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Article in the paper today sort of explained the criteria of the dubious list.
One was to go easy on novelty songs. "They set the bar lower almost by definition. And we basically like novelty hits. We would argue that Macarena is better than Sounds Of Silence - which by virtue of self-important lyrics like' Hear my words that I might teach you' landed at No. 42."
The magazine pledged to pick only once on any band. "One Genesis song beget another and another. Finally we had to decide whether Genesis's Illegal Alien was worse than Phil Collins's Sussudio. It is."
Additionally, songs needed to be reasonably contemporary and have attained a certain level of success so readers would be familiar with them. Hence Ice Ice Baby beating every other Vanilla Ice song.
I would have had Heal The World by Michael Jackson in the top ten somewhere.