Rolling Stone selects 10 worst songs of the 1990s (two of which are the funniest songs I've heard)

[Flaxbee]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/readers-poll-the-worst-songs-of-the-nineties-20110831

When people look back on a decade's music they tend to focus on the good stuff – but the people who lived through the time period know better. While the 1990s certainly had amazing music, not everything on the radio was Nirvana or Radiohead. Michael Bolton, Kenny G. and Vanilla Ice sold enough records to fill 500 landfills – which is where most of those records now reside. Last week, we asked our readers to vote for the worst song of the 1990s. Here are the results.


Number 9, "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred. I know this got played to death, but, really, "I'm too sexy for my cat" - how can you not laugh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk&ob=av3e


But the travesty! Number 1 is Aqua's "Barbie Girl" I unashamedly love this song, it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh every time I hear it, and that can't be bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A&ob=av2e

Alex Kozinski (Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals) in Mattel v. MCA Records Inc. quite appropriately smacked Mattel back finding the song was a parody (and permissible):

Yet another of Kozinski's high-profile cases to date was the lawsuit filed by Mattel against MCA Records, the record label of Danish pop-dance group Aqua, for "turning Barbie into a sex object" in their song "Barbie Girl." Kozinski opened the case with "If this were a sci-fi melodrama, it might be called Speech-Zilla meets Trademark Kong" and famously concluded his opinion with the words: "The parties are advised to chill."

[LynneSin]

1. I saw that list and agreed with all but one of those selections

I love Chumbawumba's "Tubthumper"

[dawg]

2. I also love that song.

And from what I understand, the band is very left-wing.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. reading the comments is the most fun .. .

most of those songs were so way over played. Even if I did like them, I soon got tired of them.

[MorningGlow]

4. Shucks, I like "MMMBop"

I'm a sucker for a happy song. :)

[ceile]

5. What's Up should be #1

Song makes want to me want to go on a shooting spree.