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Beatles Top 'Worst Song Ever' Poll

added 10 November 2004 at 12.40

A surprising new survey has put The Beatles 1968 White Album track ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ as the worst song ever recorded, even worse than Gazza and Lindisfarne’s excretable version of ‘Fog On The Tyne’.

The survey of more than 1000 people, organised by Mars, put The Beatles track in the top spot, last occupied by  Starship and ‘We Built This City (On Rock And Roll)’

No matter that the 'White Album' is considered a genuine classic due to its diversity and musically experimental ground breaking nature, a percentage of the British public regard it as shit. In fact they regard it as worse song than Paul Gascoigne's 'Fog On The Tyne', which  (appropriately enough) gets the number 2 slot.

Meat Loaf's ‘I'll Do Anything For Love’ from 1993 gets the prized third place, while another football song ‘Diamond Lights’ by Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle was voted the fourth worst.

"Admit it or not, most of these are songs that we liked when they first came out.” Ian Edwards, lecturer at the Academy of Contemporary Music explained, pointing out the bloody obvious.

"That is the nature of pop music as a part of fashion. Songs are popular at the time, but times change and often this results in embarrassing additions to your record collections. It is interesting to note that they were nearly all hits."

Queen’s re-recording of their classic ‘We Will Rock You’ featuring has-been pop monkeys 5ive just about made into the Top five, behind Cliff Richard, Vanilla Ice, Steps and Liverpool FC's ‘Anfield Rap’ despite the Grandmaster Flash-like skills of John Barnes

The Top 5 is:

1. ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ The Beatles
2. ‘Fog on the Tyne’ Gazza and Lindisfarne
3. ‘I'll Do Anything For Love’ Meat Loaf
4. ‘Diamond Lights’ Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle
5. ‘We Will Rock You’ 5ive featuring Queen

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