Ongoing List of Worst Classic Rock Songs

1. Shattered/She's So Cold - Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger wrote both of these songs specifically as dance numbers for the live show. They both have the perfect non-rhythm that a man of his extreme whiteness can shuffle and wag his finger to...and look good doing it.
2. Horse with No Name - America
In their classic folk-rock tune about getting stoned and subsequently harassed by local police for trying to eat at a restaurant nude, America imparts to us their divine hippie wisdom in the form of asinine lyrics, droll melody and obnoxious catchy-ness.
3. Magnet and Steel - Walter Egan
A favorite among the roller-rink masses in the 1970's, this song doo-wops its way into the crapper with a poorly constructed metaphor slash pickup line that would not be topped until Billy Ocean's 80's hit "Get Out of My Dreams and Into My Car".
4. Rock and Roll Fantasy - Bad Company
I'll admit, I love me some Bad Company, and this song does have a pretty sweet thump and guitar lick...but I generally start tuning out once Paul Rodgers begins describing his fantasy, which basically amounts to a list of generic concert staging. Except he mentions three jesters, perhaps this was supposed to be a Medieval Times fantasy and he aborted the idea after the first verse.
5. Imaginary Lover - Atlanta Rhythm Section
That's pretty "rock n roll", dude. You know you've hit the big time and then some when real women begin to lose their appeal and only your awesome, finely permed reflection can satisfy...or whatever other sick stuff you're into. Perverts.
6. Love Hurts - Nazareth
Always fools me into thinking that it's Joe Cocker's rendition of "With a Little Help..." Nazareth trudges through this quagmire of a song with a lethargy unparalleled in the pantheons of rock history.
7. Dirty White Boy - Foreigner
Before Nickelback was stinking up airwaves with their mediocre brand of cheese-rock, Foreigner was doing it better.
8. Lords of the Ring - Styx
I think the title speaks for itself, but this song is what would have happened to Zeppelin if Robert Plant had downs syndrome.
9. I'm Just a Singer - Moody Blues
This song sounds like the chase music for every single crime drama...every single commercial jingle...and the intro music to every sportscast....from the 1970's...smashed into one mind-piercingly atrocious package. It also sounds like a drill boring down into my skull.
10. Pink Cadillac - Bruce Springsteen
I don't mean to pick on the Boss but this is one of the most banal songs ever written in the rock & roll shuffle style. It also doesn't help that the pitch and key of his voice remain the same for nearly the entire song. It's like listening to the engine of a pink Cadillac on cruise control, so he achieved that effect if that's what he was going for. And also, no rock song should ever have the word "Suburu" in it.
11. Takin' Care of Business - BTO
I can, maybe, perhaps, imagine some time in the distant past, immediately after the song was released, when it was mildly entertaining. This is one of the those songs that is catchy only for the sake of being catchy. The band was fiddling around with a riff one day and they just kept going. Bachman (or was it Turner Overdrive?) sings the title in passing, yeah! Let's try that. The spark is lit, the band loves it! They jam until the break of dawn and people for thousands of miles around show up in campers and Harleys screaming for more and more...the song hasn't stopped being played since...and the car commercial royalties keep comin' out their wazoos.
12. Rock and Roll All Nite - Kiss
I always feel like this song is one elaborate pitch for all the merchandise the band is hawking. Gene Simmons is probably the greatest salesman of all time; just get your audience to buy into an image of all night rocking and all day partying which requires that they buy an assload of useless Kiss themed products.
13. Steve Miller
I'm just adding his name here as a kind of collective wag-of-the-finger for all the crimes against decent songwriting he's committed over the years. The prime example being Take the Money and Run in which he employs the ingenious rhyming of  "Texas", "taxes" and "facts is".
14. Walk This Way - Aerosmith
This song was ok and I'm hesitant to put a song on this list because it's overplayed, but...this is different. Sweet Home Alabama, Back in Black, both have been run so far into the ground that they no longer carry any meaning and bounce off the eardrum like a mutated disease. Walk This Way, on the other hand, has reached a whole new level of irrelevance. The second that riff kicks in the brain either shuts down or goes into panic mode, filling your mind with other better songs to drown out what's currently playing.
15. Come Together - Aerosmith
The worst kind of cover; when the lead singer of a band goes out to a karaoke bar one night and decides to record his lackluster performance as to fill a vacant spot on their upcoming album.

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