It's interesting how, in our list-obsessed culture, a bunch of editors at a glossy music magazine can sit around and put together a quasi-official list of the fifty best songs of all time or fifty uncoolest albums of all time, or whatever, and somehow make this seem newsworthy to hundreds of newspapers nationwide. Even more interesting is how I'm compelled to blog it. Case in point: Blender magazine's Fifty Worst Songs of All Time.

As these lists go, this one is artfully constructed; you know you haven't succeeded with a good Top Fifty list if you haven't pissed off a few readers by including the likes of "Shiny Happy People," "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da," or "The Sounds of Silence" side by side with "What's Up?" and Starship's "We Built This City."