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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: mshray on June 06, 2005, 11:01:22 AM
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Gaz & I have both previously posted lists of our Personal Top 40's, but I've finally filled in the the last few remaining blanks in my expanded list, now improved to cover the entire Hot 100. Some of these are no-brainers 'cause a great song (c.f. "I Am The Walrus", "Sugar Magnolia") simply charted in a ridiculously low positon, but in other spots there are a suprising number of good songs to choose from. And in a few spots (46, 62, 98 & 99) I haven't found much, but at least it's a song in my collection somewhere. Since I don't have a comprehensive chart list to work from this is till a work in progress*, but I have at least a 2nd runner-up for all but 4 songs in the 90's, and 3rd & 4th runners up for about a third of the list. Fwiw, that last numerical position for me to find an entry for was #57.
So, for your amusement, here's the list from 41-100:
41. To Live and Die in L.A. - Wang Chung 1985
42. Destination Unknown - Missing Persons 1982
43. Champagne Jam - ARS 1978
44. Tom Sawyer - Rush 1981
45. Apeman - Kinks 1971
46. Since You've Been Gone - Head East 1978
47. Friends - Beach Boys 1968
48. Not Fade Away - Rolling Stones 1964
49. Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine - Stealers Wheel 1973
50. Pictures Of Lily - Who 1967
51. Over The Hills And Far Away - Led Zeppelin 1973
52. Eyes Of Silver - Doobie Brothers 1972
53. Back To The Island - Leon Russell 1976
54. Mozambique - Bob Dylan 1976
55. Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young 1970
56. I Am The Walrus - Beatles 1967
57. Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan 1974
58. Skateaway - Dire Straits 1980
59. Funk 49 - James Gang 1970
60. I Predict - Sparks 1982
61. Ride My Seesaw - Moody Blues 1968
62. Surrender - Cheap Trick 1978
63. My Old School - Steely Dan 1973
64. Lithium - Nirvana 1992
65. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix 1967
66. I Eat Cannibals - Total Coelho 1983
67. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - David Bowie 1982
68. Never Been Any Reason - Head East 1975
69. Uncle John's Band - Grateful Dead 1970
70. Fashion - David Bowie 1981
71. Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox 1983
72. The Mayor Of Simpleton - XTC 1989
73. Blockbuster - Sweet 1973
74. In Thee - BOC 1979
75. Can't You See - Marshall Tucker Band 1977
76. Closer To The Heart - Rush 1977
77. Ain't Wastin' Time No More - Allman Brothers 1972
78. I Melt With You - Modern English 1983
79. Sail On Sailor - Beach Boys 1973
80. Don't Change - INXS 1983
81. Legal Tender - B-52's 1983
82. Graceland - Paul Simon 1986
83. Shooting Shark - BOC 1984
84. Runnin' With The Devil - Van Halen 1978
85. Celebrity Skin - Hole 1998
86. Do You Wanna Dance - Ramones 1978
87. What Goes Up - Alan Parsons Project 1978
88. Fly By Night - Rush 1977
89. See What Love Can Do - Eric Clapton 1985
90. Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk 1986
91. Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead 1973
92. Revival (Love Is Everywhere) - Allman Brothers 1971
93. I Can't Explain - Who 1965
94. Fall On Me - REM 1986
95. Dear God - Midge Ure 1989
96. The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll - Mott The Hoople 1974
97. America - Simon & Garfunkel 1972
98. Expecting To Fly - Buffalo Springfield 1968
99. Co-co - Sweet 1971
100. Allergies - Paul Simon 1983
*whenever I get bored lately I start flippping around in Allmusic & click on the Charts & Awards tab of various bands to see if there's anything interesting in the 41-100 range. I have comprehensive Top 40 lists, but this is the only way I know to find stuff in the bottom half of the Hot 100, which explains why some groups like Rush are a bit over represented. There are undoubtedly many songs I haven't stumbled onto yet that will be added to this list.
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Wow.
I'm delighted and stunned that you were able to set out and fulfill this task. I mean, I've been meaning to do this for years. I wonder if some programming guru can create a bot that will scan every AMG "charts" page, cull the data for each "Hot 100" entry, and pump it all out into a sortable database. I can picture it in my head.
But I digress. My picks will mirror at least a few of these, I'm sure ("America," for certain), I'll have a lot more sunshine pop and a lot less rock. Watch for "You've Got to Be Loved," in other words.
Gaz
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Wow.
I'm delighted and stunned that you were able to set out and fulfill this task. I mean, I've been meaning to do this for years. I wonder if some programming guru can create a bot that will scan every AMG "charts" page, cull the data for each "Hot 100" entry, and pump it all out into a sortable database. I can picture it in my head.
But I digress. My picks will mirror at least a few of these, I'm sure ("America," for certain), I'll have a lot more sunshine pop and a lot less rock. Watch for "You've Got to Be Loved," in other words.
Gaz
I've got a book that purports to tell you how to do that very thing: Spidering Hacks, but I've only just skimmed the first couple of chapters.
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I've started work on my list this evening. About halfway done, complicated by the fact that there are multiple songs I *adore* at positions 49 and 64:
49:
Four Tops, "Yesterday's Dreams"
Jefferson Starship, "Play on Love"
Jake Holmes, "So Close"
Sophie B. Hawkins, "Only Love (The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty)"
64:
Jefferson Starship, "St. Charles"
Jefferson Airplane, "Crown of Creation"
Dusty Springfield, "Don't Forget About Me"
David Bowie, "TVC-15"
Real Thing, "You to Me Are Everything"
Will update you all as I approach completion. In the meantime, Mark, I'm surprised that "Destination Unknown" beat out "You Can't Always Get What You Want" at #42 (I passed up both in favor of the Airplane's "Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil). (Did the Stones' "Time Waits for No One" miss the Hot 100 altogether, or was it never a single?)
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Did the Stones' "Time Waits for No One" miss the Hot 100 altogether, or was it never a single?
Never a single... "Angie" and "Doo doo doo doo doo (Heartbreaker)" were the only singles from Goats Head Soup.
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I've started work on my list this evening. About halfway done, complicated by the fact that there are multiple songs I *adore* at positions 49 and 64:
49:
Four Tops, "Yesterday's Dreams"
Jefferson Starship, "Play on Love"
Jake Holmes, "So Close"
Sophie B. Hawkins, "Only Love (The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty)"
64:
Jefferson Starship, "St. Charles"
Jefferson Airplane, "Crown of Creation"
Dusty Springfield, "Don't Forget About Me"
David Bowie, "TVC-15"
Real Thing, "You to Me Are Everything"
Will update you all as I approach completion. In the meantime, Mark, I'm surprised that "Destination Unknown" beat out "You Can't Always Get What You Want" at #42 (I passed up both in favor of the Airplane's "Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil). (Did the Stones' "Time Waits for No One" miss the Hot 100 altogether, or was it never a single?)
Here's a few more songs:
#49:
Cool Places - Sparks w/Jane Wiedlin
Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
What I Like About You - Romantics
There She Goes - The La's
#64
Truckin' - Grateful Dead
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
My Baby - Pretenders
"Destination Unknown" resonates with me for some reason, and the Stones tune is my first runner up in that position. When I try to figure out how to rank all these songs, I have found a pretty simple method: I just ask myself if I'm flipping stations & I hear both of these songs, which station do I go back to? And since I hear the Stones tune on a weekly basis in ordinary life, it came in second.
In fact I have a top 10 just at #42.
Destination Unknown - Missing Persons
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
The Fanatic - Felony
Last of the Singing Cowboys - Marshall Tucker Band
Words - Missing Persons
On the Border - Al Stewart
And You & I - Yes
Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
Neon Nites - ARS
After Midnight - J. J. Cale
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And in a few spots (46, 62, 98 & 99) I haven't found much
How about, for #62, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, "The Message"? And for #46, my pick is Paul Revere & the Raiders' "Steppin' Out."
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OK, I've completed my list (for now -- these things are always subject to change). Positions 53, 75 and 85 were the hardest to fill and I'm sure I'll change them when I find better candidates. Same with #100, as there seem to be so very few songs that have actually peaked at such an ignominious position. (Better that than peaking at #101, as Grandmaster Flash did with "White Lines," though.) I didn't put years behind any of these but I hope they're all at least marginally familiar. Here ya go ...
41. Robbie Williams, "Angels"
42. Jefferson Airplane, "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil"
43. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Two Tribes"
44. Prince, "Morning Papers" (runner up: Teddy Pendergrass, "Love T.K.O.")
45. War, "L.A. Sunshine" (runner up: Village People, "Go West")
46. Paul Revere and the Raiders, "Steppin' Out"
47. Isley Brothers, "Shout"
48. Edwin Starr, "Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)"
49. (tie) Four Tops, "Yesterday's Dreams" and Jefferson Starship, "Play on Love" and Jake Holmes, "So Close"
50. (tie) Eric Burdon and War, "They Can't Take Away Our Music" and Elgins, "Heaven Must Have Sent You"
51. Turtles, "You Don't Have to Walk in the Rain"
52. Jimi Hendrix, "Crosstown Traffic" (runners up: Rascals, "I Ain't Gonna Eat My Heart Out Anymore" and CCR, "Lodi")
53. David Bowie and Sade, "Absolute Beginners"
54. Spinners, "Sadie"
55. Rolling Stones, "Let's Spend the Night Together" (runner up: King, "Love and Pride")
56. B-52s, "Rock Lobster" (runner up: Newcleus, "Jam On It")
57. Cher, "Strong Enough"
58. Montanas, "You've Got to Be Loved" (runner up: Cass Elliot, "Move in a Little Closer, Baby")
59. *N Sync, "Tearin' Up My Heart"
60. Jefferson Airplane, "Pretty As You Feel"
61. Gladys Knight & the Pips, "All I Need Is Time"
62. Mike Kennedy, "Louisiana" (runner up: Jellyfish, "Baby's Coming Back")
63. (tie) Monkees, "Listen to the Band" and The Band, "The Weight"
64. Real Thing, "You to Me Are Everything"
65. Jefferson Airplane, "Volunteers" (runner up: David Bowie, "Starman")
66. Franz Ferdinand, "Take Me Out"
67. Yaz, "Only You"
68. Modest Mouse, "Float On"
69. Grateful Dead, "Uncle John's Band"
70. Prince, "Controversy"
71. Herbie Hancock, "Rockit"
72. Rusted Root, "Send Me on My Way"
73. Aretha Franklin, "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)"
74. Spinners, "How Could I Let You Get Away"
75. Prince, "Call My Name"
76. White Stripes, "Seven Nation Army"
77. Machine, "There but for the Grace of God Go I"
78. Liz Phair, "Supernova"
79. Beach Boys, "Sail On Sailor"
80. Orpheus, "Can't Find the Time"
81. Tony Orlando & Dawn, "It Only Hurts When I Try to Smile"
82. Monkees, "Good Clean Fun" (runner up: Blondie, "Maria")
83. Nina Simone, "Do What You Gotta Do" (runner up: Formations, "At the Top of the Stairs")
84. Jefferson Starship, "Ride the Tiger"
85. Cher, "Song for the Lonely"
86. Harry Chapin, "Better Place to Be"
87. Sonny & Cher, "Living for You"
88. Wild Weeds, "No Good to Cry"
89. Sly and the Family Stone, "Sing a Simple Song"
90. Four Tops and Moody Blues, "A Simple Game"
91. Turtles, "Love in the City" (runner up: Dusty Springfield, "Breakfast in Bed")
92. Talking Heads, "Psycho Killer"
93. The Who, "I Can't Explain"
94. Nina Simone, "Ain't Got No / I Got Life"
95. Ray Charles, "(Night Time Is) The Right Time"
96. Morning Mist, "California on My Mind"
97. Paul Revere and the Raiders, "Love Music"
98. Jefferson Airplane, "Greasy Heart"
99. Jackie DeShannon, "When You Walk in the Room"
100. Turtles, "Eve of Destruction"
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100. Turtles, "Eve of Destruction"
has anyone ever heard this? MP3?
What is the agreed-upon source for these chart positions you and Mark use?
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Are the songs those that peaked at those positions?
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59. *N Sync, "Tearin' Up My Heart"
Shirley, you jest! I have neither the time nor the inclination to do an entire list, but the best-ever #59 is clearly "What Do All the People Know" by the Monroes. :wink:
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59. *N Sync, "Tearin' Up My Heart"
Shirley, you jest! I have neither the time nor the inclination to do an entire list, but the best-ever #59 is clearly "What Do All the People Know" by the Monroes. :wink:
Actually I'm surprised Gaz, noted Danophile, didn't go with "The Fez" at #59. Chosing "Funk 49" over that was one of the narrowest margins in my list (but I just love that bass line).
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Alicat: Yes - we're listing our favorite song that peaked at each Hot 100 chart position. A way of celebrating songs that unfortunately/unfairly missed the boat.
Geoff: Sources are second-hand recaps of Billboard chart data. In my case that includes AMG (primarily), liner notes from greatest-hits comps (including all the Motown and Monkees I included), Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul, and the Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders. If I were to do something with this like forge an article out of it, I'd be more rigorous in the fact-checking, but this seems sufficient for now.
Mark/Mike: I actually hadn't consulted the Steely charts; "The Fez" may indeed take over at #59. But do not blindly disparage the N Sync track: Have any of you ever even heard it? It's a catchy pop song, not as grand as Backstreet Boys' "Quit Playing Games With My Heart," but still one of the better teen-pop confections. Meantime, I'm not at all familiar with the Monroes.
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This seemed as good a place to post this as any. It's a "peoples choice" top 73 albums as voted for by the readers at markprindle.com, a record review site owned and operated by one Mark Prindle, some punk guy from new york. He's a pretty funny guy, but is sure to offend at least some of the people a lot of the time. He's immature and crude, and indulges in homophobic humour. Anyway, the list is interesting, and Mark can't resist making a joke out of it.
http://markprindle.com/top73.htm
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http://markprindle.com/top73.htm
1 Monkees - Pool It!
Hahahahahahaha
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iPod Music Store made a list, and Aidin Vaziri & Joel Selvin have rebutted it. I like their list much better (and I smell Joel having a much heavier hand in it than our beloved Aidin). Both lists follow (or you can check it online along with their article here: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/28/DDGI2IFUCJ1.DTL
The CHRONICLE'S List
1. I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER -- Sly and the Family Stone -- The Woodstock anthem from the psychedelic soul rockers
2. DARK STAR -- Grateful Dead -- Space is their place
3. SLOW DEATH -- Flamin' Groovies -- Every English punk band knew this one
4. MASTER OF PUPPETS -- Metallica -- Don't have to be online to be on our list
5. BALLAD OF YOU AND ME AND POONEIL -- Jefferson Airplane -- Like the band itself, awful and fabulous at the same time
6. CALIFORNIA ÜBER ALLES -- Dead Kennedys -- San Francisco punk from the Jerry Brown era
7. YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) -- Sylvester -- Cross-dressing disco straight out of pre-AIDS Castro
8. BORN ON THE BAYOU -- Creedence Clearwater Revival -- El Cerrito swamp rock heard 'round the world
9. DEAR MAMA -- Tupac Shakur -- Marin City's finest; West Coast hip-hop got soul
10. OMAHA -- Moby Grape -- Being underrated goes to the heart of being from San Francisco
11. AMERICAN IDIOT -- Green Day -- Duh
12. BLACK MAGIC WOMAN/GYPSY QUEEN -- Santana -- The sounds of the Mission District from a band that once mattered
13. SATISFACTION -- The Residents -- Smarty-pants rock deconstructionists, willfully weird, intentionally obscure
14. DOWN TO THE NIGHTCLUB -- Tower of Power -- Keystone Berkeley lives and the lead singer's a killer
15. ROADRUNNER -- Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers -- The hipster's handbook from a faux-naif
16. WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE -- The Tubes -- San Francisco in the '70s
17. WE CARE A LOT -- Faith No More -- "about the food that Live Aid bought"
18. NEVER SAY NEVER -- Romeo Void -- Weird, wonderful, unexpectedly sexy
19. MIDNIGHT IN A PERFECT WORLD -- DJ Shadow -- A dream built around samples and scratches
20. FREEDOM -- Sons of Champlin -- The real hippies
21. WICKED GAME -- Chris Isaak -- Sex on the beach
22. JOHN THE FISHERMAN -- Primus -- Primus sucks
23. LIVING IN THE U.S.A. -- Steve Miller Band -- Somebody get me a cheeseburger
24. LOAN ME A DIME -- Boz Scaggs -- THE San Francisco blues
25. BALL AND CHAIN -- Big Brother and the Holding Company -- What made Janis Joplin a star
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The iTunes Song List
1. TRUCKIN’ - Grateful Dead
2. SOMEBODY TO LOVE - Jefferson Airplane
3. PIECE OF MY HEART - Big Brother and the Holding Company
4. THANK YOU (FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN) - Sly and the Family Stone
5. FORTUNATE SON - Creedence Clearwater Revival
6. OYE COMO VA - Santana
7. LONGVIEW Green Day
8. WE SHALL OVERCOME - Joan Baez
9. BLACK WATER - Doobie Brothers
10. LIGHTS Journey
11. WHAT IS HIP - Tower of Power
12. CALIFORNIA ÜBER ALLES Dead Kennedys
13. WICKED GAME - Chris Isaak
14. U CAN’T TOUCH THIS - MC Hammer
15. ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD - Neil Young
16. SUMMERTIME BLUES - Blue Cheer
17. WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE - Kingston Trio
18. WORKING FOR A LIVING - Huey Lewis and the News
19. SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION - Megadeth
20. EPIC - Faith No More
21. MR. JONES - Counting Crows
22. PRIDE OF MAN - Quicksilver Messenger Service
23. MIDNIGHT IN A PERFECT WORLD - DJ Shadow
24. LOWDOWN - Boz Scaggs
25. CAN YOU HANDLE THAT? - Graham Central Station
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Bard Kava in the Merc is looking to compile a list of songs that reference San Jose in the lyrics. Besides, you know, THAT one.
I've already reminded him of "Beach Baby".
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/05/do_you_know_the.html
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Check out Anderson Cooper's playlist:
(http://cache.gawker.com/images/2006/05/andyscans.jpg)
If this is really reflective of him (and not the iPod ad director), his tastes are REALLY in sync with my own. I mean, frighteningly so.
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Check out Anderson Cooper's playlist:
(http://cache.gawker.com/images/2006/05/andyscans.jpg)
If this is really reflective of him (and not the iPod ad director), his tastes are REALLY in sync with my own. I mean, frighteningly so.
Maybe his boyfriend loaded his iPod for him :wink:
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Have any of you looked at the Google spreadsheet offering? Its approach to collaborative ss development makes me think we could collectively create quite the archive of lists.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/06/BUGD3J8PIV1.DTL
And distant early warning: I'm almost done expanding my 50 Least Favorite Songs of All Time to 100. Will post when I'm done, along with eventual reposts of my 100 favorites and my Top 100 by Chart Position list.
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Sun Songs (no Katrina)
Paper Sun
Sunshine of Your Love
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Seasons in the Sun
Here Comes the Sun
A Place in the Sun
... build the list
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Fat Old Sun
Although the Sun is Shining
Sun Songs (no Katrina)
Paper Sun
Sunshine of Your Love
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Seasons in the Sun
Here Comes the Sun
A Place in the Sun
... build the list
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Fat Old Sun
Although the Sun is Shining
Sun Songs (no Katrina)
Paper Sun
Sunshine of Your Love
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Seasons in the Sun
Here Comes the Sun
A Place in the Sun
... build the list
blame it on the sun
someday the sun won´t shine for you
black hole sun
sunny afternoon
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Fat Old Sun
Although the Sun is Shining
Sun Songs (no Katrina)
Paper Sun
Sunshine of Your Love
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Seasons in the Sun
Here Comes the Sun
A Place in the Sun
... build the list
blame it on the sun
someday the sun won´t shine for you
black hole sun
sunny afternoon
I Wanna Go To The Sun
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Fat Old Sun
Although the Sun is Shining
Sun Songs (no Katrina)
Paper Sun
Sunshine of Your Love
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Seasons in the Sun
Here Comes the Sun
A Place in the Sun
... build the list
blame it on the sun
someday the sun won´t shine for you
black hole sun
sunny afternoon
I Wanna Go To The Sun
Sun Is Shining
Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
Good Day Sunshine
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can't forget "Sun is Here" by... Sun.
or "Sunshine on my Shoulders" :wink:
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Fat Old Sun
Although the Sun is Shining
Sun Songs (no Katrina)
Paper Sun
Sunshine of Your Love
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Seasons in the Sun
Here Comes the Sun
A Place in the Sun
... build the list
blame it on the sun
someday the sun won´t shine for you
black hole sun
sunny afternoon
I Wanna Go To The Sun
Sun Is Shining
Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
Good Day Sunshine
Lucky Old Sun
Heart of the Sunrise
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Fun
· A Place in the Sun
· Although the Sun is Shining
· Black Hole Sun
· Blame it on the Sun
· Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
· Fat Old Sun
· Good Day Sunshine
· Heart of the Sunrise
· Here Comes the Sun
· I Wanna Go To The Sun
· Lucky Old Sun
· Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
· Paper Sun
· Seasons in the Sun
· Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
· Someday the Sun Won´t Shine For You
· Sun is Here
· Sun Is Shining
· Sunny Afternoon
· Sunshine (Jonathan Edwards)
· Sunshine of Your Love
· Sunshine on My Shoulders
· Yellow Sun (Raconteurs)
Let's try another
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Curious as to the size of everyone's music collections. My rough estimates:
~1,300 CDs
~350 cassettes
~50 LPs
~25 45s
~20 8-tracks (but they're at my mom's)
~2,000 digital files (MP3s, etc)
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Do you count double CD or CD sets as one or multiple?
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Do you count double CD or CD sets as one or multiple?
Multiple. So my Citizen Dan box set = 4 CDs, etc. If that makes a substantive difference in your tally, though, I'm *really* impressed. 8)
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Curious as to the size of everyone's music collections.
I always knew you were a size queen. :wink:
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Fun
· A Place in the Sun
· Although the Sun is Shining
· Black Hole Sun
· Blame it on the Sun
· Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
· Fat Old Sun
· Good Day Sunshine
· Heart of the Sunrise
· Here Comes the Sun
· I Wanna Go To The Sun
· Lucky Old Sun
· Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
· Paper Sun
· Seasons in the Sun
· Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
· Someday the Sun Won´t Shine For You
· Sun is Here
· Sun Is Shining
· Sunny Afternoon
· Sunshine (Jonathan Edwards)
· Sunshine of Your Love
· Sunshine on My Shoulders
· Yellow Sun (Raconteurs)
Let's try another
Two more Kinks songs:
Lazy Old Sun (not the same as Lucky Old...)
Waterloo Sunset
And also:
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
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Curious as to the size of everyone's music collections. My rough estimates:
~1,300 CDs
~350 cassettes
~50 LPs
~25 45s
~20 8-tracks (but they're at my mom's)
~2,000 digital files (MP3s, etc)
CDs: 2,500+ (commercially released product only, does not include boots)
Cassettes: 200 (ditto)
LPs: 500
45s: 100
8-tracks: 1
Digital files: 2,500 (but most were ripped from the above CDs)
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Curious as to the size of everyone's music collections.
almost as big as my feet.
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Songs that mention band names:
"All The Young Dudes" (T-rex)
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The ILM folks recently ran a poll to gauge people's favorite albums and singles of the 1960s. I didn't take part -- never became a priority in the midst of other stuff going on -- but I'm finding the results fascinating so far. Here's a glimpse to what the music-crit-elite and other geeks (including many across the pond) think's the toppermost of the poppermost:
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=7169287
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Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.
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Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.
Interesting, but hard to get past the revisionist smell. Perhaps my favorite of the list:Lorraine Ellison: "Stay With Me"
(Jerry Ragovoy/George David Weiss)
1969
Chart info: U.S. (N/A), UK (N/A)
Available on Stay With Me: The Best of Lorraine Ellison
"Stay With Me" starts with a slow-rotating piano line and a whisper-coo vocal, before it wells up and explodes into one of the great scenery-chewing choruses of all time. An orchestra drops bombs, and Ellison's voice abandons all restraint, clawing and rasping and howling at the man who's about to leave her. --Tom Breihan
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Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.
Interesting, but hard to get past the revisionist smell. Perhaps my favorite of the list:Lorraine Ellison: "Stay With Me"
(Jerry Ragovoy/George David Weiss)
1969
Chart info: U.S. (N/A), UK (N/A)
Available on Stay With Me: The Best of Lorraine Ellison
"Stay With Me" starts with a slow-rotating piano line and a whisper-coo vocal, before it wells up and explodes into one of the great scenery-chewing choruses of all time. An orchestra drops bombs, and Ellison's voice abandons all restraint, clawing and rasping and howling at the man who's about to leave her. --Tom Breihan
Wow: Tom Breihan writes the Voice's primary music blog, "Status Ain't Hood." He's a young kid, early 20s, heavily into the hip-hop scene and all its subgenres (snap, hyphy, etc.). I had no idea he was this well-versed in Lorraine Ellison and the Flirtations as well! Kid's done a lot more homework than he gets credit for.
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Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.
Interesting, but hard to get past the revisionist smell.
Does it count as revisionism if you weren't actually born when the record orig came out? :wink:
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Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.
Interesting, but hard to get past the revisionist smell.
Does it count as revisionism if you weren't actually born when the record orig came out? :wink:
Sure! It's much easier to rewrite history if you have no idea of what really happened!
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have you been following KINK's "Most Overlooked LPs of all Time" list? They're counting 'em down (one per day):
http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special
Today at #12 (they'll hit #1 on labor day) is Macca's Ram -- an intersting selection, as it was slammed by critics upon release but (as we all know from 1971 10@10s) sounds not-bad-at-all 35 years later.
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have you been following KINK's "Most Overlooked LPs of all Time" list? They're counting 'em down (one per day):
http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special
Today at #12 (they'll hit #1 on labor day) is Macca's Ram -- an intersting selection, as it was slammed by critics upon release but (as we all know from 1971 10@10s) sounds not-bad-at-all 35 years later.
TANC, While in Maui I went into a celebrity art gallery and saw a display of Ram, record, photo, signature etc. I hadn't thought about this album since I last packed it away in a box.
While there, I snapped a pic of a Jerry G painting done by Grace Slick. This was done before gallery owner asked me not to take pictures. I knew it was wrong but had to do it.
http://www.celebrityfineart.com/
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have you been following KINK's "Most Overlooked LPs of all Time" list? They're counting 'em down (one per day):
http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special
Today at #12 (they'll hit #1 on labor day) is Macca's Ram -- an intersting selection, as it was slammed by critics upon release but (as we all know from 1971 10@10s) sounds not-bad-at-all 35 years later.
The don't have any text for Bare Trees!:
http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special/more/fleetwood_mac_bare_trees/
Great album, perfect grey day!
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have you been following KINK's "Most Overlooked LPs of all Time" list? They're counting 'em down (one per day):
http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special
Today at #12 (they'll hit #1 on labor day) is Macca's Ram -- an intersting selection, as it was slammed by critics upon release but (as we all know from 1971 10@10s) sounds not-bad-at-all 35 years later.
TANC, While in Maui I went into a celebrity art gallery and saw a display of Ram, record, photo, signature etc. I hadn't thought about this album since I last packed it away in a box.
While there, I snapped a pic of a Jerry G painting done by Grace Slick. This was done before gallery owner asked me not to take pictures. I knew it was wrong but had to do it.
http://www.celebrityfineart.com/
Haha, I've also taken pictures of Gracie's paintings! (In early 2001 she had a showing in a SoMa gallery -- "Artrock," I think it was called?)
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For Mark especially, this bit from the sfgate Parent's Blog on rock music kids love (and we don't mean the SippyCups, either):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?blogid=29&entry_id=8924#comments
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couldn't decide where to put this, but anyway... I just discovered that EW's website has a "Chart Flashback" feature: the writer features the Billboard Top Ten on this date in (insert year here) and makes snarky comments. This week it's 1986:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20007619,00.html
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Apparently Dave (after they talked about Gavin's "affair") asked for suggestions for the best adultery songs ever. And someone blogged about it on sfgate:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=13160
other suggestions? Maybe this will end up as this year's Valentine's Set :wink:
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Apparently Dave (after they talked about Gavin's "affair") asked for suggestions for the best adultery songs ever. And someone blogged about it on sfgate:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=13160
other suggestions? Maybe this will end up as this year's Valentine's Set :wink:
Greatest adultery song ever is "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)." Either the Luther Ingram or Millie Jackson version, but I'll suggest the former since Millie has a whole album-plus of such material in Caught Up. Also might want to include "Me and Mrs. Jones" and the inevitable remorse anthem, "Kiss and Say Goodbye."
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Apparently Dave (after they talked about Gavin's "affair") asked for suggestions for the best adultery songs ever. And someone blogged about it on sfgate:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=13160
other suggestions? Maybe this will end up as this year's Valentine's Set :wink:
Greatest adultery song ever is "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)." Either the Luther Ingram or Millie Jackson version, but I'll suggest the former since Millie has a whole album-plus of such material in Caught Up. Also might want to include "Me and Mrs. Jones" and the inevitable remorse anthem, "Kiss and Say Goodbye."
But everybody knows the best cheatin' songs are country cheatin' songs. (So far only one person commenting on that sfgate thread has brought that up.)
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Apparently Dave (after they talked about Gavin's "affair") asked for suggestions for the best adultery songs ever. And someone blogged about it on sfgate:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=13160
other suggestions? Maybe this will end up as this year's Valentine's Set :wink:
Greatest adultery song ever is "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)." Either the Luther Ingram or Millie Jackson version, but I'll suggest the former since Millie has a whole album-plus of such material in Caught Up. Also might want to include "Me and Mrs. Jones" and the inevitable remorse anthem, "Kiss and Say Goodbye."
But everybody knows the best cheatin' songs are country cheatin' songs. (So far only one person commenting on that sfgate thread has brought that up.)
I was listening at the time, and "Your Cheatin' Heart" came to mind. And I was just thinking, Robert Cray, "Strong Persuader."
Somebody mention Layla, but I would have gone with "Have You Ever Loved a Woman."
so much, it's a shame and a sin
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Having heard three of the four recently, thought I'd start an impromptu list of my favorite song intros:
1. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, "More Love"
2. Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, "What Does It Take"
3. The Toys, "A Lover's Concerto"
4. Petula Clark, "Downtown"
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Having heard three of the four recently, thought I'd start an impromptu list of my favorite song intros:
1. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, "More Love"
2. Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, "What Does It Take"
3. The Toys, "A Lover's Concerto"
4. Petula Clark, "Downtown"
while I'm here to post something else, I'd name the 4 Seasons'"Opus 17".
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:
http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:
http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt
Does Rob Thomas' mother work at WPLJ?
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:
http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt
Does Rob Thomas' mother work at WPLJ?
ROTFL! Guess Rob's big with the soccer moms. Speaking of suburbia, I'm amazed "How To Save a Life" isn't in the Top 10.
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:
http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt
Does Rob Thomas' mother work at WPLJ?
ROTFL! Guess Rob's big with the soccer moms. Speaking of suburbia, I'm amazed "How To Save a Life" isn't in the Top 10.
Either that or they've got the all-time biggest Rob Thomas fan stuffing the ballot box like mad.
I know most of the songs in that list have been played on KFOG at one time or another, but to see them all laid out like that, one after another, is just so depressing. I mentally changed the station about 12 times in the first 100 songs. At least KFOG doesn't play Shania.
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:
http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt
Reaction #1: This is fascinating!
Reaction #2: The '90s really have been neglected by memory, haven't they?
Reaction #3: What this countdown ignores is the marvelous indie underground that blossomed in '93-'94. Whither "Cannonball"? Whither anything from Barenaked Ladies? Je suis stunned.
Reaction #4: HOLY SHIT THAT CALLING SONG IS SIX YEARS OLD
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Reaction #3: What this countdown ignores is the marvelous indie underground that blossomed in '93-'94. Whither "Cannonball"? Whither anything from Barenaked Ladies? Je suis stunned.
well, yes, but this is WPLJ -- a "Hot AC" station aimed squarely at white suburban soccer moms. This is based on songs that got airplay there.
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EW, as is their wont, has listed "the 5 most awesome Beatle covers":
Esther Phillips, "And I Love Him"
Nancy Sinatra, "Run For Your Life"
Aretha, "Eleanor Rigby"
Stevie, "We Can Work it Out"
Rosanne Cash, "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
I'm familiar with 4 of these (TANC: JJ on KPOO just played the Esther Phillips last week); the only one I don't think I've heard is the Nancy S, though it sure sounds like something Little Steven would just LURVE.
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This exchange has gone on in the KFOG '72 thread:
BTW, Geoff, where should I mail the spreadsheet so that you can link it permanently?
geoff(at)ggould.com
I just sent it.
this should be it:
http://10at10club.com/10at10_Club_Archives.xls
Gah! I just wasted 15 minutes. Like I don't play with data enough!
I'll end up loading this into Sql server and really start playing...
Rod, is there some way we could put this up on the site as a database?
I wanted to reroute it here (unless there's a Chart thread that I missed).
If we want to post the chart here, I'd like to give at least some of it a proofread for accuracy (not OCD stuff, just correcting some titles and such; I saw there was an entry for Sir Paul performing "Another World," which would be fascinating but unlikely). If others are geeky enough maybe we can split up the DB? Let me know your thoughts, as I think this proves to be a very interesting archive not only of Dave and 10@10 but of pop/R&B/rock of the '60s-'90s.
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This exchange has gone on in the KFOG '72 thread:
BTW, Geoff, where should I mail the spreadsheet so that you can link it permanently?
geoff(at)ggould.com
I just sent it.
this should be it:
http://10at10club.com/10at10_Club_Archives.xls
Gah! I just wasted 15 minutes. Like I don't play with data enough!
I'll end up loading this into Sql server and really start playing...
Rod, is there some way we could put this up on the site as a database?
I wanted to reroute it here (unless there's a Chart thread that I missed).
If we want to post the chart here, I'd like to give at least some of it a proofread for accuracy (not OCD stuff, just correcting some titles and such; I saw there was an entry for Sir Paul performing "Another World," which would be fascinating but unlikely). If others are geeky enough maybe we can split up the DB? Let me know your thoughts, as I think this proves to be a very interesting archive not only of Dave and 10@10 but of pop/R&B/rock of the '60s-'90s.
Geoff, could we add a link to the DB on either the Message board main page or the links page? Many thanks!
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The headline on this story is guaranteed to make you say, "Well... DUH!"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/28/entertainment/e130907D49.DTL&tsp=1&type=entertainment
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The BBC's Best and Worst Duets list: Macca has 2 in the top ten worst.
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=114&sid=1263789
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The BBC's Best and Worst Duets list: Macca has 2 in the top ten worst.
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=114&sid=1263789
i'm surprised they didn't include the patrick duffy and mireille mathieu duet "together we're strong" (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqct1_mireille-mathieu-patrick-duffy). i bought this 45 at a flea market in angoulême five years ago, and hadn't the opportunity to listen to it until today. yikes!!!
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Chart geeks, rejoice!
The Billboard Hot 100 (http://acharts.us/billboard_hot_100), as well as other countries' weekly charts.
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Chart geeks, rejoice!
The Billboard Hot 100 (http://acharts.us/billboard_hot_100), as well as other countries' weekly charts.
So... they're doing this with or without Billboard's permission? And are they planning to go back further than 2003?
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Chart geeks, rejoice!
The Billboard Hot 100 (http://acharts.us/billboard_hot_100), as well as other countries' weekly charts.
So... they're doing this with or without Billboard's permission? And are they planning to go back further than 2003?
I would bet without - Billboard's very possessive of its data, and shut down a service that provided this info back on USENET in the early '90s. Haven't talked to the people behind it, though - just found out about it via the I Love Music message board.
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http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12036
(DM, take note.)
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The Onion's weekly lists are always worth a look, and this week it's the Most Overblown Charity Singles Besides "We Are The World". Lotsa cheeze here.
http://www.avclub.com/inventory
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Here's another good list from the AV CLub: 29 Terrific Instrumentals by Bands That Usually Sing (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/is_this_music_29_terrific)
I'm sure y'all have many others to add also.
I can add several of my own:
Joe Jackson - Acropolis Now
Simon & Garfunkel - Anji
Duran DUran - Tel Aviv
The Beatles - Flying
Yes - The Clap
UB40 - Zero Zero Seven Charlie
Mark Knopfler - Two Brothers and a Stranger
Chris Isaak - The Kids In The Hall
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The only ones on their list I know I've heard are Rush's "YYZ" and the Commodores' "Machine Gun." (Barry Scott of the Lost 45s uses the latter as his bumper music.) I would suggest Jefferson Airplane's "Embryonic Journey" and or Jefferson Starship's "Git Fiddler," but wow - I can barely think of any good instrumentals from predominantly vocal bands.
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Here's another good list from the AV CLub: 29 Terrific Instrumentals by Bands That Usually Sing (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/is_this_music_29_terrific)
I'm sure y'all have many others to add also.
I can add several of my own:
Joe Jackson - Acropolis Now
Simon & Garfunkel - Anji
Duran DUran - Tel Aviv
The Beatles - Flying
Yes - The Clap
UB40 - Zero Zero Seven Charlie
Mark Knopfler - Two Brothers and a Stranger
Chris Isaak - The Kids In The Hall
Yes' The Clap is an instrumental piece, but it's essentially one of Steve Howe's solo guitar pieces; the rest of the band doesn't play on it (not that that disqualifies it, just thought it was worth mentioning). I'd also nominate Journey's (when they were good) Topaz and Roxy Music's India. I'd be tempted to add Sheltering Sky by King Crimson, but they've got boatloads of instrumental pieces, so they'd probably be disqualified by the "bands with too many instrumentals in their catalog" rule (although Pink Floyd got in there regardless, which more than a few readers chose to kvetch about in the comments section).
Btw, big ups to the list makers for the inclusion of Uncle Tupelo's Sandusky. I was all set to add that one til I read thru the whole list and there it was.
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Here's another good list from the AV CLub: 29 Terrific Instrumentals by Bands That Usually Sing (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/is_this_music_29_terrific)
I'm sure y'all have many others to add also.
I can add several of my own:
Joe Jackson - Acropolis Now
Simon & Garfunkel - Anji
Duran DUran - Tel Aviv
The Beatles - Flying
Yes - The Clap
UB40 - Zero Zero Seven Charlie
Mark Knopfler - Two Brothers and a Stranger
Chris Isaak - The Kids In The Hall
Yes' The Clap is an instrumental piece, but it's essentially one of Steve Howe's solo guitar pieces; the rest of the band doesn't play on it (not that that disqualifies it, just thought it was worth mentioning). I'd also nominate Journey's (when they were good) Topaz and Roxy Music's India. I'd be tempted to add Sheltering Sky by King Crimson, but they've got boatloads of instrumental pieces, so they'd probably be disqualified by the "bands with too many instrumentals in their catalog" rule (although Pink Floyd got in there regardless, which more than a few readers chose to kvetch about in the comments section).
Btw, big ups to the list makers for the inclusion of Uncle Tupelo's Sandusky. I was all set to add that one til I read thru the whole list and there it was.
What, no Beatles' "Flying"? I'd suggest "Sylvia" by Focus -- one of my fave instumentals of all time -- but I'm not sure what the rest of their catalog (besides "Hocus Pocus") is like.
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McCain and Obama submit to Blender their Top 10 songs of all time (http://www.blender.com/WhiteHouseDJBattle/articles/39518.aspx). Curious picks! And smug reactions from Randy Newman.
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McCain and Obama submit to Blender their Top 10 songs of all time (http://www.blender.com/WhiteHouseDJBattle/articles/39518.aspx). Curious picks! And smug reactions from Randy Newman.
curious picks, indeed!
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'The Twist' named most popular song of Billboard 100 era:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song)
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'The Twist' named most popular song of Billboard 100 era:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song)
Owing to its having two distinct chart runs, each making it to #1.
They must have measured the songs in relation to others of their era. Otherwise, Santana's "Smooth," which came in at #2, would easily have been the #1 song of the era, as it was #1 for 13 weeks and in the top 40 for 52 - but in an era when lingering on the charts that long was almost commonplace.
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'The Twist' named most popular song of Billboard 100 era:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song)
Owing to its having two distinct chart runs, each making it to #1.
They must have measured the songs in relation to others of their era. Otherwise, Santana's "Smooth," which came in at #2, would easily have been the #1 song of the era, as it was #1 for 13 weeks and in the top 40 for 52 - but in an era when lingering on the charts that long was almost commonplace.
This was a Request-O-Rama question today around 7:45 on KFOG. And Dave actually convinced the Foghead who won to select the original Hank Ballard version, which he had already cued up & ready to go. What a treat. What are the odds that any other large market morning show has played Hank Ballard...in the past decade?
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'The Twist' named most popular song of Billboard 100 era:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song)
Owing to its having two distinct chart runs, each making it to #1.
They must have measured the songs in relation to others of their era. Otherwise, Santana's "Smooth," which came in at #2, would easily have been the #1 song of the era, as it was #1 for 13 weeks and in the top 40 for 52 - but in an era when lingering on the charts that long was almost commonplace.
This was a Request-O-Rama question today around 7:45 on KFOG. And Dave actually convinced the Foghead who won to select the original Hank Ballard version, which he had already cued up & ready to go. What a treat. What are the odds that any other large market morning show has played Hank Ballard...in the past decade?
He's neither large-market nor morning, but Felix Hernandez plays Hank Ballard with some frequency, my favorite being "How You Gonna Get Respect, If You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet?"
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'The Twist' named most popular song of Billboard 100 era:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_en_ot/music_billboard_top_song)
that Billboard 100 list of most popular singles of last 50 years:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/index.shtml (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/index.shtml)
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from Best Protest Songs list, Edwin Starr's "War" with embedded video:
http://www.ibabuzz.com/concerts/2008/10/19/best-protest-songs-no-16-war-edwin-starr/ (http://www.ibabuzz.com/concerts/2008/10/19/best-protest-songs-no-16-war-edwin-starr/)
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Rolling Stone's top 100 singers:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/1
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Rolling Stone's top 100 singers:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/1
I was reading this at the gym yesterday. A parlor game (like all "best ______ of all time" lists are), but interesting. I'd put Gladys Knight a lot higher, but that's just me. Love this quote from ?uestlove about Al Green (#14):
"Most black singers go zero to 100, rushing to the big payoff, but Al Green is like a souffle that takes 45 minutes to rise."
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Rolling Stone's top 100 singers:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/1
cut to the chase (the list):
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/103
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Rolling Stone's top 100 singers:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/1
cut to the chase (the list):
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/103
Janis Joplin outranks Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield AND Gladys Knight? Blasphemous.
And the fact that Lou Reed is on the list at all confirms that this is not a list of great singers but great rock & soul personas.
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the fact that Lou Reed is on the list at all confirms that this is not a list of great singers but great rock & soul personas.
I totally agree -- I feel the same about Dylan. I bow to no one in my admiration of him as a poet and artist, but he's NOT one of the top ten singers.
ETA: for that matter, I don't consider Sly Stone a great singer either.
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the fact that Lou Reed is on the list at all confirms that this is not a list of great singers but great rock & soul personas.
I totally agree -- I feel the same about Dylan. I bow to no one in my admiration of him as a poet and artist, but he's NOT one of the top ten singers.
ETA: for that matter, I don't consider Sly Stone a great singer either.
Agreed on all points here too. I have a feeling they really only seriously consider the priority of the the first ten listees, maybe 20 at most. After that they throw a whole bunch of names into a hopper, and the first 80 or 90 that are drawn make the list in exactly that order.
But as with most of these kinds of lists, they probably start more arguments than they resolve. And they probably sell a fair number of magazines.
One interesting thing I noted: One of the contributors to this piece is Austin Scaggs, son of Boz and Carmella, who is now an Associate Editor with RS.
(I took the opportunity of being on the RS website to poke around a little. Was surprised by how many familiar names from the 70s are still on the masthead: Kurt Loder, Anthony DeCurtis, Jonathan Cott, Greil Marcus, Charles Perry, David Fricke (who'll probably die there), and Ralph Steadman (gardening) and Raoul Duke (sports), too.)
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Rolling Stone's top 100 singers:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/1
cut to the chase (the list):
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/103
Jeff Buckley but not Tim Buckley?
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List: Great Mustaches in Rock History -
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/getback/31211/great-moustaches-of-rock/ (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/getback/31211/great-moustaches-of-rock/)
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(I took the opportunity of being on the RS website to poke around a little. Was surprised by how many familiar names from the 70s are still on the masthead: Kurt Loder, Anthony DeCurtis, Jonathan Cott, Greil Marcus, Charles Perry, David Fricke (who'll probably die there), and Ralph Steadman (gardening) and Raoul Duke (sports), too.)
RS has a gardening editor ?? hydroponic gardening, no doubt.
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List: Great Mustaches in Rock History -
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/getback/31211/great-moustaches-of-rock/ (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/getback/31211/great-moustaches-of-rock/)
what? no Burton Cummings? it's an outrage, I tells ya!
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(I took the opportunity of being on the RS website to poke around a little. Was surprised by how many familiar names from the 70s are still on the masthead: Kurt Loder, Anthony DeCurtis, Jonathan Cott, Greil Marcus, Charles Perry, David Fricke (who'll probably die there), and Ralph Steadman (gardening) and Raoul Duke (sports), too.)
RS has a gardening editor ?? hydroponic gardening, no doubt.
I think that's kind of an inside joke, or maybe a means of keeping Steadman on the payroll. Ralph Steadman is one of Hunter S. Thompson's sidekicks and his longtime illustrator. (The "Raoul Duke" that follows Steadman in the masthead is a pseudonym for HST.)
(http://www.pushapixel.com/posted_images/ralph_steadman_2.jpg)
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Duke!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/Uncleduke.jpg/180px-Uncleduke.jpg)
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That great pop music critic, Stephen King, names his 10 Best Albums of 2008 in his monthly EW column. Note that only 4 out of 11 (there's a tie at #1) have gotten any KFOG airplay afaik.
10. James, Hey Ma (I didn't know they had a new album out this year)
9. Randy Newman, Harps & Angels (ditto)
8. Lindsay Buckingham, Gift of Screws (King says it sounds like mid-'70s F.Mac; if so, why did KFOG ignore it?)
7. Al Green, Lay it Down
6. Coldplay, Viva La Vida (well, duh, it'll be on many lists and is the presumptive Grammy winner. King says he doesn't think they sound like U2 -- is he deaf?)
5. Alejandro Escovedo, Real Animal
4. Girl Talk, Feed the Animals
3. James McMurtry, Just Us Kids (is KPIG playing this?)
2. AC/DC, Black Ice
1. (tie) Buckcherry, Black Butterfly; and Pretenders Break Up the Concrete (King says "Love's a Mystery" is his favorite song of the year).
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Yikes: I had no idea Nos. 10 through 7 existed!
I didn't listen to enough new music to post a legitimate list, but here are some albums I enjoyed this year:
Jason Mraz, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
Raphael Saadiq, The Way I See It
Bill Popp and the Tapes, My Lonely Mind
B-52s, Funplex
Coldplay, Viva la Vida
Jefferson Starship, Jefferson's Tree of Liberty
At some point this month I'll spend a couple hours at a Virgin Megastore catching up on other recommendations, including a couple King suggestions.
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List of Top 25 Teen Idols of All-Time (but not including Sinatra, Elvis, Beatles, Paul Anka, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Sherman, Andy Gibb)...
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/104315/the-top-25-teen-idols-of-all-time/ (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/104315/the-top-25-teen-idols-of-all-time/)
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List of the Top 40 Christmas Albums of All-Time:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/ (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/)
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List of the Top 40 Christmas Albums of All-Time:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/ (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/)
Yikes. I love Xmas music; I collect it -- the more unusual the better. But that's a scary list. Fie on Mannheim's Trans-Siberian SteamOrchestra. (*shudder*)
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List of the Top 40 Christmas Albums of All-Time:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/ (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/)
Yikes. I love Xmas music; I collect it -- the more unusual the better. But that's a scary list. Fie on Mannheim's Trans-Siberian SteamOrchestra. (*shudder*)
I agree ---
'tis the season ... to barf all over my keybd.
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List of the Top 40 Christmas Albums of All-Time:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/ (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/)
The Phil Spector album not even on the list?
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List of the Top 40 Christmas Albums of All-Time:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/ (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/)
Yikes. I love Xmas music; I collect it -- the more unusual the better. But that's a scary list. Fie on Mannheim's Trans-Siberian SteamOrchestra. (*shudder*)
The key characteristic of those albums is that they're the most popular (aka biggest selling) Christmas albums of all time. Which means that by definition, they're going to be bland, hackneyed, and anything but unusual. I own exactly one of the albums on that list: the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas album that's at #15. And most of the rest I wouldn't even consider buying--Celine Dion? Kenny G? Any of the aforementioned Trans-Mannheim Siberian Roller records. The fact that the Spector record *is omitted* just underscores what that list is about--quantity, not quality. (Although it's a shame that it hasn't sold the requisite 1.5M copies it would have taken to get on the list, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.)
ETA: I've just added a couple words that I left out when venting my spleen initially. Changes marked with asterisks in the penultimate sentence.
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List of the Top 40 Christmas Albums of All-Time (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/)
I own exactly one of the albums on that list: the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas album that's at #15.
I have that one, plus the Nat "King" Cole record. I'd consider the top Elvis record, but the rest are off the radar.
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List of the Top 40 Christmas Albums of All-Time (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/23093/chart-watch-extra-the-top-40-christmas-albums/)
I own exactly one of the albums on that list: the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas album that's at #15.
I have that one, plus the Nat "King" Cole record. I'd consider the top Elvis record, but the rest are off the radar.
And I'd consider those two, as well as the Sinatra album(s) that also didn't make the list due to insufficient sales, to be true classics and worthy of inclusion on a "greatest Christmas album" list. Celine Dion? Not so much.
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Wayback, I think you sent a note re this Top 77 poll? Most of the results are in:
http://www.tunemagic.net/VoteTop77/Updates/index.htm
Way heavy on Beatles (yay); my votes for the Mamas & Papas and Orpheus helped them to place in the outer reaches of the Top 100.
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Wayback, I think you sent a note re this Top 77 poll? Most of the results are in:
http://www.tunemagic.net/VoteTop77/Updates/index.htm
Way heavy on Beatles (yay); my votes for the Mamas & Papas and Orpheus helped them to place in the outer reaches of the Top 100.
this list says The Left Banke's Walk Away Reneé makes them a one-hit wonder. Out here, Pretty Ballerina was played a lot on the radio. Do those of you from elsewhere remember this?
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Wayback, I think you sent a note re this Top 77 poll? Most of the results are in:
http://www.tunemagic.net/VoteTop77/Updates/index.htm
Way heavy on Beatles (yay); my votes for the Mamas & Papas and Orpheus helped them to place in the outer reaches of the Top 100.
this list says The Left Banke's Walk Away Reneé makes them a one-hit wonder. Out here, Pretty Ballerina was played a lot on the radio. Do those of you from elsewhere remember this?
I remember "PB", and it reached #15 nationally ("WAR" got to #5) so they are def NOT a OHW by any reasonable standard. (and -- of all people -- the chart geeks who do that survey every year should certainly know better)
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Wayback, I think you sent a note re this Top 77 poll? Most of the results are in:
http://www.tunemagic.net/VoteTop77/Updates/index.htm
Way heavy on Beatles (yay); my votes for the Mamas & Papas and Orpheus helped them to place in the outer reaches of the Top 100.
this list says The Left Banke's Walk Away Reneé makes them a one-hit wonder. Out here, Pretty Ballerina was played a lot on the radio. Do those of you from elsewhere remember this?
i don't remember it when it was being played, but I heard Etienne de Rocher cover that spng on solo piano at the Cafe Du Nord one night a few years back. not sure if any of you know Etienne's stuff, but he's great. He was based in Oakland, but moved back to the deep south last year.
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Rob Harvilla of the Village Voice recaps the year's worst lyrics in tourney format:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/pdf/villagevoice-robharvilla-worstlyrics2008.pdf
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KPIG's listener poll: the ten favorite albums of 2008...
1. Hayes Carll - Trouble in Mind
2. James McMurtry - Just Us Kids
3. Jackson Browne - Time the Conqueror
4. Railroad Earth - Amen Corner
5. Waybacks - Loaded
6. Waifs - SunDirtWater
7. Richie Havens - Nobody Left to Crown
8. Ry Cooder - The Ry Cooder Anthology
9. Levon Helm Band - Merle Fest Ramble
10. Charlie Haden w family & friends - Rambling Boy
Now I must say, I listen to KPIG fairly regularly, and maybe 3 or 4 of those stick out as "oh yeah.. I heard that on KPIG". The rest are NTM -- didn't even know Richie Havens had an album out.
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Artists most heavily represented in my CD collection:
Jefferson Airplane/Starship and related side projects: 33 CDs
Monkees: 11
Elton John: 10
Beatles: 9
David Bowie: 8
Cher: 8
Bruce Springsteen: 7
Stevie Wonder: 7
Joni Mitchell: 6
Prince: 6
Nina Simone: 6
Aimee Mann: 4
Polyphonic Spree: 4
Dusty Springfield: 4
Wilco: 4
Robbie Williams: 4
Barry Manilow: 3 plus a box set
[ETA the Stevie Wonder, unintentional omission]
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Artists most heavily represented in my CD collection:
Cher: 8
"ya know how I know you're gay?"
(http://entimg.msn.com/i/gal/Undressed_Oscars2004/Cher_350x435.jpg)
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If you ever thought you were overly consumed by listmaking, take heart: you got nothing on this guy.
http://fbenario.wordpress.com/
He must have LOVED High Fidelity.
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If you ever thought you were overly consumed by listmaking, take heart: you got nothing on this guy.
http://fbenario.wordpress.com/
He must have LOVED High Fidelity.
My head hurts.
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It's that time again: Village Voice Pazz& Jop Poll:
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2008/
am I the only one who's baffled by the love for Vampire Weekend?
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"Poll: Which Springsteen album is your favorite?" Interesting to see results:
http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf/2009/01/poll_tell_us_your_favorite_spr.html (http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf/2009/01/poll_tell_us_your_favorite_spr.html)
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One of Mick LaSalle's better topics (which is why it's not in the "LaSalle... Idiot" thread): awful lines in otherwise good songs:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=37299
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our band is playing in April, and we were talking about themes, and tax day came up. We're going to do Money (Beatles, etc.) and I also looked at the Shraytabase for other suggestions!
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an interesting list of the arranger/producer Charles Calello's charted singles -- the 4 Seasons were his bread-and-butter but lots of other surprises here:
http://www.charlescalello.com/Hit_Records.htm
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an interesting list of the arranger/producer Charles Calello's charted singles -- the 4 Seasons were his bread-and-butter but lots of other surprises here:
http://www.charlescalello.com/Hit_Records.htm
Wow! A number of 10@10 faves in there--leading off with Dr. Buzzard's Cherchez La Femme and White Lies, Blue Eyes from Bullet. Also a couple of Eric Carmen hits. And he had a hand in 16 million sellers--including The Name Game from Shirley Ellis, and Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline, as well as a whole lot of the 4 Seasons/Frankie Valli catalog. Jeez, if he managed to keep a share of the mechanicals on just those he's probably got a nice retirement.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1
Metalist of the greatest books of all time -- more or less.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1
Metalist of the greatest books of all time -- more or less.
they discussed this on KFOG this morning, and how "hoity-toity" (Greg's phrase) the top ten was. Renee said her favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces, which I hated.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1
Metalist of the greatest books of all time -- more or less.
they discussed this on KFOG this morning, and how "hoity-toity" (Greg's phrase) the top ten was. Renee said her favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces, which I hated.
I hate A Confederacy of Dunces too! A buddy at work said it was the funniest thing he'd ever read, and I thought it was just depressing, Finding that amusing is kind of like giggling at crazy homeless people.
Jon Carrol mentions the list in his column this morning too. I thought the top ten was pretty good, but must admit that I read only the first half of War And Peace, which was coma inducing.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1
Metalist of the greatest books of all time -- more or less.
they discussed this on KFOG this morning, and how "hoity-toity" (Greg's phrase) the top ten was. Renee said her favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces, which I hated.
For the most part I don't think I'm well read enough to critique this list, but I did find it significant that there are no titles listed for Jack London or Edgar Allen Poe, but Toni Morrison has two entries.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1
Metalist of the greatest books of all time -- more or less.
they discussed this on KFOG this morning, and how "hoity-toity" (Greg's phrase) the top ten was. Renee said her favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces, which I hated.
For the most part I don't think I'm well read enough to critique this list, but I did find it significant that there are no titles listed for Jack London or Edgar Allen Poe, but Toni Morrison has two entries.
The Oprah influence.
Also, no Dickens (but there is Twain), and no Bellow (but includes Roth and Updike). I would have included Herzog or Henderson, The Rain King over both Portnoy's Complaint and Rabbit, Run.
Also, Moby Dick is not included, which is equally as long and tedious as War and Peace.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1
Metalist of the greatest books of all time -- more or less.
they discussed this on KFOG this morning, and how "hoity-toity" (Greg's phrase) the top ten was. Renee said her favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces, which I hated.
I hate A Confederacy of Dunces too! A buddy at work said it was the funniest thing he'd ever read, and I thought it was just depressing, Finding that amusing is kind of like giggling at crazy homeless people.
indeed, the lead character of ACOD is one of the most unlikeable, unpleasant people (intended to be the hero) I've encountered in fiction . It's been "in development" as a movie with everyone from Belushi to Ferrell attached as the star but it keeps getting shelved.
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For the most part I don't think I'm well read enough to critique this list, but I did find it significant that there are no titles listed for Jack London or Edgar Allen Poe, but Toni Morrison has two entries.
Well, Morrison does have a Nobel prize for Literature, as do several others on the list, so I think you'll be in a distinct minority elevating Jack London to these ranks. Nothing against your taste, just don't think London is as widely admired outside the US.
I've read a number of these, glad to see Chinua Achebe made the cut & Robert Graves, too. Surprised "Lord Jim" got in ahead of "Moby Dick".
Of the first 40 books, which comprise entries from 10 different centuries, 31 are novels and 4 of those are 20th century novels dealing with African-American experience. And four more round out the list. Seems kind of like the the Oscars & holocaust films.
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I'm going to admit here how poorly read I am. Here's what I can lay claim to:
12. Gulliver's Travels
15. The Catcher in the Rye
19. Catch-22
23. Brave New World
29. The Social Contract
39. On the Road <-- this is my favorite of these
41. The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version. (at least half of it, anyway)
53. Leaves of Grass
57. Song of Solomon
60. Slaughterhouse-Five <-- this is my least favorite; Vonnegut depresses me
79. Portnoy's Complaint
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1
Metalist of the greatest books of all time -- more or less.
I don't think I've read that many books, and I can't say that I can have an intelligent conversation about them all, but here's what I think I've read:
1. War and Peace (I'm pretty sure I finished it! I was once a Russian Studies major at UCSB)
2. 1984 (when I was in 9th grade)
8. The Illiad and the Odyssey (I may have to cop to abridged versions in school)
15. The Catcher in the Rye
23. Brave New World
37. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (read all the Narnia books to my daughters)
41. The Holy Bible (probably not all of it. The church covers most of it every 3 years!)
48. Anna Karenina
49. Hamlet
54. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
58. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (maybe someday I'll tell you my story of my high school essay on this)
61. Animal Farm
62. Lord of the Flies
65. Remembrance of Things Past
81. The Day of the Locust
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this book discussion makes me wonder about ebooks. Does anyone have one or know someone that has one? It seems a logical eventuality, but I don't really know. I do a lot of reading online.
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7 of the top 10 (8 if I get half credit for W&P and half credit for Illiad & Oddysey).
6 of the next 10.
All of the entries from Faulkner, Hemingway, Shakespeare.
Rough count was just under 50. As an English Lit major, that's not too surprising. I mostly read fiction, so most of the non-fiction I have not read.
Fave from the top 10 is The Sound and the Fury with Invisible Man a close second. Faves from second 10 is Catch 22 (funniest novel ever) and The Great Gatsby.
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this book discussion makes me wonder about ebooks. Does anyone have one or know someone that has one? It seems a logical eventuality, but I don't really know. I do a lot of reading online.
I'm very sentimental about actual books. These days I mostly read while commuting, so I guess I could get a kindle-like device some day, but I'm against it (especially since they have control over it as they do). I usually buy the books I read (I have boxes and boxes in my garage), and like the "ownership" aspect. Also, the ability to treat them as I like. And, for us English major types, how do you make margin notes in a Kindle?
When I was really reading a lot, I could go back to a passage just by remembering what the page looked like when I read it the first time -- what side of the page it was on, how far down the page it was, how much of the book was in my left hand, how much in my right....
I will miss books when they are gone.
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2. 1984
4. Lolita (I read it when I was, like, 15!)
15. Catcher in the Rye
18. Great gatsby
19. Catch-22
23. Brave New World
25. Native Son
35. LOTR
49. Hamlet
50. King Lear
51. Othello
54. Huck Finn
56. Frankenstein
60. Slaughterhouse-Five
61. Animal farm
71 Sons & Lovers
79. Portnoy's Complaint
97. Autobio/Malcolm X
99. Color Purple
My first thought was: no "Gravity's rainbow"? No "Garp"? But then I realized it's great books, not just great novels. I started "Gone With the Wind" and never finished it -- a "great book"? really??
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60. Slaughterhouse-Five <-- this is my least favorite; Vonnegut depresses me
wow -- I've heart Vonnegut called a lot of things, but never depressing. The movie of S-5 is one of the great lost films of the '70s, ahead of its time in many ways and well worth a rental.
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My first thought was: no "Gravity's rainbow"? No "Garp"? But then I realized it's great books, not just great novels. I started "Gone With the Wind" and never finished it -- a "great book"? really??
I though GWTW was very good, but wouldn't go with "great' either. Irving (Garp) is one of my favorite authors, but I'm not sure which individual novel I'd put in this list (probably Cider House Rules, Owen Meany or Son Of The Circus over Garp).
But, also missing, Mailer (The Naked and the Dead), Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and/or The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Hesse (Steppenwolf, Siddartha).
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Compare to this list: The 50 Best Cult Books (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html)
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Compare to this list: The 50 Best Cult Books (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html)
Dianetics by L Ron Hubbard is a "cult" book in more ways than one!
Gawd how I *hated* Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- our very au courant English teacher (junior year of HS) assigned it because he LURVED it, and we ribbed him mercilessly for being such a simple-minded wuss.
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Compare to this list: The 50 Best Cult Books (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html)
Most excellent. I KNEW Zen and the Art of... would make the list.
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Compare to this list: The 50 Best Cult Books (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html)
wow, not quite sure I want to admit how many of these books I've read!
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Compare to this list: The 50 Best Cult Books (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html)
wow, not quite sure I want to admit how many of these books I've read!
A couple of them are on both lists, but overall I've read more cult books than the other even though the other list gives one twice as many opportunities.
I bet I'm the only one here, or most anywhere, to have read both Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Celestine Prophecy as well as both Godel, Escher, Bach and Gravity's Rainbow.
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Compare to this list: The 50 Best Cult Books (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html)
wow, not quite sure I want to admit how many of these books I've read!
Ah, c'mon Geoff, 'fess up. More than 20? More than 30?
I just went thru both lists and compiled the titles I've read. There were a couple I may have read but honestly can't recall (Lolita, for one), so I left those off.
I expected to have read more from the cult list than the top 100, but as with lots of things, I was wrong there, too--13 cult titles compared with 17.5 of the Top 100.
Cult books:
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
Chariots of the Gods
A Confederacy of Dunces
Dune
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Fear of Flying
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
On The Road
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Teachings of Don Juan
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Top 100 Books:
2. 1984
12. Gulliver's Travels
15. The Catcher in the Rye
19. Catch-22
21. The Grapes of Wrath
23. Brave New World
35. Lord of the Rings
36. Winnie the Pooh
39. On the Road
49. Hamlet
54. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
58. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. Animal Farm
63. In Cold Blood
74. Charlotte's Web
79. Portnoy's Complaint
82. Tropic of Cancer (partial)
99. The Color Purple
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Compare to this list: The 50 Best Cult Books (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html)
wow, not quite sure I want to admit how many of these books I've read!
Ah, c'mon Geoff, 'fess up. More than 20? More than 30?
not really that many I guess. I don't consider myself much of a reader of books anymore, and the dozen or so I've read off that list seems like a lot!
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There were a couple I may have read but honestly can't recall (Lolita, for one)
Oh, I think you'd remember if you read Lo. Lee. Tah. ;)
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There were a couple I may have read but honestly can't recall (Lolita, for one)
Oh, I think you'd remember if you read Lo. Lee. Tah. ;)
I was going to say the same thing. 8)
The cult books I've read:
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Bell Jar
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Confederacy of Dunces
Dune
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Labyrinths (Borges is cool)
On the Road
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Siddartha
The Stranger
The Teachings of Don Juan
To Kill a Mockingbird
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (an embarrassing number of times)
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Most of these that I've read have been for school assignments, high school or college:
4. Lolita (Not this one... lol)
8. The Iliad / The Odyssey (Why are these counted as one? The unabridged versions are tedious. They should be separate or just nix the Iliad, that one was painful.)
9. Pride and Prejudice (For a good time, check out Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249065152&sr=8-1))
11. Canterbury Tales (Abridged)
14. Things Fall Apart (In a class called 'Intro to Postcolonial Literature,' one of the worst classes I've taken)
15. The Catcher in the Rye
18. The Great Gatsby
21. The Grapes of Wrath
23. Brave New World
32. Confessions of St. Augustine
35. The Lord of the Rings (My Mom used to read this to me at bedtime, lol)
36. Winnie the Pooh
37. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (I find it interesting how many people that I've known who shrivel up and/or get verbally defensive when someone mentions the word 'religion' loved this movie)
41. The Holy Bible (It was the NJK version though)
49. Hamlet
54. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
61. Animal Farm
62. Lord of the Flies (Yuck)
70. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (I read this for fun but remember absolutely nothing about it)
74. Charlotte's Web
96. The Wind in the Willows
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yet another "worst album covers ever" thingy...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/07/new-show-celebrates-worst-album-covers-ever.html
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yet another "worst album covers ever" thingy...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/07/new-show-celebrates-worst-album-covers-ever.html
They use some strangely mundane examples.
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yet another "worst album covers ever" thingy...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/07/new-show-celebrates-worst-album-covers-ever.html
stupid
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yet another "worst album covers ever" thingy...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/07/new-show-celebrates-worst-album-covers-ever.html
They use some strangely mundane examples.
The show is in Orange County, where Velveeta is considered exotic. Ya gotta consider the source. But yeah, very lame bunch of choices.
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Quite cool: the HuffPo is compiling a list of songs that mention NYC locations in the lyrics:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/the-new-york-music-projec_n_352885.html
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Quite cool: the HuffPo is compiling a list of songs that mention NYC locations in the lyrics:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/the-new-york-music-projec_n_352885.html
I spent *way* too much time on this. Thanks!
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NME readers rate the top 20 guitarists of all time. Agreed with some, but am perplexed at how some others made the list.
http://www.nme.com/rate/greatestguitarists/49
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NME readers rate the top 20 guitarists of all time. Agreed with some, but am perplexed at how some others made the list.
http://www.nme.com/rate/greatestguitarists/49
oh those wacky Brits.
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NME readers rate the top 20 guitarists of all time. Agreed with some, but am perplexed at how some others made the list.
http://www.nme.com/rate/greatestguitarists/49
oh those wacky Brits.
no shit!
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This years' list of Top Party Schools, released today (Woooooooo!):
1. University of Georgia
2. Ohio University, Athens
3. Penn State University
4. West Virginia University
5. University of Mississippi
6. The University of Texas, Austin
7. University of Florida
8. University of California, Santa Barbara
9. University of Iowa
10. DePauw University
11. Florida State University
12. University of Wisconsin, Madison
13. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
14. Sewanee – The University of the South
15. Indiana University, Bloomington
16. University of Colorado, Boulder
17. University of Missouri
18. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
19. University of Maryland, College Park
20. Michigan State University
Source: The Princeton Review, 2011 edition.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-02/university-of-georgia-parties-as-mit-hits-books-in-best-colleges-survey.html
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This years' list of Top Party Schools, released today (Woooooooo!):
1. University of Georgia
2. Ohio University, Athens
3. Penn State University
4. West Virginia University
5. University of Mississippi
6. The University of Texas, Austin
7. University of Florida
8. University of California, Santa Barbara
9. University of Iowa
10. DePauw University
11. Florida State University
12. University of Wisconsin, Madison
13. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
14. Sewanee – The University of the South
15. Indiana University, Bloomington
16. University of Colorado, Boulder
17. University of Missouri
18. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
19. University of Maryland, College Park
20. Michigan State University
Source: The Princeton Review, 2011 edition.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-02/university-of-georgia-parties-as-mit-hits-books-in-best-colleges-survey.html
hmmm... I thought Chico State was always in the top five or so? Maybe the hardest-partying schools were too wasted to fill out the survey..? :)
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Boston's greatest music acts ever (Pixies at #2 - yes!)...
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/packages/topbostonacts/
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Boston's greatest music acts ever (Pixies at #2 - yes!)...
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/packages/topbostonacts/
Love it that Boston (the band) missed the Top Ten. And yay Donna Summer. Of course, I'd rank J.Geils above the freakin' Cars --"Every single song on the Cars' debut album is still in rotation on rock radio" -- er, what?? when was the last time you heard "I'm In Touch With Your World"? (OK, OK -- 8 outta 9 is pretty good)
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From the Chron's weekly "11 things" feature; songs that use rain & thunder effects:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/19/NS3M1ESKIC.DTL
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From the Chron's weekly "11 things" feature; songs that use rain & thunder effects:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/19/NS3M1ESKIC.DTL
nice, but he overlooked "I See the Rain" by Marmalade -- that opens with a nice bit of thunder
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From the Chron's weekly "11 things" feature; songs that use rain & thunder effects:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/19/NS3M1ESKIC.DTL
nice, but he overlooked "I See the Rain" by Marmalade -- that opens with a nice bit of thunder
Funny, my first thought was "Love, Reign O'er Me" by the who -- the thunder and rain always worked for me there, and it's not on the list.
I'm trying to remember if Jimi's "Rainy Day, Dream Away" actually has sound effects (other than the sound of Jimi hitting a j -- "hey, man, it's rainin'..."
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"hey, man, it's rainin'..."
I love that
(http://texasonblues.com/art/art-Images/1.jpg)
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Rolling Stone magazine list of Top 100 Greatest Beatles songs:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/194557
Countdown of the Top Ten: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/28431/194023
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Just read this in Vanity Fair...The Preppy Mix Tape:
1. Rock Lobster - B-52's
2. Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
3. My Girl - The Four Tops
4. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
5. Don't You Want Me Baby - The Human League
6. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
7. Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
8. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
9. Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze
10. Call Me - Blondie
11. Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
12. Rich Girl - Hall & Oates
13. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
14. Jump - Van Halen
15. Borderline - Madonna
16. Smooth Operator - Sade
17. Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer
18. Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
19. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
20. Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
I would add Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club. This would actually make a great Summer playlist.
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Just read this in Vanity Fair...The Preppy Mix Tape:
1. Rock Lobster - B-52's
2. Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
3. My Girl - The Four Tops
4. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
5. Don't You Want Me Baby - The Human League
6. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
7. Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
8. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
9. Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze
10. Call Me - Blondie
11. Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
12. Rich Girl - Hall & Oates
13. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
14. Jump - Van Halen
15. Borderline - Madonna
16. Smooth Operator - Sade
17. Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer
18. Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
19. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
20. Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
I would add Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club. This would actually make a great Summer playlist.
Funny that the three oldest songs on that list are sequential at nos. 2, 3, and 4.
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Pitchfork has named (with great controversy) their list of the Top 100 songs of the 90s. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Pavement, but even I find this list a little ridiculous. Here are songs 20 - 01:
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7853-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-20-01/
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latest batch of RnRHOF possibilities:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/28/entertainment/e073409D81.DTL&tsp=1
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Everybody Hurts by R.E.M. tops poll of songs that make men cry the most...
http://www.nme.com/news/michael-stipe/53245
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Everybody Hurts by R.E.M. tops poll of songs that make men cry the most...
http://www.nme.com/news/michael-stipe/53245
straight men? gay men? Seriously, I love "Hallelujah" (overexposed tho' it is) but I can't imagine it making a guy cry. I'll give 'em "Tears in Heaven", however.
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In today's column, Jon Carroll is looking for songs about teeth/dentistry.
Steely Dan, "Your Gold Teeth"
Wilco, "Summer Teeth"
Death cab for Cutie, "Crooked Teeth"
Steve Martin "Dentist" (from Little Shop of Horrors)
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In today's column, Jon Carroll is looking for songs about teeth/dentistry.
Steely Dan, "Your Gold Teeth"
Wilco, "Summer Teeth"
Death cab for Cutie, "Crooked Teeth"
Steve Martin "Dentist" (from Little Shop of Horrors)
eels - novocaine for the soul
standard: all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
ll cool j - mama said knock you out (used for extractions)
anything by the The Roots
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In today's column, Jon Carroll is looking for songs about teeth/dentistry.
Steely Dan, "Your Gold Teeth"
Wilco, "Summer Teeth"
Death cab for Cutie, "Crooked Teeth"
Steve Martin "Dentist" (from Little Shop of Horrors)
eels - novocaine for the soul
standard: all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
ll cool j - mama said knock you out (used for extractions)
anything by the The Roots
Mike, I saw your comments on SFGate, and came right over. I can't remember my login there, so can't post my favorite dentist song:
Dinah Washington, "Long John Blues". Somewhat risque: "you thrill me, when you drill me."
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Mike, I saw your comments on SFGate, and came right over. I can't remember my login there, so can't post my favorite dentist song:
Dinah Washington, "Long John Blues". Somewhat risque: "you thrill me, when you drill me."
I love that one -- the "dirty blues" lady on KPOO plays it all the time.
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Owl City had a song this year called "Dental Care," with the immortal line "I've been to the dentist a thousand times, so I know the drill."
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In today's column, Jon Carroll is looking for songs about teeth/dentistry.
Steely Dan, "Your Gold Teeth"
Wilco, "Summer Teeth"
Death cab for Cutie, "Crooked Teeth"
Steve Martin "Dentist" (from Little Shop of Horrors)
eels - novocaine for the soul
standard: all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
ll cool j - mama said knock you out (used for extractions)
anything by the The Roots
Mike, I saw your comments on SFGate, and came right over. I can't remember my login there, so can't post my favorite dentist song:
Dinah Washington, "Long John Blues". Somewhat risque: "you thrill me, when you drill me."
Rod, go here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/webreg/user/reset_init
...and enter your email address. You will be sent a login reminder thing.
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In the Rolling Stone playlist issue, artists pick their personal top 10s. Here's a sampling...
Chris Martin: 80s Pop (not a fan of Coldplay, but not a bad list...)
1. Hunting High And Low - A-ha
2. Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
3. A Sort Of Homecoming - U2
4. Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
5. Sally Cinnamon - The Stone Roses
6. Bad - Michael Jackson
7. Mr. Brownstone - Guns n' Roses
8. Back To Life - Soul II Soul
9. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
10. Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen
Yoko Ono: John Lennon
1. Oh My Love
2. Gimme Some Truth
3. Give Peace A Chance
4. God
5. Grow Old With Me
6. Imagine
7. Scared
8. Jealous Guy
9. I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier
10. Mother
Patti Smith: Bob Dylan's Love Songs
1. One Too Many Mornings
2. Boots Of Spanish Leather
3. Ballad In Plain D
4. Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
5. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
6. Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
7. Wedding Song
8. Dark Eyes
9. Like A Rolling Stone (this doesn't really strike me as a love song, but OK Patti)
10. Not Dark Yet
11. Isis
12. Dirge
13. She Belongs To Me
14. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
15. Visions Of Johanna
16. Nettie Moore
Annie Lennox: Women With Soul
1. I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
2. I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - Dusty Springfield
3. Close To You - The Carpenters
4. Do You Know The Way To San Jose - Dionne Warwick
5. Baby Love - The Supremes
6. Dancing In The Streets - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
7. Farewell To Tarwathie - Judy Collins
8. Downtown - Petula Clark
9. Anyone Who Had A Heart - Cilla Black
10. (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
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Slideshow: 15 Most Eco-Friendly Rockers (according to Rolling Stone):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/the-15-most-eco-friendly-rockers-20101216
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A list of best rock Xmas songs from the WashPost. I don't agree with all of it (and I hope I'm never subjected to DCFC's Darlene Love cover) but the guy loves him some "Fairytale of NY":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003008.html
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A list of best rock Xmas songs from the WashPost. I don't agree with all of it (and I hope I'm never subjected to DCFC's Darlene Love cover) but the guy loves him some "Fairytale of NY":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003008.html
yeah, I think people on this board could write a better list... and points off for that headline ("Yes, virginia...") the lead ("It's that magical time of the year...") and for calling Burl Ives a fogey, too!
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A list of best rock Xmas songs from the WashPost. I don't agree with all of it (and I hope I'm never subjected to DCFC's Darlene Love cover) but the guy loves him some "Fairytale of NY":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003008.html
yeah, I think people on this board could write a better list... and points off for that headline ("Yes, virginia...") the lead "(It's that magical time of the year...") and for calling Burl Ives a fogey, too!
And further deduction for crediting "I Believe in Father Christmas" to ELP rather than Greg Lake. (Yes, I know ELP recorded it subsequent to Lake's version, but his is the one you nearly always hear.)
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A list of best rock Xmas songs from the WashPost. I don't agree with all of it (and I hope I'm never subjected to DCFC's Darlene Love cover) but the guy loves him some "Fairytale of NY":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003008.html
yeah, I think people on this board could write a better list... and points off for that headline ("Yes, virginia...") the lead "(It's that magical time of the year...") and for calling Burl Ives a fogey, too!
And further deduction for crediting "I Believe in Father Christmas" to ELP rather than Greg Lake. (Yes, I know ELP recorded it subsequent to Lake's version, but his is the one you nearly always hear.)
Plus, he must be smoking salvia thinking that The Flaming Lips song that came in at #10 is better than Do They Know It's Christmas? I gave it a listen too. No freaking way.
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A list of best rock Xmas songs from the WashPost. I don't agree with all of it (and I hope I'm never subjected to DCFC's Darlene Love cover) but the guy loves him some "Fairytale of NY":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003008.html
yeah, I think people on this board could write a better list... and points off for that headline ("Yes, virginia...") the lead "(It's that magical time of the year...") and for calling Burl Ives a fogey, too!
And further deduction for crediting "I Believe in Father Christmas" to ELP rather than Greg Lake. (Yes, I know ELP recorded it subsequent to Lake's version, but his is the one you nearly always hear.)
you're right. I looked it up and saw they (as a group) had releases w that song on it, but it's Greg Lake's all the way. And I would use s stronger word to describe the feeling of the song than "ennui." Ennui to me means boredom: that song brings up stronger feelings, like disillusion, disappointment, maybe resentment and anger. But he's right to include it on his list.
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Good lord. I found the following list on wikipedia and couldn't stop reading. Not good stuff.
List of youngest birth mothers, ages 5-11! Posted here just because there's a list thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers)
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Good lord. I found the following list on wikipedia and couldn't stop reading. Not good stuff.
List of youngest birth mothers, ages 5-11! Posted here just because there's a list thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers)
My next-door neighbor back in Glassport, PA, gave birth at age 13. Her mother had herself given birth at 13 and change; she was thus a grandmother at 27. I wouldn't be surprised if the cycle has since continued.
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KFOG is aking Fogheads to name their favorite album of 2010 on FB. Aside from the person who named Train (ugh!) the choices all seem to be CDs KFOG hasn't played. LOL!
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KFOG is aking Fogheads to name their favorite album of 2010 on FB. Aside from the person who named Train (ugh!) the choices all seem to be CDs KFOG hasn't played. LOL!
Big Rick played your Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings last night. I've also heard Best Coast (my choice) & The National (Radical's choice) on his show. That being said, he made some dodgy selections for his year-end list. Sheryl Crow? Really?
http://www.kfog.com/Pages/FogheadFavorites2010.aspx
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KFOG is aking Fogheads to name their favorite album of 2010 on FB. Aside from the person who named Train (ugh!) the choices all seem to be CDs KFOG hasn't played. LOL!
Big Rick played your Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings last night. I've also heard Best Coast (my choice) & The National (Radical's choice) on his show. That being said, he made some dodgy selections for his year-end list. Sheryl Crow? Really?
http://www.kfog.com/Pages/FogheadFavorites2010.aspx
local rascal columnist Mark Morford weighs in w his top 10 albums (and top 30 tracks) of 2010.
He picks the National as his favorite release (that's what she sa.. oh, nevermind..)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/12/29/notes122910.DTL
10) Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker
9) Beach House - Teen Dream
8 ) Danzig - Deth Red Saboath
7) OoOoOO (EP)/James Blake - Klavierwerke/CMYK/The Bells Sketch (EPs)
6) Jónsi - Go
5) Spoon - Transference
4) Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
3) How to Dress Well - Love Remains
2) Girl Talk - All Day
1) The National - High Violet
top 30 individual tracks of 2010 (in no particular order)
1. "Everyman and Woman Is a Star" - The Cult
2. "Love Came Here" - Lhasa
3. "Ruby" - Mount Kimbie
4. "Shine On, You Crazy White Cap" - Teen Daze
5. "Love Fade" - Tamaryn
6. "Always Malaise (The Man I Am)" - Interpol
7. "Come Undone" - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
8. "Blue Streak Mama" - Frazey Ford
9. "Isle of Avalon" - Iron Maiden
10. "Burning Hell" - Tom Jones
11. "Palaces Of Montezuma" - Grinderman
12. "Tightrope" - Janelle Monáe
13. "Sycamore Feeling" - Trentemoller
14. "Red Lights" - Holy F-ck
15. "Love Gun" - Cee-Lo Green
16. "Lost in the World" - Kanye West
17. "New York is Killing Me" - Gil Scott Heron
18. "Planetary (Go!)" - My Chemical Romance
19. "VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)" - The XX
20. "The High Road" - Broken Bells
21. "Reason or Rhyme" - Bryan Ferry
22. "Dandelion" - Charlotte Gainsbourg
23. "Die by the Drop" - The Dead Weather
24. "Love Cry" - Four Tet
25. "This Love is Over" - Ray Lamontagne
26. "Garden" - Sean Hayes
27. "Eyesdown" - Bonobo
28. "Broken" - Gorillaz
29. "Atlas Air" - Massive Attack
30. "Tiger" - Maximum Balloon (all praise, Daisy Lowe)
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KFOG is aking Fogheads to name their favorite album of 2010 on FB. Aside from the person who named Train (ugh!) the choices all seem to be CDs KFOG hasn't played. LOL!
Big Rick played your Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings last night. I've also heard Best Coast (my choice) & The National (Radical's choice) on his show. That being said, he made some dodgy selections for his year-end list. Sheryl Crow? Really?
http://www.kfog.com/Pages/FogheadFavorites2010.aspx
Funny, they're gonna be playing those DJ picks on New Year's Day -- including the stuff they've ignored until now? Reminds me of when The White Stripes finished in the Top Ten of the Foghead poll even tho' KFOG had ignored that album completely. They played it a bit after New Years and then quietly stopped.
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The 11 Most Annoying songs of 2010 -- yay! Train made the list (as did the cast of Glee):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/30/NSNS1GUOJ1.DTL
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The 11 Most Annoying songs of 2010 -- yay! Train made the list (as did the cast of Glee):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/30/NSNS1GUOJ1.DTL
I can't believe "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" didn't make the list. That was a mess.
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The 11 Most Annoying songs of 2010 -- yay! Train made the list (as did the cast of Glee):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/30/NSNS1GUOJ1.DTL
I can't believe "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" didn't make the list. That was a mess.
I'm guessing it didn't really get that much airplay (enuf to be uber-annoying). I don't think I ever heard it outside of news stories about it.
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The 11 Most Annoying songs of 2010 -- yay! Train made the list (as did the cast of Glee):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/30/NSNS1GUOJ1.DTL
I can't believe "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" didn't make the list. That was a mess.
I'm guessing it didn't really get that much airplay (enuf to be uber-annoying). I don't think I ever heard it outside of news stories about it.
I feel relieved I can't name some of these acts/songs.
Since so many people hate it, I must now call Hey, Soul Sister a guilty pleasure. :-\
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Since so many people hate it, I must now call Hey, Soul Sister a guilty pleasure. :-\
I can understand it becoming a hit. But after 14 months (!) you'd think even people who liked it would be sick of it by now, yet every Top 40, A/C and Triple-A station in America is still playing it 5 or 6 times a day. Jeezus.
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Since so many people hate it, I must now call Hey, Soul Sister a guilty pleasure. :-\
I can understand it becoming a hit. But after 14 months (!) you'd think even people who liked it would be sick of it by now, yet every Top 40, A/C and Triple-A station in America is still playing it 5 or 6 times a day. Jeezus.
yes, I can understand it. Still don't mind it when I hear it.
And thank heavens I don't listen to every Top 40, A/C and Triple-A station in America!
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Someone should start a guilty pleasures thread here (if there isn't already one)...
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KPOO's "Autumn King" is now on Facebook, posting cool stuff like this 1967 radio station survey:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=1557447628#!/photo.php?fbid=156986271015714&set=a.151927611521580.27418.151923044855370
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We've discussed Funeral Songs here in the past, so I'll link to Hartlaub's discussion of same in The Poop on SFGate.... but some of the suggestions in the comments are just frightening. Dude -- you actually want to subject your friends and relatives to "Kayleigh" by Marilllion??
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=81791
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The White Stripes announce break-up. Ten other bands who should break-up (according to this):
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/02/10_bands_who_should_break_up.php
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The White Stripes announce break-up. Ten other bands who should break-up (according to this):
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/02/10_bands_who_should_break_up.php
hilariously and painfully true on all counts.
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The White Stripes announce break-up. Ten other bands who should break-up (according to this):
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/02/10_bands_who_should_break_up.php
good one, WB. We have it on sfgate's home page now.
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KPOO's "Autumn King" is now on Facebook, posting cool stuff like this 1967 radio station survey:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=1557447628#!/photo.php?fbid=156986271015714&set=a.151927611521580.27418.151923044855370
also courtesy of the Autumn King, this website that archives radio station surveys:
http://www.las-solanas.com/arsa/index.php
If this has been posted here before, sorry for the duplication. A site to get lost at, for sure.
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50 Best L.A. bands...
N.W.A.? Heck yeah, one of them!
Metallica...hmm. I thought the Bay Area claimed that one.
http://www.latimesmagazine.com/2011/06/50-best-la-bands.html
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50 Best L.A. bands...
N.W.A.? Heck yeah, one of them!
Metallica...hmm. I thought the Bay Area claimed that one.
meanwhile read the dunderheads in the comments calling the Dead and CCR Los Angeles bands. (!) Nice to see X and Sparks in there. Linkin Park... ugh.
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50 Best L.A. bands...
N.W.A.? Heck yeah, one of them!
Metallica...hmm. I thought the Bay Area claimed that one.
meanwhile read the dunderheads in the comments calling the Dead and CCR Los Angeles bands. (!) Nice to see X and Sparks in there. Linkin Park... ugh.
...and Toto. Double ugh.
Nice to see The Bangles & Go-Go's made the list. Mazzy Star should've too.
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50 Best L.A. bands...
N.W.A.? Heck yeah, one of them!
Metallica...hmm. I thought the Bay Area claimed that one.
meanwhile read the dunderheads in the comments calling the Dead and CCR Los Angeles bands. (!) Nice to see X and Sparks in there. Linkin Park... ugh.
...and Toto. Double ugh.
Nice to see The Bangles & Go-Go's made the list. Mazzy Star should've too.
I know, Toto... hehehe
I see that Los Lobos are #5!
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50 Best L.A. bands...
N.W.A.? Heck yeah, one of them!
Metallica...hmm. I thought the Bay Area claimed that one.
meanwhile read the dunderheads in the comments calling the Dead and CCR Los Angeles bands. (!) Nice to see X and Sparks in there. Linkin Park... ugh.
...and Toto. Double ugh.
Nice to see The Bangles & Go-Go's made the list. Mazzy Star should've too.
I know, Toto... hehehe
Maroon 5 was another WTF.
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so, were the numbers in order? Putting Love so low in the list was unforgivable, if the numbers mean anything.
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so, were the numbers in order? Putting Love so low in the list was unforgivable, if the numbers mean anything.
You can cast your vote. The results so far show Love in the middle...behind The Bangles, but ahead of The Eagles. The Mothers Of Invention by a country mile...
Did you click on the photos? Great clips of each band, too. :)
See the progress here:
http://latm.thommeredith.com/polls/statistics_user_dev.php?sid=26622
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so, were the numbers in order? Putting Love so low in the list was unforgivable, if the numbers mean anything.
You can cast your vote. The results so far show Love in the middle...behind The Bangles, but ahead of The Eagles. The Mothers Of Invention by a country mile...
Did you click on the photos? Great clips of each band, too. :)
See the progress here:
http://latm.thommeredith.com/polls/statistics_user_dev.php?sid=26622
Well, it's better that they're not 45 out of 50, but pretty low. At least the Mothers are #1. I smell some coordinated voting!
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so, were the numbers in order? Putting Love so low in the list was unforgivable, if the numbers mean anything.
You can cast your vote. The results so far show Love in the middle...behind The Bangles, but ahead of The Eagles. The Mothers Of Invention by a country mile...
Did you click on the photos? Great clips of each band, too. :)
See the progress here:
http://latm.thommeredith.com/polls/statistics_user_dev.php?sid=26622
Tool, way too low. But above Neil Young and Crazy Horse? I don't think so. And what make them an LA band? What we call 'throwin' shit over the wall' at my office.
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50 Best L.A. bands...
N.W.A.? Heck yeah, one of them!
Metallica...hmm. I thought the Bay Area claimed that one.
meanwhile read the dunderheads in the comments calling the Dead and CCR Los Angeles bands. (!) Nice to see X and Sparks in there. Linkin Park... ugh.
...and Toto. Double ugh.
Nice to see The Bangles & Go-Go's made the list. Mazzy Star should've too.
I know, Toto... hehehe
I see that Los Lobos are #5!
I have no problem with Los Lobos coming in high in the rankings. See them live sometime (you probably have, but still) -- they rock big time, and are their own band.
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50 Best L.A. bands...
N.W.A.? Heck yeah, one of them!
Metallica...hmm. I thought the Bay Area claimed that one.
meanwhile read the dunderheads in the comments calling the Dead and CCR Los Angeles bands. (!) Nice to see X and Sparks in there. Linkin Park... ugh.
...and Toto. Double ugh.
Nice to see The Bangles & Go-Go's made the list. Mazzy Star should've too.
I know, Toto... hehehe
I see that Los Lobos are #5!
I have no problem with Los Lobos coming in high in the rankings. See them live sometime (you probably have, but still) -- they rock big time, and are their own band.
Yes, I like them, too. I've seen them many times, the first being in 1983 in Wash, DC. I have no problem w them being at number five either; actually I was pleased to see it. Not too many bands in that LA list can speak to the Chicano AND white boy populations like they can.
And The Doors being number one? no problem with that either.
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50 Best L.A. bands...
N.W.A.? Heck yeah, one of them!
Metallica...hmm. I thought the Bay Area claimed that one.
meanwhile read the dunderheads in the comments calling the Dead and CCR Los Angeles bands. (!) Nice to see X and Sparks in there. Linkin Park... ugh.
...and Toto. Double ugh.
Nice to see The Bangles & Go-Go's made the list. Mazzy Star should've too.
I know, Toto... hehehe
I see that Los Lobos are #5!
I have no problem with Los Lobos coming in high in the rankings. See them live sometime (you probably have, but still) -- they rock big time, and are their own band.
Yes, I like them, too. I've seen them many times, the first being in 1983 in Wash, DC. I have no problem w them being at number five either; actually I was pleased to see it. Not too many bands in that LA list can speak to the Chicano AND white boy populations like they can.
And The Doors being number one? no problem with that either.
The standings aren't by the order in the photo gallery. You can see the view the current stats here:
http://latm.thommeredith.com/polls/statistics_user_dev.php?sid=26622
Doors at #11, Los Lobos at #13, Linkin Park at...#4???
I voted for X. It wasn't an easy decision, lemme tells ya!
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Here are the current standings (possibly results) of the Top 50 L.A. bands thing, if anyone still gives a hoot.
http://latm.thommeredith.com/polls/statistics_user_dev.php?sid=26622
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New York magazine's summer playlist brought to you by...Girl Talk (whoever the hell that is):
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/06/tk_3.html
Not bad, but Danger Mouse's playlist from last year was mucho better, IMO:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/06/danger_mouses_endless_summer_p.html
** I just realized it's my one year anniversary on this board! Yay!
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** I just realized it's my one year anniversary on this board! Yay!
Happy Board-Day to yooooooouuuu... ;)
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** I just realized it's my one year anniversary on this board! Yay!
Happy Board-Day to yooooooouuuu... ;)
And nearly 1200 posts in that year--quite a respectable contribution! (Of course, then there's RGM, who had that many in his first week... ;) )
Safe to say you like it here! And you share the general OCD tendencies and snarkiness of us locals--always a good thing.
So how did you come across this little kaffeeklatsch anyway?
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** I just realized it's my one year anniversary on this board! Yay!
Happy Board-Day to yooooooouuuu... ;)
And nearly 1200 posts in that year--quite a respectable contribution! (Of course, then there's RGM, who had that many in his first week... ;) )
Safe to say you like it here! And you share the general OCD tendencies and snarkiness of us locals--always a good thing.
So how did you come across this little kaffeeklatsch anyway?
Thanks! Time flies, especially when it's being sucked away. :)
I think someone from this board posted a link about it on AL's FB page or something. I'm surprised more FBers didn't sign up...or were they denied? I wouldn't be surprised! Heh.
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** I just realized it's my one year anniversary on this board! Yay!
Happy Board-Day to yooooooouuuu... ;)
And nearly 1200 posts in that year--quite a respectable contribution! (Of course, then there's RGM, who had that many in his first week... ;) )
Safe to say you like it here! And you share the general OCD tendencies and snarkiness of us locals--always a good thing.
So how did you come across this little kaffeeklatsch anyway?
Thanks! Time flies, especially when it's being sucked away. :)
I think someone from this board posted a link about it on AL's FB page or something. I'm surprised more FBers didn't sign up...or were they denied? I wouldn't be surprised! Heh.
The reality is that I've had to turn off the signups due to excessive spambots. If there's someone you know that would enjoy our special brand of eccentricity, we can open the door manually. Happy anniversary!
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** I just realized it's my one year anniversary on this board! Yay!
Happy Board-Day to yooooooouuuu... ;)
It's been a delight getting to know you!
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This should make for interesting discussion, the top one-hit wonders of last 25 years (1985-2010):
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/74387/chart-watch-extra-one-hit-wonders
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This should make for interesting discussion, the top one-hit wonders of last 25 years (1985-2010):
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/74387/chart-watch-extra-one-hit-wonders
I appreciate the accuracy w/r/t the charts, but I don't see why they needed to include everyone's age; it seemed clumsy.
But I learned that the OMC guy died! How bizarre.
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Cover songs that are better than the original version...
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/music-news/list-hub/covers-that-beat-the-originals/
What I've actually heard, I agree with - especially St. Etienne's cover of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart". That's some good shiznit, right there.
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Cover songs that are better than the original version...
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/music-news/list-hub/covers-that-beat-the-originals/
What I've actually heard, I agree with - especially St. Etienne's cover of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart". That's some good shiznit, right there.
I love Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude", but his cover of "Sugar Sugar" is even better. Bobby Womack's "Sweet Caroline" would be on my short list too.
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Cover songs that are better than the original version...
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/music-news/list-hub/covers-that-beat-the-originals/
What I've actually heard, I agree with - especially St. Etienne's cover of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart". That's some good shiznit, right there.
Well, I don't know how intentionally snarky the writer is here:
I bet you didn’t know this great hippie anthem was actually a blistering Civil Rights-era “freedom song,” did you? Well, all it takes is one listen to hear the truth. In the Staples’ hands, the psychedelic California folk-rock number is transformed into Delta-deep gospel soul from Chicago. There’s no denying the slow, heavy and sepulchral cover is better than the Buffalo Springfield original
I have this recording, and it is great. Our band plays this version in church. But the song was originally written about the teenage riots on Sunset Strip, not the Civil Rights struggle.
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a discussion on my fave movie blog about "worst rhyming lyrics". Sting comes in for some serious hatin'
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/08/penalty.php
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a discussion on my fave movie blog about "worst rhyming lyrics". Sting comes in for some serious hatin'
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/08/penalty.php
The worst to me is R Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly". Makes me want to tear my eyeballs out everytime. The only people who should find these lyrics inspirational shouldn't be over 5 years old.
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Peter Hartlaub on the worst-ever covers of "Me & Bobby McGee" -- hilarious. Esp love his slam of Tori Amos.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=92895
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Peter Hartlaub on the worst-ever covers of "Me & Bobby McGee" -- hilarious. Esp love his slam of Tori Amos.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=92895
For what it's worth, Janis and the Dead's version have somewhat a life all their own. I did this interview with Weir back in 2004 for the premier of Festival Express: http://www.gdforum.com/reviews/FestivalExpress.html
During the part with Bobby he talks about an early morning session on the train with Janis (about 1:30 into the interview) on how he came up with the ending Janis and the Dead use.
http://www.gdforum.com/reviews/FE_BW_interview.mp3
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Rolling Stone readers choose worst cover versions EVAH:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/rolling-stone-readers-choose-the-worst-cover-songs-of-all-time-20110818?link=mostpopular2
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Rolling Stone readers choose worst cover versions EVAH:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/rolling-stone-readers-choose-the-worst-cover-songs-of-all-time-20110818?link=mostpopular2
Hmm...this just looks like a random sampling of covers by extremely popular pop and/or novelty artists of the past decade or so, except for #10. The only one I really agree with is Jessica Simpson, but then again just about everything else by her has sucked. Maybe Britney's "Satisfaction" also & I haven't heard #1. Avril's cover of System of a Down's "Chop Suey" was much worse, although I don't think there was a studio version of it.
"Behind Blue Eyes" was as good as Limp Bizkit gets and a perfect "culminating experience" for them. Sheryl Crow's version of "Sweet Child O Mine" is not a bad song. I thought Madonna's version of "American Pie" was way better than the original, partly for one of the reasons that the Rolling Stones poll hates it (it cuts out half the song. I consider that a good thing as I think the original drones on for way too long.)
My vote for worst cover ever would have to be Holly Cole - "I Can See Clearly Now."
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Another Rolling Stone readers poll...worst songs of the 90s. For me, #8 is the worst. However, #5 is one of the best. Go figure.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/readers-poll-the-worst-songs-of-the-nineties-20110831
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Another Rolling Stone readers poll...worst songs of the 90s. For me, #8 is the worst. However, #5 is one of the best. Go figure.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/readers-poll-the-worst-songs-of-the-nineties-20110831
yeah I seriously disagree with them about "Tubthumping" and "MMMBop" -- the former is brilliant, the latter one of the great pure-pop singles of the last 25 years. And I'd also make a case for "Achy Breaky Heart"; the song is quite a clever bit of country-pop songwriting; it was Cyrus' white-boy dance (non-)moves that ruined everything.
This may be the pot calling the kettle, but they're confusing "bad" with "overexposed" in a few cases here.
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I'll agree with "My Heart Will Go On", and I could be persuaded to hate "Ice Ice Baby" enough to be in my bottom ten of the decade.
Apart from that, eight other songs from the 90's that royally suck. I restrained myself from including 2000's "With Arms Wide Open":
"I Will Always Love You" (Whitney) - sorry, I just could never stand this
"I'll Be" (Edwin McCain) - unbearable pap
"Butterfly Kisses" (Bob Carlisle) - gag me with a spoon
"Back 2 Good" (matchbox twenty) - dry and passionless, even by their standards.
"Let Her Cry" (Hootie & The Blowfish) - ibid
"American Woman" (Lenny Kravitz) - wrong person to remake this
"I'll Be Missing You" (Puff Daddy and others) - the dead homie sample, one of my least favorite genres
"Big, Big World" (Emilia)
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This may be the pot calling the kettle, but they're confusing "bad" with "overexposed" in a few cases here.
;) :D ;D
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
"Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" is my #1. After that, it gets harder.
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
I was made to love her
Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
Living for the Citaaay, definitely!
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Was discussing the Stevie thing with the cow orker who posed the question. And "Isn't She Lovely" came up, and I remembered that -- because Motown bizarrely refused to put it out as a 45 -- this British guy did a cover and had a #4 UK hit. I dunno why I assumed he was black but damn he's, like, the Whitest. Guy. EVAH. And dig the cheezy '70s moustache and suit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtnuWVhzN8
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
Impossible doesn't begin to encompass the futility of narrowing his catalog down to three songs. I'd suggest dividing his career into two parts: the 60s up until '71's Where I'm Coming From, and a second part comprising everything after, but most importantly the five albums released between '72 and '76: Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life.
Given those parameters, these would be my picks:
60s: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; My Cherie Amour; If You Really Love Me
70s and later: Superstition; Too High; Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away
And I could easily pick half a dozen more from each period.
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
Impossible doesn't begin to encompass the futility of narrowing his catalog down to three songs. I'd suggest dividing his career into two parts: the 60s up until '71's Where I'm Coming From, and a second part comprising everything after, but most importantly the five albums released between '72 and '76: Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life.
Given those parameters, these would be my picks:
60s: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; My Cherie Amour; If You Really Love Me
70s and later: Superstition; Too High; Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away
And I could easily pick half a dozen more from each period.
good choices, all. But another question was: should I limit myself to songs he actually wrote himself? (that would eliminate much of the '60s)
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
Impossible doesn't begin to encompass the futility of narrowing his catalog down to three songs. I'd suggest dividing his career into two parts: the 60s up until '71's Where I'm Coming From, and a second part comprising everything after, but most importantly the five albums released between '72 and '76: Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life.
Given those parameters, these would be my picks:
60s: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; My Cherie Amour; If You Really Love Me
70s and later: Superstition; Too High; Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away
And I could easily pick half a dozen more from each period.
good choices, all. But another question was: should I limit myself to songs he actually wrote himself? (that would eliminate much of the '60s)
Do you think that was the intent of the person who posed the question, i.e. composition and performance vs. performance alone? (Sounds like the criteria for some Grammy categories.) Personally I would include all, as he did have cowriting credit on some of his 60s hits.
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
Impossible doesn't begin to encompass the futility of narrowing his catalog down to three songs. I'd suggest dividing his career into two parts: the 60s up until '71's Where I'm Coming From, and a second part comprising everything after, but most importantly the five albums released between '72 and '76: Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life.
Given those parameters, these would be my picks:
60s: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; My Cherie Amour; If You Really Love Me
70s and later: Superstition; Too High; Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away
And I could easily pick half a dozen more from each period.
good choices, all. But another question was: should I limit myself to songs he actually wrote himself? (that would eliminate much of the '60s)
Do you think that was the intent of the person who posed the question, i.e. composition and performance vs. performance alone? (Sounds like the criteria for some Grammy categories.) Personally I would include all, as he did have cowriting credit on some of his 60s hits.
she has clarified that yes, she's talking songs he wrote or co-wrote. Which means "Until You Come back To me" is instantly in my top 3... but excludes "Heaven Help us All", one of my favorite singles of his, written by Ron Miller who co-wrote "Place in the Sun", "For Once In My Life", "Yester-Me..." "Someday at Xmas", Diana's "Touch Me in the Morning" and (unfortunaltely) "I've Never Been to Me", for which drag queens are eternally grateful.
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well, I couldn't come up with less than 8...
Until You Come back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) [Aretha had the hit but Stevie (co-)wrote it]
My Cherie Amour
Please Don't Go
Golden Lady
Love's in Need of Love Today
Lately
I Believe When I fall in Love (It Will Be Forever)
Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
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Another Rolling Stone readers poll...worst songs of the 90s. For me, #8 is the worst. However, #5 is one of the best. Go figure.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/readers-poll-the-worst-songs-of-the-nineties-20110831
I highly disagree with #1 & moderately disagree with most oft the others, which are are somewhat clever novelty songs and/or of average badness, meaning they have no place on a "worst songs of the 90s" list. I mean, I'm not a fan of the Celion Dion song, but Top 10 worst? Really? The only one I really agree with, too, is Who Let the Dogs Out.
I would have included a few songs by Hootie & the Blowfish & RHCP's "Scar Tissue."
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I would have included a few songs by Hootie & the Blowfish & RHCP's "Scar Tissue."
LOL and thank you -- RHCP have been recycling themselves for what seems like an awfully long time. Every new song is like their 5 previous hits thrown into a blender. And not even in an interesting way.
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a cow orker has asked me to name my 3 favorite Stevie Wonder songs evah. Talk about an impossible task! anyone here, feel free to chime in.
Impossible doesn't begin to encompass the futility of narrowing his catalog down to three songs. I'd suggest dividing his career into two parts: the 60s up until '71's Where I'm Coming From, and a second part comprising everything after, but most importantly the five albums released between '72 and '76: Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life.
Given those parameters, these would be my picks:
60s: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; My Cherie Amour; If You Really Love Me
70s and later: Superstition; Too High; Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away
And I could easily pick half a dozen more from each period.
good choices, all. But another question was: should I limit myself to songs he actually wrote himself? (that would eliminate much of the '60s)
Do you think that was the intent of the person who posed the question, i.e. composition and performance vs. performance alone? (Sounds like the criteria for some Grammy categories.) Personally I would include all, as he did have cowriting credit on some of his 60s hits.
she has clarified that yes, she's talking songs he wrote or co-wrote. Which means "Until You Come back To me" is instantly in my top 3... but excludes "Heaven Help us All", one of my favorite singles of his, written by Ron Miller who co-wrote "Place in the Sun", "For Once In My Life", "Yester-Me..." "Someday at Xmas", Diana's "Touch Me in the Morning" and (unfortunaltely) "I've Never Been to Me", for which drag queens are eternally grateful.
Wow, I never knew that he had a hand in "Until You Come Back to Me." Just looked it up, and it appears that while he did record it, his version was released only on a couple of compilations, not on an album of new releases. Great song, in any case. I'm going to have to try to find his version now.
I checked the songwriting credits for the six I chose, and all qualify, as he had cowriting credit on all of the first three as well as Higher Ground, and wrote the other two in their entirety.
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Wow, I never knew that he had a hand in "Until You Come Back to Me." Just looked it up, and it appears that while he did record it, his version was released only on a couple of compilations, not on an album of new releases. Great song, in any case. I'm going to have to try to find his version now.
I had never heard his version of that one until I moved to SF -- the late lamented KDIA used to play it regularly and I was (yes) gobsmacked the first time I heard it. I believe it first showed up on "Looking Back", the 3-vinyl-disc anthol that Motown put out with the purple cover. Was always sorry I didn't buy that.
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Can you help me fill in the year? Working on a wish list
Pretty Things SF Sorrow 196???
Traffic Means to an End
Joni Ladies of the Canyon
Badger Fountain 1973
Nils Lofgren Dirty Money
Elvic Costello Watching the Detectives
Neil Young Old Man
Joe Cocker High Time we Went
Santana I Aint Superstitious
Deep Purple Somebody Stole my Guitar
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Can you help me fill in the year? Working on a wish list
Pretty Things SF Sorrow 196???
Traffic Means to an End
Joni Ladies of the Canyon 1970
Badger Fountain 1973
Nils Lofgren Dirty Money
Elvic Costello Watching the Detectives 1977
Neil Young Old Man 1972
Joe Cocker High Time we Went 1971
Santana I Aint Superstitious
Deep Purple Somebody Stole my Guitar
the ones I don't know are deep LP cuts -- good luck getting AL to play any of those ;)
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Can you help me fill in the year? Working on a wish list
Pretty Things SF Sorrow 196???
Traffic Means to an End
Joni Ladies of the Canyon 1970
Badger Fountain 1973
Nils Lofgren Dirty Money
Elvic Costello Watching the Detectives 1977
Neil Young Old Man 1972
Joe Cocker High Time we Went 1971
Santana I Aint Superstitious
Deep Purple Somebody Stole my Guitar
the ones I don't know are deep LP cuts -- good luck getting AL to play any of those ;)
Quick internet investigations say:
Somebody Stole my Guitar 1996
Dirty Money 1981
ETA: What kind of moron leaves his guitar sitting in the back seat of his car? Of course somebody stole it! Y & S!
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Can you help me fill in the year? Working on a wish list
Pretty Things SF Sorrow 196???
Traffic Means to an End
Joni Ladies of the Canyon 1970
Badger Fountain 1973
Nils Lofgren Dirty Money
Elvic Costello Watching the Detectives 1977
Neil Young Old Man 1972
Joe Cocker High Time we Went 1971
Santana I Aint Superstitious
Deep Purple Somebody Stole my Guitar
the ones I don't know are deep LP cuts -- good luck getting AL to play any of those ;)
Quick internet investigations say:
Somebody Stole my Guitar 1996
Dirty Money 1981
ETA: What kind of moron leaves his guitar sitting in the back seat of his car? Of course somebody stole it! Y & S!
yeah, Ritchie Blackmore is supposed to be kind of a dick. If it really happened to him, well, that sucks, but maybe it's karma?
how does that song go? Nobody gonna take my car... but they might just take my axe? :P
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Can you help me fill in the year? Working on a wish list
Pretty Things SF Sorrow 196???
Traffic Means to an End
Joni Ladies of the Canyon 1970
Badger Fountain 1973
Nils Lofgren Dirty Money
Elvic Costello Watching the Detectives 1977
Neil Young Old Man 1972
Joe Cocker High Time we Went 1971
Santana I Aint Superstitious
Deep Purple Somebody Stole my Guitar
the ones I don't know are deep LP cuts -- good luck getting AL to play any of those ;)
Quick internet investigations say:
Somebody Stole my Guitar 1996
Dirty Money 1981
ETA: What kind of moron leaves his guitar sitting in the back seat of his car? Of course somebody stole it! Y & S!
yeah, Ritchie Blackmore is supposed to be kind of a dick. If it really happened to him, well, that sucks, but maybe it's karma?
how does that song go? Nobody gonna take my car... but they might just take my axe? :P
I youtubed it after researching -- NTM before this. Not quite to the same level of awesome-ness that is "Highway Star", but would def improve most '96 sets for me.
ETA: According to wiki, 'twasn't Ritchie's guitar -- Steve Morse edition.
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ETA: According to wiki, 'twasn't Ritchie's guitar -- Steve Morse edition.
haven't had the chance to see that edition of DP. or any edition, for that matter. They've had quite the list of personnel in the band through the years:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/1a9862f6946b1ce39392e0741b3dd4f4.png)
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another "best cover versions ever" list. Attention sundaygal, Joan J's "Crimson & Clover" makes the cut.
http://popdose.com/the-popdose-100-the-greatest-cover-songs-of-all-time/
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another "best cover versions ever" list. Attention sundaygal, Joan J's "Crimson & Clover" makes the cut.
http://popdose.com/the-popdose-100-the-greatest-cover-songs-of-all-time/
Thanks for sharing this - half of these songs I had no idea were covers (and I can start with the bookends).
Add Johnny Cash's "Hurt" to the list of 2003 songs that would be welcome in 10@10.
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another "best cover versions ever" list. Attention sundaygal, Joan J's "Crimson & Clover" makes the cut.
http://popdose.com/the-popdose-100-the-greatest-cover-songs-of-all-time/
Of course it does. ;)
No love for X's "Wild Thing", "Breathless" or Blondie's "Denis"? What!
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another "best cover versions ever" list. Attention sundaygal, Joan J's "Crimson & Clover" makes the cut.
http://popdose.com/the-popdose-100-the-greatest-cover-songs-of-all-time/
Thanks for sharing this - half of these songs I had no idea were covers (and I can start with the bookends).
I didn't know the "Alone" story either -- I always assume all those crappy Heart ballads are Diane Warren compos. But "Respect"? Dude, the fact it's an Otis tune is one of the least-obscure pop factoids, like, ever.
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another "best cover versions ever" list. Attention sundaygal, Joan J's "Crimson & Clover" makes the cut.
http://popdose.com/the-popdose-100-the-greatest-cover-songs-of-all-time/
Thanks for sharing this - half of these songs I had no idea were covers (and I can start with the bookends).
I didn't know the "Alone" story either -- I always assume all those crappy Heart ballads are Diane Warren compos. But "Respect"? Dude, the fact it's an Otis tune is one of the least-obscure pop factoids, like, ever.
Nice analogy here:
20. “Der Kommissar” – After the Fire. Originally performed by Falco
When you’re covering foreign-language pop, you can approach the job in one of two ways. You can be a translator, more-or-less replicating the original track with English vocals, maybe even using the original backing tracks, as if you were putting subtitles on Yojimbo. After the Fire choose instead to make A Fistful of Dollars, using Falco’s skeletal original as a scaffold on which to hang Duran Duran-style sequencers, angular shards of guitar, a clappy folk breakdown, winningly-goofy white rapping and a monstrous gang chorus. Cool formalist black-and-white period piece, blown out into gloriously nutso Cinerama Technicolor epic. Alles klar? — Jack Feerick
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Maybe it's just me but this list of the 14 "strangest pro athlete names" really seems to be bending over backward to be, um, racially balanced.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2011/09/16/strange_athlete_names.DTL&object=
I mean, D'Brickashaw is a strange name but Plexico (among dozens I could give as examples) isn't?
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Maybe it's just me but this list of the 14 "strangest pro athlete names" really seems to be bending over backward to be, um, racially balanced.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2011/09/16/strange_athlete_names.DTL&object=
I mean, D'Brickashaw is a strange name but Plexico (among dozens I could give as examples) isn't?
Artest has nothing on World B. Free. Probably better inside, but World B. had the jumper. And the better name.
And you are right Mike, Plexiglass should be on the list too.
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Maybe it's just me but this list of the 14 "strangest pro athlete names" really seems to be bending over backward to be, um, racially balanced.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2011/09/16/strange_athlete_names.DTL&object=
I mean, D'Brickashaw is a strange name but Plexico (among dozens I could give as examples) isn't?
Artest has nothing on World B. Free. Probably better inside, but World B. had the jumper. And the better name.
And you are right Mike, Plexiglass should be on the list too.
and how did they miss Coco Crisp? WTF??
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Starship's "We Built This City" voted worst song of the 80s. RG would agree on #9. For me, it's a toss-up between #3 & #7.
http://www.nme.com/news/nme/59655
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Starship's "We Built This City" voted worst song of the 80s. RG would agree on #9. For me, it's a toss-up between #3 & #7.
http://www.nme.com/news/nme/59655
*sigh* -- it's ALWAYS being voted worst song -- and again I say, virtually every other '80s single of theirs is infinitely worse. Yeah Taco is horrid, but most of those are more cheezeball than hellish. And I (heart) Rick Astley.
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Starship's "We Built This City" voted worst song of the 80s. RG would agree on #9. For me, it's a toss-up between #3 & #7.
http://www.nme.com/news/nme/59655
*sigh* -- it's ALWAYS being voted worst song -- and again I say, virtually every other '80s single of theirs is infinitely worse. Yeah Taco is horrid, but most of those are more cheezeball than hellish. And I (heart) Rick Astley.
Oh yes..."Sara" is waaay worse, I agree. That Mannequin song, too.
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Starship's "We Built This City" voted worst song of the 80s. RG would agree on #9. For me, it's a toss-up between #3 & #7.
http://www.nme.com/news/nme/59655
*sigh* -- it's ALWAYS being voted worst song -- and again I say, virtually every other '80s single of theirs is infinitely worse. Yeah Taco is horrid, but most of those are more cheezeball than hellish. And I (heart) Rick Astley.
Oh yes..."Sara" is waaay worse, I agree. That Mannequin song, too.
I wonder where all the extra hatred comes from for these Starship songs. Yes, compared to the best of the Airplane/Starship, these tunes are lightweight, but there are tons of worse songs out there. Is it the anti-hippie thing? You know, "you used to be such a counter-cultural icon, and now you've sold out!" etc.
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Starship's "We Built This City" voted worst song of the 80s. RG would agree on #9. For me, it's a toss-up between #3 & #7.
http://www.nme.com/news/nme/59655
*sigh* -- it's ALWAYS being voted worst song -- and again I say, virtually every other '80s single of theirs is infinitely worse. Yeah Taco is horrid, but most of those are more cheezeball than hellish. And I (heart) Rick Astley.
Oh yes..."Sara" is waaay worse, I agree. That Mannequin song, too.
I wonder where all the extra hatred comes from for these Starship songs. Yes, compared to the best of the Airplane/Starship, these tunes are lightweight, but there are tons of worse songs out there. Is it the anti-hippie thing? You know, "you used to be such a counter-cultural icon, and now you've sold out!" etc.
"If the world runs out of lovers, we still have each other. Nothing can stop us now." BTW, Diane Warren wrote that inspirational ditty. Not an anti-hippie thing at all. Just a crappy song thing! :)
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Here's a list of 10 of Rock's most underrated lyricists: (Yay, Harriet! Paging TC...)
http://flavorwire.com/216646/10-of-rock-n-rolls-most-underrated-lyricists
Not on the list, but I really love the Trashcan Sinatras (early 90s Scottish band) use of word play:
"Oh, I love your poetry, but I hate your poems." (Obscurity Knocks) and "The chocolate's watching, the cuckoos are clocking me" (Hayfever)
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Here's a list of 10 of Rock's most underrated lyricists: (Yay, Harriet! Paging TC...)
http://flavorwire.com/216646/10-of-rock-n-rolls-most-underrated-lyricists
Not on the list, but I really love the Trashcan Sinatras (early 90s Scottish band) use of word play:
"Oh, I love your poetry, but I hate your poems." (Obscurity Knocks) and "The chocolate's watching, the cuckoos are clocking me" (Hayfever)
cool, thanks. The Sundays... Her voice, those words and that jangly dream pop really get me. My Finest Hour is a fave. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q0uWAUbzi8
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NME just blogged about musical "blindspots" - classic albums you've never listened to. I must admit, being born in the 70s, I grew up on best-of compilations from a lot of the classic artists. Though I've listened to most of the Beatles, Stones, Dylan and VU albums in their entireties - I haven't heard any of the Hendrix or Joplin albums in full. Or The Clash's Sandinista. For shame, I know.
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&title=musical_blindspots_which_classic_albums_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
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NME just blogged about musical "blindspots" - classic albums you've never listened to. I must admit, being born in the 70s, I grew up on best-of compilations from a lot of the classic artists. Though I've listened to most of the Beatles, Stones, Dylan and VU albums in their entireties - I haven't heard any of the Hendrix or Joplin albums in full. Or The Clash's Sandinista. For shame, I know.
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&title=musical_blindspots_which_classic_albums_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
wow quite a lot of Stone Roses dissing there (including the comment section). Surprised your head didn't explode!
Sandinista! is def worth a listen, some great stuff there (even the, er, excesses) and then you can whittle it down to a single disc of yoir faves.
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NME just blogged about musical "blindspots" - classic albums you've never listened to. I must admit, being born in the 70s, I grew up on best-of compilations from a lot of the classic artists. Though I've listened to most of the Beatles, Stones, Dylan and VU albums in their entireties - I haven't heard any of the Hendrix or Joplin albums in full. Or The Clash's Sandinista. For shame, I know.
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&title=musical_blindspots_which_classic_albums_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
wow quite a lot of Stone Roses dissing there (including the comment section). Surprised your head didn't explode!
Sandinista! is def worth a listen, some great stuff there (even the, er, excesses) and then you can whittle it down to a single disc of yoir faves.
Eh, there are always haters - especially Dylan ones. ::)
Oh, and my "obscure" must-listen-to album is Nowhere by Ride.
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Rolling Stone ranks the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123
#2 should polarize 'round these parts!
Hey, Alex Lifeson (Rush) squeeked in at #98!
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Rolling Stone ranks the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123
#2 should polarize 'round these parts!
Hey, Alex Lifeson (Rush) squeeked in at #98!
Like a car wreck on the highway, I couldn't not look. It's a typical list of bullshit trendy picks. EC deserves to be in the top 5, who would dispute that? You know I had to look up a couple of my faves just to confirm how bogus this list was.
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Rolling Stone ranks the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123
#2 should polarize 'round these parts!
Hey, Alex Lifeson (Rush) squeeked in at #98!
Like a car wreck on the highway, I couldn't not look. It's a typical list of bullshit trendy picks. EC deserves to be in the top 5, who would dispute that? You know I had to look up a couple of my faves just to confirm how bogus this list was.
Yep, me too. Someone should do an analysis of all the "Best Guitarist" polls Rolling Stone has done (seems like they do one of these about every 4 or 5 years) and see how the data stacks up over time. Paging Mshray....
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Rolling Stone ranks the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123
#2 should polarize 'round these parts!
Hey, Alex Lifeson (Rush) squeeked in at #98!
Like a car wreck on the highway, I couldn't not look. It's a typical list of bullshit trendy picks. EC deserves to be in the top 5, who would dispute that? You know I had to look up a couple of my faves just to confirm how bogus this list was.
Yep, me too. Someone should do an analysis of all the "Best Guitarist" polls Rolling Stone has done (seems like they do one of these about every 4 or 5 years) and see how the data stacks up over time. Paging Mshray....
Wa-hey....Johnny Marr at #51! But, seriously...Lindsey Buckingham should've ranked higher than #100.
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Rolling Stone ranks the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123
#2 should polarize 'round these parts!
Hey, Alex Lifeson (Rush) squeeked in at #98!
Like a car wreck on the highway, I couldn't not look. It's a typical list of bullshit trendy picks. EC deserves to be in the top 5, who would dispute that? You know I had to look up a couple of my faves just to confirm how bogus this list was.
Yep, me too. Someone should do an analysis of all the "Best Guitarist" polls Rolling Stone has done (seems like they do one of these about every 4 or 5 years) and see how the data stacks up over time. Paging Mshray....
Wa-hey....Johnny Marr at #51! But, seriously...Lindsey Buckingham should've ranked higher than #100.
There's a lot of things I might take exception with about this list, but I guess that's the point of it. I was surprised that out of 100 guitarists, they could only find two women to put on the list, and both of those are in the bottom 26% (Joni Mitchell at #75 and Bonnie Raitt at #89).
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Rolling Stone ranks the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123
#2 should polarize 'round these parts!
Hey, Alex Lifeson (Rush) squeeked in at #98!
Like a car wreck on the highway, I couldn't not look. It's a typical list of bullshit trendy picks. EC deserves to be in the top 5, who would dispute that? You know I had to look up a couple of my faves just to confirm how bogus this list was.
Yep, me too. Someone should do an analysis of all the "Best Guitarist" polls Rolling Stone has done (seems like they do one of these about every 4 or 5 years) and see how the data stacks up over time. Paging Mshray....
Wa-hey....Johnny Marr at #51! But, seriously...Lindsey Buckingham should've ranked higher than #100.
There's a lot of things I might take exception with about this list, but I guess that's the point of it. I was surprised that out of 100 guitarists, they could only find two women to put on the list, and both of those are in the bottom 26% (Joni Mitchell at #75 and Bonnie Raitt at #89).
Yeah, they find room for a bunch of trendy nobodies, but can only find two women?
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SF Weekly's "5 Most Heinous Pop Songs of 2011":
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/12/the_top_five_most_heinous_pop.php
and their 5 Best:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/12/the_top_five_pop_songs_of_2011.php
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another great website you can spend WAAAY too much time perusing...
http://www.discosavvy.com/
a VERY comprehensive survey of disco with lists (and lists and lists) of disco songs released in every year from '72 thru the '80s and beyond. As I'm putting together some compilation CDs of lost disco nuggets, this was esp valuable to me. Gaz and Alicat would particularly enjoy these lists, I'll wager.
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another great website you can spend WAAAY too much time perusing...
http://www.discosavvy.com/
This is awesome, but since when is The Eagles' One of These Nights considered disco?
Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
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another great website you can spend WAAAY too much time perusing...
http://www.discosavvy.com/
This is awesome, but since when is The Eagles' One of These Nights considered disco?
Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
One of These Nights was totally disco, and big dance number back then.
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Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
45
I'd forgotten about that one. Love the clean sound, delay, and unhurried tempo for most of it.
20
Yeah.
30
Inspired pick. One of their best songs.
Great list overall!
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Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
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I'd forgotten about that one. Love the clean sound, delay, and unhurried tempo for most of it.
This is my absolute favorite song by him. Also probably in my top 20 all time faves list. I've been requesting this for 2 freakin' years. You would think they'd play this one...seems tres KFOGgy, no? Well, goose egg!
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Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
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I'd forgotten about that one. Love the clean sound, delay, and unhurried tempo for most of it.
This is my absolute favorite song by him. Also probably in my top 20 all time faves list. I've been requesting this for 2 freakin' years. You would think they'd play this one...seems tres KFOGgy, no? Well, goose egg!
Mainstream radio hates it when the songs don't have the words. Maybe you could let her know you wouldn't mind if she faded it out halfway through . . .
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Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
No surprise, but this list is total bullshit, even if they accidentally get it right once in a while.
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Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
No surprise, but this list is total bullshit, even if they accidentally get it right once in a while.
Disagree. They have some classics and a lot of quirky personal favorites. It's also very British. What's the fun in just going through the canon?
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Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
No surprise, but this list is total bullshit, even if they accidentally get it right once in a while.
Snark fin soup! Anyway, most lists are total B.S. This one was interesting at times. But jeez, there should be a quota on Muse entries. Also, where was Another Girl, Another Planet? That should've totally been in the top 30! It's British, too. Tossers.
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Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
No surprise, but this list is total bullshit, even if they accidentally get it right once in a while.
Snark fin soup! Anyway, most lists are total B.S. This one was interesting at times. But jeez, there should be a quota on Muse entries. Also, where was Another Girl, Another Planet? That should've totally been in the top 30! It's British, too. Tossers.
Heheh, yes, I was ready to dismiss this list as crap, then I realized that just about EVERY list I've read lately on the net is click bait and has serious flaws. The I realized that I was unamiliar w about half of the songs listed. Just like any review of a movie or album or guitar solo, it's just an opinion, most likely from one genius or idiot, depending on whether you agree. After I got through shaking my head in utter disbelief at the utter failure of this list, I calmed down and decided I might be able to learn somethg from it. At the very least I can hone in on some quality songs that I'm unfamiliar with, so that's good. I listened to the Prince song earlier ad was impressed, so hey, I win! So I think this list is more of a jumping off point for new music possibilities rather than affirmation of what I (think I) already believe.
But I was happy to see that old tired warhorse "Hotel California" mentioned, because Joe Walsh is a dinosaur classic rack fave of mine.. ( I do wish the list was more specific on the actual guitarist responsible and had a more guitar nerd approach at times. It does seem brief, esp when you've seen the kinds of orgasmic adulation on similar lists that comes out of pubs like Guitar World and the like..)
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Here's the NME's list of the best guitar solos ever. Coffee & TV, of ALL the Blur songs? Really? #20 gets a haaaaayy!
http://www.nme.com/list/50-greatest-guitar-solos/255704/page/1
No surprise, but this list is total bullshit, even if they accidentally get it right once in a while.
Snark fin soup! Anyway, most lists are total B.S. This one was interesting at times. But jeez, there should be a quota on Muse entries. Also, where was Another Girl, Another Planet? That should've totally been in the top 30! It's British, too. Tossers.
I was reticent to post, since I'm so far outside the norm lately, but since I'm very much in the guitar world, I felt like I had a right to say it was bullshit. Even so, just because I may understand guitar better than most, that doesn't mean my opinion in more valuable. Even if you don't know diddly about guitar, if you like a solo, you like a solo. End of story. But...I will say that it sounds different to the ear when you're a musician. My classic example is Hendrix. When I was 17, "Purple Haze" sounded awesome, but not necessarily like what I understood at the time as guitar music. As I learned more and more about guitar, and the Stratocaster specifically, it just started sounding different to me.
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more click bait from Peter Hartlaub:
"Today’s Special: Greatest rock/blues guitarists of all time"
http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2012/01/10/todays-special-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time
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more click bait from Peter Hartlaub:
"Today’s Special: Greatest rock/blues guitarists of all time"
http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2012/01/10/todays-special-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time
What Jonny Greenwood only 14!?!? And where is Matthew Bellamy?!?!?!?!
Oh the humanity!
;)
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more click bait from Peter Hartlaub:
"Today’s Special: Greatest rock/blues guitarists of all time"
http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2012/01/10/todays-special-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time
What Jonny Greenwood only 14!?!? And where is Matthew Bellamy?!?!?!?!
Oh the humanity!
;)
It's been fun checking in on this one every so often. Nothing gets people riled up like a list. Some interesting selections too.
As for Greenwood and Bellamy, the choices are definitely skewing to the late Triassic period.
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more click bait from Peter Hartlaub:
"Today’s Special: Greatest rock/blues guitarists of all time"
http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2012/01/10/todays-special-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time
What Jonny Greenwood only 14!?!? And where is Matthew Bellamy?!?!?!?!
Oh the humanity!
;)
It's been fun checking in on this one every so often. Nothing gets people riled up like a list. Some interesting selections too.
As for Greenwood and Bellamy, the choices are definitely skewing to the late Triassic period.
At least this list didn't piss me off as much as those other wankerific lists.
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worst cover versions, per Chuck eddy:
http://www.complex.com/music/2012/01/the-50-worst-cover-songs-of-all-time/
(esp funny to see Duran Duran at the top of the list; someone here --- IE? SG? -- has expressed love for their covers LP)
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worst cover versions, per Chuck eddy:
http://www.complex.com/music/2012/01/the-50-worst-cover-songs-of-all-time/
(esp funny to see Duran Duran at the top of the list; someone here --- IE? SG? -- has expressed love for their covers LP)
IE's the big Duran Duran covers album fan, I think.....
The songs I would've left off the list:
Love & Rockets - "Ball of Confusion"
Power Station - "Bang a Gong"
Fine Young Cannibals - "Ever Fallen In Love"
and...
Bruce Willis - "Respect Yourself"
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worst cover versions, per Chuck eddy:
http://www.complex.com/music/2012/01/the-50-worst-cover-songs-of-all-time/
(esp funny to see Duran Duran at the top of the list; someone here --- IE? SG? -- has expressed love for their covers LP)
IE's the big Duran Duran covers album fan, I think.....
The songs I would've left off the list:
Love & Rockets - "Ball of Confusion"
Power Station - "Bang a Gong"
Fine Young Cannibals - "Ever Fallen In Love"
and...
Bruce Willis - "Respect Yourself"
I was esp amused at his line about how the RHCPs weren't on the list beause their crappy covers are actually better than their even-crappier originals. LOL!
I turned on KFOG this morning and within 10 minutes I heard Counting Crows' "Big Yellow Taxi" ::)
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(Posted in response to this thread (http://10at10club.com/forum/index.php?topic=8642.msg151121#msg151121).)
Waaaay back in 99, the SF Chronicle put together this list of what they (mostly Joel Selvin, I'm sure) considered to be the best bands in Bay Area history. Who should be added since 1999?
The Top 100 Bay Area Bands (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL)
Joel Selvin, Datebook Staff, SF Chronicle
Sunday, December 19, 1999
1. SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - Definitive Song: I Want to Take You Higher (1969)
2. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Definitive Song: Born on the Bayou (1969)
3. THE GRATEFUL DEAD - Definitive Song: Dark Star (1970)
4. FLAMIN' GROOVIES - Definitive Song: Shake Some Action (1976)
5. METALLICA - Definitive Song: Master of Puppets (1987)
6. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Definitive Song: Somebody to Love (1967)
7. SANTANA - Definitive Song: Incident at Neshubar (1975)
8. TOWER OF POWER - Definitive Song: What Is Hip (1973)
9. GREEN DAY - Definitive Song: Longview (1994)
10. MOBY GRAPE - Definitive Song: Omaha (1967)
11. DEAD KENNEDYS - Definitive Song: California Uber Alles (1979)
12. SYLVESTER - Definitive Song: You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (1979)
13. THE TUBES - Definitive Song: White Punks on Dope (1975)
14. PRIMUS - Definitive Song: John the Fisherman (1989)
15. NEIL YOUNG - Definitive Song: Rockin' in the Free World (1989)
16. CHRIS ISAAK - Definitive Song: Wicked Game (1990)
17. TUPAC - Definitive Song: Dear Mama (1995)
18. RANCID - Definitive Song: Time Bomb (1995)
19. VAN MORRISON - Definitive Song: Bright Side of the Road (1979)
20. SONS OF CHAMPLIN - Definitive Song: Freedom (1969)
21. ROMEO VOID - Definitive Song: Never Say Never (1981)
22. STEVE MILLER BAND - Definitive Song: The Joker (1973)
23. BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY - Definitive Song: Ball and Chain (1968)
24. DOOBIE BROTHERS - Definitive Song: China Grove (1973)
25. CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - Definitive Song: Life Is Grand (1988)
26. BOZ SCAGGS - Definitive Song: Loan Me a Dime (1969)
27. TOM WAITS - Definitive Song: Innocent When You Dream (1987)
28. TOO - Definitive Song: The Ghetto (1990)
29. JOURNEY - Definitive Song: Open Arms (1982)
30. DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - Definitive Song: The Humpty Dance (1990)
31. FAITH NO MORE - Definitive Song: We Care a Lot (1985)
32. EN VOGUE - Definitive Song: Free Your Mind (1992)
33. QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE - Definitive Song: Pride of Man (1969)
34. CHARLES BROWN - Definitive Song: Somebody to Love (with Bonnie Raitt) (1992)
35. JONATHAN RICHMAN - Definitive Song: Roadrunner (1975)
36. HOT TUNA - Definitive Song: Candy Man (1971)
37. DJ SHADOW - Definitive Song: Midnight in a Perfect World (1997)
38. JOHN LEE HOOKER - Definitive Song: Boom Boom (1963)
39. THE RESIDENTS - Definitive Song: Satisfaction (1976)
40. HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS - Definitive Song: Workin' for a Living (1982)
41. BLUE CHEER - Definitive Song: Summertime Blues (1968)
42. COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH - Definitive Song: Section 43 (1967)
43. COUNTING CROWS - Definitive Song: Round Here (1993)
44. FLIPPER - Definitive Song: Sex Bomb (1982)
45. HAMMER - Definitive Song: U Can't Touch This (1990)
46. THIRD EYE BLIND - Definitive Song: Semi-Charmed Life (1997)
47. TONY TONI TONE - Definitive Song: The Oakland Stroke (1990)
48. AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB - Definitive Song: Hello Amsterdam (1994)
49. BOBBY FREEMAN - Definitive Song: Do You Wanna Dance? (1958)
50. THE AVENGERS - Definitive Song: We Are the One (1978)
51. KINGSTON TRIO - Definitive Song: A Worried Man (1959)
52. BEAU BRUMMELS - Definitive Song: Just a Little (1965)
53. HOODOO RHYTHM DEVILS - Definitive Song: Safecracker (1976)
54. SPEARHEAD - Definitive Song: There's a Hole in the Pocket (1994)
55. JELLYFISH - Definitive Song: That Is Why (1990)
56. NEGATIVLAND - Definitive Song: U2 (1991)
57. ROBERT CRAY - Definitive Song: Smoking Gun (1987)
58. GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION - Definitive Song: Can You Handle It? (1974)
59. JOE SATRIANI - Definitive Song: Surfing With the Alien (1987)
60. PARIS - Definitive Song: Bush Killa (1990)
61. JIM CARROLL BAND - Definitive Song: People Who Died (1980)
62. JOAN BAEZ - Definitive Song: We Shall Overcome (1963)
63. THE YOUNGBLOODS - Definitive Song: Get Together (1967)
64. ELECTRIC FLAG - Definitive Song: Groovin' Is Easy (1968)
65. ELVIN BISHOP - Definitive Song: Rock Bottom (1972)
66. SAMMY HAGAR - Definitive Song: Only One Way to Rock (1981)
67. SHEILA E. - Definitive Song: Glamorous Life (1984)
68. COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN - Definitive Song: Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (1971)
69. GREG KIHN - Definitive Song: Jeopardy (1983)
70. THE MERMEN - Definitive Song: The Drowning Man Knows His God (1995)
71. THE RUBINOOS - Definitive Song: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (1979)
72. DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS - Definitive Song: Where's the Money? (1971)
73. INVISIBL SKRATCH PIKLZ - Definitive Song: Invasion of the Octopus People (1996)
74. COUNT FIVE - Definitive Song: Psychotic Reaction (1966)
75. THE DUROCS - Definitive Song: Savin' It All Up for Larry (1979)
76. CLUB NOUVEAU - Definitive Song: Lean on Me (1987)
77. TRANSLATOR - Definitive Song: Everywhere That I'm Not (1982)
78. RED HOUSE PAINTERS - Definitive Song: Cabezon (1995)
79. POINTER SISTERS - Definitive Song: Yes We Can Can (1973)
80. SMASH MOUTH - Definitive Song: Walkin' on the Sun (1998)
81. IMPERIAL TEEN - Definitive Song: You're One (1996)
82. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY - Definitive Song: White Bird (1969)
83. DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY - Definitive Song: Television: The Drug of the Nation (1992)
84. COLD BLOOD - Definitive Song: You Got Me Hummin' (1969)
85. EDDIE MONEY - Definitive Song: Two Tickets to Paradise (1978)
86. CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND - Definitive Song: Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In) (1967)
87. MONTROSE - Definitive Song: Rock Candy (1974)
88. 4 NON BLONDES - Definitive Song: What's Up (1993)
89. E-40- Definitive Song: 1-Luv (1995)
90. THE CALL - Definitive Song: The Walls Came Down (1983)
91. PABLO CRUISE - Definitive Song: Love Will Find a Way (1977)
92. THE UPTONES - Definitive Song: Rude Boy (1995)
93. EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS - Definitive Song: Oh Happy Day (1969)
94. MOTHER EARTH - Definitive Song: Down So Low (1968)
95. CONSOLIDATED - Definitive Song: Friendly Fascism (1989)
96. THE CHARLATANS - Definitive Song: Alabamy Bound (1966)
97. NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE - Definitive Song: Panama Red (1973)
98. CHROME - Definitive Song: Half Machine Lip Moves (1979)
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP - Definitive Song: We Built This City (1985)
100. MR. BIG - Definitive Song: To Be With You (1991)
from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL
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(Posted in response to this thread (http://10at10club.com/forum/index.php?topic=8642.msg151121#msg151121).)
Waaaay back in 99, the SF Chronicle put together this list of what they (mostly Joel Selvin, I'm sure) considered to be the best bands in Bay Area history. Who should be added since 1999?
The Top 100 Bay Area Bands (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL)
Joel Selvin, Datebook Staff, SF Chronicle
Sunday, December 19, 1999
1. SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - Definitive Song: I Want to Take You Higher (1969)
2. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Definitive Song: Born on the Bayou (1969)
3. THE GRATEFUL DEAD - Definitive Song: Dark Star (1970)
4. FLAMIN' GROOVIES - Definitive Song: Shake Some Action (1976)
5. METALLICA - Definitive Song: Master of Puppets (1987)
6. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Definitive Song: Somebody to Love (1967)
7. SANTANA - Definitive Song: Incident at Neshubar (1975)
8. TOWER OF POWER - Definitive Song: What Is Hip (1973)
9. GREEN DAY - Definitive Song: Longview (1994)
10. MOBY GRAPE - Definitive Song: Omaha (1967)
11. DEAD KENNEDYS - Definitive Song: California Uber Alles (1979)
12. SYLVESTER - Definitive Song: You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (1979)
13. THE TUBES - Definitive Song: White Punks on Dope (1975)
14. PRIMUS - Definitive Song: John the Fisherman (1989)
15. NEIL YOUNG - Definitive Song: Rockin' in the Free World (1989)
16. CHRIS ISAAK - Definitive Song: Wicked Game (1990)
17. TUPAC - Definitive Song: Dear Mama (1995)
18. RANCID - Definitive Song: Time Bomb (1995)
19. VAN MORRISON - Definitive Song: Bright Side of the Road (1979)
20. SONS OF CHAMPLIN - Definitive Song: Freedom (1969)
21. ROMEO VOID - Definitive Song: Never Say Never (1981)
22. STEVE MILLER BAND - Definitive Song: The Joker (1973)
23. BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY - Definitive Song: Ball and Chain (1968)
24. DOOBIE BROTHERS - Definitive Song: China Grove (1973)
25. CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - Definitive Song: Life Is Grand (1988)
26. BOZ SCAGGS - Definitive Song: Loan Me a Dime (1969)
27. TOM WAITS - Definitive Song: Innocent When You Dream (1987)
28. TOO - Definitive Song: The Ghetto (1990)
29. JOURNEY - Definitive Song: Open Arms (1982)
30. DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - Definitive Song: The Humpty Dance (1990)
31. FAITH NO MORE - Definitive Song: We Care a Lot (1985)
32. EN VOGUE - Definitive Song: Free Your Mind (1992)
33. QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE - Definitive Song: Pride of Man (1969)
34. CHARLES BROWN - Definitive Song: Somebody to Love (with Bonnie Raitt) (1992)
35. JONATHAN RICHMAN - Definitive Song: Roadrunner (1975)
36. HOT TUNA - Definitive Song: Candy Man (1971)
37. DJ SHADOW - Definitive Song: Midnight in a Perfect World (1997)
38. JOHN LEE HOOKER - Definitive Song: Boom Boom (1963)
39. THE RESIDENTS - Definitive Song: Satisfaction (1976)
40. HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS - Definitive Song: Workin' for a Living (1982)
41. BLUE CHEER - Definitive Song: Summertime Blues (1968)
42. COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH - Definitive Song: Section 43 (1967)
43. COUNTING CROWS - Definitive Song: Round Here (1993)
44. FLIPPER - Definitive Song: Sex Bomb (1982)
45. HAMMER - Definitive Song: U Can't Touch This (1990)
46. THIRD EYE BLIND - Definitive Song: Semi-Charmed Life (1997)
47. TONY TONI TONE - Definitive Song: The Oakland Stroke (1990)
48. AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB - Definitive Song: Hello Amsterdam (1994)
49. BOBBY FREEMAN - Definitive Song: Do You Wanna Dance? (1958)
50. THE AVENGERS - Definitive Song: We Are the One (1978)
51. KINGSTON TRIO - Definitive Song: A Worried Man (1959)
52. BEAU BRUMMELS - Definitive Song: Just a Little (1965)
53. HOODOO RHYTHM DEVILS - Definitive Song: Safecracker (1976)
54. SPEARHEAD - Definitive Song: There's a Hole in the Pocket (1994)
55. JELLYFISH - Definitive Song: That Is Why (1990)
56. NEGATIVLAND - Definitive Song: U2 (1991)
57. ROBERT CRAY - Definitive Song: Smoking Gun (1987)
58. GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION - Definitive Song: Can You Handle It? (1974)
59. JOE SATRIANI - Definitive Song: Surfing With the Alien (1987)
60. PARIS - Definitive Song: Bush Killa (1990)
61. JIM CARROLL BAND - Definitive Song: People Who Died (1980)
62. JOAN BAEZ - Definitive Song: We Shall Overcome (1963)
63. THE YOUNGBLOODS - Definitive Song: Get Together (1967)
64. ELECTRIC FLAG - Definitive Song: Groovin' Is Easy (1968)
65. ELVIN BISHOP - Definitive Song: Rock Bottom (1972)
66. SAMMY HAGAR - Definitive Song: Only One Way to Rock (1981)
67. SHEILA E. - Definitive Song: Glamorous Life (1984)
68. COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN - Definitive Song: Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (1971)
69. GREG KIHN - Definitive Song: Jeopardy (1983)
70. THE MERMEN - Definitive Song: The Drowning Man Knows His God (1995)
71. THE RUBINOOS - Definitive Song: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (1979)
72. DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS - Definitive Song: Where's the Money? (1971)
73. INVISIBL SKRATCH PIKLZ - Definitive Song: Invasion of the Octopus People (1996)
74. COUNT FIVE - Definitive Song: Psychotic Reaction (1966)
75. THE DUROCS - Definitive Song: Savin' It All Up for Larry (1979)
76. CLUB NOUVEAU - Definitive Song: Lean on Me (1987)
77. TRANSLATOR - Definitive Song: Everywhere That I'm Not (1982)
78. RED HOUSE PAINTERS - Definitive Song: Cabezon (1995)
79. POINTER SISTERS - Definitive Song: Yes We Can Can (1973)
80. SMASH MOUTH - Definitive Song: Walkin' on the Sun (1998)
81. IMPERIAL TEEN - Definitive Song: You're One (1996)
82. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY - Definitive Song: White Bird (1969)
83. DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY - Definitive Song: Television: The Drug of the Nation (1992)
84. COLD BLOOD - Definitive Song: You Got Me Hummin' (1969)
85. EDDIE MONEY - Definitive Song: Two Tickets to Paradise (1978)
86. CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND - Definitive Song: Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In) (1967)
87. MONTROSE - Definitive Song: Rock Candy (1974)
88. 4 NON BLONDES - Definitive Song: What's Up (1993)
89. E-40- Definitive Song: 1-Luv (1995)
90. THE CALL - Definitive Song: The Walls Came Down (1983)
91. PABLO CRUISE - Definitive Song: Love Will Find a Way (1977)
92. THE UPTONES - Definitive Song: Rude Boy (1995)
93. EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS - Definitive Song: Oh Happy Day (1969)
94. MOTHER EARTH - Definitive Song: Down So Low (1968)
95. CONSOLIDATED - Definitive Song: Friendly Fascism (1989)
96. THE CHARLATANS - Definitive Song: Alabamy Bound (1966)
97. NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE - Definitive Song: Panama Red (1973)
98. CHROME - Definitive Song: Half Machine Lip Moves (1979)
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP - Definitive Song: We Built This City (1985)
100. MR. BIG - Definitive Song: To Be With You (1991)
from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL
Somebody tell KFOG that the Call is 90 and Smashmouth 80. But don't tell He.L. that Champlin is in the top 20.
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Below are the two lists that, according to Facebook, represent the top coupling and de-coupling songs played by users via the Spotify app.
**WARNING: They all pretty much suck.
Songs listened to when entering into a relationship:
1. "Don't Wanna Go Home" by Jason Derulo
2. "Love On Top" by Beyoncé
3. "How to Love" by Lil Wayne
4. "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars
5. "Good Feeling" by Flo Rida
6. "It Girl" by Jason Derulo
7. "Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine
8. "Criminal" by Britney Spears
9. "No Sleep" by Wiz Khalifa
10. "Free Fallin'" by John Mayer
Songs listened to after ending a relationship:
1. "The Cave" by Mumford and Sons
2. "Crew Love" by Drake
3. "All of the Lights" by Kanye West
4. "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele
5. "Take Care" by Drake
6. "It Will Rain" by Bruno Mars
7. "We Found Love" by Rihanna & Calvin Harris
8. "Call It What You Want" by Foster the People
9. "Love You Like a Love Song" by Selena Gomez and the Scene
10. "Without You" by David Guetta featuring Usher
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Below are the two lists that, according to Facebook, represent the top coupling and de-coupling songs played by users via the Spotify app.
"users" under the age of 18, I'm guessing. Li'l Wayne is considered romantic by... WHO? Good lord. Shoot me now.
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Below are the two lists that, according to Facebook, represent the top coupling and de-coupling songs played by users via the Spotify app.
**WARNING: They all pretty much suck.
Songs listened to when entering into a relationship:
1. "Don't Wanna Go Home" by Jason Derulo
2. "Love On Top" by Beyoncé
3. "How to Love" by Lil Wayne
4. "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars
5. "Good Feeling" by Flo Rida
6. "It Girl" by Jason Derulo
7. "Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine
8. "Criminal" by Britney Spears
9. "No Sleep" by Wiz Khalifa
10. "Free Fallin'" by John Mayer
Songs listened to after ending a relationship:
1. "The Cave" by Mumford and Sons
2. "Crew Love" by Drake
3. "All of the Lights" by Kanye West
4. "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele
5. "Take Care" by Drake
6. "It Will Rain" by Bruno Mars
7. "We Found Love" by Rihanna & Calvin Harris
8. "Call It What You Want" by Foster the People
9. "Love You Like a Love Song" by Selena Gomez and the Scene
10. "Without You" by David Guetta featuring Usher
Both of these lists are giving me a headache. Would rather listen to Milli Vanilli.
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Below are the two lists that, according to Facebook, represent the top coupling and de-coupling songs played by users via the Spotify app.
"users" under the age of 18, I'm guessing. Li'l Wayne is considered romantic by... WHO? Good lord. Shoot me now.
I'm partial to something from side 2 of Sign O The Times for the former list; It Must Have Been Love by Roxette for the latter. I probably should use the past tense when discussing such things.
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Below are the two lists that, according to Facebook, represent the top coupling and de-coupling songs played by users via the Spotify app.
"users" under the age of 18, I'm guessing. Li'l Wayne is considered romantic by... WHO? Good lord. Shoot me now.
I'm partial to something from side 2 of Sign O The Times for the former list; It Must Have Been Love by Roxette for the latter. I probably should use the past tense when discussing such things.
I think Roxy Music could fill out BOTH lists.
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I think Roxy Music could fill out BOTH lists.
or The Stones
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I think Roxy Music could fill out BOTH lists.
or The Stones
Sade for both.
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(Posted in response to this thread (http://10at10club.com/forum/index.php?topic=8642.msg151121#msg151121).)
Waaaay back in 99, the SF Chronicle put together this list of what they (mostly Joel Selvin, I'm sure) considered to be the best bands in Bay Area history. Who should be added since 1999?
The Top 100 Bay Area Bands (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL)
Joel Selvin, Datebook Staff, SF Chronicle
Sunday, December 19, 1999
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP - Definitive Song: We Built This City (1985)
from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL
What a fucking insult to hang this mediocre song around the neck of a great band
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(Posted in response to this thread (http://10at10club.com/forum/index.php?topic=8642.msg151121#msg151121).)
Waaaay back in 99, the SF Chronicle put together this list of what they (mostly Joel Selvin, I'm sure) considered to be the best bands in Bay Area history. Who should be added since 1999?
The Top 100 Bay Area Bands (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL)
Joel Selvin, Datebook Staff, SF Chronicle
Sunday, December 19, 1999
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP - Definitive Song: We Built This City (1985)
from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL
What a fucking insult to hang this mediocre song around the neck of a great band
ah, but the article actually has a small bit of accompanying text that I did NOT include in the list.
Here's the full exceprt:
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP
"Miracles'' was really the last gasp of the old Airplane, but by the mid-'80s, a different band with a similar name was making the exact hollow, empty pop Airplane originally rebelled against.
Definitive Song: ``We Built This City'' (1985)
And, you know, no one FORCED them to release it...! :)
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(Posted in response to this thread (http://10at10club.com/forum/index.php?topic=8642.msg151121#msg151121).)
Waaaay back in 99, the SF Chronicle put together this list of what they (mostly Joel Selvin, I'm sure) considered to be the best bands in Bay Area history. Who should be added since 1999?
The Top 100 Bay Area Bands (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL)
Joel Selvin, Datebook Staff, SF Chronicle
Sunday, December 19, 1999
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP - Definitive Song: We Built This City (1985)
from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL
What a fucking insult to hang this mediocre song around the neck of a great band
ah, but the article actually has a small bit of accompanying text that I did NOT include in the list.
Here's the full exceprt:
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP
"Miracles'' was really the last gasp of the old Airplane, but by the mid-'80s, a different band with a similar name was making the exact hollow, empty pop Airplane originally rebelled against.
Definitive Song: ``We Built This City'' (1985)
And, you know, no one FORCED them to release it...! :)
I'm not a "We Built This City" basher, I think it's a fine song, just not a very significant one. The whole later-era Starship takes away from the great period my crowd saw them in the early days at Winterland. There are a ton of songs better than that that they've done.
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(Posted in response to this thread (http://10at10club.com/forum/index.php?topic=8642.msg151121#msg151121).)
Waaaay back in 99, the SF Chronicle put together this list of what they (mostly Joel Selvin, I'm sure) considered to be the best bands in Bay Area history. Who should be added since 1999?
The Top 100 Bay Area Bands (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL)
Joel Selvin, Datebook Staff, SF Chronicle
Sunday, December 19, 1999
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP - Definitive Song: We Built This City (1985)
from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/19/PKBB101.DTL
What a fucking insult to hang this mediocre song around the neck of a great band
ah, but the article actually has a small bit of accompanying text that I did NOT include in the list.
Here's the full exceprt:
99. JEFFERSON STARSHIP
"Miracles'' was really the last gasp of the old Airplane, but by the mid-'80s, a different band with a similar name was making the exact hollow, empty pop Airplane originally rebelled against.
Definitive Song: ``We Built This City'' (1985)
And, you know, no one FORCED them to release it...! :)
I'm not a "We Built This City" basher, I think it's a fine song, just not a very significant one. The whole later-era Starship takes away from the great period my crowd saw them in the early days at Winterland. There are a ton of songs better than that that they've done.
I'm glad that Starship has a separate entry from Jefferson Airplane. Perhaps the point r/ "We Built This City" being Starship's definitive song was that it showed how far they'd declined. So I can't argue too much there.
If I had to pick a favorite Starship entry, I might have to tip my hat to "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight".
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Some familiar entries are on here:
http://litreactor.com/columns/top-10-words-that-need-to-die-immediately
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Some familiar entries are on here:
http://litreactor.com/columns/top-10-words-that-need-to-die-immediately
Sometimes when I type LOL, I am actually making some kind of laughing noise! Is it OK then?
;)
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Some familiar entries are on here:
http://litreactor.com/columns/top-10-words-that-need-to-die-immediately
Sometimes when I type LOL, I am actually making some kind of laughing noise! Is it OK then?
;)
Maybe. I always feel crappy typing LOL, but when you think someone posted something funny how do you indicate it? Ha! or Ha Ha! works, I suppose. But it also looks sarcastic. That's the problem with communicating via text, you don't have the physical interplay that is truly part of human communication.
But I am totally on board with "bromance" and "foodie".
ETA: And "irregardless" just isn't a word, which makes me "naseous". ???
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Below are the two lists that, according to Facebook, represent the top coupling and de-coupling songs played by users via the Spotify app.
**WARNING: They all pretty much suck.
Songs listened to when entering into a relationship:
1. "Don't Wanna Go Home" by Jason Derulo
2. "Love On Top" by Beyoncé
3. "How to Love" by Lil Wayne
4. "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars
5. "Good Feeling" by Flo Rida
6. "It Girl" by Jason Derulo
7. "Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine
8. "Criminal" by Britney Spears
9. "No Sleep" by Wiz Khalifa
10. "Free Fallin'" by John Mayer
Songs listened to after ending a relationship:
1. "The Cave" by Mumford and Sons
2. "Crew Love" by Drake
3. "All of the Lights" by Kanye West
4. "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele
5. "Take Care" by Drake
6. "It Will Rain" by Bruno Mars
7. "We Found Love" by Rihanna & Calvin Harris
8. "Call It What You Want" by Foster the People
9. "Love You Like a Love Song" by Selena Gomez and the Scene
10. "Without You" by David Guetta featuring Usher
From today's 10@10 year, 1972: "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" by Jim Croce
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Some familiar entries are on here:
http://litreactor.com/columns/top-10-words-that-need-to-die-immediately
I don't mind "bromance," but that might be because I leave it to the celebrities and 14-year-olds.
The word "foodie" doesn't annoy me nearly as much as 3/4 of the people who claim to be one do.
I like "nom," as long as it's used judiciously. "LOL" is okay too. I even say "LOL" (not "L. O. L.") sometimes.
I haven't heard "totes" being used as an abbreviation for "totally," but if I did, I would agree that it should die.
Haven't heard of "awesomesauce" before either, but that word looks like, sooooo, like, awesomesauce that I'm going to start saying "awesomesauce" now! LOL!
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I haven't heard "totes" being used as an abbreviation for "totally," but if I did, I would agree that it should die.
I use the more formal "totes magotes." An example of proper usage can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hojeYoMIv4
Haven't heard of "awesomesauce" before either, but that word looks like, sooooo, like, awesomesauce that I'm going to start saying "awesomesauce" now! LOL!
Don't forget "amazeballs!"
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another handy-dandy website with lists of hit songs by year -- unlike Top40 db, this one goes thru the '00s and '10s
http://www.severing.nu/music/index.html
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You've heard Gaz and I talk about this annual list of favorite "shoulda-beens": the IRS (as in "It Really Shoulda" been a hit) List:
http://www.60s70s.org/HZ-SO-GOOD-April-May-2012.htm
(the criteria was any song that didn't make the Top Ten, tho' many of these didn't even make the Top 40).
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Came across this site (nutsie.com) the other day; I'm working on a SF/NY mix CD and when i googled "songs about___" they came up. Here's the link for "Top 100 SF Songs"
http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/Top%20100%20San%20Francisco%20Songs/27080431
But it doesn't give you the whole list, just an endlessly-repeating iPod-on-shuffle presentation of the songs. And they have tons of different lists. Interesting concept. You could spend a LOT time here.
ETA: Holy flaming mother of Gaz! one of their SF songs is Kantner/Slick's "Million" -- I am gobsmacked!
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Came across this site (nutsie.com) the other day; I'm working on a SF/NY mix CD and when i googled "songs about___" they came up. Here's the link for "Top 100 SF Songs"
http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/Top%20100%20San%20Francisco%20Songs/27080431
But it doesn't give you the whole list, just an endlessly-repeating iPod-on-shuffle presentation of the songs. And they have tons of different lists. Interesting concept. You could spend a LOT time here.
ETA: Holy flaming mother of Gaz! one of their SF songs is Kantner/Slick's "Million" -- I am gobsmacked!
Wow, they've got Top 100 One Hit Wonders for the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. I could def. spend a lot of time here. Probably not a good thing right now.
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Guitar anti-heroes
The comments spew outrage? No way! "PAT METHENY??? where is he?"
http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-100-greatest-guitarists-all-time?page=0
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Guitar anti-heroes
The comments spew outrage? No way! "PAT METHENY??? where is he?"
http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-100-greatest-guitarists-all-time?page=0
Another ridiculous list from people who don't know shit about guitar.
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Guitar anti-heroes
The comments spew outrage? No way! "PAT METHENY??? where is he?"
http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-100-greatest-guitarists-all-time?page=0
Another ridiculous list from people who don't know shit about guitar.
That list is pure genius! Kurt Colbain at #4! The Onion couldn't have done better.
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Guitar anti-heroes
The comments spew outrage? No way! "PAT METHENY??? where is he?"
http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-100-greatest-guitarists-all-time?page=0
Another ridiculous list from people who don't know shit about guitar.
That list is pure genius! Kurt Colbain at #4! The Onion couldn't have done better.
your comments got me to look at the list. Certainly not the usual stuff ("Let's see, Hendrix, Townshend, Clapton, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc.").
I must say I'm curious about some of the names. If Spin wants us to notice how cool they are with their weird picks, that's one thing, but if they are only trying to expand my mind, I suppose they have done that.
Kurt Cobain wrote some excellent songs, cool hooks, etc. and since he composed on guitar, you have to say he put his chops to good use in writing them.
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They put a disclaimer on the first page, although perhaps the disclaimer itself was meant to offend. Their greatest blasphemy, though, was simply titling the list "Greatest Guitarists." Adding one word like "Not the Greatest Guitarists" or "The Greatest ALTERNATIVE Guitarists" might have placated the fundamentalists, but probably not. It's just funny the fervor people feel about what is essentially an exercise in meaningless fun. It's as if a publication put out a list of the Ten Greatest Ever Religious Figures and left out Jesus and Mohammed. At least no one has attempted to firebomb (could apply to extremist Muslims or Christians, or Jews for that matter) the Spin offices. Yet.
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They put a disclaimer on the first page, although perhaps the disclaimer itself was meant to offend. Their greatest blasphemy, though, was simply titling the list "Greatest Guitarists." Adding one word like "Not the Greatest Guitarists" or "The Greatest ALTERNATIVE Guitarists" might have placated the fundamentalists, but probably not. It's just funny the fervor people feel about what is essentially an exercise in meaningless fun. It's as if a publication put out a list of the Ten Greatest Ever Religious Figures and left out Jesus and Mohammed. At least no one has attempted to firebomb (could apply to extremist Muslims or Christians, or Jews for that matter) the Spin offices. Yet.
While there is plenty of subjective room to judge guitarists, it is not totally without objective reality. They probably should have just made a list of the "best guitarists that don't make the usual lists" and people like me would just walk on by, no comment. As a musician myself, I don't consider the talents of guitarists meaningless.
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25 worst songs of all time, most of which we'd agree to be LN in a 10@10 context. And nobody has posted in this since May!
http://www.web2carz.com/lifestyle/music/1460/the-25-most-overplayed-songs-of-all-time
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25 worst songs of all time, most of which we'd agree to be LN in a 10@10 context. And nobody has posted in this since May!
http://www.web2carz.com/lifestyle/music/1460/the-25-most-overplayed-songs-of-all-time
I don't think overplayed is supposed to mean worst. The author says as much. Most of the songs are classic rock and, to a lesser extent, oldies staples.
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25 worst songs of all time, most of which we'd agree to be LN in a 10@10 context. And nobody has posted in this since May!
http://www.web2carz.com/lifestyle/music/1460/the-25-most-overplayed-songs-of-all-time
I don't think overplayed is supposed to mean worst. The author says as much. Most of the songs are classic rock and, to a lesser extent, oldies staples.
Freudian Slip on my part. Yes, the 25 most overplayed songs of all time (although I'm not sure why "Forever Young" or "Rehab" is listed.
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25 worst songs of all time, most of which we'd agree to be LN in a 10@10 context. And nobody has posted in this since May!
http://www.web2carz.com/lifestyle/music/1460/the-25-most-overplayed-songs-of-all-time
I don't think overplayed is supposed to mean worst. The author says as much. Most of the songs are classic rock and, to a lesser extent, oldies staples.
Freudian Slip on my part. Yes, the 25 most overplayed songs of all time (although I'm not sure why "Forever Young" or "Rehab" is listed.
So, all I've got to do to get my blog more readers is start publishing stupid lists?
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25 worst songs of all time, most of which we'd agree to be LN in a 10@10 context. And nobody has posted in this since May!
http://www.web2carz.com/lifestyle/music/1460/the-25-most-overplayed-songs-of-all-time
I don't think overplayed is supposed to mean worst. The author says as much. Most of the songs are classic rock and, to a lesser extent, oldies staples.
Freudian Slip on my part. Yes, the 25 most overplayed songs of all time (although I'm not sure why "Forever Young" or "Rehab" is listed.
So, all I've got to do to get my blog more readers is start publishing stupid lists?
If you think quantity>quality, sure.
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25 worst songs of all time, most of which we'd agree to be LN in a 10@10 context. And nobody has posted in this since May!
http://www.web2carz.com/lifestyle/music/1460/the-25-most-overplayed-songs-of-all-time
Love number 5, Every song by the Eagles. LoL. I might give "Desperado" a pass, but otherwise spot on.
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25 worst songs of all time, most of which we'd agree to be LN in a 10@10 context. And nobody has posted in this since May!
http://www.web2carz.com/lifestyle/music/1460/the-25-most-overplayed-songs-of-all-time
Love number 5, Every song by the Eagles. LoL. I might give "Desperado" a pass, but otherwise spot on.
I'd vote to give most of that album an exemption, as well as a few other deeper album cuts. But their hits? Most certainly, and without exception.
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25 worst songs of all time, most of which we'd agree to be LN in a 10@10 context. And nobody has posted in this since May!
http://www.web2carz.com/lifestyle/music/1460/the-25-most-overplayed-songs-of-all-time
Love number 5, Every song by the Eagles. LoL. I might give "Desperado" a pass, but otherwise spot on.
I'd vote to give most of that album an exemption, as well as a few other deeper album cuts. But their hits? Most certainly, and without exception.
hoo boy, several songs on that list are some of my faves. I love these and will listen to them INTENTLY every single freaking time
18 “Forever Young” (Rod Stewart)
15. “Sweet Caroline” (Neil Diamond)
6. “Solsbury Hill” (Peter Gabriel)
5. (Take It To The Limit & In The City by the Eagles -- although ITC is really a Joe Walsh song the Eagles deparado-ately needed to fluff up their Long Run LP).
3. “Don’t Stop Believing” (Journey)
2. “More Than a Feeling” (Boston)
Love Shack makes we want to kill myself.
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went looking for a searchable database of the Canadian Pop Singles charts... no such luck. But here's a page with individual weekly charts from 1964 to 2000.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?q1=TopSingles&c1=chart_type_en&brws=1&brws_s=1&t1=TRUE&PHPSESSID=bjm89qe0btt86a4qrr9c19kfk6
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The 15 most hated bands of last the 30 years (according to Salon.com):
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/15_most_hated_bands_of_last_30_years/
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The 15 most hated bands of last the 30 years (according to Salon.com):
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/15_most_hated_bands_of_last_30_years/
I wanted to be contrarian here, but even though I like some songs by some of these bands, I can't say that any of them are good. Also, almost all of the entries are from the nineties or later; I guess the headline says "30 years" to encompass the entirety of Phish's career.
On a related note, it only recently dawned on me that Salon and Slate are separate entities.
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On a related note, it only recently dawned on me that Salon and Slate are separate entities.
Bwahahaha! I used to do that all the time!
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The 15 most hated bands of last the 30 years (according to Salon.com):
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/15_most_hated_bands_of_last_30_years/
I guess by definition, you must be a hater to put out a list like this!