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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (1330)	11/18/2004 11:37:22 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1713

Here's a list from the other end (I actually like two or three of these, but most of them definitely are a threat to make my last meal resurface): Here Are the Top WORST* Pop Songs of All Time, according to Blender Magazine, in 2004: 1. We Built This City - Starship (1985) 2. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus (1992) 3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung (1986) 4. Rollin' - Limp Bizkit (2000) 5. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice (1990) 6. The Heart of Rock & Roll - Huey Lewis and the News (1984) 7. Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin (1988) 8. Party All the Time - Eddie Murphy (1985) 9. American Life - Madonna (2003) 10. Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (1982) 11. Invisible - Clay Aiken (2003) 12. Kokomo - The Beach Boys (1988) 13. Illegal Alien - Genesis (1983) 14. From a Distance - Bette Midler (1990) 15. I'll Be There for You - The Rembrandts (1995) 16. What's Up? - 4 Non Blondes (1993) 17. Pumps and a Bump - Hammer (1994) 18. You're The Inspiration - Chicago (1984) 19. Broken Wings - Mr. Mister (1985) 20. Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie (1986) 21. Two Princes - Spin Doctors (1992) 22. Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) - Toby Keith (2002) 23. Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart (1984) 24. Superman - Five for Fighting (2000) 25. I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112 (1997) 26. The End - The Doors (1967) 27. The Final Countdown - Europe (1987) 28. Your Body Is a Wonderland - John Mayer (2001) 29. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something (1995) 30. Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston (1986) 31. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies (1994) 32. Will 2K - Will Smith (1999) 33. Barbie Girl - Aqua (1997) 34. Longer Dan - Fogelberg (1979) 35. Shiny Happy People R.E.M. (1991) 36. Make Em Say Uhh! - Master P featuring Silkk, Fiend, Mia-X and Mystikal (1998) 37. Rico Suave - Gerardo (1991) 38. Cotton Eyed Joe - Rednex (1995) 39. She Bangs - Ricky Martin (2000) 40. I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd (1991) 41. We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel (1989) 42. The Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (1965) 43. Follow Me - Uncle Kracker (2000) 44. I'll Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf (1993) 45. Mesmerize - Ja Rule featuring Ashanti (2002) 46. Hangin' Tough - New Kids on the Block (1989) 47. The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You - Bryan Adams (1996) 48. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles (1968) 49. I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred (1992) 50. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion (1998) popculturemadness.com

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (1330)	12/9/2004 11:23:22 AM
From: Lost1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1713

RESPECT #5..ARETHA Written by: Otis Redding Produced by: Jerry Wexler Released: April '67 on Atlantic Charts: 12 weeks Top spot: No. 1 Otis Redding wrote "Respect" and recorded it first, for the Volt label in 1965. But Aretha Franklin took possession of the song for all time with her definitive cover, made at Atlantic's New York studio on Valentine's Day 1967. "Respect" was her first Number One hit and the single that established her as the Queen of Soul. In Redding's reading, a brawny march powered by Booker T. and the MG's and the Memphis Horns, he called for equal favor with volcanic force. Franklin wasn't asking for anything. She sang from higher ground: a woman calling an end to the exhaustion and sacrifice of a raw deal with scorching sexual authority. In short, if you want some, you will earn it. "For Otis, respect had the traditional connotation, the more abstract meaning of esteem," Franklin's producer, Jerry Wexler, said in his autobiography, Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music. "The fervor in Aretha's voice demanded that respect; and more respect also involved sexual attention of the highest order. What else would 'sock it to me' mean?" He was referring to the knockout sound of Franklin's backup singers -- her sisters Carolyn and Erma -- chanting "Sock it to me" at high speed, which Aretha and Carolyn cooked up for the session. The late Tom Dowd, who engineered the date, credited Carolyn with the saucy breakdown in which Aretha spelled out the title: "I fell off my chair when I heard that!" And since Redding's version had no bridge, Wexler had the studio band -- the crew from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, that had cut Franklin's Atlantic debut, "I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)," a month before -- play the chord changes from Sam and Dave's "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby" under King Curtis' tenor-sax solo. There is no mistaking the passion inside the discipline of Franklin's delivery; she was surely drawing on her own tumultuous marriage at the time for inspiration. "If she didn't live it," Wexler said, "she couldn't give it." But, he added, "Aretha would never play the part of the scorned woman.... Her middle name was Respect." Appears on: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Atlantic)