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Rock superstars from Oasis and Razorlight to 1980s favourites Duran Duran and ABC have topped a chart to find the worst verse in pop history.

They may be responsible for some of the biggest selling hits ever but these and other top songwriters are also behind the most banal, odd, pretentious and plain silly lyrics of all time, a new poll shows.

The eventual winner of the Worst Pop Lyrics ever will be chosen today from a shortlist of 10 which also includes rockers like Toto and Black Sabbath to cult hits from Snap, Des'ree and Human League.

Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher is to blame for "Slowly walking down the hall/Faster than a cannonball/Where were you when we were getting high?"

Sometimes the lyrics seem to be a desperate search to find words that rhyme such as Toto, looking for a way to describe Africa's most famous mountain, Kilimanjaro, hit upon "like Olympus above the Serengeti."

Listeners to the music radio station BBC 6 have seen the original nominations whittled down to 10 by resident DJs including Tom Robinson - whose own hits include the song Wish I had a Grey Cortina.

01 ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now
02 Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
03 Human League - The Lebanon
04 Razorlight - Somewhere Else
05 Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
06 Oasis - Champagne Supernova
07 Des'ree - Life
08 Black Sabbath - War Pigs
09 Toto - Africa
10 U2 - Elevation

Source: www.eveningtimes.co.uk

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