Ladies and Gentlemen, for your consideration, I present you
Achy Breaky Heart
may god have mercy on our souls
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Reminds me of a story about a pair of musicians, strangers to each other, who had hooked up together to rent a car to travel to their next gigs. Their route took them through mountain country in the dead of night.
So they’re driving along, and the chap in the passenger seat notices Death sitting in the back seat.
“Holy crap! What are you doing here?”
“Well, you drove off the last bend and fell 500 ft to your deaths in the canyon, so I’m here to collect you and guide you into the next life. But first, because it was so unexpected, I’ll grant you a boon before I take you off.”
The driver pipes up, “I was a country musician in life, so I’d like a hundred choruses of Achy Breaky Heart as a last hooraw!”
Death looks at the passenger. “And you?”
“I was a jazz musician in life. Kill me now.”
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Oh man, that whole junction of Traveling Williburys/Tom Petty/Jeff Lyne/George Harrison was filled with such vast amounts of suckitude. I’ll cop to having a soft spot for Tom Petty but that’s about it for those guys at that period.
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As in didn’t deserve in a good way, or didn’t deserve in a bad way?
Kidding!!! [ducks]
She has a few good breakup songs…
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Can anything be worse than Agadoo?
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I’m just going to leave this here with a reminder that it was once the number one radio song in America and spent the better part of half a year in the top 100. If ever there was an argument for the extinction of mankind…
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Bleh. I still like that song and am not afraid to admit it.
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I admire your bravery, if not your music taste.
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Do you like the Muppets version any better?
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Ok it was a pop song but it wasn’t that bad.
I think Yellow brick road was one of Elton Johns best albums. But damn it got so much rotation that I got sick of it after a couple months.
Same with The Wall
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A reminder that Paul McCartney should never have stopped taking drugs.
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I have absolutely no problem with the song.
“My heart will go on”, however, deserves to die. It was shit even before it was played too much everywhere. Makes my ears bleed.
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I think this gets to the heart of why this is such a hated song. If it had been done by Debbie Gibson or Wham or Huey Lewis it would have been merely a mediocre song most people forgot about. You expected bland pop from those people.
But actually I think it wasn’t even just the blandness. Their big hits of the mid 70s (Marty Balin’s stuff) weren’t exactly edgy, but it was still done well with a unique sound and sounded sincere; I actually like those songs pretty well. It’s the ironic pomposity combined with the obvious insincerity and blah “set the synth to 80s” that makes Built this City objectively 
the worst.
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You mean this one?
Yes, I’m a horrible person. No, I’m not sorry. Horrible people never are.
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I don’t click links I suspect to lead to the musical equivalent of goatse.cx
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(note to self: come the apocalypse, do whatever it takes to recruit Mister44 to your side, as a braver man will ne’er be found)
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I’m not that horrible.
For anyone who clicked that link: I’m sorry and here’s your chaser.
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I admire the patience. After the first verse it kind of wears.
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Better.
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