Tom Waits : Tom Waits has scarcely written (or at least released) a bad song in a career spanning more than 30 years.

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Some 20 million pairs of eyeballs have glommed on to the site this year, and logged off with the hamster song rattling away in their brain like a bad Boney M song.

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Not bad for a song written on the back of a paper sack.

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Champion said that topping the chart was all the more surprising as "we all said not bad for a song that hasn't got a chorus".

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In 2009, Council Member Letitia James unsuccessfully sought to have the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Brooklyn renamed for the just-deceased pop star Michael Jackson, who filmed his video for the song "Bad" there.

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When, for instance, Ms. Yokoshi's direction has the trio approximate the vocalizing of Lady Gaga for the score's riff on the pop singer's song "Bad Romance, " they are at their most amusing and confident.

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Not a bad title for a song.

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Dido calls it "my bleakest song ever", written about "a really bad" experience that she couldn't "make sense of".

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Topping off the list is Daniel Powter, whose hit "Have a Bad Day, " was used as the send-off song on the fifth season of "American Idol, " making it the biggest single of 2006.

CNN: Billboard ranks decade's one-hit wonders

Finally, Kevin Roe selects Nick Cave's "The Weeping Song" from The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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