Village Voice counts down 50 worst songs of decade, calls out brokenCYDE

The Village Voice has created a list of the fifty worst songs of the decade, including entries from James Blunt, Xiu Xiu, Nickelback, Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Crazy Frog. Counting Crows took the number one slot with their cover of “Big Yellow Taxi,” but the Voice also had beef with brokeNCYDE and used some inflammatory language, which has been included here for posterity’s sake:

Bands like brokeNCYDE and electro-doofus earthstains like 3OH!3 are essentially excuses for rich white kids to play dress-up with the most sexist and materialistic elements of hip-hop–pretty much a minstrel show in crooked haircuts.

You can view the entire list here, at the bottom of their entry for number one.
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BEST OF 2009: Scotty Sandwich, Bryan Quilty (Gatorface), Alexander Hudjohn

Growing weary yet? Hopefully not, as the barrage of best of lists continues today with lists from Scotty of The Sandwiches and Death to False Hope Records, Bryan Quilty of Gatorface and Alexander Hudjohn, formerly of Anchor Down and now a soon-to-be accomplished solo artist.

Check out Best of 2009 lists from members of Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music, Rehasher and more here: Best Of 2009 Lists. Also, don’t forget to check out our staff reviewers’ lists, and be sure to come back on Tuesday for lists from the Punknews.org editors.
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