Rockers get put through the Blender

Blender magazine’s September issue runs down -- literally -- what the editors and writers have judged the 50 worst pop-rock acts ever.

The ‘80s- and ‘90s-heavy list covers a gamut from predictable targets of rock-critic wrath -- Michael Bolton (No. 3), Kenny G (4), Kansas (6), Creed (23) -- to irrelevant (rapper Benzino, No. 17; rock band Japan, No. 25).

But some Rock and Roll Hall of Famers show up as well. The Doors turn up at No. 37 because frontman “Jim Morrison ... inflicted his terminally adolescent views on the wider world.”

Mick Jagger and David Bowie also make the list, though not for their most celebrated works. Jagger lands at No. 13 for his non-Stones efforts (“Even Bill Wyman laughs at Mick’s solo records,” says Blender), and Bowie is No. 12 for his band Tin Machine (which demonstrated “that he too could be really, really bad”).

And No. 1? Blender crowns Insane Clown Posse “the worst band ever” for the cartoonishly outfitted group’s “ham-fisted rap-rock music” that “sound[s] worse than they look.”

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Randy Lewis