While the "decade of decadence" certainly produced a lot of great music, such as a bunch of fan-certified classic rock albums, the '80s also generated a lot of smug, corny, and hollow stuff that didn't age very well. In 2021, Grunge asked readers to name the worst song of the 1980s, and 23% said "Kokomo," the Beach Boys' comeback smash from 1988. It makes us cringe thinking about how a lazy ripoff of the life's work of Jimmy Buffett was a No. 1 hit, but a few more years have passed, and another deplorable comeback hit from an aging and irrelevant '60s relic seems even worse. No matter how much we want Starship's 1985 No. 1 hit "We Built This City" to leave our heads and the airwaves, it never does.

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