When I look at this list, I'm reminded of the scene in High Fidelity where Barry (Jack Black) asks Rob (John Cusack) to name his top five favorite songs and he picks "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as one of them:

Barry: Oh, that's not obvious enough, Rob. How about the Beatles? Or fucking... fucking Beethoven? Side One, Track One of the Fifth Symphony... How can someone with no interest in music own a record store?

And that's the problem with this list. Most of the choices, such as "Achy Breaky Heart", "Broken Wings", and "My Heart Will Go On" are painfully obvious, while others such as "The End", "What's Up", and "The Sound of Silence" are there because the list's authors are ignorant and classless. And it goes without saying that the ignorant, classless choices on the list were the authors' primary motivation behind starting such a hackneyed project as an "X Worst Songs" list. See, what you do is you take a bunch of songs that have been repeatedly cited as bad by sources such as VH1, Rolling Stone, E!, and various comedians and then you sneak a bunch of songs that you personally don't like on to it. Then the sort of empty-spirited trendy pricks who would actually buy a magazine like Blender will read the list, they'll see a bunch of songs that they know are bad and they'll assume the other ones MUST be bad by association. And since these readers' capacity for musical enjoyment is limited to mainstream contemporary pop trash like Evanescence, Linkin Park, Gym Class Heroes, and Akon, they'll never actually bother to listen to any of the other songs. However, that won't stop these people from citing "The Sound of Silence" as a bad song the next they have a conversation about bad songs. And then it spreads and spreads and suddenly you have a whole generation of degenerates who hate "The Sound of Silence" despite having never heard of it. Hell, they couldn't even tell you who performed it, and when you tell them it was Simon & Garfunkel, you can be damn sure that they'll have no fucking clue that Simon & Garfunkel were one of the most important artists of the 1960s.

We live in age where the two predominant listening philosophies are Top 40 Myopia and Complete Snobbery, neither of which is particularly healthy. The Myopists have no interest in anything that was written before 1997, while the Snobs are complete pricks. Whereas Myopists have never heard of The Smiths, the Snobs could give a shit less that you like The Smiths unless you also like 20 similar bands that only get played on college radio. Oh, and you better like freeform jazz flute as well.

God, I hate people. And I hate that list.