Back in the store buying various odds and ends and heard another song turned into a dance remix- "The Boys of Summer." Okay, not a bad song, relatively, but still, not a song that instantly makes you think, "hey, this song'll make people wanna go out and boogie!"

Will people really dance to anything if it's got a good beat to it?

What's next, a dance remix of "We Built This City (on Rock n' Roll)?

Years ago friends and I tried to come up with the Worst. Song. Ever. This meant that not only was the song bad, but it had absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. By this, I mean that the song doesn't even work in a cheesy way. Think about it. "Muskrat Love," for instance may suck, but how could you not love a song with lyrics that go "Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam/Do the jitterbug/
Out in the muskrat land"? Or the "We Are the World". Suck-ass song, but worth listening to just for the Springsteen/Dylan growlfest towards the end of the song. Or Journey's "Separate Ways," a song pretty much summed up by Beavis when he yelled out ""C'mon Butthead, turn this crap off!" Pretty fucking fun song, actually (as is all Journey) and how can you not love the video?

The one song all of us admitted that had absolutely no redeeming quality, plain sucked so much that it sucked all the fun out of it, was "We Built This City." Throw in the fact that it was made from the embers of a once great band (Jefferson Airplane) and you have the Worst. Song. Ever.

There is no argument.

Which reminds me of another contest I had with coworkers, that being the worst possible song to have running through your head. There is, of course, numerous contenders for this one. So many (not to mention so dangerous to even bring up) that I won't get into it. The song, however that won (and a song I dare to even bring up for fear it might cause just the mere mention of it to get into your head and like the Ebola Virus, spread):- Phil Collin's "Easy Lover."

Don't believe me? Just think about those opening, utterly cheesirific chords that start the song.

Or better not, don't think about it.