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100 Favorite Songs #20 - 1
posted Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Saturday was the one year anniversary of this blog. Pretty sweet. It's been a lot of fun, and I love having the opportunity to write every day and actually have it read. I'd like to thank everyone for reading, offering comments and e-mails, and just making this site such a cool part of my day. Which is why what I'm about to say may come as a shock.
I'm dying.
Just kidding. I was trying to decide what to do to commemorate such a special day. I thought about selecting my ten favorite blogs, but there's not much more conceited than choosing your favorite things that...you've written. (That being said, there is a "Greatest Hits" link on the left side of this page that features some favorites). I thought about all kinds of different options, but eventually decided to go the Rolling Stone route and give you a list.
I have selected my 100 Favorite Songs of All Time. This has caused me WAY more trouble than it should have. All I can say is that on any given day, this list might look totally different. I put way too much thought into this stuff, and eventually just had to give up and say "Whatever, it's fine." I realized that being a music critic must be a fairly miserable job. There's only so many different ways to say "I love this song" without sounding like a broken record.
I'm kind of breaking traditional routes here and giving you the Top 20 first and working backwards from there. It's just easier for me to make my choices going backward from #1. There will be another 20 every other weekday on the site until we work back to 100. The only rule here is that no artist can have more than two songs in the countdown, so keep that in mind. I wanted to hopefully bring some stuff you haven't heard to your attention.
And as usual, I'd really love to hear from you. I think you can tell a great deal about someone from his or her favorite songs. It's like that great line in High Fidelity: "It's what you like, not what you are like that's important." I'll show you mine if you show me yours...
MY 100 FAVORITE SONGS #20 - 1
20) "Laid" by James
This is one of the only songs on the list by a band I'm not all that passionate about. But this song is just absolute gold. This guy knew what he was doing, you put the line "She only comes when she's on top" at the beginning of a song, people will stick around. The guitar riff is simple but psycho catchy, the near-yodeling on the chorus is beyond fun to sing, and whoever's idea it was to have those marching band drums come blasting in every 30 seconds was a genius. Just about the only song I know of where the drums is a hook.
19) "Answering Machine" by The Replacements
Just recently, these guys have started to get slight props here and there, but really this band should be up with the Nirvanas and the REMs. An undeniable bunch of songs. This is probably my favorite, even with the annoying answering machine message that plays over the end. It's so desperate and vulnerable and frustrated and great. His courage is up, he knows exactly what he wants to say, he needs someone to talk to, but she won't pick up the damn phone. How do you say 'I miss you' to an answering machine? How indeed.
18) "Ballad of Big Nothing" by Elliott Smith
Made all the more heartbreaking post-suicide, this is one of the saddest songs ever. Pretty cryptic lyrics, and yet they just make perfect sense somehow. You know exactly what he's feeling and what he's saying. A sketch of someone miserable even when watching a parade, this song is about as close as anyone's gotten to setting depression to music.
17) "Big Brown Eyes" by Old 97s
I declare the Old 97s the most underrated band in music today. No matter how many great albums they make, no matter how many great reviews they get, they never get even slightly famous. As far as the whole alt-country thing goes, they are the best. Great heartsick lyrics, kickass playing. This is probably their finest hour, so fun to sing along with, and I think of the line If that phone don't ring one more time, I'm gonna lose what's left of my mind, every time I find myself staring at my cell. Which is more than I'd care to admit.
16) "Add It Up" by Violent Femmes
Why can't I get just one fuck? That line there is the reason pretty much all lonely teenagers, (all cool lonely teenagers anyway) go through a period of obsession with this band. Acoustic rock that actually rocks, ominous and borderline scary. This album is puberty set to music, and certainly was the soundtrack to that period of my life.
15) "Debaser" by The Pixies
The Pixies really have too many great songs to pick just one, but this was the first I heard, and it had about the same impact as when I lost my virginity. It was just like everything kind of clicked into place. What an insane band, and what an insane song. The bass has never sounded better than it did when played by Kim Deal. You feel that opening in your chest. And I've said it before, but there isn't a sexier voice in the world. That trade-off at the end between Frank Black's demonic screaming and her angelic singing is perfection.
14) "Lounge Act" by Nirvana
Everything off Nevermind and In Utero is sort of equally powerful and great. But today this is my favorite Nirvana song, a song about jealousy really. I love how absolutely horrifying he makes a relationship sound. And of course they are. Wicked bass line, and dig the howled third verse. He sounds incredibly pissed off, which is of course exactly what you want him to sound like.
13) "Don't Worry, Baby" by The Beach Boys
This song pretty much wrecks me. After the first verse it technically turns into a song about a guy worried about racing his car, but they use that to represent all worries and insecurities that guys have, which is its genius. All these women's magazines think they know what a guy wants to hear from his girlfriend. This is it: Don't worry baby, everything will turn out alright.
Well, that and "Good morning, want a blowjob?"
12) "Don't Look Back In Anger" by Oasis
Owes quite a bit to John Lennon's "Imagine" of course, but blashphemous though it may be to say so, this is a better song. Like all Oasis songs, it doesn't make a great deal of sense, but there aren't many feelings better than a bar singing along to this one. If you're not air drumming when it rolls around to that bombastic drum fill right before the last chorus, you probably don't like music.
11) "Hurt" by Johnny Cash
I was driving around Saint Louis and the local rock station played this song, the first time I had ever heard it. I actually had to pull my car over until it was finished, clenching my steering wheel as the finale with the pounding organ came crashing in, and then take a moment to collect myself.
I was at the gym when the video came out, probably the finest music video ever made. (NOTE: It lost the VMA that year to Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River.") The gym had a row of TVs you could watch while on the treadmill, and every single person, young and old, stopped running and just stood open-mouthed to watch it. I don't think there was a dry eye in the place. It was one of the most affecting moments I've ever had. This song has the same effect as a punch in the stomach, and I don't think there's a more punishing, depressing piece of music on record.
10) "No Action" by Elvis Costello
I don't want to kiss you, I don't want to touch. I don't want to see you 'cause I don't miss you that much. Nobody writes better "girls suck" songs than Elvis. I could fill this list up with EC, but I'll spare you. All I can say is if you don't own his first four albums, you're missing out on probably the best winning streak in music. This song, which kicks off the frighteningly intense This Year's Model is just incredible, it sounds like the band just drank gallons of coffee and went nuts. Starting a capella and building to a crazed pace, this song is Elvis at his most pissy. I'm not a telephone junkie... love that.
9) "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley
I'm a huge Elvis fan, and this is my favorite of his by a landslide. Like everything else in the top ten, I would call this a "perfect song," and I don't think the man ever sang with more feeling. That chorus, We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out because I love you too much baby, pretty much whittles dysfunctional relationships down to one sentence. If you want a real treat, check out a live version. He usually sang that final chorus about 1,000 times, sounding more desperate and pleading each time.
8) "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison
What a haunting, creepy, beautiful song. This is probably my favorite vocal performance in all of music. Starting at a whisper and building to an anguished scream, this song is just deliciously painful. The finale actually makes me close my eyes and wince. Used to genius effect in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, who really exploited just how unsettling this song is. So much pain here, it's exhausting to listen to.
7) "Surf Wax America" by Weezer
The song that nearly ruined many a car speaker for me growing up. If you're not listening to this song at top volume, driving down a highway with the windows down, screaming at the top of your lungs, then you're not really listening to this song. Absolutely triumphant, and the "LET'S GO!" right before the headbanging fest at the end is probably the rockingest moment in all of rock. Weezer will NEVER be 1/100th this exciting again.
6) "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville" by REM
Much like "Thunder Road," another 'get the hell out of your hometown' song. Essentially a country song, this puts me on my ass every time. First month in New York from Missouri, depressed out of my mind, I saw REM at Madison Square Garden. They played this song and for the first time I felt like I had made the right choice in moving. One of my best musical moments ever.
5) "In My Life" by The Beatles
Pretty much perfect. Why not acknowledge that he's loved other things, other people, had some great experiences? But he loves this person more. Everything about this song is simple, clean, concise, and clear, and it's all the more affecting for it.
4) "Everlong" by Foo Fighters
The best rock song of the past 20 years, this song shuts out everything else for me when it comes on. It's rare you get a song that rocks this hard that is this pretty. One of the best choruses ever written. This song to me is about the moment when you realize that you've reached a peak in your relationship, so in love it's totally fucked you up. You can't help but wonder "if anything could ever be this good again." And it probably can't.
3) "One" by U2
Every time I've heard the opening guitar line to this song over the past 15 years or so, my stomach does a little flip and my heart drops. In simplest terms, I guess this could be called a breakup song, but it could be read any number of ways and could mean so many different things. The lyrics are pretty much exactly what you want to say to the other person when a relationship ends. You gave me nothing, now it's all I got. Jeez. And yet it's bizarrely hopeful. It walks the line between uplifting and totally devastating. (If you want to hear a version that is strictly devastating, check out Johnny Cash's cover. And then sit in your room and weep for a couple days).
I saw U2 in Saint Louis probably a month after September 11th, at that point pretty sick of all the schmaltzy exploitation of that awful day, and they performed this song while a list of names of the dead scrolled behind them. For about two seconds I was against it, and then I found myself crying in public for the first time in my entire life. This is a band that means it, has always meant it, and it shows.
Compare them all you want, Coldplay tries incredibly hard, but will never have anything close to what U2 has effortlessly.
2) "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys
As beautiful as music gets, it's the perfect love song. The first line is I may not always love you, and in a world where most
love songs are about loving someone forever, it's great to find something so open and honest. God only knows what I'd be without you is a sweet line on the surface, but one filled with a great deal of darkness and pain. It suggests that without the other person you'd probably be a complete disaster, and that's really what love is all about, in my opinion.
1) "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen
It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win!
I really can't see this choice ever leaving my number one spot. This song means everything to me, it's a philosophy, it's a way of life. Every time I move, change cities, try something new with my life, I hear this song in my head. It's like a movie, it's like an opera, it's like a little symphony. You see every line in your mind. Musically, it throws every song structure rule out the window. Incredibly sung, incredibly performed, a masterpiece. What more can I say? Get in the fucking car, Mary!
I'm dying.
Just kidding. I was trying to decide what to do to commemorate such a special day. I thought about selecting my ten favorite blogs, but there's not much more conceited than choosing your favorite things that...you've written. (That being said, there is a "Greatest Hits" link on the left side of this page that features some favorites). I thought about all kinds of different options, but eventually decided to go the Rolling Stone route and give you a list.
I have selected my 100 Favorite Songs of All Time. This has caused me WAY more trouble than it should have. All I can say is that on any given day, this list might look totally different. I put way too much thought into this stuff, and eventually just had to give up and say "Whatever, it's fine." I realized that being a music critic must be a fairly miserable job. There's only so many different ways to say "I love this song" without sounding like a broken record.
I'm kind of breaking traditional routes here and giving you the Top 20 first and working backwards from there. It's just easier for me to make my choices going backward from #1. There will be another 20 every other weekday on the site until we work back to 100. The only rule here is that no artist can have more than two songs in the countdown, so keep that in mind. I wanted to hopefully bring some stuff you haven't heard to your attention.
And as usual, I'd really love to hear from you. I think you can tell a great deal about someone from his or her favorite songs. It's like that great line in High Fidelity: "It's what you like, not what you are like that's important." I'll show you mine if you show me yours...
MY 100 FAVORITE SONGS #20 - 1
20) "Laid" by James
This is one of the only songs on the list by a band I'm not all that passionate about. But this song is just absolute gold. This guy knew what he was doing, you put the line "She only comes when she's on top" at the beginning of a song, people will stick around. The guitar riff is simple but psycho catchy, the near-yodeling on the chorus is beyond fun to sing, and whoever's idea it was to have those marching band drums come blasting in every 30 seconds was a genius. Just about the only song I know of where the drums is a hook.
19) "Answering Machine" by The Replacements
Just recently, these guys have started to get slight props here and there, but really this band should be up with the Nirvanas and the REMs. An undeniable bunch of songs. This is probably my favorite, even with the annoying answering machine message that plays over the end. It's so desperate and vulnerable and frustrated and great. His courage is up, he knows exactly what he wants to say, he needs someone to talk to, but she won't pick up the damn phone. How do you say 'I miss you' to an answering machine? How indeed.
18) "Ballad of Big Nothing" by Elliott Smith
Made all the more heartbreaking post-suicide, this is one of the saddest songs ever. Pretty cryptic lyrics, and yet they just make perfect sense somehow. You know exactly what he's feeling and what he's saying. A sketch of someone miserable even when watching a parade, this song is about as close as anyone's gotten to setting depression to music.
17) "Big Brown Eyes" by Old 97s
I declare the Old 97s the most underrated band in music today. No matter how many great albums they make, no matter how many great reviews they get, they never get even slightly famous. As far as the whole alt-country thing goes, they are the best. Great heartsick lyrics, kickass playing. This is probably their finest hour, so fun to sing along with, and I think of the line If that phone don't ring one more time, I'm gonna lose what's left of my mind, every time I find myself staring at my cell. Which is more than I'd care to admit.
16) "Add It Up" by Violent Femmes
Why can't I get just one fuck? That line there is the reason pretty much all lonely teenagers, (all cool lonely teenagers anyway) go through a period of obsession with this band. Acoustic rock that actually rocks, ominous and borderline scary. This album is puberty set to music, and certainly was the soundtrack to that period of my life.
15) "Debaser" by The Pixies
The Pixies really have too many great songs to pick just one, but this was the first I heard, and it had about the same impact as when I lost my virginity. It was just like everything kind of clicked into place. What an insane band, and what an insane song. The bass has never sounded better than it did when played by Kim Deal. You feel that opening in your chest. And I've said it before, but there isn't a sexier voice in the world. That trade-off at the end between Frank Black's demonic screaming and her angelic singing is perfection.
14) "Lounge Act" by Nirvana
Everything off Nevermind and In Utero is sort of equally powerful and great. But today this is my favorite Nirvana song, a song about jealousy really. I love how absolutely horrifying he makes a relationship sound. And of course they are. Wicked bass line, and dig the howled third verse. He sounds incredibly pissed off, which is of course exactly what you want him to sound like.
13) "Don't Worry, Baby" by The Beach Boys
This song pretty much wrecks me. After the first verse it technically turns into a song about a guy worried about racing his car, but they use that to represent all worries and insecurities that guys have, which is its genius. All these women's magazines think they know what a guy wants to hear from his girlfriend. This is it: Don't worry baby, everything will turn out alright.
Well, that and "Good morning, want a blowjob?"
12) "Don't Look Back In Anger" by Oasis
Owes quite a bit to John Lennon's "Imagine" of course, but blashphemous though it may be to say so, this is a better song. Like all Oasis songs, it doesn't make a great deal of sense, but there aren't many feelings better than a bar singing along to this one. If you're not air drumming when it rolls around to that bombastic drum fill right before the last chorus, you probably don't like music.
11) "Hurt" by Johnny Cash
I was driving around Saint Louis and the local rock station played this song, the first time I had ever heard it. I actually had to pull my car over until it was finished, clenching my steering wheel as the finale with the pounding organ came crashing in, and then take a moment to collect myself.
I was at the gym when the video came out, probably the finest music video ever made. (NOTE: It lost the VMA that year to Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River.") The gym had a row of TVs you could watch while on the treadmill, and every single person, young and old, stopped running and just stood open-mouthed to watch it. I don't think there was a dry eye in the place. It was one of the most affecting moments I've ever had. This song has the same effect as a punch in the stomach, and I don't think there's a more punishing, depressing piece of music on record.
10) "No Action" by Elvis Costello
I don't want to kiss you, I don't want to touch. I don't want to see you 'cause I don't miss you that much. Nobody writes better "girls suck" songs than Elvis. I could fill this list up with EC, but I'll spare you. All I can say is if you don't own his first four albums, you're missing out on probably the best winning streak in music. This song, which kicks off the frighteningly intense This Year's Model is just incredible, it sounds like the band just drank gallons of coffee and went nuts. Starting a capella and building to a crazed pace, this song is Elvis at his most pissy. I'm not a telephone junkie... love that.
9) "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley
I'm a huge Elvis fan, and this is my favorite of his by a landslide. Like everything else in the top ten, I would call this a "perfect song," and I don't think the man ever sang with more feeling. That chorus, We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out because I love you too much baby, pretty much whittles dysfunctional relationships down to one sentence. If you want a real treat, check out a live version. He usually sang that final chorus about 1,000 times, sounding more desperate and pleading each time.
8) "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison
What a haunting, creepy, beautiful song. This is probably my favorite vocal performance in all of music. Starting at a whisper and building to an anguished scream, this song is just deliciously painful. The finale actually makes me close my eyes and wince. Used to genius effect in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, who really exploited just how unsettling this song is. So much pain here, it's exhausting to listen to.
7) "Surf Wax America" by Weezer
The song that nearly ruined many a car speaker for me growing up. If you're not listening to this song at top volume, driving down a highway with the windows down, screaming at the top of your lungs, then you're not really listening to this song. Absolutely triumphant, and the "LET'S GO!" right before the headbanging fest at the end is probably the rockingest moment in all of rock. Weezer will NEVER be 1/100th this exciting again.
6) "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville" by REM
Much like "Thunder Road," another 'get the hell out of your hometown' song. Essentially a country song, this puts me on my ass every time. First month in New York from Missouri, depressed out of my mind, I saw REM at Madison Square Garden. They played this song and for the first time I felt like I had made the right choice in moving. One of my best musical moments ever.
5) "In My Life" by The Beatles
Pretty much perfect. Why not acknowledge that he's loved other things, other people, had some great experiences? But he loves this person more. Everything about this song is simple, clean, concise, and clear, and it's all the more affecting for it.
4) "Everlong" by Foo Fighters
The best rock song of the past 20 years, this song shuts out everything else for me when it comes on. It's rare you get a song that rocks this hard that is this pretty. One of the best choruses ever written. This song to me is about the moment when you realize that you've reached a peak in your relationship, so in love it's totally fucked you up. You can't help but wonder "if anything could ever be this good again." And it probably can't.
3) "One" by U2
Every time I've heard the opening guitar line to this song over the past 15 years or so, my stomach does a little flip and my heart drops. In simplest terms, I guess this could be called a breakup song, but it could be read any number of ways and could mean so many different things. The lyrics are pretty much exactly what you want to say to the other person when a relationship ends. You gave me nothing, now it's all I got. Jeez. And yet it's bizarrely hopeful. It walks the line between uplifting and totally devastating. (If you want to hear a version that is strictly devastating, check out Johnny Cash's cover. And then sit in your room and weep for a couple days).
I saw U2 in Saint Louis probably a month after September 11th, at that point pretty sick of all the schmaltzy exploitation of that awful day, and they performed this song while a list of names of the dead scrolled behind them. For about two seconds I was against it, and then I found myself crying in public for the first time in my entire life. This is a band that means it, has always meant it, and it shows.
Compare them all you want, Coldplay tries incredibly hard, but will never have anything close to what U2 has effortlessly.
2) "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys
As beautiful as music gets, it's the perfect love song. The first line is I may not always love you, and in a world where most
love songs are about loving someone forever, it's great to find something so open and honest. God only knows what I'd be without you is a sweet line on the surface, but one filled with a great deal of darkness and pain. It suggests that without the other person you'd probably be a complete disaster, and that's really what love is all about, in my opinion.
1) "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen
It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win!
I really can't see this choice ever leaving my number one spot. This song means everything to me, it's a philosophy, it's a way of life. Every time I move, change cities, try something new with my life, I hear this song in my head. It's like a movie, it's like an opera, it's like a little symphony. You see every line in your mind. Musically, it throws every song structure rule out the window. Incredibly sung, incredibly performed, a masterpiece. What more can I say? Get in the fucking car, Mary!
What do you think? Leave me a comment! (25)
1. Denny left...
Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:51 am
I just wanted to say that your mention of "Surf Wax America" by Weezer.. is
the first time Ive thought about it since my A Capella group from SU,
Groovestand, performed it. It's a great arrangement and I miss it dearly..
it was the most fun on stage I've ever had. Secondly, we also performed "In
My Life" which I also sang in my voice lessons and at my final recital that
year when I was a mere 9 years old, my mom, aunt and Dad all cried at my
young performance. When my a capella group sings it.. it is always our
final anthem. When I go back to 'cuse to visit, or there's a reunion of
sorts, they ask former members of the group to get up on stage and sing it
with them. It will always be the group's final and more beautiful sounding
songs to sing. Oh and at my final Groovestand performance back in senior
year 2004, my parents surely cried when we sang it.
2. Flick left...
Tuesday, 25 July 2006 1:15 pm :: http://kaflickastan.blogspot.com
This is a great list. I like this so much better than the type of lists you
see in Rolling Stone or VH1, because it's obviously not a list of what
"should" be considered the greatest songs because of the hype surrounding
them or whatever, but is rather songs you personally think are the best.
Better for readers because we might actually learn to appreciate a new song
rather than another reminder that "Like a Rolling Stone" changed the world
and everyone loves the Beatles.
3. Mike Russo left...
Tuesday, 25 July 2006 3:01 pm
I agree, an excellent list to be sure, although I'd put "One" as my number
1. Of course, I'd also have about 15 U2 songs in my Top 20, so there you
go. Never liked "Thunder Road" - I was always a fan of the darkly hopeful
"Atlantic City," or "The River," hell I even love "Murder Incorporated" and
"I'm on Fire."
4. M. Kemper Brown left...
Tuesday, 25 July 2006 3:55 pm
SURF WAX AMERICA is great, probably my favorite off of "blue", but for me
THE GOOD LIFE ranks higher. It's (almost) as rockin' as "wax", and it
holds a deeper meaning for me. Plus, he uses the word booty.
5. Pat left...
Tuesday, 25 July 2006 5:37 pm
"In My Life" is both mine and Tom Schmitz's favorite song, so by average it
should be higher on your list.
6. Mike left...
Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:15 pm
That post by "Pat" earlier, was actually me, as "In My Life" is my favorite
song. I think I intended to type "Pat," at the beinging like a letter, but
somehow I did that instead. Sorry.
7. Patrick Walsh left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 2:21 am
Denny,
8. Sonny left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 3:08 am :: http://www.sillypipedreams.com
That is a great, great list. So glad to see an Elliott Smith song crack the
top 20, as that's pretty much all I've been listening to lately.. ya know,
me hating the city I live in, losing my will to live and whatnot. My
favorite is probably Between the Bars or Twilight...
9. Ian Friedman left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 9:03 am
Totally agree with Russo. Joy Division need to be up there. "Dead Souls"
should be there. NO JAMES BLOUNT! This post harshed my mellow.
10. Patrick Walsh left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 9:57 am
Sonny,
11. Flick left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:54 am :: http://kaflickastan.blogspot.com
Pat,
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 1:20 pm
Pat,
13. Mike left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 6:26 pm
Pat,
14. Mike left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 6:36 pm
Also,
15. Patrick Walsh left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 8:01 pm
Mike,
16. Mike left...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 8:50 pm
So are you mailing me a check or just going to pay me in person?
17. M. Kemper Brown left...
Thursday, 27 July 2006 1:19 am
Mike, Pat, please stop fighting! Can't you see that it only hurts the
childeren! The Childerrrennn! Won't anyone think of the childeren!
18. Patrick Walsh left...
Thursday, 27 July 2006 9:43 am
Tastes change, dude. Five years ago I was obsessed with that band, now I
can't remember the last time I listened to them. Still, "Break Your Heart"
is awesome. Hunsel loved "The Flag," I can give or take it.
19. Patrick Walsh left...
Thursday, 27 July 2006 9:59 am
And Mike,
20. Mike Russo left...
Thursday, 27 July 2006 1:50 pm
Awwwwwwwww shit. Someone said something most displeasing about U2.
Something about them being "overrated." That is the biggest mountain of
preposterous poppycock I have ever heard. The idea that they write the same
song over and over again is pure bullshit, a charge I can easily refute
with two words: "Achtung" and "Baby."
21. Mike Russo left...
Thursday, 27 July 2006 1:56 pm
P.S. Michael Jackson? Seriously, dude. Let me just say I was on the "I hate
Michael Jackson, he's a freak" movement long before everybody us got on
that bandwagon. I'm talking 1983, when I was 4-years old - yup, ahead of my
time.
22. Mike left...
Thursday, 27 July 2006 6:24 pm
I own Achtung Baby, and although I haven't listened to it in a while, I
remember being bored.
23. RØB left...
Friday, 28 July 2006 3:22 pm :: http://www.pancakeproductions.net
Riiiiight...but back to Pat's list, interesting that, as powerful as it
might be, you chose a cover to represent yer highest-ranked Johnny Cash
number. Also, it's funny FLICK chose the same two Dylan tunes I chose in a
comment elsewhere (as favorites), hah.
24. JJ left...
Friday, 28 July 2006 9:15 pm
PW, good list - U2 is great. (Guess you and I will always disagree about
DMB – but that’s cool)
25. Patrick Walsh left...
Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:25 pm
JJ,