Bad Songs by Good Bands: No. 20
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If a performer sticks around long enough, even the truly great ones can't help but crank out a serious clunker, leaving fans in despair. What follows is the musical moments those otherwise capable artists should have kept to themselves, for our sake.
For shame that it took a statuesque blonde to break rap music into the American mainstream. Whatever the hell Debbie Harry was "rapping" about -- a man from Mars, eating cars, don't strain your brain -- by rights her rhyming dictionaries should've been confiscated. 'Rapture' was doubly cursed when it reappeared in a 2005 mash-up with the Doors' bloated 'Riders on the Storm.'
For shame that it took a statuesque blonde to break rap music into the American mainstream. Whatever the hell Debbie Harry was "rapping" about -- a man from Mars, eating cars, don't strain your brain -- by rights her rhyming dictionaries should've been confiscated. 'Rapture' was doubly cursed when it reappeared in a 2005 mash-up with the Doors' bloated 'Riders on the Storm.'- Filed under: Songs, The Hit List
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Jimat 5-13-2008
Statuesque blonde?
I'll grant you blonde (out of the peroxide bottle)
but statuesque? I don't think so...
She stands about 4 foot 11 inches without the stacks she used to wear on her tiny little feet.
planxan2at 2-16-2009
Debbie is 5'3", and her physical dimensions are very deceiving in photographs because of her incredibly huge head. This is also why her mother died in childbirth, and she wound up being adopted by the Harry's.
madhattersat 12-08-2009
statuesque has nothing to do with height but about physical appearance. Beauty, grace, dignity whatever they are they do describe Deb Harry even if she was only statuesque compared to other rockers at the time.
Justynat 5-18-2008
These people have no Idea what they're talking about. Rapture is not only a great song, it helped make rap more mainstream!
zynteq7at 8-12-2008
I agree! Is spinner crazy? This song is GREAT! It's like alternative/post-ponk/rap with a great melody and rhythm. I'm totally amazed at this choice... You wanna pick a bad Blondie song, pick some weird oddity on a B-Side.
quantumdrivenat 10-21-2008
Yeah it's a cool song.
People tell me I'm crazy when I say it's the first
"Rap" song to get big air-play.
I've bought it 3 times on vinyl 45s at thrift stores.
The song it a little weird as far as the "Eating Guitars"
and "Eating Cars" stuff, but wtf?
--Sonney
alexat 10-10-2009
whats even worse than Rapture? I must say Backfired. Those anyone remember that song??
Kiraat 5-18-2008
I loved that song Rapture- still do!
heythereat 5-18-2008
I hate that song. I don't like any Blonde songs really.
bsramjattanat 7-12-2008
I love blondie songs, except this one. It purely sucked.
sydneywierengaat 7-15-2008
it sucks hard*********
latinlizard66at 7-15-2008
HEY SPINNER DUDES!!!!
'Rapture'....is not 'Rap' song!!
Not suppose to be!!
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This song is CLASSIC!!!
NEW WAVE AT IT'S BEST!!!!
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DON'T DISRESPECT DEBBI!!!
tutdivoat 7-15-2008
SHE DIDN'T BREAK RAP INTO THE MAINSTREAM. RAP DIDN'T GET POPULAR IN THE MAINSTREAM TO RUN DMC AND MC HAMMER.
Rickat 10-29-2008
Run DMC, yes. MC Hammer? No, LOL. Son you need a history lesson if you think MC Hammer helped break rap into the mainstream. Look up LL Cool J, Kurtis Blow, etc. Hammer was a batboy when these guys were breaking in.
queenti2at 8-06-2008
Rapture is a classic and does not belong on this list!
mitchwhollowayat 8-08-2008
How about making a list of the stupidest people that work for AOL? The person who made this list would be surely on it.
whateverat 8-08-2008
I'm sorry but if it wasn't for Blondie there would be no rap.
Lottoat 8-11-2008
Alright I was wrong.
Not all of these songs were good.
But I still stand by SOME of them
Annaat 8-12-2008
she sucks
DonnaTNat 9-26-2008
Worst song EVER was "D.O.A." (about being "dead on arrival" from a traffic accident)... and the blood and gore, ewww, yuck! SICK! SICK! SICK! (This song actually made "Timothy" almost seem.... eck... "palatable"???) Sorry. Very bad pun. DOA was REALLY worse than Timothy! ("Timothy", if you are younger than 40, was about some guys being stuck, like in a collapsed mine, and they EAT Timothy, (canibalism!) because they get hungry, and crazy, what with low amounts of oxygen, which inhibit "clear thinking", etc.) At least, Timothy was "singable"... while D.O.A. was just gross.
Makes "Achy Brakey" seem fun, huh? ("don't tell my heart".....>)