As you wish.
Posted on 09/17/2005 2:00:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
September 15, 2005 -- THE October issue of Blender magazine, on newsstands Tuesday, lists "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born," which, for their readers, means the best songs since 1980.
No. 1 is "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. Catchy, important. A good choice.
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You should like this site:
http://www.rulefortytwo.com/mondegreenhall.htm
My favorite misunderstood song lyric:
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Bad Moon Rising"
Wrong lyric: There's a bathroom on the right
Right lyric: There's a bad moon on the rise
Everytime I hear the song I really do hear, There's a bathroom on the right.
While the title points out that these songs should have been stuck in a blender, they probably came from a blender in the first place. The secret to pop music is that it's recycled. Melodies, lyrics, arrangements, singing styles .... video direction, costumes, choreography (one of the recent chart toppers appears to have refurbished Michael Jackson's old act), publicity stunts, marketing.... You might argue that pop music today is still rehashing stuff from before the recording industry was started (vaudeville, etc). The stuff in the list is 5% music and 95% packaging.
LoL
The end of Strawberry Fields Forever:
"I buried Paul" or was it "cranberry sauce"?
I looked at the list and it has some godawful songs in there. Thank goodness for the iPod. I can fill it with thousands of my favorite songs (many of which would never show up on any of these stupid lists) and never have to be exposed to the likes of "In Da Hood" by 50 Cents.
It would depend on the song they picked.
The Clash was great - London Calling, Rock The Casbah.
Elton John descended into pop mediocrity when he stopped collaborating with Bernie Taupin.
I saw Rush in concert about two years ago – they are not so young anymore but boy they still rock. My favorite songs are Freewill and The Trees but I suspect they are not on the list. J I would put almost anything on a top 500 if it left Yoko off.
Do you listen to 93.7 at all? It has an interesting playlist, comical at times. I heard Led Zeppelin followed by Ace of Base the other day.
As you wish.
Here are some tunes from the list:
014 You Shook Me All Night Long -- ACDC
028 Cars -- Gary Numan
054 Middle of the Raod -- The Pretenders
077 Girls, Girls, Girls -- Motley Crue
099 Come as You Are -- Nirvana
159 Birth, School, Work, Death -- The Godfathers
162 Jump -- Van Halen
165 Start Me Up -- Stones
244 Institutionalized -- ST
272 Rock the Casbah -- The Clash
278 Stan -- Eminem
279 Rock and Roll High School -- The Ramones
294 Black -- Pearl Jam
304 Hot for teacher -- Van Halen
326 Battery -- Metallica
403 Back in Black -- ACDC
408 Tom Sawyer -- Rush
Thanks. Rap is to music as salmonella is to food.
Have you been around enough to remember the old WRKO? That was a Top 40 powerhouse during the 1970s. During that period, you could hear The Rolling Stones, Bay City Rollers, Al Green, John Denver, Jethro Tull, Stevie Wonder, Allman Brothers and KC & The Sunshine Band all in the same set!
It was a fun station to listen to and it was pretty much the soundtrack of my growing up years. The DJ's were enthusiastic and genuinely having a good time. The music was upbeat and positive. It was all about having a good time. Radio definitely lost that magic.
Agree. I try to be open-minded. And I realize that, to an extent, when folks get to be middle aged like me, they tend to "turn into their own parents."
My parents thought of Steely Dan and Tom Petty (my kind of music, more or less) as "just noise." And their parents considered Oscar Peterson and Duke Ellington the same way. And so on.
Still, there are some objective standards I insist on in any musical genre: an actual melody must be present, and lyrics, if present, while they need not be profound, should be understandable, not grossly obscene, and not screamed. Is that too much to ask for?
Sure you aren't thinking of:
The Bitch is Back
http://www.eltonography.com/songs/the_bitch_is_back.html
I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch
Oh the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, I can bitch
`Cause I'm better than you
It's the way that I move
The things that I do
Don't worry, we aren't being fuddyduds here. Rap music in general is angry, nasty, hateful and is of little redeeming value. And that's before we even address the "musical" merits of it. Granted, some of the rap artists have some undeniable talent, but for the most part, it is simply a stream of filthy words laid over a stolen bass line from another song.
Just to prove I'm not turning into a middle-aged crank, I'm a big fan of a lot of alternative rock music being made today by such bands as Fountains of Wayne, Green Day, The Killers and Radiohead, to name a few. So it's not a matter of me "not getting it" with respect to rap music. It's simply a function of the fact that I can discern good music from utter crap.
I like Steely Dan and Tom Petty and Phil Ochs and Ella Fitgerald and Jacques Brel and Duke Ellington and Ragtime and Franz Lizst and Chopin and Mozart and some stuff written in the 12th century, but I cannot stand rap.
Give it a listen and you'll see what I mean.
Most people my age would rate this list as total garbage, and I was in the record business for over 31 years..
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