Sounds of Pretentiousness

From Mercury News:

Blender magazine has rated We Built This City as the worst single ever constructed in its list "The 50 Worst Songs Ever".

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But the inclusion most likely to spark calls of blasphemy is the listing of the Simon and Garfunkel ballad The Sounds of Silence.

"It's the poetry meaningfulness that got our goat," said Blender editor Craig Marks. "With self-important lyrics like, 'Hear my words that I might teach you', it's almost a parody of pretentious '60s folk rock."