worst of" list.
I agree. We're talking about a prolific, intellect-and-heart-driven lyricist of longevity--not to mention that of his bandsmen--few can claim. Anyone unable to appreciate this artist's ability is musically pitiable.
I thought Ode to Billy Joe was well written in that it showed people's indifference to other people's feelings. While "she" was sitting at the dinner table, shocked at the news, her family kept passing the food, and then her mother even hinted that she "take up" with the preacher. A year later, "she" is throwin' flowers off the bridge in memory of when "they" used to throw flowers off the bridge together.
"And she and Billy Joe were throwin' somethin' off the Tallahachie bridge".
It makes a great "funk" song, too.
