@tahnan, sorry bro but I think that just from reading the comments here on Sporcle, one can see why that books of this sort are NEVER worth reading. Like everyone else, I too have songs that I simply can't stand; songs which if I were being tortured and my captors threatened to play them on infinite loop, I would sing like a canary. Two of them are even on this list: "Emotional Rescue" (dear God, what were they THINKING?) and "I've Never Been To Me" (which I think is so bad that it fell all the way through the "so-bad-it's-good" stratum and into permanent and irredeemable wretchedness.)
Yet, I'll be the first to say it: "So what?" I hate those songs for visceral reasons. But obviously there are thousands, perhaps millions, who love them. Who am I to say they're wrong? Who would care? Music is subjective. More to the point, I can't even fathom how stuck-up, arrogant and/or unbelievably insecure one has to be as to write an entire BOOK explaining to people *why* certain songs they think are "bad" really are bad. I would reply to the authors in the immortal words of Sara Barielles: "Who (the f___) died and made you king of anything?" OK, so I would ad-lib a bit. :-) |